Crescent City Measure S oversight committee reviews FY2025–26 spending plan and directs staff to draft resolution

The Measure S Oversight Committee of Crescent City on a routine meeting reviewed staff recommendations for the Measure S fiscal year 2025–26 budget and gave direction for a resolution to be prepared for the city council’s budget workshop; no final budget adoption was taken at the session.

Staff opened the meeting by reminding the committee that Measure S is a voter-approved 1% sales tax generating about $2.3 million a year and that the committee’s role is to recommend expenditures to the council ahead of the May budget workshop. "This is the budget discussion for fiscal year 2526," a presenter said, describing the July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026 budget period. Finance staff reported an audited fund balance of just over $1 million as of June 30, 2024 and estimated an ending fund balance for the current year of about $477,000 to carry into FY2025–26; tax revenue was described at roughly $2.3 million with reimbursements from the fire district of just under $400,000.

On fire services, department leadership sought Measure S funding for ongoing volunteer stipends (projected this year at about $69,000 with a $75,000 budget figure shown), station staffing support, and equipment upgrades. Presenters described two training/operations purchases for the year — a BlueCard incident-command training system and FirstDue administrative/CAD integration software — and asked the committee to approve one-time purchases plus ongoing certification and…