Incumbent City Councilmembers Mark Hughes and Alan Schwartzman will take the oath of office Tuesday.

The two ran unopposed, but their names were kept on the Nov. 4 ballot to remind voters they were seeking a return to the Council.

Hughes received 5,792 votes, and Schwartzman received 5,607. Another 267 votes were cast for write-in candidates. More votes, 4,431, were cast by mail this year than were done at polling places on Election Day (2,465).

Historically, the candidate who gets the most votes is named vice mayor, but Tuesday’s meeting also gives members of the Council the chance to nominate and elect someone to that post. Tom Campbell is the current vice mayor.

Also Tuesday:

• The American Association of University Women and the League of Women Voters Benicia will give the Council a joint report on its candidates forum, which City Attorney Heather McLaughlin described as “a success,” though her report to the Council recognized that this year’s forum was a one-time partnership of the two organizations.

• Schwartzman will be appointed to a one-year term on the Council’s appointment subcommittee.

• The Council will vote on contract extensions with Management Partners for the services of interim Community Development Director Dan Marks, and with Renne Sloan Holtzman Sakai for labor negotiations services.

• Campbell will ask the Council to consider deciding whether City Treasurer Kenneth Paulk should be a voting member of the Finance Committee.

• Economic Development Manager Mario Giuliani will ask the Council to review a schedule of Measure C projects that could be underwritten by the 1-cent sales tax increase approved by voters Nov. 4.

About $2 million of the anticipated $3.7 million in revenue would be used on equipment purchases and infrastructure projects, and the rest would be spent on maintaining city services at the current level.

Of the infrastructure projects, Giuliani listed $150,000 for replacement of the pier promenade railing; $80,000 for replacement of police radios; $100,000 for a downtown sidewalk repairs project; $200,000 for replacement of playground equipment; $400,000 for replacement of dispatch and records system; $50,000 in plans and specifications for the Industrial Park Road project; $292,000 for a wildland fire engine; $100,000 for storm water management and flood mitigation plans; $200,000 to repair road damage; $500,000 to repair and pave Southampton Road, Panorama Drive, Hastings Road and safety crossings at Benicia Middle School; $448,492 for a new fire engine; $1 million to patch and pave Industrial Way from Teal Drive to Lake Herman Road; and $400,000 to repair the pool desk and restrooms at the James Lemos Aquatic Center.

Those projects are expected to be finished by fall of 2017, he wrote.

• The Council will hear an annual report from the Community Sustainability Commission. That panel was seated in 2010 as part of the adoption in 2009 of the city Climate Action Plan to oversee development of ways the city could put into effect elements of the plan to reduce water and energy consumption as well as the production of greenhouse gas and other pollutants.

In 2010, the city itself produced 4,800 metric ton equivalents of carbon dioxide, and the community, excepting Valero Benicia Refinery and AMPORTS, the company that operates the Port of Benicia, produced 688,700 metric ton equivalents of the gas.

The 2020 emission goals are 4,127.2 metric tons in city operations and 438,355 metric tons communitywide.

• Parks and Community Services Director Mike Dotson will recommend the Council adopt a naming policy for parks, open spaces, trails and other city features and buildings as memorials.

Though some places already have been named for individuals, the city has no formal criteria to follow, Dotson wrote in a report. In the past, requests were presented to the Parks, Recreation and Cemetery Commission for recommendation to the Council, which has final vote.

He is recommending names have some connection to the site and be of historical, cultural or regional significance; that memorials be for those who have been dead at least three years; and that a place may be named for an individual, group or organization if a monetary contribution is given that exceeds 50 percent of the capital costs of the site, so long as the honoree has a record of good citizenship and the naming request is made at the time of the donation.

• Dotson also will ask that the Parks Commission meet the second Wednesday of every other month, rather than meeting monthly.

• The Council will hear a first-quarter update to the actual receipts and expenditures to the 2014-15 budget.

Finance Director Karin Schnaider wrote that Benicia will receive a distribution of property tax revenue this month and in January, which won’t appear until the second and third quarter reports. Franchise fees and business license revenues also will be reported later in the fiscal calendar, she wrote.

She wrote that the Water Operations fund is receiving less in revenue as customers heed the city’s request to cut back on water use during the drought. The Council’s drought surcharge is expected to stabilize the fund, she wrote, and she’ll advise the Council during the third and fourth fiscal quarter how well the strategy is working.

The city has eight internal service funds that get revenue from administrative overhead charges to other funds. Of those, the insurance fund is at 68 percent of its operating expenditures because of a large, one-time settlement, Schnaider wrote.

She is recommending that budgeted funds from Fiscal Year 2013-14 for ongoing or postponed projects be shifted to the current budget, and that the Council make minor amendments to the adopted budget to accommodate actual income and spending.

The Council will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday in a closed session to discuss legal and personnel matters. The first regular meeting will start at 7 p.m. and the second meeting will start at 8 p.m., both in the Council Chamber of City Hall, 250 East L St.