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Commission debates COLA, tax relief match and other FY26 budget items as manager presents trimmed estimate
Summary
City Manager Mr. Granham presented a trimmed FY26 budget estimate that includes a 1.5% COLA, funding to sustain a detective position, a full match to the county tax-relief program for qualifying residents, paratransit funding and debt for equipment purchases.
City Manager Mr. Granham presented a FY26 budget estimate incorporating department input and staff reductions that trims roughly $1 million from earlier drafts while preserving prioritized services and several new items.
Key items in the estimate included a proposed 1.5% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for all employees at an estimated cost of $112,478 allocated across the general fund, solid waste and stormwater funds; funding to make permanent a detective position previously funded from a violent-crime incentive fund (estimated at ~$75,000); a city match to Hamilton County’s tax-relief program for qualified residents (total…
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