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Budget committee approves 2025–26 city budget as amended
Summary
The City of The Dalles budget committee voted to approve the proposed fiscal-year 2025–26 city budget with several staff-recommended amendments and a handful of committee additions, directing staff to finalize the amended package for council adoption.
The City of The Dalles Budget Committee voted to approve the proposed fiscal-year 2025–26 city budget as amended after two nights of review and public comment.
The committee amended the draft with several staff-proposed adjustments and a small set of committee-led changes, including an added award to the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center and an increase to police records/CAD upgrade funding. City staff said the package as amended remains balanced by using available beginning fund balance and established contingency policies.
Committee members and staff emphasized that the largest single change implemented at the committee’s request was an increase in the police department’s CAD/RMS (computer-aided dispatch/records management) project budget to cover data conversion, hosting and final implementation costs. Finance staff said the added cost for the first year will be funded by reducing the general fund ending balance carried into the new fiscal year, not by raising taxes or adding new revenue.
City staff also recorded smaller adjustments: removal of one $20,000 judicial contractual item previously included (unmanned aerial vehicle line item), removal of a duplicated $30,000 Ninth-and-Clark line item, a $32,000 transfer from the special grants (ARPA) fund to the transportation system reserve for East Twelfth Street, and a $40,000 reduction of general-fund revenue tied to city financial services provided historically to Mid Columbia Fire and Rescue (staff advised that MCFR may source those services elsewhere going forward).
During the public comment period the budget committee heard an appeal from the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center for additional tourism-grant funding; the committee directed staff to add the requested $4,933 to fully fund that grant request. The committee chair instructed staff to assemble a single, final amended budget document reflecting the committee’s changes for presentation to council for formal adoption.
The committee then moved, seconded and approved the amended budget. The motion passed by voice/hand vote.
