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City attorney outlines flat budget, records staffing growth and IPRA upgrades; committee raises vacancy-accounting concerns
Summary
The city attorney described a largely personnel-driven budget focused on salaries and recent expansion of the records-custodian team and policy staff, and the committee pressed for clarity on a citywide vacancy-credit accounting approach that departments say has caused confusion about recruiting.
The City of Santa Fe’s city attorney told the finance committee the office’s FY26 budget is “bare bones” and driven primarily by personnel costs, and she outlined recent staffing increases in legislative support and records-custodian functions and a planned technology transition for public-records requests.
“We're primarily, you're paying for people,” the city attorney said, summarizing that salaries and benefits account for roughly 87% of the office’s budget when positions are filled. She said the office now includes 12 staff (eight attorneys including the prosecutor, three paralegals and an office administrator) and that the largest recent change has been adding records-custodian positions and a…
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