By JIM BUTLER 

The proposed budget and a change of direction vis-à-vis GAEDA are back on the Alexandria City Council agenda today. 

Action on both was delayed two weeks ago to allow opportunity for the administration and council members to get on the same page with either or both. 

Mayor Jacques Roy urged the council to retain a cooperative endeavor agreement with GAEDA and explore projects other than the old Weiss & Goldring building to work together on. 

Councilman Malcolm Larvadain agreed to a delay in a vote on rescinding the CDA to allow further talk. 

Jules Green had the most budget questions and adoption was delayed to allow his and any others to be answered. 

That budget includes no provision for updated electricity, gas, water and sanitation rates, essentially unchanged since 1986. 

Consultants last August recommended changes. No such action has come before the council and as fall elections grow closer are less and less likely to. 

On the subject of elections, Roy, Larvadain, Green and at-large councilman Jim Villard have filed campaign finance reports. 

Roy reports $12,000 in 2025 contributions as he prepares to run later this year – $6,000 each from William Fontenot and Sam Mahfouz. 

The mayor spent $1,400 during the year and, including $3,500 balance from previous years, had $14,000 on hand Dec 31. 

Larvadain, filing for future election, contributed $3,500 to his campaign fund on December 31.  During the year the fund repaid him for an earlier loan. At year’s end the fund balance was $2,100. 

Green filed six reports this period, five related to previous campaigns. He reported no 2025 contributions and $800 expenditures, with a year-end balance of $1,800. 

Expenditures included a $200 assessment in June for hus campaign filing a supplemental report to his 2024 election 18 days late. 

According to Ethics Commission minutes, the fine was initially $600 but reduced when Green appealed. 

The relatively minor levy is one of hundreds assessed by the Commission. Records show many of them languish in unpaid status. 

Records also show Green more fortunate than Council President Cynthia Green Perry, whose appeal of a $2,500 fee for being 33 days late in filing an amended disclosure from 2023 was denied in April 2025. 

Villard, whose term expires this year, reported no campaign contributions in 2025. Expenditures were $4,800, leaving a fund balance $1,600.