A proposed City of Clarksville budget for Fiscal Year 2025-26 – sent by Mayor Joe Pitts for review beginning this week by the City Council – addresses the key priorities of:
- Retaining and recruiting the number of city employees required to deliver vital services.
- Decisively attacking problems with neighborhood flooding that have plagued some areas of Clarksville for decades.
- Keeping up with unsolicited growth in a city that has rapidly become one of the nation’s most popular places of residency.
The new City budget as proposed includes $170,717,506 for the City General Fund.
“Every year I begin by commending our City departments and their leaders for their work, during what can only be described as a year of challenge and opportunity. This year is no different,” Mayor Pitts said in a budget memorandum to the City Council.
“The growth of our city’s population is driving every aspect of our budget, and we are successfully transforming our process from budget-driven goals, to goals-driven budgeting,” Pitts said. “It is a subtle change, but will be evident during the committee meetings and subsequent workshops.”…