Based on the June 2025 city financial notes the visitor center has gone over budget by more than $50,000 for fiscal year 2024/25 causing the city to have to cover the overages from another department in order to meet the bottom-line budget numbers legally allowed.

Bisbee Finance Director Keri Bagley said the city cannot use funds from the visitor center fund balance to cover the overage despite net balance of $430,000 in the visitor center reserve fund budget.

Bagley said funds will have to be transferred from another department that did not utilize their complete budget, “for example the transfer may come from the grants budget since that budget was not expended.” She added that yes the….read full story (online subscribers only)