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Council workshop: staff previews FY2025–26 budget, seeks priorities on assistant city manager, grants consultant and impact fees
Summary
Budget director Ariana Beckman reviewed the city’s financial position and calendar for adopting the FY2025–26 budget; city manager Ryan Havrila sought direction on creating an assistant city manager role and hiring a grants consultant to manage growing federal and state grant work.
City budget staff presented a preview of the FY2025–26 proposed budget and plan of municipal services during a March 18 workshop, asking council for policy direction on personnel and grant-administration priorities ahead of the formal budget presentation in June.
Ariana Beckman, the city’s director of budget, summarized current financials and fund balances. She showed comparisons of budgeted and actual revenue and expenses across the general fund, water and sewer, and solid-waste funds, and noted that some expenses exceeded current-year revenue because the city carried forward uncompleted purchase orders and capital projects from the prior fiscal year.
Beckman showed preliminary taxable assessed-value estimates and a roughly 3…
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