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Evansville council adopts amended FY2024-25 budget and approves FY2025-26 budget, tables tank recoating and camera leases
Summary
The Evansville Town Council approved Ordinance 5-2025 (amending FY2024-25) and Ordinance 6-2025 (adopting the FY2025-26 budget) on second reading. Council approved lower IT software costs, rejected a $13,500/year grant-writing contract, and deferred a $200,000 water-tank recoating plan and a one-year camera lease pending further numbers.
The Evansville Town Council on June 9 approved two budget ordinances on second reading, adopting an amendment to the FY2024-25 budget and passing the FY2025-26 appropriation ordinance while tabling key capital decisions.
Councilors voted to approve Ordinance 5-2025, an amendment to the current fiscal year budget, and then considered Ordinance 6-2025, the spending plan for July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026. During discussion the council noted several clarifications and made short-term decisions before the final vote.
One correction that reduced projected costs: the town’s IT contractor revised the quoted annual cost of the "Ninja" software from $5,000 to $1,600, a change council members flagged as a savings. Councilors declined a proposal to hire a outside grant-writing firm at $13,500 per year for a single federal grant under that contract, with at least one council member saying they would vote no on that engagement.
Councilors also discussed a staff recommendation to recoating two water tanks at an estimated $200,000 (the town has four tanks in total). Officials said the work would be paid from the town’s enterprise fund; absent grant funding, a low-interest loan was discussed as a fallback. Members agreed to table the tank recoating item and seek further information from the town engineer and water-plant staff before taking action.
A proposed one-year lease for security cameras covering parks and public-works sites (approximated during discussion at about $37,000 per year) was similarly deferred so the treasurer could confirm whether current revenues and enterprise allocations would cover the expense.
With those clarifications and deferrals noted, council moved, seconded and approved Ordinance 6-2025 on second reading. The transcript records the motions as passed; no roll-call vote totals were recorded in the meeting transcript.
Next steps: staff will return with more detailed estimates and grant/loan options on the tank recoating and will provide a budget location breakdown for the cameras before the council’s next reading or supplemental meeting.
