The city of Marthasville has approved a $1.5 million budget for its next fiscal year, including $710,000 for major city projects. Income for the city is projected to be $935,000.
The 2021-2022 …
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The city of Marthasville has approved a $1.5 million budget for its next fiscal year, including $710,000 for major city projects. Income for the city is projected to be $935,000.
The 2021-2022 budget was approved with a 3-0 from the board of aldermen on June 16, with Nick Lange absent. Mayor David Lange said installation of a new city well, water tank and water lines is the city government’s main priority for the next budget year, which runs from July to next June.
“That’s going to be the major project this year, and hopefully it will be done during this fiscal year,” Lange commented.
Marthasville has $60,000 budgeted for engineering and $200,000 budgeted for construction on the project in the 2021-2022 year. Contractors are already installing part of a new water line north of the city, but land acquisition and engineering still need to be finalized for the main well and water tank, Lange said.
“We’re just going to keep plugging away until it’s done,” he commented.
The roughly $870,000 that isn’t dedicated to major projects is split between city staff, daily operating costs, facility maintenance and money set aside for equipment purchases.
Marthasville has $20,000 budgeted to finish park improvements at Rusche Park. Another $150,000 is set aside for improvements at various other parks, including a basketball court under construction at City Park and a planned RV campground at Wessel Park.
Lange said the city won’t proceed with the Wessel RV park until it finds out whether it’s receiving a matching funds grant from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Announcements of grant funding should come in October, he said.
Also included in the to-do list for park improvements is a splash pad in the downtown area, a project that’s had funding set aside for several years but hasn’t yet been initiated.
$200,000 in Marthasville’s budget is set aside for street paving projects. Several streets have been identified as being in rough shape and in need of repaving, Lange said, but the board of aldermen hasn’t yet determined when or what order the streets will be done in. The mayor expressed concern that the projects might be delayed because paving companies are too busy elsewhere to take work in Marthasville.
Marthasville also has $30,000 budgeted for improvements to its sewer system and $50,000 allocated to improvements for stormwater drainage.
Marthasville’s planned expenses exceed revenues by about $637,000 for the next year. The city is starting this fiscal year with $1.8 million in the bank, and if Marthasville spends every single dollar it has budgeted, it will have about $1.2 million left next June.
Lange said that’s an unlikely scenario, as some budgeted projects or spending almost always gets held back or delayed until the next year. But even if the entire budget is spent, Lange said that will be a sign that the city government is working as intended.
“We’re trying to do projects and spend down some of these big funds, instead of acting like a savings and loan,” Lange commented. “But the budget is a guideline. It doesn’t mean you have to spend that money.”
