Glendale Adopts New Budget

After a month of study sessions and rhetoric, the City Council has adopted a budget for the coming fiscal year in the city of Glendale.

The general fund spending figure is about $161 million, $10 million more than last year. The overall city budget, including utilities and all funds, amounts to $679 million.

The council still has some heavy money talks ahead, with the planned discussion at the end of the month over spending of $17 million in capital funds adopted as part of the budget. The talks will include decisions on the future location of the Montrose Library, the proposal for the city to buy Rockhaven Sanitarium, and the future of the Mountain Oaks property.

The new budget, the second year of a two-year spending program, includes a net increase of 10 jobs in the general fund, plus five in other funds, bringing the city total to 1,986.

The biggest change from the preliminary budget came with the addition of the cost figure for the renewed Beeline service, amounting to $1.5 million.

The council also approved a transfer of water and power revenue into the general fund. The transfer amounts to $4.1 million in water revenue and $17.7 million from the power fund.

—By Charles Cooper