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The Corpus Christi City Council held a workshop on Thursday, August 27, 2026, to receive a presentation on the ten-year Capital Improvement Program (CIP) and to discuss potential adjustments to the Fiscal Year 2027 Proposed Budget. Mayor Pro Tem Kaylynn Paxson presided. The meeting was informational and did not include public comment or formal votes.
Jeff from the Office of Management and Budget presented the tenth annual update to the 10-year CIP, describing it as a living document. The year-one budget constitutes the approved CIP budget.
Council members raised specific questions on several projects:
Amy Rodriguez, Director of Management and Budget, presented options to address a budget gap totaling $1,652,958, stemming from desired new expenditures of $1.4 million on code compliance, demolitions, and homelessness services, alongside a reduction in TERS revenue.
Staff Proposed Revenue Options:
Staff Proposed General Fund Expenditure Reductions:
Council Positions on Budget Options:
Good morning, everyone. We will now call this meeting to order. Miss Rebecca, if you'll take roll. Council members, Rollin Baretta. Eric Anthu. Gillard Nandis. I saw him. I know he's here somewhere. So Everett Roy is absent. Mark Scott. Carolyn Bottton. City Manager Peter Zanoni. Present. Interim City Attorney Buck Bryce. Okay, we do have a quorum present to conduct the meeting. Thank you, Ms. Rebecca. We will move into item one, which is the presentation on the capital improvement program and potential adjustments to the fiscal year 2027 proposed budget. Good morning, Mayor Pro Tim, Council members. And I'll be presenting on the first item. And this is the 12th CIP cycle I've been through. I would like to point out it it is not really my work product when you get uh the book. Uh this is uh a team effort um uh that's uh now produced by the Capitol Budget Office. Um there are a few years back early in my tenure when this was actually produced in the engineering department, and uh we had about uh half of an FTE dedicated to it, and departments didn't uh universally participate in the process. We typically didn't have a long range uh CIP. Uh we're doing a way, way better job on this now. Uh and uh I would like to uh thank the Capitol Budget Office uh for their work on this, and that's Rudy Pena, John Muarez, and Richard Darbaias. If you guys want to stand up. Raise your hand, or okay. They're they're doing a great job on this, and so really I'm I'm presenting a lot of their work. Um and I mean really this is the work of everybody because all of the operating departments collaborate with them to get all of this information uh together. Uh and it is a very significant effort. Um another thing I'd like to say for uh you folks that aren't aren't veterans and for people that uh uh maybe viewing remotely, it's not really a book. You know, there is a book, and we update this every year as part of the process, uh, but it is really a living document. And uh we only print it out and publish it once a year, but uh it evolves throughout the year. And I'm sure you know there's a lot of items come city council, and it includes as part of that item an amendment to the CIP, and we don't go out and republish the book after that happens. Uh but when we publish it next, it'll capture those those changes. Um when you're approving this, I would say that uh this is really just the uh approving the update to the CIP. It's not uh you know some people think you're inventing this out of whole cloth, and it's a brand new thing. It's not, it's really just making it current. So you're dropping off completed projects, you're bringing projects from long range into short range, but there's a lot of commonality between one book and the next book. Okay, let's try to change the slides. Okay, there we go. Okay, we got the PowerPoint there. Okay. Um my clicker doesn't seem to be working. Okay, manager has a good clicker.