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Willows City manager outlines FY 2025‑26 budget gap, one‑time purchases and staffing requests
Summary
City Manager Martie Brown presented the draft FY 2025‑26 budget, projecting $7.3 million in revenue, $7.587 million in expenditures and a $214,000 gap to be covered by reserves, and outlined new one‑time purchases and staffing proposals including a $250,000 down payment on a fire engine.
City Manager Martie Brown presented the proposed fiscal 2025‑26 budget and a multi‑year forecast, telling the council she expects the city to begin FY 2025‑26 with just over $1 million in general‑fund reserves (a figure that includes the first quarter of Measure I collections, roughly $475,000).
Brown said projected general‑fund revenue for 2025‑26 is about $7.3 million and projected expenditures are about $7.587 million, producing a proposed $214,000 deficit and an anticipated June 30, 2026 ending fund balance of roughly $790,000 (about 11 percent of annual expenditures under current assumptions). "The projected deficit is 214,000," Brown said…
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