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Councilors urge earlier packet distribution and debate resolution numbering practice
Summary
Councilors raised process concerns: one councilor asked that amended budget documents be distributed before meetings so members can review them, and another questioned assigning resolution numbers before council approval.
Councilors used the brief special meeting to flag two process issues for staff follow‑up: the timing of distributing amended meeting materials and whether the city should preassign resolution numbers before council approval.
Councilor Marquez said amended budget pages arrived too close to the meeting and asked staff to provide them earlier so members can review changes beforehand. "We should receive those adjustments before we come into council meeting so we can review it before we're in the meeting and have to make a hasty decision," he said.
Councilor Gordon raised a separate procedural concern about assigning resolution numbers before the council votes. He suggested the city refrain from publishing a resolution number until after the council approves it; the finance officer responded that the office will reassign numbers when a resolution does not pass.
Neither procedural point blocked the vote on Resolution 2026‑13; council approved the budget adjustments 4–0. Council asked staff to improve timing of packet materials and to check the legal practice for resolution numbering.
