The Joint Budget and Public Works Committee met on August 27, 2026, at 1:00 PM to review the June 2026 budget reports, consider multiple Civil Service pay plan and rule amendments, and hear a presentation on proposed sanitation fee reforms. The meeting included a presentation from the Chief Administrative Office on the city's financial status, followed by approval of several personnel-related motions and a lengthy discussion on the proposed ordinance to increase sanitation fees. The sanitation ordinance was deferred to the September 3, 2026 City Council meeting.
No separate consent calendar was used; however, many civil service items were approved unanimously.
CAO/Finance Budget Presentation (June 2026)
Civil Service Pay Plan and Rule Amendments
Sanitation Fee Reform (Amendment to Ordinance No. 35,384)
All right, uh it is one in one, and I believe we have quorum of both committees. Councilmember Harris. Presence. Councilmember McKaren. Here. Council President Morel. Councilmember Hughes. We do indeed have a quorum. The first item of business is the CAO finance presentation on the June 2026 budget reports. Great. CAU's office, Alyssa, come on down. And I apologize, Councilmember Green. Yeah. Sorry, AD DNA. All right. Y'all ready to get started? Thank you. Good afternoon. Switch to that next. We are presenting here today year to date through June 30th, 30th. And of course, this is uh unaudited numbers. Um, as you can see here, three June, the city has collected approximately four hundred and fifty-eight million in revenue compared to four hundred and nineteen of the budgeted year to date. That puts revenue collections approximately thirty-eight point seven million above the year-to-date budget number. We're also approximately fourteen million above the same period this time last year. So at this point in the fiscal year, revenue collections are running ahead of the adopted budget. Continuing down the report also shows that through June, actual revenues exceed actual expenditures by approximately a hundred and three million dollars. The budget director Brandy will provide the detailed discussion on expenditures, but I want to point out what happens when we look at the city's overall fund balance. After other financing activities, including transfers, the reported net change in fund balance is approximately 48 million dollars for the year to date. Looking at the individual revenue categories, the largest revenue sources are property taxes and sales taxes, followed by service charges, license and permits, and then of course we have our other revenue section. Property taxes are approximately three point three million above budget. Other taxes are approximately six point three million above budget. Licenses and permits are approximately seven million above, and the largest variance is in other revenue, which is approximately twenty-three point five million above. Also would like to point out that sales tax is currently above budget, but the report notes that it's slightly below the prior year. We expected that, but I just wanted to make sure that you did realize or see that we are below prior year. So while we're currently meeting our budget assumptions for sales tax, this is an area we'll continue to monitor as we look to the trends for the rest of the year. Sorry. Personnel and other operating spending through June 30th, year-to-day personnel and other operating expenditures totaled approximately $354 million, and that represents about 44.3 of the city's operating budget. Personnel expenditures, 215.1 million, while other operating totaled 139.3. Both categories remain below the year-to-date budget benchmark that shows some of our continued success with expenditures expenditure controls that we continue to have in place with departments, vacant vacancy savings as realized by a hiring freeze, and the timing of departmental operating expenditures. As we've stated before, expenditures are not going to happen evenly throughout the year. We have different situations where programs or systems may have one-time expenditures. Um excuse me, the expenditures are incurred at one time. Overtime spending. June overtime expenditures totaled approximately 2.1 million, which is approximately 1.3 million below the monthly projection. And that's also below June 2025 actual spending. And what we've seen here is when there's a better eye on overtime or attention to overtime, better enforcement, better controls in place, we're not going to see as much of an increase in that area. For staffing, as of June 30th, the city had roughly 4,500 positions out of 4,700 budgeted positions, which is 214 vacancies. And those are not all in general fund. Airport is normally a big uh place where we have a lot of those as well. And um finally uh looking at fund balance, the report shows a 2025 audited general fund consolidated balance of approximately 67.3 million.