Understanding the City Budget

Annual Budget Banner

The City of Minot drafts a yearly budget months in advance. It takes several hundreds of hours for staff to project, budget, and finalize a draft to present to the City Council for final approval. This page is designed to help Minot residents know the state of the city finances, projects, problems, and solutions.  

2026 Budget Finalized by Minot City Council on October 6, 2025

2026 Budget Summary

2026 Budget Progress at the time of the September 15, 2025 Public Hearing

2026 Budget Progress

2026 President's Recommended Budget:

President Recommended Letter 2025-2026

2026 Preliminary Budget:

2026 Preliminary Budget

2026 City Manager Recommended Budget:

PRESENTATION 2026 CM Budget

2026 Department Budget Video Series:

2025 Herron Palmer organizational structure efficacy project presentation on July 7, 2025

2025-2027 Biennium ND Legislature House Bill 1176

Governor Kelly Armstrong's post-legislative report
2026 Budget Schedule


2025 Annual Budget adopted by Minot City Council on October 7, 2024.


2024 1007 Final - Final impacts

2024 1007 Final - Mill Levy Changes

Information below precedes the 2nd reading of the budget and references the 2025 Proposed Budget.

2025 BUDGET

2025 Budget President's Letter presented to Minot City Council by Council President Mark Jantzer on August 19, 2024:

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Brown & Brown 2025 self-funded benefit renewals presentation at Minot City Council on August 19, 2024:



2025 Proposed Budget document as presented to Minot City Council by City Manager Harold Stewart on July 15, 2024.



City Manager Recommended Budget

Presented on July 15, 2024.

Personnel Pay Plan document




Budget Process Playlist

A new budget topic will be addressed once a month at City Council during the preparation of the 2025 City Budget.

Each department has prepared a budget tour video, click forward to the next video to view the full playlist.


Personnel Pay Plan document

Budget Presentations

Minot City Council and candidates heard initial budget presentations from each city department in early May. Those presented in City Council Chambers are recorded and pinned in the video playlist above. Some presentations took the form of tours at public works, the airport and the library. All slideshow presentations are below.

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