As promised by the City Manager at Monday’s commission meeting, Decatur’s 2011-2012 proposed budget is now online!

There’s always lots of great little tidbits of information in this most-readable of city budgets around.  Here’s just one example that had me exclaim “Thank goodness!” out-loud.

It is anticipated that by the end of fiscal year 2011-2012, the City in cooperation with the Decatur Downtown Development Authority, will have facilitated the sale of the Decatur Holiday Inn to a new investment company who will provide significant upgrades to both the hotel and the conference center and will also be providing on-going management and maintenance services for the Conference Center.  This will allow the City to use some of the net assets accumulated from the hotel/motel tax and management fees for other purposes.  It is recommended that the City provide up to $200,000 in funding towards replacing the drainage and irrigation system and sod on the south side of the Courthouse Square as a match to stimulate funding from other sources to cover the cost of the balance of the project.

More interesting little snippets as I find them!