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Irondale council approves FY2025–26 budgets, updates water code and raises trash fee
Summary
The Irondale City Council unanimously approved the city’s FY2025–26 budgets and adopted several ordinances, including a rewrite of the water code and a $3-per-month residential trash rate increase that takes effect in April and appears on May bills.
Irondale — The Irondale City Council on March 2 approved the city’s FY2025–26 budgets, adopted a wholesale rewrite of the municipal water code and approved a $3-per-month increase to residential garbage service that will take effect in April and appear on May bills.
The council unanimously left a package of budgets (general fund, capital, water, E911, court, gas funds and the Rebuild Alabama fund) on the consent calendar and adopted them as read. Mayor James D. Stewart Jr. told the council the general fund projects revenue of about $38.6 million, with a projected surplus of roughly $1.7 million and an $11 million reserve (about 27 percent of projected revenue). The mayor said the city will…
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