Good morning, everyone.

Uh, the Sacramento City Council's budget and audit committee will please come to order.

Would the clerk call the role to establish a quorum?

Thank you.

Councilmember Talamantes.

Councilmember Getta.

Here.

Councilmember Vang.

And Mayor Steinberg.

I am here.

Do we do the land acknowledgement for the uh committee meetings?

Why don't we do the land?

Let's do it.

The land acknowledgement, please.

Uh Councilmember Vang, and I'd be happy to do the Pledge of Allegiance.

Sounds great.

Rise for the opening acknowledgement in honor of Sacramento Indigenous Peoples and Tribal Lands.

To the original people of this land, the Nissanon people, the Southern Maidu, Valley and Plains Mewak, Putwin and Wentu Peoples, and the people of Walton Rancheria, Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe.

May we acknowledge and honor the Native people who came before us and still walk beside us today on these ancestral lands by choosing to gather today in the act of practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento Indigenous Peoples, history, contribution, and lives.

Thank you.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.

One nation under God is both liberty of justice for all.

All right.

Well, a very uh good morning to you.

Uh this is uh another in our series of very important meetings as a city council committee around the city's 2425 FY25 budget.

And as we know, uh we have some challenges.

They are not insurmountable challenges by any means.

And today we're gonna further discuss and refine the scope of those challenges and what some of our options might be.

But before we get to that, let's uh take up the consent calendar and ask uh if there's a motion.

Move the consent calendar here.

Moved and seconded by councilmember Vang.

I think that Councilmember.

Oh, I'll second it.

Thank you.

I just I I intuited it, is what I did.

It was intuition.

Okay.

Is there public testimony?

I have no speakers on the consent calendar.

All right.

All in favor, please say aye.

Aye, oppose abstain.

All right.

Now we move to the discussion calendar.

We have two items.

One is I did ask at the last uh budget and audit committee for a report back on what was uh known as the management partner study, which is the sort of efficiency study that has been done sort of serially over the last number of years about where the city might save money in ways that would not harm services and or harm working people.

Um so I know there are a lot of recommendations.

I don't know if your intent to go through we'll be brief.

Every single one of them, but I think yes, uh summary would be great.

Thank you, Mr.

Cluto.

Um thank you.

Uh good morning, Mayor, Council members and members of the public.

I'm Pete Coletto, the city's finance director.

Um as the mayor mentioned in 2020, management partners create uh completed a citywide innovation and efficiency assessment, and they provided the city with 39 recommendations.

Uh so back in 2020, the city provided a response to each of those recommendations, and uh as the mayor mentioned, he wanted um he requested a follow-up to come to the committee.

And so we're uh we're a bunch of bureaucrats in finance, and so we need to put things into categories and buckets.

So we've uh categorized the recommendations as fully implemented, partially implemented or in process, uh not recommended due to adverse financial or service delivery impacts or needing additional direction or action from the council.

Um what I will say is each of these recommendations have more nuanced responses.

We lose some of that nuance when we just put them into categories, uh, but those are included in your packet.