Budget Agenda Scans

32 items reviewed, 18 with fiscal impact. ≈ $7.70M new/amended spending — the last consent calendar before summer recess. Largest: Santa Fe Trackbed park ($3.69M), Life-Assist EMS supplies ($1.55M), Swifthawk wildfire coordinator ($1.00M). Plus ≈$2.72M contingent authority and ≈$2.26M incoming grants. Changed from draft: Dell IT +$2.90M amendment dropped; plaza naming pulled by the City Manager. Flagged: Item 27 refers Hopkins Street repaving with bikeways — a $14–15M project with no identified funding, whose obvious source (Measure FF) legally cannot pay for the bike lanes. Also covers the July 23 Budget & Finance Committee: mandatory competitive bidding for services contracts over $100K.

27 items reviewed. ≈ $2.87M new/amended spending — mostly Public Works: 10 electric Silverados ($790K), 9 parking enforcement vehicles ($550K), Belfor emergency restoration (+$400K). Plus $2.74M incoming state public-health grant. Key finding: the FY2027 budget was not adopted on July 7 — it was continued to July 14 and grew +$750K to $922.3M gross / $796.6M net. Also sends three tax measures to the November ballot: arts parcel tax, public bank parcel tax, and doubling the soda tax to $0.02/oz as a special tax.

11 items reviewed. ≈ $830K new/amended spending (Tyler Technologies CAD +$750K; Willdan nexus studies $80K), ~$80K incoming JAG grant revenue, $560K in referred/future appropriations. Correction: the FY2027 Appropriations Ordinance was continued to July 14, not adopted on July 7.

51 items reviewed. ≈ $8.56M new/amended spending, $105M in borrowing/bond issuance, ~$439K incoming revenue. Largest items: N. Berkeley BART predevelopment (+$3.36M), Cedar Rose Park playground ($1.72M).