The general revenue for Granite City in 2025 will drop to $31,306,525. That is $8,107,089 less than the year before and the lowest since 2019. The administration's solution was to cut $3,695,919 from police, $2,930,732 from fire and $2,496,212 from financial for a total of $9,121,763 cut from these 3 departments in one year. Meanwhile the department's of the mayor, aldermen and clerk increased their own funding. In addition, they have added 10 more employees that make more than $75,000 a year in total compensation packages. The top 159 employees make a total of $16,317,835 in total compensation packages. That is 52% of the general revenue. So their answer was to cut funding from essential services while raising their own wages. With the $88,000,000 sale of the Wastewater Treatment Facility to pay for pensions, can Granite City afford to increase the pay for city officials? What will be the next asset to be sold to pay for pensions and city official's wages?
Granite City 2019-2022 Budget
https://cms3.revize.com/revize/granitecity/docs/Budget%202021-2022.pdf
Granite City 2022-2025 Budget
A list of employees of Granite City with a total compensation package in excess of $75,000 a year