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Milwaukie adopts 2027–28 biennial budget; adds utility billing specialist funded by utilities
Summary
The Milwaukie City Council unanimously adopted the 2027–28 biennial city budget and capital improvement plan, amended to add a utility billing specialist (fully funded by utility funds). The council also voted to accept state revenue sharing and the Milwaukie Redevelopment Commission adopted its budget.
The Milwaukie City Council on June 2 adopted the city's 2027–28 biennial budget and capital improvement plan after a short discussion about staffing and accounting adjustments.
Finance Director Michael Osborne summarized the plan and said the proposed total budget had been adjusted from the budget committee version to include two technical changes: adding a full-time utility billing specialist to replace an earlier planned intern and correcting a double-counted transfer. "The change that we're proposing to increase to this adopted budget is $247,000, which gets us to a total budget of $29,164,000," Osborne said.
The new utility billing specialist position is 100% funded by water, wastewater and stormwater utilities and is intended to reduce a single point of failure in utility billing and to support upcoming rate and assistance work. Osborne said the full two-year cost (salary and benefits) is about $315,000 and that the position would not have a direct impact on the general fund or utility rates as presented.
The council voted unanimously to adopt the budget and capital improvement plan, after which Mayor Lisa Batty celebrated the outcome: "Yay, we have a budget," she said.
In related actions the council unanimously approved two resolutions electing to accept state revenue-sharing funds for the 2027–28 biennium. Finance staff briefed council on the expected amounts: roughly $1.65 million in general shared revenues (liquor, cigarette tax, and similar sources) over the biennium and about $3.4 million in state gas tax for the transportation fund.
Immediately after the council session the body convened as the Milwaukie Redevelopment Commission and adopted the commission's proposed 2027–28 budget (about $9.933 million total) without public comment.
What passed (high level): the city budget and CIP for July 1, 2026'June 30, 2028; resolutions certifying eligibility for and electing to receive state-shared revenues for 2027'28; and the Milwaukie Redevelopment Commission's budget.
Vote tallies: The transcript records unanimous voice votes for the city budget, the state revenue-sharing resolutions, and the MRC budget but does not list individual roll-call counts; the record shows "all those in favor say 'I'" and the chair recorded the measures as passing unanimously.
