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The Dalles budget committee certifies tax rate and allocates state shared revenues amid new budget presentation
Summary
City Manager Matthew Cleves presented the proposed 2025–26 budget, committee certified the tax rate and designated state shared revenues for use across general and street funds; staff said the budget uses ClearGov software and maintains contingency and fund-balance policies.
City Manager Matthew Cleves opened the budget committee meeting with the city’s proposed 2025–26 budget and asked the committee to certify the municipal tax rate and designate state shared revenues.
Cleves told the committee the proposed budget is presented in a new ClearGov format and reflects the city’s fiscal priorities, including an unappropriated ending fund balance equal to four months of net operating, a 10% general-fund contingency, and a five-year capital improvement plan. He summarized the budget’s focus on core services such as water, sewer, streets and public safety and noted planned investments in systems including the CAD/RMS project, municipal airport initiatives and Federal Street Plaza planning.
The committee voted to certify the city tax rate “as presented.” In describing the rate, Cleves stated, “the city of the Dallas tax rate is $3.3.0155 per thousand of assessed value. This is what this proposed budget has been modeled off of.” A motion to certify the tax rate passed with aye votes and one abstention recorded by a member who said they had just arrived.
The committee then held a required public hearing on state shared revenues under Oregon law. Cleves explained staff’s recommended allocation: Highway Trust Fund distributions to the street fund, and cigarette, marijuana, liquor tax and 9-1-1 emergency communications tax distributions to the general fund. He cited ORS 221.770 as the statutory authority for state-shared distributions. A motion to accept and allocate the state-shared revenue as recommended passed unanimously.
Cleves and finance staff emphasized a handful of editorial corrections to the printed ClearGov budget (for example, removing an obsolete “reserve for future expenditures” line under general-fund contingency). Finance Director Angie Wilson was noted on the Zoom call as available to correct errors during the meeting.
Committee members asked clarifying questions about the tax-rate change (Cleves said it is the same rate as last year) and the timing of certain revenues. Cleves and staff said the book will be updated with corrected pages and that the ClearGov rollout explains some presentation changes in fund and program grouping.
The committee closed the public hearings and proceeded to other agenda items.
The committee did not adopt the final budget at this meeting; motions taken were certification of the tax rate and designation of state-shared revenue distributions as described above.
