With City of Cadiz officials looking to have a second reading of its 2025-26 budget next week, total appropriations are expected to be north of $6.3 million over the next year.
According to documents provided by the Cadiz City Council and outgoing City Clerk Susan Hyde, total revenues and total appropriations will equal a balanced budget worth almost $6.4 million.
Those revenues include $2.5 million in taxes to the General Fund, $950,000 for licensing and permits, charges for service and the water fund should surpass $2.5 million, and more than $400,000 will come through intergovernmental and “other” streams.
Expenditures are expected to involve $2.5 million in general government, including $513,000 in the water fund, more than $1.1 million in the Cadiz Police Department, more than $47,000 in the Cadiz Fire Department, more than $780,000 in the Cadiz Street Department, and more than $1.6 million in the Water and Sewer Departments, as well as another $295,000 for the Sanitation Services.
If this budget holds, it would be one of the larger city ledgers in recent years.
According to WKDZ reporting from 2021, City of Cadiz officials heard and approved a 2021-22 fiscal year budget valued at $10.2 million — with nearly $5 million of that involving excess monies prepared for the construction of the new water treatment plant.
With that in mind, even then, the city’s expected revenue in 2021-22 was an estimated $5.5 million — nearly $1 million less than next year’s projections.
More details will come next week, when the council hears the second reading of the budget during a special-called meeting that has been moved to 4:30 PM Wednesday, June 18.
