What: The City's 2027-2028 biennial budget: work sessions, public hearings and the 2027 appropriation and pay plan ordinances.
Where it stands: Council held budget work sessions on September 15, September 22 and October 13, public hearings on October 6 and October 20, and on November 3 passed first reading of the 2027 budget ordinance (Ordinance 162) and the pay plan.
Next: Second readings and the remaining 2027 items; the November 17 Council agenda had no files posted when checked.
Details
Work Session 1: Community Services, Community Development, Housing and Sustainability, and Transportation Services overviews. Work Session 2: Police, Information and Employee Services, Finance, Executive, Legal and Judicial, and Utilities. Work Session 3: follow-up and direction on changes to the adopted budget.
Only agendas were read for the work sessions; no summary memos were posted.
Built from the City's posted agendas, action agendas and (where noted) minutes; large agenda packets were skimmed rather than read in full, so debate and public comment are mostly not recorded.