The council this week delayed discussion of draft budgets until early March.
Cr Christine Garey asked if this might compromise consultation timing.
Council chief executive Sandy Graham said it would not.
"It shortens the time for preparation of any required consultation document, but it doesn’t change the consultation window," she said.
Public consultation is expected to happen in April, followed by hearings and deliberations, and the plan needs to be adopted in June.
Ms Graham said the council would determine the draft budgets in March and then decide how it wished to approach consultation.
The public will also need to be consulted on the future of Enterprise Dunedin, as the council proposes to set up a council-controlled organisation (CCO) to run it.
Ms Graham said CCO consultation might need to happen before the council’s 2027-37 long-term plan, so it could be carried out separately.
Enterprise Dunedin is the council’s economic development and destination marketing agency.
The unit has operated from within council operations.
The council decided this week its preferred option was to establish a CCO to run it — a move that requires a special consultative procedure.
A transition steering group is to consider matters such as a consultation timeline and the level of resourcing that could be needed for a CCO.
