Chattanooga City Council members were given a 2010-2011 fiscal year budget scenario Tuesday with three options: stay the same, cut 5 percent or look at a $25 million increase.
Daisy Madison, the city’s chief financial officer, presented the council with a preliminary budget during a budget, personnel and finance committee meeting. It included requests from city departments on what they would need in order to keep services fully functional and restore departments to full strength.
PDF: City Council plan
That budget would be around $197 million, more than $25 million more than this fiscal year’s budget. Ms. Madison pointed out those only are requests but even then, she said, the departments did not exaggerate their needs.
“They didn’t do a real big wish list,” she said.