Source note: The agenda supplied is a June 12, 2025 cancellation notice for the Parks and Recreation Commission, while the accompanying transcript records a Bullhead City Council special budget meeting followed by a regular council meeting. The transcript identifies the meeting date as Tuesday, June 17, 2025, at 5:30 p.m. and 5:45 p.m.; this summary uses the required June 18, 2025 date and follows the transcript. No minutes were available.
All six council members were present, Vice Mayor Alfonso presided, and all roll-call votes reported were 6-0 in favor.
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Today is Tuesday, June seventeenth, two thousand twenty-five. It's five thirty PM, and uh we will uh be going through a special council meeting uh before we go to our regular general meeting, which will be at five forty five. Can I have a roll call, please? All council members are present. Very good. Thank you. Can I have a waiver motion? Yes, uh Vice Mayor Alfonso. I have motion to waive the reading in full of all ordinances and resolutions presented for adoption at this meeting. Go ahead and vote. Can I have a second, please? Thank you. Thank you. Six in favor of the motion. Motion carries. Next item. Next item is a public hearing discussion on possible action in accordance with ARS 42-17104. Now is the time for any taxpayer to appear and be heard in favor or against any of the proposed expenditures before the fiscal year 2025-2026 final budget for the Bullhead City, Arizona is adopted as adopted. Vice Mayor Alfonso and Council members, good evening. Uh our annual tradition is having a special budget meeting this time of the year before our regular city council meeting. Uh tonight, our finance director, Robert Drexler will give a very brief summary. Council has spent uh many hours going through our line item budget. As you know, we do not collect a property tax, so our revenues are basically generated from local sales tax, state shared revenue, which is your gas tax, income tax, and state sales tax, along with a variety of of smaller funds uh that we enjoy and receive uh throughout the year. So uh with that, I'll turn it over to our finance director, Mr. Drexler. Happy to answer any questions that you or the public may have. Thank you, City Manager Cotter. Uh, a couple of things I wanted to highlight. Uh so we have a balanced budget with total expenditures up to uh 193 million eighty-seven thousand three hundred and sixty-three dollars. The general fund expenditures are fifty million five hundred eighty thousand five hundred and seventeen dollars. Uh we have over twenty-three million dollars for public safety. We have over twenty million dollars in the budget for streets and flood control. Uh other capital projects, we have thirty-one million dollars in capital utility projects, uh, finishing the animal shelter, the next phase of the community center, and one and a half million dollars in various park projects. As the city manager said, we've spent the last few months going over and through all the line items. The over 650 page document that we've been reviewing is on the city's website under the finance budget reports. Uh also there is a link to an interactive budget website and the state schedules that we're required to submit uh to the state. I stand for any questions. Anyone have any questions? Anyone in the public have any questions? Okay, then I'll take a motion. Vice Mayor Fonso, I do have one comment. Um I just want to say I've spent many hours going over the budget again this year. I have to say another good job by department heads and city management. It's very important to the livelihoods of people who live here that Bullet City stands on solid financial ground. StaffY 2526 budget delivers with surety. As we proceed into the new fiscal year, I want to place an emphasis on top quality workmanship throughout all the projects we undertake. We're building infrastructure that future generations will rely upon and amenities that will improve quality of life. This is a good budget, and I will be voting to approve. With that, I will make a motion to approve.