Marysville council adopts 2025–26 budget amid dispute over new public‑works post

The Marysville City Council voted to adopt the city's fiscal year 2025'26 budget and appropriation limits after a special meeting, approving the measure by roll call. Finance Director Anissa Vuong presented the budget and answered council questions before the motion passed and the meeting was adjourned.

Vuong opened by apologizing for the late delivery of the budget and outlined the general fund's major revenue and expense items. She said major revenue sources include property tax (about $1,500,000), sales tax (about $2,500,000), Measure C (about $3,700,000) and a VLFF/other allocation of roughly $1,300,000, producing a rough general fund revenue total shown in the packet as about $11.3 million. Vuong said grant revenues total about $7,700,000 and called out a $700,000 grant from the Yuba Water Agency for the Seventeenth and Hall pump station.

Vuong described major expense categories, saying salary and wages total roughly $8.3 million and observable public safety spending accounts for about 84% of salary and wage amounts and roughly 31% of the roughly…