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Personnel Services:                  FY 2024-25 Budget                   $29,396,736
                                                 % of Fund Expenditures                   58.4 %

                                                 Compared to                           $    Growth    % Growth
                                                 FY 2023-24 Budget                      $1,225,342          4.4 %
                                                 FY 2023-24 Projection                  $1,334,038        4.8 %

            As the city is a service organization, personnel services are the single largest expenditure category for
            the  General  Fund  and  includes  the  costs  related  to  salaries,  insurance  and  retirement.  The  budget
            proposes a 2% market adjustment and 2% merit‐based raise for civilian employees, for a total raise of
            up to 4% with a minimum $1,175 merit-based raise. Public safety personnel also include raises in the
            form of market adjustments, merit increases, and changes to some of the public safety step plans in order
            focus on strengthening recruitment and retention efforts. All combined, the adjustments to public safety
            wages results in supervisors within the police and fire departments being eligible for raises of up to 5%,
            detention officers for up to 8%, dispatchers for up to 7%, and sworn police officers and firefighters for up
            to 7%.


            Operations & Maintenance:
                                                 FY 2024-25 Budget                   $3,384,191
                                                 % of Fund Expenditures                    6.7 %
                                                 Compared to                         $    Growth      % Growth

                                                 FY 2023-24 Budget                       $48,530             1.5 %
                                                 FY 2023-24 Projection                  $55,173              1.7 %

            Operations  and  maintenance  expenditures  include  major  categories  of  supplies,  equipment,  street,
            grounds  and  building  maintenance  costs.  In  FY  2024-25,  the  budget  includes  $189,500  for  traffic
            detection equipment.


            Services & other:                    FY 2024-25 Budget                  $10,650,116
                                                 % of Fund Expenditures                  21.2 %

                                                 Compared to                         $    Growth      % Growth
                                                 FY 2023-24 Budget                      $727,713          7.3 %
                                                 FY 2023-24 Projection                $1,207,180         12.8 %


            Services and other expenditures include expenditures for professional and legal services, utilities, liability
            insurance premiums and other general expenditures. For FY 2024-25, the budget includes $450,000 of
            which  $386,850  is  a  one-time  payment  for  the  replacement  of  20-year-old  Public  Works  work  order
            software and $75,000 for additional funding of a dump truck.












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