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City Council Action Summary — December 1, 2025: housing bonds postponed; ballot measures, budget reforms, parks funding, and multiple approvals

AlbuquerqueDec 1, 20253 min read

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The Albuquerque City Council met December 1, 2025 (5:00 PM) in Vincent E. Griego Chambers with nine councilors present. Major actions included passing ballot measures to send a Performing Arts Center charter amendment to voters, approving multiple consent items (transportation and architectural on-call contracts, CIP and aviation adjustments, tourism district fees), amending and postponing a budget-process ordinance as amended, establishing emergency parks turf replacement funding, repealing the St. Joseph Hospital MRA designation, and receiving annual reports from oversight offices. The Juniper Flats gross receipts tax bond ordinance was postponed to December 15, 2025.

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Repealing The St. Joseph Hospital Metropolitan Redevelopment And La Plata Multi-Family Residential Development Relating To The Approval Of A Redevelopment And Equipping The Juniper Flats Housing Development St. Joseph Hospital Metropolitan Redevelopment

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TransportationBudget & TaxPublic SafetyEducationHealthcareCommerceElectionsEnvironmentalHousing

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Postponed O-25-99 (Gross Receipts Tax Revenue Bonds for Juniper Flats project) to December 15, 2025.
Approved EC-25-521: Mayor’s recommendation for citywide on-call engineering services for transportation and storm drainage projects.
Approved EC-25-523: Mayor’s recommendation for citywide on-call architectural services.
Approved EC-25-524: Traffic engineering on-call for the NTMP traffic calming program.
Receipt noted for EC-25-525: Child Friendly Community Action Plan and EC-25-530: Northwest Mesa CPA assessment report.
Passed R-25-197: Amendments to the Adopted CIP for the Aviation Department (transfers, new projects, state grant funding).
Passed R-25-198: Assessing district benefit fees for the Albuquerque Tourism Marketing District per the approved budget.
Passed R-25-199: Establishing funding for affordable housing as a citywide priority for the 57th Legislature's second session.
Approved EC-25-538 (award) and EC-25-522 was withdrawn by administration (Victims of Domestic Violence Advocacy Program related items).
Receipt noted EC-25-535: Q1 FY26 ABQ RIDE quarterly security report (APD, ACS, Metro Security data).
Receipt noted OC-25-47 and OC-25-48 (Office of Inspector General and Office of Internal Audit annual reports) and OC-25-56 (OIG Whistleblower Report).
Passed P-25-8 and R-25-208: adopted a proposition and ballot language to repeal Article XI, Section 7 of the City Charter regarding a public vote on the Performing Arts Center; to be sent to voters.
Amended O-24-67 (Chapter 2, Article 11 — budget proposal process) through multiple amendments and then postponed as amended to December 15, 2025.
Passed R-25-183 as amended: established an emergency parks grass and turf replacement funding source to address dying turf grass citywide.
Passed R-25-204: repealed the St. Joseph Hospital Metropolitan Redevelopment Area designation and plan and amended the Code of Resolutions.
Passed RA-25-8: amended City Council Rules of Procedure (Article III, Sections 4(E) and 6(A)).

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