The City of Alice council on Sept. 5 adopted an ordinance approving the fiscal year 2025–26 budget, revising the prior fiscal year, and updating the city's fee schedule, including new airport charges and revised event and vendor permit fees.

City staff told council the budget revisions include $3,000 for vector control in the parks department, $60,000 for golf-course improvements to be paid from hotel-occupancy-tax (HOT) funds and an additional $30,000 for professional services to support information-technology needs. Staff said the $30,000 will be covered by reducing fuel budgets across departments.

On the fee schedule, staff proposed a $350 permit for street/farmers-market special events (waived for nonprofits) and a $10 per-day itinerant vendor fee to replace a prior five-day $35 fee. "So it's $350 per event and that's the permit fee. Of course if it's a non profit that would be waived," said Unidentified Speaker 5, city staff. Food vendors at events will remain at a $35 fee, staff said.

Staff also proposed a commercial itinerant-vendor option — a six-day permit for $2,000 commonly used by RV/boat-show operators (staff said this typically occurs twice a year). For organized league play, staff said they removed "exclusive use" language and set nonrefundable fees: a $250 nonrefundable scheduling fee and a $100 nonrefundable concession fee to be used for field maintenance.

Because the city assumed airport operations, staff added a set of airport fees, including per-day hangar rates, tie-down and ramp fees, an after-hours call-out fee (applies after 5 p.m.) and a fuel-flow fee. Staff said the city will integrate the fees into its point-of-sale system.

Staff also proposed dropping the specific name "Anderson" from the park-pavilion entry so the $75 pavilion rental (four hours exclusive use) applies uniformly to all city pavilions.

Council considered a motion to adopt an ordinance adopting the budget for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 2025, revising the prior fiscal year, adopting the organization chart, and adopting the fee schedule (Appendix C of the City of Alice Code of Ordinances) while incorporating the staff-requested changes described above. The motion was moved, seconded and passed on a recorded vote.

The ordinance takes effect per the dates stated in the motion; council recorded the vote and declared the motion passed.