{"id":15745,"date":"2025-10-15T11:00:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=15745"},"modified":"2025-10-15T11:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:02:11","slug":"public-hearings-announced-for-2026-mid-biennial-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/public-hearings-announced-for-2026-mid-biennial-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Hearings Announced for 2026 Mid-Biennial Budget\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Yakima City Council will have three public hearings for the preliminary 2026 mid-biennial budget:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Wednesday, Nov. 12th at 5 pm: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/council\/assets\/ad-valorem-tax-public-hearing-2026_web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ad Valorem Tax (property tax) collection in 2026<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Wednesday, Nov.12th at 5 pm: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/council\/assets\/budget-hearings-2026-mid-biennial_web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">budget-hearings-2026-mid-biennial_web.pdf<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tuesday, Nov. 18th at 6 pm: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/council\/assets\/budget-hearings-2026-mid-biennial_web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">budget-hearings-2026-mid-biennial_web.pdf<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Hearings will be held at City Hall and via Zoom&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The purpose of the public hearings is to accept input, comments, and\/or questions from community members and other affected parties regarding the preliminary mid-biennial budget.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2026 preliminary mid-biennial budget is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/finance\/files\/2026-Proposed-Budget-Mid-Biennial-Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2026 Proposed Budget \u2013 Mid-Biennial<\/a><strong><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The public hearings air live on Y-PAC, Charter Spectrum Channel 194, and on the City of Yakima website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/council\/live-stream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Live Stream | City Council (yakimawa.gov)<\/a><strong><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Live public comment during the budget hearings is available in person or via Zoom. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/council\/public-comment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Public Comment | City Council (yakimawa<\/a>.gov) for instructions and a Public Comment Request Form.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All City meetings are available to view on-demand on the Y-PAC website, <a href=\"https:\/\/videos.yakimawa.gov\/CablecastPublicSite\/?channel=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Y-PAC Ch-194 (yakimawa.gov)<\/a><strong><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/finance\/files\/2026-Proposed-Budget-Mid-Biennial-Final.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/2026-mid-biennial-budget-hearings-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15746\" style=\"width:434px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/2026-mid-biennial-budget-hearings-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/2026-mid-biennial-budget-hearings-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/2026-mid-biennial-budget-hearings-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/2026-mid-biennial-budget-hearings-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-658856f2-1688-436d-8d43-1dbe7b006db4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/2026-mid-biennial-budget-hearings-News-Release.pdf\">2026 mid-biennial budget hearings &#8211; News Release<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/2026-mid-biennial-budget-hearings-News-Release.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-658856f2-1688-436d-8d43-1dbe7b006db4\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yakima City Council will have three public hearings for the preliminary 2026 mid-biennial budget:&nbsp; Hearings will be held at City Hall and via Zoom&nbsp; The purpose of the public hearings is to accept input, comments, and\/or questions from community members and other affected parties regarding the preliminary mid-biennial budget.&nbsp; The 2026 preliminary mid-biennial budget<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15762,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15745\/revisions\/15762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}