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REVIEW MAY 1, 2024
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Village addresses deficit, discusses future budget
Forest Park’s expenditures have exceeded revenues for more than a decade By JESSICA MORDACQ Staff Reporter
The Village of Forest Park will be ending this fiscal year with an $11 million-overall government deficit, budget documents show. That appears to be a pattern for the village, where expenditures have exceeded revenue for more than a decade, the documents show. Although all department costs have remained under budget for the past several years, Village Administrator Rachell Entler said Forest Park continues overspending when it comes to paying employees overtime in short-staffed departments, funding capital projects and emergency infrastructure fixes. “Times are changing, and we are at a point where you can only do more with less so much and so well. We have to start having serious conversations of ‘are we actually doing it well? Or are we overtaxing the people we have here?’” Entler said in a nod to the nearly dozen audience members at the village’s second budget-related
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