The meeting will come to order.

Welcome to the March 18, 2026 meeting of the budget and appropriation committee.

I am Supervisor Connie Chan, Chair of the Committee.

I'm joined by Vice Chair, Supervisor Matt Dorsey, and uh member Supervisor Shaman Walton, our clerk is Brent Halipa.

I would like to thank um Jeanette uh Eknoff for from Essecuff TV for broadcasting this meeting.

And my apologies and I will learn your name.

Um Mr.

Clerk, do you have any announcements?

Yes, just a friend of a reminder.

Uh to those in attendance, so please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices to prevent interruptions to our proceedings.

And should you have any documents to be included as part of the file, this should be submitted to myself, the clerk.

Public comment will be taken on the item on this agenda.

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And while not required to provide public comment, we do invite you to fill out a comment card and leave them under trade by the television jury left by the doors if you wish for your name to be accurately recorded for the minutes.

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And finally, Madam Chair, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors' agenda of March 24th, unless otherwise stated.

Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr.

Clerk.

And before we call the item uh item number one, which is the only item on the today's agenda, we need to excuse President Amendelman and Supervisor Souter.

Uh so I move to excuse them.

Second by Supervisor Walton and roll call, please.

And on that motion, uh by Chair Chan, seconded by Member Walton, that we excuse Supervisors Sauter and Mandelman from attending today's meeting.

Vice Chair Dorsey.

Dorsey, aye.

Member Walton.

Walton, aye.

Chair Chan.

Aye.

Chan, aye.

We have three ayes.

The motion passes.

And Mr.

Clerk, please call item number one.

Yes, item number one is a motion establishing priorities for the Board of Supervisors Budget and Appropriations Committee and the process to guide the board's deliberations on the city budget for fiscal years.

Madam Chair.

Thank you and colleagues.

Normally no one pays attention to budget until really June.

This year particularly is going to be earlier because of the Enterprise Agency.

So we will be starting in May.

And throughout the month of April, it is my intention that we uh will be hearing different priorities, budget priorities.

But I I just uh want to make this motion to really uh establish priorities as upcoming um budget process and that I I want to set the table and to make sure that everyone are everyone is clear-eyed uh on not only on this committee, but also at a full board, that uh uh it is going to be a difficult budget year, another one.

But I think that um I want to make sure uh I'm clear about the approach.

Uh and so when we do come together in May, uh everyone will be ready uh for this.

I would say now that we're at a pivotal moment um in which our controller reports project that the city's budget trajectory is finally trending in a better direction.

But to keep this positive progress, we need continuing strong leadership to get us through another difficult budget year.

Um so I am committed to supporting Mayor Daniel Lurie, Board President Rafael Mendelman, and all our colleagues on the Board of Supervisors as budget chair, so that we can get through this.

Um but this is also why, though, um that uh I want to also be on the record that we together we can successfully serve our residents and uh continue to deliver a balanced and equitable budget.

This is why I have every intention to guide the city through another challenging year as the budget committee chair, but also why I plan to step down as committee chair in August of 2026, after we complete this year's budget process.

In order for our cities to continue to progress to make progress, our colleagues on the board must take on new leadership roles on a committee and learn to make difficult but critical choices needed to shape our future budget.

So as we continue to face another year, and that will begin in May this year for our budget process.

We are talking to the mayor uh and his team about what we will be seeing from him.

So at the same time, I want to be clear about this committee's objective.

Um, and I'm gonna just go through the list uh that is listed in the motion.