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The city of Graham has filed their proposed budget and are discussing their ad valorem tax rate for 2021-2022, with two public hearings coming up next month regarding the proposed budget and tax rate.
The city of Graham discussed their upcoming and ongoing projects Thursday during their first 2021-2022 budget meeting. The city department projects will have $4.8 million in grant funding, with $1.2 million in earmarked funding and approximately $250,674 used from city tax dollars. City Manager Brandon Anderson presented the list of projects Thursday to the council which were upcoming and ongoing with their associated costs and funding from each city department. “So total in the general fund either ongoing or upcoming projects (are) $4,837,674 of which are earmarked funds, or already dedicated funds, would pay for $1,207,000 and so out of our general fund the only money that we would be paying out of tax dollars would be $250,674,” Anderson said.
The Graham City Council spoke to city department heads Thursday during their first budget meeting and received updates regarding future water projects around the city. The city is planning major water and wastewater projects which are an alternate water line to the city, the replacement of water lines in the older portion of the city and the replacement of the Tackitt lift station. City Manager Brandon Anderson said the city changed their water rates with the intention of generating $400,000-600,000 annually for a reserve fund to eventually set up a crew to start replacing large water lines. He said right now with the larger water lines the city is looking at them being engineered and replaced by an outside contractor.