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Kalispell reviews budget priorities: finance software, meters, treatment-plant repairs and street projects
Summary
City staff outlined proposed budget items and capital projects including a finance software upgrade, replacement of water meters, treatment-plant repairs, street resurfacing and vehicle/equipment purchases; council discussed timing and contingencies but took no final appropriation votes.
City staff presented a broad budget and capital-project update Tuesday to the Kalispell City Council, highlighting planned investments in finance software and staffing, water and sewer capital work, meter replacements, street maintenance and public-works equipment.
Staff emphasized several near-term items: upgrading finance software and possibly adding finance department capacity to streamline budgeting and reporting; continuing a meter-replacement program that the city said is roughly 55% complete and replaces about 1,200 meters over multiple years; and several water and wastewater capital projects to replace…
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