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To view the Fiscal Year 2025 Annual "Budget Book," click HERE.
Every year, the City budget comes together after each department formulates budgets in three major areas: maintenance & operating; operating initiatives; and capital project requests. Concurrent with departmental budgeting, Finance staff completed the first draft of a salary/benefits budget as well as formulated initial revenue estimates.
The Fiscal Year 2025 process began in spring 2024 with department directors outlining opportunities, accomplishments and challenges as part of efforts to best serve Milton citizens. This analysis – and each department’s proposed budget – was informed by the City’s 2021-2025 Strategic Plan and its 2040 Comprehensive Plan.
From April through August of 2024, City staff shared budget proposals and sought feedback in several public City Council meetings. You can find videos from these meetings on the City Council's YouTube channel. Deputy City Manager Bernadette Harvill presented a draft budget, and in September the City Council approved the budget.
The City's official "Budget Book for Fiscal Year 2025" can be found HERE. In addition to the budget figures, this document contains supporting elements such as information on goals, metrics, and more.
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The Fiscal Year 2025 Budget (as well as that for Fiscal Year 2022, 2023, and 2024) emphasized progress toward implementing the three strategic priorities outlined in the Strategic Plan:
- Sustainability and Resiliency
- Smart Land Planning
- Public Land and Resources
The Finance Department assists the City Manager in the preparation of the City's annual operating and capital improvement budget, which includes holding public hearings on the document.
In order to monitor that the city is in compliance with the adopted budget, the finance director also provides monthly reviews and analysis of the document to actual revenues and expenditures.
Milton's fiscal year runs from Oct. 1 through Sept. 30.