Alan Webber
Mayor

Alan Webber is Santa Fe’s 43rd Mayor and the City’s first full-time executive. He was elected in March 2018 and again in January 2022.
As Mayor, he is focused on making Santa Fe the most user-friendly, eco-friendly, and family-friendly city in the country.
Alan has been married to Frances Diemoz for over forty years. They have two children, Adam and Amanda.
Before running for Mayor, Alan built a career in business and journalism, most notably as the Editorial Director of the Harvard Business Review and Co-Founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Fast Company Magazine.
Most administrations, when they move into “lame duck” status, begin to slow down and cut back on getting things done. This is just a partial list of the last few months of work:
- Mayors for a Guaranteed Income program extended another year
- Safe and successful markets, fiestas, and Zozobra
- Fire Department fully staffed
- Police Department fully staffed
- Police Department reports moved online for ease of use and accessibility
- Affordable Housing Director hired
- New Payroll System installed
- ARF Truck delivered to Airport
- Land Use systems being digitized
- Las Estrellas land donation successfully made
- Tourism continues to win outstanding ratings for Santa Fe as destination
- Direct flights to Los Angeles implemented
- Guadalupe improvements completed and opened
- Midtown Infrastructure planning reaches 60% completion
- Two new ENAs approved to move forward at Midtown
- Santa Fe and Japan cooperate on UNESCO programming
- City Poet Lauriat awarded NEA grant
- New film production back lot opens at SFCC
- New Wastewater and Water rates implemented
- Fluoride legal problem solved with natural solution and monitoring
- Nichols Dam completed
- Go Bond money comes in and is ready for expenditure
- With Audits in order, outside fiscal agent no longer needed
- With Urban Alchemy at Agape House, calls for service decrease 72%
- AFSCME Contract negotiated and approved
- 3% Excise Tax appeal is successful, City initiates new affordable housing revenue stream
- Land Use Code update moves forward for adoption
- Living Wage proposal goes through committees and moves toward adoption
- Improved preparation for emergencies, and better facility security at public buildings
- Budget reforms move toward implementation, including goals, objectives and KPIs
2025 Pride Month Proclamation
2025 Men's Health Week Proclamation
2025 Disability Pride Proclamation
2025 National Gun Violence Awareness Proclamation
2025 Elevate the Spectrum Day Proclamation
2025 Cecilia Rios Day Proclamation
2025 Vitalia Maestas Garcia Day Proclamation
2025 Poetry Month Proclamation
2025 Black History Month Proclamation