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Saint Charles presents draft 2025–26 budget with capital priorities and utility pressures
Summary
City staff presented a draft FY2025–26 budget showing a balanced general fund, proposed transfers to support water and capital projects, and deferred capital items while flagging rising personnel and health insurance costs and the need for a utility rate study.
Bill Hanna, the city’s budget director, presented an overview of the draft budget for fiscal year 2025–26 at the Government Operations Committee meeting. "Tonight is a presentation of an overview of the draft budget for fiscal year 2025–26," Hanna said, and walked members through revenues, expenditures, staffing and capital priorities.
The draft shows the general fund operating budget balanced with roughly $64,800,000 in revenues and expenditures. Hanna told the committee the city plans to recommend increased transfers in the current year — from the general fund to the water fund and to the capital fund — to front-load funding for near-term capital work. He said the city is recommending raising the general-fund transfer to the water fund from $1,100,000 to $2,250,000 and to the capital fund…
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