North Ogden council adopts 2024–25 budget amendments, shifts RDA projects to next year

The North Ogden City Council on June 24 approved changes to the city’s fiscal year 2024–25 budget and associated redevelopment agency (RDA) amendments after Finance Director Peter Brown described conservative revenue forecasts and delays to several capital projects.

Peter Brown, the city’s finance director, told the council the amendments reflect where staff now expects to “land at the end of fiscal year 24–25,” noting timing and vendor delays for capital projects and a volatile sales-tax trend. “We have some revenue lines and a couple of expenditure lines that we’re still trying to catch up on,” Brown said.

Brown said most department budgets were adjusted downward, with exceptions including a reclassification that moved an HR position into the HR budget and a reworking of Cherry Days donations that were booked in the wrong fiscal year. He said the general fund would need about $49,000 to be “whole” and that the aquatic center fund would likely draw on its own fund balance rather than receive a general-fund transfer because the RDA had previously seeded that fund.

Mayor (identified in the meeting as the presiding official) added context on the…