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Council eyes community committee, more outreach after feasibility finding
Summary
Rather than rushing a ballot, council members favored building a volunteer and community-based outreach effort, dividing the city into regions for outreach, and re-agendizing a committee structure in December with work likely to resume in early 2027.
Council members responded to consultants' feasibility findings by laying out next steps focused on community engagement rather than immediate ballot placement.
Members suggested recruiting residents and local experts to form a citizen committee that could serve as an independent campaign body during the official 88-day election window, and proposed dividing the city into outreach regions for focused, person-to-person engagement. Several members asked staff to prepare financial impact analyses comparing timeline options and to present county election cost estimates.
The council directed staff to accept that the current ad hoc committee will wind down in August and to agendize a December discussion on forming a citizen committee and a new ad hoc scope for education and outreach, with potential activity beginning in early 2027 to allow a longer runway for voter education.
