The mayor said that money should be saved.

“Each of these budget amendments takes money out of the contingency reserve fund,” Stothert said in her veto statement. “Unexpected revenue should be saved, not spent.”

The city’s bond ratings already have been downgraded, and Stothert said bond raters will be looking closely at the city’s reserve funds when they’re considering another rating adjustment.

At the end of 2014 the city is projected to have $7.1 million in its two reserve funds.

Under the mayor’s plan, the city would put an additional $1.1 million into reserve. That would bring those reserves to $8.25 million at the end of 2015, said Steve Curtiss, the city’s finance director.

If the budget passed by the council were put into place, the city would have a little less than $8 million in reserve.

Stothert said the council’s changes to the budget were “minimal.”

“We worked on my budget for almost a year,” she said. “I feel like it’s fiscally sound.”

Stothert considered vetoing the council’s addition of eight police officers in 2015.