All-Day Budget Hearings Tuesday for Santa Cruz City Council

Tuesday is the day that city departments present their budgets to the City Council, and officials decide what stays and what is cut. 

You can watch live at the City Council Chambers at 809 Center St., Room 10, or on Cable Channel 25. You can download an agenda and keep track like it's a baseball scorecard here. 

And you can read Patch's budget primers and

Most importantly, you can go down to chambers and make your suggestions. Surprisingly, so few people bother to give input that the ones who do get heard better than you might imagine. It's really a big chance to have a voice in how your city is run.

The schedule is: 

8:30 a.m.

Introduction: Budget Message (City Manager), Budget Overview and Trends (Finance Director)

9:15 a.m.

Water

9:45 a.m.

Public Works

10:30 a.m.

Library

11 a.m.

Parks and Recreation

11:30 a.m.

Economic Development and Redevelopment

Noon

LUNCH

1 p.m.

Planning and Community Development

1:30 p.m.

Police

2 p.m.

Fire

2:30 p.m.

Administrative Services

3 p.m.

Finance

3:30 p.m.

City Manager/City Clerk: Membership and Dues (Attachment A)

3:45 p.m.

City Attorney 

4 p.m.

City Council

4:15 p.m.

BREAK

5 p.m.

City-Supported Services: CVC, Cultural Council, Native Animal Rescue and Community Programs