Evansville City Council to Vote on $494 Million Spending Plan

Tonight, the Evansville City Council will discuss and possibly approve Mayor Stephanie Terry’s 2025 budget. The budget has grown by over $15 million from the spending plan for 2024 and will impact every city service.

The City Council will still look at making changes to the spending plan. For example, Missy Mosby plans to provide more funding available to the City Animal Control Center with an amendment that will stop the city from creating a new position for a person to be dedicated to assisting the City Council members and move the funds to pay the salary to the budget for Animal Control. Councilwoman Mosby hopes city residents will speak up at the meeting to convince the rest of the council to fund improvements at the center. The budget, as submitted, provides $1.1 million to fund Animal Control.

Here are the five city departments with the most significant budgets:

1. Evansville Water and Sewer Utility $266 million
2. Evansville Police $49. Million
3. Evansville Fire Department $42 million
4. Department of Metropolitan Development $25 million
5. Parks and Recreation $17 million

The entire proposed budget document is available online at www.evansvillegov.org/egov/documents/1724332992_87311.pdf