City manager outlines 2025 council goals, highlighting housing, parks recruitment and budget timeline

City Manager David Guin told the Culture & Fine Arts Commission that the City Council's 2025 goals will drive staff work and the coming budget process, with particular emphasis on housing, parks and recreation and fiscal stability. "I do wanna touch on three things," Guin said, introducing the update: council goals, the parks and recreation director recruitment and the 2025-26 budget process.

Guin said housing is the council's top priority and framed the work as a combination of preserving existing affordable units, acquiring or converting existing units and building new ones. "When housing developments do come in, that we're all working together to make sure that they're successful, and not pushing people out," he said. He also described coordination with Sonoma…