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Minot outlines budget scenarios and adopts 2026–30 capital plan after removing Anne Street bridge placeholder
Summary
City staff briefed the council on a multi‑scenario budget process and finance tools; the council approved the 2026–30 Capital Improvement Plan after voting to remove a long‑standing Anne Street pedestrian bridge placeholder from the CIP.
City Manager Harold Stewart and finance staff outlined the 2026–28 budget development process and presented a multi‑scenario approach intended to force departments to identify program impacts under different revenue conditions.
Finance Director David Lakefield described the exercise: each department prepared a flat operating budget for 2026 and +/-3% scenarios for the out‑years, with assumptions about salary and benefit trends. “The idea is once we get all this information, we'll be able to upload each of these scenarios into our system, and then we'll move through the process of evaluating some of the decisions that were made at the department level,”…
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