Mayor Todd Gloria delivered the 2025 State of the City address this afternoon, one week after the Office of the Independent Budget Analyst released its review of the Mayor's upcoming Five-Year Financial Outlook,

Mayor Todd Gloria welcomed the era of austerity in his State of the City speech Wednesday, promising to tame a $258 million budget deficit this year. Driving the news: Shirking the pomp and circumstance of a Balboa Theatre evening address,

A looming $252.2 million deficit does not make San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria pessimistic about the future of San Diego, but is an opportunity to revisit how the city operates, Gloria said Wednesday during his annual State of the City Address.

A one-cent sales tax measure which could have shored up that deficit narrowly failed in November. As a result, Gloria and the city will have to determine how to maintain service levels and what must be cut.