{"id":11385,"date":"2021-12-08T10:52:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T18:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=11385"},"modified":"2021-12-08T10:52:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T18:52:33","slug":"yakima-city-council-approves-2022-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/yakima-city-council-approves-2022-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Yakima City Council Approves 2022 Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Yakima City Council approved the City\u2019s 2022 budget during its regular meeting last night, Tuesday, December 7<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2022 budget calls for $293,669,112 in total spending, including $69,951,160 for the General Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2022 budget achieves the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Establishes equipment replacement reserves for Police vehicles and Fire apparatus.<\/li><li>Increases Clean City funding in order to enhance police presence, trash cleanup, add legal staff members, and enhanced code enforcement and outreach for people experiencing homelessness.<\/li><li>Five-year capital budgets developed for all funds.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Final approval of the 2022 budget followed two public hearings held in November. Prior to that, the Council held four 2022 budget study sessions during October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Director of Finance and Budget Jennifer Ferrer-Santa Ines notes that budgets, including the one approved last night for 2022, are subject to course corrections throughout the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGrants, for example, are not budgeted if award approval has not been confirmed,\u201d she said. \u201cStaff will bring first quarter, and subsequent quarter, amendments for changes as they become known.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/yakima.novusagenda.com\/agendapublic\/CoverSheet.aspx?ItemID=8388&amp;MeetingID=984\">Coversheet (novusagenda.com)<\/a> for a packet of 2022 budget documents presented to the City Council Tuesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/finance\/budget-documents-2\/\">Budget Documents | Finance (yakimawa.gov)<\/a> to see City of Yakima budgets for this and previous years, dating back to 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/2022-Budget-Approval-News-Release.pdf\">2022-Budget-Approval-News-Release<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/2022-Budget-Approval-News-Release.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yakima City Council approved the City\u2019s 2022 budget during its regular meeting last night, Tuesday, December 7th. The 2022 budget calls for $293,669,112 in total spending, including $69,951,160 for the General Fund. The 2022 budget achieves the following: Establishes equipment replacement reserves for Police vehicles and Fire apparatus. Increases Clean City funding in order<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11387,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11385\/revisions\/11387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}