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Peachtree City staff outline FY25 budget pressures: wages, technology and public-safety funding gaps
Summary
At the city’s FY25 budget workshop staff highlighted national and local inflation trends, rising personnel costs after a 7% COLA and a recent pay plan, projected public-safety expenses outpacing property-tax revenue under rollback scenarios, and several capital and service priorities tied to the city’s strategic pillars.
City staff opened the first FY25 budget workshop with a long presentation detailing national and local market trends, stress points for the coming year and items staff will likely include in the proposed budget.
Staff framed the discussion around a city vision of 'Uncompromised Excellence' and five strategic pillars (safe family-friendly community; active healthy community; attractive community; thriving resilient business community; and a city organization that is innovative, high performing and sustainable). Using national Consumer Price Index and wage data, staff said inflation had moderated (citing 3.4 percent as a recent rate) but noted compounding increases since COVID had raised costs…
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