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Bountiful City adopts FY2026 budget and approves employee pay increases after public hearings
Summary
The Bountiful City Council on June 24 adopted the city's amended FY2025 budget and the final FY2026 budget, approved ordinance-based pay increases for employees and executive municipal officers, and held related public hearings including comments on utility charges.
The Bountiful City Council voted unanimously June 24 to adopt an amended fiscal-year 2025 budget and the city's final fiscal-year 2026 budget and to approve compensation increases for city employees and executive municipal officers.
The measures were considered after a continuation of public hearings that began June 10. Galen Rasmussen, a city staff member who presented the budget, said the FY2026 budget begins July 1, 2025, and includes a property-tax component of roughly $4.07 million (about $3.6 million for general operations and $473,009 for debt service). The budget package approved by the council also incorporates a 5% cost-of-living adjustment for regular full-time employees and a 6.51% increase in health insurance costs. Rasmussen said the city's total consolidated budget (net of interfund transfers) is about…
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