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City staff outline budget pressures: millage baseline, frozen vacancies and thin public-works capacity
Summary
City managers told council the preliminary budget is balanced at the existing millage but relies on holding five vacancies and other temporary measures; filling those vacancies would require raising the millage. Public works and parks leaders described thin staffing that limits preventive maintenance and storms response.
At the opening of the budget workshops the city manager and finance director reviewed the preliminary budget, key pressures and staffing choices that underlie next year’s numbers.
Millage and baseline: staff said the proposed budget is balanced at last year’s millage of 2.768; keeping five current vacancies frozen (two police, three public works) reduces payroll by about $400,000 and preserves the 2.768 millage. Staff said filling those vacancies would require a not-to-exceed millage of roughly 2.845 — about a 3.11 percent increase over the existing rate — although final numbers will change as state revenue-sharing estimates and audit results are finalized.
Cost drivers: Finance staff…
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