Ranked #1 Best Place to Live and Work as a Movie Maker in North America for a third straight year—2023, 2024, 2025.
Awarded Gold Level Family Friendly Business Award from Family Friendly New Mexico.
Increased salary and compensation: 3% across the board increases; second phase of Classification and Compensation increases; $1,000 retention incentives for all City employees.
Hired 18 police cadets and 12 police lateral officers, bringing the SFPD vacancy rate down to 8.6%.
Produced 12 new cadets, 2 of whom are female, for SFFD.
Rapid hire events resulted in 37 job offers for Recreation, Transit, and Building Maintenance staff; seven Parks and Fleet management job offers; and seven additional Transit job offers.
Increased Library use by 14% since 2019, with 835,407 items checked out in 2024.
Hosted NEA Big Read Event (“Circe” with more than 250 participants and 600 book checkouts.
Expanded the Teen Center to serve more than 1,000 teen members, and added a new podcast/music studio.
Added more than 600 Senior clients, expanding services to more Santa Fe residents.
Delivered more than 150,000 meals with congregate and home-delivered food programs.
Delivered almost 20,000 rides to seniors, providing mobility and independence.
Engaged 268 Senior athletes in the Senior Olympics, promoting healthy aging and community participation.
Expanded the Senior Companion Program, with volunteers providing more than 17,500 hours of in-person and telephone companionship.
Implemented major upgrades to the Mary Esther Gonzales Senior Center, including new accessible restrooms, meeting spaces, and an expanded fitness center.
Distributed more than $7 million of ARPA funds to 22 Santa Fe organizations addressing homelessness, domestic violence, poverty, and economic mobility.
Provided direct financial relief to 357 low-income households through cash assistance programs totaling $2.5 million.
Established Santa Fe’s first micro-community for 10 unsheltered individuals and couples, providing housing, case management, and support services.
Secured $1.36 million in new grants to fund homelessness services, youth intervention programs, and domestic violence response.
Produced the last of 4 audits in 18 months, bringing the City back into timely audit compliance, with a clean audit.
First groundbreaking at Midtown, on the multi-million dollar Aspect Media Village, including affordable housing, jobs, education and training, remodeling of The Screen, a restaurant, and six-figure capital investment.
Completed Phase 1 of the update of the Land Development Code, Chapter 14.
Initiated the city-wide effort to update the City’s General Plan, the first update since 1999.
The second-most desired city destination in the United States, according to both Conde Nast Traveler and Travel and Leisure Readers' Choice Polls.
Hosted 228 meetings and events in the Community Convention Center, using the facility for 295 days or 80% occupancy.
Maintained record-setting occupancy and rates in hotels and short-term rentals, yielding more than $17.5 million in lodgers’ tax collections.
Constituent Services sent 1 million emails to constituents and resolved more than 4,500 work orders submitted by constituents.
Procured two new ARFF trucks for Airport safety and two new ambulances to provide a state-of-the-art public safety response.
Responded to more than 20,000 emergency calls (68% EMS-related), 400 fires, and 500 mutual aid responses to assist the County.
Deployed SFFD personnel to 13 different wildland fires and three swift water deployments across the country.
Responded to 10,703 IPRA requests.
Increased usage of the “Eye on Water” app from 11% to 21%, helping customers monitor water usage and save water.
Completed Phase 1 of the Passenger Terminal expansion project to provide a modern, comfortable, customer-friendly waiting area.
Upgraded the Airport security system, including more than 100 cameras, a new Airport badge design, and additional access control devices.
Executed 60 capital grant agreements from the Legislature for $49 million.
Filled more than 7,300 potholes with three separate Pothole Paloozas.
Completed the $15 million Solarization and Energy Efficiency project.
Upgraded 30 traffic signals with new controllers and eight signals with new signal detection radar.
Renewed more than 40 crosswalk markings, 150 speedhump markings, and 100 arrows and stop bars; replaced more than 200 street name signs and more than 2,500 roadway signs that were faded or damaged.
Launched a $1 million TreeSmart Santa Fe initiative to plant 500 trees over the next 3 years.
Removed 21,000 pounds of debris from 63 river and arroyos, with 1,500 volunteer hours.
Retrieved 5,311 shopping carts taken from retailers and abandoned on City streets and sidewalks.
Collected 800 tons of litter, weeds, and waste.
Installed 900 yards of mulch on City athletic fields, 582 tons of new infield soil at Alto Bicentennial Ron Shirley Park, new turf at Ragle Park’s baseball field, and new soccer turf at Salvador Perez Field.
Completed 9 miles of crack and seal repairs on four main City trails.
Lowered the Citywide Community Appearance Index from 2.37 in 2024 to 1.98 in 2025, where the lower the number, the better the appearance.
Collected 30 tons of trash during the Great American Cleanup, maintained 56 medians, sponsored four new utility box murals, and one new community mural.
Cleaned up 862 encampments citywide at a cost of $463 per encampment.
Demolished two nuisance properties and pursued five active abatement properties through the nuisance abatement process.
Hosted 45 film and video productions, including features, episodic TV, high-end photo shoots, student films, and other shows.
Gained $1.6 billion in direct expenditures in the Santa Fe region since the Film Office was created in 2016.
Served more than 50,000 people on the City’s Margarita Trail so far.
Prevailed in significant litigation, including land use cases involving Old Pecos Trail and the annexation issue versus the County, among others.
Filed 219 DUI cases with an 86% conviction rate, 207 shoplifting cases, and 511 petty misdemeanor cases.
Issued 248 single-family permits, 20 Auxiliary Dwelling Unit permits, and 54 affordable unit permits; since tracking began in 2021, 488 units are under review, with 138 affordable units; 3620 units were approved, with 1014 affordable; 2133 units are under construction, with 209 affordable units; and 4083 units have been completed, with 485 affordable units.
