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FY2025/26 budget funds demolition equipment and two Solid Waste operators
The council unanimously adopted the FY2025/26 budget, which the City's release said included "a new Dangerous Structure Removal Team." The budget book lists $715,000 in the Solid Waste Disposal Improvement Fund for the initial equipment of a dangerous structure demolition program (excavator, haul truck and trailer, roll-off truck and two roll-off containers), two new Solid Waste Equipment Operator positions and one Dangerous Structure Specialist in the City Marshal's Office. It raised solid waste rates 26.1% for commercial and 3.8% for residential customers, citing the program among other costs, and budgeted $330,000 for demolition of condemned property in the City Marshal's general fund budget.[1][2]
What the sources say
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The City's release on the unanimous adoption of the FY2025/26 budget lists "a new Dangerous Structure Removal Team" among the budget highlights. [1]
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The FY2025/26 budget book lists $715,000 in the Solid Waste Disposal Improvement Fund for "Equipment for Dangerous Structure Demolition Program," described as the initial purchase of an excavator, haul truck and trailer, roll-off truck and two 20-cubic-yard roll-off containers (budget book p. 882). [2]
- Equipment budget
- $715,000
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The FY2025/26 staffing changes include 2.0 new Solid Waste Equipment Operator positions in Solid Waste and 1.0 Dangerous Structure Specialist in the City Marshal's Office (budget book p. 18). [2]
- ⚠ Sources differ
Accounts of the program's start-up funding describe it differently.
Reported value 1[2]
- Value
- $715,000 for equipment
The budget book's capital line for equipment alone; the two operator positions are listed separately with no dollar figure attached.
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The adopted budget raised solid waste rates 26.1% for commercial and 3.8% for residential customers "for equipment and personnel associated with a dangerous structure removal program," landfill capital projects and engineering, and residential dumpster replacement costs; the one-family residential fee rose from $24.18 to $25.10 a month. The budget does not say how much of the increase goes to the demolition program. [2][5]
- Commercial increase
- 26.1%
- Residential increase
- 3.8%
- Residential monthly before
- $24
- Residential monthly after
- $25
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In the City Marshal's general fund budget (business unit 1690), the "Demolition Condemned Property" account (67110) was budgeted at $130,000 for FY2024/25 and $330,000 for FY2025/26. The FY2026/27 budget book reports FY2024/25 actual spending of $155,989 in that account, a FY2025/26 revised estimate of $81,890.80 and a FY2026/27 budget of $330,000. The FY2023/24 actual is printed as a net credit of $35,208. [2][6]
- Fy2025 budget
- $130,000
- Fy2025 actual
- $155,989
- Fy2026 budget
- $330,000
- Fy2026 revised estimate
- $81,891
- Fy2027 budget
- $330,000
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Demolition of condemned property was also paid from federal grant funds in the Community Development budget's Code Enforcement unit (20115): $116,029 in FY2021/22, $206,670 in FY2022/23 and $174,479 in FY2023/24 (actuals), with $200,000 budgeted for FY2024/25 and nothing for FY2025/26. The FY2026/27 book reports FY2024/25 actual spending there of $14,955. The budget books do not say how many structures these amounts covered. [2][6]
- Fy2022 actual
- $116,029
- Fy2023 actual
- $206,670
- Fy2024 actual
- $174,479
- Fy2025 budget
- $200,000
- Fy2025 actual
- $14,955
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The FY2025/26 budget book reports for the City Marshal's Dangerous Structures Program in FY2023/24 (actual): 119 dangerous structures identified, 512 unoccupied unsafe buildings inspected, 60 cases presented to the Condemnation Appeals Commission and 70 properties permitted for demolition or rehabilitation. It describes the program as two office staff and one investigator and the commission as six commissioners. [2]
- Structures identified
- 119
- Buildings inspected
- 512
- Cac cases
- 60
- Permitted demolition or rehab
- 70