The Spanish Fork City Council held a public hearing Tuesday to adjust items within the fiscal year 2023 city budget.

There were no public comments on the budget, but City Manager Seth Perrins discussed changes to the $192 million tentative budget. Perrins said about 19 tweaks have been made to the budget since it was first approved. The city is trying to lower a budget that Perrins, in May, said was significantly higher than years before.

“The biggest change is that we adjusted a lot of the expensive in the capital projects for the electric fund,” he said. “I believe we cut out $2 million.”

Perrins also discussed that some of the city’s expenses have gone down, and a few projects have been eliminated — though he didn’t specify which projects were cut.

The $35 million budgeted general fund is responsible for operating the city and its departments.

Perrins’ presentation showed the general fund is expected to have approximately $868,000 removed for different funds, Perrins is trying to lower that to $750,000.

“We have the ability to adjust this,” he said. “That won’t be hard for me on the budget end. As I continue to work with the directors to make tweaks on the budget, it won’t be the $868,000, it will be $750,000.”

Perrins addressed no other changes to the budget during the meeting, and no action was taken by the council members.

During May’s meeting, Perrins went over the entire budget. The city’s enterprise fund received an operation budget of $55 million, it covers utilities such as power, water and sewer. The fund was also allotted $65 million for capital projects.

The miscellaneous fund will contain approximately $9.4 million in capital project funds and $23 million in other funds.

Scheduled projects for the new fiscal year include the construction of Library Hall, a new sewer treatment plant and Electric Park, located east of Maple Mountain High School. The library and park are scheduled to be completed in 2023 and the sewer treatment plant in 2025.

City employees can also expect improvements to compensation and benefits. The city plans to give market raises to all employees taking effect by the first pay period of the new fiscal year. Raises to part-time employees in critical positions will also be given.

The city’s vehicle purchasing program, that allows the city to set aside money for future vehicle purchases, has budgeted for large vehicle purchases from the Spanish Fork Fire and Ambulance Departments. It’s budgeted to receive four new fire vehicles for approximately $1.4 million and three ambulance vehicles for $67,000.

Perrins said more adjustments will be made to the budget before the council votes on June 21 to approve the official 2023 budget.