The Finance Department and Comptroller presented September financial results and disagreed on projections; staff defended a 9.5% cap in a modernized master bond ordinance while warning the proposed right-of-way fee's $104M revenue remains contingent on approvals from bondholders, TWDB and the Attorney General.

Committee members discussed a backlog of recommendations from bond performance audits (43 total) and proposed routing implementation follow-up to the facilities committee, bond accountability committee and policy committee, with quarterly check-ins reported back to the audit committee.