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Council completes second reading of 2025–26 budget after adjustments; final vote set for next meeting
Summary
Council completed first and second readings of the fiscal 2025–26 budget after staff described capital deferrals, operational cuts and correction of budgeting software errors that produced a projected $83,000 increase in the general fund balance.
The Maplewood City Council completed the first and second readings of the proposed fiscal year 2025–26 budget (Bill 62.82) on May 27; the third and final reading is scheduled for the council’s next meeting.
City staff summarized changes to the final draft: several capital items were deferred to the following fiscal year, adjustments were made between Parks capital and the half-cent capital improvement sales tax, and operational cuts were implemented including reductions to projected overtime. Staff said they discovered calculation errors in the new budgeting software that had double-counted education pay for police and fire and miscalculated Social Security for those departments; correcting those errors produced an approximate $83,000 increase in the general-fund fund balance for the next fiscal year.
Councilors thanked staff for the work on the budget and the migration to the new software; no substantive amendments were proposed at the meeting. The council approved the second reading and scheduled the third and final reading for the next regular meeting.
Next steps: staff will finalize the corrected budget documents and present them for the third reading and final adoption at the council’s next meeting.
