Editing San Marino, California (section)

=== Local government ===
Governing the City of San Marino is a city council of five members, elected by the people for a four-year term. Elections are consolidated with the county and are held on the first Tuesday, following the first Monday in November of odd numbered years. Terms are staggered so that three seats are available during one election cycle and two seats are available during the next cycle. In 2015, the state enacted a law to require municipalities to consolidate their elections beginning January 1, 2018.<ref>{{cite web|title=SB-415: Voter Participation|url=https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB415|access-date=April 8, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424123344/https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB415|archive-date=April 24, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> The five council members serve without any financial compensation and elect one of their own members as Mayor.

The current city council members are: 
* Mayor: Dr. Steven W. Huang (2024)<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 31, 2023 |title=Talt Steps Down as San Marino Mayor, Huang Takes Reins - San Marino Tribune |url=https://sanmarinotribune.outlooknewspapers.com/2023/12/30/talt-steps-down-as-san-marino-mayor-huang-takes-reins/ |access-date=January 30, 2024 |language=en-US}}</ref>
* Vice mayor: Gretchen Shepherd Romey (2024)
* Council members: Steven Talt, Calvin Lo, Tony Chou (2022)

San Marino's Fiscal Year 2019-2020 operating budget is $25,807,192.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://www.cityofsanmarino.org/Finance/Budgets/Final%20FY19-20%20Adopted%20Budget.pdf|title=Fiscal Year 2019-2020 Adopted Operating and Capital Budget|last=Marlowe|first=Marcella|date=June 12, 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191029165230/https://www.cityofsanmarino.org/Finance/Budgets/Final%20FY19-20%20Adopted%20Budget.pdf|archive-date=October 29, 2019|access-date=January 14, 2020|website=cityofsanmarino.org}}</ref> The city manager reports that for FY 2019-2020 "personnel costs comprise 2/3rds of the operating budget, and the largest portion of the increase from FY 2018-2019 is in that area."<ref name=":0" />