{"id":5441,"date":"2026-10-01T06:46:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T11:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/01\/budget-battle-looms-in-st-louis-county\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T06:46:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T11:46:48","slug":"budget-battle-looms-in-st-louis-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/01\/budget-battle-looms-in-st-louis-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget Battle Looms in St. Louis County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2Fsck-QUfkIr0%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=858&#038;video_height=483)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Budget battle set to take center stage in St. Louis County\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sck-QUfkIr0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> CLAYTON, MO \u2013 October 1, 2026 (STL.News) St. Louis County is heading into another consequential budget debate as elected officials confront a projected multimillion-dollar shortfall, limited options to raise additional revenue, and difficult decisions about public safety, county services, and the use of reserves or other one-time funds. The debate is expected to intensify as officials turn their attention toward the 2027 budget after the County Council allowed a key deadline for adjusting property-tax rates to pass without pursuing the increase advocated by County Executive Sam Page\u2019s administration. Page has warned that without additional recurring revenue, St. Louis<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/budget-battle-looms-in-st-louis-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLAYTON, MO \u2013 October 1, 2026 (STL.News) St. Louis County is heading into another consequential budget debate as elected officials confront a projected multimillion-dollar shortfall, limited options to raise additional revenue, and difficult decisions about public safety, county services, and&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5443,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441\/revisions\/5443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}