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Newberry approves $75.1 million FY2025–26 budget; staff presentation and resolution record slightly differ on millage rate
Summary
The Newberry City Commission adopted a $75.12 million fiscal 2025–26 budget and approved a final property tax rate after a public hearing; staff presented 5.88 mills while the resolution text recorded 5.8088 mills. The budget funds major infrastructure projects and utility operations.
The City of Newberry City Commission on Sept. 22 adopted the city’s fiscal year 2025–26 final budget and approved a final millage rate after a required public hearing. Commissioners voted unanimously to pass the resolutions that finalize the budget and levy ad valorem taxes. Dallas Lee, assistant city manager and chief financial officer, led the staff presentation and described the budget as “balanced” and positioned to support major capital projects.
The budget matters because it funds the city’s operating needs, utilities and planned capital investments, including a planned $10,000,000 utility relocation for the State Road 26 Twin Pairs project and what staff described as the city’s largest-ever capital project, a regional wastewater treatment plant expansion. Lee told the commission Newberry’s taxable value grew about 8 percent to nearly $884 million, allowing staff to…
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