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Portland council adopts budget calendar, adds daytime meeting to finish process
Summary
The City Council voted to approve a red-lined fiscal-year 2025–26 budget calendar and a one-time change to a daytime meeting on May 21 to complete budget work. Councilors pressed for more community engagement and line‑item budget detail before the mayor’s executive proposal.
The Portland City Council on March 5 approved an amended budget calendar for fiscal year 2025–26 and a companion schedule that moves one meeting from evening to daytime to allow more time to finalize the budget.
Councilors voted to adopt the calendar after a presentation from Councilor Zimmerman, chair of the finance committee, who said the red‑lined schedule adds extra work sessions and district listening sessions because the city faces an unusually compressed transition year for budgeting under the new form of government.
The measure lays out committee work sessions, community district listening sessions, and multiple opportunities for committee and full‑council deliberations through the June 30 fiscal‑year end. The council also approved an ordinance to change the meeting…
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