During a special meeting June 30, the Fallon City Council voted to increase the city’s fiscal-year budget by nearly $5 million, using unanticipated grants, tax revenue and available cash to raise spending authority across several city funds.
The council adopted the increases through two resolutions under a state law that allows local governments to augment their budgets when actual resources exceed earlier estimates.
The larger measure, Resolution No. 26-06-01, adds $2.97 million to the general fund, with most of the increase coming from a larger-than-expected opening fund balance.
The resolution also adds $800,000 in federal grant funding to the airport fund, $316,150 to the Convention and Tourism Authority Fund from occupancy tax revenue, state grants and other income, $15,000 to the Convention Center Fund and $15,430 to the Mayor’s Youth Fund.
The changes increase the general fund’s total budgeted resources from $16.04 million to $19.01 million for fiscal year 2025-26, according to the resolution.
The second measure, Resolution No. 26-06-03, adds $877,000 across seven enterprise and internal-service funds used for city utilities and administrative operations.
The resolution adds $234,000 to the Electric Fund, $169,000 each to the Sanitation and Landfill funds, $100,000 to the Water Treatment Reserve Fund, $95,000 to the Public Works Internal Service Fund, $80,000 to the Water Fund and $30,000 to the Data Processing Internal Service Fund.
Council members Kelly Frost and Karla Kent approved Resolution No. 26-06-03 unanimously. Councilman James Harmon and Mayor Ken Tedford were absent from the special meeting.
City Clerk-Treasurer Michael O’Neill presented both resolutions to the council. He also gave a discussion-only report on transfers made between departments and programs within several funds.
Unlike the budget augmentations, the transfers do not change the total amount budgeted within a fund. The city may make those transfers during the year without a council vote, but they must still be reported to the council under state law.
The report included a $170,000 reduction in the general fund support normally transferred to the Electric Fund, offset by increases elsewhere in the utility’s budget.
Smaller transfers were also made among the police, fire, parks and other city departments. Those changes did not alter the general fund’s total budget of $14.33 million.
City staff said the resolutions and transfer report will be forwarded to the Nevada Department of Taxation as required.
Fallon City Council meets the first and third Tuesday at 9 a.m. at Fallon City Hall. For more information and meeting agendas, visit fallon-nv.municodemeetings.com.
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