City Budget Documents & Information

The City operates on a fiscal year that begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The budget for the City is adopted each September after a thorough review process involving staff and City Council. Budget requests are driven by various plans to include strategic plans, the major thoroughfare plan, and the parks/pathways plan. The budget is drafted using a modified zero-based budgeting model; new budgets are not derived merely by increasing previous years budgets, but are based on analyzing each request on an as-needed basis without the assumption that funding exists. 

The budget process is as follows:

Budget Process Calendar

As part of this process, a series of workshop meetings are conducted where the tax rate is adopted and the following relevant items are discussed:

• Capital projects
• Expenses
• Major purchases
• Revenue
• Other relevant items

Setting the Budget

Based on these discussions, City Council determines how to set the final budget for the upcoming fiscal year. Any unused funds for budgeted expenditures are saved for capital projects.

Workshops

This year, the annual budget workshop meetings date is August 9.  All budget workshops are open to the public and citizens are welcome. Current and prior year budgets are posted on the City’s website under Financial Transparency, along with annual audit reports, financial statements and expense reports.