CITY & COUNTY
News from Pflugerville & Hutto
COMPILED BY CARSON GANONG
Pflugerville City Council Meets Aug. 9 and 23 at 7 p.m. 100 E. Main St., Pflugerville 512-990-6101 www.pflugervilletx.gov Hutto City Council Meets Aug. 18 and Sept. 1 at 7 p.m. 500 W. Live Oak St., Hutto 512-759-9020 www.huttotx.gov MEETINGS WE COVER projections hold, the increased water supply will ensure the city has sufficient water through 2040. HUTTO James Earp, the former assistant city manager in Kyle, is now Hutto’s new city manager. On July 7, City Council selected Earp, and he began his role Aug. 2. He replaces Isaac Turner, who served in the role in the interim since CITY HIGHLIGHTS PFLUGERVILLE City Council approved a contract with the Lower Colorado River Authority on June 28 to increase the city’s maximum water supply allowance from 12,000 acre-feet per year to 24,000. If water demand January. Earp will have 12 months to establish residency in Hutto.
Hutto officials discuss $25 million fiscal year 2022-23 budget
HUTTO Preliminary budget discussions are underway on Hutto’s municipal budget for fiscal year 2022-23. At a July 7 meeting, city staff presented the budget with general revenue totaling $25.43 million, and expenditures totaling $24.98 million, marking increases of 10.53% and 16.64%, respectively, over the current fiscal year’s budget. Personnel services account for just over half of the expenditures at $12.69 million, which is up 7.14% from the current fiscal year, in part due to 15 new full-time positions. “We’re a service industry, so [per- sonnel services are] always going to be the biggest cost,” Chief Financial Officer Angie Rios said. Other significant expenditures include professional services at $5.13 million and materials and supplies at $1.37 million. On the utilities side, the budget projects $17.57 million in revenue and $17.36 million in expenditures, up
36.4% and 11.19%, respectively, from the current fiscal year. At another meeting July 21, council reviewed upcoming water, waste- water and transportation projects totaling nearly $365 million over the next five years. The highest-priority projects include construction of sev- eral new lift stations, pump stations and water lines to improve capacity.
The outlined transportation proj- ects totaled $93.5 million. High-pri- ority projects include improvements at several intersections along FM 1660 and construction of new arterial roads near the megasite. Council will discuss funding strat- egies for those projects at upcoming meetings before its first vote to adopt the budget Sept. 1.
GENERAL EXPENSES
As presented July 7, the fiscal year 2022-23 budget’s general government expenditures break down as follows:
$5,132,658 Professional services $2,626,284 General expenses $2,004,378 Capital outlay $1,371,610 Materials and supplies
$12,693,073 Personnel services
TOTAL: $24.98M
$89,250 Special revenue funds
$1,059,600 Maintenance
SOURCE: CITY OF HUTTO/COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
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