(The Center Square) — Various budget amendments are up for final passage on this week’s Shreveport City Council agenda.
The city council is meeting this week to discuss multiple pieces of legislation on the regular agenda and administrative conference agenda. Of those items are two ordinances pertaining to 2025 budgets.
Ordinance 50 amends the 2025 General Fund budget for Property Standards. According to the fact sheet prepared, property standards has spent 90% of its contractual services fund, which goes to grass cutting, securing structures and taking care of premises. The report notes the spending reached 90% by early June. The department also spent all of its other charges funds for demolitions.
The source of funding for the increase would come from sales tax revenue. The proposed increase amount is $900,000.
“This may not be enough to get them through all of 2025, but should be adequate until we have a better picture of sales tax trends for the year,” noted the fact sheet.
Ordinance 51 outlines additional funding received from the Louisiana Housing Corporation. The city received $100,000 from Emergency Solution Grant funds dedicated to supportive services activities. The ordinance would adjust the Community Development Special Revenue funds budget.
Other items on the agenda for discussion in final reading include repealing different sections of the Code of Ordinances and one zoning case.
Under new business that cannot be adopted before July 8, the council will hear three new zoning cases and potentially introduce an ordinance amending previous legislation concerning blighted and abandoned properties.
The council will also vote on introducing Ordinance 57, which seeks to amend the 2025 Capital Improvements Budget for the police substations projects. The additional funding, if approved, would come from interest earnings on the 2021 bond proceeds. The amount is estimated to be $1.5 million.
The three new substations in the city will cost around $6 million.
