So, Chair Kate, I'm just gonna let you know it's uh 9 a.m.

Uh by my account, I do have uh five uh council members present.

Uh councilmember can feel maybe um in the process of joining us.

We can get started then, Madam City Sergeant.

Am I good to go?

We are good to go.

Fantastic.

Well, good morning, everybody.

Happy budget review committee day.

Per executive order 29-20, which suspends certain requirements of the Brown Act.

The council members will be participating via Zoom, and no members of the public will be in attendance at the meetings in the interest of public health and safety.

In addition, this meeting is being televised and live streamed on the city's website, and the clerk and council committee liaison have made arrangements for the public to comment using the Zoom webinar platform.

We appreciate the public's cooperation.

The clerk will go over this the specifics of how to join the webinar and will give details on how the public can offer their public testimony.

I will now call the budget review committee meeting of Wednesday, May 5th, 2021 to order.

Clerk, please call the roll.

Councilmember Lacava.

Present.

Council President Campbell here.

Council President Pro Tim Whitburn.

Sure.

Councilmember Montgomery Step.

Okay.

Councilmember Von Wilfurt.

Councilmember Campio.

Oh, thank you.

Councilmember Campio.

I'm here.

Good morning.

Thank you.

Councilmember Morano.

Present.

Councilmember Ila Rivera.

Present.

And Committee Chair Kate.

Here.

Each council member is attending virtually.

Also attending the virtual meeting is Chief Deputy City Attorney Paige Folkman, independent budget analyst, Andrea Tevlin, Senior Advisor of Policy and Council Affairs, Javier Gomez from the Mayor's Office, and myself, your City Clerk, Elizabeth Mayland.

For purposes of this meeting, written comments submitted using the public comment form prior to the start of the meeting have been distributed to the committee and posted online.

All written submissions received after the start of the meeting will be made a part of the permanent record.

The public may view the meetings on public television on City TV Channel 24 for Cox Communication and Time Warner Cable or Channel 99 for ATT Uverse, or view the meeting online by going to the City Council Committee's homepage at Sandiego.gov and selecting the City TV Live Webcast White button on the right hand side of the page.

The committee meetings will be held virtually using the Zoom webinar platform.

Members of the public can offer public comment by accessing the Zoom webinar online using a desktop computer, laptop, tablet, or smartphone, or by calling into the meeting using a smartphone, cellular phone, or landline.

The link to join the committee meeting is uh by any of these means is in the preamble language of the agenda, which can be found on the city council committee's webpage.

To join the Zoom webinar by telephone, you can call 1 669 2545252.

You'll be prompted for a webinar ID, and that is 1604171840 pound.

This information is also available on the agenda and will appear on the screen during the public comment period for each item.

When I introduce the item you would like to comment on, you'll raise your hand by either tapping the raise your hand button on your computer tablet or smartphone or by pressing star nine if you're a call-in participant.

You may only speak once on a particular item.

When I indicate it's your turn to speak, I'll call you call on you by your name as it appears on the Zoom webinar attendee list, or I'll read out the last four digits of your phone number if you're a phone in participant, and that's how you'll know it's your turn to speak.

If you've joined the webinar by computer, tablet, or smartphone, you will receive a pop-up notice to select to unmute your device.

If you have called into the meeting by cell phone or landline, press star six on your phone to unmute yourself, and we will review these instructions as each item is called.

Please, folks, wait until the item you wish to speak to has been called before raising your hand to speak.

If you raise your hand during a non-comment period, your hand will be lowered.

When you are announced as the next speaker, please unmute yourself and offer your comments also.

Please mute the volume on your TV or computer before you begin to speak.

In addition, this is not a question and answer period.

This is your time to provide a statement to the committee.

Once you've concluded your statement within the allotted time, the call will be ended.

If you wish to provide comment on other items on the agenda, you should raise your hand during those comment periods and will be placed in the queue for those items.