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The Finance Committee convened on October 1, 2026 at 3:31 PM (agenda listed 3:30 PM) in the City Hall 3rd Floor Conference Room, 1666 North Main Street, Walnut Creek. The meeting adjourned at 4:38 PM. The committee reviewed the FY26 4th Quarter revenue and expenditure results and proposed FY27 budget amendments. Both items were unanimously referred to the City Council. No public comments were received.
Thank you again so much and uh thank you as well for your healthy support and uh to Warren Kitts and Pat for matching. We appreciate it very much. We hope you're enjoying uh your time. We have a couple more for you. Uh before we do that though, I do just want to briefly uh ask uh just recognize any of our city council members or mayor who might be here. Could you please stand? We appreciate your support if you are member of the city council. Whether or not they're here, we're gonna flood them. Thank you. It's a very busy day with two hundred and fifty years. So and also we'd like to just briefly recognize our wanted Creek TV and the Leisher Center reporting folks who got all this set up for us. We really appreciate their support as well. Thank you. And it would be only fitting on a day like today to recognize any active duty or veterans, uh, active duty service men or women or uh veterans who are in the crowd. Uh, this is a salute to the armed forces arranged by Jari Viva. Uh, we invite all veterans and active duty service members who are present to stand when they hear the anthem of their branch of service. This emotional medley weaves together the official songs of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and Space Force to our service members here today, spanning every generation represented in this audience. Your sacrifice is the reason we are able to stand here freely celebrating two hundred and fifty years of liberty. We honor you through these historic melodies. Thank you so much. The coast guard. One more round of applause for all of our veterans. Thank you all for sharing this incredible musical evening with us. Before we play our final selection, we invite you to keep the music going by joining the Wanna Creek concert band for our upcoming Labor Day Park concert. We will be performing live at six PM right here in Civic Park. So bring your lawn chairs. You know what you're doing. If you want to join us for our upcoming full indoor concert series, our season tickets are officially on sale now at Lesser Arts Center dot org. To close our evening, we perform the iconic piece that was officially designated by Congress as the National March of the United States of America, written by our favorite John Philip Souza on a boat ride home from Europe. This piece represents the absolute pinnacle of the American march tradition. As our flutes take on the famously difficult piccolo feature. Enjoy the Stars and Stripes forever. Oh, thank you for so all my all the help. Uh, how about a special round of applause for all of our assistant conductors? Happy birthday, America. We hope to see you again on Labor Day. All right, good morning, everyone. For those of you I have not met, my name is Katie Burrows, and I'm the new president and CEO of the Walnut Creek Chamber and Visitors Bureau. And it's my honor to welcome you here today to our Civic Affairs Candidate Forum. Before we get started, I just want to thank the library, the city, our elected officials, and Sharon Jenkins, Chamber Board Member and Chair of our Advocacy and Civic Affairs Committee. This partnership allows the chamber to bring multiple civic affairs forums to the community, and we focus on important topics and people critical to our community. So we hope that you're you'll be a regular if you are not already. And we do this through connecting stakeholders, advancing policies, driving economic opportunities in the Walnut Creek region. And we work closely with our businesses, the city, downtown Walnut Creek, Broadway Plaza, and many others. We bring patrons to the community with events like the Art and Wine Festival, East Bay Women's Conference, and Startup Walnut Creek. And we provide wonderful networking and awareness building opportunities, access to resources, and a strong voice for the business community. So if you are not a member, which we hope you are, please join us, talk to any of the staff today, or visit Walnut Dash Creek.com. But it is my pleasure to introduce Angela Ashley, who is the chair of the Walnut Creek Chamber Board and CEO and founder of DLHA Law Group.