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The Berryville City Council briefly discussed the city’s proposed 2025 budget at the council’s regular meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 3.
The council is expected to vote on the proposed spending plan at its next meeting, scheduled for Dec. 17.
The budget presented to council members projects the city’s total estimated revenues for 2025 at $12,670,000, with total appropriations of $12,272,600.
In response to a question from council member Jason Williams, city administrative assistant Jay Lee said there are no significant changes from the city’s 2024 budget.
“You will notice a couple of salary line items that are going to be different than last year, some of them actually even down from last year,” Lee said. “That is either high turnover within a department where we’re lower on pay scales than what we were, or in some departments like building inspector, we no longer have the code enforcement officer. So that that was taken out of the building inspector’s budget.”
After some discussion about the city not having a code enforcement officer, Mayor Tim McKinney suggested that the building inspector might be able to handle some of the code enforcement duties if other city personnel could assist with the clerical functions related to code enforcement.
In his mayoral comments at the end of the meeting, McKinney said parking issues on the city square are an ongoing challenge, with merchants and their employees taking up spots meant for customers.
“They’re pulling up right beside the sign that says two hour parking 8 to 5 and staying there all day long,” McKinney said. “Our only option may be to start writing some parking tickets. We really want people to support our downtown merchants, but when they come they need a place to park. We’re doing everything we can to help the situation. … But, you know, if we’re not going to get cooperation from the merchants and owners themselves, I don’t know what we can do other than write tickets and just let it go.”
The next regular meeting of the Berryville City Council is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 17, at City Hall.
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