Well, good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the Active Transportation and Infrastructure Committee meeting of September 11th, 2024.

I'd like to start by taking a moment to acknowledge that today marks twenty-three years since the September 11th attacks on our country.

Several St.

Diegans were among the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives on that day.

And in the days that followed, members of our San Diego Fire Rescue Department responded to New York City to help in the rescue and recovery effort.

And here in San Diego over the past couple of decades, thousands of troops from San Diego or stationed here in San Diego have been deployed to defend our nation.

So we remember those whom we lost, and we thank those who have sacrificed since September 11th of 2001.

Let's get started with our meeting.

Council Member Foster.

Councilmember Von Wilper.

Chair Whitburn.

Also attending the meeting today is City Attorney Representative Ryan Garrety, Mayoral Representative Randy Wilde, and the Independent Budget Analysts Office Representative Aaron Noel.

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And we will take up the approval of the committee meeting minutes of July 17th, 2024.

We've received a speaker slip here in chambers from Mr.

Blair Beekman.

If you can please approach the lectern.

I'll try to make it uh short.

Um I would like to be able to practice uh meeting minutes public comment that adds to uh what was discussed uh and what the purpose of the uh of the item agenda was about uh for street design uh uh manual uh for the next few years uh it's an important item.

Um I'm I'm thinking that it is uh you were addressing um you know important issues that we've been trying to address about the future of uh uh vehicle use, uh how to plan our streets, technology involved.

Um I've sent yourself some really important letters in the past few days that talked about uh different forms of surveillance tech.

Uh one being that uh with the Hillcrest uh area and the recent pride issues, uh a whole bunch of new surveillance tech was placed uh based under exigence circumstances.

It's an issue that wants to be further developed for the future of our streets, uh a quick placement process.

Uh the police are working on a process that then removes uh a quick removal process as well.

Mr.

Beekman, uh, just wanted to check and see if there was anything specific to the minutes of that meeting that you wanted to comment on.

I simply wanted to comment uh from that process, uh, what can be added and and what sort of thoughts and conversations we should be having in the coming months about our issues.

So with that issue and the issue of uh uh a park uh SD park lighting, it has to be uh an open process that how we do that.

We can't keep it closed and and secretive and call it uh different names, such as uh sports utility lighting.

We have to be very honest and direct.

There's a lot of uh surveillance involved in the future of LED lighting.

That's how we talk about the future of our uh street manual design work, I think.

Hopefully.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you, Mr.

Bigwin.

And Chair with no other hands in the virtual queue and no other speaker slip submitted.

That concludes public testimony on the past committee minutes.

All right, we will now vote on the approval of the committee meeting meetings of July 17, 2024.

I'll turn it over to committee members for any questions or comment and a motion.

All right, we have a motion from Councilmember Von Wilpert, a second from Councilmember Foster.

Seeing no further discussion, uh Sarah, please call the roll.

And Chair, that passes unanimously 4-0.

Thank you.

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Thank you, Chair.

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