This one’s a problem. We’re in the middle of 2025. The 2025–2026 budget was passed just last week. That should be the focus. But instead, the city slipped in a mid-year amendment, not to the new budget, but to the one already in progress: the 2024–2025 fiscal year. No breakdown. No justification.
No discussion during the meeting. They just dropped it and moved on. Let’s be clear about something: Yes, cities can amend a budget mid-year if there’s a legitimate need unexpected grants, emergency spending, etc. But here’s the problem: They didn’t amend the 2024–25 budget during the fiscal year. They waited until after the new 2025–26 budget was already passed and then reached backward to revise the current year. That’s not normal governance. That’s cover-up behavior.
What did they change?
🔹 Police Funding
2024–25 Amended: $1.1M (up from $770K)
2025–26: $821,440
👉 That’s a nearly $280K drop.
Why the spike in the current year? Why the sharp drop right after? Because they padded it, then quietly adjusted it to avoid explaining it later.
🔹 Surplus Expenditure
2024–25: $698,642
2025–26: $0
Where did $700K go? No answers. No breakdown. Just erased and rewritten.
🔹 Utility Funds
A $285K ARPA injection into last year’s budget, now gone. $170K drained from reserves this year, no explanation.
Different numbers, same disappearing acts. The Game Plan Is Clear: Overspend one year. Scramble the labels. Then backtrack and doctor the records before anyone catches on. This isn’t budget management. It’s financial theater. They want you distracted. They want you thinking this.
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Whisper One Out.
