| Title: | ORDINANCE SECOND READ AND RESOLUTION - BALLOT MEASURE SEEKING VOTER APPROVAL TO AMEND CHAPTER 3-26 OF THE SANTA ROSA CITY CODE TO EXTEND EXISTING ¼ CENT SALES TAX (ADOPTED BY CITY VOTERS AS MEASURE O AT THE NOVEMBER 2004 ELECTION) FOR AN ADDITIONAL TWENTY YEARS AND EXPANDING ALLOWABLE USES OF FUNDING 
RECOMMENDATION: It is recommended by the City Manager’s Office, Finance Department and Communications & Intergovernmental Relations Office that the Council: (1) approve the second read of an ordinance, introduced at the July 12, 2022 Regular Meeting by unanimous vote, to amend Chapter 3-26 of the Santa Rosa City Code to extend a quarter-cent Transaction and Use Tax to fund public safety and violence prevention programs and to expand  permissible uses of the tax revenues; and (2) adopt a resolution directing the submission of a ballot measure to seek voter approval of that ordinance at the November 8, 2022, General Municipal Election and approving related actions. | 
		
		
                        
		
                        
                        
                        
			
				| Code sections: | 15061(b)(3) - General Rule Exemption, 15378 - Not a Project |