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Council hears detailed budget analysis; staff to keep tax rate stable and schedule nonprofits briefing
Summary
Councilmember Charles Prince presented a line-by-line target analysis of the draft FY 2025–26 budget; staff and council discussed department targets, police and utilities cost drivers, and agreed to keep the current tax rate while staff refines numbers and schedules a deep-dive with nonprofit applicants.
Councilmember Charles Prince presented a department-by-department review of the city’s first-pass FY2025–26 budget and recommended targets based on a policy goal: departments should propose budgets 5% below the lower of last year’s budget or last year’s actuals. Prince’s spreadsheet compared requested base budgets to those targets and highlighted several large variances.
Prince told the council the general fund appears to be projecting significantly lower year-end spending than originally budgeted and that the golf course…
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