Gaithersburg officials are scrambling for a way to pay for city services in case Mayor Sidney Katz and City Council members can’t settle a budget dispute by July 1, the start of the city’s fiscal 2008.

The roughly $50 million budget narrowly passed in a 3-2 vote Monday night, but Katz has said he might veto it. It would take four council members voting together to override a mayoral veto.