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City presents draft budget framework with capital priorities, proposes keeping millage at 6.25 mills

5397924 · July 15, 2025
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City staff presented a draft FY26 budget framework that keeps the millage at 6.25, lists capital priorities including a city‑yard complex and Zephyr Park renovation, and showed per‑percent employee salary costs to inform council’s upcoming decisions on pay increases.

City Manager William Poe Jr. presented a draft budget overview and capital priorities to the council July 14, proposing to keep the millage rate at 6.25 mills while highlighting major capital asks including a new city yard complex, Zephyr Park renovation, and multiple utility projects.

Poe said the proposed millage would produce roughly $10.5 million in ad valorem revenue under current assessed values. He explained the rollback rate would be approximately 6.0848 mills and that keeping the rate at 6.25…

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