Below are formal actions recorded or announced during the Cypress City Council meeting on June 23, 2025. Times and motions reflect the meeting transcript and staff reports.
- Consent calendar (all listed items): Approved with one motion; motion carried unanimously.
- Motion text: Approve all matters listed on the consent calendar unless separately pulled.
- Outcome: approved (5–0).
- Renew Cypress Corporate Center Landscape Maintenance District No. 1 for fiscal year 2025–26 (Public Hearing, Agenda item):
- Motion text: Renew the Cypress Corporate Center Landscape Maintenance District No. 1 for FY25–26.
- Mover/Second: Motion and second recorded in minutes.
- Outcome: approved unanimously (5–0).
- Notes: Assessment totals about $105,000 for the year; district formed nearly 40 years ago; assessment adjusts by CPI.
- Adopt City of Cypress and Cypress Recreation & Park District FY2025–26 budgets (Agenda item 16):
- Motion text: Adopt the City and Park District FY25–26 budgets.
- Outcome: approved unanimously (5–0).
- Notes: Budgets described as balanced; projected general fund shortfall of ~$600,000 to be funded from reserves.
- Adopt seven‑year Capital Improvement Program and amendments to purchasing authority limits (Agenda item 17):
- Motion text: Adopt FY25–26 CIP and approve municipal code updates to purchasing thresholds and related resolutions; staff proposed a streamlining pilot.
- Outcome: The underlying CIP and related items were approved; the streamlining pilot and municipal code changes enabling it were approved by separate action and carried 3–2 (Mayor Burke and Councilmember Chang voted no).
- Notes: Year‑one CIP $37M; seven‑year total just over $98M; pilot applies to 8 routine projects (<12% of year‑one CIP).
- Introduce ordinance to amend municipal code section 21A (purchasing authority) by title only and waive further reading:
- Action: Ordinance introduced by title; subsequent second reading/ordinance adoption to follow per standard municipal process.
- Outcome: Introduced; municipal code amendments tied to streamlining pilot.
- Appoint city commissioners and approve revisions to boards/commissions policy manual (Agenda item 18):
- Motion text: Appoint new commissioners and alternates as recommended and approve policy manual revisions.
- Appointments (terms expire 06/30/2029 unless otherwise specified):
- Recreation & Community Services Commission: Kenna Russell (appointed), Quintin Bentley (appointed). Alternates: (as listed).
- Senior Citizens Commission: Marilyn Reams (appointed), Lehi Button (appointed). Alternate: Linda Croce (appointed to fill remainder of a prior term as recommended by staff).
- Traffic Commission: Robert Bestian appointed. Alternates: Blaise Bence, Duane Summers.
- Outcome: Motion to adopt recommendations carried unanimously.
- First reading — ordinance amending traffic commission composition (Agenda item 19):
- Action: Introduced ordinance to increase Traffic Commission from 5 to 7 members; second reading to follow before ordinance takes effect.
- Council provided direction to appoint two existing traffic alternates to full seats when the expansion takes effect and to stagger the new terms (one 4‑year, one 3‑year) by council clerk randomization if no preference.
- Outcome: Ordinance introduced and advanced to second reading; unanimous procedural approval for introduction.
Ending note: Several items approved unanimously (budgets, district renewal, commission appointments); the most contentious vote concerned the CIP streamlining pilot and municipal code purchase‑authority changes, which passed 3–2. For project details and staff reports, council directed staff to return with quarterly pilot updates and with specific design options for parks and other CIP projects as requested.