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York City draft budget relies on wastewater-sale proceeds to help balance general fund
Summary
City budget staff told a public hearing the draft 2026 budget includes planned transfers from proceeds of the wastewater treatment-plant sale to cover health-insurance, debt service and other general-fund costs; officials cautioned some of the money is earnings, not original principal.
York City officials said Oct. 28 that the draft 2026 budget relies in part on proceeds from the sale of the municipal wastewater treatment plant and sanitary sewer system to balance the general fund.
Kim Robertson, the city’s business administrator, told the council and the public the city has used the sale proceeds as a resource since 2021 and budgeted a transfer from Fund 28 of roughly $24.8 million in the draft so Council can meet projected health‑insurance and debt obligations. “Every year … we have used money from the sale or the anticipated sale … of the wastewater treatment plant to balance our general fund, in terms of our…
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