Assembly approves general, enterprise fund budgets for FY26

Assembly approves general, enterprise fund budgets for FY26

This year’s budget cycle has had its ups and downs– anticipating a deficit early in the process, in March the assembly tasked department heads with finding areas where the budget could be trimmed. Ultimately a few cuts plus a $400,000 increase in property tax revenue left the city with over $200,000 surplus in the general fund.That didn’t change between the first and second reading of the budget in April, but Municipal Administrator John Leach n…