Cheney public safety's next steps

Even though election certification doesn’t take place until Nov. 24, city of Cheney officials have begun the process of implementing the results of voter-approved Proposition 1.

The measure does a one-time lift of the city’s property tax assessment levy, a lift that will remain permanently in place. While that lift is estimated to provide about $410,975 annually in new revenue for the city to use in meeting public safety needs, that money won’t come in immediately, nor will it arrive as a separate budget line item.

Because property tax collections make up the majority of revenue in the city’s...