The Glendale City Council returns for its second meeting day of January with a busy agenda, particularly in its afternoon workshop.

That meeting starts at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28 in the Glendale Civic Center, 5750 W Glenn Drive.

A downtown campus reinvestment project leads off the workshop agenda., detailing the exterior work completed in recent months for the remodeling of City Hall.

Next is a presentation on code changes to permitted days for firework use to better align with state laws. This will be voted on later that night.

Glendale also will analyze  the progress of the Glendale infrastructure improvement plan and an update on development impact fees.

City Council will start its involvement in the Fiscal Year 2026 budget process with a presentation on updated five-year financial forecasts of Glendale’s major operating funds, including the general fund. Forecasts for each fund includes projected revenues and other financing sources, expenditures and other financing uses, amounts set aside for annual contingency, and forecasted ending fund balance.

Next is an update on the 2024 annual comprehensive financial report.

The meeting concludes will a presentation on a potential timeline for and the feasibility of seeking a special general obligation bond election Nov. 4, 2025.

Two more proposed industrial projects along the trunk of Loop 303 at Glendale’s western edge will head to a vote by the City Council at its Jan. 28 evening meeting.

One is on 9.4 acres of vacant land just west of Loop 303. The other is on 72.1 acres at the southwest corner of Peoria and Sarival avenues, just east of Loop 303 and south of Surprise.