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Pleasanton council approves revised budget engagement plan, seeks outside review and adds workshops
Summary
Pleasanton council on Jan. 9 approved a revised plan to develop a two‑year budget, authorized a budget advisory committee and asked staff to seek an independent review of the city’s long‑range financial forecast. The vote was 4‑1 on the engagement plan; the advisory committee was unanimous.
The Pleasanton City Council voted to adopt a revised community engagement plan for the city’s two‑year budget process and to form a citizens’ budget advisory committee, after multiple hours of a budget workshop and public comment on Jan. 9.
City leaders also added two extra council workshops to review forecast assumptions and directed staff to solicit an independent professional review of the city’s long‑range financial forecast and underlying assumptions.
The revised engagement plan combines an online engagement tool, one town‑hall style meeting, and a citizen budget advisory committee that will meet before the council adopts the two‑year budget in June. City staff emphasized that the two‑year budget is the immediate priority but that a longer‑term financial strategy — including pension and infrastructure funding — will follow.
Finance Director Susan Shea described the city’s fiscal condition during a preceding workshop, telling the council that the city faces “a structural deficit” and a…
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