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Ketchikan Gateway Borough adopts FY2026 budget after corrections to fund balances and elimination of software engineer position
Summary
The Assembly voted to adopt Ordinance 2070 (amended) on June 16, approving the boroughFY2026 appropriations (excluding the Local Education Fund). Staff said reconciled general fund balances were higher than in the printed book and explained planned uses of reserves; the Assembly removed a proposed software engineer position during review.
The Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly on June 16 adopted Ordinance 2070 (amended), approving the boroughFY2026 budget (all funds except the Local Education Fund) after a staff presentation that corrected fund-balance figures and the Assemblyelimination of one proposed software engineer position.
Assistant Borough Manager Cynna Smith told the Assembly that the budget as amended uses general fund reserves to balance the year and to complete pending capital projects. She said staff now estimates the FY2026 ending general fund balance is higher than shown in the printed budget book, and that the "available fund balance is $5,231,856," about $2.4 million more than the budget book showed. Smith described roughly $1,187,391 of the reserves covering an operational deficit and the…
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