City of Madison officials are preparing to cut nearly $7.2 million from the 2027 operating budget in order to comply with state guidelines limiting municipal spending.
Officials are projecting that the city’s 2027 cost-to-continue budget — the amount of capital necessary to keep funding city services, bills and paychecks — will exceed the maximum amount allowed as calculated under state law. City agencies must cut their budgets or lose nearly $9 million in state financial aid.
City of Madison Finance Director David Schmiedicke told The Daily Cardinal refuse collection, community services, city job training and childcare programs could all be reduced…