Budget & Finance

2025-2026 Budget Amendment Process 

(updated December 29, 2025) 

The City Council authorized a budget amendment to the 2025–2026 Biennial Budget to reflect updated revenues, expenditures, and fund allocations. Highlights include:

• Reallocation of $847,000 in unspent 2024 equipment funds for previously budgeted 2025 purchases
• $1.6 million in new grant funding for the Public Safety and Civic Services Campus
• Separation of Public Safety and Civic Services Campus funding into infrastructure and design packages
• Removal of a $3 million HUD grant due to federal budget constraints
• Adjustments to utility and impact fee revenues based on updated timelines and trends
• A projected increase of $1.45 million to the 2026 ending fund balance

This amendment ensures the City’s financial planning remains responsive to changing conditions and supports continued investment in community priorities.

A public hearing for Council to consider adoption of the budget amendment was held November 18, 2025.

2025-2026 Biennial Budget Overview

Adopted on November 19, 2024, the 2025–2026 Biennial Budget reflects Mayor Linda Redmon’s theme: “Honoring Our Past by Investing in Our Future.” The budget prioritizes infrastructure maintenance, public safety, emergency preparedness, and modernization of City services.

Developed with guidance from City Council and informed by community outreach in 2023–2024, the budget incorporates external economic forecasts and policy goals.

The City also implemented a new budgeting tool, ClearGov, which streamlines the budgeting process and provides interactive data filtering and real-time budget-to-actual tracking for both Council and the public. See the links below to access the most current budget book.