A growing number of cities in our state are facing budget deficits.
The mayor of Lynnwood is now warning his city’s deficit is more significant than previously reported, even though Lynnwood has the highest sales tax in the state at 10.7%
Lynnwood Mayor George Hurst says his staff has reassessed the budget, and its new projection found that if the city continues spending at the current rate, “Really we’re looking at a 2.2 million dollar deficit, where we thought we had zeroed things out.”…