Imperial Beach adopts balanced two‑year municipal budget with tight margins and one‑time expenditures

The Imperial Beach City Council adopted a balanced two‑year municipal budget for fiscal years 2025–26 and 2026–27 on June 4, approving one‑time expenditures for critical safety, facility repairs and limited community projects while preserving the city’s reserve policy.

Lily Flight, the city’s finance director, presented the proposed FY 2025–26 budget and noted the document is a two‑year plan covering July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2027. The proposed general fund for FY 2026 was approximately $31 million; total projected revenues across all funds were about $49.4 million and total expenditures $50.3 million (the budget document excludes certain one‑time costs in that summary). Flight told the council the second year shows an estimated surplus of $15,400 and that margins are “extremely tight.”

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