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Kirkwood council adopts fiscal 2025–26 budget and approves several ordinances and contracts
Summary
At its March 20 meeting the City of Kirkwood adopted its 2025–26 operating and capital budget, approved updates to speed limits and crosswalks, approved the special business district budget, accepted a technology support bid and a general-contractor on-call contract, and advanced a classification and pay-plan ordinance to second reading.
Kirkwood City Council members adopted the City of Kirkwood operating and capital budgets for fiscal 2025–26 and approved a package of ordinances and resolutions on March 20, 2025.
The council passed an ordinance adopting the city operating budget and capital program that appropriates $130,101,910 for the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2025, with capital projects totaling $31,022,110; the ordinance also appropriates $800,300 for interfund loan payments and reappropriates $1,959,460 for previously approved projects that will remain incomplete as of March 31, 2025. Council discussion ahead of the vote included concerns about flat revenues, rising expenses, water-rate increases included in the budget, and public-safety staffing and overtime levels. Council member Jack Sedick said, “I am gonna support this even though I have some hesitancy in there,” citing the need for continued oversight; others urged earlier access to financial actuals and called the…
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