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Denison City Council reviews FY 2025–26 budgets; departments request equipment purchases and modest pay increases
Summary
At a Jan. 22 special meeting, Denison City officials reviewed FY2025–26 departmental budgets. Presenters highlighted a proposed 3% salary increase for library staff, equipment requests for fire and flood control, and increased maintenance needs for parks and the aquatic center; no formal votes were recorded in the minutes.
The Denison City Council met in a special session on Jan. 22, 2025, to review proposed FY2025–26 budgets for multiple departments, where department heads outlined equipment needs and modest staffing cost changes.
Walley, the Library Director, presented the library budget and said the finance committee recommended keeping most lines the same or reducing them while increasing the salary line by 3 percent.
Chief Snowgren, presenting the Fire Department budget, reviewed prioritized equipment purchases and reported reductions in some general fund figures. Tyler Weller, Flood Control Officer, asked the council to allow bond funds to cover the purchase of a skidsteer and a trailer for flood‑warning operations.
Ellis, Parks & Recreation Director, and Jodie Flaherty, City Clerk, presented the Parks & Recreation, Northside Recreation and Aquatics budgets. Flaherty said the Parks & Recreation contract line grew to cover mowing tied to the YMCA agreement and that Northside Recreation mowing was increased by 3 percent pending receipt of bids. Ellis said aquatic maintenance lines were raised to cover roof repairs, slide undermining, a boiler bypass and to purchase redundant pumps and motors, repaint the mushroom feature and repair a leak.
Garcia and Flaherty presented the Building Department budget and said the new equipment line was increased to purchase abatement equipment. They also presented budgets for the airport, Boulders, administration, DMU Services (the transcript does not define that name), taxi services, capital improvements, forfeiture funds, tourism, special accounts, Local Option Sales Tax, debt service and capital projects.
The minutes note several attendance changes during the meeting: Council member Logan arrived at 6:05 p.m., Miller temporarily left at 6:48 p.m. and returned at 7:02 p.m., Granzen left at 7:07 p.m. and returned at 7:09 p.m. The meeting adjourned at 8:07 p.m. The transcript records presentations and discussion but does not record any motions or votes on the budgets.
