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Glendale Council to vote on new budget Tuesday
Parks master plan, new bond authorization also to be discussed
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Glendale City Council will vote Tuesday on the adoption of its final budget for the 2020-21 fiscal year, which begins July 1.
The preliminary budget shows a total budget of $747 million with an operating budget of $444 million, a capital improvement budget of $175 million, a debt service budget of $87 million and a contingency appropriation of $41 million. The revenue budget is $668 million and a total transfers budget of $124 million.
The Council plans to officially adopt its planned property tax levy for the new fiscal year on Tuesday, June 23.
The voting meeting starts at 5:30 p.m. at the Glendale Civic Center, 5750 W. Glenn Drive. Watch the meeting live or later at the city's YouTube channel or Facebook page.
Parks Master Plan
In the Council’s workshop earlier in the day, at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday also at the Civic Center, Council will take the first steps toward revising its Parks and Recreation Master Plan. The Council will hear the preliminary findings from an outside consultant company called GreenPlay, LLC which has done a study on the needs in Glendale’s parks.
Bonds to the ballot?
In the early afternoon workshop, Council will also hear a staff report about the need to ask voters for the authority to issue more general obligation bonds to fund capital projects. During the evening voting meeting, the Council will vote on whether to add the question to the Tuesday, Nov. 3 ballot. The bonds would be paid back with the city’s share of property taxes, but Council is determined not to raise the city’s property tax levy and staff has said in the past that a property tax raise is not needed to pay back these new bonds.
