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Council closes FY26 budget amendment hearing and asks staff to return with parsed items
Summary
After questions about mixed items and carryovers in the FY26 budget amendment, council closed the public hearing and directed staff to return with a broken-out version for further deliberation and final adoption.
Council held a public hearing on the fiscal-year 2026 budget amendment request, which included both carryover funding for items ordered but not received in FY25 and several new expenditure requests across multiple funds. Finance staff explained the package included items such as ordered fleet vehicles, park equipment, fundraising for repairs to park restrooms and a water master plan update.
Council members questioned why previously approved rollovers and new requests were combined in a single amendment packet and asked staff to separate items that had already been ordered and paid from new asks. Several councilors asked for the amendment to be parsed into clearer components so the adoption ordinance could be considered with more granularity.
Hearing no public testimony on the amendment, the council closed the public hearing and voted to direct staff to return with the budget amendment broken into the requested components and to bring the adoption ordinance back at a future meeting so members could deliberate and approve the final ordinance.
