City Council Meeting Monday 2025 05 12

The City of Eau Claire City Council meeting, identified in the title as May 12, 2025 (the supplied meeting-date metadata conflicts), held a public hearing on proposed 2025 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME funding. Because HUD’s official allocation had not yet arrived, staff used prior-year figures to estimate $560,964 in CDBG funding and $258,124 in HOME funding. The committee’s proposed allocations were presented for public comment; staff said the 30-day comment period would end June 9, with final council approval sought June 10. Staff noted that 80% of CDBG funding was planned for projects directly benefiting low- and moderate-income residents and that required HUD limits for public services and administration would be met. The discussion also noted $17,000 in unspent prior-year HOME funding for Habitat for Humanity. No grant award vote occurred at this hearing.

The council also discussed an ordinance to change when employees’ compensatory time is used or paid out to comply with Wisconsin Retirement System rules; city snowplow employees raised concerns about losing the ability to carry time into the new year, but no vote is included in the transcript. A proposed waste ordinance would permit customers to request every-other-week trash collection, without requiring haulers to offer it; public commenters supported the option, and no vote is shown. During general public comment, speakers urged support for a resolution backing the governor’s proposed $480 million in state early-childhood and child-care funding, apparently scheduled for council consideration the next day. No city procurement award or contract approval is identified.