Columbia City Manager to deliver 2025 fiscal year budget message Thursday

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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Columbia City Manager De'Carlon Seewood will deliver the budget message Thursday in City Hall at noon.

The city encourages Columbia residents to attend to learn more about the budgets going into the 2025 fiscal year. There will also be opportunities for people to make public comments at three city council meetings before the budget it adopted, as well as a work session the public can attend.

The work session will be at 2:30 p.m. on July 29. The city hall meetings will be on Monday Aug. 5, Aug. 19 and Tuesday Sept. 3. All of which will be at 7 p.m. in City Hall.

In last year's budget message, the expected to bring in over $62 million in sales tax, with more than $1 million in marijuana-related taxes. Included in that budget was $10 million commitment to employees.

Copies of this upcoming fiscal year's proposed budget will be available for the public to see after 1 p.m. on Monday in the City Hall lobby.

The council will vote on the proposed budget on Sept. 16.