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Red Springs board weighs town-run EMS as updated FY2025–26 budget is reviewed
Summary
Town Manager Shanelle Harris presented an updated FY2025–26 budget on June 16, 2025, including possible 2.5% salary reductions, proposed additions to reserves, and competing cost estimates for town-operated EMS that would require drawing on the fund balance.
Town Manager Shanelle Harris presented an updated draft of the Town of Red Springs proposed FY2025–26 budget at a recessed Board of Commissioners meeting on June 16, 2025, and identified options that would affect employee pay, reserves and local emergency medical services.
Harris gave commissioners an updated authorized-positions list, an organizational chart, a draft budget and documents on a Façade Improvement Grant Program and an Economic Incentive Agreement package. She told the board she had modeled a 2.5% reduction in salaries as one option for controlling personnel costs and said the town must decide whether to provide or contract EMS services.
The budget review included several fiscal clarifications from Finance Director Kasey Davis. Davis told the board the town invoiced PSRC for the SRO position at Peterson Elementary from December 2021 through August 2022 and said the last cost-of-living…
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