On Saturday The Library Is Closed — AI Fact Sheet

Scope

San Diego's FY2027 budget (released 2026-04-15) set against a decade of documented city revenue and spending choices, c. 2014–2026. The brief synthesizes 20 prior MathPolitics investigations (15 published, 5 draft/pending). The report does not establish a combined total of revenue waived, diverted or held, or a ratio of that total to the FY2027 deficit. The Bosa DIF credit is an authorization for a park-land purchase; the other claimed waiver amounts are not sufficiently supported. The separate collected-DIF and Climate Equity Fund figures cannot turn those uncertain amounts into a verified total. Separately documented and not part of any such total: $155M in contract alterations that bypassed council, and a forward-looking $78M/year in new pension obligation. [#4] [#46] Nothing here is alleged to be illegal except where a government audit or stipulation says so; the point of the brief is the legal machinery of who the budget chose to protect.

Summary — what happened

On 2026-04-15, Mayor Todd Gloria released an FY2027 budget that closes a stated $118M single-year deficit by cutting roughly $12M in arts funding (an 85% reduction that zeros out the Organization Support Program), $2.4M in library hours, $5.4M in recreation-center hours, $4.5M in homelessness services, and about 130 city positions — while holding police at $718.6M and fire-rescue at $401.5M, a combined $1.12B that was 9.5× the deficit and never on the table. FY27 On release day, Council President Joe LaCava delivered the framing that "raising revenues to fill the gap is not an option," taking the one untouched lever — the 10.5 points of the city hotel tax that fund the general fund — off the table before the first public hearing. FY27

The brief's argument, drawn entirely from prior investigations, is that the deficit is an invoice for choices already made. The records establish up to $13.827 million in DIF credits authorized in 2023 for the Bosa park-land purchase. They do not establish an aggregate amount of DIF actually foregone during the Gloria administration. The Complete Communities, ADU and Hub & Spoke amounts are excluded from that aggregate because their amounts, realization or coverage are not sufficiently supported. DIF-B1 DIF-B2 DIF-C1 The Union-Tribune reported a $32.7 million total project developer fee for 101 Ash in July 2025 and that Moden stood to receive a portion; the allocation to her or her firm was not established. This project fee is not an established amount of development impact fees waived or credited. E-380 A 2024–25 County Grand Jury found the city holding $178.8M in DIF past the five-year legal deadline to refund it to neighborhoods, with administrative fees up to 18% (industry norm 5–8%) and $720,159.87 moved out of 22 community lockbox accounts. GJ The city diverted $8.5M from a Climate Equity Fund earmarked for four environmental-justice neighborhoods into the general fund. [#3] The report does not establish a combined total of revenue waived, diverted or held, or a ratio of that total to the FY2027 deficit. The Bosa DIF credit is an authorization for a park-land purchase; the other claimed waiver amounts are not sufficiently supported. The separate collected-DIF and Climate Equity Fund figures cannot turn those uncertain amounts into a verified total.

The structure renews itself. In November 2023 the council approved a Municipal Employees Association contract — a 21% raise (compounding to 22.8%) covering ~62% of the workforce — that adds ~$78M/year to payroll in perpetuity; the union's independent-expenditure committee had spent over $700,000 ($728,892.50 DB-verified) across the four officials with downstream authority over the deal. [#46] DB Across the entire investigation universe, total enforcement fines were ~$16,000 against hundreds of millions of dollars moved — a $200 FPPC fine on a $293,078 committee transfer, a $400 fine on the $128M 101 Ash conflict, $10,500 on the largest behested-payment case in city history. [#1] [#4] San Francisco statutorily protected its arts funding via 2018's Proposition E (74% approval); San Diego has never placed such a measure on a ballot and its general-fund hotel tax has never been reviewed or indexed. SF-PropE [#64] The brief's verdict: the budget is not a forecast of what the city can afford; it is a map of what the city chose to protect — every cut category is legally barred from donating, and every protected or increased category has donor PAC capacity.

Timeline

2014-06

Zephyr acquires the East Village block. Brad Termini's Zephyr Partners acquires a full downtown city block for $21.1M. [#13]

2015-12

Zephyr flips the block to Bosa. Eighteen months later Zephyr sells the same block to Bosa Development for $33M — a $12M flip. Termini told the Union-Tribune he had an "ongoing relationship with Bosa Development" and called Nat Bosa "the ideal person to continue the project." (Termini — Gloria's largest individual campaign donor, $100,000+ across his committees.) [#13] [#2]

2018-11 SF-PropE

San Francisco passes Prop E. SF voters approve Proposition E with 74% support, statutorily dedicating 1.5 points of the city's 14% hotel tax (~10.7% of total transient-occupancy-tax collections) to arts and culture, codified at SF Business & Tax Regulations Code §515.01. After this, a San Francisco mayor cannot unilaterally cut arts funding.

2022-04

Gloria announces "The Creative City.". Mayor Gloria announces San Diego's first-ever cultural plan, a 7-to-10-year framework. [#64]

2023-04-25 DIF-B1 DIF-B2 DIF-B3

Bosa park-land credit authorization. The Council approves buying a 23,045-sq-ft East Village parcel from Bosa Development, with final passage on May 1. The land price is up to $13.827M in development impact fee credits, available after closing; up to $9.1M is separately authorized for park design and construction. The records do not establish how much of the credit has been redeemed. The authorization is about the size of the report's $13.8M arts-cut figure, but it is a land-purchase credit, not operating cash.

Inferred connectionthe report does not claim Gloria directed the credit, that the donor asked for it, or that the donor-land-credit transactions are causally linked — only that the money came from one direction, the land moved in another, and the fee-credit authorization went to the company at the end of the chain (characterization of a public-record pattern, not a legal finding). [#13]

2023-11 MEA-UT

The MEA contract. The council approves a Memorandum of Understanding with the Municipal Employees Association: general salaries up 21% over three years (compounding to 22.8%), adding ~$78M/year to payroll in perpetuity. The raise covers ~62% of the workforce (~4,500 MEA members + ~2,000 AFSCME Local 127). Gloria's administration negotiated it; Gloria signed it (under the strong-mayor charter the council approves and the mayor executes). The Union-Tribune reported the deal was "likely to increase the city's $3 billion-plus pension debt."

Inferredthe report flags the sequence and ratio, not causation — "we are not claiming the money bought the raise. The vote was legal." [#46]

2023-12

Penny-for-the-Arts target. The City Council backs a Penny-for-the-Arts goal of 9.52% of TOT for arts. [#64]

2024 (FY24)

Mission Bay audit suspended. The Bahia Resort Hotel lease file sat unaudited at the Comptroller's office for nine months; during that window the city could not assess late fees, enforce rent escalators, or penalize non-complying tenants. Audits resumed in summer 2024 only after a newspaper inquiry. (Annual Mission Bay lease revenue ≈ $38.88M; the forgone amount is unquantified.) [#3]

2024–2025 GJ

Grand Jury "Never Been Challenged.". The San Diego County Grand Jury finds the city holding $178.8M in DIF past the five-year legal deadline to refund it to the neighborhoods it was collected from; administrative fees charged at up to 18% vs. an industry norm of 5–8%; $720,159.87 transferred out of 22 community lockbox accounts into "Build Better SD"; $285.7M in DIF collected FY21–FY24 with every annual report filed late. The Ocean Beach community account alone is estimated to have $20M+ at risk of the refund deadline. [#3]

2026-04-15 FY27

The FY2027 budget release. Gloria releases the FY2027 proposed budget (a 1,400-page public document). Cuts: arts from ~$13.8M to under $2M (85% reduction, Organization Support Program paused); library hours −$2.4M; recreation −$5.4M; homelessness services −$4.5M; ~130 full-time positions eliminated. Increases: police $718.6M, fire-rescue $401.5M, combined public safety $1.12B (9.5× the $118M deficit). The same budget proposed arts at ~0.3% of TOT — a thirtyfold reduction from the council-backed 9.52% target. Council President LaCava: "San Diegans have sent a clear message: Raising revenues to fill the gap is not an option." [#64]

2026-04-21 Budget-Cal FY27

The first public hearing. The City Council holds the first public hearing on the FY2027 budget at 2:00 p.m. in the 12th-floor Council Chambers. Budget calendar that follows: Budget Review Committee May 4–8; May Revision released May 13; Council Budget Hearing and Final Modifications June 9; charter deadline for adoption June 30, 2026.

Thematic groupings

The two DIF drawers (same neighborhoods)

DIF credits and exemptions — no verified realized total. The records establish up to $13.827 million in DIF credits authorized in 2023 for the Bosa park-land purchase. They do not establish an aggregate amount of DIF actually foregone during the Gloria administration. The Complete Communities, ADU and Hub & Spoke amounts are excluded from that aggregate because their amounts, realization or coverage are not sufficiently supported. DIF-B1 DIF-B2 DIF-C1
Collected and held — $178.8M past the legal refund deadline. Admin fees up to 18% vs. 5–8% norm; $720,159.87 moved out of 22 community lockbox accounts; $285.7M collected FY21–FY24, every annual report filed late. GJ [#3]
Scale comparison only: The up-to-$13.827M Bosa park-land credit authorization and the report's separate $15.9M park-spending figure measure different things. Their juxtaposition does not establish money available to restore operating services. DIF-B1 DIF-B2
Climate Equity Fund — $8.5M diverted. A $23M franchise-funded fund earmarked for capital improvements in Barrio Logan, Lincoln Park, Logan Heights, and Southcrest was depleted by $8.5M, redirected to the general fund. [#3]

The recurring engine (pension lock-in)

MEA raise — ~$78M/year, in perpetuity. Not on any FY2027 cut list because it is compensation obligation; each future budget begins $78M in the hole before any library decision. [#46] MEA-UT
PNSN spending — over $700,000 ($728,892.50 DB-verified). The union's independent-expenditure committee, Protect Neighborhood Services Now, spent across the election cycles of the four officials with downstream authority over the MOU: councilmembers Sean Elo-Rivera, Kent Lee, and Stephen Whitburn (who later sat on the approving body), plus separately on the 2020 mayoral election of Gloria, who negotiated and signed the deal.
Inferredthe report flags timing and ratio, not that the spending bought the raise; the vote, the union, and the spending were all legal. [#46] DB
Self-characterization carried from a prior report: "This isn't a Todd Gloria problem. Todd Gloria is normal. That's what should terrify you." (quoted from Report #3). [#3]

The three plain-English mechanisms

The report reduces the revenue side to three words used throughout: waived, credited, exempted. A dollar waived is a dollar the neighborhood does not receive. [#13]

Enforcement, in scale

Violation	Dollars moved	Fine	% of sum
Gloria committee transfer (Assembly 2018 → Assembly 2020)	$293,078	$200 (FPPC)	0.068%
Gloria late Form 803 behested-payment filings (largest such case in city history)	$65,000 disclosed	$10,500 (Ethics Commission)	16%
Jason Hughes — 101 Ash Street lease conflict	$128,000,000	$400	0.0003%
Ricardo Cardenas — chief-of-staff moonlighting + PPP/UI fraud	$203,700	$5,000 (Ethics max), 0 days jail	—
All documented violations in the MathPolitics universe	hundreds of millions	~$16,000 total	—

[#1] [#4] [#6]

Inferred connection: the FPPC's streamlined enforcement procedures used to resolve the Gloria committee-transfer case were designed by a task force chaired by Stephen Kaufman, whose firm Gloria's committees paid $160,377 in consulting fees during the same period (dual role from public records; no ethics body has ruled on it). [#1]

The machine has no party

The same price list applies across parties (some sourced to draft/pending reports — see Caveats):

Jim Desmond (R), Supervisor — approved the Harmony Grove Village South development (453 homes on a 7-to-9-hour fire-evacuation road) after $170,000 in bipartisan donations during pending approval; passed unanimously; no Form 803 filed. [#30] [#15]
Joel Anderson (R), Supervisor — leased a county district office for $265,000 over five years (~$53,000/yr) from Hamann-family donors while his office stripped oversight from $15M/year in Neighborhood Reinvestment grants. [#19]
Terra Lawson-Remer (D), Board Chair — sole-sourced a $36M county-foundation partnership to a fund two months old, no competitive bid, no Form 803, despite the $5,000 threshold being exceeded ~1,000×. [#24]
Vivian Moreno (D) — cast the decisive vote killing a 50%-AMI inclusionary-housing mandate after $18,000 in developer donations. Pending publication (Report #60). [#60]
Nora Vargas (D), Board Chair — authorized a $620,000–$830,000 taxpayer-funded private security detail over ~18 months without a board vote and with zero confirmed threats from the three agencies consulted. Pending publication (Report #17). [#17]
County Form 803 gap: no county supervisor filed a Form 803 behested-payment disclosure for any year 2022–2025, on a combined county budget of $7.8B. [#15]

San Francisco vs. San Diego (the untouched lever)

	San Francisco	San Diego
Arts protection	1.5 points of 14% hotel tax (~10.7% of total TOT) statutorily dedicated to arts	Arts allocation entirely at mayor's discretion
Ballot measure	Prop E (2018), passed 74%	No equivalent measure ever placed
Codification	Business & Tax Regulations Code §515.01	Zero arts institutions have statutory protection
To cut arts	Requires voter approval	Requires one mayoral proposal

SF-PropE [#64] FY27

Donor asymmetry in the protected categories: the hotel/tourism industry — whose tax underwrites the general fund — contributed $91,940 across 64 donations from 41 hotel executives and three hotel PACs to Gloria's six committees; a separate Measure C hotel-industry committee gave $1.2M. Arts-sector individual donations across Gloria's career totaled $17,025 from 22 people (mostly sub-$500); arts nonprofits are legally barred from donating. The report's closing ratio of lifetime arts-adjacent patronage to this single year's arts cut is 1:812. [#64]

The city auditor separately found $155M in contract alterations moved without the council approval the charter requires (auditor characterization: "against the law"). This is money already spent — a separate governance failure, not part of the DIF figures above. [#4] [#3]

Key players (callback index)

Todd Gloria — Mayor; released the FY2027 budget and made (or executed) the decade of prior choices the brief traces.
Joe LaCava — Council President; delivered the "raising revenues is not an option" framing on release day.
Brad Termini — Zephyr Partners co-CEO; Gloria's largest individual donor ($100K+); flipped the East Village block to Bosa for a $12M profit before the 2023 authorization of up to $13.827M in Bosa DIF credits.
Bosa Development — Counterparty to the park-land transaction for which up to $13.827M in DIF credits was authorized in 2023. The amount redeemed is not established. DIF-B1 DIF-B2
Stephen Kaufman — chaired the FPPC Enforcement Review Task Force that designed the procedures later used on Gloria's committee-transfer case; paid $160,377 by Gloria's committees.
PNSN (Protect Neighborhood Services Now) — the MEA's IE committee; spent $728,892.50 (DB-verified) across the four officials with authority over the MEA MOU.
Sean Elo-Rivera, Kent Lee, Stephen Whitburn — councilmembers who sat on the body that approved the MEA raise; PNSN spent on their cycles.
Jason Hughes — 101 Ash Street adviser; $400 fine on a $128M conflict.
Ricardo Cardenas — former council chief of staff; $5,000 Ethics max fine for moonlighting + $203,700 PPP/UI fraud, zero jail.
Desmond, Anderson, Lawson-Remer, Moreno, Vargas — the bipartisan cast hitting the same price list (two pending publication).

Caveats

Read this before quoting any figure

Aggregate withdrawn. The report does not establish a combined total of revenue waived, diverted or held, or a ratio of that total to the FY2027 deficit. The Bosa DIF credit is an authorization for a park-land purchase; the other claimed waiver amounts are not sufficiently supported. The separate collected-DIF and Climate Equity Fund figures cannot turn those uncertain amounts into a verified total. The separate $178.8M collected-DIF and $8.5M Climate Equity Fund claims are not re-verified in this correction.
Keep financial categories separate. Bosa's park-land credit authorization, the 101 Ash project budget, fees already collected, and annual operating expenditure are different measures. The 101 Ash developer fee is excluded from DIF; no verified waiver aggregate is added to the report's other figures.
PNSN figure discipline. The body uses "over $700,000"; the exact DB-verified sum is $728,892.50 (connections C-116525 + C-177460–C-177464). An earlier internal draft cited ~$773K; that figure is not reconcilable to the DB and is not used.
Characterizations, not legal findings. The Bosa donor-land-credit "pattern," the Kaufman dual role, the MEA timing/ratio, and the budget "map of what the city chose to protect" are characterizations of the public record. No ethics body has ruled on the Kaufman or Bosa matters. The report explicitly does not claim Gloria caused the deficit, directed the Bosa credit, or that any spending bought any vote.
Draft / pending sources. Five of the 20 source reports are draft or pending publication: #17 (Vargas security detail), #36 (Ace Parking), #46 (SDMEA Machine — the pension section), #54 (Meter Play), #60 (Moreno). Claims drawn from #17 and #60 are flagged "pending publication" inline. The pension section's load-bearing facts (MEA MOU terms, U-T pension reporting, the $728,892.50 PNSN total) rest on the published MOU, Union-Tribune reporting, and DB evidence E-2864, which stand if #46 does not publish.
The deficit is not contested. The brief does not dispute that the $118M deficit is real; it documents that the choice of who pays for it was not forced.

Reference key

FY27 "Mayor Gloria's FY2027 Proposed Budget — Release and Summary Materials," City of San Diego, released 2026-04-15 (1,400-page public document; cuts/increases, LaCava quote, budget calendar). https://www.sandiego.gov/finance/draft
#64 "The Budget Chose Who Could Afford To Be Cut," MathPolitics Investigation, Report #64 (FY2027 donor-capability matrix; TOT history; arts-vs-hotel donor ratio; SF Prop E comparison). https://mathpolitics.com/reports/64
#13 "The Fee That Disappeared," MathPolitics report 13. Corrected finding: up to $13.827M in DIF credits authorized for Bosa park land; aggregate DIF actually foregone not established. https://mathpolitics.com/reports/13
Bosa-UT "San Diego proposing to pay $23M in cash and DIF credits for Bosa downtown park," San Diego Union-Tribune, 2023-01-26. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2023-01-26/san-diego-proposing-to-pay-23m-in-cash-and-credits-for-this-future-downtown-park/
#2 "The Donors," MathPolitics Investigation, Series 1 Part 2, Report #2 (Gloria six-committee donor network; Termini $100K+). https://mathpolitics.com/reports/2 — and Cal-Access committee filings (Gloria Assembly 2016/18/20, Mayor 2020/24).
#3 "The Payoff," MathPolitics Investigation, Series 1 Part 3, Report #3 (Mission Bay audit suspension E-432; Climate Equity Fund $8.5M diversion C-35/C-225/C-230; $720,159.87 lockbox transfers; $72M contract-alteration cases; "Todd Gloria is normal" quote). https://mathpolitics.com/reports/3
GJ "Never Been Challenged," San Diego County Grand Jury 2024–2025 Session, City Development Impact Fees report ($178.8M held past the 5-year refund deadline; up to 18% admin fees; $720,159.87 transferred from 22 lockbox accounts; $285.7M collected FY21–FY24 with late annual reports). https://www.sandiego.gov/sites/default/files/grand-jury-dif-report.pdf — cross-referenced in MathPolitics connection C-2888.
#46 "The SDMEA Machine," MathPolitics Investigation, Report #46 (DRAFT, in review) (2023 MEA MOU 21%/22.8% raise, ~$78M/yr, ~62% of workforce; PNSN IE spending across the four approving officials). https://mathpolitics.com/reports/46 — supported by the public 2023 MEA MOU and MathPolitics evidence E-2864, E-1023, E-1024.
MEA-UT San Diego Union-Tribune reporting on the 2023 MEA MOU: council-approved deal "likely to increase the city's $3 billion-plus pension debt." https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com
#1 "The Machine," MathPolitics Investigation, Series 1 Part 1, Report #1 (Kaufman $160,377 consulting + FPPC task-force chair; $293,078 committee transfer / $200 FPPC fine; FPPC Stipulation 23-16). https://mathpolitics.com/reports/1
#4 "The System," MathPolitics Investigation, Series 1 Part 4, Report #4 ($16,000 total fines; $10,500 Ethics behested fine, Case 21/18236; Jason Hughes $400 stipulation; $155M contract alterations bypassing council, four contract-management audits 2015/2017/2022/2024; "the fines aren't penalties, they're a price list"). https://mathpolitics.com/reports/4
#6 "The Insiders," MathPolitics Investigation, Series 2 Part 2, Report #6 (Ricardo Cardenas dual employment, $176K PPP + $27.7K UI fraud, $5,000 Ethics maximum fine). https://mathpolitics.com/reports/6
#15 "The Empty Drawer," MathPolitics Investigation, Series 5 Part 1, Report #15 (zero Form 803 county-supervisor filings 2022–2025 on a $7.8B county budget). https://mathpolitics.com/reports/15
#19 "The Hamann Machine," MathPolitics Investigation, Series 3 Part 2, Report #19 (Joel Anderson $265,000 / 5-yr office lease from donor family; grant oversight stripped). https://mathpolitics.com/reports/19
#24 "The $36 Million Handshake," MathPolitics Investigation, Lawson-Remer Files, Report #24 (sole-sourced $36M county-foundation partnership to a two-month-old fund). https://mathpolitics.com/reports/24
#30 "Building in the Fire Zone," MathPolitics Investigation, Series 6 Part 2, Report #30 (Jim Desmond, 453 homes on a 7-to-9-hour evacuation road; $170,000 in donations during pending approval; unanimous passage). https://mathpolitics.com/reports/30
#17 "Phantom Threats," MathPolitics Investigation, Vargas Files, Report #17 (DRAFT, pending publication) (Nora Vargas $620,000–$830,000 security detail, no board vote, zero confirmed threats from SDSO/CVPD/SDPD). https://mathpolitics.com/reports/17
#60 "The Developer's Democrat," MathPolitics Investigation, Moreno Files, Report #60 (DRAFT, pending publication) (Vivian Moreno decisive vote killing 50%-AMI inclusionary-housing mandate; $18,000 developer donations). https://mathpolitics.com/reports/60
SF-PropE "San Francisco, California, Proposition E, Partial Allocation of Hotel Tax for Arts and Culture (November 2018)," Ballotpedia (1.5 points of TOT to arts, 74% approval) — and SF Business & Tax Regulations Code §515.01. https://ballotpedia.org/San_Francisco,_California,_Proposition_E · https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/san_francisco/latest/sf_business/0-0-0-1505
Budget-Cal City of San Diego FY2027 budget calendar (first public hearing 2026-04-21; Budget Review Committee May 4–8; May Revision May 13; Council Budget Hearing June 9; charter adoption deadline June 30, 2026). https://www.sandiego.gov/finance/draft · https://www.insidesandiego.org/san-diegos-key-budget-dates-what-know-about-fiscal-year-2027-budget
DB MathPolitics source records for this report. The previous DIF-waiver aggregate and running total are withdrawn. The Bosa authorization is established by ordinances O-21640/O-21641; the earlier database estimates do not establish a realized DIF total. → view in evidence search
DIF-B1 Ordinance O-21640 (final passage 2023-05-01): land price $13,827,000 payable in DIF credits after closing; separate up-to-$9.1M park design/construction reimbursement. https://docs.sandiego.gov/council_reso_ordinance/rao2023/O-21640.pdf
DIF-B2 Ordinance O-21641 (final passage 2023-05-01): authorizes DIF credits up to $13,827,000 as consideration for the park site. https://docs.sandiego.gov/council_reso_ordinance/rao2023/O-21641.pdf
DIF-B3 Parks and Recreation Board Report 102 (issued 2025-11-13): Harmony Park; $9.1M design/construction; land funded by $13.827M in credits. https://www.sandiego.gov/sites/default/files/2025-11/prbr20251120a-item102.pdf
DIF-A1 Coastal Commission fee-exemption report (2018-09-26) on the City's O-20934 ADU/JADU DIF exemption. https://documents.coastal.ca.gov/reports/2018/10/Th13d/th13d-10-2018-report.pdf
DIF-C1 City-hosted PRO Housing application (2024-10-15); Danna Givot comment (2024-10-08), PDF pp. 52–57, including the mixed-status spreadsheet; public comment, not a City finding. https://www.sandiego.gov/sites/default/files/2024-10/final-application-for-posting.pdf
E-319 OB Rag commentary (2025-03-17) giving the $26–31M ADU estimate without its working. https://obrag.org/2025/03/campaign-finance-payback-is-a-bitch-san-diegos-budget-crisis-explained/
E-333 OB Rag commentary (2025-03-17) giving the $26–31M ADU estimate without its working. https://obrag.org/2025/03/campaign-finance-payback-is-a-bitch-san-diegos-budget-crisis-explained/
E-560 MathPolitics analysis (2026-03-09) estimating Hub & Spoke savings from assumed unit counts and fee rates; actual waivers not established. No URL is supplied for this internal evidence record in the reverification draft. → view in evidence search
E-380 San Diego Union-Tribune, "San Diego agrees to lease 101 Ash St. to developer for low-income housing," 2025-07-29. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/07/29/san-diego-agrees-to-lease-101-ash-st-to-developer-for-low-income-housing/

Condensed from the full investigation reports/the-budget-crisis/01-on-saturday-the-library-is-closed.md. Data current as of April 2026. Every figure traces to a public filing, a government audit, or the MathPolitics database.

Corrections

2026-10-07

Withdrew the $270.3M–$287.3M running total of revenue waived, diverted or held, and its comparison with the $118M FY2027 deficit.

The running total depended on report 13's withdrawn $83–100M DIF figure. The Bosa credit is an authorization of up to $13.827M for park land, not operating cash, and the report no longer states that it equals the arts cut.