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Council adopts FY2025 budget, approves multiple intra-year budget amendments
Summary
Council members voted to adopt the fiscal year 2025 budget and approved several budget-amending ordinances to reflect operating transfers, encumbrance carryovers, and within-5% adjustments for the prior fiscal year.
The New Iberia City Council voted to adopt the fiscal year 2025 budget (ordinance adopting a budget for the fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 2025) and approved multiple ordinance amendments to adjust the 2023–24 and 2024 budgets.
Council members opened the required public hearings and, after limited discussion and requests for updated budget pages, approved the main budget ordinance and three accompanying amendments: an ordinance adopting the FY2025 budget, a within‑5% amendment for FY2023–24, an amendment to reflect operating transfers as required by auditors, and an ordinance reflecting encumbrance carryovers from FY2023–24. Council members also discussed specific line items during the hearing: one councilor asked about dog pound expenses, and staff explained that the contract amount has increased over time to current annual charges (the transcript cites $171,000 as the contract amount for the city's share under the contract).
Why this matters: The budget adoption establishes city operating priorities and spending authority for the coming fiscal year. The amendments complete housekeeping actions and move prior-year encumbrances into the current year to permit project completion.
Next steps: Staff will distribute the final adopted budget as published and continue to process approved operating transfers and carryovers.
