Cal. Apartment Assn. v. City of Pasadena (2025)

Citation: Cal. Apartment Assn. v. City of Pasadena (2025)
Parent Document: Cal. Apartment Assn. v. City of Pasadena (2025)
Jurisdiction: California (state)
Effective Date: 2025-12-18
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10761039/cal-apartment-assn-v-city-of-pasadena/ ↗

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       Citing these provisions, petitioners assert that Measure H
intrudes on the budget authority of the City Council, Mayor, and
City Manager and, in doing so, “sets up an independent,
competing center of fiscal power” in the City government. The
relevant Charter provisions do not establish such an intrusion or
conflict.
       The Charter provides the City Manager with the power and
duty “[t]o prepare and submit to the City Council the annual
budget.” (§ 604(H).) It further describes the preparation and
adoption of the City’s annual budget as follows: By the end of
February, the Mayor presents a thematic budget message for the
upcoming fiscal year to the City Council. (§ 902.) Public
suggestions and comments on the Mayor’s budget proposals are
then received and considered before City departments prepare
and submit budget estimates to the City Manager. (Ibid.) Next,
the City Manager submits to the City Council a preliminary
budget of the City’s probable expenditures and revenues for the
succeeding fiscal year. (Ibid.) The City Council then holds a
public hearing after publishing notice of the proposed budget and
the hearing. (§ 903.) Finally, the City Council considers the
proposal and makes any advisable revisions before adopting a
budget by the end of June. (§ 904.)
       Petitioners fail to demonstrate how the Rental Board’s
standalone authority to establish its own budget and finance its
own operations through rental housing fees imposed on landlords
in any way affects the budget process for the rest of the City’s
operations. Instead, the Rental Board’s budget powers and
duties are entirely separate from those of the City Council,
Mayor, and City Manager. Petitioners make the point that,
before the Rental Board’s creation, all powers related to the City’s

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