ROCHESTER - With little contention or fanfare, Rochester's City Council passed a $134 million operating budget and a $24 million capital improvement budget on Tuesday night. Only councilors Ralph Torr and Geoffrey Hamann voted against the operating budget, while the capital improvement budget passed unanimously. The year's 2019-20 fiscal year budget, which came in under the tax cap unlike last year, begins July 1 and ends June 30, 2020. The anticipated mil rate increase is put at 54 cents by cit...
