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OCTOBER 6, 2009
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Vol. 21, No. 239
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Ramping up construction
Airfare site launches Ski Corp. offers new Web platform for travel options at FlySteamboat.com Page 3
S T E A M B O AT S P R I N G S
Absences remain high Strawberry Park Elementary School reports 19 percent of students out sick Page 5
SPORTS
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Troy Nichols, an employee of Team Pain, works on the concrete skatepark being built in west Steamboat Springs. The contractor is hoping for nice weather this week to compete several concrete pours at the skatepark, which is being built with a grant from Great Outdoors Colorado along with private and city funding.
Cuts across the board
City administrators, council to hold 2010 budget hearing today
Sailors at state Page 14
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City administrators and council members have the grim job today of reviewing a 2010 budget with cuts to nearly every city department, as Steamboat Springs’ sales tax revenues continue to slide.
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Monday night’s Cash 5 numbers: 13-17-20-31-32 Drawings are held Monday through Saturday.
The 2010 budget is based on a projected 10 percent drop in revenue next year. That 10 percent is on top of the 18 percent drop projected for this year. “I think there’s some hope that it won’t be that bad,” interim finance director Bob Litzau said Monday. “I think it’s a reasonable estimate for where we’re headed next year. … I just
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Sunshine. High of 52.
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don’t see a real fast recovery.” Today’s public hearing begins at 8 a.m. at Centennial Hall, 124 10th St. Public comment is scheduled for 2:30 p.m., immediately after presentations from community support allocation committees. Community support allocations fund many local nonprofit groups and social service orga-
nizations. The city’s proposed 2010 budget includes $1.17 million for community support groups, down from $1.29 million in spending projected for this year. While 2010 funding requests from many groups were not available Monday, the proposed reductions include See Council, page 13
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