Mayor explains budget strategy

This article was updated on Aug. 1 to issue corrections and make clarifications.

SPRINGFIELD – Mayor Sean VanGordon last week discussed Springfield’s financial future with community members during a Springfield Chamber Roundtable event. The conversation comes on the heels of a recent report that outlined a long-term structural imbalance and a short-term budget deficit within the City’s General Fund.

This imbalance has been attributed mainly to decades of limited property tax growth due to…