Colorado Springs City Council gave the final approval Tuesday for the city’s 2025 budget.

The final budget covers $941 million in city expenses and revenue next year, including $438 million in spending for the city’s general fund. Colorado Springs’ budget has increased from the $900 million budget passed for 2024 but is still down from the billion dollar budget the city had in 2023.

The new budget continues some of the reductions the city enacted last year to deal with financial crunches, including limiting new department spending and keeping several unfilled positions open. To balance the budget, the city will end up pulling $3.9 million from its reserves.

Budget increases planned for 2025 are largely going to the Colorado Springs Police Department. The budget adds 20 sworn officer positions to the department’s authorized staffing and three civilian members of the department.

Police officers and firefighters will receive a 2% pay increase next year in the final budget and civilian employees will receive an average pay increase of 2%.

In a statement Tuesday, Mayor Yemi Mobolade said the final budget addressed “the most pressing needs of our residents including public safety, city cleanup, and issues surrounding homelessness.”

The final budget enacted by the City Council is around $2 million above the preliminary budget Mobolade presented in October. The Trails, Open Space and Parks Fund added more than $4 million in budgeted trail projects during the council review.

At the same time, the council reduced how much the city spent from its reserves by cutting an increase to its insurance claims reserves and reducing the city payment to the workers’ compensation fund.

The City Council voted 8-1 to pass the budget on its second reading Tuesday with council member Dave Donelson as the vote against. Donelson had previously and unsuccessfully attempted to add money to the budget in an attempt to help the Pikes Peak Library District cover the cost of operating the Rockrimmon Library.