City Manager Transition — Leadership at a Pivotal Moment

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Pleasanton is conducting a city manager search at a particularly consequential moment in its development. The City Council is recruiting Pleasanton's next permanent City Manager and seeking community input through a brief online survey open through June 29, 2026 at 5 p.m. — asking residents, business owners, employees, and visitors to share their perspectives on the qualities, experience, and priorities they believe are most important for Pleasanton's next leader. The permanent city manager will inherit a city managing simultaneous challenges: the housing production push at the city's edges, a downtown specific plan update, a hotel tax measure heading toward the ballot, a comprehensive financial audit underway, and a five-year strategic plan at its midpoint. The city manager is the most operationally influential position in Pleasanton's council-manager government — more so than any individual councilmember — and the choice of permanent leader will shape how these priorities are executed.

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