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Roosevelt City Council approves fiscal-year-26 budget reopener reallocations, including $1.2M gun-range project
Summary
Council approved a package of budget reopener requests and associated transfers, including budgeting for a $1.2 million gun-range project (with a $900,000 grant and $300,000 city match) and other capital moves. Council voted to open a public hearing and later adopted the changes.
The Roosevelt City Council voted Sept. 16 to approve a set of budget reopener requests for fiscal year 2026 that repurpose savings from completed capital projects, add newly funded projects and authorize a temporary “float” for recreation donations.
The package budgets a $1.2 million shooting-range project — $900,000 of it grant-funded and $300,000 to be paid from city funds — and increases the budgeted cost of a generator for the police/public-safety building from $80,000 to $160,000 so the city can purchase the unit up front and receive reimbursement from a Homeland Security SHSP grant. The net fiscal impact reported in the staff presentation was about $1,315,000 citywide, with roughly $335,000 from the general fund and the remainder from capital projects; staff said most grant funding will be reimbursed to the city.
City finance staff described several transfers: moving a small radio savings into a fire truck light-bar expense; reallocating a portion of an under-budget dump-truck line item to other public-works accounts; transferring $7,423.93 in recreation donations into an expense account; and creating a $20,000 float account to let recreation spend donated funds more quickly while awaiting formal budget-opener hearings. The council also approved moving part of a planned $2 million golf-course irrigation allocation into cemetery expansion work, leaving $500,000 for irrigation.
During a public hearing on the reopened budget, a member of the public asked what the generator was for; Lieutenant Tucker explained the police/public-safety building was originally planned to have a generator but did not, and that the city applied for and received an $80,000 SHSP grant toward a roughly $160,000 generator. “You have to buy it first, and then we'll get money back,” Tucker said.
After no further public comment, the council moved out of the hearing and approved the budget reopener package by voice vote. Councilman Barrett made the motion to adopt the recommendations presented by city staff; the motion received a second and the mayor pro tem called the ayes. The motion passed.
Why it matters: The action lets the city obligate funds now for capital projects that depend on grants or internal reallocations and creates a mechanism to let recreation programs spend donated money more quickly. The largest single addition is the shooting-range budget, which municipal staff said required full upfront budgeting because grant reimbursements come after purchase.
Council action: Motion to approve the fiscal-year-26 budget reopener recommendations; moved by Councilman Barrett; seconded and approved by voice vote.
Sources and context: City finance staff presentation at the Sept. 16 council meeting and comments by Lieutenant Tucker during the public hearing.
