FY 25-26 Final Adopted Budget

INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICE AREA SUMMARY

Budget Highlights: The FY 25-26 Adopted Budget is increasing by $5,500,228, or 1.3% .

During FY 24-25, Parks & Recreation transferred one (1) Senior Planner position and one (1) Parks & Recreation Planning Manager position to the Engineering & Inspections department to create a new Projects division. Additional staff within the Engineering & Inspections department were moved to this new division. During FY 24-25, the Energy budget was transferred from Engineering & Inspections to the Office of Sustainability & Resilience to have a more strategic alignment of resources and operations for energy and sustainability efforts. The FY 25-26 budget includes a decrease in the amount of $3,843,005 and the projected FY 26-27 includes a decrease in the amount of $4,224,687 for this transfer. The FY 25-26 Engineering & Inspections budget includes the delaying of three roof repair projects for one year, equating to a savings of $1,180,000. During FY 24-25, the CrossMax Purple’s ridership increased by 65%. The Transit department received additional grant funding to continue operating the CrossMax Purple for the next three fiscal years. The Hopper Trolley expanded service to include stops at Moses Cone Hospital, Tate St., and Revolution Mill. The Hopper Trolley service will now run March through October, with additional operations during December. The service will continue in FY 25-26. The FY 25-26 GTA budget includes an increase of $450,000 for contracted transportation costs. The FY 25-26 GTA budget includes an increase of $1,050,000 for local match grant support for Transit operations. During FY 24-25, one (1) position, an Administrative Support specialist, was transferred from the Parking budget to the Greensboro Police Department. The FY 25-26 Parking Fund budget includes a reduction of expenses by $1,221,766. The largest reduction includes a reduction of $865,000 in building maintenance and repairs associated with the demolition of the Bellemeade Parking Deck. The Parking fund reduces its transfer to the Parking Facility Capital Reserve fund by $150,000. The FY 25-26 Parking budget includes the elimination of a Part-Time Parking Attendant (0.625) position that is no longer needed due to the demolition of the Bellemeade parking deck. The FY 25-26 Parking budget includes an estimated increase in revenues of $475,000. The current rate increase includes a $3 daily rate at the S. Elm Gravel Lot; a new charge of $1.50.hour at the Elm-Green/Elm McGee Lots; a $3 daily rate at all parking decks on Saturdays; and an hourly parking deck rate increase from $1 to $1.50 at all parking decks. The FY 25-26 Parking budget includes an increase of $159,094 in security contract increases. The fund is projecting a decrease in parking revenues of about $120,000 at the Eugene St. Deck due to long-time parkers now working remotely. During FY 24-25, the Planning department absorbed three (3) positions and one roster position from the Nussbaum Housing Partnership Fund. The positions included a Real Estate Agent, a Planner II, and a Senior Planner. The FY 25-26 Planning budget includes a reduction of $98,000 in M&O. Reductions include consultant services, office supplies, and office furniture lines. The FY 25-26 Solid Waste & Recycling budget includes purchasing two (2) automatic side loader solid waste trucks for $750,000. The department will add two (2) Heavy Equipment Operator FTE’s, as well as $120,000 in M&O dollars, in FY 26-27 to drive the new automatic side loader solid waste trucks. The FY 25-26 Solid Waste & Recycling budget includes an increase in revenues of $1,800,000 by increasing the Solid Waste Household Availability Fee from $3.50 to $5.50, monthly.

Adopted FY 25-26 Budget

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