City staff provided the Nixa City Council an update on the draft 2026 budget on Oct. 27, citing several line-item adjustments, personnel changes and capital carryovers that changed the city's projected ending balances and revenue-to-expense ratios.

Staff said aquatics admission revenue was increased by $15,000 and facility rental revenue by $2,000 to reflect recently adjusted rates. Personnel changes included budgeting for a part-time community service officer (20 hours per week) to staff the animal pound on weekends and upgrading a building maintenance position from part time to full time. The council discussed internal personnel requests and smaller operational changes.

On the operations and capital side, staff added tax collector and reassessment fees omitted from a prior draft and added $3,420 to purchase tires after the streets department backhoe was cut from the capital plan. Staff reported police department cuts totaling $54,350 that were incorporated after the chief reviewed the proposal. Staff also added a $250,000 appropriation for three new servers based on information from the city's IT vendor.

Capital rollovers included an excavator for the water department ($135,000) and a UV system for the wastewater treatment plant ($298,183.50) that staff expect will be invoiced in 2026. The city hall remodel budget was increased by $56,000 to cover overruns.

Staff reported estimated unrestricted ending balances and revenue-to-expense ratios by fund: general fund $3,540,807 (revenue-to-expense ratio 98.05% when debt is included), street fund $659,811 (51.81%), electric fund $8,901,645 (92.7%), water fund $2,286,832 (90.42%), and wastewater fund $10,202,387 (71.77%). Staff noted bond proceeds will affect some fund balances.

Miss Evans invited council questions and said staff might bring additional small adjustments at a future meeting.