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On the 1st Wed of every month
City Manager is live on
radio station KBND to answer
your questions of the topics
that are discussed each month.
...stories and more keep it here on KBND
Allright, thank you very kindly and we're
looking to a very exciting
feature the 1st Wed of every month
we're going to be bringing in Bend City
Manager, Eric King or if he happens to be
on vacation, a reasonable facsimile
there of, Eric, a pleasure to have you in
this morning and looking forward to spending a half hour
with you. Likewise, I'm really excited
to be here and excited that
this is an opportunity for the City to
get some good information out to the citizens
Now I understand that in addition to
being on our air this is also
being taped so that it can be played
back for.. what?
For the CityEdition, the city has a
video news magazine show that
it produces in an effort to get
information out there because, again, that's
something that we value very much
so we can tell our story and have citizens
connected to their government. Allright
generally, how the city's doing
right now? I think, just like
everything else, the City is struggling
with tough economic times
as sort of a 1 - 2 punch with the times
the first punch came with the
the housing market and development activities
slowing down, so we reduced
our staff significantly to reflect that
reduced activity. The 2nd
which we're starting to plan for is
the lag behind with property taxes
and less development
and property taxes make up a big part of
our general fund, we've got to plan
for either more reduced expenditures
in the areas that are funded by the
general fund or potentially look at some
additional revenue. It just seems
like your timing to take over the job was
absolutely perfect so... Yeah,
but you know, it's part of the job. That it is.
And we'll be talking that and more
as we get into 'Your Town' here in just
a couple of minutes...