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Flora adopts 2025 budget ordinance on third reading; some appropriation reductions approved by resolution
Summary
Council approved the third and final reading of Ordinance 2025-01 adopting a $3,798,837 budget and discussed related fund reductions via Resolution 2025-01; several specific fund reductions were read into the record.
The Town Council approved the third and final reading of Ordinance 2025-01 on Nov. 3, adopting a municipal budget the meeting record lists as $3,798,837.
During the same meeting the council also approved Resolution 2025-01, which reduces a number of 2025 appropriations. Staff read the reductions into the record: Rainy Day fund reduced by $9,755; General Fund reduced by $800,000; Local Road & Street reduced by $45,000; Cumulative Sewer reduced by $283,000; Cumulative Capital Improvement reduced by $45,000; Economic development income tax reduced by $250,000; Riverboat gambling reduced by $42,700; law enforcement continuing education reduced by $27,223. The resolution was moved and approved.
The transcript also lists an "adopted tax levy" and an adopted rate, but the levy amount in the transcript text is truncated and not specified with certainty. The recorded adopted tax rate is listed as 1.2908. Staff offered to provide full documentation on request.
What happens next: The ordinance and resolution take effect following approval and staff will circulate final, signed documents. Council members encouraged staff to correct a spelling error in a signatory name before final signing.
