SEQUIM — City Council members will get their first look at a proposed operating budget for 2004 at their study session Wednesday morning.
The budget, formulated differently than in past years, calls for just more than $14.27 million in expenditures.
City Administrative Services Director Marva Dryke said previous budgets reflected transfers between funds, leaving a somewhat distorted picture of how much the city spends.
Dryke, whose experience has primarily included private-sector accounting, said she felt a pure revenues-versus-expenditures approach would serve the city better.
“It’s just simpler this way, and gives council members a much more readable document to work with,” Dryke said.
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The rest of the story appears in Tuesday’s Peninsula Daily News.