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City manager presents balanced FY2025-26 budget in first reading; deferred maintenance and technology needs flagged
Summary
City Manager Tom Sarvey presented the fiscal year 2025-26 municipal budget in a first reading. He said the general fund is balanced at roughly $13.07 million, noted large deferred-maintenance and technology replacement needs, and flagged a possible $600,000 deferred-maintenance request that would come from reserves.
City Manager Tom Sarvey presented the city's proposed fiscal year 2025-26 budget at first reading, telling the council the general fund revenue and expenditures were balanced at about $13,070,000.
Sarvey outlined capital and maintenance pressures that remain unfinished. He said the city has a deferred-maintenance backlog and quoted previous council-approved amounts and remaining balances. He identified roughly $600,000 of deferred-maintenance needs (Public Works shop heaters, rooftop units, water-treatment HVAC and emergency generators) that would likely have to come from cash reserves if approved this year. Sarvey also reported a technology need: servers, network switches and end-user computers approaching end-of-life. Vendors estimated about $255,000 for server/switch replacements and roughly $60,000--70,000 for individual computer replacements; Sarvey said he expected to present a technology ask in the next budget reading.
Sarvey said enterprise funds were balanced except for the landfill fund, which showed a planned deficit for a motor that would be paid from reserves. He said he will update projected current-year numbers and report an estimate of budgetary carryover at the next meeting to show available funds for potential capital purchases or deferred-maintenance projects. Council members asked about intra-category budget transfers during the year; Sarvey explained the council approves budgets at a high line-item level (for example, "public safety") and staff can move funds between departmental line-items within that category without council action, but transfers between major categories (for example, public safety to public works) would require council approval.
Council signaled interest in using carryover and reserves selectively for priority deferred maintenance and agreed staff should return with updated carryover calculations and a prioritized list of deferred-maintenance items for council consideration.
