Editing Cotati, California (section)

===Budget crisis===
In order to cope with declining revenue, the City instituted a series of budget cuts, starting in 2007. As of August 2009, the City expected to run out of money in its General Fund within a year.<ref>City of Cotati 2008 Water Quality Report, distributed in August 2009</ref>

In April 2010, Cotati voters passed Measure A, which imposed a 0.5% sales tax for five years. In June 2014, they passed Measure G (by a vote of 922 to 808) to increase the city sales tax to 1%.<ref name=2014election>{{Cite web|title=Final Results for Consolidated Primary Election – June 3, 2014|url=http://vote.sonoma-county.org/content.aspx?sid=1009&id=3146|access-date=August 25, 2014}}</ref><ref name="PD-tax">{{cite news
| last         = Carter
| first        = Lori
| date         = May 14, 2014
| title        = Cotati's Measure G asks residents to raise sales tax
| url          = http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/1862746-181/cotatis-measure-g-asks-residents
| newspaper    = Press-Democrat
| location     = Santa Rosa, California
| access-date   = August 25, 2014
}}</ref>