The budget process is starting to come to a close for the City of Perry as they prepare for the upcoming 2016 fiscal year.

City Administrator Butch Niebuhr says they continue to face the same issues year after year.

“You know, it actually went fairly smooth this year.  It’s always tough, and I’ve told our department heads and I’ve told (the City) Council when we had a budget session that, we’re at that point where the city needs to grow.  We need to grow and access taxable value to be able to get more money coming into the City’s coffers and the general fund.  Every department which is funded through the general fund, which is police, fire, the (recreation) center, administration, all of those departments are bare boned.  They have the minimum amount of people that it takes to run that department so it really makes it tough every year because there just isn’t a lot to cut.”

A public hearing in regards to the proposed budget has been set for the next City Council meeting Monday evening.

We’ll have more with Niebuhr on today’s Let’s Talk Dallas County during the 9am, noon and 5pm hours on AM 1310 KDLS.