The Pacific City Council voted unanimously Monday to pass the City’s 2015 budget of $28,707,889.

“It’s always a good sign that we have a balanced budget to move forward into 2015 and are actually meeting some of the requests and needs of the City,” Mayor Leanne Guier said.

Among the major expenditures of the 2015 budget – which totals about $550,000 less than the 2014 budget – is funding for a new police officer position and the replacement purchase of three new patrol cars for the Pacific Police Department at $50,000 each.

The Public Works Department has also been budgeted funds to pay for two new vehicle replacements to upgrade its fleet.

The budget allocates more money for the City’s 19-plus acres of parks, allowing for an increased mowing schedule during the spring and summer.

“To make it very clear, the budget is a guideline because the revenues projected are not in stone,” City Councilmember Clint Steiger said. “We always go through this, and the first quarter we need to be making budget adjustments. We need to stay on top of our revenues and our expenditures because this is a tight and close budget. It’s very important we stay on top of them. We did a very poor job of doing that a couple of years ago. Luckily enough we came through, but we had some real critical areas.”

Guier said the 2015 budget represents another milestone in the recovery of the City, which faced disincorporation only two years ago.

“I’m so excited we have a whole staff, 100 percent staff, and we’re really moving in a positive direction,” Guier said. “This next year with the people we’ve brought on board, Jack Dodge (Community Development manager) and Lance Newkirk (Public Works manager), I think you’re really going to see some changes and some growth and development in the city.”