CITY COUNCIL MINUTES
City of Campbell, 70 N. First St., Campbell, California
STUDY SESSION MEETING OF THE CAMPBELL CITY COUNCIL
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 – 5:00 PM
City Hall Council Chamber
70 N. First St., Campbell, California
This City Council meeting was duly noticed pursuant to open meeting requirements of the Ralph M. Brown Act (G.C. Section 54956).
CALL TO ORDER
The City Council of the City of Campbell convened this day in the special meeting place, the City Hall Council Chamber, 70 N. First St., Cam pbell, California.
ROLL CALL
Attendee Name Title Status
Anne Bybee Councilmember Present
Terry Hines Councilmember Present
Elliot Scozzola Councilmember Present
Dan Furtado Vice Mayor Present
Sergio Lopez Mayor Absent
PUBLIC COMMENT
Public comments were provided following staff presentations.
NEW BUSINESS
1. Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Study Session - Preliminary Workplans, Operating Budget, and Capital Improvement Plan (CIP)
Recommended Action: That the City Council receive an update and provide feedb ack on preliminary Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Workplans, the FY 2026 Operating Budget, and the 2026 - 2030 Five-Year Capital Improvement Plan (CIP).
Department Head staff presented information on the developed FY 2026 Workplans based on Council ’s adopted priorities of Long-Term Land Use Minutes of May 6, 2025 City Council Meeting Page 2
Planning & Housing, City Infrastructure; Financial Stability, Sustainability, and Community Health & Safety. Also included were Workplans relating to Operations and CIP.
The City Council asked general questions on the Workpl ans.
Staff presented information on the preliminary FY 202 General Fund Budget, discussing, revenues, expenditures and deficits. This included information on position vacancies, decreased CIPR funding, personnel requests and other significant factors such as sales tax losses, increased insurance premiums and contractual obligations. It was noted that current budg et projections showed a General Fund Budg e t deficit of $3. 23 million .
Staff presented information on corrective budgetary considerations such as temporary hiring freezes, utilization of CalPERS pension reserve, an d deferral s of some one-time requests.
In response to an inquiry, City Manager Loventhal confirmed he will be making his recommendations at the June 3 meeting, on the deferral of the one-time and recurring requests based on Councilmember feedback.
Staff presented information on the FY 2026-203 0 Capital Improvement Plan . (CIP)
Vice Mayor Fur tado asked if anyone from the public wished to speak.
Carlos Duran, re presentative of the NorCal Carpe nters Union expressed concerns on the potential of postp oning City employees with Cost of Living Adjustment s (COLA) and requested a lternative considerations and project deferrals to fund staff COLA ’s .
Vice Mayor Furtado called for a recess at 6:33 p.m. The City Council reconven ed at 6:38 p. m.
Councilmember Hines commented on Workplans noting support for the Police Department Drone P rogram and pavement maintenance projects. He recommended looking at the w orkplan items and eliminating those that are lower priority services. Councilmember Hines encouraged staff to continue pursu ing grant opportunities .
Councilmember Bybee supported keeping expen ditures st atus quo and considerations of health care increas es should be discussed with labor groups , with an effort to support emplo yee health care costs. Also supported by Councilmember Bybee was a temporary hiring freeze on vacant positions; the personnel requests submitted ; and a 6-month deferral on the Drone pro gram .
She did not support the use of pension reserve funds .
Minutes of May 6, 2025 City Council Meeting Page 3
Councilmember Scozzola di d not suppo rt the use of pension reserve funds. He suggested rev iewing ind ividual budge t lin e ite ms to see if reductions can be made.
Councilmember Furtado supported freezing tempor ar y positions , decreasing temporary and contra ct staff , and removing the proposed new one-time General Fund e xpenditure request s as presente d as attachment D in the staff report . He did not support cutting funding to the Street Maintenance programs or utilizing the pens ion reserves .
ADJOURN
Vice Mayor Furtado adjourned the meeting at 6:52 PM
APPROVED :
ATTEST:
Dan Furtado, Vice Mayor
Andrea Sanders, City Clerk