Mayor puts his council on alert

A vote to set Walhalla’s new budgets is a few weeks away, but the mayor put the city council on alert last night that spending over the next 12 months is projected to increase by a half million dollars. After meeting earlier in the day with the city administrator, Mayor Edwards threw out a lot of figures last night at City Hall. Including what it’ll cost to grant three percent pay raises and a projected $93 thousand deficit in sewer revenues. The mayor does concede, however, that in 2019-20 the city’s overall revenues are likely to increase.