Wausau has a $1 million budget gap. Here’s how it might fill it

Wausau has a $1 million budget gap. Here’s how it might fill it

In what is becoming a recurring theme, city leaders are mulling exactly how to overcome a $1.05 million budget shortfall for next year. City leaders already made a series of cuts in the 2026 budget to help keep spending in check — and voters approved a levy limit increase of $1.45 million to fund the salaries of firefighters originally hired under a grant program. But now the city is facing another budget gap. The Wausonian obtained a slide pres…