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The Scottsbluff City Council met at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, August 31, 2026, in City Hall Council Chambers. The council approved the consent calendar, heard first and second readings of the FY 2026-2027 budget and utility fee ordinances, approved a micro food processing ordinance on third reading, and approved a KENO funding request for a local amateur boxing event.
Let's call the meeting to order. Roll call, midland. Here, Phillips. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. For public information, a copy of the Nebraska Open Meetings Act is available for review. Notice of changes in the agenda by the city clerk. No changes. Items in the consent calendar are proposed for adoption by one action for all items unless any member of the council requests that an item be considered separately. I'll make a motion to approve the consent calendar. I'll second any questions or comments. Okay. Phillips? Yes. Solomon. Yes. McCarrigan. Yes. Stricker. Yes. Resolution and ordinances. Council to consider action on the first reading of the ordinance adopting the budget statement to be termed the annual appropriation bill for fiscal year 26-27. Good evening, Mayor and Council and Desire Finance Director. So you've got the first reading of the budget ordinance, which we've been talking about for months now, it feels like. That is 160 at the end. I inverted those numbers, so that'll be corrected on the next one you get. We're going to read this out three times. So not that big of a deal, but I just added it all up tonight just to double check and make sure that it matched the state spreadsheet. I can figure out where it was, and wastewater was it. So other than that, everything else is good, but that is this is everything that we've been talking about. This is the uh, you know, you see if you look at capital projects, you see 25 million in capital projects. That's purely because of the aquatic center. Um, other than that, that's this is just the but the ordinance that appropriates the funds. Something we're required by statute to do every year. So questions for Lane. Comments on the ordinance. Okay. An ordinance of the city of Scottsbluff, Nebraska to adopt the budget statement to be termed the annual appropriation bill for fiscal year beginning October 1st, 2026, to appropriate sums for necessary expenses and liabilities to provide for an effective date and provide for publication in pamphlet form. Okay, council to consider action on the second reading of the ordinance updating utility user fees, including water, sewer fees, stormwater, and solid waste collection. Good evening again. I just want to point out some additions that we made to this and one correction.