Budget committee delays Controller's five-year financial plan update to next week

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors' Budget and Finance Committee recessed briefly for a quorum and on March 12 voted to continue a planned briefing on the city's five-year financial plan to next week.

Chair Supervisor Mark Farrell opened the meeting and said the committee would "have to go into recess while we wait for our for a quorum to arrive." When the meeting resumed and a quorum was present, the clerk called item number 1: "the hearing to receive an update from the Controller's Office and Mayor's Budget Office on the updated City's 5 year financial plan," as read by the clerk.

Farrell asked the committee to continue the briefing until next week so absent supervisors could attend; he said at least one supervisor, Supervisor Weiner, was on city business in Washington, D.C. that week. The chair opened public comment on the item; no members of the public spoke.

An unidentified committee member moved to continue the item; the motion was seconded and the committee approved the continuance by voice vote without objection. "We can take that without objection," the chair said after the motion carried.

No other business was brought before the committee and Farrell adjourned the meeting.

Next steps: the Controller's Office and Mayor's Budget Office are scheduled to deliver the updated five-year financial plan briefing at the Budget and Finance Committee meeting next week.