Council members question items during budget workship

The Kimball city council reviewed a potential budget during a budget workshop meeting held Aug. 26. Board members voiced concerns and considered changes for each department.

“My (concern) is going to be somewhat general because it pops up in several places,” board member James Schnell said. “The landfill expense (line item) bad debt shows 100 percent. My question is throughout this we show that we have bad debt, but are we just writing them off, zero them out? We don’t send anything to collections?”

The electric and the power plant show collections activities as bad debt recovered, according t...