Date: October 29, 2025
Chair: Jason Chavez
Members Present: Councilmember Payne, Rainville, Vice Chair Wandsley, Chair Travis (quorum achieved)
The meeting began with a motion to amend the agenda to add a legislative directive titled "Charter Compliance and Enforcement" as item five, and to swap the order of items three and four (Canopy Roots BCR presentation moved before other discussion). The motion passed by voice vote.
Okay. Welcome to the regular meeting of the Public Health and Safety Committee for October 29, 2025. I am Jason Chavez, the chair of this committee. Before we begin the meeting, I want to offer a friendly reminder to all member staff and the public that these meetings are broadcast live to enable greater public participation. These broadcasts include a real-time captioning as a further method to increase the accessibility of our proceedings to the community. Therefore, all speakers need to be mindful of the rate of their speech so that our captioners can fully capture and transcribe all comments for the broadcast. We ask all speakers to moderate the speed and clarity of their comments. At this time, I'll ask the clerk to call the roll so we can verify your quorum for this meeting. Councilmember Payne. Present. Rainville. Present. Present. Vice Chair Wandsley. Present. Chair Travis. Present. Let the record reflect that we have a quorum. I remind my colleagues that we'll be using speaker management today. So please make sure you're signed up. Before we move on to agenda, I'll call on Vice Chair Wandsley, who has a motion, and then Councilmember Rainbow. Thank you, Chair Chavez. But I and Councilmember and Chair Chavez are bringing forward a motion to amend the agenda today to include a legislative staff direction titled Charter Compliance and Enforcement, which would ultimately, if it's accepted, put it under as item five on discussion. And while that is a really concerning trend amongst this administration from blocking the council from receiving information that we're legally entitled to. So we'll talk more about the directive once we get to it, but with this, I will ask uh for a second in moving this motion forward. Second. And before we move forward, I do know that council member rainfall is on queue to uh make sure that we have the canopy roots presentation go first. Clerks, I don't do I need to make a motion on that, or can I just do that? As in first, you're just if I Mr. Chair, if I'm understanding just shifting the items around. Yep. So three to yeah, three and four switching them around. If there's no objection, then I think you can do that. Yes. Yep. So, you know, I guess council member, I'll make a motion to move items number three to number four, and then we can open them for debate. There's a second. Uh councilmember Rainville, you are on queue, then vice chairwandsley, and if anybody wants to get on queue, you can get on cue. Councilman Rainville and then Councilmember Chowdhury. Uh thank you. Uh my motion was just to flip the order of those reports. I I have to leave at three o'clock, so I would enjoy hearing the canopy roots presentation. That's why I'm making that. Thank you. Councilmember uh Chowdry. I wanted to make the request that we take up the legislative directive before the re receive and files. Yep, that we will do that. Okay, we'd said item number five, so that's why I wanted to clarify that. Thank you. So what we're gonna do first is uh move approval the consent and then we'll move on to the legislative directive that uh is being brought forward and then we'll go into discussion.