2025 City of Pleasant Hill Budget
FY25 Budget
Overview
The City of Pleasant Hill 2025 fiscal year (FY) began on April 1, 2024 and will end on March 31, 2025. These plans serve as an operations guide for the year.
Operating Budget
The Operating Budget serves as an operations guide for the City throughout the next year. The City utilizes 14 separate and distinct funds through which the operations of the City are conducted.
Capital Improvement Plan (CIP)
While the Operating Budget is a one-year financial plan, the Capital Improvements Plan is a five-year plan. This plan outlines future capital needs of the City. The CIP guides the development of infrastructure, facilities, and equipment for the City.
FY 2024 Budget includes historic investment in capital improvements
The City Council approved a $14.4 budget for fiscal year 2024-2025. The budget provides the framework for the City’s operations and capital investments for the next year and focuses on infrastructure investment as well as planning for future investments. A majority of the improvements will be in the City’s water, wastewater, and roads but investments are made throughout including park improvements and improving the Council Chambers including an audio/visual upgrade.
Parks
Parks are critical to our city’s quality of life and general enjoyment of outdoor spaces. Planned improvements for the park system include: City Lake Campsite improvements including improved RV sites, park shelter improvements, improving the surface of the MoPAC Trail and construction of MoPAC Phase 3 to City Lake, landscaping improvements at Children’s Memorial Park, bleacher and picnic table replacements, an engineering on the City Lake Dam to ensure adequate dam integrity if future repairs are needed, and a replacement pitching machine.
Water and Wastewater
The FY 2025 budget has considerable investments into the City’s water and wastewater system. The City will be investing $3 million in water and wastewater projects, utilizing a combination of revenue sources to fund projects such as: water line replacement, renovations and installation of new pumps at the water pump station, engineering for water line looping to reduce service interruptions, interior and exterior water tower improvements, hydrant and valve replacements, replace aging infrastructure and pumps at the sewer lift stations on Timber Street and Boardman Street.
Roads and Transportation
The budget for the roads and transportation fund totals to $860,000, more than a 22% increase from the prior year's budget. Planning for future improvements, the City has allocated $350,000 for engineering services for improvements to Kellogg St, Walker Street, and Boardman Road. The budget also allocates funding for a stormwater master plan charting plans for future stormwater improvements. The City continues its funding for sidewalk and curb replacements.
Police
The City’s police department operates 24/7 to protect citizens and the community as a whole. The FY 2025 budget focuses on technology modernization. The City will continue to implement a computer aided dispatch system to integrate across the entire county, install mobile data terminals in each vehicle to allow officers to quickly process information on scene, and begin using body cameras. Additionally, the budget provides an allocation for a replacement dispatch desk, a fitness/wellness area for officers, and replacement guns and holsters for officers.
City Facilities
Maintenance of City owned facilities extends the lifespan, has the ability to improve aesthetics, and operates more efficiently. Investments into City Facilities include: Council Chamber Renovation including audio/visual improvements, Cass County Fairgrounds improvements including an expanded rodeo arena and electrical upgrades, City Hall and Memorial Building roof replacements, installation of emergency generators to ensure continuous operations for critical operations like the police department and water/wastewater services, and an allocation for paving of some City Parking Lots.