Good evening and welcome.

Today is Tuesday, June 16th, 2026.

We will be starting with a special council meeting.

Can I get a roll call, please?

All council members are present.

Thank you.

And a waiver motion.

Madam Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to waive the reading in full of all ordinances and resolutions presented for adoption at this meeting.

Second.

Cash your votes, please.

Six in favor of the motion.

Motion carries.

Thank you.

Item two.

Item number two.

This is a public hearing.

Discussion and possible action in accordance with ARS 42-17105.

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 2026-2027.

Final budget for the City of Bullhead City, Arizona is adopted.

This is a once in a year opportunity for us when we adopt the final budget.

So we've gone through a lot of processes, which our finance director will talk to us about.

So the citizens uh raised it to 2% sales tax.

Again, the city does not collect a property tax.

Um this is a budget that's based on that 2% sales tax, but also based on revenues that we receive from grants.

That's why we spend a lot of time and energy going after grants.

We also uh share in state shared revenue, so the state sales tax that is collected, we receive a portion of that based on population.

We also receive a portion of what is her for gas tax.

So when you pay at the pump, a little bit of that comes to all the ninety-one cities and towns in Arizona.

And then income tax.

Income tax we uh pay uh goes to the state.

Some of that is remitted back to the cities.

Now last year the state actually changed that formulary and it did uh create a small uh decrease in the income tax revenue line item for the city.

In addition to that, we do have some fees for services like parking at community park or a court fee or whatever those other fees may be, but that is a very small portion of our budget.

Most of it comes from those state share revenues and the two percent city sales tax.

So that's the revenue side.

I'm gonna turn it over to our finance director to talk about the expenditure side.

Thank you, City Manager Cotter.

Uh Mayor, Council.

This is the final adoption of the city's fiscal year 2026-27 budget beginning July 1st and ending June 30th, 2027.

Staff begins preparing the budget in November with department meetings with the management team in January and final budget meetings with departments in March.

Council held an all-day work session on the budget on April 20th.

Every department presented their line item budget to council.

This meeting was open to the public and can be viewed on the city's website along with all the other city council meetings and workshops.

This is a balanced budget with sufficient resources to cover all expenditures.

The total budgeted expenditures from all funds is 199 million, 750,000 and 36 dollars.

The general fund is 50 million five hundred and twenty-four thousand.

Of that, public safety is over 23 million, so almost half of the general fund.

In the special revenue funds, those are about 32 million dollars, and that includes transit, MPO, housing, water impost, pest abatement, and several other funds.

Of that $16 million is slated for potential grant projects if the grants are received.

The capital project funds are over $31 million, including $16 million for the City Center Improvement District, and almost $10 million in road projects.

The enterprise funds, which include water and wastewater, is over around $68 million with capital improvements for wastewater of $26 million and water capital improvements of $11 million.

And then finally, there is the internal service front funds, which are nearly $11 million.

I stand for any questions you may have, or we can open it to the public hearing.

Do we have any council members that have anything?

No.

Okay.

Anybody in the public want to come up and comment regarding the budget?

Now is your chance.

So we can close the public hearing.

If you look at your agenda, you'll see those two items.