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City staff outline FY27 policies-and-strategies workplan, call for committee-first review
Summary
City Manager Jesse Baker and the leadership team presented a three-part FY27 workplan package — proposed priorities, a 'bike rack' idea list and a core-government list — asking the council to focus on high-level strategy, funding flags and committee alignment before detailed policy drafting.
City Manager Jesse Baker presented the proposed FY27 policies-and-strategies materials and described the meeting’s purpose as setting high‑level strategy for implementing the city plan. "The goal really today is to discuss the high level strategic things we're going to do together to implement the city plan," Baker said, explaining staff had aggregated recommendations from committees, councilors and departments into three spreadsheets: a proposed workplan, a 'bike rack' for ideas that lack capacity, and a core government list for routine operations.
Baker said the packet flags items that require new funding and noted the leadership team had emphasized a 'committee‑first' approach this year to improve alignment. He and staff asked councilors to indicate which items they saw as priorities, to point out any missing council-submitted priorities, and to prepare for a formal approval packet in July. Several councilors raised follow-up questions about the criteria for inclusion on the workplan and how items would be sequenced into capital and operating budgets; staff said detailed policy debates were not the objective of the workshop but that the materials would be amended based on today's feedback and returned for approval at a July meeting.
Why it matters: The FY27 policies-and-strategies packet will guide committee work, staff workload and the city’s budget priorities; items marked with dollar-signs will compete for limited new funding and could determine which projects advance next year.
