{"id":3795,"date":"2025-10-27T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/points-of-interest\/?p=3795"},"modified":"2025-10-29T12:34:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:34:44","slug":"2026-mid-biennial-budget-hearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/points-of-interest\/2026-mid-biennial-budget-hearings\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Mid-Biennial Budget Hearings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Yakima City Council will have three public hearings for the preliminary 2026 mid-biennial budget:<\/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\">Ad Valorem Tax (property tax) collection in 2026<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wednesday, Nov.12th at 5 pm: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/council\/assets\/budget-hearings-2026-mid-biennial_web.pdf\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/council\/assets\/budget-hearings-2026-mid-biennial_web.pdf\">budget-hearings-2026-mid-biennial_web.pdf<\/a><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tuesday, Nov. 18th at 6 pm: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/council\/assets\/budget-hearings-2026-mid-biennial_web.pdf\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/council\/assets\/budget-hearings-2026-mid-biennial_web.pdf\">budget-hearings-2026-mid-biennial_web.pdf<\/a><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Hearings will be held at City Hall and via Zoom<\/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 budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2025-26 preliminary mid-biennial budget is available at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/finance\/files\/2025-2026-Preliminary-Budget-Final.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/finance\/files\/2026-Proposed-Budget-Mid-Biennial-Final.pdf\">2026 Proposed Budget &#8211; Mid-Biennial<\/a><\/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\/\">Live Stream | City Council (yakimawa.gov)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Live public comment during the budget hearings is available in person or via Zoom. Click&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/council\/public-comment\/\">Public Comment | City Council (yakimawa.gov)<\/a>&nbsp;for instructions and a Public Comment Request Form.<\/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\">Y-PAC Ch-194 (yakimawa.gov)<\/a><\/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\/points-of-interest\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2\/files\/sites\/2\/2026-mid-biennial-budget-hearings-2-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6339\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;width:459px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/points-of-interest\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2\/files\/sites\/2\/2026-mid-biennial-budget-hearings-2-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/points-of-interest\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2\/files\/sites\/2\/2026-mid-biennial-budget-hearings-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/points-of-interest\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2\/files\/sites\/2\/2026-mid-biennial-budget-hearings-2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/points-of-interest\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2\/files\/sites\/2\/2026-mid-biennial-budget-hearings-2-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yakima City Council will hold public hearings for the 2026 mid-biennial budget. Click &#8220;Find Out More&#8221; for details, including options to watch the meetings and a link to the preliminary budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-points-of-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/points-of-interest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/points-of-interest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/points-of-interest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/points-of-interest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/points-of-interest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3795"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/points-of-interest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6345,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/points-of-interest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795\/revisions\/6345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/points-of-interest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/points-of-interest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/points-of-interest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/points-of-interest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}