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Fort Smith finance staff preview 2026 operating budget, warn balancing will require hard choices
Summary
Chief Financial Officer Andy Richards presented the City of Fort Smith’s proposed 2026 operating budget at the Board of Directors’ Oct. 14 meeting as a presentation-only item; no board action was requested.
Chief Financial Officer Andy Richards presented the City of Fort Smith’s proposed 2026 operating budget at the Board of Directors’ Oct. 14 meeting as a presentation-only item; no board action was requested.
Richards told the board the bound “main book” contains summarized budget information for four operating funds and that detailed line-item backup is available in a larger binder. He said, unusually for this year, capital outlay requests for the operating funds were included in the same budget document rather than added after the operating budget was adopted, and that staff will distribute…
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