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Council debates overlapping budget measures after retirement benefit proposal
Summary
Council members questioned duplicate language in two fiscal-year-2025 ordinances—one increasing employee retirement contributions and another proposing broad reappropriations—while city staff said one ordinance (O9) is broader and would cover retirement funding.
Council members spent the work session probing two related budget measures after the council president introduced Ordinance O7 and a newer Ordinance O9 meant to reallocate FY2025 funds.
The dispute centered on whether both ordinances were necessary. Councilman Lynn Herring asked whether O7 and O9 were doing “the exact same thing,” noting that both documents, as circulated, appeared to reallocate funds to cover a newly proposed retirement increase. City Manager Charles Stewart said O7 was intended to cover an increase…
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