POWAY -- The city of Poway will have to make do with less, although no cutbacks in services or employee layoffs are anticipated in the budget for the 2009-10 fiscal year.

But there will be fewer events, no Poway Days parade and reduced park hours as part of the $33.2 million general fund budget adopted Tuesday by the City Council.

The general fund budget pays for all city services except water, sewage and redevelopment, which are part of Poway's larger $75.4 million budget. Revenue for the general fund has been dropping since the 2006-07 fiscal year. Sales tax revenue this fiscal year in Poway has decreased by $2.8 million and property tax has dropped $610,000, accounting for a budget about $4 million less than last year's.

As part of cutbacks in the new budget, Community Park will close at 11 p.m. instead of midnight on Fridays and Saturdays, and the Meadowbrook gym will be closed for nine weeks during the summer, with some of its programming transferred to the Twin Peaks gym. Some events associated with the city's July Fourth celebration will be reduced, although the fireworks will go on, and the annual Candyland event will be in the daytime instead of night.

The annual Poway Days celebration, cosponsored by the Poway Chamber of Commerce, will not have a parade this year, saving the city $22,560. City Council members said they hope a sponsor or civic group will come forward to organize a parade next year.

Operating hours at the Poway Library also may be affected by the new budget. The city has decided to stop paying the $72,000 annually electricity bill for the library next month and has asked the county to beginning paying the bill, as it does with other libraries.

Reached before the meeting Tuesday, County Library Director Jose Aponte said the county already has assumed $150,000 in staffing and material costs at the Poway Library this year, and it would pick up the electricity tab only if it reduced staffing hours in return.

Friends of the Library representatives are scheduled to meet with county officials Thursday to negotiate the offer.

Revenue in the city had been increasing steadily up to the 2006-07 fiscal year, when taxes on property, sales and other sources brought in about $39 million. Revenue dropped to about $36 million the next year, when expenses were $33.3 million.

In fiscal year 2008-09, revenue was at $33.2 million and is at $31.3 million in the next budget.

The city gets 30 percent of its sales tax revenue from auto dealerships, and two dealership closed in the past two years and a third is in bankruptcy.

Mayor Don Higginson noted that while the cuts were difficult, city staff members have been making adjustments throughout the year to prepare for the new budget. Only two people spoke to the council about the budget cuts, he said, while hundreds of people spoke to other councils as they adopted budgets.

Call staff writer Gary Warth at 760-740-5410.