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Finance committee assigns department leads, sets Monday deadline to finalize report
Summary
The finance committee finalized who will draft each department’s section of the finance report, agreed to use existing OpenGov charts where possible, and set a Monday deadline for finalizing the report for presentation to the full council.
The Annapolis City Council finance committee assigned council members to draft sections of the committee report for each city department and set a timeframe to finish and format the report ahead of Monday’s council meeting.
Chair opened the session by confirming organizational details and directing members to split the report by department so each member would draft roughly five sections. Frank Stewart, City Manager, said he would draft the city manager section, and members volunteered or accepted other departments including law, central services, finance, public works, public safety, and community grants.
The committee agreed members should draft their sections individually and circulate them for formatting and light editorial changes, but avoid real-time back-and-forth email exchanges that could constitute a serial meeting. The Chair and legal counsel emphasized the need to follow open-meeting rules when consolidating edits.
Members set a practical timeline: first drafts over the weekend as feasible and a follow-up meeting Monday afternoon (target 1:30–2:00 p.m.) to reconcile contested items and finalize the finance committee report for posting and presentation that evening. The Chair said staff should prepare hard copies and coordinate posting on the city website so the report is available to the public when council receives it.
A committee member summarized the high-level message the report will carry, saying, "Basically, no property tax increase," and noted that departmental charts and expenditure projections would be included to illustrate assumptions and fiscal challenges.
Staff asked that existing OpenGov charts be used to populate the report wherever possible to speed preparation; the budget team, Joel and Mitchell, were identified as contacts to provide those visuals. IT and communications staff were asked to ensure the report is uploaded and accessible on the city’s public budget page.
The committee ended by confirming assignments, deadlines, and who will track formatting, with the Chair reiterating that amendments to the budget will still be due by Monday and that any substantive disagreements will be resolved in the Monday meeting.
