We're gonna start.

Thank you.

We're gonna start the um Office of the Mayor.

Budget hearing, thank you.

Wow, we're I'm joined by Councillor Hudson, Moore, Callwill, Mashog, and Aaron Rick.

And well, I'm welcome.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Corey, I usually want to call you Corey Driscoll, but I have I'm forever Corey Driscoll, so that's fine with me.

People have called me a lot worse.

So I'll go back to the thank you for joining us, Corey.

Thank you for having me.

Um so um as you can tell by the pages in um the budget book for the office of the mayor, not a lot of change.

Um so there are, you know, title changes and happy to walk through those if that would be helpful.

Um, but there are you know, aren't uh a lot of new asks.

Um the one thing that I will just note where um the projected is above the adopted is that we did have a number of uh payouts for staff that um left their positions at the end of the calendar year, and so they are like all employees are their paid out for their PTO.

Uh page six and three, Corey.

Uh walk us through who's who's who.

Uh so obviously the mayor.

Um I am uh listed under chief of staff.

Um chief strategy officer is Stephanie Pasquale, Chief Development Officer is um Eric Ennis.

So the chief operating officer, you know, Kevin Henry is new to that role.

We actually um shifted, which is you know, shifted his role to the office of administration.

Um so that's on page sixty-five.

It's kind of uh odd um setup that we have that I think in speaking with the budget team, we'd probably like to change next year, perhaps eliminate the office of administration.

Um because it just you know uh operationally functionally it's all the same.

I was on the zero out.

Okay, I didn't realize that.

Yeah, so there's there's an office of administration where generally in practice the chief administrative officer lives.

That's where I was listed in the budget prior to this year.

Um, but I think you know, again, in conversations with the budget team, perhaps next year we just eliminate the office of administration and bring everything under the office of the mayor, since that's functionally how it works anyway.

So chief oper chief operating officer is or is not Kevin.

So it is it is Kevin, it's just not in the mayor's office budget, it's in the office of administration budget.

Okay.

Uh we don't have uh Mayor Owens did not put in a chief administrative officer, so the title changed.

Okay.

But um but the number of positions total, you know, the head count hasn't changed.

Oh, you added one more.

I'm sorry, President.

Well, no, I mean minus one.

So the so um we actually reduced one, so you'll see at the end the confidential aid is moving off of the mayor's budget.

So we went from um nine p you know at the bottom of page sixty three, a total of nine positions in the mayor's office to eight.

Who's the right strategic initiative?

That's Jen Tift.

And senior executive secretary.

That is Jakia Durham Kelly.

I81 director.

So that is Mr.

Joseph Driscoll.

Okay.

And intergovernmental is Josephine Galdames, who's here.

Hi, Josephine.

Okay.

Gotcha.

So the chief developmental development officer.

Chief operating officer is Kevin.

Yes.

And Chief Development Officer.

Yeah, so um on the office of administration, I just mentioned this, and and I think that maybe I didn't catch it with the budget team before.

So on page 65, it should say chief administrative officer instead of development officer, because that's the position that we replaced.