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Votes at a glance: Budget, Finance & Audit Standing Committee actions and referrals
Summary
Committee handled multiple budget-response memos and referrals during the meeting; several items were referred to formal session, received and filed, or reassigned to staff.
The Budget, Finance & Audit Standing Committee took the following formal actions during its meeting. Where the transcript did not record a recorded roll-call, items were advanced by motion and voice consent (no objections recorded).
Votes and formal actions (selected items):
- Line 6.2 — Resolution establishing a proportional-funding formula for oversight agencies: sent to formal session with recommendation to approve (motion; no objections recorded).
- Line 6.1 — Request for status update on International Association of Assessing Officer studies: committee approved a one-week brief (motion to hold for one week; no objections recorded).
- Line 6.3 — Memorandum re: earned interest on ARPA funds and additional questions (submitted by President Pro Tem James Tate): received and filed (motion; no objections recorded).
- Lines 7.1–7.5 — Responses to members’ budget questions (multiple agencies): received and filed (motion; no objections recorded).
- Line 7.6 — Law Department quarterly risk-management report (privileged/confidential): received and filed (motion; no objections recorded).
- Line 7.7 — Use of General Funds for estate-planning services: received and filed (motion; no objections recorded).
- Lines 7.8–7.21 (multiple departmental budget responses, including Airport, Building Authority, City Clerk and others): received and filed (motion; no objections recorded).
- Line 7.22 — OCFO long-term forecast report on legacy pensions and debt: received and filed after presentation (motion; no objections recorded).
- Line 7.23 — Second supplemental trust agreement and notice: removed from the agenda for revision (motion to remove; no objections recorded).
- Lines 7.24–7.78 — Additional budget-response memos across departments: received and filed (motion; no objections recorded).
- Line 7.57 — Resolution supporting proposed state legislation to tax vaping products: sent to formal session with recommendation to approve (motion; no objections recorded).
- Line 7.79 — Study on feasibility of implementing a tax on short-term rentals (Council Member Mary Waters): assigned to the Office of the Chief Financial Officer to return with a report in three weeks (motion to assign; no objections recorded).
Most items listed above were handled by motion and unanimous voice consent; the transcript records no roll-call tallies for those votes. Committee members and staff indicated many of the items were budget-response memos that had been circulated in advance and were being received into the committee record.
