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City adopts FY 2025–26 budget with $4 million draw on reserves; council defunds 33 vacant positions
Summary
After four study sessions and public comment, Glendale’s City Council adopted a balanced FY 2025–26 budget that uses $4 million of general fund reserves, defunds 33 vacant positions as a temporary hiring measure, defers several capital projects and raises parking fees to close a projected shortfall.
Glendale’s City Council adopted the fiscal year 2025–26 citywide budget at its June 24 public hearing, approving a package of revenue and expenditure changes that reduces an initial staff-projected $34.3 million shortfall to a $4.0 million use of general fund reserves.
City Manager Rubi Galanian and interim Finance Director John Taktalian presented the budget overview and recapped four public study sessions totaling roughly 11 hours. Staff said the original gap was driven primarily by a drop in sales tax (about $6.9 million), lower landfill host/tipping fees (about $3.0 million), reductions in permitting revenue (about $1.7 million) and a $1.0 million drop in utility users tax, among other factors. On the expenditure side, departments faced higher non-discretionary costs including a roughly $5.0 million increase for police overtime and maintenance, and $2.5 million in salary adjustments and IT/project costs.
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