Greenville adopts FY 2024-25 budget, sets combined millage at 12.9673 mills
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The Greenville City Council unanimously adopted Resolution No. 24-14 on May 14, 2024, approving the FY 2024-25 budget, setting a combined millage of 12.9673 mills, approving a schedule of rates and fees effective July 1, 2024, and approving proposed sewer and water rate increases.
The Greenville City Council unanimously adopted Resolution No. 24-14 on May 14, 2024, approving the city’s fiscal year 2024–25 budget and setting combined ad valorem millage at 12.9673 mills.
Councilperson Lehman introduced the resolution to adopt the FY 2025 Budget, which the council discussed after a public hearing that opened and closed at 6:02 p.m. without public comment. Councilperson Moss seconded the motion; the council voted 7–0 in favor.
The resolution adopts the budget as presented and approves a Schedule of Rates and Fees to take effect July 1, 2024. Major figures listed in the adopted budget include a General Fund operations budget of $7,747,500 and a Capital Improvement Fund budget of $22,500,600. The resolution also sets specific millage components: 9.1473 mills for general purposes, 2.17 mills for capital improvements, 0.5 mills for solid waste operations, 0.6 mills for local streets, 0.33 mills for the Greenville Transit System Fund, and 0.22 mills for promotion and advertising, as allowed under Public Act 359 of 1925, for a total levy of 12.9673 mills.
Utility funds noted in the budget include a Sewer Fund budget of $4,293,400 (the council-approved documents propose a 16% increase in sewer rates for FY 2024-25) and a Water Fund budget of $1,062,100 (a proposed 11% increase in water rates for FY 2024-25). Other funds described in the budget document include the Solid Waste Fund ($1,960,100), Greenville Transit System Fund ($534,200), Motor Pool Fund ($806,200), and various smaller or zero-dollar funds as presented at the meeting.
The resolution authorizes the City Manager or his designees to make expenditures and limited intra-fund transfers consistent with applicable law, and it ratifies that funds where appropriations exceed estimated revenues have sufficient undesignated fund balance consistent with the Uniform Budgeting and Accounting Act (Act 2). The council approved the FY 2024-25 through 2029-30 capital improvement program as presented.
The meeting record shows the motion was moved by Councilperson Lehman and seconded by Councilperson Moss; the vote recorded was Ayes: Lehman, Scoby, Barrus, Cunliffe, Johnson, Linton, and Moss; Nays: 0; Absent: 0. The Schedule of Rates and Fees was approved to be effective July 1, 2024.