High Point City Council adopts FY2025-26 budget, approves nonprofit allocations and several agency budgets

High Point City Council on Monday approved its FY2025-26 annual budget and a set of outside agency funding allocations, including a $50,000 general-fund allocation to the Southwestern Newell (Southwest) Renewal Foundation. Council also approved budget ordinances for Downtown High Point, the High Point International Home Furnishings Market Authority and Visit High Point, with several council members recusing themselves from specific votes.

The budget passed after a substitute motion to include a $50,000 allocation for the Southwest Renewal Foundation was made and seconded; council members voted “aye” and the motion carried. Council also finalized outside nonprofit allocations in a sequence of votes that excluded organizations where council members declared conflicts of interest and recorded recusals in the minutes.

Why it matters: The budget is the city’s primary spending plan for the coming year. Council members and public speakers used the adoption discussion to request follow-up work and to press for further attention to public-safety staffing and housing-related assistance that were not fully resolved during the budget process.

Council action and process details: Mayor Cyril Jefferson opened the meeting and the council approved the agenda at the start of the session (motion by Council Member Holmes; second by Mayor Pro Tem Tim Moore). The consent agenda passed without recorded opposition.

The council heard a staff presentation and voted to…