{"id":30954,"date":"2025-11-24T18:57:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T23:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=30954"},"modified":"2025-11-24T18:57:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T23:57:53","slug":"state-okays-decaturs-2026-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/24\/state-okays-decaturs-2026-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"State okays Decatur&#8217;s 2026 budget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The City of Decatur has a budget for 2026 \u2013 a state approved budget!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are good to go for next year,\u201d city Clerk-Treasurer Eran Hackman told city council at its latest meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hackman had just recently received word from the Department of Local Government Finance (DLGF) that the state agency has approved next year&#8217;s budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"398\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Decatur-flag-1.jpg?resize=640%2C398&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Decatur-flag-1.jpg?w=726&amp;ssl=1 726w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Decatur-flag-1.jpg?resize=300%2C187&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The $12,793.807 budget will bring a tax rate of $1.437 per $100 of assessed valuation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2024 rate was $1.212.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The general fund in the 2026 budget amounts to $7,027,736.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new budget also includes a 3% salary increase for city employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayor Dan Rickord had great praise for Hackman, who moved into the job in May, following the resignation of Kevin Hackman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe came in at a hard time; she took it on like a champ,\u201d the mayor said. \u201cShe deserves a round of applause.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(She got one.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com The City of Decatur has a budget for 2026 \u2013 a state approved budget!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,15,21],"class_list":["post-30954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-featured","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Decatur-flag-1.jpg?fit=726%2C452&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30956,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30954\/revisions\/30956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}