Oviedo staff propose FY2025–26 budget adjustments; council debates restrooms, SRO funding and millage math

Oviedo — City finance staff presented a set of proposed adjustments to the FY2025–26 budget at the Aug. 25 work session, highlighting updated state revenue estimates, several targeted expenditures and questions about longer-term pension and capital pressures that will affect future budgets. Finance director Kelly (presenting staff) said updated state distributions raised the city’s anticipated revenue by several hundred thousand dollars — including an increase in revenue sharing and in the local option sales tax allocation — and that those increases enabled staff to add a set of departmental items within the FY26 proposal while keeping the city’s total millage rate unchanged. Highlights and proposed additions: staff presented $419,646 in net proposed increases paired with additional revenue sources. Notable line items included purchasing two police motorcycles by paying off…