(Spencer)– Spencer City Manager Kevin Robinson is sounding an alarm. Robinson gave an update on the city’s current budgeting process at this week’s city council meeting. He says while property tax reforms that were passed in the Iowa Legislature won’t impact the current budget process, they WILL have impacts in the next cycle. In a statement to the council, Robinson says at that point Spencer and other cities will have to make some difficult decisions when it comes to services and staffing…
Robinson added any action to implement DOGE, or Department of Government Efficiency operations on the state and local levels, would also have an impact.