City Council - Regular Meeting

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

The Santa Rosa City Council continued its study session on the Fiscal Year 2026-27 Operations and Maintenance Budget and Capital Improvement Program Budget. Discussions included the Housing Authority, internal service funds (IT, HR, Risk, Fleet), enterprise funds (Transit, Parking, Bennett Valley Golf Course, Santa Rosa Water), and the citywide Capital Improvement Program, with a focus on financial challenges and potential service impacts.

About this meeting

Government Body
City Council
Meeting Type
City Council
Location
Santa Rosa, CA
Meeting Date
May 6, 2026

Transcript

8 sections

4:18 – 6:13Speaker 1

Audio. Thank you very much. Back to you. Thank you. All right.

6:13 – 15:11Speaker 1

We'll move on to item three. And then we'll end with a And we'll end our conversation today really with final part of our And then as you can see Yes. Software Excel software. I'll mention some highlights in that programming for That's purely based on time. We find out what our premiums year.

15:11 – 16:44Speaker 1

That is less corresponding the increase that we're seeing on your bases versus us being a little short last year on multipartners. And this year, Again, Florian coming in as a fire CFO. Questions. It would be my first question walking in And organization. Often what you will see is these reserves.

16:47 – 21:17Speaker 1

Wanna make sure just right. We Budget highlights for transit. Diesel and gas taxes, but also local sales tax. That 70% For all of the administrative help that we get. City attorney's office, etcetera.

21:36 – 24:00Speaker 1

Third bullet is really to bank the $1,000,000,000 We appreciate to make sure that that happen. If that happens, we will have We're in an okay spot. The year. That was one of our findings from them is that we were not meeting federal standards for maintenance. But those It was.

24:00 – 28:11Speaker 1

Buses did so much service. It's not showing up in cities. So we actually draw it from MTC. That 1.3 Most of the revenue is from those outside sources from state, local, and regional funding. There are about 20 sources of revenue in total that make up the transit enterprises revenue total.

28:11 – 30:09Speaker 1

The $30,000 My colleagues. So just advance at the moment. This might be the one that we did that is conservative. This really does not factor in only the increase in rates that came to counsel. And really, that's a function of this is this is how we always do it.

30:11 – 2:39:03Speaker 1

It's correcting this. They will. This is specifically for support in the Downtown Betterment District. The parking fund supports that of a $121,000. Prepares, in quantasprings.org.

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