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Carson outlines balanced FY 2025–26 budget with modest surplus, adds multimedia staff and flags sheriff contract pressures
Summary
City finance staff presented a structurally balanced proposed budget for FY 2025–26 with a $345,971 surplus, proposed two new multimedia positions, and warned the city may face a 5% increase in the sheriff contract amid ongoing deputy shortfalls.
Carson city officials on April 15 presented a structurally balanced proposed budget for fiscal year 2025–26 that projects $155 million in revenues and $154.7 million in expenditures, leaving a proposed surplus of $345,971.
The city manager and finance staff said the general fund balance was $219.7 million as of the audited June 30, 2024 figures, and that revenues are forecast to grow roughly 11% year over year while expenditures rise about 7%.
Director of Finance William Jefferson and revenue manager Antonio Velasco attributed the revenue increase to several sources, including sales and property tax growth, oil business tax audit recoveries and litigation receipts tied to Phillips 66, and higher utility-user tax receipts. Velasco said the city’s oil-tax audits and related collections are continuing and noted…
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