The Johns Creek City Council has finalized its FY 2016 operating budget at $60.4 million on a 5-0 vote.
The council also adopted two resolutions committing more than 75 percent of its roughly $54 million in revenues, including more than $6 million for future infrastructure projects, $20 million for land acquisition and $7 million toward neighborhood road resurfacing.
The newly approved budget includes more than $2 million in cuts in operations and expenditures. City staffers said the document came out of a new planning process using a 10-year financial forecast model and a scorecard method of prioritizing capital requests.
Among traffic-improvement items tucked into the budget for 2016 are: $5 million for road resurfacing, $750,000 for high traffic/major road resurfacing and traffic improvement projects for several major corridors including McGinnis Ferry, Haynes Bridge and Kimball Bridge roads.
It also folds in funding for four new police officers, four new fire staffers and money for improvements at several city parks.
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