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Portsmouth projects 6.3% general-fund increase for FY2027; staff says recurring growth nearer 3%
Summary
Budget staff told the City Council the FY2027 general fund would total $360.7 million, a headline 6.3% increase driven largely by one-time items and adjustments; Trey Burke said recurring structural growth is closer to $9 million (about 2.9%). Council members pressed for delinquency breakdowns and assumptions behind school and intergovernmental figures.
Trey Burke, the city's budgeting officer, told the City Council at a June work session that the proposed FY2027 general fund is $360,700,000 and that the headline increase of 6.3% includes several one-time items.
Burke said that after removing one-time adjustments — including a $5.6 million increase in fund-balance appropriation and other timing items — the city's structural recurring revenue growth is about $9,000,000, roughly 2.9%. "If you strip those out, what you leave with is about $9 million, or about 2.9% revenue growth," Burke said.
The presentation broke down major revenue sources:…
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