Roseburg Budget Committee gives tentative approval to $109.7 million budget; recommends property tax rate

The Roseburg City Budget Committee met in public and moved to recommend City Council adoption of the proposed 2024–25 budget of $109,703,516 and a property tax rate as stated in the meeting.

City staff opened the meeting with a statutory public hearing on potential uses of state revenue sharing funds and projected about $280,000 in state revenue sharing for the coming fiscal year. Nikki, a member of city staff leading the budget message, summarized the general‑fund outlook: “The revenues this year for the general fund are up about 1,850,000 and are coming in or predicted to come in just under $31,000,000,” she said, and noted that property taxes make up roughly 65% of that total.

Ron (city staff) walked the committee through key assumptions and the six‑year projection, saying the estimated ending general fund balance is just under $11,000,000 — about a 33% reserve and above the…