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Finance commissioner outlines $62.6 million 2025 comprehensive budget, flags contingency and timelines
Summary
Finance Commissioner Manita Sangvi presented a $62.6 million 2025 comprehensive budget, noting public safety is the largest share (~58%), a $500,000 contingency tied to union negotiations, and a Nov. 30 deadline for the Council to adopt a budget.
Manita Sangvi, the finance commissioner, opened the city’s first 2025 budget workshop by presenting the proposed 2025 comprehensive budget and the calendar for adoption. "This is our 1st budget workshop," Sangvi said, adding that she presented the comprehensive budget on Oct. 1 and that the Council must vote to adopt a budget by Nov. 30.
The budget Sangvi presented is $62,600,000, up from $61,300,000 in 2024. Sangvi said public safety accounts for roughly 58% of that total, followed by public works, recreation, finance and the mayor’s office. Major revenue sources she cited include sales tax, property tax, VLT aid, state aid, ambulance transport fees, mortgage tax, hotel occupancy tax and departmental fees. She also said the finance office is pursuing approximately $2.0 million in long‑overdue delinquent property tax collections and has contacted about 240 delinquent properties.
Sangvi said one discrete change in the comp budget is a $500,000 contingency line the mayor’s office requested because union contract negotiations are ongoing: "We have 500,000 in contingency because...the mayor's office is negotiating union contracts," she said. She noted requested budgets are often larger than adopted budgets and described the comp budget as a constrained, working document the Council will refine in coming workshops.
On revenue upside, Sangvi said an expected state bill on short‑term rentals could increase sales tax receipts if signed and implemented, but the administration did not include such revenue in 2025 estimates because the outcome is uncertain. She closed by outlining the schedule for further budget workshops (traffic, police, fire, and other departments) and asking department heads to provide detailed 2015–2025 budget and actuals to support follow‑up discussions.
The Council did not take any action at this workshop; Sangvi said the next steps include line‑by‑line meetings between department leaders and finance staff to identify contractual obligations and top funding priorities.
