Watch 2012-13 City Budget Meetings Online or TV

City residents will likely see a tax rate increase lower than 5 percent, as the White Plains Common Council looks for ways to further reduce the budget during a series of budget work sessions, which started Monday.

Click for an overview of the currently proposed 2012-13 city budget, and on the PDF for a copy of the budget presentation.

Budget meetings, which are open to the public, will be filmed and posted on the City’s website, and broadcast on the White Plains Public Community Access Channel (45 on Verizon, and 75 on Cablevision) for the second year in a row, according to White Plains Mayor Tom Roach.

“I want the budget process to be as transparent as possible,” said Roach. “It’s not the level we produce for our council meetings, there’s obviously a cost issue, but we want to record those meetings, which are public meetings, so people could see the process the council goes through in reviewing the budget.”

Click here to watch Monday’s meeting, for the budget meeting schedule and here for White Plains Patch’s topics page on the 2012-13 city budget.

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