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Zillah study session reviews 2025 preliminary budget, reserve policy and governance changes
Summary
City staff presented the 2025 preliminary budget and proposed updates to reserve policies; the council asked the finance committee to continue refining the budget and discussed the potential statutory option to transition to a biennial budget under RCW.
Council and staff spent the Oct. 7 study session reviewing the 2025 preliminary budget and discussing updates to the city's financial‑policy language on reserves.
City Administrator Michael Grayum told council the finance committee will meet again to refine the budget and that staff are considering modifying reserve targets in municipal policy. Councilmembers discussed timing and the statutory option to transition to a biennial budget; Grayum said staff would continue work on those policy options.
The minutes record no line‑item votes or budget adoption; the item remained at the review stage and will return as staff and the finance committee develop recommended changes. The public minutes do not list specific dollar changes, only that the committee will continue meeting to develop and refine the budget.
