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Nogales council reviews preliminary FY2025-26 budget, centralizes grant work and trims nonessential items
Summary
City staff outlined the preliminary FY2025-26 budget, showing increased general-fund reserves, proposed staff additions (including a centralized grant coordinator), higher health-insurance and pension costs, and targeted capital requests while directors said many wishlist items were removed.
Nogales City Council held a budget workshop May 14 to review the proposed FY2025-26 preliminary budget, with staff presenting department-by-department expenditures and a plan to centralize grant activity under the finance office.
The presentation, led by the city’s finance office, showed non-departmental expenditures rising from $15,336,715 in FY2025 to a proposed $17,684,760 in FY2026 and an increase in general-fund reserves from $10,460,006 to $12,774,362. Finance staff said the increase in reserves—about $2.3 million—was intentional and viewed as a positive sign of fiscal health.
City staff said the FY2026 budget reflects several deliberate choices to trim nonessential items. “We’ve gone over and put in what is needed and not what is wanted,” the finance presenter said, describing meetings with department directors to pare down requests.
Why this matters: Council members pressed for a budget focused on essentials—maintenance, public safety, core services—rather than one that adds discretionary projects. Staff said the…
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