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Treasurer Tashia Butterfield outlines proposed FY 2024–25 budget, citing $3.38M in grants and 42% operating increase
Summary
At a Sept. 4 hearing, Alma Treasurer Tashia Butterfield presented the proposed FY 2024–25 budget, reporting a 17% rise in property valuation and a 42% increase in the operating budget driven largely by five grants totaling $3,375,000; the council closed the public hearing after the presentation.
Treasurer Tashia Butterfield presented the City of Alma’s proposed FY 2024–25 budget at a special council hearing Sept. 4, saying the city’s property valuation grew to $110,792,179, an increase of 17% from the prior year. She told the council the operating budget increased by 42%, primarily because five grants totaling $3,375,000 were included in the proposed spending plan.
Butterfield said the General Fund and Street Fund combined exceed the auditor’s recommended cash reserve, and that the enterprise (utility) funds are also above the recommended reserve. She walked council members through projected revenues, expenditures, and ending cash balances and investments, and showed charts detailing transfers from the General Fund, sales tax receipts and departmental expenses compared with the prior year.
Mayor and Acting Administrator Hal Haeker opened the budget hearing for public comment and closed it after Butterfield’s presentation. The minutes record a motion by Chris Tripe, seconded by Dyann Collins, to close the budget hearing, with votes recorded in favor by Larry Casper, Tripe and Collins.
The minutes of the meeting contain a timing inconsistency: the budget hearing is recorded as closing at 5:48 p.m., while the tax request hearing later in the same document is recorded as opening at 5:45 p.m. The council minutes themselves show these timestamps; the article reports them as recorded in the minutes without correcting the internal inconsistency.
