City of Topeka to hold budget engagement workshops

Topeka’s city government on Tuesday will hold the first of nine public engagement workshops aimed at giving citizens a chance to learn about the city’s process of crafting its 2021 budget.

The gatherings come at a time when city manager Brent Trout has said he might ask the mayor and city council to vote later this year to raise Topeka’s property tax mill levy for the first time they have voted to do that since August 2013.

The mayor and council are expected in August to consider approving the city’s 2021 budget.

“How would you spend $96.5 million of the city of Topeka’s money?” the city asked Monday in a news release announcing the upcoming workshops.

(Read more: Local – The Topeka Capital-Journal)