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Desert Hot Springs council adopts two‑year budget, approves union MOU and several fee and assessment measures
Summary
City Council unanimously approved a balanced two‑year budget for FY 2025–26 and 2026–27, ratified a three‑year memorandum of understanding with the Desert Hot Springs Employees Union, and adopted a 2.9% CPI adjustment to user fees plus three local assessment levies to fund landscaping, lighting and drainage.
The Desert Hot Springs City Council on June 17 adopted a two‑year operating and capital budget for fiscal years 2025–26 and 2026–27 and approved related fiscal measures, voting unanimously on each item.
The adopted budget projects general‑fund revenues of about $30.88 million and expenditures of $30.7 million in 2025–26, producing a modest $91,000 addition to the fund balance, staff said. Administrative Services Director Jeffrey Buckheim told the council the city’s largest revenue source remains sales and use taxes, including the recently implemented 1% transactions and use tax.
Council also received a closed‑session report that it had voted 5–0 to approve a memorandum of understanding between the City of Desert Hot Springs and the Desert Hot Springs Employees…
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