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Flagstaff manager's budget sets aside $11.5M in one-time infrastructure, $2M for police/fire designs and $5.5M for software modernization
Summary
Finance staff outlined recommended one-time capital allocations for 2025–26, including $11.5 million in general-fund infrastructure investments, design dollars for future police and fire facilities and $5.5 million earmarked for software modernization and ERP improvements.
Brandy Souda, the city's finance director, and Heidi Derryberry, assistant finance director, walked council through the recommended appropriations and the priority-based budgeting alignment that guided funding decisions.
Souda said total requests across all funds this year totaled about $94.7 million and that the budget team recommended approximately $49 million of that in the manager's proposed budget, with roughly $31.8 million in recommended grant requests included. In the general fund, she said staff identified $11.5 million in one-time infrastructure investments and $5.7 million in employee investment.
"We have total available for fiscal year 25-26 budget of 6,100,000 ongoing and 26,500,000 in one-time," Souda said, summarizing available ongoing and one-time resources after updated revenue and year-end estimates.
Major recommended items included design funding for new police and fire facilities (about $2.0 million), $2.9 million for facility repairs and replacements (including J. W. Jively investments), nearly $1 million for fleet replacements and $5.5 million planned over three to five years for software modernization (dispatch/records and a potential new ERP including HR and payroll). Other funds receiving one-time assistance included $4.8 million for the airport and $648,000 for a water-resource infrastructure protection design project.
Heidi Derryberry walked council through the priority-based budgeting alignment showing most requests scored in the "most" or "more aligned" categories with council priorities and community objectives, and staff said they tried to prioritize the most aligned items when resources were limited.
Ending: Souda said the recommended budget does not assume any property-tax levy increase and that council will have further opportunities to review the capital-improvement program and project-level details before adoption.
