Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the budget and government efficiency committee meeting of September 13th, 2023.

Our committee's manager Ty Birch will go over instructions for today's meeting.

Thank you, Council President Pro Tem Montgomery Step.

While members of the public are able to attend the meeting in person.

This meeting is being televised and live streamed on the city's website, and council administration will continue to make arrangements for the public to comment using the Zoom webinar platform.

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The queue will close when the last virtual speaker finishes speaking, or five minutes after the in-person testimony concludes, whichever occurs first.

This will allow for bare main management between the two platforms and ensure the committee is able to manage and conduct safe business.

We appreciate the public's cooperation.

Chair.

Thank you so much.

I will now call the budget and government efficiency committee meeting of Wednesday, September 13, 2023, to order.

Tyler, please call the roll.

Vice Chair Moreno.

Present.

Councilmember Lacaba.

Present.

Councilmember Lee here and our chair, Council President Pro Tem Montgomery Step.

Here.

Also attending uh the meeting today, Charles Monica and Lisa Byrne from the Independent Budget Analyst Office, uh David Powell from the City Attorney's Office, Rolando Charvel, uh Department of Finance Director, and Matt Yaggin, Deputy Director of Policy for Mayor Todd Gloria.

Tyler, uh, please continue with public comment instructions.

Thank you, Chair.

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Thank you, Tyler.

Uh a quorum is now present.

We will now dispense with the approval of the committee actions of July twelfth, twenty twenty-three.

Tyler, please proceed.

So we will move over to our virtual testimony, and I'll begin the five-minute timer.

And we will begin with Lori Saldania.

You may begin if you will have two minutes.

Um committee members.

Um I asked some questions that I think are still unanswered.

It has to do with uh trailers that were provided by the state of California to the city of San Diego over three years ago now.

And uh, what is the status of those trailers?

Uh in my comments at your July meeting, I was concerned that there was a new shelter uh operation being set up at the Pershing Drive parking city parking lot.

Uh it seemed like a perfect place to have these remaining trailers that are not being used sent transferred from the Choyous city parking and storage area over to the Pershing area.

Um, but I I don't believe that that has happened.

And and I think that is a matter not only of public safety, but also a matter of uh budget efficiency.

It's wasteful to have trailers sitting unused for years when they could be providing uh more secure and more comfortable housing for people in need.

I also asked about the status of the um menstrual uh program, menstrual products program, and I still haven't received a response to that.

If if they have been set up, I have been um making it a point when I see a uh public restroom or um a facility where the city is managing a restroom and a library or park and recreation center um to see if they are using again.

This is a matter of economics, not only for the the people needing these products, but um members of your committee allocated a hundred thousand dollars in the prior fiscal year to make those available.

So at some point, I hope that uh this committee will address it.

Does it make fiscal sense to allocate funds and then have them not that program not be implemented uh as intended?

Thank you.

Thank you very much for your comments and chair that does conclude public testimony on the past committee actions.

Okay, at this time I will entertain a motion to approve the committee actions.

Do I have a motion?

Motion by our vice chair and a second by a member Lee.

Um Tyler, please call the roll.