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2026-10-29 - Finance & Personnel Committee Meeting

Summary

Built from the posted minutes and agenda.

  • Budget amendment day for the 2027 budget (2027 Executive Budget).
  • Amendment 1 (Ald. Spiker) passed 5-0: restores Sunday hours at four library branches plus Central, 9 street light positions, a $50,000 electrical worker bonus fund, $750,000 to the Wages Supplement Fund (residency incentive +0.5%), Healthy Rewards Tier 3 to $500, and cuts the Transportation Fund transfer to the Capital Fund by $5 million, replaced with $6 million of borrowing for High Impact Paving.
  • Amendment 2 (add an unfunded Innovation Policy Analyst in the Department of Administration) passed 4-0-1 (Ald. Coggs abstaining); Amendment 3A (partial-year funded analyst) passed 4-0-1; Amendments 4 and 5 (Office of African American Affairs footnotes) passed 5-0; further amendments followed.
  • Result: the proposed 2027 budget rose from $2.261 billion to $2.266 billion; the levy-supported budget from $1.768 billion to $1.773 billion; the levy from $341.412 million to $345.3 million.
  • The budget, the 2027 RACM budget (260654), charter ordinance 260764, ordinance 260748 and resolution 260750 were each referred to the Common Council without recommendation, 5-0.

Agenda

  • Budget amendment day for the 2027 budget (2027 Executive Budget).
  • Amendment 1 (Ald. Spiker) passed 5-0: restores Sunday hours at four library branches plus Central, 9 street light positions, a $50,000 electrical worker bonus fund, $750,000 to the Wages Supplement Fund (residency incentive +0.5%), Healthy Rewards Tier 3 to $500, and cuts the Transportation Fund transfer to the Capital Fund by $5 million, replaced with $6 million of borrowing for High Impact Paving.
  • Amendment 2 (add an unfunded Innovation Policy Analyst in the Department of Administration) passed 4-0-1 (Ald. Coggs abstaining); Amendment 3A (partial-year funded analyst) passed 4-0-1; Amendments 4 and 5 (Office of African American Affairs footnotes) passed 5-0; further amendments followed.
  • Result: the proposed 2027 budget rose from $2.261 billion to $2.266 billion; the levy-supported budget from $1.768 billion to $1.773 billion; the levy from $341.412 million to $345.3 million.
  • The budget, the 2027 RACM budget (260654), charter ordinance 260764, ordinance 260748 and resolution 260750 were each referred to the Common Council without recommendation, 5-0.

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