The Sedalia City Council finalized the city’s budget for Fiscal Year 2027 at their meeting Monday evening, restoring the city’s contributions to employee health savings accounts.

The vote comes two weeks after the council moved to cut the city’s $100 monthly contribution in half, in an effort to stem a projected budget deficit. City administrator Matthew Wirt says the council responded to employee objections raised during a meeting of the finance committee Mar. 11.
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Wirt explains how the city turned their projections from a deficit spend of $40,000 into a net surplus of about $2300.

Also Monday night, the council passed their final budget amendments for the current fiscal year, which ends Mar. 31, and approved a fourth change order for the Washington Avenue Bridge project, after more severe corrosion was found on a column section. The council also approved a re-platting for the 600 block of North Park and North Stewart avenues, which now contains 12 residential lots instead of seven.