City Council Regular Meeting - 10 November 2026

The Mill Creek City Council’s regular meeting, held November 10, 2026 (the meeting metadata lists November 11 UTC), included final public hearings on the 2027–28 biennial budget, 2027–32 Capital Improvement Plan (CIP), 2027 property-tax levy, and 2027–36 surface-water utility rates. Council supported the budget revisions and a 3% cost-of-living adjustment for non-represented employees, with budget adoption scheduled for December 1. Staff reported a $225,000 reallocation from landscape redesign to body-worn cameras and described a CIP with $165 million in programmed projects and $79 million in non-programmed projects. The council adopted the 2027 property-tax levy with a 1% increase; the stated levy amount and some figures in the transcript are garbled. Surface-water staff recommended a proposed rate schedule to support operating needs, regulatory compliance, reserves, and a planned $5.5 million, 20-year callable bond for catch-basin work. Staff said the bond is not being authorized at this stage; an RFP/private-placement process would be pursued and results brought back for review. The transcript does not clearly capture the council’s final action on the surface-water rate ordinance.

Council also approved a stormwater pipe-rehabilitation work-plan contract for traffic-control services, with a not-to-exceed amount transcribed as $244,444; no vendor name is audible. Other spending-related discussion included unfunded CIP priorities such as the Southtown Center, public works facility, and DRCC, and legislative advocacy for annexation-cost assistance and continued infrastructure funding. No public testimony was offered at the budget, CIP, property-tax, or surface-water hearings.