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City manager lays out compressed budget timeline and new digital budget book for 2026 cycle
Summary
City Manager presented a detailed budget timeline emphasizing earlier CIP review, a new digital budget book (Gravity), increased forecasting to avoid last year’s shortfall, and a target to adopt the budget by June 1; council raised questions about ward representation, department detail and CVB/DDA reporting.
City Manager (identified in the meeting record) presented an accelerated and more transparent budget timeline on Jan. 5, telling East Point council the timeline aims to prevent last year’s near‑miss on millage forecasting and to provide more visible capital project planning.
The manager described a multi‑month process that includes a new five‑year capital improvement plan presented per project, a community charrette in March focused on CIP priorities, department highlights in March and a recommended city manager’s budget submission targeted…
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