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Gallatin council adopts 2025–26 budget after amendment; councilors debate new pay scale
Summary
The Gallatin City Council approved the 2025–26 fiscal year budget on second reading as amended, adding funding for street lighting and signal technicians and advancing a new five-step pay scale that prompted extended debate over reserves, salary compression and retention.
The Gallatin City Council on Tuesday approved the city’s fiscal 2026 budget on second reading, adopting an amended spending plan that adds roughly $73,704 to the street lighting and signals line item and advances a new employee pay scale to be implemented with the budget ordinance.
Councilors approved the amendment and then the budget as amended during the meeting; Vice Mayor Hayes introduced the budget ordinance, calling it “an ordinance adopting the annual budget for the fiscal year beginning 07/01/2025 through 06/30/2026.” The council voted in favor of the amended budget on second reading with no recorded opposition.
The budget package drew extended discussion about reserves, borrowing and a proposed change to the city’s pay structure. Council members raised questions about the size and composition of the city’s reserves and whether reserve accounting in the presentation matched past years.…
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