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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION <br />Date: 8/25/2025 <br />Item No.: 7.c. <br />Department ApprovalCity Manager Approval <br />Item Description:Receive the 2026 City Manager Recommended Budget and Tax Levy <br />1 <br />2 Background <br />3 At the March 3, 2025, City Council meeting, the Council established a general timeline for the 2026 <br />4 budget process including the following key dates: <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />8 To date, the Council has received a number of budget information packages and has held several <br />9 discussions on city priorities, service levels, legislative impacts and the 2026-2045 Capital Improvement <br />10 Pla <br />11 <br />12 2026 City Manager Recommended Budget with different Scenarios <br />13 The 2026 City Manager's Recommended Budget is $81,257,257, which is an increase of $7,142,897 or <br />14 9.63%. As part of the overall budget, the City Manager is recommending a tax levy increase of <br />15$2,418,267 or 7.87% over the current levy in the base budget. The City Manager has a few alternative <br />16 scenarios which address additional staffing requests from the Police and Fire departments and <br />17 implementation of franchise fees to address funding shortages in some of the capital project funds. The <br />18 City Manager has prepared a separate memo with detailed information regarding these proposed <br />19 amounts. The memo is included in Attachment 1, and is accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation <br />20(see Attachment 2). <br />21 <br />22 Attachment 3 is the 2026 Preliminary Base Budget, which includes budgets by division and also contains <br />23 reconciliations of the revenues and expenditure changes between the 2025 Adopted Budget and the <br />24 2026 Preliminary Base Budget. Attachment 4 shows the franchise fees and reallocation of tax levies for <br />Page 1 of 2 <br />Qbhf!2:!pg!49: <br /> <br />