The city council approved a ten-item consent agenda that included a telecommunications franchise ordinance and a collective bargaining agreement with the police officers' guild. Following this, the council reviewed a $70.1 million supplemental appropriation to amend the 2025-2026 biennial budget, adjusting for unanticipated revenue changes and ongoing capital project needs. A key component of this supplemental budget was the removal of $5.5 million in banked capacity revenue to spare taxpayers a double tax increase following the recent passage of Proposition 5, while utilizing an interfund loan to ensure a local fire station project remained fully funded.
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Vancouver City Council · Apr 06, 2026 · 44:06–44:29 · Watch on CVTV ↗
Keywords: consent agenda supplemental budget appropriation
What was said
43:04 language is that you want to use basically letting people know that you're coming around to give the proclamation and potentially have a photo you know just think about the different things that we're doing in the meetings that lend itself to to description and that allows when we use audible site to make sure we have a full picture of it not only in what we're presenting but you know a software is only as good as what it's getting so if we're describing our activities very well we won't necessarily need to rely on the softer so for example when you have occasion to ask the city manager or the city attorney to to tell you about something during a meeting you'll want to call the city manager by his name you want to say city manager lawn lawn plug on will you please do x or we'd like an opinion from city attorney and state her name and then also too when you are interacting with each
43:59 other you'll want to say each other's name so mayor for example in that last in the in the item before the supplemental budget when you call on your colleagues to speak you said yes and then turned them so what you'll want to do now is say yes counselor hands Hansen you may speak or yes counselor Stover you may speak so you'll just need to be a little bit more attuned to making sure that people know who is speaking so before you speak for the first time you'll want to introduce yourself so counselor Paulson whenever you speak you'll want to say counselor Eric Paulson and then then go into it and over time people will begin to recognize their voices but if you're attending one of our meetings for the first time it's still important that we that we do that every time staff will have a heavier lift than you they will have to change how they describe visuals when I think about the
44:55 presentation that Chad and Patrick gave you today during during the workshop it was a very good presentation I was taking notes of the things they did very well and I was also taking notes of some of the some of the habits that we're going to need to change and one of those habits are we're going to need to describe charts a lot a lot better or a lot more descriptively than we do we're going to have to let people know when we go to the next page or for example at the end of that presentation mayor you said can we go back to the previous slide what you'll want to try to do is say can we go back to slide 13 so it's just it's little things like that and eventually it's like anything once
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cross_cutting keyword 44:06–44:29 consent agenda, supplemental budget, appropriation
lug on will you please do x or we'd like an opinion from city attorney and state her name and then also too when you are interacting with each other you'll want to say each other's name so mayor for example in that last in the in the item before the supplemental budget when you call on your colleagues to speak you said yes and then turned them so what you'll want to do now is say yes counselor hands Hansen you may speak or yes counselor Stover you may speak so you'll just need to be a little bit