I4. 2024 Preliminary Budget
City of Kalispell
Post Office Box 1997 - Kalispell, Montana 59903-1997
Telephone (406) 758-7000 Fax - (406) 758-7758
REPORT TO: Doug Russell, City Manager
FROM: Aimee Cooke, Finance Director
SUBJECT: Fiscal Year 2024 Preliminary Budget
MEETING DATE: June 19, 2023
BACKGROUND: The Process of budget setting and approval requires the preparation and
publication of a preliminary budget for consideration by the council and the public. The preliminary
budget has now been produced by city staff, presented to the council, and published on the website.
The council discussed the preliminary budget at the May 8 and 15, 2023 work sessions. Staff is
requesting the council call for a public hearing and approve the expenditure of funds within the fiscal
year 2024 preliminary budget for salaries, maintenance, operation, and projects until the final budget
is adopted.
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RECOMMENDATION: Council make a motion to authorize the expenditure of funds from
the Fiscal Year 2024 preliminary budget necessary for day-to-day operations of the city and
schedule a public hearing for Monday, July 3, 2023.
ATTACHMENT: Notice of Budget Hearing
Link to Preliminary Budget
NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING
Notice is hereby given that the City Council of the City of Kalispell has reviewed the Preliminary
Budget for the 2023-2024 fiscal year and said budget is open to inspection in the Finance Office and
on the City’s website at www.kalispell.com/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/232.
The City Council will meet on Monday, July 3, 2023, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers at
City Hall to conduct a formal Budget Hearing and transact regular business. Anyone may appear to
express concerns regarding the budget. The hearing may be continued from day to day as required.
On August 21, 2023, at 7:00 p.m., in the City Council Chambers at City Hall, the City Council will
meet to adopt the final budget and fix tax levies. For more information please contact the City Clerk
at 758-7756 or at City Hall, 201 1st Avenue East, Kalispell, MT 59901.
Done by order of the City Council of the City of Kalispell, Montana on the 19th day of June, 2023.
______________________________ Aimee Brunckhorst, CMC
City Clerk
Publish: June 25, 2023
July 2, 2023