Cotati Measure S oversight committee approves FY 2023–24 spending report and will transmit it to city council

The Measure S Citizens Oversight Committee of Cotati City voted to accept the committee's fiscal-year 2023'124 report on Measure S revenue and expenditures and agreed to transmit the report to the City Council.

Angela Quarter, Cotati's director of administrative services, presented the committee with a summary of Measure S receipts and uses for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024. Quarter said Measure S is a voter-approved 1% local sales tax first approved in June 2014 as Measure G and renewed in November 2020 as Measure S, which the city records as remaining in effect until repealed by voters.

Quarter told the committee the city recorded approximately $3,000,000 in Measure S receipts for FY 2023'124 after state administrative fees; quarterly receipts averaged about $768,000 compared with about $792,000 per quarter the prior year. She attributed the decline to a shift in consumer spending patterns, saying more purchases were for services rather than tangible goods.

Quarter described how the city classifies Measure S uses by type (operations and maintenance versus improvements and equipment) and by program. For FY 2023'124 the packet shows program-level allocations by percentage: streets, sidewalks and storm drains (38%); public safety (23%); parks and landscape (18%); recreation (14%); and public buildings (8%). Quarter gave dollar totals and examples of work funded: roughly $1.1 million for street, sidewalk and storm-drain work including design and construction projects and ongoing maintenance; just under $700,000 for public safety including fleet replacement and pedestrian safety upgrades; just over $500,000 for parks and landscape work, including ongoing maintenance and park construction; about $250,000 for public-building maintenance and IT infrastructure; and roughly $420,000 for recreation staffing and programs, which Quarter said are fully funded by Measure S.

Quarter also described the city's audit process. Bedawi and Associates performed the city's financial audit, delivered a clean opinion for the fiscal year, and reported results to the City Council in February 2025. Quarter said the auditors issued a statement of Measure S revenues and uses that is included in the city's financial statements.

After the presentation a committee member offered to move acceptance of the report and transmit it to council. The committee voted in favor; committee members announced "aye" and there were no objections or abstentions. The committee recorded one absence. The committee chair then adjourned the meeting.

The committee packet and staff presentation list additional project-level details by department and packet page references for members seeking line-item particulars. The committee will forward the approved report and a transmittal letter to the Cotati City Council for its information.