Input sought on 2021-22 budget

CITY OF SEAL BEACH

The City of Seal Beach will host two City Council Budget Workshops and a Budget Town Hall Meeting to solicit additional input from the community about the city’s proposed annual budget for Fiscal Year 2021-22.

The town hall and workshops will give residents an opportunity to provide feedback and ask questions.

The remaining dates are as follows:

• Council Budget Workshop —Capital Improvements Program (CIP) Tuesday, May 25, at 5:30 p.m.

•Budget Town Hall Meeting— General Fund/Operating & CIP

Tuesday, June 1, at 5:30 p.m.

For the May 25 City Council Budget Workshop, residents may call in to the Zoom meeting via telephone and make live audio comments during the public comment portion of the meeting. Directions to participate in the meeting can be found on the City Council agenda, which will be posted 24 hours prior to the meeting, and on the city’s website at sealbeachca.gov via the city clerk’s homepage.

For the Budget Town Hall Meeting on June 1, the meeting will be held via Zoom Webinar and instructions to participate can be found on the Town Hall Special Meeting Agenda, which will be posted 24 hours prior to the meeting and on the city’s website sealbeachca.gov via the city clerk’s homepage. Residents will be able to post questions during the webinar, and all questions will be answered if possible. Questions may be submitted in

advance by emailing them to budget@sealbeachca.gov. All questions submitted in advance will be answered during the Town Hall Meeting.

Additionally, and in an ongoing effort to encourage community participation and expand community input, the city is introducing a Community Engagement Survey to gather feedback from residents on their budgetary spending priorities. These priorities will be considered during the development of the proposed Fiscal Year 2021-22 budget.

Community members will be able to communicate what activities, services and capital improvement projects are most important to them and how the city is doing overall in providing services and programs to the community. The survey can be found at https:// www.surveymonkey.com/r/SealBeach2021CommSurvey. It may also be found atop the city’s website.

In conjunction with the survey, the city has updated its budget website at https://www.sealbeachca.gov/Departments/Finance/Budget and created a new email where community members can send questions and comments related to the budget. The new email account is

budget@sealbeachca.gov.

—from the City of Seal Beach