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Council reviews fiscal year 2025–26 budget development schedule; staff flags revenue and labor pressures

3405255 · January 15, 2025
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Finance Director Dan Buffalo presented a budget development calendar and said the city targets tentative adoption in June; staff warned of revenue declines (including a roughly $2 million annual reduction related to retail and cannabis changes), additional agency coordination for water authority budgets, and upcoming labor contract negotiations.

The Ukiah City Council reviewed the city’s fiscal year 2025–26 budget development schedule Jan. 15, with Finance Director Dan Buffalo presenting timeline milestones and staff warning of revenue and staffing pressures for the coming cycle.

Buffalo described a series of milestones from January through June culminating in tentative adoption of the operating budget at the second regular council meeting in June.…

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