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Peachtree City manager proposes balanced FY2025 budget with small millage rollback, adds public-safety staff
Summary
City Manager Justin Strickland presented a proposed FY2025 budget that trims the millage by 0.06 mills and keeps the citys services while adding 17 positions (including six school resource officers and three firefighters), relying on a modest use of reserves and conservative revenue estimates.
Justin Strickland, the city manager, presented Peachtree Citys proposed fiscal year 2025 operating and capital budget on June 18, centering the plan on "taking care of what we have" and recommending a slight millage rollback.
Strickland said the city is proposing a millage of 5.983 mills, a reduction of 0.06 mills, while projecting FY25 general-fund revenues of about $56.75 million and appropriations of about $56.83 million. The proposal anticipates using roughly $71,000 of fund balance in FY25, leaving an estimated uncommitted reserve of about 53.3 percent. "Taking care of what we have" was the presentations organizing theme, Strickland said, as he laid out asset counts and aging infrastructure needs that undergird the recommended spending.
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