Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Willows council reviews FY2025–26 preliminary budget, debates bringing sewer billing in-house
Summary
City staff presented a preliminary general fund and sewer budget that projects surpluses but includes new positions, IT and AV upgrades, and a $17,500 one‑time cost to add a Tyler module to bring sewer billing in-house. Council asked for more information on Prop 218 timing, bond expirations and costs of collections before finalizing the item.
City staff presented the Willows City Council with a preliminary fiscal year 2025–26 budget for the general fund and the sewer enterprise fund and outlined several proposed new positions, capital items and revenue assumptions.
Finance presenter Joanne Moore said the general fund projection assumes a 2% growth in property tax and continued sales and transient occupancy tax collections and that, “our revenues were greater than our expenditures for the general fund budget, meaning we did not need to dip into any reserves for this coming fiscal year.” Moore said the estimate includes negotiated salary increases and known inflationary pressures on health insurance and pension liabilities.
The presentation listed proposed expenditures already discussed at an April 22 workshop: a municipal code update (approx. $60,000), replacement of expired computers ($31,000 quote), a website update ($10,000), council‑chamber AV replacement ($11,100) and a partial general‑fund share of a public‑works pickup ($42,000 total cost, $46,000 to general fund net of insurance…
Already have an account? Log in
Subscribe to keep reading
Unlock the rest of this article — and every article on Citizen Portal.
- Unlimited articles
- AI-powered breakdowns of topics, speakers, decisions, and budgets
- Instant alerts when your location has a new meeting
- Follow topics and more locations
- 1,000 AI Insights / month, plus AI Chat
