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Council approves mid-year budget changes, shifts parking enforcement to code compliance and defers $200,000 parking pilot
Summary
Council approved a mid-year FY26 amendment reducing general-fund expenditures and shifting parking enforcement from Economic Development to Code Compliance to save recurring costs; council removed a proposed $200,000 one-time parking pilot from the package for further DMD/TIRZ discussion.
The City Council approved a mid-year adjustment to the FY26 operating and capital budgets on June 24 that reduces near-term general-fund spending and reorganizes parking enforcement operations.
Finance director Amy Rodriguez told the council the package reduces FY26 general-fund expenditures by about $280,000 and would generate roughly $1.7 million in recurring savings in FY27 if fully implemented. The largest single proposal transfers downtown parking-enforcement responsibility from the Planning and Economic Development division to Code Compliance and eliminates paid on-street meters in favor of time-limited parking on targeted streets.
Rodriguez and City Manager Peter Zanoni said the transfer would remove seven positions from the current parking unit (one vacant) and rely on automation and a vehicle-camera pilot to preserve enforcement capacity. Jennifer (parking staff) said the pilot would take images and dispatch code officers; cameras and software subscriptions were budgeted in the parking-improvement fund for a roughly $200,000 one-time package.
Council members said they supported structural savings but asked for more stakeholder outreach before the city paid for the parking pilot. Councilwoman Paxson successfully moved to remove the $200,000 parking-improvement expenditure from the mid-year package and asked staff to take the proposal to the Downtown Management District and the TIRZ for further discussion. The remainder of the mid-year adjustments passed.
Staff said the Code Compliance division would retain roughly 28 officers and two supervisors after the change and would use upgraded vehicle-mounted cameras and other technology to increase enforcement efficiency. Human Resources described a preferential-placement process for affected employees: reduction notices were provided in mid-June and staff are being actively matched to vacancies; the effective reduction timeline was set to July 31 to allow placement efforts.
The council directed staff to coordinate with downtown stakeholders and to return with additional details about the pilot, striping/signage costs, and operational impacts resulting from the reorganization.
