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Wichita City Council To Vote On 2017 City Budget

City of Wichita

The Wichita City Council is expected to vote on the 2017 city budget on Tuesday.

The proposed budget totals about $581 million, $60 million more than the revised 2016 budget. The tax levy for city residents will remain the same.

The budget includes include $4.3 million for the cultural arts plan and an increase in funding for downtown development.

The budget proposal also spells out the city and county’s contributions for the jointly funded flood control and Metropolitan Area Planning Department budgets.

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Deborah joined the news team at KMUW in September 2014 as a news reporter. She spent more than a dozen years working in news at both public and commercial radio and television stations in Ohio, West Virginia and Detroit, Michigan. Before relocating to Wichita in 2013, Deborah taught news and broadcasting classes at Tarrant County College in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area.