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SANTA FE – In order to assist the City of Santa Fe with its budgetary challenges, City staff, the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce and AFSCME have collaborated to produce a Comparison Cities Report which allows for greater analysis of levels of service and staffing from eleven other cities of comparable size.
No two cities are exactly alike and so side-by-side comparison is an inexact science but by comparing Santa Fe with Las Cruces, Flagstaff, Lubbock, Boise, Sarasota and others, trends can be seen as to programs, priorities and costs of operating local governments.
The three organizations have collaborated in the comparison process in order to provide the Santa Fe City Council with relevant facts as they make the difficult decisions necessary to balance the city budget for FY 2016-17 and for the future. The Chamber’s Ad Hoc Committee previously released a report with 40+ possible budgetary actions to assist the governing body.
The report compares areas such as parks and recreation, planning and zoning, finance, information technology and transportation and presents staffing level averages for each sector so that the City Council can be aware of other cities operations and priorities.
An analysis of the data shows:
COMPARISON CITIES REPORT