Tempe City Council Special Budget Meeting - July 2, 2025: Adoption of FY 2025/26 Property Tax Ordinance
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Tempe City Council Special Budget Meeting - July 2, 2025
Note: The agenda listed the meeting date as Tuesday, July 1, 2025, but the provided metadata indicates the meeting took place on July 2, 2025, at 20:00 UTC. This summary uses the July 2 date as instructed.
The City Council held a second and final public hearing to adopt the Fiscal Year 2025/26 Property Tax Ordinance (Ordinance No. O2025.29). The first public hearing was held on June 5, 2025. No public testimony was offered, and the council voted unanimously to adopt the ordinance.
Public Comments & Testimony
- No members of the public offered testimony during the public hearing.
Discussion Items
- Councilmembers had no comments or questions for staff regarding the property tax ordinance. The item was moved by Vice Mayor Garland and seconded by Councilmember Hodge.
Key Outcomes
- The council voted 7-0 to adopt the Fiscal Year 2025/26 Property Tax Ordinance. The roll call vote: Council Raj, Councilmember Adams, Councilmember Keating, Vice Mayor Garland, Councilmember Chin, and the Mayor (all voting aye). The vote occurred at 11:59 PM (time noted in transcript).
- The meeting adjourned, with the next scheduled special budget meeting noted for May 14, 2026.
Meeting Transcript
The only item under the section is two A, which is to hold the second and final public hearing to adopt the fiscal year twenty twenty-five twenty-six property tax ordinance. Uh council members, any comments uh for or questions for staff regarding item two A. All right, this also is a public hearing, so I'm gonna open up this uh public hearing. Is there any public testimony on this item? See if there's anyone in the audience wishing to address the council on the uh adoption of the fiscal year twenty twenty-five twenty-six property tax ordinance. If so, please get my attention. Okay, seeing that I'll close the public testimony, the portion of the public meeting. Uh council members, any comments or discussion? Okay, it's been moved by Vice Mayor Garland and seconded by Councilmember Hodge. All those in favor? Oh. Okay. Uh I vote aye as well. I'll do a roll call, Council Raj. Councilmember Adams? Councilmember Keating? Vice Mayor Garland? Councilmember uh Chin? And I vote aye as well. That item passes seven to zero at eleven fifty-nine PM. So with that said, um the item number three is adjournment. The next scheduled special budget meeting will be on May fourteenth, twenty twenty-six. Uh that meeting is adjourned. All right, we're going back in.
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