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Kingman council adopts $309.86 million tentative budget, moves recreation design funds to contingency
Summary
The Kingman City Council on June 3 adopted the fiscal year 2025-26 tentative budget, setting a $309,859,823 ceiling and moving most of the recreation center design money into contingency while shifting a pedestrian access project into the grant fund.
Mayor Ken Watkins and the Kingman City Council on Tuesday adopted Resolution 5533, setting the fiscal year 2025-26 tentative budget ceiling at $309,859,823.
Finance Manager Tina told the council the tentative budget incorporates revisions from May work sessions and “sets the budget ceiling for the tentative budget at the $309,859,823.” She said staff moved the Lewis Kingman pedestrian access point into the grant fund and shifted $900,000 of a previously estimated $950,000 recreation-center design allocation into contingency while leaving $50,000 in the capital projects fund for public education and marketing.
The tentative budget establishes a maximum appropriations ceiling; the council may make line-item changes before the final adoption but may not exceed the dollar amount adopted tonight, Tina said. The council approved Resolution 5533 by motion and voice vote; no member recorded opposition.
Why it matters: adopting the tentative budget fixes the dollar ceiling for the final adoption scheduled for June 24, limiting how much the city may appropriate this fiscal year unless the council later holds another formal action to change the ceiling.
Supporting details: Tina said the tentative budget “includes the revisions that we discussed during our recommended budget work sessions in May.” The council had earlier agreed that the Lewis Kingman pedestrian access project should be funded only with grant funds and not with city general funds; staff moved that project into the grant fund. On the recreation center, the council preserved a $50,000 capital-projects allocation for community outreach and kept the remainder ($900,000) in contingency rather than committing it to design work at this time.
The budget presentation did not include a roll-call vote tally in the public record; the council approved the resolution on a motion and second, and the mayor declared the motion carried. The final budget will return to the council at a later meeting for formal adoption within the ceiling set tonight.
The meeting also included other agenda items (signage rules, zoning changes and public hearings).
