JEFFERSONVILLE — The Jeffersonville City Council approved, on first reading, an amended 2027 budget that reduces its own budget.

At the council meeting on Monday, once a public hearing was held concerning the 2027 budget, council member Scott Hawkins made a motion to decrease and even zero some line items in the council’s own budget.

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