Covington calls for 'status quo' budget amid economic uncertainty

Covington calls for 'status quo' budget amid economic uncertainty

Covington kicked off its budget talks Saturday, with Mayor Ron Washington and City Manager Ken Smith urging a “status quo” approach as economic uncertainty looms.“With the current uncertainty of our federal government, there’s a lot of rumors or whatever that’s in the community,” Washington told the other meeting attendees at the beginning of the meeting, “and what you’re going to be listening to is a budget, a status quo budget.”“We think we wa…