The Montgomery City Council has approved a fiscal 2025 budget that includes pay raises for sworn police officers and all other city employees.
Mayor Reed is proposing an increase in business license fees as one source of revenue to fund his proposed $20.3 million dollar budget increase for FY 2025.
The city council meeting gets underway at 5 p.m.
Montgomery District 7 City Councilman Andrew Szymanski stopped by Action 8 News Monday to discuss a series of topics.
The recent increase in crime in Montgomery now has city officials considering a curfew.
The city council took up the veto in its meeting earlier this week, but the effort to overturn it failed by one vote.
The city council voted 7-2 to allow four lots on Carter Hill Road to be rezoned on June 18, but the mayor vetoed it. The city council failed to override the veto Tuesday night, so a $3.8 million dollar student housing development project will not go forward.
Continued violence across Montgomery – including 3 separate shootings on Monday that killed a man and injured 2 others – was foremost on the minds of all who attended.
The reward is now $25,000 to help solve a triple homicide at Tienda Los Hermanos, a grocery store on Troy Highway in Montgomery.
Once again, crime was the main topic that Montgomery residents packed city hall to talk about Tuesday night.
