The Finance, Administration, and Communications (FAC) Committee of the Whole met on February 10, 2026, at 4:30 PM to consider six agenda items: approval of the 2026 committee workplan, a draft amendment to the Council Rules of Procedure, a delegated contract authority grant threshold, an annual CUES GraniteNET software contract, the 2027-2028 biennial budget calendar, and an informational update on the Respect, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (REDI) program. The meeting extended approximately 10 minutes beyond the scheduled hour to accommodate the REDI update.
I'm calling to order the February 10th Finance Administration and Communications Committee of the Whole on February 10th, 2026. All council members are in attendance. We have six items on our agenda. And the first item on our agenda is the Finance Administration and Communications Committee of the Whole 2026 Work Plan. And so we'll we'll just talk through this. I'm not gonna screen share unless council members feel that it's necessary. But I'll talk through some of the items that we see on here and then and then take any comments or questions from council members. Under the executive area, we see that a couple things are on here. First of all, we'll have monthly ready updates that's respect equity, diversity, and inclusion. Um, so that way we can really track the work. Council's been very interested in that, um, and especially the hiring for the positions that we budgeted for that work. So we'll be getting those updates, including one at today's meeting. Um of the items that I suggested that we put in this area is to um just have an item since this is the communications committee. We often have items that come up with council about how we're engaging with the public, um planning for things like council conversations or other types of um uh efforts that we might do to be able to communicate with the public from council. So just put that on as a quarterly touch base with our communications staff for the council to be able to provide ideas and feedback, especially since quarterly we have our council conversations as well. Um, and then some other items that you'll see just in there that I'll just note is um is that we'll hear some other updates on city communication strategies and investments in the last budget. We invested um significant new dollars into additional communications resources. So we'll be seeing some updates on that in the first quarter, and then some follow-up on how we are strategically looking forward on how we improve on communication. So just want to kind of highlight that because we I think haven't seen those items as much in this committee, but I'm hoping we'll see more. There's some other items that fall under executive as well that you all can review. Um, I think generally we'll summarize this as budget. It's a budget year for us, so we'll be using this committee to be doing some prep on budget items, um, and then uh and then other um financial items as needed. Um we'll also hear TIS updates, our technology and information service updates, um, and you'll see there's especially some of the big updates on investments that we make into our enterprise technologies. Um, we'll also be seeing our data governance policy come back in this committee as well, which has been an area of interest for the council. Um, and I've also asked that that come back as as uh both in uh in the first quarter as well as that we see it again in the third quarter because um there's been a lot of interest from council on that. And then last I'll I'll note on um HR, there's several union agreements that'll that'll come through that that we'll have discussion on. Um, and that this is this year is the year for the salary commission to be able to look at at um their decisions. So we'll hear updates on that. And actually, when we established um a salary commission that's ongoing, we established that members would serve terms. So you'll see later that we are gonna have some items that come up in the second half of the year for us to choose new uh uh candidates potentially for vacancies on our salary commission. Um those are a couple things and some mostly on HR. A lot of the things will go along with our budget that we'll also see pay-benefit um changes near the end of year. Um that's just a general summary of what we see on the agenda for this committee. Happy to open up if there are questions or any items that we should add to this um work plan before we're approve it. Council member Forsyth. Thank you, and thank you for the touch on the salary commission. I was that was one of my notes of like, didn't we just do that? And forgot that the we have the ongoing process now. So thanks for that information. Um I did have one note about um the comms team and that work. I noticed in one of the recent um police postings where we had made the decision to have this uh the school zone cameras when we had that conversation. We framed it and we really wanted the social media to go out with um information about how that money would be used back into education programs for like the the ticketing funds. And a lot of the feedback that's um noticing on those posts are about this is just a money grab. So I just wonder if there's um a gap we can fill potentially within this committee. Great, thank you. Yeah, and my thought was because I think questions like that have come up with council is just use this committee to have a regular touch base with our communication staff so we can ask those types of questions and give feedback because I think all of us do get this um this kind of ongoing feedback from community because that's part of our job is to see what questions are coming up from policies that we've passed. Um so but I can pass that back to the staff and see if there's anything that we can kind of add to address that as ongoing. Other questions? Um, Councilmember Nueva Comina, Council Vice President. Thank you.