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City manager presents $76.7M FY2025 draft, stresses priorities and trade-offs
Summary
City Manager Hanson and finance staff presented the draft FY2025 spending plan showing $69.6M in projected revenues and $76.7M in proposed expenditures; staff emphasized pension contributions, capital projects and that community center bond funds remain in the draft.
City Manager Robert Hanson and finance staff delivered a comprehensive overview of the city's FY2025 draft budget at the work session, framing the plan as a set of priorities and trade-offs. Hanson opened by addressing public concern about the community center and said "the remaining bond funds are fully available in the draft budget;" he added that allocation decisions are up to council. Finance staff said the draft projects $69.6 million in revenues and $76.7 million in expenses for FY2025, with an estimated $8.2 million of fund-balance use overall.
Presenters broke the operating picture into general fund operations, park and recreation, economic development and enterprise funds. Staff highlighted large planned investments—roughly $11.5 million in capital and community improvements (not including a recent $3.9 million pool project)—and called attention to long-term liabilities such as public-safety pensions and a $5+ million water-tank replacement that is under way. The city manager repeatedly emphasized that staff can implement council priorities but that "it is just a matter of priorities and trade offs and understanding what you won't do depending on where you allocate the money."
The presentation previewed upcoming steps in the budget calendar: October hearings on fee adjustments and November property-tax estimations and readings. Staff committed to providing detailed line-item budgets and ordinance language for council review before appropriation votes.
