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Edina resident faults early 2026 budget efforts, warns against shifting taxes and raising bills
Summary
Resident Ralph Sickert criticized city budget planning and staff for treating a projected 17% levy increase as an optics problem rather than a substantive tax‑burden issue, and urged long‑term spending reductions and process reforms.
At the council’s community-comment period, resident Ralph Sickert criticized the city’s early work on the 2026 budget and the approach of city staff to a projected 17% increase in the property‑tax levy.
Sickert said City Manager Neil "deserves a failing grade" for failing to clearly define the problem and for treating the 17% projected levy increase primarily as an optics issue. "No wonder then that Mister Neil's largest so‑called reductions in next…
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