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Chowchilla council adopts 2026–27 city, successor agency and finance authority budgets; sets Gann limit and amends salary scale
Summary
The Chowchilla City Council on June 30 unanimously adopted the 2026–27 city operating and capital budget, the Successor Agency and Public Finance Authority budgets, set the Gann appropriation limit and approved a salary-scale amendment; specific dollar amounts were not specified in the transcript.
The Chowchilla City Council on June 30 adopted a package of fiscal resolutions for the 2026–27 year, approving the city operating and capital budget as well as companion budgets for the Successor Agency and the Public Finance Authority. Council members also set the city's Gann appropriation limit for 2026–27 and approved an amendment to the salary scale.
Council Member Waseem Ahmed moved to adopt Resolution #42-26, the 2026–27 Fiscal Year Annual City Operating and Capital Budget; Mayor Pro Tem Ray Barragan seconded the motion. The council then adopted Resolution #02-26 for the Chowchilla Successor Agency budget (motion by Board Member Jeff Troost; seconded by Board Member John Chavez) and Resolution #01-26 for the Chowchilla Public Finance Authority budget (motion by Board Member John Chavez; seconded by Board Member Jeff Troost). Council Member John Chavez moved, and Council Member Waseem Ahmed seconded, adoption of Resolution #45-26 setting the Gann appropriation limit for 2026–27. Council Member Chavez moved, and Council Member Jeff Troost seconded, adoption of Resolution #46-26 amending the salary scale.
All five recorded members — Mayor Kelly Smith, Mayor Pro Tem Ray Barragan and Council Members Waseem Ahmed, John Chavez and Jeff Troost — voted yes by roll call on each item and each motion "passed unanimously by roll call vote," according to the meeting minutes. The transcript does not specify dollar totals or line-item changes for the budgets or the exact salary-scale adjustments; those details were not read into the public minutes at the meeting.
Why it matters: The bundle of votes sets the city's spending plan and legal appropriation ceiling for the fiscal year and updates compensation structure for city employees, actions that determine municipal services and staffing costs for the coming year. The adopted resolutions were recorded with the following identifiers in the minutes: Resolution #42-26 (city budget), Resolution #02-26 (successor agency budget), Resolution #01-26 (public finance authority budget), Resolution #45-26 (Gann appropriation limit) and Resolution #46-26 (salary scale amendment).
Next steps: Minutes show the motions were approved and the meeting was adjourned at 4:53 p.m.; the transcript does not indicate additional hearings or public hearings tied to these approvals within this session.
