{"id":7962,"date":"2025-10-19T10:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T10:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/7962\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T10:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T10:36:12","slug":"city-of-walhalla-passes-first-reading-of-2026-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/7962\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Walhalla passes first reading of 2026 budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WALHALLA, S.C. (FOX Carolina) &#8211; The city of Walhalla passed the first reading of its budget for next year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">One major piece of the proposed budget is a transfer of over a half a million dollars from the utility fund but residents and some city officials don\u2019t believe the current water system can handle the cut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Utilities director Laramie Hinkle said the proposed budget will have a major impact on replacing water lines and maintaining upkeep on the water plant. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During the meeting, the council discussed the budget for less than five minutes before voting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Mayor Tim Hall mentioned that if an emergency happens the utility department only has two weeks worth of funds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The city is planning to have two budget workshops before the second and final reading, one primarily focusing on utilities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/2025\/05\/21\/former-spartanburg-county-councilman-sworn-public-service-commissioner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Former Spartanburg County Councilman sworn in as public service commissioner<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WHNS. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WALHALLA, S.C. (FOX Carolina) &#8211; The city of Walhalla passed the first reading of its budget for next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-7962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}