City budget sees huge jump

It is the beginning of a new fiscal year, and the City of Kimball recently passed a new budget. The budget for the 2014-2015 fiscal year is $24,809,594.95, a huge jump from the roughly $8 million the city spent last year.

“The budget that is proposed has to reflect not only the projects that we plan to do, but also have some room for emergency situations that may arise. We have to propose our budget and if we don’t plan for these projects and propose them, we won’t get the funding,” said City Administrator Daniel Ortiz.

The city has several planned projects to be completed this yea...