Vancouver Faces $43 Million Budget Gap
(Vancouver, WA) -- The City of Vancouver faces a 43-million-dollar budget gap and they're conducting a survey to see how residents want to deal with it. City Council is considering budget cuts of five percent for police and fire with other departments cutting budgets 15 percent. Increasing costs and declining revenue created the imbalance. New taxes are also being considered. A tax on video streaming services was suggested, but no city in the U.S. that's tried that has been successful. They'll spend the summer creating the budget and present it to Council this fall.



