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Marietta Council adopts $428 million budget for fiscal 2025-26; no tax increase
Summary
City Council approved a $428,000,000 budget for fiscal 2025-26 that holds the millage rate steady, directs more than half of general fund dollars to public safety and adds two employees to bring downtown trash service in-house.
The Marietta City Council on Wednesday approved an ordinance adopting the city’s fiscal 2025-26 budget totaling $428,000,000 and enacted tentative ad valorem tax levies for the coming year.
City finance and administration officials told the council the package does not raise the city’s property tax rate. ‘‘The general fund is now at $78,700,000,’’ Finance Director Bill Bruton said at the meeting, adding the general fund increase is about 2.4 percent, or roughly $1,820,000. Bruton said approximately 52 percent of the general fund pays for police and fire operations.
Council members and staff said the budget was the product of a…
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