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Council adopts FY2026–31 strategic plan as planning framework
Summary
City Council adopted the FY2026–31 strategic plan, a multi‑year planning document listing capital and personnel priorities and supplemental requests; council asked staff for clearer fund‑balance projections before budget adoption.
The Midlothian City Council adopted the FY2026–31 strategic plan on April 28, a planning document that outlines multi‑year capital projects, personnel requests and supplemental items across city funds. The adoption does not appropriate funds; budget adoption remains a separate process.
City staff summarized the plan’s components, which include base budgets, supplemental requests by department, proposed multi‑year utility fund projects (including a large potential Taymon water plant expansion with conceptual costs), and a recommended approach for funding select capital items through tax notes or bonds. Council members asked staff to add clearer end‑of‑year fund‑balance projections and a simple “days of operating costs” metric to make reserve‑level implications more transparent during the upcoming budget cycle.
Council adopted the plan unanimously and directed staff to return with more explicit fund‑balance projections and reserve calculations as the budget process proceeds.
