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City of Atchison answers budget concerns

By Brian Hagen

07/13/2025

(KAIR)--The City of Atchison, on Wednesday of last week, announced the scheduling of a special, budget-focused meeting at City Hall, Monday afternoon at 4:30; then, late Saturday afternoon the City issued a statement to provides answers to numerous questions posed by the public, with many residents taking to social media to do just that.

The City's Saturday statement explained that the special session "is the first step in the City's official budgeting process for the 2026 budget year," adding that the meeting has two purposes, with both required by Kansas law.

The first, the statement says, is "to set a self-imposed ceiling for the City's 2026 budget," with the statement clarifying that "ceiling is NOT the final budget number, but rather a cap that the final budget MUST fall under."

The second reason for the session is "to set a public hearing date for the final budget, which must be approved before September 20th," with the release saying that the likely date for that hearing is September 8th, pending the outcome of the special session.

Prior to the final budget public hearing in September, the release explains, "there will be a number of other mandatory public steps the City will complete, and City staff will also continue to hold budget workshops with the Commissioners with the goal of creating a final budget for 2026 that is both sufficient and reasonable."

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