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Kirkland council reviews draft 2025–26 city work program, delays final adoption until retreat
Summary
City staff presented eight proposed initiatives for the 2025–26 biennial work program. Councilmembers raised questions about scope, funding and timing and directed staff to return with a refined draft and more detail at a February meeting and the late-February retreat.
City Manager presented a draft 2025–26 city work program to the Kirkland City Council on Jan. 21, outlining eight cross-departmental initiatives intended to advance council goals such as a thriving economy, attainable housing and community safety.
The draft assembled by the City Manager’s office proposed actions that ranged from catalyzing redevelopment of the 80th Street station area to continuing implementation of the city’s homelessness action plan. The package also includes completing projects promised by the voter-approved Proposition 1 (fire station renovations and a training facility), advancing a suite of multimodal transportation projects, and preparing an equitable, sustainable 2027–28 budget that identifies options for long-term funding of streets, human services and parks operations.
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