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City manager outlines draft 2025 work plan, council signals to place it on consent
Summary
City Manager David Bear walked council through a draft one‑year work plan that reorganizes priorities, categorizes projects and flags revenue options; council members asked about timing for revenue measures and agreed to bring the draft forward on consent for adoption.
City Manager David Bear presented the draft 2025 council work plan at the May 6 meeting, summarizing retreat outcomes, project categories and a proposed schedule for evaluating revenue enhancement options.
Bear said the work plan is a one‑year, strategic and transparent guide reflecting priorities identified at a January retreat and one‑on‑one council interviews. He said the outgoing 2022–24 plan listed 81 priorities, of which 40 have been completed and 27 show progress.
The draft organizes priorities into capital projects, studies/evaluations, items requiring community partnerships and internal operational items. Bear illustrated the plan’s project table with an example: a College and 7th roundabout project tentatively scheduled for a 2028 completion.
A substantial portion of the presentation covered revenue‑enhancement concepts: business‑and‑occupation tax alignment (including examining exemptions), gambling tax, franchise fees for private utilities that use city rights‑of‑way, field/public‑facility rentals (for parks and community centers), and revisiting the solid‑waste contract. Bear explained these would require data collection and public outreach and that the work would be phased across fiscal quarters.
Council members pressed on timing. Council Member Stebbins asked why items such as the B&O tax were shown in later quarters; Bear and staff said data collection, the budget process and staff capacity influenced scheduling. Council Member Dunning praised staff for the plan and supported placing the draft on a consent agenda for formal adoption; other councilors concurred.
Bear also thanked directors and staff for pulling the draft together and identified Sadie Siglin and others as contributors. He said the plan will return to council for additional discussion as projects move from study to implementation.
The council gave staff direction to schedule the plan for adoption on a future consent agenda; no formal roll‑call vote on the plan occurred at the May 6 meeting.
