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COUNCIL STAFF REPORT
CITY COUNCIL of SALT LAKE CITY
TO:City Council Members
FROM: Jennifer Bruno, Lehua Weaver,
DATE: October 7, 2025
RE: FY 2026 Budget Amendment #2
PROJECT TIMELINE:
ISSUE AT-A-GLANCE
Budget Amendment #2 includes 34 proposed amendments, including $71,326,282 in revenues and
$137,008,677 in expenditures, including $913,000 from the General Fund. The amendment proposes changes in
15 funds and adds 4.0 FTE’s. One is related to a proposed reclassification in Police and three pertain to the Utah
Office of Victims of Crime grant for the Prosecutor’s Office. With the adoption of Budget Amendment #2, the
available fund balance will be 12.71 percent of the FY 2026 Adopted Budget. If the items are adopted as
proposed, then Fund Balance would be $1,498,933 below the 13% minimum target.
As indicated by the Administration, a revenue update and projection will be provided with Budget Amendment
#3. No updates or modifications from the FY26 Adopted Budget are proposed at this time. Finance staff will be
preparing a revised revenue forecast with the close of September revenues, which will be made available in late
October. Updated Fund Balance numbers and percentages can be found on the table on page 2 of this report.
STRAW POLL REQUESTS
The Administration has requested straw polls for the following items:
1.A-2 National League of Cities Summit Costs
2.A-6 Modification of Appointed Position in Police Department
Updated Fund Balance Chart
The table below presents updated Fund Balance numbers and percentages based on the proposed changes
included in Budget Amendment #2.
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ADDITIONAL & BACKGROUND INFORMATION
A-1: Youth & Family Funding Due to Loss of Grant. (General Fund One-time $350,000)
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This one-time allocation from Fund Balance would sustain current service levels and programming for three
middle school programs—in Glendale, Central City, and Rose Park—after the loss of the Teen Afterschool
Prevention (TAP) grant, from the State Department of Workforce Services (DWS), for students in grades 7 and
8. The Division has received the grant for the past nine years (three funding cycles) but did not this year because
statewide allocations from the Federal government dropped and DWS shifted its priority to rural areas. The
$350,000 amount also would ensure that the School-Age Quality (SAQ) grant, which funds Youth & Family
programs for elementary school children, will remain in compliance with Child Care Licensing standards.
A-2: National League of Cities Annual Cities Summit Costs (General Fund One-time $300,000)
A-3: Elected Officials Transition Costs (General Fund One-time $45,000)
A-4: 1200 East Median Restoration 300 South to 500 South (CIP Fund – One-time $722,250 and
Impact Fees – One-time $232,470)
-Park Impact Fees: $232,470
-Rescope of FY2024 CIP Complete Streets Funding: $351,000
-FY2025 CIP Irrigation System Replacement Funding: $371,250. NOTE: the 300 South to 400 South
blocks were included in the approved FY2025 CIP application, and this reappropriation extends the
irrigation replacement to 500 South.
This funding will fully fund the $954,720 request included in CIP Project #25. The separate CIP application
requesting public art for this area is not included in this proposed funding. If approved, construction will occur
in 2026 or 2027.
A-5: Modification of Appointed Position at Police (General Fund – Ongoing $0)
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The Administration is requesting a modification to an appointed position in the Police Department. Specifically,
the proposal updates the title of the Communications Administrative Director to Civilian Chief of Staff.
Additionally, the job description will be updated.
A-6: Reclassification of Police Appointed Position to 2.0 FTEs (General Fund – ongoing $0)
(1)Communications Coordinator – Social Media Content
(2)Communications Coordinator – Communications Specialist
A-7: Utah Inland Port Authority Funding - Transfer to CIP (CIP Fund – One-time $180,000)
In accordance with the relevant donation and funding agreements, the Inland Port has provided $180,000 to the
City to support the expansion of the Trainfo system. These funds need to be transferred to CIP for expenditure.
This marks the second contribution from Inland Port funds toward this initiative. Subject to future actions
under the applicable agreements, additional funding may be available in subsequent years. If received, future
funds will be used to support the system’s expansion and ongoing operational costs, such as software licenses,
maintenance, and repairs.
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A-8: Airgas Funding to Transportation - Transfer to CIP (CIP Fund – One-time $70,000)
To help address ongoing street racing issues in front of their facility, Airgas has provided $70,000 to the City for
street modifications. These funds must be transferred to CIP for expenditure.
The total cost for installing two speed tables is $115,365. The remaining balance will be covered using either
Livable Streets Quick Action funds or Vision Zero funds.
The Administration has previously partnered with other businesses to install similar speed tables on Ninigret
Drive, which have proven effective in deterring street racing.
A-9: Take-Home Vehicle Insurance Policy Premium Adjustment (Government Immunity Fund -
Ongoing $94,791)
The Administration is requesting $94,791 to fund increased insurance premium costs for the Take-Home
Vehicle Program.
When the FY25 budget was adopted, $200,000 was appropriated based on a December 2024 estimate.
However, due to losses incurred between the estimate and the July 1 renewal, the actual premium increased to
$294,791.
The proposed allocation will fund the difference. Additionally, this will represent an ongoing cost to the
Government Immunity Fund. There may be continued increases to the premium, however, without actual data,
it’s difficult to confirm whether there will be a continued increase, but it is dependent on the necessary use of the
policy. In Fiscal Year 2027 the policy will be re-evaluated.
Safety programs are being implemented throughout the City to mitigate the risk of accidents relating to take
home city vehicles.
A-10: CBIA-25 Budget (Misc. Special Revenue Fund - Ongoing $2,500,000)
In April 2025, the Council adopted an ordinance re-establishing the Central Business Improvement Assessment
Area (CBIA-25) for an additional three-year term. Due to the timing of the adoption, the budget was unable to be
set during the City’s annual budgeting process.
The Administration requests $2.5 million to support the special assessment in its first year. The total amount
recognizes both the estimated revenue and expenses based on what the City has raised since the establishment
of CBIA-25.
Most of these funds will be paid to the contractor responsible for economic promotion. Additionally, $151,200
will be allocated for the City’s administrative fee. $185,630 will be held in a reserve account.
A-11: Assistance for Airport Federal Partners Due to Government Shutdown (Airport Fund One-
time $100,000)
Due to the federal government shutdown that began on October 1st, the Administration is requesting
authorization to use $100,000 in existing Airport funds to purchase food, household supplies, and gas cards to
support Transportation Security Administration (TSA) personnel at the airport. These employees are expected to
continue working without pay during the shutdown. The Council may recall a similar request made in 2019,
when assistance was also provided to support our TSA partners. With the recent expansion of the airport and an
increase in passenger traffic at security checkpoints, the need for support is even greater. Based on guidance
from legal counsel, the Administration is seeking City Council approval and endorsement of using existing funds
in this way; no new funds are being requested.
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Section B: Grants for Existing Staff Resources
None
None
The Department of Economic Development (DED) requests that the remaining Construction Mitigation Fund
balance of $168,000 be carried from FY25 Budget Amendment #5 to FY26. The Council allocated $270,000 as
part of Budget Amendment #5 in FY25, and DED deployed $102,000 to impacted businesses before the end of
FY25. The remaining $168,000 is anticipated to support 56 additional grants of $3000 to qualifying businesses
impacted by specific construction sites.
The Construction Mitigation Grant Program aims to help retain businesses during critical and necessary
infrastructure upgrades.
As part of FY26, the Council approved $350,000 for the program. This $168,000 amount would be in addition
to the previous allocation.
IMS is requesting to use $159,414 to bring 22 positions within cybersecurity, system engineering, project
management, data privacy, and directors of technology services up to the market rate for FY26, as recommended
in the 2025 Citizens’ Compensation Advisory Committee (CCAC) report. The allocation is proposed to come
from IMS's fund balance.
IMS has requested to carry forward $2,241,881 from their FY25 budget to cover expenses and contracts that
were funded but not fully paid in FY25. These include office equipment and software expenses where the
transaction timing did not align with the City's fiscal year.
The ongoing expense has been moved from the Mayor's Office to IMS to reflect IMS's management of contracts
with language access service providers and translation assistance. The Mayor's Office decrease was reflected in
the FY26 budget, but the corresponding increase was omitted. This amendment corrects that omission. No
decrease or disruption in translation service access is anticipated.
This is a budget carry-forward to pay outstanding financial obligations that were encumbered in FY25 and will
be paid in FY26. Rather than representing a single project amount, the total reflects equipment purchases
totaling $437,666 (mostly related to care for the greens and surrounding areas) plus $519,476 in facility
improvements and repairs. The four largest individual expenses are:
Bonneville Range Fence $158,435
Forest Dale Roof $131,430
Mountain Dell Stairs $123,971
Forest Dale Simulators $105,900
TOTAL $519,476
D-6: Green Bike Expansion (CIP Fund – One-time $608,290)
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UDOT has awarded the City $608,290 in federal funding to support the expansion of the Green Bike Program.
The City is required to provide a local match of $44,172. This funding will support the addition of approximately
nine new Green Bike stations, which will include bicycles.
D-7: Interest on General Obligation and Sales Tax Bonds CIP Fund One-time $6,355,027)
D-8: Fleet Fund Budget Carry Forward (Fleet Fund One-time $13,202,498)
D-9: CIP Holding Account Release for Security Services (CIP Fund – One-time $414,753)
1.Washington Square Safety Enhancement Project – Cultural Landscape Report and
Implementation Design
Total: $380,000
Cultural Landscape Report – $80,000
The Use and Conservancy Board provided Mayor Mendenhall a recommendation to perform a
Cultural Landscape Report, estimated to cost $80,000. The report will ensure that any proposed
security enhancements are context-sensitive and preserve the site's historic integrity.
Project Implementation Design Phase – $300,000
The design plans will integrate vehicle ramming mitigation measures into Washington Square’s
aesthetic and culturally significant layout.
2.Wireless Door Release System
Total: $34,753.24
Several departments have requested wireless door release systems. The system will allow employees to
remotely unlock secured doors via a computer and/or phone application. The intent is to reduce face-to-
face interactions in unpredictable situations. The wireless door release system will increase employee
safety and reduce confrontational incidents.
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D-10: Public Utilities Budget Carry Forward (Water Fund One-time $66,849,851, Sewer Fund
one-time $12,083,142, Storm Water Fund one-time $7,349,551, Street Lighting Fund one-time
$1,327,234)
The request also includes funding associated with the Department’s Bond Anticipation Notes (BANs), Series
2025B, for which the Council adopted a parameters resolution for during its Sept. 2 formal meeting. As a
reminder, the BANs are intended to finance the acquisition of property for the department’s future campus.
This housekeeping budget amendment for the Department of Public Utilities would carry forward funding for
items from the FY25 budget. These items include grant proceeds, capital purchases, and projects that were in
process during the prior fiscal year but were not completed by the end of FY25.
The request also includes funding associated with the department's Bond Anticipation Notes (BANs), Series
2025B, for which the Council adopted a parameters resolution during its Sept. 2 formal meeting. The BANs are
intended to finance the acquisition of property for the department's future campus.
Public Utilities indicated that the $50 million BANs and associated issuance costs will initially be fully accounted
for in the department's Water Fund, which explains the high total amount in the Water Fund. The department
intends to evaluate the allocation of these funds to determine the appropriate distribution across other funds.
Upon a clear definition of the allocation, Public Utilities will prepare the necessary budget changes in a future
budget amendment or in its FY27 budget.
Replacement funding for the City’s Volunteers of America (VOA) contract was inadvertently left out of the
FY26 budget deliberations when the City’s State Mitigation Grant funding was shifted to PD-related items for
FY26. The Housing Stability Division in CAN (the Community and Neighborhoods Department) used $100,500
of FY25 Funding Our Future funds to pay this contract for the first three months of FY26. The remainder of the
amount needed to keep this item budget-neutral, $301,500, is proposed to come from not-yet-contracted FY26
Funding Our Future funds from the Tenant Housing Assistance budget.
The VOA contract pays for street outreach and the salary of a Safety and Community Liaison for the Homeless
Resource Centers (HRCs). The Liaison conducts outreach to businesses and residents near the HRCs to address
concerns related to homelessness. In future years, CAN proposes splitting this item into two separate contracts,
one of $240,627 for VOA and the other of $60,873 for Shelter the Homeless. This would facilitate shifting the
Liaison position from VOA to Shelter the Homeless, which provides services (like maintaining building systems
and security) that are more closely related to the core responsibilities of the Liaison. The Liaison’s coverage area
would grow to include a half-mile radius around the HRCs, the Youth Resource Center, the YWCA, the Weigand
Homeless Resource Center, and St. Vincent de Paul. CAN further requests that in the future this function be paid
by the General Fund.
Council Policy Question. Does the Council agree with the Administration’s proposal to shift
$301,500 from the Tenant Housing Assistance budget to cover the FY26 VOA contract?
The Sustainability Department is requesting $9,350,559 for the Refuse Fund annual encumbrance balance carry
forward budget. Budget is required to pay the outstanding financial obligations that have been obligated and
carried forward from FY25 to FY26.
The majority of this amount (approximately $8.9 million) is for fleet vehicles for the Waste & Recycling Division.
Broken out by division, $9,142,905 is for Sustainability’s Waste & Recycling Division and $207,654 for the
Environment & Energy Division.
D-13: CIP Housekeeping (CIP Fund – One-time $678,600 and $3,900,000)
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FY2025 Parks Impact Fees – Revenue and Expenditure Adjustment
In the FY2025 Adopted Budget, Parks Impact Fee revenue was under reported by $678,600. While sufficient
impact fees existed, the funds were not recognized as a revenue or expenditure in the Council Key Changes
approved in June 2024; however, the funds were allocated in the August 2024 approval. This Budget
Amendment increases the revenue by that amount to reflect the correct total. These funds have already been
allocated to the Fairmont Park basketball court project. This amendment formally recognizes both the revenue
and associated expenditure in the budget.
Two corrections are needed for how funds from the Fleet Block property sale were budgeted in FY2025:
1. The funds should have been transferred from the CIP Surplus Land Fund (Fund 3039) to the CIP
General Fund (Fund 3000).
2. The expenditure was incorrectly treated as a project rescope rather than a new appropriation from the
Surplus Land Fund Balance.
This Budget Amendment corrects both issues by transferring the funds appropriately and establishing the
correct expenditure amount of $3,900,000 within Fund 3000.
UDOT has awarded the City $608,290 in federal funding to support the expansion of the Green Bike Program.
The City is required to provide a local match of $44,172. This funding will support the addition of approximately
nine new Green Bike stations, which will include bicycles.
The UDOT funds are currently held in the Miscellaneous Grants Fund and must be transferred to CIP for
expenditure.
CAN was notified recently of an error in HUD’s calculation of 2023 and 2024 HOME-ARP awards. The City did
not include funding contingencies in the HOME-ARP awards at the time because no change was anticipated in
the amount. The Department proposes allocating this additional $5,284 to the Asian Association of Utah, which
received the highest score in this category in the category of Tenant-Based Rental Assistance.
CAN was notified recently that Salt Lake City’s FY26 HOPWA award is $26,832 over what was projected earlier.
Per the contingencies approved in the Department’s estimated award amount, the Division of Housing Stability
will receive an additional $804 for administration of these funds. Then, since the two HOPWA funding
recipients both received more than their requested amounts for FY26, the Division proposes the remaining
$26,028 be allocated to the highest-scoring of the two awardees, Utah Community Action. The organization has
confirmed that the additional funds will allow them to serve approximately five more households with short-
term rent or mortgage assistance, utility assistance, and/or supportive services.
None
Section G: Council Consent Agenda – Grant Awards
G-1: VOCA Grant Victim Services for the Prosecutor' s Office (Misc Grants – One-time $596,025)
The Salt Lake City Prosecutor's Office applied for and received a Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) grant. This grant is for
two years. The funded items include: 1) Fully funding an existing victim advocate. 2) The Prosecutor's office will hire
two additional Victim Advocates and will pay 100% of their salary and benefits. 3) Funding for mental health
workshops for victims. 4) Funding for travel and training for staff. 5) Emergency funds for victims and finally, 6)
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Funding for the VSTracking software license to track statistics. The job posting for the two additional Victim
Advocates will indicate the funding limitations, and that the positions could be removed should no funding be
obtained after the two -year period. The public hearing was held April 15, 2025.
G-2: VOCA Grant Victim Services Police Department (Misc Grants – One-time $256,518)
The Salt Lake City Police Department applied for and received a VOCA grant. This grant is for two years. This
grant will pay for existing Victim Advocates. The grant has also provided funding for the previous year’s Victim
Advocate costs. The total funded per year is $128,259 of which $105,468 is salary and $22,791 is benefits for
part time victim advocates. The positions have been previously funded by the grant and if this grant is not
renewed in future years, the positions will not be able to continue. The public hearing was held May 20, 2025
G-3: Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (Misc Grants – One-time $579,834)
G-4: Bureau of Emergency Medical Service (BEMS) (Misc Grants – One-time $9,029)
G-5 SFSP Summer Food Service Program Summer 2025 (Misc Grants – One-time $6,500)
G-6: School-Age Program State of Utah, Department of Workforce Services (Misc Grants – One-
time $1,368,000)
G-7: Salt Lake County YAGI Grant (Misc Grants – One-time $33,900)
Section I: Council Added Items
None
ATTACHMENTS
1. New Ongoing Costs to the General Fund
2. Civilian Chief of Staff Job Description
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3. Internal Affairs Director Job Description
ACRONYMS
BEMS – Bureau of Emergency Service
CAFR – Comprehensive Annual Financial Report
CAN – Department of Community & Neighborhoods
FTE – Full time Employee / Equivalent
FY – Fiscal Year
HOME – ARP – The HOME Investment Partnerships American Rescue Plan Program
HOPWA – Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS
HUD – Housing & Urban Development
GF – General Fund
IMS – Information Management Services
OST – Out of School Time
SFSP –Summer Food Service Program
VOCA – Victims of Crime Act
VSTRACKING – Victim Services Tracking Software
YAGI – Youth Advocacy Grant Initiative
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Attachment 1: New Ongoing Costs to the General Fund
Council staff has provided the following list of potential new ongoing costs to the General Fund. Many of these
are new FTE’s approved during this fiscal year’s budget amendments, noting that each new FTE increases the
City’s annual budget costs if positions are added to the staffing document. Note that some items in the table
below are partially or fully funded by grants. If a grant continues to be awarded to the City in future years, then
there may not be a cost to the General Fund but grant funding is not guaranteed year-over-year.
Budget
Amendment Item
Potential Cost to
FY2026 Annual
Budget
Full
Time
Employ
ee
(FTEs)
Notes
BAM#2
D-3 IMS Fund Budget Carry
Forward
$159,414 Ongoing
-0-CCAC recommended
funding for multiple
departments to address
compensation for
positions lagging
behind market rate.
Changes & funding
weren’t included in
annual budget.
D-4 Language Access Transfer
from Mayor’s Office $50,000 Ongoing -0-
Contract language
access services funding
was inadvertently left
out of IMS budget when
it was transferred from
Mayor’s to IMS during
the annual budget.
TOTAL $209,414
Attachment 2: Civilian Chief of Staff Job Description
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Attachment 3: Internal Affairs Director Job Description
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