Item 25 - Public Hearing - Fiscal Year 2025-26 City Budget

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These workforce changes include full-time position additions, deletions, and reclassifications. The workforce increases and changes enable City departments to continue operating at near capacity while enhancing service delivery across key areas. The FY25-26 budget includes a net increase of seven (7) full-time authorized positions compared to FY24- 25. This increase reflects the City’s continued strategic investments in key service areas such as community engagement, rental registry support, housing assistance, youth programming, code enforcement, public safety, and development review. The largest increases are in Planning & Building, where staff increases are primarily attributed to the expansion of code enforcement services to address the rise in service-related calls within commercial enforcement. In the Police Department, the newly added positions provide increased support for criminal investigations and emergency responses. The decrease in Public Works is due to the elimination of six ARPA-funded positions and the reallocation of several others, including three employees who have since transitioned into other vacant roles within the City. In FY 2024-25, the City provided six months of one-time funding, set to end on June 30, 2025, to support employees in positions previously funded by the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), which are no longer eligible for ARPA funding after December 31, 2024. *In FY23-24, the City changed its methodology for calculating full-time headcount. All full-time headcount is now calculated based on authorized positions, regardless of funding status. 46