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The city of sa国际传媒官网网页入口 will pay incoming public safety executive director Raul Bujanda $187,000 a year, a spokesman confirmed Monday.

Bujanda, whose appointment by Mayor Tim Keller will go before the City Council next month, retired from the FBI in April 2025 after 23 years.

Bujanda served as special agent in charge of the sa国际传媒官网网页入口 field office from 2021 to 2025, leaving federal law enforcement just months after President Donald Trump assumed office and named Kash Patel as FBI director in February 2025.

Prior to joining the FBI in 2002, Bujanda was a special agent in the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and previously worked as a fifth grade teacher.

The INS was the federal agency that handled immigration, border patrol and naturalization until 2003, when its functions were transferred to the Department of Homeland Security.

Bujanda will be earning about $32,800 more a year than Keller, whose annual salary is $154,211, according to a city spokesman. He will report to Chief Administrative Officer Samantha Sengel.

Bujanda, who will be a full-time city employee, and newly appointed sa国际传媒官网网页入口 Police Department Chief Cecily Barker still need to be confirmed by the City Council.

Barker is required to have a contract under a new city ordinance. She will be negotiating a contract, including a salary, with the Keller administration, said APD spokesman Gilbert Gallegos.

Bujanda will oversee the APD, sa国际传媒官网网页入口 Fire Rescue and sa国际传媒官网网页入口 Community Safety. Their department heads, including Barker, will report to Bujanda.

Bujanda鈥檚 office will be in the Mayor鈥檚 Office. He will not have staff, other than a shared executive assistant with other executive staff in the Mayor鈥檚 Office, Gallegos said.

Gallegos said there were no other candidates for the public safety chief job.

The position, similar to a deputy CAO, existed under Keller鈥檚 predecessor, Mayor Richard Berry, who appointed former Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White to the job in 2009. During his stints in office in the 1990s and 2000s, Mayor Martin J. Chavez filled the position with veteran APD commander Nicholas Bakas, and former city councilor Pete Dinelli.

Up until Bujanda retired last year, Keller didn鈥檛 have a candidate he thought would be a good fit, Gallegos said.

During Bujanda鈥檚 FBI career, he served as a section chief in the Criminal Investigative Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington. After stints in Portland, Oregon, and El Paso, Texas, he was promoted in 2016 to assistant special agent in charge of the National Security Branch in the Oklahoma City Field Office. He later served as the assistant special agent in charge of Oklahoma City鈥檚 Criminal Branch of the FBI.

Bujanda was named section chief of the Criminal Investigative Division鈥檚 National Covert Operations Section in 2019. He managed and oversaw all criminal and national security undercover operations for the FBI.