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Kent City Council adopts comprehensive plan update and 2025–26 biennial budget
Summary
The Kent City Council unanimously approved a comprehensive plan update and adopted the city's 2025–26 biennial budget, including an adjustment to business-and-occupation tax rates for very large corporations, the city reported during its 2024 progress presentation.
The Kent City Council approved an updated comprehensive plan and adopted the 2025–26 biennial budget, city officials said during a 2024 progress report presentation.
The comprehensive plan update was approved unanimously, according to the presentation. The plan guides housing, employment and transportation policy for the city moving forward and was the product of outreach, research and input from residents and businesses.
The council also unanimously adopted the 2025–26 biennial budget, which city officials said sustains current service levels while adjusting local business-and-occupation (B&O) tax rates for very large corporations. The presentation noted the B&O adjustment targets corporations with more than $100,000,000 in revenue; officials said the additional revenue will support existing programs.
Both votes were described as unanimous in the progress report. Specific motion text, mover/second and individual vote tallies were not specified in the presentation.
Why it matters: The comprehensive plan sets the city’s land-use and growth objectives and frames capital and service priorities. The biennial budget determines funding levels for public safety, parks, capital projects and human services that the presentation highlighted for 2024 and 2025.
Votes at a glance: - Comprehensive plan update — Outcome: approved; notes: described as approved unanimously in the presentation; specific vote counts not provided. - 2025–26 biennial budget (including B&O tax adjustment for corporations with revenue over $100,000,000) — Outcome: approved; notes: described as approved unanimously in the presentation; specific vote counts not provided.
The presentation did not attach ordinance or resolution numbers to either action and did not present the vote roll calls during the segment.
