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Rawlins adopts 2025–26 budget; approves $500,000 brownfields amendment
Summary
At a June 9 special meeting, the Rawlins City Council gave final approval to the fiscal year 2025–26 municipal budget and authorized a $500,000 budget amendment tied to a brownfields grant; the budget passed 6–1.
The Rawlins City Council approved final reading of the fiscal year 2025–26 municipal budget and authorized a $500,000 budget amendment tied to a brownfields grant during a special meeting on June 9, 2025.
The adoption of the FY2025–26 budget passed on final reading with six votes in favor and one opposed; Vice Mayor Daryl Garner cast the lone nay. The council separately approved a resolution to amend the FY2024–25 municipal budget to authorize expenditures from brownfields grant revenue in the amount of $500,000; that resolution passed unanimously.
City Manager Sarvey told the council that the final reading used the same document previously distributed and that the document had not been altered for the special meeting. “We have submitted the exact same document that was there for the reading of of the budget. So we did not alter that document in any way,” Sarvey said and offered to answer questions.
Vice Mayor Daryl Garner raised a policy objection during the budget discussion, reiterating concerns he had voiced at the earlier reading. “My concern…is the same as last time with the golf course, putting the funds to, taxpayer money from local businesses, to their competition,” Garner said, and recorded that he would not support that allocation.
On the brownfields amendment, Sarvey said the $500,000 figure is the full grant amount and that the city expects to spend roughly $90,000 of that during the current fiscal year for initial work and consultant time. “So we are estimating within the this fiscal year about $90,000 of the half a million would be spent,” Sarvey said, and explained the line item reflects the total grant amount as well as projected spending timing.
Council members recorded that the brownfields project is at an early stage: Sarvey said the city has held a kickoff, selected some properties for phase I and phase II assessment work, and that the appropriation covers consultant work to date. The motion authorizing the $500,000 amendment tied the budget authority to the grant revenue rather than to a single identified capital project.
The council voted on the budget and the brownfields amendment by online ballot during the special session; the final-reading vote on the FY2025–26 ordinance was 6–1 (Vice Mayor Garner opposed), and the brownfields amendment passed on the subsequent vote with seven yeas.
City staff did not provide additional timeline details for specific brownfields assessment tasks beyond the estimate of near-term consultant spending.
