Good morning.

If Council Member Moreno can please do a mic check for us, please.

One two.

Excellent, thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Chair Foster.

As previously mentioned, the budget review committee will convene for one continuous meeting starting Monday, May 5th, 2025 through today, Friday, May 9th, 2025, beginning each day at nine AM.

The meeting will continue until the entire agenda is complete.

Department budgets will be heard in the order of the agenda, subject to the chair's discretion.

Throughout the continuous budget review committee meeting, public comment will be taken during each sub-item.

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Sarah, please call the roll.

Committee member Campbell.

Committee member Whitburn.

Committee member Von Wilbert.

Committee member Prote Tem Lee.

Committee Member Campillo?

Here.

Committee member Moreno.

Present.

Committee member Ilo Rivera.

And Chair, Committee Member Foster.

Here.

And committee member Marino, if you can please provide your virtual declaration at this time.

Thank you.

I'm notifying the budget review committee that I will be attending today's meeting remotely due to just causes related to child care needs.

Pursuant to the brown knock.

I am disclosing that there is no individual 18 years of age or older present in the room with me.

And I will update this disclosure if it changes during the course of the meeting.

Thank you.

Also attending the meeting today is Bakupatel from the Independent Budget Analyst Office and Charles Modica.

Assistant City Attorney Michelle Garland from the City Attorney's Office and policy advisor for Mayor Todd Gloria Coda Zeiser.

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Chair Thank you, Sarah, for reviewing those instructions for the benefit of the public.

A quorum is now present.

We will now move to committee members, mayoral staff, city attorney, and independent budget analysts for comments.

We will start with Councilmember Campillo.

Thank you, Chair Foster.

Uh uh the comments this morning uh have nothing to do with the budget.

Uh I think we all learned yesterday of uh historic selection of the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Leo the 14th, who's an American from Chicago, uh was a minister to Peru, the head of the Augustinian order, and now the leader of the Catholic Church.

Uh and as an American, uh listening to his words and hearing him announced, obviously there was a sense of civic pride and national pride that an American was chosen uh to lead 1.4 billion Catholics, of which I am one.

Uh but more inspiring than that was the first sentence out of his mouth, which was peace be with all of you.

Uh, which for those who are familiar with the gospels know that that is the first phrase that Jesus said after his resurrection to his disciples, uh, that that would be the sentence that came from the first American to be elected Pope was a deeply spiritual moment and a sense of uh what America can bring to the world when it has its moral compass pointing in the right direction.

And so uh I just wanted to acknowledge that uh this was a really important moment for Catholics, for Americans, for the world, um, and that he used the word peace 11 times in his opening speech to Rome and to the world, and that uh ultimately I know that all my colleagues and everyone who works in the city of San Diego government knows that to create this society that we're looking for, and with this budget, which is very difficult, is to create a society that is peaceful and just uh so uh I just wanted to call attention to that as as a as a Catholic as a San Diegan as an American and say that it really is uh a new day uh in the world, and uh that that would be the first words out of his mouth.

A really, really important landmark uh for our country, and uh it will inspire me through the rest of my time in civic government and for the rest of my life, really.

And lastly, of course, I would just point out that he did emphasize that God loves all of us unconditionally, something that motivates me and I know all of us up here uh directly the unconditional dignity of all human beings.