...Title
Fiscal Year 2025-2026 Budget Priority Study Session. (Mayor)
...Recommendations
a) Amend the 2024-2025/2025-2026 City Budget Calendar to schedule a two-part Study Session following the regular City Council meeting on February 11, 2025, as follows:
i. 2025-2026 Budget Development: Preliminary General Fund Forecast and Impacts to Budget Priorities; and
ii. 2025-2026 Budget Development: Reducing Unsheltered Homelessness City Council Focus Area.
b) Direct the City Manager to prepare an agenda to engage the City Council in a discussion of the preliminary outlook of the General Fund in 2025-2026, potential strategies to address the anticipated shortfall, and potential impacts to City services and tradeoffs that will be discussed during the 2025-2026 Proposed Budget development process.
c) Direct the City Manager to prepare an agenda to engage the City Council in a strategic planning discussion with the Administration on the housing and shelter components of the Reducing Unsheltered Homelessness City Council Focus Area.