Ord 2025-036 Adopting an operating budget in the amount of $371,339,935.00 for the fiscal year beginning Oct 1, 2025 and ending Sept. 30, 2026.

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(c) Transfers of funds for construction projects and equipment purchases from operating accounts to Capital Improvements Program accounts; (d) Reclassification of positions within each department; (e) Decreases in operating accounts in response to decreases in City revenues or other circumstances, where the decreases do not result in a transfer of funds to another account; and (f) Transfers of positions within an operating fund as long as full-time equivalencies (FTE's) are not increased within the fund. SECTION 4. All projects for Fiscal Year 2025-2026 described in the Capital Improvements Program section of the 2025-2026 Annual Budget are approved in the amount of $114,815,000, subject to the availability of funding of project costs from the funding source(s) identified for each project. SECTION 5. The Annual Program of Services for the Hotel Occupancy Tax Fund in the 2025-2026 Annual Budget is approved as the City's promotional program to attract tourists and convention registrants to the City through: (a) The promotion of sports and ecological activities that promote tourism in the City; (b) The operation of the Main Street Program to encourage tourists and convention registrants to visit the Downtown Historical District; (c) The funding of historical restoration and preservation programs that promote tourism in the City; (d) The funding of art-related programs that promote tourism in the City; (e) The dedication of funding for a conference center constructed by the City; (f) One or more cost-sharing contracts for advertising program services with private firms to attract visitors to the City; and (g) The operation of the Convention and Visitors Bureau and related advertising and promotion of the City to attract visitors to the City. SECTION 6. Any surplus hotel occupancy tax funds at the end of the 2025-2026 fiscal year may be deposited in the City Conference Center Debt Reserve Fund. SECTION 7. The City Council approves the Authorized Personnel Schedule attached as Exhibit A. SECTION S. If any word, phrase, clause, sentence, or paragraph of this ordinance is held to be unconstitutional or invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the other provisions of this ordinance will continue in force if they can be given effect without the invalid portion.