Pell City, Alabama

Overview

The City of Pell City's FY2027 General Fund budget, as adopted in Resolution No. 2026-151, totals $40,497,320 in revenues and $38,494,575 in expenditures, for an excess of revenues over expenditures of $2,002,745. The ten departments in the resolution's General Fund summary re-add exactly to the $38,494,575 expenditure total (see the sum check in Sources & notes). Per the city's official September 29, 2026 post, this is the first budget under City Manager Tim Kurzejeski; it includes a two-step 6.3% pay increase, about $80,000 in health-premium absorption, and $5.8M in appropriations for the school system and local partners. The post also projects a General Fund balance of $37.8M by year's end — that $37.8M is a PROJECTION from the post, not an adopted figure, and this page does not present it as one.

Source: Resolution No. 2026-151, General Fund Budget Summary, FY 2026–27 Adopted column (p. 7); official city post via pellcity.gov/news.

At a glance

Source: Resolution No. 2026-151, p. 7; adoption via pellcity.gov agendas, minutes & ordinances.

FY2027 budget

General Fund summary, FY2027 Adopted, from the resolution's General Fund Budget Summary (p. 7). The revenue-minus-expenditures identity holds exactly: $40,497,320 − $38,494,575 = $2,002,745.

Departments, FY2027 Adopted. Shares are of total General Fund expenditures ($38,494,575), and the ten department figures sum exactly to that total.

Police context: the Police figure of $8,282,530 is about $1.5M — $1,463,650, about 21% — above the 2026 APPROVED Police budget of $6,818,880 ($8,282,530 − $6,818,880 = $1,463,650). That comparison is against the 2026 approved budget, not against any amended figure.

Water/Sewer Fund 50 — labeled fund total only: $16,113,140 for FY2026–27 Adopted. This is one fund's total, not an all-funds total, and it is never added to the General Fund figures above.

FY2026 column — for contrast only, NOT FY2027 figures: the same resolution summary's FY2026 column shows revenues $39,288,877 and expenditures $34,842,057. Those are a different fiscal year's figures and are never presented as FY2027 figures.

Source: Resolution No. 2026-151, General Fund Budget Summary (p. 7); Police detail p. 18; official city post via pellcity.gov/news.

Context & gaps

• No meetings section: no meetings section is included, and no meeting text appears beyond the adoption-meeting disclosure in the basis notice above — no official recurring meeting pattern was verified in the build sources, and meetings are not sourced from third-party coverage.
• No vote count: no September 28, 2026 Council minutes were found (2026 minutes folder listed only January, February, and June dates at check time), so no vote count is reported; adoption rests on Resolution No. 2026-151 plus its page-3 certification.
• No all-funds total: the resolution presents funds separately and states no single all-funds grand total, so none is shown or guessed.
• No livability, housing, schools, neighbor-comparison, or officials sections: no verified datasets for those sections were in the build sources for this unit, so none are shown and none are estimated or substituted.
• No widgets: no tax-dollar calculator, sales-tax tracker, or other widget is included, because no verified inputs for one were in the build sources. The tables above are single small tables with no table-search widget.
• No hero photo: no candidate photo met the exact-Pell-City plus photographer-and-license verification standard on its source page, so none was substituted.
• Neutral theme: no verified jurisdiction palette was established for this unit, so this page uses the neutral Hometown Numbers dark-glass theme rather than a jurisdiction color.

Sources & notes

• Source used: City of Pell City Resolution No. 2026-151 (45 pages), adopting the FY2027 budget — General Fund Budget Summary, FY 2026–27 Adopted column, p. 7; Police detail p. 18. Found under Ordinances > 2026 at pellcity.gov agendas, minutes & ordinances.
• Adoption confirmed: “ADOPTED AND APPROVED this the 28th day of September 2026,” signed W. Judge Alverson (Council President), attested Sheree D. Pruitt (City Clerk); p. 3 certification: duly adopted at a regularly scheduled council meeting September 28, 2026, posted September 29, 2026. Official post “FY 2027 Budget: City Manager Kurzejeski's First Budget Puts City Employees First,” posted September 29, 2026, via pellcity.gov/news. Note: pell-city.com redirects to the current official site pellcity.gov.
• Sum checks (exact, no rounding gap): departments $38,494,575 = total General Fund expenditures $38,494,575; revenues $40,497,320 − expenditures $38,494,575 = excess $2,002,745; Police $6,818,880 + $1,463,650 = $8,282,530.
• Key correction (repeated, do not drop): $38,494,575 is total General Fund expenditures, NOT a Police total. Police is $8,282,530.
• FY2026 figures (repeated, do not drop): revenues $39,288,877 / expenditures $34,842,057 are the FY2026 column of the same summary — a different year, never FY2027 figures.
• Projection label (repeated, do not drop): the $37.8M General Fund balance by year's end is a PROJECTION from the city's September 29, 2026 post, not an adopted figure.
• Identity: this is the City of Pell City, Alabama. Pelham and Talladega are different cities; no material from them was used. No Georgia material was used.
• Jurisdiction palette: no verified palette was established for this jurisdiction, so this page uses the neutral Hometown Numbers dark-glass theme rather than a jurisdiction color.
• Photo: no hero photo is shown — no candidate photo met the exact-place plus photographer-and-license verification standard on its source page, so none was substituted.

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