City Council has been revisiting the Blue Ribbon Panel report which has caused a bit of a stir among people who don’t want to see the City implement the tax increases that the Panel recommended. Heck nobody likes taxes, and even the Blue Ribbon Panel members said it pains them to make such a recommendation but they want to see Kent move forward and after 8 months of study they saw no other way to do that without money to invest in City services and projects that the community is wanting to see happen. It’s been 2 years since the Panel released their report so the Council asked me to give them an update on what’s been happening financially since then and I thought I’d share that update here as well.
