The Mayor and the City Council both own the FY 2026 budget. Now that the process is complete, we must monitor internal and external threats to ensure we control expenditures, adjust for actual revenue, and protect our employees. Together, we will make this budget work.

As President, I challenged the City Council to amend the Mayor’s proposed budget to deliver the services you expect from the city and opposed mayoral vetoes, including:

• Restoring the SDPD’s Northwestern Division
• Additional Positions Focusing on Brush Management
• Fully Restoring All Recreation Center Hours
• Restoring Monday Hours at 16 City Libraries, Including Carmel Valley
• Keeping All Shoreline Park and Bay Bathrooms Open
• Boosting Stormwater Funding
• Funding Small Business and Community Grants 

Upgrades are coming to the SR-56 bike path. Join the Carmel Valley Community Planning Group tonight for a presentation from the Stormwater Department’s Think Blue team on how the Carmel Country Low Flow Channel Project will raise the path, improve drainage, and enhance year-round safety and access for walkers and cyclists.

Brush fires can ignite without warning and spread in moments. Our San Diego Fire-Rescue teams are trained, equipped, and ready to respond, but community safety starts with personal preparedness. Create your personal fire action plan NOW. In a wildfire, you may only have minutes to evacuate. Stay informed through the Watch Duty App, Alert San Diego, or our SDPD and SDFD social media accounts. Be part of the solution. Join your local Fire Safe Council to help prepare your neighbors and encourage wildfire resilience efforts in your community. Let’s work together to keep each other safe, San Diego.

The City of San Diego is building its infrastructure roadmap for 2027–2031, and we want your input. Complete the Infrastructure Priorities Survey by August 1 and be part of the conversation.

City crews have been hard at work repaving and sealing La Jolla roads. You may notice the new strategy, tackling only the most degraded blocks, avoiding sections that are in relatively good shape. As an example, Girard Avenue. We targeted only the block from Torrey Pines Road to Pearl Street. This stretch just got a fresh slurry seal and restriping.

Please give a warm welcome and hello to our District 1 summer interns. Lauren is back for her second summer with #TeamLaCava from UCLA, where she studies Political Science and Environmental Systems. Quinn is a student at Cal Poly, studying City and Regional Planning. Internships develop tomorrow's workforce and lend more hands to get it done in D1.

Council President Joe LaCava

Councilmember, District 1

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