Council budget review continues this week

posted on 4/1/2024

The City Council began its general budget review at its March 27 workshop. The general budget review allows Councilors to ask additional budget questions to the city manager and department heads and begin shaping the budget into its final form.

Council members discussed what aspects they wanted to keep, add, or subtract from the proposed budget. The Council will continue its general budget review at a Wednesday, April 3 workshop, beginning at 7 p.m.

Following the workshop, if the Council is ready, it will call a special meeting to adopt the FY2025 budget. If the Council does not adopt the budget that night, it will do so the following week at its regular meeting on Wednesday, April 10.

Recordings of all budget-related workshops and meetings and all budget-related documents are available on the FY2025 Budget Revealed online resource.

Upcoming budget meetings and workshops

Wednesday, April 3, 7 p.m.
City Council workshop
General budget review
Following the workshop: City Council special meeting for budget adoption

Wednesday, April 10, 7 p.m.
City Council regular meeting
Fallback budget adoption date

Sign up for the Budget Revealed newsletter

The City Manager releases a weekly newsletter, Budget Revealed, which provides a host of information about the FY2025 budget process, including a recap of any budget presentations that week and a preview of what will occur the following week. Sign up for the newsletter here: https://bit.ly/doverdownload. Select "Budget Revealed" from the list of newsletters.

The newsletters are posted to the FY2025 Budget Revealed page once published.