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City staff pitches conservative 2025 budget prioritizing police staffing and CIP
Summary
City staff presented a draft 2025 budget that emphasizes increased police staffing and a large capital improvement program funded through grants, transfers and partnerships; staff will return with project-level construction and debt plans separately.
City staff on Nov. 7 presented a draft 2025 budget that prioritizes police staffing increases and a sizable Capital Improvement Program (CIP) for roads and infrastructure. "Nicole Schneider, city administrator, chief finance officer," opened the presentation and told council that funding increases are aimed at "enhancing public safety and community response."
Schneider said the budget was "intentionally conservative" and excludes construction costs and debt service for large projects such as the public works campus and a planned police department expansion; she told council those items will be brought forward separately for consideration. The presentation noted a 2.5% market adjustment and step progressions in the wage scale, an anticipated roughly 3% increase in benefits (later adjusted to essentially flat), and a significant drop in IT spending tied to the Munis ERP migration.
Council members had no additional substantive questions at the workshop and staff invited members to take the draft home for review; staff also flagged a small edit (removal of an "item 28" reference) and an upcoming insurance adjustment before the next draft.
