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Subcommittee discusses forming community working group to advise on budget deficit
Summary
Santa Rosa staff proposed creating an ad hoc working group to advise the city manager on closing the multi-year budget gap. Committee members favored transparency and community representation but flagged Brown Act and logistical constraints.
On April 22 the Long Term Financial Policy and Audit Subcommittee discussed a staff proposal to form an ad hoc budget-deficit working group to advise the city manager and help shape recommendations for the 2026–27 budget.
A staff member described the proposed working group as an ad hoc, short-term body modeled loosely on Pleasanton’s community-based budget committee. The staff member said the group would include community representatives and union members and would aim to provide transparency, community input and recommendations that could inform the city manager’s budget development. “The idea behind…
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