$650 thousand hole projected next year

 

Seneca is grappling with setting a new budget for the next 12 months, but its city administrator issued a warning last night that Seneca must plan for a $650 thousand dollar hole after next year.  Greg Dietterick, city administrator, says he has been put on notice that 2016-17 will be the last year that the county will pay Seneca for the city fire department to respond to calls in a radius of five miles outside the corporate limits.  That prompted Ronnie O’Kelley, the mayor pro-tem, to ask whether the county will still expect his city to answer fire and other calls near the city limit.  O’Kelley was told Seneca would no longer be the primary department for those calls.