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The Active Transportation and Infrastructure Committee of the San Diego City Council held a meeting on October 22, 2026, at 9:00 AM. Chair Whitburn presided, with Vice Chair Foster and Council President Pro Tem Lee present. Councilmember Von Wilbert was absent. The meeting covered non-agenda public comment, a consent calendar, a mill and pave project authorization, and the city's response to a Grand Jury report on bicycle mobility.
The consent agenda comprised Items 1 through 7, including approval of previous meeting minutes, contracts for concrete pumping and paving materials, change orders for emergency repairs, and airport planning agreements. No items were pulled by committee members. The consent calendar was approved unanimously (3-0) on a motion by Vice Chair Foster, seconded by Councilmember Lee.
Non-Agenda Testimony:
Consent Calendar Testimony:
Item 8 (Mill and Pave) Testimony:
Item 9 (Grand Jury Response) Testimony:
Item 8: Authorize City Forces for FY27 Mill and Pave CIP Deputy Director Philip Lowry presented the request for committee approval to use up to $12 million in city forces spending for approximately 30 line miles of paving. The authorization is required under the municipal code when personnel expenditures for a CIP project exceed $500,000. Lowry highlighted the flexibility of city forces to pivot from storm response to paving. Vice Chair Foster and Councilmember Lee spoke in favor, emphasizing efficiency and responsiveness to resident complaints. The motion passed unanimously (3-0).
Item 9: Proposed Response to Grand Jury Report on Bicycle Mobility IBA representatives Trisha Tackey and Jordan Moore presented the draft responses to the eight findings and eight recommendations from the Grand Jury report "Shifting Gears." The proposed responses generally disagreed with findings regarding network connectivity and pavement conditions, and stated that recommendations for routine maintenance (R5) and a 70% PCI goal would not be implemented as unreasonable. Councilmember Lee led a detailed discussion, arguing the responses were overly defensive and recommending that Findings 1, 4, and 8 be acknowledged as true while contextualizing the city's efforts. He proposed changing the response to Recommendation 5 from "will not be implemented because it is unreasonable" to "requires further analysis." Chair Whitburn supported this direction. Vice Chair Foster strongly dissented, arguing that committing to implementation or analysis without a viable budget path creates a disservice to the public and an administrative burden of reporting back to the Grand Jury every six months without making progress. Staff clarified that a change to "requires further analysis" would trigger a six-month follow-up requirement.
Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the active transportation and infrastructure committee meeting of October twenty second, twenty twenty-six. Members of the public who wish to provide testimony via call in or an internet-based service option must enter the virtual speaking queue within five minutes after the conclusion of in-person public testimony, or before the virtual speaking queue is exhausted, whichever occurs first. We appreciate the public's cooperation. Chair. I will now call the active transportation at infrastructure committee meeting of October 22nd, 2026 to order. Sarah, please call the role. Vice Chair Foster. Councilmember Von Wilbert. Council President Pro Tem Lee. Chair Whitburn. Sure. Also attending the meeting this afternoon is City Attorney Representative Michael Johnston. Mayoral Representative Randy Wilde and IBA representative Sean Davis. If you are in person, please complete a speaker slip located at the entrance of the committee room and place it in the speaker slip box at the table at the front of the room. Please do so in a timely manner to ensure property meaning management. Once organized presentations have concluded, no organized presentations will be taken. We have not received any organized presentations this afternoon. Members of the public can join the webinar by computer, tablet, or smartphone by accessing the link, which is listed online in the preamble language of the agenda on the city's webpage and to join the Zoom webinar by telephone. Please dial 1669-2545252 and input webinar ID 160-229-4290 pound. This information is also available on the agenda and will appear on the screen during the public comment period for each agenda item. Please note that if you're watching via City TV 24 online, there may be delay. Please participate via the audio on your phone and mute your TV or computer when it's your turn to speak. If you wish to speak to a particular item, please wait for that item to be called and then raise your hand to speak by tapping the raise your hand icon, or if you're calling participant by selecting star nine on your phone. If you raise your hand during a non-comment period, your hand will be lowered. Chair Whitburn. Thank you, sir. A quarter is now present. We will now take up the agenda public comment. Uh the council members respect and appreciate the public's input and are fully committed to protecting every participant's free speech rights at council aid committee meetings. Sarah, please proceed with further instructions. Thank you, Chair. Per Rule 2.7 on agenda public comment is an opportunity for members of the public to comment on items that are not on the agenda but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of this committee. Each speaker will have two minutes to provide their non-agenda public comment. And again, if you're watching on TV or the live stream online, you can call 1669-2545252 and putting webinar ID 160-229-4290 pound. We will begin with in-person testimony. We've received one speaker slip allegedly, Audra. Please approach the lecture and you will have two minutes. Anyhow, yes. You you know what I'm talking about. Anyway, um, yes, as you guys want people to be um, you know, walking, biking, and taking public transit, and we are, you know, moving forward with rescinding ALPR uh use policy. Um, we need to be thinking about all of the surveillance that um all this smart technology that's coming in. And I don't think that you guys are educated well enough to understand what the capabilities of this technology is. And if you have concerns about flock, you should have concerns about all of that kind of mass surveillance because it's used to track and trace. And if you can't control whose hands it goes in, then you can't trust that it is not going into hands that it shouldn't. That will weaponize it, that will use it against people that will use it to kidnap children. These people that own this technology and bring it forward are ones that have are in the Epstein files, and it's like nobody wants to talk about it because it seems so outrageous, and that's why it's kind of an in-your-face thing. But these people are even using this technology when a child goes into a daycare or any kind of like jump around. And so they're streaming this video of them doing this worldwide, and there is no way to control where that goes or what it's used for. And people can create pornography with using AI.