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Mona City staff lays out tentative FY2027 budget, flags garbage shortfall and long-term bond obligations
Summary
At a May 12 work session, a city presenter reviewed a tentative FY2027 budget, saying the city will avoid a tax increase this year, but noting rising costs, a garbage-service shortfall, annual bond payments and potential uses for impact fees; council set priorities for infrastructure and staffing.
Presenter S4 opened a May 12 Mona City work session by distributing a tentative FY2027 budget and walking the group through revenue estimates, fund structure and key expense lines. S4 said the city would not pursue a property-tax increase this year and could defer Utah’s truth-in-taxation process to next year: "If you wanted to increase any, property to any taxes, you needed to do truth in taxation... He said, absolutely not," S4 recounted of staff advice.
S4 described the city’s main revenue streams as sales and use tax, property tax, utility/franchise tax, fees, licenses and intermittent grants. On the expense side, S4 said enterprise funds (water, sewer) can run positive or negative while the general fund must balance. The presenter noted a recurring annual bond payment of $314,875 and explained bond payments must be covered from available resources outside ordinary operating lines.
Council members pressed on infrastructure and compliance priorities. Multiple participants flagged sewer maintenance, plant compliance and membrane replacement as near-term needs; S1 said infrastructure and basic services should come before discretionary projects: "I would rather take care of the infrastructure to know that when I flush the toilet, it’s gonna disappear." S4 acknowledged tradeoffs and suggested staff would look for cost savings and potential revenue adjustments rather than immediate rate increases.
The budget review also highlighted several specific cost centers: garbage service showed roughly $119,000 in revenue against $127,000 in expenses so far, prompting discussion of raising user fees to avoid subsidizing disposal costs. The community center showed modest net revenue but high cleaning costs; members discussed tightening cleaning schedules and implementing a refundable cleaning deposit for renters. A cemetery digital-mapping contract funded by a prior grant (about $12,933) carries an annual maintenance fee of roughly $1,500 and per-minute support charges that several participants said merit review.
S4 asked department leads and council members to submit capital and operational priorities before the final budget is approved at the next city council meeting. No formal motions or votes were recorded in the transcript.
The work session closed after members agreed to refine numbers, check auditor explanations for certain transfers, and return the revised budget for formal action at the next council meeting.
