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Santa Fe officials create working groups on housing, land use and seniors and set October timetable
Summary
Elected leaders voted to create cross‑jurisdictional working groups (housing/homelessness, land use/annexation, seniors & child care), asked staff to coordinate membership and resources, and directed managers to schedule an October joint meeting to check progress.
With broad agreement that smaller, action‑oriented teams would be more productive than full‑body deliberations, both the City of Santa Fe and Santa Fe County authorized the formation of multiple working groups to tackle housing and homelessness, land‑use/annexation, and seniors/childcare. The city expanded the list to four working groups to ensure assignment flexibility; the county passed a matching motion.
Mayor Garcia said the city would circulate a doodle poll to find an October date; county managers said the county would coordinate an October meeting on its side as well. Elected members asked managers to ensure staff support and to avoid over‑burdening departmental workloads given the short timeline; staff cautioned that additional coordination could require modest support funding or reallocation of staff time.
The working groups are intended to meet monthly and return recommendations and concrete deliverables at the December 2026 joint meeting, with interim updates starting in October.
