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Ogden council sets June 2 public hearing on tentative FY27 budget; staff outlines personnel and capital proposals
Summary
Council members set a public hearing for June 2 on the FY27 tentative budget after a presentation from finance staff showing a roughly $11 million increase (3.84%), no proposed property-tax increase, a $2 million use of prior wage/benefit funds, personnel changes and a $37.8 million capital program proposal.
Glenn Symes, a city finance staffer, presented an overview of the proposed FY27 resources and schedule to the Ogden City Council on May 19 and the council voted to set a public hearing on the tentative budget for June 2.
Symes summarized the mayor’s proposal and supporting documents available to the public, highlighting line-item budgets and “significant changes” narratives. He told the council the overall Ogden City budget shown in the proposal is up just over $11,000,000 (about 3.84%) compared with last year, and that the mayor’s proposal does not include a property-tax increase; the council would be asked to adopt the certified tax rate provided by the county.
Key policy and personnel points Symes outlined included a proposed $2,000,000 use of previously-unused wage-and-benefit funds to support salaries and benefits, proposed personnel adjustments (10 positions eliminated, 7 added for a net reduction of 3 positions to a projected 698 full-time employees if adopted), three reclassifications, six title changes, a proposed 2.18% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) across ranges and up to a 4% merit increase for non-sworn staff (sworn police and fire use a different step system).
Symes also previewed capital spending: roughly $4.1 million proposed from BDO lease revenue and about $33.6 million from other sources for a total of about $37.8 million proposed for FY27 across 37 projects (including routine street, parks and sidewalk maintenance and a ramp-grant match project).
Council members asked questions about how the 2.18% COLA was determined and asked for more detailed backup; Symes deferred some technical questions to future work sessions where administration staff will provide more detail. Council member Myers led the question about comparators for national inflation indices.
Council member Ritchie moved — then amended — to set the public hearing on the tentative budget for June 2 (clarifying the motion was to set the hearing, not to adopt the tentative budget). The voice vote to set the hearing passed.
Next procedural steps described by staff include a June 2 public hearing and then staff returning on June 16 for final-budget-related public hearings and possible adoption; staff emphasized that schedule-A (detailed line-item) changes typically happen between tentative and final adoption.
The council did not adopt the tentative budget at the May 19 meeting; it set the public hearing required by the schedule Symes described.
