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City manager, staff present budget overview showing 36% general fund increase
Summary
City Manager Melville Hilton and Miss Wilson presented a budget overview showing a proposed 36% increase in general fund expenditures, a 19% decrease in water/sewer expenditures, and adjustments to outside-agency funding including a proposed $17,960 allocation for the library and a $10,000 allocation for the Boys & Girls Club.
City Manager Melville Hilton introduced a brief budget overview at the May 20 council meeting and asked Miss Wilson to give a more detailed presentation and distribute a study book for council review.
Miss Wilson told the council the budget shows a 36% increase in general-fund expenditures, a 19% decrease in water and sewer expenditures, a 4% increase in solid waste expenditures and a 1% decrease in stormwater expenditures. She asked council members to review the line-item comparisons included in the packet and to bring questions to the next budget work session.
On outside-agency funding, Miss Wilson said Allied Arts requested no change. She said the library had requested an increase but the city proposed a compromise grant of $17,960 (the library had requested $24,000). She also noted that last year the Boys & Girls Club received a one-time increase of $20,000 and the city was proposing to reduce that allocation back to $10,000 for the coming year.
Council members asked whether projected revenue matches the proposed expenditure changes; Miss Wilson said the revenue projections do match the increases and that there is "wiggle room" if adjustments are needed. The manager and staff asked members to submit additional questions ahead of the scheduled Tuesday budget work session.
Miss Wilson introduced Adisha Dunlap as a staff member who will assist with the budget presentation at next week’s meeting.
