City of Dunkirk officials will meet one more time about the 2023 budget and are set to vote on it next week.

The next meeting will be Thursday at 5:15 p.m. in City Hall. The Common Council plans to vote on the budget Tuesday, Dec. 13 at a special meeting, to immediately follow the required public budget hearing.

The council’s meeting Tuesday saw some discord over the budget. There were complaints from members Martin Bamonto and Natalie Luczkowiak, and Mayor Wilfred Rosas and his administration, that they have not seen proposed changes to Rosas’ initial spending plan.

At one point, Rosas and council member James Stoyle each wondered if the other wanted to turn the meeting into a circus.

The commotion started when Ned Divine spoke during the public portion of the meeting. “I had questions about how the procedures on how the budget modifications were decided on,” he said.

“If there are modifications, I did not receive them,” Luczkowiak said.

“We’re not done yet,” Councilman-at-large David Damico said. “We’re nowhere near done.”

Luczkowiak replied, “I can’t even see them with my glasses on. It wasn’t emailed to me and we’re nine days out of the deadline.”

“That is correct,” said Damico.

“If you want to make a circus of this, I’ll tell everybody what we talked about,” Stoyle said. “But the last time we did talk about that, we were told to keep it strictly confidential. Mayor, what do you think? Want me to tell them what we talked about?”

Rosas replied he had no idea what was discussed because he was not at the last budget meeting Saturday, which he and the media were not informed of in advance.