Truckee Meadows Fire board adopts FY2025–26 budget, creates two capital-project funds and restores green-waste service

The Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District Board of Fire Commissioners on May 20 approved two resolutions redefining and creating capital-project funds and adopted the district's fiscal year 2025'26 budget with two amendments: $90,000 restored for the green-waste program and a reclassification/transfer of an administrative position from Washoe County payroll to Truckee Meadows payroll with no salary increase.

The budget vote followed a public hearing and extended discussion of the district's revenues, reserves and program priorities. Cindy Vance, the district's chief fiscal officer, told the board the proposed general fund revenues are $54,901,454 and proposed general fund expenditures are $53,793,570, with a beginning fund balance projected at about $5,300,000 and contingency and other financing uses just over $4,000,000.

Vance also summarized the proposed fund structure and key line items: capital-projects funds of roughly $16,026,291, an extraordinary repairs and maintenance fund of $196,000, an emergency fund of $1,500,000, an EMS enterprise fund of $6,150,673, and other internal and stabilization funds. She said the district expects roughly 76% of general fund revenue to come from property taxes and consolidated taxes and described planned contributions to long-term capital as starting at 4% for construction-in-progress and growing to 7% over nine years, and an extraordinary repairs allocation starting at 0.75% and rising to 2% over five years.

Why it matters: the budget sets staffing, maintenance and capital priorities for a district that serves largely rural and suburban parts of Washoe County. Commissioners pressed staff on reserves, fire-prevention programs and how the district will manage personnel and contract costs as PERS and negotiated salary agreements take…