City Council won't send a new gross receipts tax to voters

Awards a contract for technical staffing at concert productions. The record gives no amount or company.

Would add funds to the city's agreement with the law firm Modrall Sperling for outside legal work. The amount is not in the record.

Awards a contract for homemaker, personal care and respite care services. The record gives no amount or provider.

For you: People who use these in-home care services.

Confirms Ripley B. Harwood, Frank Coppler, Joshua Howard and Justice K. Irons as hearing officers for the Independent Hearing Office.

For you: People with cases before the Independent Hearing Office.

Lets the city apply for money from the Safe Streets and Roads for All grant program. The amount sought is not in the record.

For you: People who walk, bike and drive on city streets.

Awards a contract for drug and alcohol testing services. No amount or vendor is given.

Awards a contract to manage pharmacy benefits and hold down costs in workers' compensation. No amount or vendor is given.

Awards on-call redevelopment services contracts for the city's redevelopment agency for the 2027 budget year. No amounts or firms are given.

Confirms the mayor's reappointment of Lauren Sandoval to the Housing & Neighborhood Economic Development Committee.

Confirms the mayor's appointment of Michael W. Plantenberg to the Indicators Progress Commission.

Confirms the mayor's appointment of Jessilyn S. Hobby to the Biological Park Board.

Confirms the mayor's appointment of Benjamin J. Tobias to the Human Rights Board.

Confirms the mayor's appointment of Cecilia J. Navarrete to the Albuquerque Museum Board of Trustees.

Approves the Transit Department's 2026 Title VI program. The record does not describe what is in it.

For you: Bus riders.

Lets several city departments apply for and accept grants, and budgets the money. The record lists no grants or amounts.

Appoints directors to fill seats left open by resignations on the board of the Saltillo Public Improvement District.

For you: Property owners in the Saltillo Public Improvement District.

Accepts a federal Housing and Urban Development Continuum of Care grant for the federal 2025 year and budgets it to the Department of Health, Housing & Homelessness for the city's 2027 budget year. No amount is given.

For you: People facing homelessness.

Accepts a federal Land and Water Conservation Fund grant, run by the state Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, and a state Department of Finance and Administration grant to pay part of the Crestview Bluffs Park project. No amounts are given.

For you: People who live near or use Crestview Bluffs Park.

Approves a grant application to the Dennis Friends Foundation and budgets the money to the Animal Welfare Department for the 2026/2027 budget year. No amount is given.

For you: Pet owners and people who adopt from city shelters.

Approves a grant application to PetSmart Charities and budgets the money to the Animal Welfare Department for the 2026/2027 budget year. No amount is given.

For you: Pet owners and people who adopt from city shelters.

Accepts a state Office of Gun Violence Prevention violence intervention grant and a state Healthcare Authority behavioral health grant through an agreement with Bernalillo County. The money goes to the Albuquerque Community Safety Department for the 2027 budget year. No amounts are given.

For you: Residents served by the Albuquerque Community Safety Department.

Changes an earlier resolution to adjust money for the Golden Forward Gizmo projects. The record does not describe the projects or the amounts.

Approves a state economic development act project to help Eden Pharmaceuticals expand its compounding pharmacy and fulfillment center in Albuquerque. An amendment fixed the company's name in the title. The record gives no dollar amount.

Lets the city issue a taxable industrial revenue bond of up to $25,008,118 to build and equip the Dreamcatcher Journal Center Hotel, a Home2 Suites by Hilton with an expected 103 rooms.

Would let the city issue a taxable industrial revenue bond of up to $40,520,267 for the Dreamcatcher Sawmill Hotel, a Hampton Inn and Home2 Suites with an expected 135 rooms. An amendment passed 6-3 (Baca, Bassan, Champine, Grout, Peña, Rogers for; Fiebelkorn, Lewis, Telles against), then the City Council put it off to Aug. 3.

Forms the Savio Ridge Public Improvement District at the request of Pulte Homes of New Mexico. It approves a special levy on property in the district, a development agreement and limits for district bonds, which the record says are not the city's obligations. A Councilor Telles amendment failed 4-5.

For you: Future property owners inside the Savio Ridge district.

Would have asked voters at the next general election to approve a 0.4875% city gross receipts tax for essential services, called the Community Enhancement and Local Investment Tax. An amendment passed 9-0, but the question failed. A motion to reconsider also failed 4-5 (Baca, Bassan, Grout, Peña for; Champine, Fiebelkorn, Lewis, Rogers, Telles against).

For you: Everyone who buys goods and services in Albuquerque.

The law that would have set the new gross receipts tax was withdrawn. The agenda's proposed version split the money 50% to city operations and cost-of-living and 50% to community projects, starting no sooner than July 1, 2027, after an election.

For you: Everyone who buys goods and services in Albuquerque.

Creates a Storm Water Utility law and adds a definition of desert-adapted green storm water infrastructure to the storm water quality rules. Ten amendments passed first. The City Council also extended the meeting to midnight, 7-1, with Councilor Rogers against.

For you: Property owners and residents served by city storm drains; the record does not say about any fee.

Creates a Tax Increment Finance Board and updates the powers of the Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency and the City Council to match. Ten amendments from Councilor Telles all failed.

Adds a sunset review rule that requires a periodic check of whether every city board, commission or committee is still needed and works well.

Repeals laws for boards no longer in use, including the Information Services Committee, the Central Avenue Business Advisory Board, the Commission on Alcohol and Substance Abuse and the Balloon Fiesta Park Commission. It creates a task force to merge two committees the record calls GAATC and GARTC, and changes the Selection Advisory Committee.

Would ask voters at the 2026 general election to change the City Charter on how the city attorney and city clerk are appointed and removed, and on their independence.

For you: Voters.

Would ask voters at the next city election to change one section of the City Charter. The record does not say what the change does.

For you: Voters.

Adjusts spending in the 2027 budget year for certain funds and programs. The record does not list the changes or amounts.

An update on city departments' work to protect and conserve pollinators.

The agenda listed a closed session on a personnel matter tied to the Inspector General investigation of City Attorney Lauren Keefe. President Peña said there would be no motion to hold it.