The city’s budget has already faced scrutiny from several city committees, but Monday will bring the entire plan up for debate.

Kenosha’s Finance Committee is set to review the entire 2010 budget at 5 p.m. Monday at the Municipal Building, 625 52nd St.

The committee’s recommendations for the budget will then go before the city’s Committee of the Whole on Dec. 1 and the City Council on Dec. 2.

The budget proposal includes cuts in jobs and services and increases in fees in order to deal with an expected decrease in revenue:

Trimming jobs

The budget calls for all non-emergency services personnel to take five furlough days in 2010, and 14 positions, eight of which are currently filled, to be eliminated.

The city’s Board of Park Commissioners recommended cutting the Keep Kenosha Beautiful coordinator, questioning the $39,220 salary and benefits package.

Keep Kenosha Beautiful coordinator Catherine Mantuano said the suggestion was a surprise to her.

“There were no concerns that came to the commission from the aldermen,” Mantuano said. “When we don’t speak to each other, it’s dysfunctional, and it weakens the city.”

The Public Safety and Welfare Committee also suggested eliminating a fire inspector position from the Kenosha Fire Department but wants to restore a city inspector position in the Neighborhood Services and Inspection department.

Stopping the bus

The city’s Transit Commission approved eliminating the No. 36 bus route, which serves the industrial park area, and limiting the No. 6 route, which runs from Southport Plaza to Indian Trail Academy, to mornings and afternoons only on school days.

The proposed cuts brought concerns from riders who said they wouldn’t be able to get to work. Also of concern was shutting down transit services on five Mondays in July and August due to city employee furloughs.

The Transit Commission supported the proposed cuts, but also passed another motion asking the City Council to find $115,000 to avoid the cuts.

The board also suggested running the streetcars only on the weekends in January, February and March in 2010, after the service was proposed to be totally shut down during those months.

License pricing

The city also sought a $250 licensing fee for all amusement devices in the city. That designation would include arcade games, pinball machines, jukeboxes and video poker machines.

Local tavern owners strongly opposed the measure, and the Licensing and Permit Committee proposed cutting the fee to $30 per machine.

The city and committee also proposed raising fees for dogs, peddlers, movie theaters, Christmas tree lots, cabarets and dog kennels.

Pool, museum cutbacks

The city also called for closing all museums on Mondays for six months during 2010 and shortening the swimming pool season from 10 weeks to six weeks.

The Kenosha Public Museum Board of Trustees endorsed the potential change. The Board of Park Commissioners found slightly more dissension in its discussion

Voting down parks

The Board of Park Commissioners did not recommend approval of its budget.

Aldermen Steve Casey, Jesse Downing and Don Ruef voted against recommending the budget, while Aldermen Michael Orth and Kathy Carpenter supported it.

Downing said he did not support the budget because an ordinance setting guidelines for the city’s co-sponsorship of park events was not included in it.

Casey and Ruef opposed the budget because of the proposal for the city’s pools, but for different reasons.

Casey said the city said should take a harder look at the future of the city’s pools, proposed spending on pool heaters and the lack of focus on the city’s lakefront.

Ruef opposed cutting the season from 10 weeks to six weeks.