Auditing Roy
The Ledger's review of Roy's budgets, audits, debt and redevelopment money.
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Background
Auditing Roy: what we're examining and why
The Ledger is reading Roy's budgets, audits, redevelopment documents and fire-district records. Here is what the city's fiscal 2025 audited report and its adopted fiscal 2026-27 budget show.
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- Politics
Roy's redevelopment budget document gives three different figures for reserve use
The agency's posted fiscal 2027 budget lists total spending of $1,593,819 in its narrative and $1,604,405 in its schedules, and three different amounts drawn from fund balance.
- Politics
Roy's budget assumes it keeps its fire department while annexation into Weber Fire District proceeds
Roy's council asked in June to join Weber Fire District. The district's Oct. 1 hearing materials say the annexation is not complete, and Roy's final budget was prepared assuming the city keeps its fire department.
- Politics
Roy's $1.75 million property tax increase goes to voters as Proposition 10
The City Council adopted a smaller tax increase than first advertised, mostly for employee pay. A referendum petition qualified on Oct. 14, and the increase is on the Nov. 3 ballot.