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Goldendale administrator outlines budget timeline, CPA change and imminent crosswalk work
Summary
City Administrator Sandy Wells told the council the city has begun budget planning with a new CPA contact and will solicit department "wish lists" before returning to the budget committee. Wells also said crews will install crosswalks in the coming weeks, followed by striping and short-term road closures.
City Administrator Sandy Wells told the Goldendale City Council the city is starting its next fiscal-year budget process and will incorporate department-level requests before finalizing an ordinance. "So we had a meeting with our, CPA toward the budget," Wells said, adding the city will meet with department heads and then the budget committee.
Wells said the city is working with a new CPA contact after a staffing change: "Jen got a different job, so now her new CPA is Sarah," she said, and the city will "start working with her" on timelines. Wells said she believed the budget must be filed in November and that the process will require multiple meetings: "I think it's, like, I think it's November. We have to have a couple of meetings, a budget, agenda budget, and then make an ordinance, and I think it's 2 meetings for it." (Deadline timing was described as an estimate by Wells.)
On street-safety work, Wells said crews will begin installing crosswalks "in the next week or 2," followed by yellow paint and other striping (referred to in the meeting as "purple paint"). She warned some short-term road closures are likely, especially near the end of Darwin while crews work. No formal budget action or ordinance was taken at the meeting; the item was an informational department report.
The agenda and consent items were approved earlier in the session with a motion and second; no roll-call vote was recorded in the transcript for the approval.
