The City Commission held a joint workshop with the Budget Advisory Board (BAB) on April 15, 2025, to discuss two agenda items: the role of the BAB in vetting nonprofit funding applications and the FY2026 budget development process. The meeting addressed funding priorities, resource constraints, public safety needs, and potential process improvements for nonprofit allocations.
No consent calendar items were discussed.
No public comments were made during the workshop.
Members of the commission to please come to the dais and uh members of the budget advisory board to please assemble and let us begin this workshop. Is this my lunch? Wow. God, oh my god. What the heck did I order? How long is this meeting gonna last? No wonder the Cisco truck was pulled up. It's had a lot to unload. Okay, great. So welcome to the City Commission uh joint meeting with the budget advisory board this um uh April 15th and Internal Revenue Service Day, how appropriate. Um I would ask that the clerk please call the role of the commission. Vice Mayor Herbst, Commissioner Glossman? Here, Commissioner Beasley Pittman? Here, Commissioner Sorensen. Here, Mayor Trentals. Here, thank you so much. And I see uh Mr. Brown is here as chair of the budget advisory board. Mr. Brown, would you like to call the role of your board? Could you speak into the microphone, please? Thank you, Mayor. Uh roll call would be Melissa Melroy Vice Chair, Norby Belts, Ross Camberrera, not present, uh Oliver Cale, present Richard D. We call him Richard D. But it's Richard D. Gerarlo, I believe. Closing off here. Okay. Desirea Smith. Okay. You want to join us on the front row? Is there a room? Please. And then Petit, not present, and uh Maloka Melinda Bau Balker. Okay, thank you. Um you have a quorum. We have a quorum, thank you. Great, thank you. So there are two items on the uh workshop agenda, and why don't we start with business one? This relates to a uh communication between the budget advisory board and the commission uh concerning um uh the process for uh vetting nonprofit applications in the budget uh process. So um want to explain to us a little bit, Mr. Brown, as to what that what you're asking for here. Okay. Uh first of all, mayor, I'd like to point out that we this past year we brought six new advisory board members out of the ten. So all six of the new members are present for their first joint workshop, so I want to commend them for taking the participation. And I see some old members too who can't let go, but that's okay. Oh but they're there for advice and consent. I understand. Thank you. So uh in early of January meeting and February at our BAB meeting, there was some discussion with the BAB members about what participation participating role we will have in the budget process on non-for-profits.