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Parker council directs staff to add firefighters, police officers and equipment in preliminary FY2025-26 budget
Summary
At a budget workshop, Parker City Council directed staff to include three full‑time firefighters, two new patrol officers, a skid‑steer trailer and a maintenance worker in the preliminary FY2025‑26 budget and approved a proposed tax rate and public hearing date.
Parker City Council members on the council’s budget workshop session directed staff to build several staffing and equipment additions into the city’s preliminary FY2025‑26 budget and approved a proposed tax rate and public hearing date.
City finance staff told the council that the Collin County appraisal district’s certified totals came in roughly $18 million higher than early estimates, generating about $55,000 in additional revenue and raising an available general‑fund surplus to $876,940. With that update, council members discussed two supplemental staffing packages and several equipment requests and gave staff direction on which items to include in the budget presented for public hearing.
The council’s direction included funding three full‑time firefighters (the workshop’s “option 1”), adding two patrol officers for the police department, purchasing a heavier trailer for the…
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