Monday January 6, 2025
6:00 p.m.
Cookies & Cider from 5:30 p.m.
Where:
University of Puget Sound
Welcome Center – 3211 N 15th St
Presentation Room (#102)
Virtual – Via Zoom
Meeting ID: 882 2046 7648
Passcode: 649767
If your home has the average assessed value of $428,400, you paid $959.61 to the City of Tacoma and
$522.65 to Metro Parks as part of your property taxes.
Come and listen to Reid Bennion, City of Tacoma Financial Services Manager and Tania Wink Metro
Park’s Chief Financial Officer talk about their 2025 budgets and how your property taxes are assessed
and adjusted.
Agenda:
1) Call to order, adoption of agenda —
2) Introductions and welcome—
3) Announcements —
4) Approval of Minutes
5) Treasurer’s Report
6) Standard Liaison Reports
Police
-Tacoma Public Utilities
-City Manager’s Office
7) City Council Member Reports
8) City of Tacoma 2025 Budget Update
Reid Bennion, City of Tacoma Financial Services Manager, will present a 2025-2026
Budget update and answer questions.
9) Metro Parks Tacoma – Update
Alisa O’Hanlon Regala, Metro Parks Strategic Planning Manager
and Chief Financial Officer Tania Wink will give a presentation and
answer questions.
10) Old Business
· Amici House
· Historic District Moratorium
· Lowell Elementary School
· Rendering Plant
· MFTE
11) New Business
12) Adjournment
NOTE: Our next meeting will be Monday, February 3 when Deputy Mayor John Hines will lead a
conversation on Tacoma’s Tree Ordinance.
Draft Meeting Schedule and Topics for 2025
January 6 – Budgets (presentations from the City of Tacoma and Metro Parks)
February 3 – Tree Canopy (Deputy Mayor John Hines will address the potential for a tree ordinance)
March 3 – Cushman/Adams Reuse & Park Trails
April 7 – Public Works/City Services and Tacoma Public Library
May 5 – Historic Preservation
June 2 – Legislative Review
July 7 – Sustainability/Climate/Garbage/Pollution
August 4 – Tacoma Tree Foundation (Following associated Tree Tour of UPS Campus at 4:30 pm)
September 8 – Homeless Concerns
October 6 – Local Election – Candidates Forum
November – TBA (NENC Board Elections)
December 1 – TBA