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FY 2024 Budget Message

August 11, 2023

Mayor and City Council:

The City of Colleyville FY24 Budget is presented herein for your approval. With a conservative
fiscal approach, the budget is balanced with a strong fund balanced maintained across all funds.

The FY24 budget is the capstone of a multi-year effort to enhance service levels, provide large-
scale infrastructure beautification improvements, and invest in our local businesses. These efforts
have included the SH26 corridor enhancements, business grants, gift cards, building permit
processing technology upgrades, addition of police officers in every school, reducing fire
department response times, upgrading of park facilities and rehabilitation of all municipal
buildings across the city. All of these efforts were completed while adopting the No New Revenue
Tax Rate – and not increasing your property taxes.

We have worked diligently through a few challenging years fraught with the pandemic, winter
storm events, inflation, and labor shortages but we have persevered. Our City remains financially
strong with a focus on service to our citizenry. In the last year, city staff responded to 49,141 calls
for emergency services, resurfaced 13.7 miles of a roadway, constructed 7,160 linear feet of
sidewalk, awarded $1,173,862 in grant funds to local businesses, planted 6 new landscape
amenities along major streets, thoroughfares and parks throughout the City, answered 246 utility
calls for service, and issued 125 building permits in our City. This was only possible because of
the exceptional support our staff receives from the community.

In FY24 we intend to continue the high-level of service our residents enjoy. In addition to the
aforementioned efforts already underway, the City will open our new Recreation Center at Glade
and Roberts Road. The newly renovated center will boast a large gymnasium, multiple classrooms
and a teen area. The budget includes funding for staffing the facility within the Colleyville
Economic Development Corporation fund. Additionally, the Parks Department will add three new
staff members to maintain the SH26 medians and the beautification improvements surrounding the
gateways. Finally, FY24 will be the first full year the financial impact of the School Resource
Officer hiring will be evident in the budget. This initiative guarantees a Colleyville police officer
will be patrolling the halls of every public school in our city. Our City Council has made school
safety a top priority.

One of the many lessons we can take from the past few years is that local government holds a
responsibility unlike any other. Of all of the levels of public service that you pay for, we are the
first line, closest to you, and the first to respond. Our programs and services fall within a few miles
of your homes and businesses, and can be seen just outside your windows. Such a responsibility
requires diligence and planning not just for the upcoming year but also for the years beyond. Our

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