Parkland Mayor Michael Udine believes the coming budget year will be more difficult than the current one.

"Property values in Parkland, like all other communities in South Florida, went way down," Udine said at a City Commission meeting on Tuesday. "This is going to be a very tough budget year, even more so than last year...we may have to look at cuts that are going to be a little more painful."

"The goal is to continue providing the same kind of services with less revenue," Udine said. "We have reduced spending in every department during the last three years."

According to the Broward property appraiser's office, property values in the county dropped 10.7 percent last year. In 2007 decline, Broward's tax base had gone down by 4.8 percent. Parkland, which has had to deal with the Chinese drywall issue, was the worst hit city, with with the city's tax base falling 16.8 percent.