Ord 43-2025 Adopt FY26 Budget 09/02/2025 ORDINANCE NO. 43-2025
Ordinance adopting the annual budget for the fiscal year beginning
October 1, 2025, and ending September 30, 2026, and appropriating
the various amounts thereof
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 , 2025 and
ending September 30, 2026, as submitted to the City Council by the City Manager, is
$264.2 million for all funds and is $125.0 million for the General fund 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, 2025, and
ending the 30th day of September, 2026.
2. Appropriations are hereby made for such revenues, expenses, and charges for
the fiscal year beginning October 1 , 2025, and ending September 30, 2026, 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: City
Manager $278,000, City Attorney $232,140, Municipal Court Judge $159,270, and City
Clerk $121 ,900. The Mayor is hereby authorized to execute an amended employment
agreement with the 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 2nd day of September, 2025.
--MAYOR
ATTEST:
OaAL 1
City Clerk