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Crescent City Council adopts FY2025-26 budget, creates police debt fund
Summary
The Crescent City Council unanimously adopted the FY2025-26 budget and three related resolutions, funding Measure S priorities for police and fire, setting appropriations limits, and creating a new debt-service fund for a planned police facility project.
The Crescent City City Council on a unanimous vote adopted the cityFY2025-26 budget and approved related resolutions to set the cityappropriations limit and establish a debt-service fund for a police facility project. The moves followed a staff presentation summarizing months of workshops and a conservative budgeting approach.
City Finance staff said Measure S will fund major public-safety and infrastructure items, including roughly $600,000 for the fire department (staffing, equipment and training) and a similar amount for the police department (three patrol officers, body and dash cameras and vehicle-related items). The budget also includes funding for three street projects, maintenance items, and a planned pool-roof repair funded partly by Measure S and partly by the general fund.
Director of Finance (presentation) detailed capital and operating plans: a $720,000 set of near-term CIP projects, water-fund and sewer-fund SCADA and pump assessments, and an Explore the Coast grant of $835,000 dedicated to RV-park improvements (bathroom remodels and two ADA cabins). Staff estimated the general fund ending balance would be roughly $3.5 million after conservative spending assumptions, with approximately $600,000 unallocated and required reserves of about $2.7 million retained per council policy.
Council discussion focused on implementation priorities and the need for ongoing rate and compensation studies. Staff noted work on sewer and water rate studies to address declining working capital and a compensation study ahead of labor negotiations. City Manager Eric Weir described the budget as a starting point and said staff will monitor progress and report quarterly.
The council voted to adopt three resolutions: adoption of the annual budget (Resolution No. 2025-24), selection of adjustment factors for the fiscal-year 2025-26 appropriations limit (Resolution No. 2025-25), and establishment of a new debt-service fund for the police department facility project (Resolution No. 2025-26). The motions passed unanimously.
