City Finance Director Janet Harrouff gave Emporia City Commissioners recommendations on potential budgetary cuts that could be made as the city continues to navigate the financial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic Wednesday morning via Zoom. The recommended cuts are a proactive measure at this time, Harrouff said, to help mitigate any lost tax revenue in the coming months. So far, the city has not seen a decrease in property tax or sales tax revenues because of how they are distributed. “With property taxes, we receive a distribution in January and a distribution in June from the county for the big ad valorem payments,” she said. “The distribution we received in January was higher than what we had budgeted, so we really won’t know the exact amount of the decrease in ad valorem taxes until we get our payment in June.”
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