Patrick Brown, assistant city administrator and acting finance presenter, told the Grand Island City Council on May 27 that the city’s fiscal-year-to-date revenues are tracking close to projections and that the city is ‘‘right on track’’ through April 30, 2025, with the sales tax showing a 2% increase compared with last year.

Brown said an economic incentive refund last year made one month appear stronger in the prior year, so adjusting for that refund would show the city was actually down for that month. He presented line-item figures for several major local revenue streams, noting property tax and food-and-beverage receipts are performing well and casino tax receipts aligned with forecasts after a resort opening.

The presentation included specific figures: Brown said the city’s property tax collections will end up at about $1,212,000,000 and that food-and-beverage revenue was budgeted at $3,200,000 with $1.8 million collected through the period presented. He also noted investment income was below the year-end forecast so far (about $1.2 million realized against a forecast of $1.8 million with seven months of data).

Brown outlined personnel and vacancy-savings practices used historically to build reserves and said staff will ask council whether to apply prior-year vacancy savings to the following year’s budget. On public safety, he said police overtime ran about $160,000 over budget while health-insurance spending for that department was lower than forecast, and that finance will adjust forecasting assumptions for health-insurance elections going forward.

On federal and state grants, Brown told Council member Nickerson that most grants the city relies on have been received and are not currently in jeopardy; he said one railroad-related grant remains paused and that Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds face new compliance requirements that could pose ‘‘serious consequences’’ if mismanaged. Brown said city staff are considering allocating CDBG funds only to city projects and identifying other local funding to backfill nonprofit allocations historically funded by CDBG.

Mayor Steele and council members had no further questions. Brown said internal budget review meetings would begin in early June and that staff intend to schedule study sessions with council as the process continues.

Looking ahead, Brown said administration hopes to bring specific budget proposals to the council during the normal budget calendar and noted that some departments still need to submit requested materials.