The Finance Committee of the Annapolis City Council met on Tuesday, May 5, 2026, at 9:47 AM in a special budget hearing to deliberate the FY2027 budget. The committee reviewed fund transfers, discussed budget priorities, and set timelines for amendments. The meeting adjourned at 12:22 PM.
No public comments were heard at this meeting.
The committee engaged in extensive discussion on the FY27 budget. Key topics included:
2026 at 9 47 a.m. Um is uh this time I'll take a roll call. Alder Roman O'Neil Alderman Thorpe and I am here. Uh is there a motion to approve the agenda with the amendment of moving our FT 1126 and FT1226 above general discussion. So we're just swapping general discussion and fund transfers in this. So moved. Second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Thank you. Motion carries. Sir, a motion to approve the minutes from yesterday's meeting as written. So moved. Second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Beautiful. Motion carries. All right. We got a couple fun transfers from our good friends, or one's from our good friends of public works. I guess the others from our pal over in the finance department. But uh you want to come on up. New Alder Roman O'Neill is going to have some questions about this important sidewalk project. So wanted to make sure we actually gave an opportunity to talk about it. Sure. I think it's it's actually pretty straightforward as Director Vogel explained it to me. But why don't you go ahead? Uh yes, sure. So the uh as part of the that Cedar Park Sidewalk project, um, based on the size of the project and the disturbance, um, there was a stormwater management um requirement for that project that required uh a certain without getting too technical, a certain volume of stormwater that needed to be treated. Um and it was designed, there's a plan, but as this project was progressed, there was just site limitations and utility conflicts where it wasn't practical to install the stormwater on site. So um the the dollars allocated to make sure that that stormwater is still being treated. The plan is to transfer it to the MS4 account where it can supplement the stormwater management in that same subwatershed so that we still we don't just not do the requirement that was required based on the disturbance of the project. Um so um we don't know exactly what yet, but um again, it'll be uh we'll it's more of an accounting. We'll make sure that any restoration or projects we do in that subwatershed, you know, we'll still basically say, well, a lot of it was based on the additional impervious we added for the Cedar Park Sidewalk project. So that's kind of in a nutshell what the situation is. Thank you. Aldo Roman O'Neill, you want to ask some questions? Yes, please. Go ahead. Thank you very much. Um, so just to be clear, so Cedar Park sidewalks is really two phases. Um there's a phase from Window to Halsey that was completed in 2024. And then there's the phase two that is from Taylor Avenue to Fair to uh locust that hasn't started. Right. So this is taking it out of the phase one because phase one was not able to adequately get the stormwater right. The the project, the sidewalk was still installed for phase one. It's just the stormwater management component of it. The I believe it was a filter inlet. The design just wasn't gonna work where there were conflicts that we that weren't done in the survey that just happened when you start digging up the road. Um, so they couldn't do it on site there.