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Council tightens FY2027 budget, freezes three positions to limit deficit
Summary
Staff proposed decision items to shrink the FY2027 deficit; council agreed to freeze three positions, keep a 2% COLA, and review supplemental requests, leaving a projected $1.6M decrease in fund balance in the base budget and scheduling further public hearings on the tax rate in September.
City staff presented a revised general-fund budget showing a base-budget plan that reduces projected spending and includes several decision items and supplements. "Incorporating the decision items into the base budget and keeping supplemental requests separate leaves a projected $1.6 million decrease in fund balance," the staff presenter (Staff member, S2) said.
Council discussed targeted personnel freezes and tradeoffs. Staff noted three positions would be frozen as a budget control measure; the chair (Chair, S11) and multiple councilmembers emphasized careful monitoring and case-by-case justification for future hires. "Those positions are funded but frozen for now; we'll evaluate filling them if other vacancies arise and a director justifies it," the staff presenter said.
Council also discussed upcoming public hearings required to adopt a tax rate and scheduled those hearings for September; staff flagged that utility-fund and tax-rate decisions must align with state notice and ordinance timelines. The council did not adopt final tax-rate language at this meeting but set the schedule for subsequent hearings.
