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ExpenditureActual2019-2020Actual2020-2021Actual2021-2022Actual2022-2023Actual2023-2024Actual2024-2025
Personnel
16,06016,37816,38018,10030,73632,566
FICA1,3131,3131,3371,4762,4351,587
Subtotal — Personnel17,37317,69117,71719,57633,17134,153
Operations
10,61412,02910,17618,93015,87515,949
Telephone03,2232,6812,471
7,9621,5516,3053,97213,5409,524
7188411863811,808462
Contracted Services5,3505,3105,96612,78517,6598,581
Council Strategic Summit14030139930862531
14,79175501,105
Legal Services60,23986,055
Subtotal — Operations39,57520,78723,03240,704111,864123,573
Capital
Fixed Assets02,174
Subtotal — Capital02,174
Total City Council56,94838,47840,74962,454145,035157,726
Latest budget — FY 2026-2027Compare the proposed budget with the amount Council approved.

Approved amounts authorize spending; they are not actual expenditure. These are the stages printed in the budget book, which may not include later amendments.

BudgetBudgeted / amendedFY 2025-2026Manager proposedFY 2026-2027Council approvedFY 2026-2027
Department total140,300178,800178,800
Budget line items
ExpenditureBudgeted / amendedFY 2025-2026Manager proposedFY 2026-2027Council approvedFY 2026-2027
Salaries20,00021,00021,000
Salaries: Municipal Judge12,00012,00012,000
FICA2,6002,6002,600
Publication of Reports & Legal Notices1,5002,0002,000
Member Dues & Registration Fees15,00015,00015,000
Telephone3,0003,0003,000
Legal Services70,000100,000100,000
Travel12,00012,00012,000
Employee Auto Allowance1,1001,1001,100
Food6001,5001,500
Other Operating Supplies500500500
Other Contracts1,0005,0005,000
Council Strategic Summit500600600
Public Relations500500500
Election Expense-2,0002,000
Fixed Assets---

A dash means no numeric amount is shown in that source cell. No proposal is substituted for a missing approved amount.

Budget source · PDF page 27

What the records showRelated decisions, supporting records, and unanswered questions.

Legal-services spending has budget context in the finance memorandum.

2023-2024 actual source · page 26 · 2024-2025 actual source · page 27

The finance memo says the legal-services increase covers fees paid to the city attorney; the attached schedule increases that budget by $40,000. It does not break fees down by matter or explain every change in the actual legal-services amount. Finance memorandum — May 7, 2025 · page 118.

The attached schedule shows the relevant proposed budget adjustments. Amounts in this schedule are appropriations, not invoice payments. Budget amendment detail · page 120.

Still unanswered: Invoice and ledger detail is needed to reconcile the budget explanation to actual annual expenses.

About these figuresWhat is included and what changed between reports.

The reports changed what they include under City Council. Earlier reports list the Municipal Judge and City Attorney separately; later reports include judge pay, legal services, and their FICA costs under Council. For 2022–2023, the earlier Council total is $62,454 and the later total is $136,112, so these totals do not describe the same set of expenses. Earlier totals are kept as originally reported. In this table, judge pay is grouped under Salaries, food under Other Operating Supplies, and Legal Services remains a separate row.

Amounts are shown as reported, without adjusting for inflation. A dash (“—”) means the source shows a dash or does not list a value; it does not necessarily mean zero. Related accounts are grouped for comparison, with available detail under each row.

Sources and methodsOriginal documents, coverage, and how the years were matched.

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Section reconciliation and differences
  • Personnel: Overlapping 2022–2023 amounts: 19,576 earlier; 32,494 later. Source-backed broad section; detail and scope discrepancies retained in history notes.
  • Operations: Overlapping 2022–2023 amounts: 40,704 earlier; 101,445 later. Source-backed broad section; detail and scope discrepancies retained in history notes.
  • Capital: Overlapping 2022–2023 amounts: 2,174 earlier; 2,174 later. Source-backed broad section; detail and scope discrepancies retained in history notes.
  • Actual 2019-2020 (City Council only; Judge and Attorney excluded): PDF page 23
  • Actual 2020-2021 (City Council only; Judge and Attorney excluded): PDF page 23
  • Actual 2021-2022 (City Council only; Judge and Attorney excluded): PDF page 22
  • Actual 2022-2023 (City Council only; Judge and Attorney excluded): PDF page 22
  • Actual 2023-2024 (City Council including Municipal Judge and Legal Services): PDF page 26
  • Actual 2024-2025 (City Council including Municipal Judge and Legal Services): PDF page 27
How the years were matched
  • Physical PDF pages: FY2022-23 23; FY2024-25 22; FY2025-26 26; FY2026-27 27. All displayed columns are actual years, not estimates or budgets.
  • Source zeros and dashes remain distinct. Subtotals are excluded. Missing historical categories remain absent; mapping confirmation does not establish unchanged operational scope.
  • FY2022-23 mapped overlap differences (older to later): FICA: 1476 → 2394; Publicity/Subscriptions/Dues: 18930 → 18931; Other Operating Supplies: 381 → 254; Election Expense: 1105 → 1104. These are not adjusted away.
  • FY2023-24 repeated account amounts and total agree between newer books (145,035).

These changes do not establish changes in service quality or explain why spending changed. Budget amendments and meeting decisions have not been reconciled with this series.

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