The City of Maryville adopted it's 2025-2026 budget last Tuesday as it enters a new fiscal year.
Speaking at the Sept. 30 budget meeting, City Manager Ryan Heiland said most of the big-ticket items are already underway.
"This is a big year of wrapping up all these grant projects we have,” he told the room.
Those projects include the South Main Street improvements, which the city hopes to complete by the start of 2026, the Main Street Pavilion Project which is going out to construction companies for bidding, and the Pedestrian alleyway project which breaks ground on Oct. 6.
The city is also working on its comprehensive plan, a hotel feasibility study, a number of trail projects, and investments in current and future water treatment infrastructure.
Each year the city creates a set of goals.
"We had a planning session on Aug. 7 establishing the goals we used to develop this budget," Heiland said at the meeting.
As the city carries over major projects, it also opted to carry over last year's goals. Those include completing the South Main Improvement Project, planning for the city's future, and revitalizing the downtown, amongst other initiatives.
The total budget comes in at just over $52 million, roughly $10 million less than last year's budget, when the city spent heavily on capital projects.
