Everyone this we are now in session like to call to order the expanded budget finance and audit standing committee for today, March 30th, 2026.

Good morning, Madam Clerk.

Will you please call the roll?

Councilmember Scott Benson.

Councilmember Letitia Johnson.

Present.

Councilmember Denzel Anton McCampbell.

Present.

Councilmember Reneta Miller.

Member Miller did uh send a notice indicating that she would not be present.

She's dealing with uh family concerned at this moment.

Clerk will so not council member Gabriela Santiago Romero.

Present.

Councilmember Mary Waters, Councilmember Angela Whitfield Callaway.

Council President Pro Temperor Coleman A.

Young the Second.

Thank you.

Here.

Council President James Tate.

Here.

Mr.

President, you have a quorum present.

Thank you.

We have a quorum present, which means we're now in session.

Madam Clerk, I've neglected to indicate that Member Waters did send a memo indicating that she would not be present for this morning's session.

So uh that absence is excused as well.

Cycle so note.

Thank you so much.

Uh Pro Tim Young.

Mr.

President, I don't know if I could do this, but I just want to say for the sake of expediency.

I want just to admit all my questions to everyone writing, other than the city council divisions, because I might have to say something about that, but other than that, I'll just want to know if I could just kind of get ahead of the process, just submit all my questions in writing.

You just say hello to everybody as we can move ahead.

Would that be okay?

Yes.

And congratulations to the abudsman again.

All right.

Thank you so much, Pro Tim.

Just want to give everyone kind of a layer of the land on how today is going to go.

Uh today we are uh at last uh Friday we did end up suspending all of the budget hearings that were scheduled for today uh to allow for uh an hour from 10 until uh 11 for our oversight agencies to provide uh the body um their uh desire uh and presentation uh and need if you will for proportional funding uh as discussed initially last year and approved last year.

Uh did not see it in the uh mayor's proposed budget.

I wanted the um oversight agencies again to have an opportunity to come before this body and give a presentation narrowly focused on that area.

Uh so we will have all three.

We did have uh originally the umbudsman's office scheduled for 10 a.m.

Um but again we will not have full presentations from the oversight agencies.

Um but the we'll allow them to have an opening statement clearly, uh, but then we will go in secession.

Um their presentation solely focused on the uh proportional funding and the request for that in this particular budget.

Uh following that, uh we will then jump right into executive session.

Uh, we'll have Mr.

Corley give just a brief overview of where things are, uh, and then we will begin our executive session process.

We will not be having questions during the uh oversight agencies um presentation.

Uh there will be an opportunity to do that later at a later date, certainly through uh email and offline conversations, but because of how truncated our uh process is this year, we're trying to identify efficiencies, and that is the way that we agreed to do so again last Friday.

So we're wanted to make sure folks had an opportunity to understand the layer of the land.

We will have uh general public comment at the end of our uh executive session uh today, uh, and then we will have at 5 p.m.

the uh public hearing for the entire budget that will take place.

I believe we're gonna be down at the auditorium for that.

Okay.

All right, so that's the lay of the land and how things are intended and how we intend to uh um proceed and would like to call forward the um oversight agencies.

You can uh come forward, please, and we'll I don't know if you all decided amongst yourselves who will go first, probably since the 10 a.m.

was slated for uh madam umbudsman.