City Council members reviewed a draft of study-session topics and dates for April through June during the Jan. 13 legislative committee meeting and asked staff to finalize scheduling for several items the council had previously requested.

The nut graf: The scheduling discussion framed near-term policy priorities for trade- and investor-facing events (ICSC), incentives and development policy, and social-service and public-safety items the council asked to see in study sessions prior to the council’s March trip to Washington, D.C.

Councilors and staff discussed where to place an economic development incentive policy update, a retail-leakage dashboard, the PRG committee annual update, the land-development code joint session with the Planning Commission, grant and budget briefings timed before and after the Washington, D.C. trip, and a homelessness/parks briefing the council requested earlier in the conversation.

Staff said they will: try to put the economic development items on the April 14 study session; schedule the PRG committee update on April 28 (with transportation master-plan items); aim to provide a first-quarter budget update in May; and reserve June dates for remaining study sessions and items that emerge as priorities. Staff agreed to circulate calendar updates and to notify departments so they can prepare materials. Multiple council members asked staff to add maps of approved commercial land and to provide comparative data on business sales/use taxes and development costs when the economic-development discussion is scheduled.

Council members asked that the developer outreach meeting currently proposed for Feb. 6 be re-surveyed because several council members said they will be unavailable on that date. Staff agreed to recirculate availability options and to look for an alternative date. The committee also asked staff to bring back a grant-status briefing in time to inform the delegation meetings in Washington.

Councilors requested a stand-alone homelessness discussion — including warming-center operations, mobile showers funded through ARPA and outreach — noting a warming-center activation planned for the weekend of Jan. 18 and local coordination with community partners. Staff said warming-center decisions already scheduled would be communicated and that a park-curfew discussion tied to a homelessness/parks briefing was planned for a study session.

No formal votes were taken; staff will circulate a revised calendar and schedule departmental briefings accordingly.