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Council adopts supplemental budget adjustments including a parks contingency authorization
Summary
Council approved a supplemental budget on June 17 recognizing reimbursements for fire wildland responses, adjusting program revenues and expenses, and authorizing up to $2,000,000 additional budget authority for Parks & Recreation projects to cover timing and cost increases.
The city finance director presented a supplemental budget on June 17 and the council adopted resolution 25-32 to recognize several revenue and expenditure adjustments for fiscal 2024–25.
Major items: The resolution recognizes reimbursements to the fire department for overtime on wildland fire responses (state reimbursement), adjusts tennis program revenue and associated contractor costs to reflect higher class sales, and increases tourism support for Festival of the Arts by $10,000 as part of a phased plan to raise the city contribution. The largest single item is an authorization of up to $2,000,000 in additional budget authority for Parks & Recreation to cover higher-than-expected costs across multiple construction projects and to provide a timing/backstop mechanism for reimbursements and invoices that may be received after fiscal year close.
Why it matters: The $2,000,000 authorization is primarily a contingency/authorization to ensure the city can legally pay bills and reimbursements that arrive after the fiscal year close; the director said actual anticipated additional spend was smaller (roughly $1.1 million at the time of the meeting) but the larger authorization provides flexibility.
Council action: The supplemental budget resolution passed 6-0. Staff said the parks amounts are largely timing and reimbursement driven and that staff will continue reconciling final project invoices.
