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Council adopts ordinance 3,382 amending the 2025–2026 biennial budget
Summary
Finance Director Heidi Belantis presented an 11-item budget amendment package that increases revenues by about $7 million and expenses by about $12 million across enterprise and capital funds; the council adopted ordinance 3,382 to record the changes.
Finance Director Heidi Belantis summarized ordinance 3,382, an amendment to the 2025–2026 biennial budget that affects non-general funds. Belantis reported approximate citywide figures: a beginning fund balance near $94,000,000, total revenues around $439,000,000 and total expenses around $448,000,000, leaving an ending balance near $86,000,000 under the current budget. The proposed amendment would increase revenues by roughly $7,000,000 and increase expenses by roughly $12,000,000, resulting in a net decrease to the ending fund balance of about $5,000,000.
Belantis walked through 11 specific items: technology upgrades for EOC and council chambers, REET transfers of $150,000 each to support parks maintenance, $827,000 to the transportation improvement district (including $785,000 for 2026 street overlays), creation and fund transfers for new transportation and parks mitigation funds (including $2.2 million moved into a transportation mitigation fund), recognition of $500,000 in school mitigation pass-through activity, replacement of a surface-water Vactor truck (repairs estimated above $60,000 making replacement preferable), and an increase to unemployment expense of $123,664 based on claims experience. Councilmember Richards moved to adopt ordinance 3,382 and the motion passed.
