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Consider and take action on an ordinance adopting the Annual Budget for Governmental and Proprietary Funds for Fiscal Year 2026 (Assistant City Manager - CFO)
Background:
Pursuant to City Charter and state law, adoption of this ordinance will establish the budget for the 2026 fiscal year. The budget ordinance is based on the proposed budget, as adjusted, and as described in Exhibit A, B and C.
The FY2026 Proposed Budget provided to City Council on July 15, 2025, included $195,474,604 for operations. The proposed budget included the following:
o Property tax revenue estimated at the no-new-revenue tax rate, which is estimated at $1 million more than the FY2025 year-end projection for property tax,
o A personnel budget for 756 positions which is a net addition of 10.5 full time equivalent (FTE) positions (8.65 FTE in General Fund, 1 FTE in Utility Fund, and a reduction of -0.15 FTE in the HOT Fund) for the following:
§ (1) Part-time Recreation Specialist for Adaptive Programming and Special Events for Parks Recreation (0.5 FTE),
§ (1) Administrative Assistant for Planning (1.0 FTE),
§ (1) Employee Leave Coordinator for Human Resources (1.0 FTE),
§ (1) Special Investigations Unit (SIU) Police Officer (1.0 FTE),
§ (1) Special Investigations Unit (SIU) Police Sergeant (1.0 FTE),
§ (1) Police Patrol Officer (1.0 FTE),
§ (1) Deputy Fire Marshal (1.0 FTE),
§ (1) Cybersecurity & Network Engineer for Information Technology (1.0 FTE),
§ (1) Part-time EMS Quartermaster (0.5 FTE),
§ (1) Emergency Medical Technician for EMS (1.0 FTE),
§ (1) Paramedic for EMS (1.0 FTE),
§ (-2) Decrease of two part-time Paramedic positions (-1.0 FTE)
§ (1) Meter Technician for Utility Billing (1.0 FTE),
§ (1) 4B Parks Operations Maintenance Crew Leader (1.0 FTE),
§ (1) Part-time Staff Writer transitions to full-time for HOT Fund (0.5 FTE),
§ (-1) Decrease of a full-time Multimedia Specialist split between General (-0.65) and HOT funds (-0.35 FTE),
§ Reclass Lead Animal Tech to An...
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