June 10, 2024 3:50 a.m.

It’s a busy agenda for the Roseburg City Council meeting on Monday night.

Councilors will adopt the 2024-2025 budget. Total budget appropriations are just under $110 million.

Department items will include a vote on purchasing four new SUVs for the police department. The 2025 Ford Interceptors, with up-fitted police equipment, are expected to cost just under $292,000.

Councilors will vote on ratifying the contract with the Roseburg Police Employees Association. The three-year agreement calls for 5 percent wage increases in July of 2024 and 2025, and a wage increase of between 2 percent and 5 percent in July of 2026, based on the consumer price index for the western region of the U.S.

There will be a vote on the use of American Rescue Plan Act funds for information technology upgrades, park improvement projects and to design and bid a project to finish the unfinished portion of the third floor of the Public Safety Center.

A property exchange with Umpqua Community College will be considered. It would include deeding two city-owned parking lots to the college, with the city getting the Woolley Center on West Harvard Avenue. The college plans to move programs currently operating in the Wooley Center into the former Newberry’s building on Southeast Jackson Street.

Mayor Larry Rich will proclaim June 4th as Optimist Day, in tribute to the club’s 50 years of service in Roseburg. He will also proclaim June 2024 to be LGBTQ+ Pride Month.

Other items are on the agenda. The meeting will begin at 7:00 p.m. in the council chambers. It can be seen on the city’s Facebook page or viewed later at:: www.cityofroseburg.org.