The Boulder City Council has unanimously approved an ordinance to adjust the city’s current budget for 2025.

Ordinance 8699, passed Thursday, essentially allows the city to move around $11.6 million in its budget, known as adjustments-to-base (ATB). Mid-year adjustments such as these are common to address emerging needs, city staffers said in a memo to the council.

The city will appropriate $2.5 million to a pair of transportation improvements. A portion of the 28th Street Improvement Project from Valmont Road to Iris Avenue has incurred about $1.5 million “due to existing private utility relocations taking longer than expected,” according to the memo.

“Xcel Gas and Power lines have been relocated, along with Comcast, Century Link (Lumen), Zayo, AT&T Fiber and Telecom Lines. While the relocation of these facilities is not a city expense, the city has paid for relocation coordination, traffic control, stormwater control and perform some demolition and removal work to accommodate the removals,” the memo reads.

A one-time grant funding of $947,400 from the Colorado Department of Transportation will go toward Highway Safety Improvement Program traffic signal upgrades due to cost escalations. Those increases are tied to price hikes for traffic signal equipment, poles and technology.

The memo also highlights three projects under a “Public Safety and Response” section to receive a collective $1.95 million.

About $1.45 million of that money will go toward the renewal of “an existing emergency medical services contract with American Medical Rescue for living wage implementation.” A quarter of a million dollars will go to replacing an aging fire engine at Fire Station 7 on 55th Street south of Arapahoe Avenue. Finally, $251,500 of operating funds will facilitate purchasing and upfitting police vehicles.

In all, approximately $354,000 is being appropriated to police-related services. That includes $204,517 for what’s listed as “A Coordinated Response to Homelessness Grant.”

The city is also appropriating $925,000 in funds to the renovation and redesign of Tom Watson Park next to Coot Lake in the northeastern area of Boulder.

Also noted in the memo is that $155,000 will go to capital maintenance needs and infrastructure replacement. The two projects singled out in the memo are: $115,000 for a renovation at the city’s radio shop and radio tower electrical service upgrades, and $40,000 to address maintenance issues with the fire suppression system at the Alpine-Balsam garage.