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Staff presents updated budget with lower salary estimates and new projections
Summary
City staff presented an updated budget that trims several proposed salaries, adds a prorated projected column based on nine months of spending, and flags follow-ups on benefits, insurance allocations and equipment costs.
City staff presented an updated draft municipal budget and said she had 'made some good changes' after reviewing salaries and correcting formula errors. The revised materials include an organizational chart and a separate positions-and-salaries worksheet that staff offered to walk the council through at the council's direction.
The staff member said she 'primarily made changes in the salaries because there was some concern about the salaries being very much higher than last time.' She explained the worksheet breaks out FICA, retirement, life and health insurance so the council can see how benefits increase the salary base; she also added a 'projected' column prorated from nine months of spending to estimate year-end totals and said merit increases were not included.
