The Gossips of Rivertown: Crafting the 2026 Budget

Sunday, September 28, 2025

Crafting the 2026 Budget

The process that results in the 2026 city budget begins this week, with departments presenting their proposed budgets to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment (BEA), made up of the mayor, the Common Council president, and the city treasurer. The following is the schedule of BEA meetings this week. According to the city calendar, the meetings will be hybrid. Click on the department name for the link to join the meeting remotely.

Monday, September 29

2:30 p.m.--City Clerk and Common Council
3:30 p.m.--Code Enforcement

Wednesday, October 1

2:30 p.m.--Legal
3:00 p.m.--Mayor's Office
3:30 p.m.--Assessor

Friday, October 3

2:30 p.m.--Youth Department
3:30 p.m.--Fire Department

1 comment:

BILLSeptember 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
It will be interesting to see if the Code Enforcement Budget is able to climb over $300,000 this year. DPW and HPD budgets are typically in the $5-6 million range, while the CEO lingers around $250,000, or about 5% of the big boys. 4 CEO employees, 3 of them part-time, and they don't even have $300,000 to spend on enforcing or updating the code! Half of their budget is spent on salary and wages.
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