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City of Pleasanton Operating Budget • FY 2023/24 - FY 2024/255 <br />• State <br />In January 2023, the Governor released his proposed FY 2023/24 budget that projected a deficit of more <br />than $22.5 billion. This is in stark contrast to just a year earlier when the state projected a surplus of nearly <br />$98.0 billion. The State Legislature is currently going through its spring budget hearing process, and <br />numbers from the May Revision will provide more accurate projections. Based on the California State <br />Department of Finance’s monthly bulletin from March 2023, the state general fund’s cash receipts for the <br />first eight months in the current fiscal year were $4.7 billion or 4.1 percent below their forecasted amount <br />due to lower personal income, corporate, and sales & use taxes. This trend aligns with what is being <br />observed at a national level: the economy is slowing down. <br />• Local <br />Pleasanton’s economy, along with neighboring cities and the greater San Francisco Bay Area, initially <br />faltered during the pandemic but has largely recovered. The local unemployment rate was under 3.0 <br />percent in 2022 and has increased slightly to 3.3 percent, as of March 2023. This percentage is lower than <br />the Alameda County’s rate of 3.8 percent, California’s rate of 4.4 percent and 3.5 percent for the nation, <br />all as of March 2023. Pleasanton’s housing values, following the regional trend, peaked in spring 2022 and <br />decreased through the end of last year before increasing again in 2023. The median sales price of $1.5 <br />million is 17.9 percent lower year-over-year, but due to the small number of homes sold, the median sale <br />price can fluctuate significantly. <br />In terms of commercial activity, a 360-unit multi-family housing project at the Stoneridge Shopping Center <br />was approved by the City Council in March 2023. This project, initially proposed by the Simon Property <br />Group in August 2019, was on pause through 2020 and early 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With 58 of <br />the units designated as low-income, this project will add to the housing inventory in the city. 10x Genomics <br />is continuing its efforts to build a new biotechnology campus at 1701 Springdale Avenue to complement <br />its existing space at 6230 Stoneridge Mall Road. In the Johnson Drive Economic Development Zone, Costco <br />and two hotels are expected to begin their operations sometime during FY 2023/24, and Kaiser Permanente <br />recently announced that its administrative team, which is approximately 10 percent of its workforce, will <br />relocate from Oakland to Pleasanton at 4460 Hacienda Drive starting in 2024.