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Treasurer Mary Markowski told the council the pavement-marking allocation had been budgeted in FY24, rolled to FY25, and only $43,000 was spent by the end of the year; she had removed the restriction so funds would be accurate for FY26 calculations. \"So when we got when I get to the end of this year, we only spent 43,000... So I removed that. It was $68,520.94,\" Markowski said.

Alderman Davis and other members noted the truck had been approved in the budget and was a timing issue because delivery had not occurred; the council moved to keep the $60,000 in the FY26 budget to cover the purchase. The motion to approve the vehicle purchase passed by roll call, 9–0. Council members clarified that the capital-reserve and FY26 budget would still include funds for pavement-marking and that the action did not zero out ongoing DPW budgets.

The council suspended rules to take the votes and directed the treasurer and DPW to record the vehicle once delivered and to reflect the rollover in FY26 capital reports.

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The Public Safety Committee reported a unanimous recommendation to fund the two positions. \"After much debate, the motion is to fund 2 positions totaling $220,000 from the unassigned fund balance. It was passed unanimously,\" the committee report stated.

Council members discussed that the chief had requested up to 39 positions and that additional positions might be addressed in FY26 or FY27 budgets depending on overtime and other offsets. Chief Coppola was present; the committee and council recorded a roll-call vote approving the funding 9–0. The clerk called the roll and recorded each alderman's vote.

Council members directed that the chief and the mayor continue to review staffing needs and budget availability throughout the coming fiscal year. The council's vote authorized the treasurer and police department to proceed with recruitment and position-control adjustments as permitted by the FY25/FY26 process.

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City Treasurer Mary Markowski told the council she had revised fund-balance calculations and recommended reserving prior-year funds so the city can comply with the voter-approved budget while limiting immediate tax increases. \"The tax rate that I will I'm proposing is 2.1536 okay That's up from 2.0172 in f y 25,\" Markowski said.

The council approved a motion to set aside $1,045,979.50 as a prior-year fund balance assignment; the motion passed after the council suspended the rules. Council members then voted to adopt the municipal rate of 2.1536. Markowski said the increase is a 6.7% rise over the prior year and that, on the municipal portion, it equals $204.48 more annually for a property assessed at $150,000.

Markowski said the city's FY25 book-keeping showed a net reduction of about $1,357,071 in fund balance, driven partly by ARPA spending that had already been appropriated. She also noted adjustments to restricted funds, including opioid-restricted funds the board had previously approved as expenses for the police department. Those restricted funds were handled separately in her calculation.

Council members discussed how the voter-approved budget and the city's charter required setting the rate consistent with the approved budget and noted an option the League of Cities had offered — collect the higher amount and return it later — but the treasurer said the council's approach was to reserve the funds on the balance sheet so the city would not operate under the higher appropriation.

The council also approved the statutorily required education tax rates: a homestead rate of 1.6058 (down from 1.6745) and a non-homestead rate of 1.9273 (up from 1.8571). Those education rates were set by roll call after the motion passed 8–1, with Alderman Gillum recorded as the lone no vote. The city provided combined-impact figures: a $150,000 homestead assessment would have a net increase of $101.43 (municipal plus education changes), and a $150,000 non-homestead assessment would increase by $309.78.

Alderman Gillum voiced concern about the non-homestead increase and its impact on rental-property owners in his neighborhood. \"I'm just I'm very very, very concerned, especially in my neighborhood, which is mostly rental income or rental units... Those are the people who are gonna get real hit real hard underneath this non homestead rate,\" Gillum said.

Markowski told the council she would carry the reserved assignment forward on the balance sheet and that the funds would become available again in FY27 if the council chose to release them. The council followed the treasurer's motions to ratify prior-year adjustments the treasurer had already executed to make the FY26 calculations accurate.

The council adjourned after completing the tax-rate, fund-balance and education-rate votes.

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Council ratifies pavement-marking rollover and approves $60,000 DPW truck purchase

Council approves $220,000 from fund balance to add two police positions

City sets municipal tax rate at 2.1536%; board reserves $1.05 million in prior-year funds