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Evanston committee approves 2025 budget amendment after debate over reporting and ARPA use
Summary
The Finance & Budget Committee voted 6–2 on May 6 to adopt a 2025 budget amendment after staff presentations and extensive member questioning about overspends, ARPA use and reporting practices. Members pressed for clearer line-item justifications, multi‑year actuals and earlier forecasting.
The Evanston Finance & Budget Committee voted 6–2 on May 6 to adopt an ordinance amending 2025 budgeted expenditures after a staff presentation and extended discussion about transparency and reporting.
City staff told the committee that the city’s practice is to amend expense appropriations in funds where actual spending exceeded the adopted budget and that "a budget amendment does not have an impact on the net surplus or net deficit of any fund," according to a staff presenter. Staff described 12 funds with proposed increases where actual expenses exceeded the adopted amounts and six funds with reductions where budgeted expenditures did not materialize and were rebudgeted to 2026, including items tied to ARPA and several capital projects.
Why it matters: members said the amendment process should help the public and…
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