"It is going to impact how soon we can get out and respond to calls about potholes," Twombly said.

Streets and Stormwater took the biggest hit in dollars, seeing its budget reduced by $811,000, or 3.72 percent.

The Police Department is next, with $573,000, or 0.68 percent, to be cut from its budget.

As a percentage of total budget, the Customer Care Center lost the most  7.66 percent, or $21,000.

The Fire Department lost the least  0.52 percent, or $347,400 of its total budget.

Mayor Dewey Bartlett said the approach to cuts was to avoid layoffs and find savings that could get the city "back to even."

"We'd prefer not to have layoffs," he said. "These are things that we can get by with and keep people employed."

Bartlett said the cuts are not, however, a solution to the problem of declining revenue and that more cuts may be ahead in the next year.

While council members showed concern about the decision to eliminate positions in the Fire Department's Education Division and move those personnel back into the field, Bartlett said he backed it.