The City of Spring Hill was notified late last week that the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget was not approved by the State of Tennessee Comptroller’s Office.
This decision was reached due to the City of Spring Hill providing a Budget Ordinance with incomplete information regarding debt, along with missing information regarding pending/proposed capital projects and their funding sources.
As a result, the City of Spring Hill will now be required to seek approval from the Comptroller prior to the issuance of any debt. This will be done on a case-by-case basis between the State and the City of Spring Hill.
While the missing information is held within the City’s budgeting software, it was erroneously left off the Budget Ordinance submitted to the Comptroller. The Budget Ordinance has since been corrected and will be reviewed by the Spring Hill Board of Mayor and Aldermen at the regularly scheduled August meetings. Following this review, it will then be resubmitted to the State.
The City of Spring Hill is taking the necessary steps to ensure oversights like this do not happen moving forward.
The City of Spring Hill has worked tirelessly throughout this past year to improve upon the yearly budget process, implementing new programs and helping to increase transparency for City residents. In partnering with OpenGov — a technology company that offers cloud software for public sector accounting, planning, and budgeting — residents are able to check in on how the City is budgeting its money through a transparency portal.