McMinnville council adopts FY 2025-26 budget, approves supplemental changes and directs $151,000 ARPA payment for court software
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Council adopted the fiscal-year 2025-26 budget and approved a supplemental budget for the expiring year. Council also voted to pay $151,000 for municipal court software from undesignated ARPA funds; multiple budget resolutions passed during the meeting.
The McMinnville City Council approved a package of fiscal-year resolutions that included a supplemental budget for the current year and adoption of the FY 2025-26 budget. Councilors also approved a staff-initiated amendment to use $151,000 of undesignated American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds to pay for municipal-court software and its first-year licensing.
Finance Director Katie Henry presented the supplemental adjustments to close the current fiscal year. She said the supplemental items were primarily bookkeeping and end-of-year corrections: moving a municipal-court software purchase to the internal services fund, accounting for a retirement-related PERS correction in the streets fund and correcting an insurance-fund allocation for a police vehicle claim. Henry said the adjustments prevent audit findings for inadequate appropriation authority.
Council adopted the supplemental-budget resolution (Resolution No. 2025-27) and a certification of municipal services required for state shared revenue reporting (Resolution No. 2025-26). Both passed unanimously by recorded votes.
A separate motion, offered by Councilor Peralta and seconded by Councilor Gary, directed staff to pay for the municipal-court software out of undesignated ARPA funds in the amount of $151,000; the motion passed unanimously. That amendment changed appropriation lines in the final budget resolution by moving the software cost from the general fund/internal services fund to ARPA undesignated funds.
After amendments, the council moved to adopt the FY 2025-26 budget (Resolution No. 2025-28). The council adopted a total budget showing appropriations and set the permanent tax rate and debt-service rate; the budget resolution passed 5-1. The meeting record does not identify the dissenting vote by name in the transcript portion available.
Council also authorized staff to begin a formal recruitment process for an interim city manager (Resolution No. 2025-31); that resolution passed unanimously. Several other consent-agenda items were approved as presented.