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Greenville holds public hearing on FY 2025–26 proposed budget; utilities assistance and town commons flooding raised
Summary
A public hearing on the City of Greenville’s proposed fiscal year 2025–26 budget opened June 9 after a presentation by Chief Financial Officer Jacob Joyner, who said the overall budget — including Greenville Utilities Commission (GUC), the Convention and Visitor Authority and Shepherd Memorial Library — totals $504,456,000 and that the city’s operating budget is about $185,300,000.
A public hearing on the City of Greenville’s proposed fiscal year 2025–26 budget opened June 9 after a presentation by Chief Financial Officer Jacob Joyner, who said the overall budget — including Greenville Utilities Commission (GUC), the Convention and Visitor Authority and Shepherd Memorial Library — totals $504,456,000 and that the city’s operating budget is about $185,300,000.
The hearing matters because the council is scheduled to adopt the budget on June 12, and the proposal includes rate and fee changes that city and utility officials said could affect lower-income residents.
Joyner, the city’s chief financial officer, described the general fund as a $118,800,000 budget and said four revenue streams — property taxes, sales tax, a transfer from the Greenville Development Corporation (GDC), and the utilities franchise tax — supply most general-fund revenue. He identified proposed revenue and expense…
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