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Pacific aldermen pause budget, set June 22 special meeting and add placeholder for 4th Street project
Summary
Pacific aldermen deferred final approval of the fiscal 2026–27 budget after detailed line-item discussion and scheduled a special board meeting for 5 p.m. June 22 to finish work; the board directed staff to pursue 4th Street and Union Street engineering and added a $270,000 placeholder for the 4th Street local match.
Pacific's Board of Aldermen on the evening of the council meeting read the city's proposed fiscal 2026——07 budget and then deferred final action after extensive line-item debate, scheduling a special meeting for 5 p.m. on June 22 to continue work.
The clerk read bill 53-23, the ordinance that would adopt anticipated revenues and appropriations for operating and capital funds for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026. Aldermen spent more than two hours reviewing individual line items, including tourism transfers, historical-society funding, supply-line reallocations, staffing hours for parks and police, and large capital projects presented under transportation and stormwater.
Board members repeatedly said they wanted more time to reconcile spreadsheet timing mismatches (cash balances reported as of March 31 versus current obligations) and to confirm staff's proposed reallocations. "If we get the discussion out of the way, they can get us a final set of numbers," an alderman said during the review.
Transportation projects dominated the late discussion. City staff and aldermen discussed two candidates for near-term capital investment: 4th Street and Union Street. The board voted to direct the city administrator to contact state grant authorities and the project engineer to pursue deadlines and clarifications for both projects and to prepare funding scenarios. Members then moved to include a $270,000 placeholder (roughly the 20% local match shown in the materials) in the draft budget for the 4th Street project so that the special meeting could consider concrete numbers.
Why it matters: the budget sets pay rates, staffing hours and which capital projects the city will commit to next year. The 4th Street match was flagged as pressing because of outside funding deadlines and because aldermen wanted to avoid losing previously invested engineering money on projects that could expire without action.
What's next: The board will reconvene at 5 p.m. on June 22 for a special meeting to complete budget votes. Staff were asked to circulate an updated spreadsheet before that meeting that reconciles cash-balance timing and shows the effect of proposed transfers and project placeholders.
Source: Pacific Board of Aldermen meeting transcript; motions to direct the administrator to contact state/engineer and to add a $270,000 placeholder were recorded by the clerk.
