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Central staff details faster, more transparent fall 2025 budget calendar
Summary
Central staff and the Select Budget Committee outlined a compressed fall budget calendar designed to increase transparency: mayoral transmittal Sept. 23, revenue forecast in October, and final council action set for Nov. 21, with new public posting rules and a 3-sponsor requirement for council amendments.
Chair Dan Strauss of the Select Budget Committee opened a June 5 meeting with central staff to preview changes to the council’s fall 2025 budget process, including earlier public access to member proposals and a tighter calendar to complete final action by Nov. 21.
The preview matters because the mayor will transmit the proposed budget on Sept. 23, and the committee is scheduling a compressed review and voting period tied to the city’s revenue forecasts and election timeline. Ben Noble, central staff director, said the council’s review calendar will include an October revenue forecast update that will inform the chair’s balancing package and final council votes.
Central staff described these scheduling changes as aimed at making deliberations and potential amendments visible to the public and to fellow council members earlier in the process. Noble told the committee that central staff intends to “publish those 24 hours in advance” for council member amendment lists and to post a public tool…
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