The Santa Fe City Council held a regular meeting on Oct. 8, 2025. The following is a concise summary of formal actions recorded in the meeting transcript, with outcomes and key details.

Votes at a glance

- Agenda approval: Motion to approve the meeting agenda — Outcome: approved by roll call.

- Consent agenda: Motion to approve as amended — Outcome: approved by roll call.

- BAR: Reclassify 87 Public Utilities positions (Item 9b) — Motion to approve BAR to appropriate approximately $1,005,495 from water/wastewater enterprise funds for salary and benefits (see separate coverage). Outcome: approved by roll call (yes 9, no 0; one councilor excused).

- BAR: Allocate $10,000,000 from the 2025 GEO bond to FY26 Complete Streets and paving projects (Item 10b) — Motion to approve. Outcome: approved by roll call.

- BAR/appropriation: Carryover $1,225,850 from FY25 to fund land use contracts for the general plan update and short‑term rental software (Item 10a) — Item was initially tabled to allow packet material distribution; council later removed the item from the table and approved the BAR after staff distributed materials. Outcome: approved.

- Cooperative project agreement ratification: Second amendment to the NMDOT cooperative agreement for Guadalupe Street reconstruction to extend federal closeout through Dec. 30, 2025 (Item 10c) — Motion to ratify the city manager’s administrative approval of the amendment; staff said the extension facilitates federal closeout. Outcome: approved by roll call.

- Settlement approval: Approval of settlement agreement and release in Mark Lopez v. City of Santa Fe — Settlement amount: $375,000. Outcome: approved by roll call.

- Ordinance (final action): Amend city code to stop requiring adding fluoride to water systems and continue monitoring naturally occurring fluoride — Final ordinance adopted (Bill 2025‑17). Outcome: approved by roll call.

- Ordinance (final action): Establish 10 plaza pushcart vendor licenses for vendors with 25 consecutive years vending eligibility (Bill 2025‑19) — Outcome: approved by roll call.

- Resolution: Update water offset fee schedule to reflect current market value for water rights (increase to $36,000 per acre‑foot was described) — Outcome: approved by roll call.

- Appointments: Arts Commission, Planning Commission and Economic Development Advisory Committee appointments and reappointments (several individuals named in the packet) — Outcome: approved by roll call.

Vote roll‑call excerpts and formal action entries

The transcript contains roll‑call confirmations for each motion recorded above; where roll calls were taken, the clerk read each councilor’s name and recorded the vote. Where councilors provided brief explanations of their votes, those explanations are preserved in the transcript.

Provenance (selected bills and where they appear in the transcript)

- Reclassification of Public Utilities positions (Item 9b): topic intro block — "Item 9 b ... here to speak is interim public utilities department director Jesse Roach." (transcript s=5535.32). Topic finish block — vote and explanation recorded (transcript s=6916.605).

- GEO bond paving allocation (Item 10b): topic intro block — "Item 10 b ... allocate $10,000,000 from the 2025 geo bond..." (transcript s=8322.301). Topic finish block — roll call approving the motion (transcript s=8661.49).

- BAR for land use contracts (Item 10a): topic intro block — "Item 10 a ... allocate unused funding from FY25 ... to land use contracts" (transcript s=7947.125). Topic finish block — item removed from the table then approved after packet material distributed (transcript s=9229.26).

- Guadalupe project extension (Item 10c): topic intro block — "Item 10 c ... cooperative project agreement number 23‑0597 ... extend the agreement term" (transcript s=8668.005). Topic finish block — ratification vote (transcript s=9140.03).

- Settlement: topic intro block — reconvened from executive session and approval language read (transcript s=13336.09). Topic finish block — roll call approving settlement (transcript s=13377.855).

- Fluoride ordinance (Bill 2025‑17): topic intro block — public hearing language and staff overview (transcript s=14518.325). Topic finish block — roll call approving the ordinance (transcript s=14740.226).

- Pushcart vendor license ordinance (Bill 2025‑19): topic intro block — ordinance caption and public hearing (transcript s=14746.811). Topic finish block — roll call approving ordinance (transcript s=14814.966).

- Water offset fee resolution: topic intro block — caption and staff overview (transcript s=14822.546). Topic finish block — roll call approving resolution (transcript s=15127.335).

Notes and next steps

- Several items required or will require additional administrative steps: a BAR to consolidate budgets into the new Conservation and Sustainability Division; staff post studies and raw survey data for the living wage discussion; and retention/incentive design work and certifications incentives under the new utilities classifications.

- Where staff indicated items were approved administratively before council ratification (for example the Guadalupe cooperative agreement amendment), council ratified the administrative action during the meeting.

Provenance for the votes-at-a-glance article: topicintro and topicfinish segments for each listed bill are cited above as timestamps extracted from the meeting transcript.