Fiscal Year 2025 Budget

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The Missoula City Council adopted the FY25 budget on August 19, 2024.  You can view the Mayor's final budget presentation and learn more about property taxes on our main website.

Read the Mayor's Budget Explainer

Budget Introduction

During the May 22 Budget and Finance Committee meeting, staff presented the budget process. Staff provided an overview of municipal budgeting and some of the basic terms involved. This is a great, short document for an introduction to our budget process.

Budget Presentations

Throughout May and June, departments will attend weekly Wednesday City Council Budget and Finance Committee meetings and present their requests for fiscal year 2025. This Engage Missoula page will be updated after each week's department presentations, with links to the summary presentation. For those who wish to diver deeper

Read the Mayor's Budget Explainer

Budget Introduction

During the May 22 Budget and Finance Committee meeting, staff presented the budget process. Staff provided an overview of municipal budgeting and some of the basic terms involved. This is a great, short document for an introduction to our budget process.

Budget Presentations

Throughout May and June, departments will attend weekly Wednesday City Council Budget and Finance Committee meetings and present their requests for fiscal year 2025. This Engage Missoula page will be updated after each week's department presentations, with links to the summary presentation. For those who wish to diver deeper, detailed documents will be posted on our main website for that week's meeting.

Budget Process and Adoption

The City's charter says that the mayor present a budget to City Council. The City Council can adopt amendments to the budget, then adopts the budget and levies the necessary taxes and sets fees. Mayor Davis will be presenting her Executive Budget on August 5. This budget will have the department requests she wants to include.

After the mayor presents her budget, City Council members may submit proposed budget amendments. Council members may want to include department requests not included in the mayor's budget, remove requests that were included in the mayor's budget, or propose other new requests. The Budget and Finance Committee will consider and vote on each proposed amendment during their meetings on August 7 and August 14. City Council will vote on the full amended budget on August 19.

Getting Involved

This project on Engage Missoula will have high-level overviews of the budget and its process. More importantly, the tools on this page provide an interactive space for residents to bring questions for staff or share comments with elected officials, as a supplement to our public meetings.

Engage Missoula Tools

  • Ask a question on this page: submit any questions you have below and your question and the answer will be posted on this page along with your user name.
  • Comments on this page: select the comment tab and choose one of the options. Your comments will be forwarded to Mayor Davis and the City Council.
    • Leave a Comment - for any general comments about the budget.
    • Tell us how we can make the budget process easier - we want our budget process to be as transparent and easy to navigate as possible. If you have any suggestions for how we can improve, please let us know.
  • Subscribe - click the subscribe button to be notified of updates on the budget.

Other Comment Opportunities

  • See our Public Comments Page to find all the ways you can reach your elected officials. This includes meeting participation, email, phone, and online forms.

The Missoula City Council adopted the FY25 budget on August 19, 2024.  You can view the Mayor's final budget presentation and learn more about property taxes on our main website.

  • Diving into Details

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    Mayor Davis presented an overview of her proposed budget on August 5. The new request spreadsheet shows which items Mayor Davis chose to fund and whether the funding source is from taxes or something else. The August 7 Budget and Finance Committee included staff presentations on how to read budget documents, the City’s Community Investment Program, and charts showing where the City’s money goes. Now, City Council will consider Mayor Davis’s budget, review programs, and vote to add or remove items from the budget.

    Department summary presentations are linked in the articles in the news feed on this page. For those who wish to dive deeper, we have department line-item budgets. These spreadsheets show how much departments and programs spend on personnel, training, gas, services, and more. At the end of the line-item spreadsheet for each department, you will find program descriptions. These are snapshots of every activity the City performs, including a description, how it meets our goals, and budget for each. The line-item budget documents, with program descriptions, are linked here for ease of navigation. The City Council will vote to adopt the budget on August 19. Use the tools on this page or our main website to share your thoughts.

    Line-item Budgets & Program Descriptions


    View all detailed budget documents on our main website.

  • Mayor Presents Executive Budget

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    On August 5, Mayor Davis presented her executive budget to the City Council and opened the budget public hearing. You can watch the presentation or read the budget letter for full information. The City Council will discuss the budget and vote to add or remove items at committee meetings on August 7 and 12. The public hearing will remain open until August 19, when City Council will vote to adopt the final budget. You can comment using the tools on this page or on our main website.

  • Public Works and Mobility Budget Presentation

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    The Public Works and Mobility (PWM) department presented their budget requests during the June 12 Budget and Finance Committee meeting. PWM includes street maintenance funded by road district assessments, which appear on property taxes. PWM also includes the City utilities of water, stormwater, and wastewater, each funded by ratepayer fees. PWM also includes an administrative division and the City Cemetery. Please see the links below for more information.

  • Community Planning, Development, and Innovation Budget Presentation

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    The Community Planning, Development, and Innovation (CPDI) department presented their budget requests during the June 5 Budget and Finance Committee meeting. CPDI is the department that handles business licensing, permits, land use planning, housing programs, neighborhoods, climate programs, and code compliance. Please see the links below for more information.

  • Police and Fire Budget Presentations

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    The Missoula Police Department and the Missoula Fire Department presented their budget requests during the May 29 Budget and Finance Committee meeting. Staff also introduced program inventories, a new tool that helps us demonstrate the specific programs all our departments work on year-round. Please see the links below for more information.