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Fiscal Year 2026-27 Legislative Intents Review

At a glance

  • What: The Council's annual review of legislative intents (formal requests the Council makes of the Administration) and interim study items, added to the pending list last reviewed in April 2026.
  • Where it stands: Reviewed at the June 9, 2026 work session by consensus of Council Members, with no formal votes. Three new intents were agreed; several older ones were closed and the rest kept open.
  • Status: Resolved for the Fiscal Year 2026-27 cycle; open items carry forward.

Detail

Allison Rowland introduced the review and walked through each item with Council Members and staff.

New intents agreed:

  • Performance benchmarks for UTA ridership (Community and Neighborhoods Department).
  • Citywide communications guiding principles, standards and a department baseline assessment (Information Management Services), with identification of cost savings, efficiencies and definitions of success.
  • Multiple recycling and yard waste can fees (Sustainability Department).

Closed or changed:

  • Attorney pay parity (FY24): close and continue.
  • Don't Block the Box (FY26): ongoing evaluation, incorporate into street reconstruction, more enforcement during special events.
  • Youth and Family Program Streamlining (FY23): close, with a request to review the department's strategic plan.
  • Push carts and other mobile vendors report (FY27): kept open, expanded to any mobile service, with information on state legislation.
  • Zero-based budgeting policy goals (FY25): close, and review the Public Lands strategic capital, acquisition and asset management plan before completion.
  • Reducing business license fees for push carts (part of the FY25 Consolidated Fee Schedules intent): staff recommended close and complete; sidewalk and lane closure fees stay open.

Kept open on staff recommendation: street bonds funding options, diversified response team efficiencies, neighborhood district signs, maintenance of business districts, privacy ordinance, Council Member compensation, Legal Defenders Association, and rotating outside audits of each department.

Sources

Log

2026-06-09 - City Council Work Session

Review of existing and requested intents; three new intents agreed, several closed, the rest kept open. Related budget follow-up: Fiscal Year 2026-27 Budget Unresolved Items.