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Kanarraville preliminarily approves 2026–27 budgets, moves forward with GIS and flags website accessibility work
Summary
The council preliminarily approved the town's 2026–27 general and enterprise budgets (with a change removing a planning grant), agreed to proceed with a GIS setup from Sunrise Engineering, and discussed ADA website compliance and steps to manage shared credit-card fraud alerts.
Kanarraville’s council preliminarily approved the 2026–27 general and enterprise fund budgets on May 13, with one amendment removing a planning grant for the Falls project and a commitment to finalize numbers in June.
During the budget review staff explained some items previously listed as department expenditures will instead be handled under debt service, and noted a $50,000 line for stormwater planning remains staged as part of next year’s plan. The motion to preliminarily approve the 2026–27 budgets passed by voice vote; council will reconvene in June to finalize the budget and make any required augmentations.
The council also approved moving forward with a Sunrise Engineering GIS estimate to set up a town geographic information system. Staff said much of the underlying mapping work had been completed by students at Southern Utah University and that Sunrise proposed a $600 annual management fee for hosting and maintenance. The board voted to authorize staff to contact Sunrise for clarification on the annual fee and to continue the procurement process pending answers.
On administrative operations, staff raised two practical items: a bank fraud-alert procedure for the town’s shared credit card and federal requirements for ADA website compliance. Staff asked employees to immediately text the finance contact whenever they make purchases on the shared town card so the bank’s fraud checks can be resolved quickly; they warned that shared-use increases false-positive flags. Separately, staff said a federal accessibility requirement will require captioning and other changes to government websites, but small towns have an extended compliance window; an IT contractor offered to implement the work for hourly cost if needed.
Next steps: staff will provide clarification on the GIS annual fee, return with finalized budget numbers in June, and follow up on ADA compliance timelines and card-purchase procedures. The council approved routine expenditures earlier in the meeting by voice vote; the transcript records affirmative votes but does not include a member-by-member tally.
