Preliminary draft budget goes before council
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This article was published 10/01/2024 (980 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Brandon City Council members will soon be rolling up their sleeves and digging into the next city budget.
City administration presented council with a preliminary budget in a special meeting Monday night, with expenses set at $109.1 million for the 2024 budget — about $3.6 million more than in 2023.
In a slide presentation, Troy Tripp, the city’s accounting manager, ran through the information administration had gathered during more than the last six months to form this year’s proposed budget.
The 2023 budget listed expenses at $105.5 million and saw property taxes increase by 2.6 per cent.
CFO and general manager of corporate services Cory Schermann said the proposed budget does not address property taxes yet because council will need to look at the city’s expenses and revenues and come up with the number in budget deliberations next month.
“We’re still in the proposed draft budget stage,” Schermann said.
”Our focus right now, with the budget preparation, and the budget discussions with council, is focusing more on the true content of these are the things we need to do. And we’re not focusing on the property tax number yet. That will happen later on in the process, once we’ve had some budget discussions with council and are better able to understand how our priorities line up,” he said.
Mayor Jeff Fawcett said he appreciated the document and the fact that administration had included budget projections for the next four years.
“We like the idea of a four-year plan. How does this decision that we make this year affect us down the road? What is this going to mean for the city next year?” Fawcett said.
Some of the biggest expenses the city will be deliberating on include protective services, infrastructure and maintenance and facilities maintenance. The document will be available to the public in the coming days.
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