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Robinson adopts $46.8 million budget, approves higher property tax rate
Summary
At a special meeting, the Robinson City Council adopted a $46,810,098 fiscal 2025–26 budget and approved a property-tax rate cited in the meeting as 0.509937 (50.9937¢), a change presenters described as effectively a 15% increase; council approved related ratification required by state law.
The Robinson City Council adopted the city's fiscal 2025'26 operating and capital budget and approved a higher property-tax rate during a special meeting that included a brief public hearing.
A city staff member presenting the plan said the budget allocates $10,428,527 for the general fund, $3,313,085 for debt service, $10,134,700 for capital projects and $10,953,295 for utility-fund capital projects, with a stated total allocation of all funds of $46,810,098. The presenter also read a figure for the utility fund as $11,000,927,308 as recorded in the meeting transcript. The presenter said those figures reflect adjustments made at the prior budget hearing and at the budget workshop and offered to answer questions after the public hearing.
Following the public hearing, a council member moved to adopt Ordinance 2025-025, "adopting a budget and making appropriations for the support of the City of Robinson for fiscal year 2025-26." Another council member seconded the motion. The presiding official called for a voice vote; the motion was adopted and the ordinance was recorded as adopted in the meeting minutes.
Council then considered an ordinance to set the property-tax rate for 2025. A council member moved to adopt a rate of 0.509937 (described in the meeting as 50.9937¢), which the mover characterized in the meeting as "effectively a 15% increase" in the tax rate. The council approved the measure by voice vote and the ordinance passed.
Because the adopted budget raises more property-tax revenue than the previous year, the council also moved to ratify the property-tax revenue increase as required by state statute; that motion passed by voice vote. City staff told members there is an adoption letter that must be signed and submitted to the tax assessor before leaving the meeting.
The meeting transcript records the votes as voice votes with affirmations of "Aye" and notes the measures as "Adopted" or "Passed." The meeting did not include a roll-call tally of individual yes/no votes in the transcript.
What happens next: staff must sign and deliver the adoption letter for the tax assessor. No further dates for related hearings were discussed on the record at the meeting.
