The City Council unanimously approved a $6.3 million budget for fiscal 1994-95.
Mayor Daniel Riley said the budget is 7.3 percent higher than last year’s budget, with most of the increases in salaries and benefits. Taxes will not be raised to cover the costs, Riley said.
The $4.47 million general fund includes a 7 percent raise for police officers, Riley said. The pay hike is part of a three-year agreement, now in its final year that included 5 percent annual raises in the contract’s first two years.
The single-largest budget expenditure is the $1.7 million Police Department budget.
Non-union city employees will receive a 3.5 percent pay raise while the city is still negotiating pay raises for the public works employees.
Riley said the budget also includes $40,000 for a new computer system for the city clerk and the city treasurer; $20,000 will be set aside for a 30-foot wide gazebo to be built at a park near City Hall.
