The Fresno City Council met on Tuesday, June 23, 2026, at 9:00 AM in the Council Chambers to finalize and vote on the Fiscal Year 2027 budget. The meeting, which was the last scheduled budget hearing, followed weeks of hearings and negotiations. The council approved the final budget after adopting several amendments, resulting in a $2.56 billion spending plan with a $546.41 million General Fund. The meeting adjourned at 11:26 AM.
All right. All right, good morning. We're going to go ahead and get this uh get this meeting started. Welcome to the uh what is presumably the last day of the city's budget process for FY twenty-six twenty-seven. Uh clerk, would you please call the roll? Good morning, yes. Councilmember Perea. Here. Councilmember Carbasi. Councilmember Arias. Vice President Maxwell. Present. Councilmember Vang. Present. Councilmember Richardson. President Esparza. Present. Seven members being present, we have a quorum. Fantastic. Let's go ahead and ask folks to, if they can, please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Councilmember Richardson, would you please lead us in the Pledge of Algiance? Your left and our right place, right here we are, military wall present the military salute and salute our pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States America. All right, I'll understand a motion for approval of the agenda. We do have some changes to the agenda or announcements to read. Okay, all right, go for it, Clark. Thank you. With regard to item A, ID twenty-six-seven nine five regarding the resolution to adopt the fiscal year two thousand twenty-seven salary resolution for exhibit B has incorrect maximum salary for city manager position. Salary range should be one nine nine three five to two eight two three four. The uh fiscal year twenty-six salary range currently states the range as one nine nine three five to two three two three four. There was a transposition error in that the three was entered instead of an eight. With regard to item C, ID twenty-six-seven nine nine regarding the resolution to adopt FY two thousand twenty-seven annual appropriation resolution, exhibit B, page three, section three, motions not advanced. Number seventy-six should read Pave More Now as selected by District Four. It currently reads District Seven. Budget motion not required, nine hundred and thirty thousand dollars for a hawk on first and Fairmont. That are those are the announcements and changes to the agenda. Thank you. Seeing none. But nonetheless, it uh did give me um an understanding of what your district priorities and really to help uh formulate the um the final budget, as well as uh for me to be able to share with each of you the limitations that we face this year uh as compared to years in the past with all of the budget requests and uh not sufficient funding to cover those. As I shared with you during the uh initial budget presentation, um the city of Fresno faced a 34 point five million dollar um budget shortfall, which needed to be reconciled in order for me to present a balanced budget to you, which we did at that time. And I want uh just let you know how extremely challenging that was due to the limited revenues uh that we have as a city as compared to the growing expenses, uh much of that driven by inflation as well as uh contractual obligations uh with not only unions but also with many of our vendors for technology. So, as part of the budget hearings, council approved 99 motions totaling 49.91 million dollars, uh, which would impact either the general funds, special revenue accounts, grants, or enterprise funds. Uh the council uh has since been provided a reconciliation summary of those budget motions, and this is broken into four sections and is contained within exhibit B, and all of you were uh presented those, I believe, yesterday. At the request of uh several council members, I will summarize all 99 motions in detail. I'm just kidding, you know I won't do that to you guys again. Uh I will spare you the line item detail, but I I do want to give you somewhat of a 30,000 foot look, uh, but um also some depth on some of the things that uh we are funding. So, first, in section one, uh it contains 41 motions that are either fully or partially funded, totaling $9.3 million uh of these motions. Of the motions, uh $5.5.0 million dollars was supported by the general fund. $4.6 million was supported by either grants, uh special revenue, such as Measure C, Measure P or SB1, and then $12,000 was supported under enterprise funds. The additional $5 million in general fund motion was funded by the following um enhancements in our revenues. Uh number one, additional interest projected in FY27 to increase by $1.6 million uh plus um in uh capital.