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Milton council approves fiscal 2025 budget amendments to shift $3.08 million to capital projects
Summary
Council approved amendments to the fiscal 2025 budget that allocate roughly $3.08 million—mostly to capital projects—and recognize revenues in special funds including opioid settlements and donations for first-responder equipment.
The Milton City Council on Sept. 15 approved amendments to the fiscal 2025 budget that staff said would carry forward projected activity through the end of the fiscal year and reallocate funds primarily to capital projects.
Deputy City Manager Bernadette Harvill presented the amendments during unfinished business, saying the packet adjusts line items to reflect spending through Sept. 30, 2025. "98% of the $3,077,451 amendments [are] going to the capital projects fund to support the city's pay-as-you-go capital improvement plan," she said.
Harvill told the council the amended revenues for fiscal 2025 are shown at $48,300,000 and the amended expenditures at $50,000,000, including operating transfers out. If the amendments are approved, Harvill said the projected general fund balance would be $12,679,558, which she said aligns with the city's required reserves of 25% of the subsequent year's revenues.
Specific adjustments cited in the presentation include: - City Events Fund: Name changed from Special Events Fund for clarity; recognition of unspent funds for Earth Day and an updated hotel-motel revenue/transfer (staff cited a planned transfer of approximately $65,000 from the hotel-motel tax fund and a planned $104,064 transfer from the general fund into the City Events Fund for FY26). - Opioid Settlement Fund: Staff requested recognition of available fund balance and identified eligible equipment purchases for the police department; Harvill reported forecasted revenues of $25,000 and authorized spending of $51,077 in the fund. - Confiscated Assets Fund: Staff noted $41,223 in fund balance available for police-authorized purchases under that fund's rules. - Capital Projects: Recognition of $3,000,000 transfer in from the general fund, insurance proceeds and sale proceeds totaling $242, and release of contingency funds of $312,201 to fund PAYGO requests in FY26 (details as presented by staff). - TSPLOST and impact fee adjustments: Staff corrected anticipated grant and IGA funding for projects such as the Big Creek Greenway and recorded impact fee receipts to be allocated to eligible projects. - Capital Grant Fund: Adjustments related to completion of an EPD recycling and waste diversion grant, setup of a hazard mitigation grant and allocation of ARPA funds to the MCPP site improvement project; Harvill cited $82,876 for other equipment and fire to recognize the hazard mitigation grant local match for a new generator.
Harvill answered procedural questions and invited council questions; there were no public comments. Councilor Cranmer moved to approve the amendments and Councilor Juliet Johnson seconded. The motion passed unanimously.
Discussion-only items included a high-level review of each special revenue and capital fund amendment. Direction: staff will implement the approved amendments and carry forward unspent capital project funds into FY26 per the capital improvement plan. Formal action: approval of ordinance amending the fiscal 2025 budget.
