After just a couple of days on the job, the consultant hired to help run the City of Grass Valley says the city’s financial picture does not look good…

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Jeff Fultz was hired after City Administrator Dan Holler abruptly resigned last month. Fultz is a former Interim City Administrator of Grass Valley, and due to state retirement restrictions, has been hired as a consultant, and will eventually be named interim City Manager. Fultz wasn’t specific about how bleak the city’s finances are–having been on the job for only a short time, but says many small cities are going through the same hardships…

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Grass Valley Mayor Dan Miller says sales tax revenue is way down, and that’s money that goes into the general fund…

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Miller says while the city may appear to be prospering with the Dorsey Drive project and money from Measure N to hire new firefighters and police officers, those projects are not paid for with general fund money.