Maumelle council accepts April 2025 financial report; staff flags $2.88M 2025 shortfall and $10M in project transfers

Maumelle — The Maumelle City Council on May 19 received and accepted the city’s April 2025 financial statements after a briefing from finance presenter Miss Susa.

Miss Susa told the council that timing differences in property tax collection reduced expected revenue versus 2024 and that public safety revenue is lower because North Little Rock is providing 911 dispatch services for 2025. She listed several one-time or notable expenditures through April 2025 — including a $73,000 legal settlement and a $505,000 split payment to North Little Rock for first-quarter dispatch services — and said capital and operational transfers from the general fund to project funds accounted for a large portion of the year-to-date reduction in fund balance.

Staff said the revised 2025 budget includes carry-forwards from 2024 and currently shows projected expenditures exceeding revenues by approximately $2.88 million for 2025; finance staff also reported a total of roughly $10 million in transfers from 2023–2025 tied to identified projects (examples listed in the packet included a $2.1 million transfer for a gateway park, $1.3 million for the Club Manor corridor and transfers for training facilities and engine replacement). Miss Susa said the city’s unassigned general fund balance remained near the 20% policy requirement (about $4.2 million) after accounting for committed funds.

Council moved and seconded acceptance of the financial report; a voice vote approved the motion. Miss Susa also noted staff are continuing the finance leadership transition and that auditors are close to completing the annual audit and ACFR report.

What this means: The council’s acceptance ratifies the month’s reported revenues, expenditures and transfers; staff said the apparent 2025 shortfall reflects timing and planned transfers tied to approved projects rather than an immediate cash crisis, and that some revenue timing differences will be credited in later quarters. Council members asked questions about enforcement of property maintenance (raised earlier in public comment), the cost of dispatch services and planned ordinance work related to construction enforcement discussed later in the meeting.

For clarity: Several dollar figures were stated during the briefing and in the packet; where transcript wording was unclear, the article reports the amounts that staff explicitly cited during the meeting or that appear in the packet.