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City budget poses possible housing help BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY Progress Managing Editor
NEIGHBORS.............. 16 Wheelchair tennis draws strong following here.
BUSINESS...................20 Pandemic impacts wedding costs, traditions.
Sunday, May 30, 2021
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cottsdale City Council adopted a $1.78 billion tentative budget on May 18 and included up to $10 million to possibly address the affordable housing shortage. The tentative budget adoption means that the final budget – scheduled to go before the Council in June – cannot exceed $1.78 billion. It could still cut expenses and approve a smaller total budget later this year, but based
on the city’s most recent financial report, that does not look likely. The budget talks May 18 were markedly different from the Council discussion at the same time last year, when members pushed city staff to cut over $30 million due concerns about the pandemic’s impact on the local economy.
While the economy took a hit early, the city’s revenues have exceeded those projections. The financial report showed that through March 31, the city’s revenues were 12 percent higher than those forecasted. Much of that was due to the city’s local sales
New beginnings
see BUDGET page 10
Scottsdale sons who gave their lives in WWII BY JOAN FUDALA Progress Contributor
FOOD................................21 New restaurant concept eyes Scottsdale opening.
NEIGHBORS...........................................16
BUSINESS...............................................20 FOOD......................................................... 21
CLASSIFIEDS.........................................22
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n the small farm town of Scottsdale in 1940, the 1,000 residents knew each other well. They had grown up together, helped each other through the Great Depression and shared happy occasions like Scottsdale High graduations, pot-luck picnics and ice cream socials.
see MEMORIAL page 4
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Seniors at Desert Mountain High School in the Scottsdale Unified School District got to walk the walk in commencement exercises this year, unlike their predecessors last year who were sidelined to online ceremonies. See the story on page 14. (Pablo Robles/Staff)
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