CRESTVIEW — An expected revenue spike allows the city to implement a budget with a 20.65 percent increase in operating expenditures over last year, city officials said.
The City Council has unanimously approved the $35 million 2016-17 budget it has hashed out with department heads over the last several months.
Councilmen praised directors for working to control spending while meeting residents’ needs.
“I think they've done a great job on the budget,” Councilman Shannon Hayes said. “We haven't raised taxes on our citizens. And we've accomplished everything we need to do for the year. And we've taken care of our employees to make their salaries more competitive with other cities.”
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Councilman JB Whitten said the resultant budget represents cooperation among city officials.
“What we have is not exactly what I sought when I suggested we tier the (city employee salary) increases,” Whitten said. “That caused some problems, but between the city clerk and the department heads, we wound up with what I'd call a very good compromise, which is something you have to do in government, and I commend them on that.”
Councilman Bill Cox on Monday moved to accept the budget, as prepared, and send it to the first of two September public hearings before it is implemented Oct. 1.
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BY THE NUMBERS
The Crestview City Council approved this 2016-17 budget at Monday’s council meeting. (For comparison, figures from the 2015-16 budget are in parenthesis):
REVENUES
●Estimated revenues: $28.14 million ($24.9 million)
●Transfers in: $641,788 ($158,280)
●Cash carry forward/reserves: $6.3 million ($4.5 million)
●Total revenues: $35.08 million (29.6 million)
EXPENDITURES
●General services: $11.25 million ($10.76 million)
●Public safety: $9.12 million ($7.53 million)
●Physical environment: $8.7 million ($6.63 million)
●Transportation: $1.89 million ($1.36 million)
●Culture and recreation: $1.4 million ($1.2 million)
●Debt service: $2 million ($487,847)
●Total expenditures: $34.44 million ($29.43 million)
●Transfers out: $641,788 ($158,280)
●Total appropriated expenditures and reserves: $35.1 million ($29.6 million)
Source: Crestview City Clerk
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BUDGET HEARINGS
Crestview’s budget will go through two public hearings before it’s implemented Oct. 1. Hearings are at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 8 and 22 at City Hall.
The Crestview City Council approved this 2016-17 budget at Monday’s council meeting. (For comparison, figures from the 2015-16 budget are in parenthesis):
REVENUES
●Estimated revenues: $28.14 million ($24.9 million)
●Transfers in: $641,788 ($158,280)
●Cash carry forward/reserves: $6.3 million ($4.5 million)
●Total revenues: $35.08 million (29.6 million)
EXPENDITURES
●General services: $11.25 million ($10.76 million)
●Public safety: $9.12 million ($7.53 million)
●Physical environment: $8.7 million ($6.63 million)
●Transportation: $1.89 million ($1.36 million)
●Culture and recreation: $1.4 million ($1.2 million)
●Debt service: $2 million ($487,847)
●Total expenditures: $34.44 million ($29.43 million)
●Transfers out: $641,788 ($158,280)
●Total appropriated expenditures and reserves: $35.1 million ($29.6 million)
Source: Crestview City Clerk
BY THE NUMBERS
This article originally appeared on Crestview News Bulletin: Crestview Council eyes $35 million budget