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Livingston adopts $2025–26 budget after late edits; council adds errata, moves $15,000 from sister-cities to reserves
Summary
The Livingston City Council adopted the fiscal year 2025–26 budget after removing one clause for later review, approving an errata sheet and shifting $15,000 from a sister-cities line item to general reserves. The vote was 4–1 with one abstention.
The Livingston City Council on June 17 adopted the city’s fiscal year 2025–26 budget and appropriation limit after removing one line of the draft resolution for later review and adding an errata sheet that made several technical adjustments.
The council voted 4–1, with Council member Paul abstaining, to adopt the budget as amended. Before the final vote the council removed a single clause from the resolution for separate examination and directed staff to include the errata packet with the adopted budget.
The budget presentation included enterprise and capital highlights: Public Works reported proposed water and wastewater budgets of roughly $4.56 million and $4.73 million, respectively, and presented capital requests including $165,000 for playground equipment at Max Foster Sports Complex, a $298,500 insulated aerial truck shared across departments, and paving projects on Main Street and Fourth Street. Police Chief Rick Schiff outlined a $136,000 DUI enforcement grant and a proposed radio replacement program estimated at roughly $650,000, funded from municipal and impact-fee sources.
Finance staff explained the budget shows roughly $64.8 million in projected revenues and about $75.4 million in projected expenses; the difference, about $6.6 million, reflects carryover and planned capital projects. Council and staff stressed the city’s overall general-fund budget is balanced while some multi-year projects carry forward costs.
On amendments, the council voted to remove a recurring $15,000 line item for sister-city activities and move that amount into general reserves. Councilmember Wallace had proposed reallocating the funds to support police or animal-control efforts; the council moved the amount to reserves instead.
Council also asked staff to return with a job description, cost and implementation plan for a possible full-time animal-control officer rather than adding the position directly to the adopted budget. Staff said they will prepare the personnel analysis and cost estimates for future council consideration.
The budget adoption included the errata sheet the council requested during the meeting; council members instructed staff to incorporate the errata into the final budget book and to return with any required follow-up.
