Montgomery CCPD hears FY2025–26 budget timeline, building payment and outstanding election bill

Montgomery Crime Control and Prevention District members received an update on preliminary FY2025–26 budgeting, the city’s pending purchase of the Jim’s Hardware property and an outstanding election invoice during their meeting. Finance Director Mary Anne Clark and the district’s chief briefed the board on timetable and cash-flow implications ahead of the city council’s summer budget workshop.

Clark said CCPD is “on track with projections” and that the district will likely need to account for a monthly payment for a new building starting Aug. 1. “We anticipate that we will probably have a monthly payment starting on August 1,” Clark told the board. She said CCPD staff plan to present a proposed budget to the council’s July workshop so the council can review CCPD items before CCPD’s July meeting.

The proposed schedule Clark described: CCPD should provide a draft for the council workshop in July; the CCPD board would consider any council comments at its July meeting; a proposed CCPD budget would then be posted in August and remain posted for 30 days before a public hearing in September. Clark said the posted proposal is intended to be stable during that 30-day period, with changes only for justified reasons.

Board members pressed for details on receipts and cash balances. The district’s chief said the first tax receipt recorded in March was “$159” and that, accounting for receipts through October, participants discussed projections of about $202,000 and a projected October balance of $417,000. Meeting participants also said the $202,000 figure would be offset and removed from the general fund; the transcript did not provide a single, definitive reconciled number.

Board members asked whether the city’s planned purchase of the Jim’s Hardware site would draw on CCPD money. One board member asked, “is any of that going to involve funds from the CCPD?” The chief replied that CCPD funds could be involved. Other participants noted the city is also contributing money toward related expenditures and said they did not expect the entire cost to fall on CCPD.

Clark also told the board the district has not yet received the county’s invoice for election expenses. “We do not have election expense yet from the county,” Clark said, explaining city staff have been contacting the county repeatedly since January to obtain the final cost; once received, she said, it will be recorded as a CCPD expense if applicable.

Separately, the chief reported the city is progressing on the Jim’s Hardware purchase: a survey and inspection were under way and, if no issues are found, the transaction was expected to close around July 1, according to the chief’s update. The chief did not provide the broker’s name; participants asked for follow-up details.

No formal budget amendment or final spending decision was made at the meeting. Clark and staff said they would return with a proposed FY2025–26 budget for the council workshop and with any recommended amendments at CCPD’s July meeting. The board did take routine actions at the start and end of the meeting: the board moved to accept the April 28, 2025, meeting minutes (seconded by TJ Wilkerson; outcome not specified in the transcript) and later adjourned after a motion that was seconded by Miss Johnson and carried.

The board also administered the oath of office to the newly approved CCPD official identified in the meeting transcript as Mr. Guzman. The transcript provides no further biographical or role details for Guzman.

Board members set the next CCPD meeting for the last Monday in June (June 30) at 6 p.m., with the finance director expected to be absent for that meeting. Clark emphasized the constrained calendar and the need to meet posting and tax-office deadlines that drive the July-to-September schedule.