City Council Work Session
Discussed
- 2Closed Meeting – Boards and Commissions Interviews and Appointments · Council convened a closed meeting to conduct interviews for Boards and Commissions and discuss appointments, per the actions report. No specific appointment outcomes are recorded.watch 252:44
- Boards and Commissions AppointmentsCouncil conducted interviews and discussed appointments to Boards and Commissions in closed session. No specific appointment decisions are recorded in the actions report.
- 1aDiscussion on the Proposed FY26 Budget · Council held a discussion on the proposed FY26 budget. No vote or formal action was taken; the item was a work session presentation and discussion only.watch 0:13
Discussed for 4h 03m · also names Willard Sherwood ×9, Fire Station ×6, Meals Tax ×6, General Fund ×5, George Snyder Trail ×5, Fall Festival ×4 · read the transcript
- FY 2026 BudgetapprovedThe proposed FY26 budget was presented and discussed during the work session. No formal action or vote was recorded.
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Tracked topics the transcript names that no agenda item is filed under. Their own pages and wikis do not yet record this meeting; the passages below are the only trace.
- Meals Tax6 passages, 6m
“…we are maintaining the real estate rate as where it currently is no change to the meals tax we have seen a healthy assessment appreciation some of the other items that are listed there that is sort of the starting point in the basis of what what we did…”
“…project by two years out to FY 28 and that was driven largely by the potential Willard Sherwood project and so the Willard Sherwood facility would change the way that that space is there and a number of other programs so once that project was completed…”
“…more time and last question I wanted to know if we have an update on the PPA for the fire station and or potential for PPA with schools in the school bond”
- General Fund5 passages, 2m
“years so that's where the majority of the overtime happens from the general fund specifically there is some CIP those get charged back to the project that's budgeted in there but to your point councilmember Peterson if the project did not exist we would not…”
“…have been notated or been obvious to people that were not aware of it. I know the softball field. Can you kind of comment on some of the CIP items?”
“…available to defer or yeah defer and then I would say at the beginning of this budget process JC and I worked together to defer the Van Dyke redevelopment project by two years out to FY 28 and that was driven largely by the potential Willard Sherwood…”
- Senior Center4 passages, 2m
“Can I ask a question about the fee for the senior center? because I do think there's a lot of interest and people need to more clarity on why this fee is being proposed, where we are now with that, and sort of the reciprocity agreement between the city and…”
“…planning, the work that we've been doing to implement the comprehensive plan and the small area plans that we've contracted for that work would be eliminated so for example right now we've been working on revisiting the zoning regulations for the activity…”
- Fall Festival4 passages, 2m
“So our landmark events would be the 4th of July, Fall Festival, Chocolate Lovers, those of which we're getting over 10,000 people in attendance. Then we have our kind of mid-tier events, typical Rock the Block, we're looking at 5,000 people. And so we did, we…”
- Stormwater Utility3 passages, 2m
“Currently, the urban forestry program is actually funded by the stormwater utility. Satoshi Ito is here. If you have any questions about how the urban forestry program is funded by the stormwater utility, the enterprise funds, such as the stormwater utility,…”
“…are looking at does not have $3.7 million in repayment funds if we don't build the George Snyder Trail. Is that correct? That's”
“…that I we do have you know control over are the community response team and the Fairfax village in the city and to be honest with you you know I hate to lose the non-profit grant you know I hate to lose some of those kind of things but worked really…”