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Finance staff presents preliminary 2026 budget with 5% baseline increase
Summary
Finance staff presented a draft 2026 budget projecting a 5% increase across departments, noting some revenue and expenditure lines still require reconciliation and that the library funding request will need careful consideration in the staffing and operating budgets.
Finance staff presented the city’s preliminary 2026 budget, which applies a baseline 5% increase across departments and provides a multi-year view that includes 2024 actuals, the 2025 budget and year-to-date 2025 figures for comparison.
Staff said some revenue items and certain expenditures are still being reconciled and that a cleaner set of figures should be ready by the next meeting. The library request (a six-figure one-year interlocal) was raised as a specific pressure point; staff said reallocating funds to cover that item would “take some finesse” because it is larger than prior years’ allocations.
Council members were invited to review the packet, call staff with questions, and set appointments to discuss line items in more detail before finalizing budget decisions. No formal budget adoption occurred at the study session.
