Homer mayor's budget code proposal drops off Monday's council agendas

Homer Mayor Rachel Lord's proposal to amend the city's budget code is off the City Council's agendas for Monday, and the agendas don't say why.

Tentative agendas had the council discussing Lord's proposed ordinance Monday and introducing it that evening, with a public hearing recommended for Nov. 9. The final agendas, posted Friday, don't include it.

What the ordinance would change hasn't been published. The tentative agendas listed it by title only, and Monday's meeting packet doesn't include it. Lord told the council Oct. 12 that she would bring forward "an ordinance amending the section of City Code related to setting the City's budget," according to unapproved minutes.

That chapter of city code sets Homer's budget calendar and rules, including the requirement that the budget be balanced. Under it, the city adopts a two-year budget every second year of a mayoral term. The city manager presents preliminary assumptions by the third Friday in April and a proposed budget by the third Friday in May, according to the code as printed in the city's current budget, which covers the fiscal years ending in June 2026 and June 2027.

After Monday, the council's next regular meeting is Nov. 9.