Ord 46-2024 Adoption of FY 2025 Annual Budget 09/17/2024 Ordinance No. 46-2024
Ordinance adopting the Annual Budget for the fiscal year beginning
October 1, 2024 and ending September 30, 2025
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WICHITA FALLS,
TEXAS, THAT:
1 . The budget estimate of the revenues and expenses for conducting the affairs of
the City of Wichita Falls for the ensuing year, beginning October 1, 2024 and ending
September 30, 2025, as submitted to the City Council by the City Manager, is hereby
adopted and approved as the budget estimate of all revenues, expenses as well as the
fixed charges against said City for the fiscal year beginning the 1st day of October, 2024,
and ending the 30th day of September, 2025.
2. Appropriations are hereby made for such revenues, expenses, and charges for
the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2024 and ending September 30, 2025, and such
appropriations are to be set up in accounts as submitted to the City Council. Operational
control of the budget shall be exercised at the class (fund) total level within each Fund,
Department, and Budget Unit.
3. The City Manager is authorized to make transfers between items appropriated
to the same office, department, fund or division, where not in contravention of the
Constitution and laws of this State or of the City Charter.
4. The projects, programs and benefits, which are included in this budget and for
which appropriations are herein made, are hereby approved.
5. The salaries for the City Council appointed positions will be as follows: Acting
City Manager $205,000, City Attorney $219,000, Municipal Court Judge $150,255, and
City Clerk $115,000. The Mayor is hereby authorized to execute an amended
employment agreement with the Acting City Manager, City Attorney, Municipal Court
Judge, and City Clerk for the approved salary and existing benefits, with further
authorization to provide benefits and transfer benefit amounts between categories in said
contracts in a manner negotiated thereby. The aforementioned employees shall further
be entitled to such other benefits as provided to the other City employees, as provided in
the budget. To the extent governmental immunity may limit judicial enforcement of said
agreements, immunity is waived.
6. The immediate need to continue the normal operation of the business of the City
creates an emergency, and in order to protect the public health, welfare, and to preserve
the peace, this ordinance shall take effect immediately, and it is so ordained.
PASSED AND APPROVED this the 3rd day of September, 2024.
MAYOR
ATTEST:
City Clerk