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City administrator gives FY26 budget update; $1.4M general-fund gap remains, staff proposes fees and millage options
Summary
Easly City administrator presented a working draft FY26 operating budget April 14, reporting a narrowed general-fund shortfall and proposing a mix of fee adjustments, personnel additions and capital requests to close the gap.
Easly City administrator provided a status update April 14 on the FY26 operating budget, describing the document as a working draft that is not yet balanced.
Administrator Couch said the city started the budget process with roughly a $7.5 million general-fund gap and reduced it to about $1.4 million through expenditure adjustments and savings. The draft includes a proposed 3% cost-of-living increase (COLA) for employees and lists 13 requested new positions; the administrator said six positions requested by the fire department were reduced to six in the draft and the budget includes an events coordinator, additional patrol and traffic officers, a city planner and a building inspector.
Couch said health-insurance increases were negotiated down from an expected 22% to about 14%, yielding a significant savings. Retirement contribution assumptions were…
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