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Johns Creek presents FY2025 budget priorities, highlights public-safety staffing and capital plans
Summary
City staff presented a proposed FY2025 budget totaling about $78.6 million in general-fund revenues and expenditures, emphasizing personnel costs, funding for a new fire station and police substation, four new police positions and multiple capital projects; council held a first public hearing and asked staff to update revenue forecasts after millage action.
Finance Director George Campbell presented the proposed FY2025 budget during the council's first public hearing July 29, describing a $78.6 million general-fund plan that emphasizes personnel (64% of the general fund), $7.7 million in capital enhancements and continued investment in roads and parks.
Campbell said the proposed capital list includes additional funding needed to finish Fire Station 63 and a police substation and called out planned transportation authorizations and a $1.5 million vehicle-replacement allocation. The FY2025 proposal includes four new police positions and two municipal court positions tied to insourcing probation services.
During public comment and discussion council members and residents raised concerns about the city's health-insurance exposure, stormwater policy and the need to protect fund balances for bond capacity. Resident Royce Reinicki urged the council to prioritize reserves and to consider targeted capital funding through bonds rather than funding large projects completely from current revenues.
Council asked staff to reforecast FY2025 revenue projections in light of the council's decision to hold the 2024 millage steady and to confirm assumptions about expected digest growth for 2025. Campbell said staff will update revenue projections and return with revised numbers before the next hearing and final adoption planned for September 9.
Background and implications: Personnel and public-safety costs drive most of the operating budget; capital and transportation projects will be advanced through project authorizations and TSPLoss processes. Council members said they will weigh reserve preservation and bond capacity when considering final adoption.
