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Clear Lake adopts 2025–26 budget after workshop; council calls for cuts, hiring freeze
Summary
After a budget workshop focused on flat revenues and rising personnel costs, the Clear Lake City Council unanimously adopted a $2025–26 budget that relies on one‑time fund balance and departmental reductions while preserving core services.
Clear Lake City Council on Wednesday adopted its fiscal year 2025–26 budget following a workshop presentation that outlined slowing revenue growth, rising personnel costs and a shortfall covered in part by fund balance.
Acting Finance Director Matt Preci reviewed the proposed budget and told the council the city’s all‑fund total revenue plan is about $81.7 million against proposed expenditures of nearly $84 million, creating a gap the city plans to close largely by carrying forward existing fund balances. “Expenses are slightly more, and that’s mainly because there is fund balance available in some of the funds that is then carried forward,” Preci said during the presentation.
The budget matter was the central item of the workshop. The document the council approved includes a general fund roughly balanced at about $9.8–$9.9 million in revenues and…
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