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Glendale final $1.48B budget up for approval in June

Traffic speeds down 67th Avenue in Glendale just north of Loop 101. In the capital improvement plan for the fiscal year 2025 includes improvements on 67th from Beardsley Road to Pinnacle Peak Road.

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Teardown work continues of the former Glendale City Hall on May 14. The Downtown Campus Reinvestment Project is included in the citywide Capital Improvement Plan.

(Independent Newsmedia/Richard Smith)

Glendale City Manager Kevin Phelps

(City of Glendale)

Glendale councilwoman Lauren Tolmachoff

(City of Glendale)

The Glendale City Council unanimously approved a $1.48 billion tentative budget for Fiscal Year 2025 on May 14.

The final budget, scheduled to be heard June 11, can decrease from the total approved in the tentative budget but cannot increase.

Glendale does not plan to increase its property tax rate for the ninth straight year. The final property tax levy adoption hearing is slated for June 25.

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