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On agenda setting, councilors agreed that the operational agenda‑team task should be carried out under the city manager or city clerk rather than by a permanently constituted council agenda team. Kurt summarized the practical intent: the city manager would decide who to involve in staff agenda planning and could still invite the mayor, vice mayor or a councilor when appropriate. Councilors discussed whether those agenda‑team sessions should be public or viewable; staff said the meeting could be made available as a view‑only Teams link if council wants broader observation.

Councilors also agreed on a change to the threshold for placing a council‑initiated item onto a future meeting agenda. The current rules allowed two councilors to request an introductory item; the council agreed to raise that threshold and will require at least three councilors to initiate an agenda item that directs staff to conduct additional work. Annette cautioned that staff capacity and the time required to research new requests would still guide whether an item appears immediately or is scheduled later.

A new procedural item won support: adding a short \"executive session report\" to the next open agenda after any closed session. Kurt described the proposal as a brief, broadcastable statement that would note whether council took action in executive session or directed staff to proceed — without revealing privileged legal advice or personnel details. \"It would be executive session report, none — 99% of the time it will be a none,\" Kurt said; council agreed this would give the public clearer notice of outcomes from any closed sessions.

On a high‑visibility language point, councilors debated a line that cites Arizona law and labels the mayor \"the chief executive officer of the city.\" After discussion about how the council‑manager form of government assigns day‑to‑day executive authority to the city manager, the council decided to remove the paragraph's recital from their local rules while leaving state law unaffected. Councilor Fuhrman explained his preference to keep the council‑manager division clear to the public. Several councilors noted the change would not alter statutory law but would reduce public confusion in local rules.

Other edits discussed and adopted by consensus or directed for staff redrafting included removing a specific example reference to the city publication \"City Talk\" from a rule on council‑assigned articles, clarifying public‑comment practices (keeping public forum at regular council meetings and public input on agenda items for council meetings while allowing flexibility for special sessions like budget work sessions), and striking wording that allowed an \"absent councilor\" to trigger reconsideration — instead limiting reconsideration requests to a member of the prevailing side.

Councilors and staff flagged operational follow‑ups: better labeling of multi‑page rule sections for ease of use, a way to provide councilors with access to meeting transcripts/search tools for internal use, and a staff review of how a mayoral emergency proclamation interacts with council authority and state law. Annette and Kurt said they would bring revised ordinance language and a clean draft of the rules back to a future meeting for formal adoption.

Ending: Council asked staff to prepare a clean ordinance and rules packet incorporating the agreed edits for formal consideration at a future meeting. Several items were earmarked for additional legal review and drafting before being placed on a formal ordinance or consent calendar.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Sedona - City Council - Feb 12, 2025","oneSentenceSummary","The Sedona City Council reviewed and approved several edits to its rules of procedure, shifting routine agenda management to the city manager’s office, adding executive‑session reporting to future agendas and raising the threshold for council‑initiated agenda items.","taxTitle","Sedona, Yavapai County, Arizona","taxId",54295,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6693850,"Sedona council narrows FY26 priorities: wildfire and water resiliency rise, tourism and broadband remain",6016,95000,6111000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2292250-d03e8f9769cbbb63748fab0d8656a704&start=95&end=6111","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2292250-d03e8f9769cbbb63748fab0d8656a704/thumbnail_95000.jpg","/articles/6693850/Sedona/Yavapai-County/Arizona/Sedona-council-narrows-FY26-priorities-wildfire-and-water-resiliency-rise-tourism-and-broadband-remain","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6693850-911f57cacb65e4e4fef59a2150ef2ab5/orig.mp4?Expires=1773627017&Signature=TyIHIid~2uhnWsXuaPQwFReArQYe5EzzdmeyoNeHZQw5HA1D-dZz6ICgtZzl~WEmDlTjCpqom1V3O7GWLHaKfQQTzcT-w~9tSpo2kZ4hVeGNG6PggBQKYMkI6l3d1~8oL12o6M79Z0Br0rX-KAnGRU8w7sLzrHPd1qhN6ELftsvSCr9qnczN0fThAKaw~pq~Ltzp5tvfvvC7dESzAUDw3Bsa7tm7IZQTQkNGTzqDLqh-BCrWgFsI3j5BT~gr7pkxulzH8cEiwUjqCGp6O042eLE5L-CBU~21Q9UVUSYymQcx3PA9RqTLxYIRr-2nEjkszNQSJ5Iuf6o8M2mP9~jbeA__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Sedona City Council met in a work session to refine policy priorities staff should use while preparing the FY26 budget and responding to new project requests. Annette, presenting a draft derived from the council's December priority-setting retreat, said the worksheet is intended to turn the retreat's goals into a staff budget guide: \"your priority setting retreat back in December\" and \"that direction from you is what staff will use to build our proposed budget for FY '26,\" she said.

Councilors and staff treated the session as a high-level direction-setting exercise rather than a detailed budget review. The discussion grouped priorities under the community plan goal areas and tested a simple “A/B/C” prioritization approach. Councilors repeatedly said the session should remain high level so staff can translate direction into specific decision packages at later budget work sessions.

The council coalesced around a small set of priorities for the coming year. Several councilors said wildfire preparedness and resiliency should be a top, immediate priority. Councilor Kinsella said wildfire is \"an immediate life threatening issue\" and placed it at the top of her list; other councilors echoed that assessment and proposed linking wildfire work to water and wastewater resiliency. Councilor Fultz argued wastewater and water resiliency should be ranked alongside wildfire because treated wastewater and locally available supplies could be important in an emergency.

Councilors also confirmed continued support for two items already underway: implementing the tourism strategic plan and coordinating broadband deployment through the federal BEAD program. Annette described the broadband item as grant-funded and implemented by private-sector internet service providers, with the city playing a permitting and right-of-way coordination role: \"we are not like the implementers necessarily, but we will have impact whenever that ISP comes to town and says, 'Hey, we're ready to start trenching.'\" Several councilors said tourism management should remain on the public-facing priority list so the business community understands the city remains focused on implementation.

Other environment and sustainability topics — heat mitigation and adaptation, invasive-species control, community-scale renewable projects and the city’s carbon-reduction (climate action plan) targets — drew detailed debate but less uniform urgency. Several councilors said invasive-species work could be contentious (use of herbicides was mentioned) and should be scoped before being elevated; public-works staff said removal on city properties would be a multi-year effort if the council directs it. Councilor Foth characterized the carbon-reduction goal as ongoing but lower in near-term priority than wildfire and water resilience.

Housing, circulation and public-safety items were also discussed. On housing, councilors favored focusing first on projects already under way and completing those before committing extensive new staff time to new housing construction programs; they flagged regional collaboration, completion of the homelessness strategic plan, and continued code enforcement and legislative advocacy on short-term rentals. On circulation, councilors prioritized continuing the city’s transit and parking programs, finishing trail and trailhead shuttle work and evaluating whether fixed-route expansion is warranted only after finishing existing shuttle and trailhead projects.

Several councilors said they wanted the prioritization exercise to produce a clear, short list staff can use to size decision packages for the budget. Annette said she will use the feedback to propose specific budget allocations and decision packets for FY26. \"I will take all of this feedback into consideration as to how much, how robust the investment I will propose is for any of these things based on this,\" she said.

Ending: Councilors agreed to continue the discussion at formal budget work sessions, where staff will present cost estimates and implementation plans tied to the priorities established in the session. Items identified as ongoing (tourism implementation, broadband coordination) will remain on the public priorities list while staff prepares decision packages for council review.","At a Sedona City Council work session, councilors refined priorities staff will use to shape the FY26 budget, elevating wildfire preparedness and wastewater/water resiliency while keeping tourism implementation and federal broadband (BEAD) coordination on the active list.","actionData","errors"]

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Sedona council updates rules of procedure; moves agenda team to city manager, adds executive‑session reporting

Sedona council narrows FY26 priorities: wildfire and water resiliency rise, tourism and broadband remain