AS REPORTED IN THE JACKSONVILLE DAILY PROGRESS:
JACKSONVILLE — The City of Wells is $8,000 in the red, said Mayor Pro Tem Robert Kalka. And the city council may have to choose between terminating Wells’ only police officer or risking bankruptcy.
“There’s a lot of things that haven’t come in; a lot of our taxes. Our city taxes have not come in, the sales taxes have not come in,” Kalka said after Monday’s city council meeting. “We just got a Dollar General store, which should make the sales tax increase quite a bit, but that’s things you can’t count on. That’s the problem — you know it’s coming but you don’t know when.”
To pay the city’s bills the city council has to withdraw $8,000 from savings, and had to borrow money to make repairs on the sewer system. The city’s savings is estimated at $21,000 before the withdrawal, Kalka said.
“There’s not a whole lot in there. It wouldn’t take but two, three months and we’d deplete what we have in our savings,” Kalka said. “It’s not going to last forever.”
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