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Pacific aldermen revise major lines, defer final FY25 budget vote to June 26
Summary
A prolonged June 24 special meeting produced multiple line-item changes to the proposed FY2025 budget (Bill 5241): increased transfers from the capital improvement sales tax to transportation, cuts to parks capital and pool reserves, and reallocated project priorities. Council tabled the ordinance and set a special meeting on June 26 at 6 p.m. to finish adoption.
At a special meeting on June 24, the Pacific Board of Aldermen spent several hours reviewing and adjusting the proposed fiscal year 2025 budget (Bill 5241), making multiple interfund transfers and line-item cuts but ultimately tabling final adoption until a special meeting on Wednesday, June 26 at 6:00 p.m.
Key outcomes and proposals discussed
- Transportation/CIST: Council agreed in principle to increase the transfer from the capital improvement sales tax (CIST) to transportation. Staff and aldermen discussed raising the transfer from $150,000 to $550,000 to reduce an identified transportation shortfall; this adjustment, together with recalibrating the PPMP mill-and-overlay line and adding a separate chip-and-seal line (about $252,000), brought the transportation fund into balance in the packet numbers. The board discussed trade-offs between immediate chip-and-seal work and longer-term mill-and-overlay projects.
- Parks and pool reserve: The…
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