Sorry about that.

Good morning.

The meeting will come to order.

Welcome to the June 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 members, Supervisor Denny Sauter, Shaman Watton, and shortly, President Ravel Mendelman.

Our clerk is Brent Halipa.

I want to thank Suze Etnals for broadcasting this meeting from SECOF TV.

Mr.

Clerk, do you have any announcement?

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Just a friendly reminder to those in attendance to please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices to prevent interruptions to our proceedings.

Should you have any documents to be included as part of the files, they should be submitted to myself, the clerk, members of the public, may submit public comment in writing in either of the following ways.

Emailing them to myself, the budget and appropriations committee clerk at BRENT.jsf G O V.org.

If you submit public comment via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and also included as part of the official file.

You may also send your written comments via U.S.

Postal Service to our office in City Hall at 1 Dr.

Carlton Vegilid Place, Room 244, San Francisco, California, 94102.

And uh a revised agenda for today's meeting was posted after adjourning yesterday's meeting, annotating the committee's actions.

Items on today's agenda that have satisfied public comment, been acted on and processed, has completed business of this committee are item numbers four through seventeen and nineteen through twenty-two.

Items one through three, eighteen, twenty-three, and twenty-four are still open for consideration by this committee.

And madam chair, that completes my announcements.

Thank you, Mr.

Clerk.

And uh before we get started, I want to explain to the public how today's meeting will proceed.

Uh, first of all, last week we questioned the city departments about the um the contents of their budget proposal.

We um listened to the presentation.

Yesterday we dispensed with most of the budget trailing legislation.

Um, today and next Monday, the departments are actually returning to address the budget and legislative analysts proposed reductions and recommendations that are both fiscal recommendation as well as policy recommendations.

The departments that are scheduled to appear today and Monday are listed on the agenda.

However, if a department, any departments agrees to the budget and legislative analysts proposed reductions, they have not um they will not um they have not been required to return, and they were unlikely to return.

The budget and legislative analysts will announce those departments shortly.

We will not have general public comments today.

Instead, general public comments that addresses any or all departments budget will be heard on Wednesday, June 24th, starting at 10 a.m.

in these in this chamber.

And so uh again, just wanted to reiterate no public comments today.

Public comments day um will be on Wednesday, June 24th, starting at 10 a.m.

We will, unlike uh previously, we will have um unless unlike previous years, we will have uh another day on Monday.

Um that is specifically again for department that um will have to return if they're not in agreement with the budget and legislative analyst reduction.

So with that, Mr.

Clerk, please call items one through three.

Actually, before I do that, madam uh madam chair, uh just out of precaution.

If anybody's in these chambers and are uh in are actually here for the government audit and oversight committee, they are across the hall, just in case.

But other than that, uh item numbers one through three are items as it relates to this committee's consideration of the mayor's proposed budget for the departments of the city and county for fiscal years 2026 to 2027 and 2027 to 2028, and item number one is our hearing to consider the mayor's proposed budget.

Item number two is the proposed budget and appropriation ordinance, appropriating all estimated receipts and all estimated expenditures for departments of the city and county as of May 30th, 2026.

And item number three is the proposed annual salary ordinance, enumerating positions in the AAO for the fiscal years ending June 30th, 2027 and June 30th, 2028.

Continuing creating or establishing these positions, enumerating and including therein all positions created by the charter state law for which compensations are paid from city and county funds and appropriated in the AEO, authorizing appointments or continuation of appointments of there too, specifying and fixing the compensations and work schedules thereof and authorizing appointments to temporary positions and fixing compensations.

Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr.

Clerk.

And with that, Mr.

Goncher, from budget and legislative analysts, please announce that departments that have agreed to the budget and legislative analysts proposed reductions.

Good morning, Chair Chan.

Members of the committee, Dan Gonscher with the Budget Legislative Analysts Office.

The departments that uh we understand have we have full agreement with include the following the City Attorney's Office, the Superior Court, the Assessor Recorder, the Asian Arts Museum, the Fine Arts Museum, the Arts Commission, the War Memorial, the Agency for Human Rights, General City Responsibility, the Controller's Office, the Department of Technology, the Human Resources Department, Juvenile Probation, and the Board of Supervisors.

Thank you.

And colleagues, these are the departments with the proposed reduction from the budget and legislative analysts that we will be accepting today.

And so, with that though, I from what I do understand, and I do want to acknowledge our Mr.

Trusher is here, but if and I just want to make sure that I understand and that we have reached an agreement with the treasure and tax collector's office.

The committee will accept all the budget and legislative analysts fiscal recommendation one through four, but we are rejecting, we are rejecting all the policy recommendations, which are five through eight.