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Manager outlines FY2026 budget adjustments, HDHP with HSA option and downtown parking concepts

Southern Pines Town Council · April 23, 2025
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Summary

Town Manager Parsons reviewed modest budget changes since the retreat—salary COLA adjustments, medical contract savings and a new high-deductible health plan with a $2,000 town HSA contribution—and presented conceptual options (estimated up to $125,000) for downtown parking area improvements.

Town Manager Parsons presented updates to the draft fiscal year 2026 budget and asked council for guidance ahead of the first public hearing in May.

Parsons said April sales tax receipts slightly changed revenue projections and staff revised salary assumptions from a 3% COLA/3% merit model to a 2.5% COLA/4% merit pool. Parsons also said finalized medical…

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