What: Amendments to the fiscal year 2026-2027 operations budget (Ordinance 14379) and capital budget (Ordinance 14380) that appropriate money from General Fund reserves.
Where it stands: Ordinances 14416 (operations) and 14417 (capital) passed first reading on 2026-10-27. The revised agenda for 2026-11-03 lists final reading, appropriating $29,321,000 from General Fund reserves, of which $26,439,000 goes to capital.
Next: The outcome of the 2026-11-03 vote is unknown; the minutes are not yet posted.
Details
Chip Henderson chairs the Budget and Finance committee. Finance Officer Weston Porter appears in the 2026-09-01 minutes.
The titles of Ordinances 14416 and 14417 were truncated in the record read; the dollar figures come from the 2026-11-03 agenda.
Sources
Council minutes of 2026-10-27
Revised council agenda for 2026-11-03 (saved 2026-11-02)
The Budget and Finance Committee settled its package for the amendment: funding for the Police Service Center (see Police Service Center Remediation and Expansion), a tiered employee holiday bonus (about $2.3 million versus $3.6 million flat, excluding elected officials), a $250,000 university endowment contribution, $235,000 for a learning academy to restore two classrooms by the end of October, and $250,000 each for the Bessie Smith Cultural Center and another arts group, reallocated from the economic development fund balance. A public hearing was set for October 20 and first reading for October 27. Figures are as captioned.