Jonesboro City Council making final revisions to 2016 budget

The Jonesboro City Council is expected to pass a nearly 60-million-dollar budget at its next meeting.  The figure is actually two-and-a-half million dollars less than the 2015 budget. Jonesboro Mayor Harold Perrin tells KASU news that all but one of the city’s departments made cuts in capital improvement.  Jonesboro’s E911 department did not have any cuts to its budget.  Three amendments to the budget have to be approved next week by the city council’s finance committee.  Those are to allow for two new trucks to be purchased for the city’s Animal Control and for E911, as well as final salary adjustments.  The final budget will go to the city council January 19^th.   Perrin also announced that he would make his annual State of the City address at the January 19^th or February 4^th meeting.  He also praised the city’s recent announcement that the city’s fire department went from a Class 3 to a Class 1 certification.  He says that will help businesses and individuals in the city through lower insurance rates.  That change will take effect April first.