The city of Milton’s FY 2016 budget was presented during Wednesday’s city council meeting. The $26.05 million dollar general fund document is based on a millage rate of 4.732 mills, the same as in previous years. It also projects a $4.9 million surplus.

The proposed budget provides for a 2.5 percent raise for all city employees. The spending plan also proposes doing a green print plan and moving ahead with a general obligation bond issue for preserving green space at a cost of $200,000. It also proposes hiring several public safety personnel, including three new paramedics who would go to an understaffed fire station.

The budget also appropriates nearly $7.4 million to the capital improvements fund. City officials are proposing to spend $1.5 million on the city hall construction project and $2 million to acquire future park land.

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Fulton DA Fani Willis (center) with Nathan J. Wade (right), the special prosecutor she hired to manage the Trump case and had a romantic relationship with, at a news conference announcing charges against President-elect Donald Trump and others in Atlanta, Aug. 14, 2023. Georgia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, upheld an appeals court's decision to disqualify Willis from the election interference case against Trump and his allies. (Kenny Holston/New York Times)

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