The City Council of Racine convened on October 22, 2025, for the first evening of the 2026 budget review process. The session was structured as a department-by-department presentation night, with a strict five-minute time limit per department, followed by a scheduled Q&A session for the following evening. A significant procedural debate occurred early in the meeting regarding the timing of questions, but the chair ruled to maintain the original schedule of presentations only for the night.
In the police department. Executive overview. Police departments. Okay. I'll cross the move for you as well. Okay, if I don't sit in my assignment spot, but I stay up here. No, I need you up here. Yeah. Terry's got a place for me over there. Now I might have to lean over to subsidiary attorney a couple times. If the chair makes the rules, don't you ask me? I might need you. Are you ready? Okay. All right, we're gonna ask the authors to uh be seated as we start. Cody. That was six o'clock has arrived. We will start our Wednesday, October 22nd. Uh 2026 budget presentation. First, we'll have uh call to order. Uh we will have the approval of the minutes for September 16th, 2025 meeting. Got a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying aye. Opposed? Motion carries. So tonight we'll start we'll start our budget. So good evening. Everyone, tonight marks the first day of our budget review process. And I want to take a moment to outline how the meeting will proceed so that we can stay organized and ensure everyone has a fair and equal opportunity to participate. This evening, each department will have five minutes to present its budget summary. We will move through all the departments in order and a break, and we will take a break if it is necessary, depending on how long we we are we get in the presentation. No question will be taken tonight. The session is intended for presentations only. Tomorrow, day two, uh, we will convene at six o'clock for the questions and answer session. Uh questions will be taken in rotating order, uh, orders order beginning with the order of the first district, then the second district, and continuing through all 15 orders. Each order will have one primary question and one follow-up question per term. Once all orders have a turn, the order will start over for the second round and continue until all questions are completed or until 9 o'clock p.m. Whichever comes first. We will have a 15-minute break at 7 30. All departments will remain available throughout the session to respond to any questions, and I will be keeping time to assure fair and uh efficiency. Thank you all for this for your cooperation as we work together through this review, the view this budget and organize transparency and respectful manner. So tonight we will start. We're gonna start tonight with our uh first department, which would be the racing police department. Yes, yes. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for allowing me to speak prior to the start of this. Um I like the idea that we will be going um alderman by alderman to keep things consistent. Having sat in that chair, I know how difficult it can be to keep track of who is in the queue and in what order, and so I think that's a good step in creating some parody here. However, uh having sat through many of these sessions, both with the county of Racine on that side of the aisle, and with the city of Racine on this side of the aisle. Um I'm concerned that we're going to be taking a shotgun approach.