Select Budget Committee — Minutes 2023-11-30
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The Select Budget Committee met on November 30, 2023, with seven members present and one excused absence. The Committee unanimously recommended (8–0) that City Council adopt Resolution 32116, which updates the city's biennial budgeting processes and establishes guidelines for mid-year budget changes and data sharing requirements, superseding prior Resolutions 28885 and 31954. The Committee also unanimously recommended passage of Council Bill 120716, establishing a Fiscal Transparency Program requiring periodic reporting of budgetary and financial information to the Council and public. Additionally, the Committee unanimously recommended passage of Council Bill 120717, requiring that appropriated money for human services contracts be used exclusively for wage increases beyond inflationary adjustments for human services workers. Council Bills 120602 and 120601, relating to water business taxes and capital asset excise taxes respectively, were discussed but no recommendations were recorded.
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