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Votes at a glance: Finance committee forwarded departmental budgets to full council with favorable recommendations
Summary
At the May 8 Finance Committee hearing, the committee voted to forward many departmental FY26 budgets to the full City Council with favorable recommendations. The committee also heard related policy briefing memos (tax/levy scenarios, ERP questions) and public comment on homelessness.
The Finance Committee voted on a sequence of motions during the May 8 meeting to forward individual departmental budgets or groups of departments to the full City Council with a favorable recommendation. Committee members repeatedly approved forwarding the budgets after question-and-answer exchanges with department heads. The motions were procedural recommendations to advance the proposed FY26 departmental appropriations; they did not constitute final budget adoption.
Votes at a glance (selected items from the meeting):
- City Clerk, City Council, Domestic & Gender-Based Violence Prevention Initiative, Auditing, General Services, Treasury/Revenue, Mayor's Office, Reserve — Motion to forward to full council with a favorable recommendation. Result: 7 yes, 2 absent.
- Arts Council — Motion to forward to full council with a favorable recommendation.…
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