Inflation isn’t just impacting local residents, it’s also affecting City Hall. Pittsburg Deputy City Manager Jay Byers says the city’s budget has “most definitely” been impacted by inflation. Byers notes that a few years ago, during the pandemic, there were some extreme spikes in some products due to problems with the supply chain, but for the most part, that has leveled out. He said overall, the city is paying 5-percent more for items than a year ago, but they are also seeing more money come into the city. “Yes, it’s absolutely impacting us now. Fortunately, we’re having, you know, our our natural growth of our sales and our property tax are taking care of most of that. So it’s not alarming for us. It’s not creating budgetary difficulties, but it is something we’re going to have to keep our eyes on,” said Byers. Byers adds that they expect the 5-percent increase to happen again next year as well.
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