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Finance director outlines $1 billion city budget, warns of long-term revenue shortfall
Summary
Reno's finance director told the Ward 1 NAB the city faces structural budget pressure as sales-tax (consolidated tax) growth has slowed; the current year budget totals roughly $1 billion with a $350 million general fund, and staff proposed vacancy budgeting, position freezes and a proposed sanitation franchise-fee increase to help close FY27 gaps.
Vicky Bamburen, Reno's director of finance, gave a comprehensive briefing on the city's finances and the near-term approach to the FY27 budget.
Bamburen said the city's current-year budget is about $1,000,000,000 in total, with roughly $350,000,000 in the general fund. She told the board the city used approximately $9.5 million in one-time funds to balance the current year and pointed to slower consolidated (sales) tax growth as a central driver of a multi-year revenue gap. "When you look at how many employees do we have in the city, we have about 1,500 full time employees," she said,…
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