Roosevelt City Council adopts fiscal 2026 budget, reopens 2025 budget and approves routine contracts

The Roosevelt City Council on March 26 voted to reopen the fiscal 2025 budget to make three adjustments and then approved the citys fiscal 2026 budget, authorizing capital projects and several contract and procurement actions.

City finance staff presented the FY2025 adjustments as "three adjustments that, need to be made," including a $103,600 timing transfer in admin services for software, a capital projects increase of $193,929.05 (partly to record previously approved grants and a new $29,604 request), and a $98,860 increase for sanitation contract expenses. Finance staff said the city has funds available to cover the changes. After council questions about the sanitation line, members directed staff to verify billed versus collected sanitation revenue before final reconciliation.

Zeke, the city finance presenter, summarized the FY2026 proposal: "The fiscal 20 26 proposed budget for counsel is 345,171," with a general fund subtotal of $10,917,391, transfers to debt service of $293,400 and a general-fund total of $11,210,791. He said capital projects were budgeted at $19,125,202 and that the combined total budget across funds is about $37,035,331, noting that much of the additional capital spending depends on grant or outside funding.

Council debate touched on committee stipends and APR (Arts, Parks & Recreation) funding, an $80,000 increase for airport building improvements, and planning-and-zoning stipends. After brief discussion the council approved the FY2026 budget with the adjustments described by staff.

The council also approved several associated votes by voice vote, including the appointment of Wayne Underwood to the Arts & Recreation subcommittee, a procurement award for a tank rehabilitation contract (see separate agenda item), a secondary-water phase 3 project approval, an airport construction-fee amendment that will be reimbursed by grant funds, and a motion to waive the hospital contract termination period to allow the hospital to switch to private security on July 1. Council members approved routine city expenditures and later unanimously certified the state-proposed tax rate (0.001731), which staff said would avoid a truth-in-taxation hearing.

The meeting closed with direction to staff to verify sanitation revenue for the FY2025 reopen and to prepare detail and cost estimates for school-crosswalk safety options before the next school year. The council then entered closed session under Utah Code 52-4-205.

Votes at a glance: appointment of Wayne Underwood (approved); FY2025 budget reopen (approved, staff to verify sanitation figures); FY2026 budget adoption (approved); waiver of hospital contract termination days (approved); award of tank rehabilitation contract to Gerber Construction (approved); approval of secondary water phase 3 project (approved); airport fee amendment for FAA testing (approved, grant reimbursable); routine expenditures (approved); certified tax rate adoption (approved).