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City work session lays out FY27 budget, levy at 14.58276 and CIP priorities
Summary
City staff reviewed the FY27 draft budget, proposed a total levy of 14.58276 per $1,000, outlined a CIP and equipment-revolving plan and proposed Series 2026 bonding; council set deadlines for levy certification and public hearings but took no formal votes.
Speaker 1 (Presenter) led a city council work session to review the draft fiscal year 2027 budget, telling members staff will return Feb. 23 to ask them to approve the maximum levy numbers to send to the county and that the first public hearing on the budget will be March 23 with adoption scheduled for April 14. "That 14.58276, that is our total levy," Speaker 1 said when explaining the proposed levy rate.
The presentation laid out three linked pieces of the proposal: operating revenues and expenditures, an equipment-revolving plan for recurring large purchases, and a capital improvement plan (CIP) that staff expect to fund partly by issuing a proposed Series 2026 bond. Speaker 1 listed planned equipment purchases across departments — a police vehicle, fire bunker gear and a potential future attack truck, a library roof and cameras, playground replacements at Hattery Park, a cemetery mower and IT/admin software — and said departments maintain 15-year forecasts to smooth…
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