Today, we are here to recognize great strides forward in production of housing here.

And to be clear, we need more, as the previous speakers have said, the mayor and the council member, we need more.

We need more resources for for homelessness prevention.

We need more resources to build affordable homes.

We need more community plan updates, such are moving forward to the council as we speak, and we need continued improvements in permitting.

However, we're here today to mark great progress a number of these fronts.

The programs and policies that are cited in the homes report uh indicate a city that is serious about solving the housing issue.

It has led to the greatest surge of new housing in San Diego in 20 years.

It has been since 2004 was the last year we built as much housing in a given year that we actually need on an annual basis.

We are making huge strides toward meeting that number again, and this is the largest number.

I will say again, these past two years have been the largest surge of new housing since 2004.

And that's been a result of a number of policies, but I'd like to highlight one the affordable, the permit now for affordable housing here, where we've seen as the mayor referenced nine day turnarounds in some cases for projects that are 100% affordable.

These part these policies that are championed by Mayor Gloria, the City Council, and by community leaders have been directly responsible for the surge in housing, and it has allowed us finally to see some light at the end of the tunnel.

So as I said initially, we need to bring more resources to the table.

But we have reason to celebrate today the policies and programs that have made San Diego the most pro-housing city in the state of California.

And we have to acknowledge the great progress that we have made and uh the challenges uh that are still ahead of us, but we can overcome them.

With that, uh this you know, again, acknowledging uh that this homes report is one of the best we've seen in many, many years.

Uh let me introduce uh Ian Grooms, a Claremont resident, a housing advocate, and a former community planning group member, Mr.

Grooms.

Thank you, Stephen.

Good morning, everyone.

My name is Ian Grooms and I'm a Claremont resident.

I formerly served as the vice chair of the Claremont Community Planning Group.

I am pleased that our city is building more housing.

New homes add desperately needed inventory to our region, providing more housing opportunities to more people.

Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies found that there are, quote, substantial housing supply shortages nationwide, including in San Diego.

To ensure that our city provides homes for those who need them, Sandag concluded that the city must plan for new homes.

Because of Mayor Gloria's leadership, the city is making progress toward achieving its housing construction goals.

In Claremont alone, 325 new affordable homes are under construction near Mount Etna Drive.

The project reached the construction phase faster, thanks to Mayor Gloria's affordable housing permit now program.

In South Claremont, we're fulfilling the objectives of the housing action package by turning a desolate parking lot into 200 new homes.

Projects like these are moving forward citywide.

These examples demonstrate how pro housing policies provide effective, tangible improvements to our housing supply.

The permitting data is clear.

Our city's housing policies are working.

I'd like to thank Mayor Gloria and his team for implementing meaningful housing policy reforms.

These reforms are allowing more people to access housing, aligning with the San Diego Strategic Plan's mission to provide everyone with a safe place they call home.

I'm excited that we've made extraordinary progress thus far, and I look forward to continuing to see more progress in the future.

Thank you.

Now let's turn it over to Mayor Gloria for some concluding comments.

We have community planning groups for uh all of our neighborhoods, staffed by people who care deeply about their community.

Ian's one of them, and I appreciate uh your uncompensated service to the city of San Diego, Ian.

Uh so uh he alluded to uh the upcoming uh plan update for uh Claremont.

Uh that's in addition to ones that are underway in the college area in the mid-city communities, places uh like City Heights, uh Rolando uh uh Kensington Talmage.

Uh more of these are just are to come.

And in the next few weeks alone, I want to let you know that we will hold grand openings at three separate affordable housing communities, totaling more than 550 new affordable homes.

That's just the next couple of weeks alone.

Again, this momentum is ongoing and everywhere.

I also would point out that just last week the transformational Midway Rising project uh was recommended unanimously by the Planning Commission and this beginning its approval process uh when it and will eventually arrive uh for the city council's consideration.

If adopted, uh, when complete, it will add more than four thousand new homes here in San Diego at the site of the current San Diego Sports Arena, roughly half of which will be deed restricted affordable housing for San Diegans.

But today is to celebrate all of those who have helped make this possible.

Good morning, everyone.

We'll get started in just a moment.

Okay, good morning, everyone.

I will now call the city council meeting of Tuesday, October 7th, 2025 to order.

Clerk, please call the roll.

Thank you, Council President Pro Tem.

Council President Lacava.

Council President Campbell.

Council Member Campbell, sorry.

Council Member Whitburn here.

Here.

Councilmember Foster.

Councilmember Von Wolpert.

Councilmember Campillo.

Here.

Councilmember Moreno.

Present.

Councilmember Elo Rivera.

Present.

And Council President Pro Tem Lee.

Here.

Also attending the meeting, our Assistant City Attorney, Michelle Garland, Deputy Director in the IBA's office, Jillian Andalina, Policy Advisor in the Mayor's Office, Randy Wilde, and myself, your city clerk, Deanna Fuentes.

Thank you, Council President Pro Tem.

A coron is now present.

We will begin this morning with the land acknowledgement of the Pledge of Allegiance led by Councilmember Moreno.

We respectfully acknowledge that the Cumier Nation are the original inhabitants of the unceded land, now known as San Diego.

Despite enduring the horrors of genocide and colonization, the Kumeayai spirit remains unbroken.

We honor the resilience of their ancestors who fought to protect their culture and land.

Today they carry their legacy forward, ensuring that their traditions continue to thrive in gratitude and strength.

We stand with the Kumeyai nation connected to our past and committed to a thriving future.

Please face the flag, put your hand over your heart and repeat after me.

Please note the time allocations for proclamations and consent items for meeting management purposes is one minute per person, three minutes maximum if you're speaking on three or more items.

Sorry, one second.

Yes.

The public comment period for the proclamations is now open.

Each speaker will have one minute per item per person.

If you would like to speak on three or more items, you will have a maximum of three minutes.

The proclamation items being approved are items 30 through 32 and S500.

We have a quite a few speakers here in Council Chambers and more online.

If when I call your name, you can please come up to the yellow reserve seats at the front of the room.

That would be very helpful.

Starting with Nicole Verdes, you can come up to the microphone.

You're speaking on item 30.

And you have time seated to you by Esme Quintero Cubyan, if you can please raise your hand.

Thank you so much.

So you'll have two minutes on your item.

Nicole, you can come up to the microphone.

And then the following individuals can come up to the yellow reserve seats.

Um Lilin Simpliciano, Mariel Pineda, Ashlyn Serrano, Logan, Asyang, Joe, Tapayan, Chad, Chad Mikhaila, Ilagan, Camille Arcega, and Eddie Lynn Faith Benitez Van Gosing.

My apologies if I did mispronounce any of your names.

Please proceed when ready.

Thank you so much, the City of San Diego and Mayor Gloria for this proclamation.

Recognize LGBTQ plus history month.

My name is Nicole, I use the she pronouns, and I'm the managing director of Lambda Archives.

Local queer attorney and activist Tom Holman once was quoted as saying, my guiding principle is a distrust for government and a skepticism about the way government utilizes its power and a desire to resist authority as much as possible.

His words prove that he understood something fundamental about the relationship between power and memory.

Those in power often decide whose voices gets preserved, whose voices get silenced, and whose stories get told.

At Lambda Archives, we embody that same spirit of resistance, not through courtrooms, but through the radical act of preservation.

For nearly four decades, we have been collecting, preserving, and sharing the local LGBTQ history in San Diego, Northern Baja, California, and Imperial Valley region.

We resist the erasure that it comes when families discard the belongings of loved ones they never truly understood.

We resist the silence that follows when institutions refuse to acknowledge our communities' contributions.

We resist the forgetting that happens when those who live through our struggles are no longer here to tell their stories.

We are living through a moment of deliberate historical erasure.

This work has never been more urgent.

We are living through a moment of deliberate historical erasure, books being pulled from shelves, curriculum being sanitized, monuments to our progress being challenged.

But here's what those who seek to erase us don't understand.

Our history is not just in textbooks or in official records.

It lives in the 100,000 photographs we've preserved in the banners from every dike march and aides walk in the oral histories of elders sharing their stories with young people.

In the permit from San Diego's first pride parade in 1975, sometimes coffee stained and wrinkled, but still here.

We are committed to continuing this vital work no matter what.

Because as long as there are those who would erase us, there will be those of us who persist.

One document, one photographed, and one story at a time.

Thank you for that concluding comment.

Next will be Leland.

Good morning, Council members and community.

My name is Leland Simpliciano, and I serve as the Anapizia director at San Diego Mesa College.

I also want to acknowledge my other identities as a working class first generation college graduate, a second generation Filipino American, and a proud descendant of Filipino farm workers.

I share those identities because they speak to the importance of proclamations like this.

When I was in high school, I also learned about great leaders of the United Farm Worker Movement like Cesar Chavez and Dolores Jorte.

It wasn't until 2013 when now Attorney General Rob Bonta introduced AB 123 that Filipino Americans' contributions to the farm worker labor movement were officially recognized in California's history curriculum.

Learning that, learning that part of our history inspired me to embrace my farm worker lineage and in every aspect of my culture.

And understanding my heritage became a kind of superpower.

One that reminded me that our differences are not barriers, but strengths that allow us to contribute more fully to society.

Research shows that when people are aware and firm their identities and cultures, they thrive.

Thank you.

Oh, okay.

What was your name?

Jojo.

Okay.

Please proceed.

Oh, did you have time seated to you?

Sorry, you had time seated to you by Pita.

Peter, if you can please raise your hand.

Thank you.

And as long as Marielle is fine with you going first.

Okay.

Please proceed.

Good morning.

My name is Jojo Ruan T Romares, and I am an assistant professor of ethnic studies, and I oversee the Asian American Studies program at Southwestern College.

Yes, I'm wearing Jordan, so Professor Swish to you, Kent.

I just wanted to also uh say that I only get invited to A and HPI proclamations.

I am also gay.

I am also an indigenous person and I'm also a refugee, Sean.

So hopefully, next proclamation for refugee day.

I wouldn't be coming here if I didn't give you assignments because I'm pretty sure none of you read the last one, so I'm asking also City Council to allocate funds.

I know Todd has a whole issue with money to build a bookshelf, so because every time you invite me, you'll be getting books.

To commemorate Hispanic Heritage Month and Filipino American History Month, a local um professor becoming Mexicano, Rudy Guevara graduated Southwestern College, talks about the interracial marriages of Filipinos and Mexicans in San Diego County.

To commemorate undocumented student month, I give you my cousin's memoir, Dear America by Jose Antonio Vargas for LGBT History Month and also Indigenous People's Day next week.

Kapay Mahu from Kanakamaoli author Kumu Hina talks about the third gender in Native Hawaii, and this book is a children's book, and that was approved by uh Hawaii to teach uh third gender and native Hawaiian culture and identity.

And to commemorate the upcoming Day of the Dead and All Saints Day, um, little plug for myself.

It's on the purple tab.

This is my chapter looking at uh transnational trans spatial food offerings done by Filipino Americans to commemorate the dead back in the Philippines and in diaspora.

So I hope that uh my students will give you uh a good perspective of what it means to be Filipino American in San Diego County, but more so I hope that as you continue to invite me, uh bookshelf will be put up, and then you all will somehow read them.

So if you invite me to other things, other proclamations, you'll get those books as well as an assignment.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Maria Good morning.

My name is Mariel Panetta.

I'm a Filipino American attending Southwestern College as a biology major, and I'm also a part of the Songam Learning community.

Growing up, I've always lived in predominantly Filipino spaces, including National City and Chilubista.

I'm grateful to have lived in these communities and to have been raised by two immigrant parents who never failed to submerge me in their culture.

Despite this, Asian American studies has connected me with my culture when I thought I couldn't connect any further.

It has taught me the difference between the routine customs I grew up with and the actual history of my heritage.

That being said, I'm here to advocate for the continuation of ethnic studies as it holds the potential to foster cultural appreciation, not just for those like me, but for those that feel disconnected from their heritage.

I believe it can serve as an outlet to recount our ancestor stories, reclaim the historical hauntings of our past, and to promote the celebration of ethnic identity.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Ashley.

Ashley.

Um, my name is Ashlyn Serrano.

I attend Southwestern College, majoring in art, and I'm in the Sangam learning community.

I'm gonna be balanced.

I've never really had an interest in Filipino American studies.

I've always disregarded it, not really thinking it's meaningful to me because well, there's a lot of Filipinos in San Diego.

Why would I care for something so common?

But recently I started to cling to everything my family says and does.

Realizing how important the presence is.

They're the reason I'm here, and they inspire me to be in a culture I've barely embraced.

Involving myself with a group of scholars that are as curious as I am gives me a sense of belonging.

And I'm not the only one who doesn't know the galog.

I'm working on it, I promise.

There's studying generational trauma and colonialism.

I'm driven to see past the mundane to discover what makes me Filipino American.

And no, it's not gossiping, it's not sneaking to go containers and two buffets, it's not hoarding, it's being proud.

And I'm proud to be here.

Thank you.

Thank you, Logan.

Good morning.

My name is Logan Liwag Aishong.

I'm currently majoring in history in Asian American Studies at Southwestern College and part of the Sang I'm Learning community.

As a Filipino American who has worked in museum archives, uh, and I create my own family archive.

Uh seeing installations like the Filipinos of South Bay exhibit in the Chula Vista Civic Center branch library and the Taste San Diego Filipino Cultural Journeys exhibit in the Balboa Park San Diego History Center makes me excited to see a countywide effort to showcase and preserve Filipino American history, as well as how that history and culture ties in with San Diego's greater history.

I strongly encourage you all to continue to endorse and support archival efforts, not just of Filipino Americans, but of all ethnic, religious, and cultural groups found here in San Diego.

Unfortunately, it has become a privilege to preserve one's culture and history, and hopefully here in San Diego that privilege can be provided to everyone.

Thank you for your time.

Joe or Joe Tapayan.

Hello, my name is John Zapan from Southwestern College.

I major in criminology, and I'm also a part of the Bayon Learning Committee.

I'm here to explain how Asian American studies attune my knowledge on my grandparents' fight for freedom.

I always thought my grandparents were lying about their stories, and so I took Professor Jojo's American or Asian American history class.

And then I realized they weren't lying.

There are so many Asian Americans that fought for their freedom.

They would work endless days and nights just to take a shot at the American dream.

And most of them even have the opportunity.

And the learning community of Bayon wants to share our stories to encourage others to see the importance of learning Asian American history, how it's shaped and built a foundation for us students.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you.

Chad.

Good morning to everyone.

My name is Chad Mikhaile Lagan, an AAPI pre-nursing at Southwestern Community College, a member of the Sangam Learning Community and a proud Binoy.

I am here as a witness and testimony of how our heritage of Filipino hospitality still exists.

Our hospitality didn't appear out of nowhere.

I'd like to remind everyone to thank the people who taught us to live in this manner.

Our parents, grandparents, teachers, and communities showed us how to be such welcoming people.

It's important to have this quality within ourselves, not to only thrive in this harsh world, but to make people outside of the Filipino community feel the hospitality given from our ancestors.

That is why these learning communities should be funded to teach future generations the great characteristics that our ancestors had.

Let us then pass the warmth of Filipino hospitality to the next generation, not just as a tradition, but as a way of showing the world the heart of who we truly are.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Camille.

Camila Arcega.

Good morning.

My name is Camila Arsega from Southwestern College, majoring in nursing, and I am part of the Sungum Learning Community.

As a Filipino American, I stand here representing one of San Diego's largest Asian American communities where families help build the city often through great sacrifice.

My father, who is a retired military chief, sacrificed so me and my mother could have a roof overheads and food on the table.

My two cousins who fought in Afghanistan carry the same spirit of service and sacrifice.

Like many Filipino families here in San Diego, mind balanced the hardship of caring for family while serving this country.

Their story is not just mine, though, but reflects the experience of many Filipino families across the nation.

Learning through Asian American studies helps me understand the resilient the resilience of my family in the larger context of our community, which is why ethnic studies is so important.

Every Filipino family has a story, and those stories should be remembered as part of San Diego history to sacrifice, honor, and service.

Thank you.

Eddie Lynn Faith.

Good morning, everyone.

My name is Edeland Mengosing from Southwestern College, majoring in nursing and a part of the Bayan Learning Community.

I am here today because Asian American studies helped me understand how my family's journey from the Philippines to America connects to our larger Filipino American history.

Through my classes, I learned that history isn't just about dates, it's about stories like my grandfather's.

He was a respected policeman in the Philippines.

In 1984, my family or his family immigrated to America and he couldn't continue as an officer because his credentials didn't transfer.

He became a carpenter but never stopped serving for our community.

Asian American studies taught me that stories of migration, adaptation, and service is a part of the American story.

By bringing his values here, my grandfather continued what Filipino Americans have always done, contributing to America while preserving our heritage, support ethnic study programs as they ensure that future generations will know our stories matter.

Thank you.

Thank you.

If the following individuals can please come up to the yellow reserve seats, uh thank you, those that spoke.

You can go back to your seats.

Paulina and James.

And that's Rochelle Kiambau, Paulina Bernice Padilla, and James Udan.

If you can all please come up to the yellow reserve seats.

Rochelle, you can come up to the microphone.

You'll have one minute, please proceed when ready.

Good morning.

My name is Rachel Sabio Kimbao, and I'm from Southwestern College, where I majoring in nursing.

And I am part of the Bay and Learning community.

I identify myself as a Filipino American.

I was born and raised in Yokosu, Japan.

And for most of my childhood, I knew very little about my Filipino roots.

It wasn't until I moved to San Diego that I began learning more about my Filipino culture and history.

Asian American studies help students understand their roots and how communities shape this country.

Learning about Filipino American history in particular helped me appreciate the struggles and achievements of those who became before me and how they helped future generations.

Supporting ethnic studies means building a stronger and more unified community.

Thank you.

Thank you, Paulina.

Hi, my name is Paulina Bernis Padilla from Southwestern College.

I'm majoring in nursing and a part of the buy and learning community.

I identify myself as a Filipino American.

I believe that Asian American studies is important because it helps fellow students like us learn more about our culture and who we are.

Growing up, I felt like I didn't know much about my culture and being a Filipino American.

Even though I was taking Filipino classes in my in the beginning of my high school career and being an avid member of my high school's Filipino Club.

Asian American Studies helped me take a deeper dive into my own culture and my identity.

Because of Asian American Studies, it extended my understanding regarding my culture and who I am.

I encourage City Council to support ethnic studies because when schools teach students about their communities' histories, it builds pride, understanding, and respect for all cultures.

Ethnic studies helps everyone to see that we're all part of the same story.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And James.

James, you have time seated to you by Savannah.

Con if you can please raise your hand, Savannah.

Thank you.

You'll have two minutes, please proceed.

Thank you, City Council, and thank you for the invitation for having me.

My name is James Udan.

I'm the outgoing president of the City of San Diego, Filipino American Employees Association.

But my these comments are my own and may not necessarily affect the views of my fellow members and my employer, the City of San Diego.

Now, why do we choose October when there's already May, which is uh Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

It's because in 1587, Filipino sailors aboard uh a galleon landed at Morrow Bay, one of who was was killed by a Native American when they came ashore.

So it's been a blessing and the curse coming to North America.

And that's actually the first documentation of Asian Americans in the Americas that we have so far.

We'll see where the archives find other stories.

But Filipino Americans have also been here in San Diego since 1769, when sailors aboard the galleon uh San Carlos came in support of the Portola expedition, which led to the founding of Mission San Diego.

Now, Filipinos have been here on and off, but primarily during the American period, when sailors, pensionados, pen boys came uh for a better opportunity, but it wasn't without difficulty.

Sailors were limited in what jobs they could do.

Filipinos were limited on where they could live.

And there were anti-miscegenation laws, even though they had defeated it in th 1933, only to have it uh reapply to them in uh a few months later and rescinded um a few years later.

I only have so so much time left, so I'd like to recognize two individuals who died in service, Filipino Americans who lived in San Diego County, Steph Sergeant Rickle Doria and Sergeant Michael Indanan.

Thank you very much.

Thank you for those comments.

That does conclude public comment here in Council Chambers.

We'll go to those participating remotely, starting with Blair Beekman and then the original.

Blair Beekman, if you can please unmute and let me know which item or items you wish to speak to.

Hi, uh Blair Beekman, item 31.

Thank you.

Please proceed.

You'll have a minute.

Thank you.

Uh uh hi, Blair Beekman, to say hi to uh uh Filipino American uh history month or Filipino History Month.

Um thank you a lot for for this item today.

Um I I like the public comment.

I I like the idea of uh Filipino hospitality.

Learning that concept.

I had a girlfriend who was Filipino uh growing up, and uh it really reminded me of of my time with her and what hospitality means.

Uh it's with that good spirit and good intentions that um our current American has been traveling to the Philippines as of late.

Um I think from what I've been hearing, he's been actively promoting um military industrial complex things.

Uh I think that's a bit of a wrong approach.

I think there's a way here in San Diego that we can be working with our military services and not and yet not promoting it.

And I hope Mayor Gloria has learned those lessons.

He is from the healthcare industry and learns those important lessons.

Uh thanks for this item today.

Thank you.

Next is the original.

If you can please unmute.

Yeah, um the uh breast cancer one and the LGBTQ.

Thank you.

Have two minutes, please proceed.

Um as you're doing proclamations.

Um another person died at Tent City this morning from an overdose, Bobby.

And I asked you guys yesterday how many more people need to die at Tent City before you guys do something.

And here we are again on another day that I have to report that now.

So we should be having proclamations for them to honor the people who lose their lives on a regular basis.

Regular basis at 10th City and Balboa Park.

Like I didn't even I just got this news as I'm like preparing to talk to you guys about your freaking stupid proclamations that you guys sit up there and you virtue signal like everything is so great, you're doing this stuff to help these people.

All while people are dying every day almost.

I mean, obviously, people die every day, but this is ridiculous because you guys are paying Teresa Smith to literally kill people and have people sexually assaulted and to hide it.

And I don't want to have to come here again and again and again and ask you how many people need to die before you do something, and then come back and report the next day that someone has died, and then you guys do nothing about it.

You talk about the mayor going and you know, traveling and doing all this stuff.

Oh, well, the city, like literally.

I mean, do you guys not care?

How is it that you don't care that people are losing their lives?

Because they're homeless.

Is it because they're in dire straits and they are like coming to you guys for help thinking that they're gonna get out of that place, and they'll die quicker than they will get out of there with any help that you could offer.

You gotta do something.

Your time has concluded, and that concludes public comment on the proclamations.

Thank you.

We'll now take council member questions and comments for the proclamation's agenda, and we'll start with Councilmember Moreno.

Thank you.

Um item number 32 proclaims October 2025 to be breast cancer awareness month in the city of San Diego.

I'm very proud to co-sponsor this proclamation with council members Campbell and Von Wilbert.

Breast cancer is the second most common form of cancer worldwide.

One in eight women in the U.S.

is diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime, making it the most common form of cancer among women.

Many of us know someone who's been diagnosed with breast cancer.

In my immediate family, my aunt, Mitya Yoli, was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 41.

Um, a very, very healthy woman.

Uh, she was able to live nine very good years, and she passed away at 50.

Um, it's a constant reminder to me to get checked on a regular basis, uh, which those that are at high risk.

Uh it's actually every six months, and um it actually also is um 10 years.

You have to get checked 10 years before the person that is closest to you that was diagnosed with breast cancer uh when they were die so in sorry, I'm um when my aunt was diagnosed at 41.

So I should have gotten checked at 31, and I didn't because nobody shared that with me.

Uh so this is a reminder to everybody um that hasn't been checked to do it, even if you think you might be too young because breast cancer affects women of all ages, racist, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Black and Hispanic women are more likely to develop aggressive and advanced stage forms of breast cancer at a very um at a younger average age.

Uh breast cancer, when diagnosed in its earliest stages, has a five-year relative survival rate of 99% with proper treatment.

Now, raising awareness about breast cancer is so important because if people know how best to identify early symptoms, they can get early treatment if cancer is found, essentially saving their lives.

So this is a call to all women in San Diego County to make sure you schedule your mammogram.

Um schedule it every year and to be open with others about the proactive measures we all can take to stop breast cancer early.

At this time, I would like to invite Leah Brun, the executive director of the San Diego chapter of the Susan G.

Comen Foundation and team to make some comments.

Well, hello, and thank you so much for uh highlighting this important need during breast cancer awareness month.

I know that uh this proclamation was sponsored by three of our council members, and we are grateful for the highlight that you are placing on this cause.

As you mentioned, uh one in eight women in their lifetime will die be diagnosed with breast cancer here in the US.

And unfortunately, that statistic is higher here in San Diego with one in six women.

So this is definitely a need.

We have about 44,000 people that will die this year from breast cancer, and about 320,000 that will be diagnosed.

So the need is uh for awareness and screenings uh is very important, and we're just grateful that this proclamation can help us spread the word and spread awareness about the so thank you, thank you, thank you.

Um I would also like to recognize um item 30 LGBT plus history month.

Uh congratulations also to Claremont's 75th anniversary day and the Filipino American History Month.

Um I was about to take a few books.

I don't know if that's possible or if we're gonna have to hold them with the clerk, but congratulations to everybody you are seen.

We do see you, we recognize you, and we're a fabric of the city of San Diego.

So with that, I'm happy to make a motion on this item, and that concludes my comments.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We have a motion by Councilmember Moreno.

We'll turn next to Councilmember Ila Rivera.

Uh thank you, Council President Pro Tem.

Um thank you, Councilmember Moreno for sharing uh the stories and to you.

Councilmember Von Wilpert and Councilmember Campbell for bringing forward the breast cancer awareness month proclamation.

Um I wanted to um express my appreciation um first to council members um Campbell Whitburn and Von Wilpert, along with Mayor Gloria for proclaiming October 25 to be LGBTQ History Month.

Um thank you, uh I believe Nicole was here for Emma Archives for what you shared.

Incredibly important time for uh Lambda Archives to do the work that they do, and for uh the city to recognize um LGBTQ History Month.

Um as was said, there's an active attempt to erase the history and the contributions of the L2 LGBTQ community.

Um we have folks on this dias and in the leadership of the city who are creating LGBTQ history on a daily basis in this in this city.

Um obviously um there have always been uh LGBTQ folks here in San Diego, um, but it is important to document that history and the contributions and certainly not allow the attempts at the at the federal level to erase that history to be successful in any way at all.

So um thank you for uh the work to preserve that history and to share that history, and I'm glad that we are taking a moment here today to recognize that history.

Uh also I want to say thank you to Council President Pro Tem Lee and Councilmember Foster for joining uh me and proclaiming the month of October 2025 to be Filipino American History Month.

I really appreciated um the words from uh everyone who spoke this morning, um especially our our students who showed up from Southwestern College.

Um very similarly, Filipino history is San Diego history that was shared during the comments.

We can see it as well again um uh in the leadership of the city, uh, not just Mayor Gloria, but um his policy director uh Matthew Yugin being of Filipino uh American descent.

Um and I think that's important to recognize uh it's a long history of contributions to the city.

Um and I really appreciated the um the call for uh a sustained commitment to ethnic studies.

Uh there's this attempt right now to act as if um learning our histories and sharing our histories is divisive, and that is the opposite of the truth.

It doesn't just give us individually uh pride in who we are and where we come from, but it is also an opportunity to see how much we share in common.

Um I think about I married into a Puerto Rican family, and there's a rich history, a shared history amongst the Puerto Rican and Filipino communities.

Um, and whether that's you know coming to San Diego to um to serve in the military or the love for LeJone, which I have also come to appreciate, um, and obviously Spanish colonization.

Um there's so much opportunity there to see that you can be from opposite ends of the world and have like you know the same practices that bring family together and that you um can celebrate in in very similar ways.

So um thank you for sharing the stories that were shared.

Thank you for sharing the books, Professor.

Um I am very glad that we're recognizing Filipino American History Month here in San Diego and you know, absolutely uh San Diego needs to stay committed uh to supporting uh not just ethnic studies, but the the the acknowledgement and the um the sharing of of histories of all people.

Um so with that, Council President Pro Tem, that concludes my comments, and I will second the motion.

Thank you.

We have a motion by Councilmember Moreno, a second by Councilmember Ila Rivera turning next to Councilmember Campbell.

Thank you so much, President Pro Tem Lee, and congratulations to all the proc recipients.

Um, just so you know, uh our entire council loves all of you and wish we could all be on the procs, but we have to limit the number because of space, time, et cetera.

So just know that the entire council uh you know we all sign it, as does the mayor, and we love you all.

And I just want to start with uh item 30 and then 32 in S500.

First of all, I want to thank our Mayor Todd Gloria and Council members Whitburn and Von Wilpert for joining me in bringing forward this proclamation declaring October 25 as LGBTQ plus history month in the city of San Diego.

As a member of the Stonewall generation, I remember a time when living openly as an LGBTQ person meant risking everything your family, your job, your safety, because of prejudice, and other communities have felt in similar ways.

And yet, from those dark days of living in silence and fear, we rose.

I have seen with my own eyes the incredible progress we've made from achieving marriage equality to openly serving in the military to having LGBTQ leaders at every level of government, including right here in San Diego.

Let me be clear.

Today, in this very moment, we are living through a dangerous political climate, one where our rights, our dignity, even our existence are being questioned and attacked.

These are scary times, but they are not new times.

History teaches us many lessons.

First lesson, when one minority community is being attacked by hate, by other community some people, other communities will be next.

Minorities, and even if you're not a minority, just for the way you think.

So we must remain vigilant.

Another lesson is that when we're under attack, we do not retreat.

Too much progress has been made to give up.

Instead, we will roll up our sleeves, we will work harder for equality for everyone.

It is a dark moment in our nation's history, but I'm confident that our younger generation will fight to retain our rights.

In 10, 20, or 40 years from now, I want all of you to ask yourselves where were you during those times, these times, were you in the fight, the fight for equality, the fight for justice, the fight for freedom for all Americans and all peoples.

This year we will be having LGBTQ history exhibit at the City Hall lobby, where the theme is our history will not be erased.

This is not just a slogan, it is a declaration.

It is a promise to those who came before us and a commitment to those who will come after us.

Because no matter how loud the voices of hate may be, the truth is that we are all normal human beings who deserve the same rights as everyone else.

And so let us honor this month just with not only with reflection, but with action.

We have come too far, we have sacrificed too much to ever go back.

Our history will not be erased, and our future will not be denied.

For breast cancer, as a physician, I definitely want to recognize breast cancer awareness month.

Breast cancer, as we know now, is the second most common form of cancer in the entire world.

Here in the U.S., one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetimes.

This is a large increase.

When I started med school, it was one in ten.

So now it's down to one in eight.

This is bad.

There are approximately four million survivors of breast cancer in the U.S., as a president of our Coman Foundation told us.

The survival rate of breast cancer, good news has increased dramatically over the last few years due to scientific advances in medicine, especially immunotherapy.

Early detection can be crucial to improving a patient's chances of overcoming breast cancer through regularly scheduled mammograms and self-exams, which is why it is so important to raise awareness about breast cancer whenever possible.

My family also, and I think probably every family in our country has members who have suffered from this disease.

We must fight it, we must eradicate it, and we will.

Remarks on S500.

I want to speak on this because I live in Claremont, and this is the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the first homes and what would eventually become Claremont.

Claremont was one of the city's first post-World War II housing developments, and it grew rapidly thanks to the availability of the space there to build new homes, combined with the unique village within a city vision that the city had.

Today, Claremont is one of San Diego's largest neighborhoods and most populous, as well as in space.

It is known for its canyons and mesas, as well as being home to three of the city's open space parks: Rose Canyon, Marion Bear, and Techlode Canyon.

Claremont also has three public library branches, six rec centers, a public pool, and over 20 public schools serving the residents of our community.

The Claremont Town Council is almost as old as Claremont itself.

The first meeting took place September 27, 1954.

And today their board of elected volunteers hosts monthly community meetings and puts on many popular events.

And I would like to invite up Nicole Crosby, president of the Claremont Town Council, and other members of the executive team, Carrie Munson, Lynn Hames, and Kathy Bolton from the Claremont Town Council.

And Nicole, please share some words.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Campbell.

Thank you, all the city council members here and Mayor Gloria for recognizing us today.

We are humbled.

We have working class families that have called it home for a very long time.

As we continue to grow our little community of villages, we have many little neighborhoods that over the next 75 years will continue to welcome children in our schools, parents and families and working class citizens in San Diego and keep our seniors together and their community on October 18th from one to six.

We are going to be celebrating the community at the Claremont 75th birthday party.

It is a free event open to all community members.

So please, Claremont Town Square, it's at Claremont Drive and Claremont Mesa in San Diego, right in the heart of Claremont, the heart of San Diego.

And thank you all so much for recognizing us.

We are we are truly, truly grateful.

Thank you so much, Nicole.

Thank you, Council President Pro Tem.

Thank you.

Next we have Council Member Whitburn.

Thank you, Council President Pro Tem.

I am pleased to join my colleagues in recognizing October as LGBTQ History Month here in the City of San Diego, and I appreciate the words of my colleagues who have spoken so far.

Thank you to Ms.

Verdes and Lambda Archives and everybody who works to protect LGBTQ history.

This year's theme, our history will never be erased, could not be more relevant considering the current political climate.

This year we have seen due efforts to turn back the clock.

The Trump administration announced the renaming of the USNS Harvey Milk.

They have removed LGBTQ references from federal websites and national monuments.

And they are actively literally denying the identities of our transgender community.

They are making every effort to erase our history and undermine the progress our community has fought to secure.

But they are wrong.

I could use other adjectives, but I'll stick with wrong.

Happily, here in San Diego, we choose a different path.

We continue to celebrate and to educate and to lead with pride.

Our city recognized that diversity and unity are not opposing values.

Unity and diversity make us strong.

There are far too many trailblazers and organizations to name right now, but I encourage everybody to mention the LGBDQ historic exhibit that Councilmember Campbell mentioned.

It's right downstairs.

It'll be in the City Hall lobby later this month.

It'll be open from Wednesday, October 15th until Wednesday, November 5th.

And it will be an incredible opportunity to explore all the stories and photographs and artifacts that capture the heart of our community's history, a history that deserves to be remembered and understood and celebrated.

Our history will never be erased.

Not now and not ever.

Clearly, that is also true of the Filipino American community in the City of San Diego.

I congratulate all of you who are here today celebrating Filipino American History Month.

Thank you for being here today to honor your heritage and speak to the importance of remembering its history.

Congratulations too to the Claremont residents who are here on the 75th anniversary of the wonderful community in in Claremont.

Thank you for being here as well.

And I want to thank Council Members Campbell and von Wilpert and Moreno for bringing forward the proclamation commemorating breast cancer awareness month.

October is a time to honor survivors, remember those whom we have lost to breast cancer, uh to support all those who are currently fighting the disease.

You know, we've spoken a lot about communities today.

I could tell you there is also a very powerful community of breast cancer survivors and their families and friends.

Before joining the City Council, I served as the director of the American Cancer Society in Southern California, and I was always inspired by the cancer survivors and their loved ones.

Early detection saves lives.

I would encourage everybody to stay informed about the signs of breast cancer and to participate in regular screenings.

And I will also point out that while breast cancer commonly affects women, it can affect men as well.

It is rare in men, but men can get breast cancer.

And it can be particularly deadly in men because oftentimes when men feel a lump in their breast area, they don't even know that men are subjected to breast cancer, and so they don't do anything about it.

So while it certainly affects women more than men, uh men should also be aware that it can affect uh men as well.

By standing together and raising awareness and supporting research, we move closer to a future that is free from this disease.

And it's something that's a goal that I know that we all hold dear.

Thank you very much, Council President Pro Tem.

Thank you.

We'll turn next to Councilmember Foster.

Yes, thank you, Council President Pro Tem.

I would like to provide some brief comments for items 30, 31, and 32.

Item 30, LGBTQ plus history month.

This month, we honor those who fought for fairness and the right to be seen.

Reminding us that equity in all its forms makes our communities stronger.

LGBTQ plus history month isn't just about one group story.

It's about how far we've come in building a city where everyone has a chance to live with dignity.

Across generations, people have stood up to say that discrimination has no place in our neighborhoods.

In District 4, we believe in inclusion, not as a slogan, but as a way of life.

When we make space for every voice, we build safer, healthier, more connected communities.

Again, thank you to my colleagues for bringing that proclamation forward.

Item 31, Filipino American History Month.

I'm proud to bring this proclamation forward alongside Council President Pro Temp, Kent Lee, and Councilmember Sean Ilo Rivera, as we recognize Philo, Filipino American History Month here in San Diego.

The Filipino community is woven into the fabric of our city, contributing to our schools, small businesses, and neighborhoods with pride, hard work, and heart.

In District 4, we see that every day through residents who lead with service, lift others up, and stay deeply connected to community.

This month reminds us that history is carried forward by those who continue to build opportunity and belonging for the next generation.

To our Filipino American neighbors in District 4 and across the city of San Diego, thank you for your leadership, your resilience, and the lasting mark you've made on our city.

Item number 32, Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

I want to thank my colleagues, Council members Jennifer Campbell, Marnie Von Wilpert, and Vivian Moreno for bringing this important proclamation forward.

As a husband, a father, and a son, this cause hits close to home.

Too many of us have watched the women we love and honor face this disease with courage and grace.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month is about lifting up survivors, supporting those still in the fight, and remembering those we've lost.

It's also a reminder that early detection truly saves lives.

It's important to acknowledge that black and brown women are often diagnosed at later and at more aggressive stages.

That's why equity in health care, access, and education must stay front and center to every woman, every family, and every survivor.

Your strength moves us.

Let's keep spreading awareness, getting screened, and standing together.

And Council President Pro Tin, that concludes my comments.

Thank you.

Next on the lights is Councilmember Von Wolbert.

Thank you very much.

And thank you to my colleagues for the great proclamations, and thank you to everyone for being here.

Congratulations to Claremont on 75 Years Strong.

The celebration sounds fantastic.

I'm very proud to be celebrating Filipino History and Awareness Month.

Thank you for everyone's beautiful comments today and know that we here in the City of San Diego celebrate our diversity and our communities from immigrants to our LGBT community alike.

Very glad you're here.

And so the more we have people cocking about going in, getting routine screenings, it's incredibly important.

Breast cancer has a five year survival rate with 99%, 99% of people who get breast cancer diagnosed early have incredibly good survival rate.

And while we honor and celebrate the resilience of over four million breast cancer survivors in the United States, we're also sitting in a moment where the federal government has shut down over an argument about whether to provide basic health care access to many of these women.

Right now we're watching the Trump administration with the big beautiful bill making it harder to access the very care we are here encouraging people to get.

Jessica Altman, who is the head of the executive director of Covered California, which is California's marketplace for insurance, noted just a week ago quote, we estimate as many as 400,000 of our current enrollees will be forced to drop health care coverage as a result of these double digit increases if these tax credits do not go through.

And those that remain on our health care plans will pay more.

She added that without the renewal of the federal tax credits for health insurance, premiums could nearly double on average for many consumers.

And so if Congress doesn't take action soon, people will start receiving notices based on these higher rates, and they fear that people will make really hard choices about their health insurance and have to get off of their insurance plans.

And so it's very difficult to sit here and proclaim breast care breast cancer awareness month when we're also simultaneously watching the federal government take away health care for millions of people so that we can pay for tax credits for wealthy folks.

But I will continue to push and continue to make sure that women's cancer is something that we talk about and that we treat and we have access to item 30, which is LGBTQ History Month.

Thank you so much for Leander Archives for your beautiful speech about how we will not be erased, and thank you to Council Mr.

Whitburn and Council Member Campbell for your beautiful words about how our histories need to be celebrated, including uh people like Harvey Milk, who in fact were military service members, and we're fighters and should be commemorated.

Um, I'm a proud uh bisexual member of this council, and I understand the importance of being visible, not just for myself, but for others who are still fighting their voices.

Our LGBTQ plus history month is a time to honor the full diversity of our community, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and beyond.

Uh this year's theme is our history will never be erased, reminds us of the importance of preserving and celebrating our stories past and present.

From Harvey Milk to Chris Kehoe, Tony Atkins, uh, leaders that have paved the way for equality and representation to uh Mayor Todd Gloria, who is our first openly gay mayor of the eighth largest city in the nation.

And as we sit here proclaiming uh LGBTQ history month, the Supreme Court just this morning heard arguments in a case about people who are trying to erase us.

Uh they just got off the dais uh at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, and they heard arguments in the case regarding questions of sexuality and government regulation.

Uh I don't see the government trying to regulate anyone else's sexuality except for someone like me.

A young woman who might need access to abortion care or reproductive health care, a young openly bisexual woman who might want to have access to all sorts of a range of uh sexual reproductive health conversations with my doctor, and yet the government wants to tell me what I can do with my body and how to speak to my doctor.

So there is a very conservative religious group who has petitioned the Supreme Court, and this morning we're arguing that they have a First Amendment right to be licensed therapists in Colorado and practice what's known as conversion therapy.

It is generally defined as a quote, treatment used to cure a person's attraction to the same sex, in other words, making gay persons straight.

Or to cure a person's desire to change their gender identity by making them, quote, comfortable with their sex assigned at birth.

Every major medical organization in the United States of America, from the American Medical Association to the American Psychological Association, has repudiated this practice, finding that it does not work, and instead have declared that this conversion therapy leads to a deep depression, suicidal thoughts in minors.

As a result of these findings, medical findings, half of the states in the United States of America have banned the license practice of conversion therapy for those under the age of 18.

And I say license practice because this is not about freedom of speech.

The Colorado law, just as every other law in this nation, allows anyone to despise to espouse their views on identity, sexual identity, transgender identity.

There's no one restricting your speech.

This is a licensure requirement, though.

This is the state of California stating what is healthy and what is not.

And they are not going to allow people to claim to be licensed and vetted by the state and practice a therapy that is so demonizing and dehumanizing to young people.

As a licensed attorney, I have plenty of regulations on what I cannot say, and I should.

I abide by a law that says I will not lie in front of a courtroom.

I abide by a law that says I will not lie or steal from my clients.

I have no first amendment right to steal from my clients or tell them how they their cases should go or use their money.

And if I want to say those things, I should give up my law license.

And if a doctor wants to do harmful things to help people hurt themselves, they should give up their medical license.

And the Supreme Court is hearing today in entertaining a case in which someone says they should be licensed to harm young people who are LGBTQ.

So I'm very proud to be part of this dais.

I'm very proud to be part of this city, which is standing up and saying, no, we won't go.

And that we're going to stand and make sure that people have access to health care and are treated with dignity because of who they are.

So thank you, everyone, for being here.

Thank you for the extra time.

And there's a reason we do these proclamations, because there are people in this country who are trying to erase us, and we're not going to let that happen.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Sometimes it seems like we only have a few proclamations, but um, especially when they're all meaningful, it really says a lot.

Um so thank you to my colleagues for bringing forward several of the proclamations we have today.

First off to Nicole and the entire team at the Claremont Town Council.

Congratulations on celebrating Claremont's 75th anniversary.

Uh, certainly as a reminder that we have a lot of communities that are growing older in San Diego.

Um, and it's a big milestone for all of you in Claremont.

Look forward to the celebrations there.

Um, on breast cancer awareness month, um, thank you to Council Murra Moreno, uh, Von Wolpert and Campbell for bringing this forward.

Um, it certainly is a personal um thing for me as well.

Um, I think when Council Moreno was talking about early detection and as others shared, um, my mother um had the fortune of having early detection at stage zero for breast cancer, um, underwent uh a round of uh radiation treatments and a double mastectomy, and is still here today.

Um, and I think she was just very fortunate at that time uh when she was actually between jobs to have the health care that she needed to be able to have that early detection take place.

Um, and still a significant moment um in her time, obviously, uh, but something that we're very fortunate that she was able to get through.

Um for LGBTQ plus history month, I too want to especially thank you, Nicole, for your remarks and sharing your work at Lambda Archives and really how critical it is that we share and cherish and preserve our stories, and especially I think looking at an era as you've heard from this dais, where we are increasingly facing a federal administration where all of our stories across so many communities are facing a racer.

Um, I think this is the environment in which we really must work to work together collectively to celebrate whether it's still LGBTQ plus community, the Filipino community, and others that we deem as integral parts of the fabric of San Diego.

Um today I had the honor of bringing forward item 31 alongside Council members um Ilo Rivera and Foster celebrating October 2025 as Filipino American History Month in the city of San Diego.

Um the Filipino American uh National Historical Society established Filipino American History Month in October of 1992.

And James shared a little bit of this history.

And so it is a privilege, I think, for all of us to commemorate this month and to share it with members of our Filipino community, but also to give all of you a chance to share your culture and your history and your stories with the greater community as well.

Always Professor Swish for giving us a reading list that we haven't gotten to yet.

One is the San Diego Filipino Film Festival, which um takes place October 10th to 12th, which will be highlighting global Filipino stories as well as emerging filmmakers.

Again, Filipino Americans are a vital part of our country and especially our city and their stories as well as the stories of all other marginalized communities that I think in this era are facing a racer.

With that said, we have a motion by Council Member Moreno, a second by Councilmember Ila Rivera.

Seeing no other speakers, Clerk, will you please call the roll?

Sorry, the voting system, please cast your vote.

Thank you.

And that passes unanimously with Council President Locava absent.

Thank you.

Thank you, Clerk.

And we're actually going to take a pause for a moment for photos.

So we're going to invite each of the groups up one by one to get a photo.

We're going to start with LGBTQ Plus History Month, followed by Claremont, 75th anniversary day, Filipino American History Month, and Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Thank you, everyone for your patience with the photos.

Uh, we'll go ahead and now proceed with the approval of the consent items.

Uh, but before we uh go with the approval for the consent items, I believe we have a correction for item 101.

Um, so I'll ask staff to come up and clarify that item.

Thank you for navigating the lobby.

Apologies, council's a little busy out there.

Yes, we would like to request that the effective date of item 101 be October 15th, not October 1st.

And that would be in the the resolution.

Thank you.

Uh, and now that that change is reflected on the record, um, we'll move next to see if there are any council members uh looking to pull items uh from the consent agenda.

Seeing none, clerk please proceed with public comment.

Thank you, Council President Pro Tem.

There are no speaker slips here in council chambers for the consent agenda, but I will note for the record that we did receive one comment in favor for item 101 VRE comment software, and that was distributed to the council.

Um we will be going to those participating remotely, but I would like to just note that the consent agenda does include items 50 through 55 and 100 through 105.

Also let me know for the record the potential appointments and reappointments that are on the agenda this morning.

Item 102 is the potential appointment of Jesse Schmidt to the Commission on Gang Prevention and Intervention.

Item 103 is a potential appointment of PETA Kong Fu Thone to the Consolidated Plan Advisory Board.

Item 104 is a potential reappointment of Cindy Lynn, Josh Dean, Mahayla Slack Slackerelli, Madison Swain, Kelly Linden, and Whitney Pierce to the Climate Advisory Board.

And item 105 is the potential appointment of Kathy Hassan to the Commission for Arts and Culture.

Now going to those that are participating online.

The original, if you can please unmute and let me know which item or items you wish to speak to.

Yes, um, I would like to speak to um 100 1010 and 104.

You'll have three minutes, please proceed.

All right.

So again, I need to inform you guys that it was actually 15 people that died.

Someone died in a tent fire between Tammy and Shannon.

So you guys' numbers are increasing by the day of deaths at Tent City, and you need to do something about it.

People shouldn't be dying on a regular basis.

Um so with the tires, all of this stuff about recycling, it's it's a bunch of shenanigans.

Um, you know, it's it's like, you know, just more of a business to sit here and pretend like we're going to be actually um recycling anything uh much of the time, you know, even stuff that does get recycled, it goes back into animal feed and different things.

Like everything that happens is so nefarious, and it's all under the guise of like doing something that's beneficial to the planet.

Um and this user fee for the animals.

Oh my gosh.

The way that the city and the county of San Diego treats animals, and then we gotta pay more money uh just for you guys to euthanize them when they are, you know, good dogs or cats or whatever.

Um, you know, you don't do anything about you know, horses that are being abused on a regular basis, or you know, the sea lions.

You guys don't do anything about that.

You don't do anything about the birds that are being tortured either.

But you know what?

You don't care what people die at 10 city, so it's the name of the game.

Um and it's just very telling.

And then you're you know, little uh advisory boards or whatever you guys do to pretend like you're really holding people accountable, and it's like this gang prevention.

I mean, are they gonna quit prevent you guys from being a gang?

Because you guys gang stock, you're a gang in the city.

I mean, you sit here and act like you know, you're really helping people, but in reality you don't.

You're just racketeering and involved in organized crime.

So I'm wondering if they're gonna be looking at you guys and doing something about that.

And then with the whole climate shenanigan advisory committee, until people are really going to, you know, tell people the truth.

Like I'm so sick of every day having to like listen to people tell lies over and over to people, like you know, having a child change their gender is something that's good for them.

You know, like you guys, it's it you you try and you know, change language saying that people can be they them when it will never be like that.

Just like you're saying that the planet that you know, cars and all of these things that people are doing are creating greenhouse gases, and we're, you know, we gotta mitigate that.

All you're doing is enslaving the people.

You don't care about the planet because everything that you guys do goes against saving the planet.

You don't recognize that there's you know cloud seeding, things like that, chemtrails that are above us where they're spanning toxic chemicals and nanothermite, which makes it real nice when a fire comes, right?

And you guys need to, you know, get the land opened up for whatever reason.

It's just it's very disturbing how much evil runs rampant on a regular basis, and you know, it's all inverted just like Satan masquerades as an angel of light.

People see right through you, demons.

Your time has concluded.

Our next speaker is Blair Beekman, and after that is 7499.

Blair, if you can please unmute and let me know which item or items you wish to speak to.

Hi, uh Blair Beekman.

I wanted to speak to items uh 50, 52, 53, 54, and then uh 5.

Um hundred, and then 104.

And uh, and uh yeah, I think that's about it.

Thank you.

You'll have three minutes, please proceed.

Thank you.

Uh I oh, yeah, I can consolidate a lot of the items too.

Um, to speak to items 50 uh through uh 51, 52 to 55, uh water issues.

You're working on a lot of water issues uh and sewer replacement uh practices here in San Diego.

I just rem wanted to remind and ask the question uh uh in uh Tijuana, Mexico.

I I know they've made a big deal to work on desalinization issues.

That is to them the initial future of what uh working on their sewer projects and the Tijuana River Valley issues was about.

Are they starting to more look into pure water?

Um I just wanted to put that out there, ask the question.

Um, it'll be nice if they are, and I hope that can be more ready regularly openly described if that is the case.

Um, so I just wanted to mention that.

Um, I wanted to uh say hi to DRA and just really thank her for the work she does.

Uh she works a lot with the uh homeless uh encampments, and it's just it's just uh very sad that what she has to go through in her work and reporting.

And I'm sorry for what she's going through, and I hope we can continue to work on uh the uh homeless uh the encampment issues.

Well, uh the the sponsored encampment issues uh of San Diego.

Uh to continue, uh items uh 55 is uh progressive design construction uh risk procurement methods for the future of public works projects and capital improvements.

Boy, I just wanted to say hi to that item.

I don't know what quite what to uh offer is constructive help, uh, but um just noting it at this time.

Maybe in the future I can I can talk more about it.

We had important items yesterday about budgeting and how we need to be more clear and communicative with that budget with budgeting things.

Uh good luck in those efforts to do that.

Uh for item uh 100.

I think the waste tire amnesty program is really interesting sounding to me.

I've been hanging around Tijuana a lot, so um to me that's a great program.

It's just I instantly gravitated to what that can be about.

And uh so thank you for that program and that your work and that we can make that more clear in our in our future.

What what it can do well.

Uh good luck in those efforts.

And finally, 104 uh climate advisory board things.

I hope uh to comment on uh DRA's words that each side has a has their own good point of view, and they end up locking into that focus, and they don't know how to better share the other side or another points of view to address an issue.

And so everything just becomes you know, this big push on one-sided ideas, and it doesn't balance out the process.

Let's I hope we're working on how to work out that balance.

And and uh both sides have will have truths.

Let's learn how to find what the truths are on both sides and work together towards a good common goal.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Our final speaker is 7499.

No other speakers have their hands raised, and the five-minute timer has concluded.

7499, can you please let me know which item or items you wish to speak to?

Um, I'd like to speak to all of them, but I'll be so brief it'd be less than one of them.

Thank you.

I'll have three minutes, please proceed.

Okay, Bob Kazuski here.

First, I'd like to ask the city attorney's opinion on the Brown Act and how that relates to making last-minute changes to items on the agenda without giving the public a chance to know about those changes in advance.

Um, and uh finally, I'd also like to ask again, uh, and I'd like to point out that all of these advisory boards and committees are important.

That's how citizens get involved in our government.

And I'd like to ask ask the city to again reactivate the Tory Pines City Park Advisory Board.

That's all I have.

Thank you.

Thank you.

That concludes public comment on the consent agenda.

Thank you.

We will now take Councilmember questions' comments, starting with Councilmember Kim Pew.

Thank you, Council President Pro Tem.

I'll move approval of the consent agenda and focus my comments on item 105.

I'm very glad to see the reappointment of what of Miss Whitney Pierce to the Climate Advisory Board.

Her work as a sustainable design focused architect is a key voice we need, and I appreciate her willingness uh to serve in that role.

And I would also like to thank Dr.

Kathy Hassan for her willingness to serve on the Commission of Arts and Culture.

Dr.

Hassan brings more than three decades of leadership and service and higher education, and her experience is rooted in building inclusive and creative and thoughtful communities, which is exactly what we need.

Throughout her career, she has focused on bridging research, culture, and human connection, ensuring that institutions not only perform well but serve people well.

And she has been a mentor and a connector and a champion for equity and cultural understanding qualities that align perfectly with the mission of the Arts and Culture Commission.

So I know she will bring wisdom and compassion and a collaborative spirit to the work ahead, and I'm excited for her to step into that role.

Thank you very much, Council President.

That concludes my motion.

Thank you.

I have a motion by Councilmember Campia turning next to Councilmember Moreno.

Thank you.

I have comments on item 102, which concerns appointments to the Commission on Gang Prevention and Intervention.

Thank you, Mr.

Jesse Schmidt, for your willingness to serve on the Commission on Gang Prevention and Intervention in the District 8 seat.

Mr.

Schmidt earned a bachelor's degree of arts in criminal justice from Point Loma Nazarene University.

He also has years of experience working in the state capitol and has played a crucial role in promoting transparency and trust between law enforcement and the community.

Mr.

Schmidt is also a community-focused individual that coaches pop warner football with the South Bay Jaguars and volunteers at the annual Logan CDC Turkey Drive.

Thank you, Mr.

Schmidt, for your willingness to serve on this community on this committee.

And lastly, I also want to thank Mr.

Alberto Vasquez, who's served on the commission representing District 8 since 2018 and was dedicated to making a dis difference.

He made a positive impact on this committee.

That is very much appreciated.

Lastly, I will record a no vote on item 101, which is an update, updated animal service user fee schedule.

I've stated many times over the last several months that increasing fees on San Diegans is something I simply cannot support.

They're being squeezed from all sides, parking fees, water rates, sewer rates, they're all going up, and I simply cannot support another fee going up.

That could end up being a disincentive for people to adopt animals, which will further exacerbate the situation.

So I will record a no vote on item 101 and support the balance of the consent agenda.

And that concludes my comments.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And Councilmember, I I might have missed it.

Did you offer a second for the consent agenda?

Happy to second.

Okay.

We have a motion by Councilmember Campio, second by Councilmember Moreno.

Uh we'll turn next to you, Councilmember Campbell.

Thank you so much, uh President Pro Tem.

I'm honored to recognize Josh Dean.

This is item 104 on consent.

He's a resident in Point Loman, District 2, and he is accepting reappointment to the climate advisory board.

Mr.

Dean is currently senior consultant in 2050 Partners.

This is a professional services consulting firm that specializes in decarbonization and energy efficiency.

Prior to this, he was executive director of the California Energy Alliance.

He has over 12 years of experience in sustainability construction and real estate industries with projects ranging from energy retrofits to supervising commercial new construction and residential development.

Additionally, Mr.

Dean has extensive experience working with multiple government agencies and businesses.

And nonprofits also to deliver projects and education around sustainability.

He earned a Bachelor of Science in Construction Management from Southern Polytechnic State University and a Masters of Science and Energy Policy and Climate from Johns Hopkins University.

Given his expertise in sustainability and energy, I support the reappointment of Josh Dean to the Climate Advisory Board, and I so appreciate his willingness to continue to serve.

Thank you, Mr.

Dean.

And thank you, Council President Pro Tem.

Thank you.

Next on the lights is Councilmember Elo Rivera.

All right.

Thank you, Council President Pro Tem.

Let me first by saying say start by saying thank you to the folks who are stepping up to serve in a variety of capacities today.

I'll start by saying thank you to Jesse Schmidty for your commitment to the community and stepping up to serve on the Commission on Gang Prevention and Intervention.

You have really solid leadership over there.

Cindy and Kelly, thank you for stepping up to serve on the Climate Advisory Board.

Looking forward to continuing to see your good work and definitely appreciate everything that you do to advocate for San Diego to be a stronger leader when it comes to our climate climate change work.

I did have a question.

I did I I didn't need it pulled from consent.

I did have a question about item 101.

My understanding is that there's no difference in fees for residents versus non-residents in this fee schedule.

Is that correct?

That is correct.

Okay.

And the city of San Diego makes a pretty significant contribution to the humane society.

It was part of our budget conversation this year, right?

I understand that they fundraise for other portion of their budget.

Is that accurate?

Correct.

Do we know if other cities are contributing to in a similar way to the city of San Diego?

Not that I'm aware of.

Okay.

Councilmember, what I what I would like to share with you is that uh in discussions with Sandy Humeine regarding residents or non-residents, depending on the service a person is asking of San Humein regarding City of San Diego services.

If they are not in the city of San Diego, that person will be referred to their jurisdiction for that service provided for their animal.

For services.

But the adop but for adoptions.

So adoption serves San Humein because they are trying to place animals in homes and take them out of shelters.

So depending on the service being provided, they may allow that person to conduct that service in the city of San Diego, or they may refer them to the appropriate municipality for that service.

Okay.

It's not so much that I want non-residents charged more in this case.

It's that I I do think it's important for the residents of San Diego to receive a benefit since the city of San Diego is investing in the way that it is.

So and you know, Councilmember Moreno spoke to the cost of living issues, the you know, cities um needing to raise fees in the variety of ways that we have, and it's it's especially important to me that City of San Diego residents have some benefits that come from the investments that are being made with with uh city tax dollars.

So in this case, I don't necessarily see that in a way that's distinguishable from folks who do not live in the city, and for that reason, I'll be casting a no vote on item 101 as well.

Um, but uh support the rest of the consent agenda.

Thank you, Council President Pro Tem.

Thank you.

We'll turn next to Councilmember Foster.

Uh yes, thank you, uh Council President Pro Tem.

I'd like to just quickly comment on item 102 and 104.

Um I'd like to thank uh my colleague, Councilmember Reino on nominating Mr.

Jesse Smith uh to the Commission on Gang Prevention and Intervention.

Mr.

Schmidt continues to exhibit his passion for advocating for criminal justice from his work with the Partnership for Advancement of New Americans to his work with community advocates for just and moral governance.

Mr.

Smith has always worked closely with leaders and coalitions driving key initiatives in District 4.

Congratulations on being nominated.

I look forward to seeing your work continue in this space.

Also, 104 reappointments to the climate advisory board.

I will also um like to congratulate Dr.

Swain on being reappointed to the climate advisory board.

Dr.

Swain is the assistant professor of city planning in the School of Public Affairs at San Diego State University, where she teaches environmental justice, environmental law, and sustainable urbanism.

Her work aids uh understand the impediments faced by low-income and marginalized communities in their fight to access resources to meet daily needs, including the efficient climate-friendly transportation, fair and affordable housing, clean and safe land, healthy foods and sanitation.

Thank you for your work, Dr.

Swain.

It does not go unnoticed.

And congratulations again on being reappointed to the climate advisory board.

That concludes my comments.

Thank you.

Seeing no other speakers, um, I'd like to go ahead and speak to items 103 and 104.

Uh, first off, I want to share my congratulations to Mr.

Peter Kung Fu Thong on his appointment to the consolidated plant advisory board representing District 6 with 18 years of experience leading and serving within the nonprofit sector, faith-based organizations, and the business community.

With 18 years of experience leading and serving within the nonprofit sector, faith-based organizations and the business community, Pete has demonstrated his expertise when it comes to community organizing, finance, public relations, and governance.

And in fact, he currently serves on several boards and organizations, currently serving on the mayor's API advisory board as a treasurer and board director for La Maestra Community Health Centers.

He serves as the chair of the Lao Americans organization of San Diego, as well as in capacities for the Lao Community Cultural Center and Wat Lao Booteram.

He's been highly recognized within the APIA and Lao American communities.

She's currently the managing research engineer at TRC, where she leads field pilots that equitably and cost-effectively electrify homes.

As the co-chair of the San Diego Building Electrification Coalition, Kelly has served a primary role when it comes to coalition building policy analysis, uh, decarbonization research, community outreach, and advocacy.

And she's been a valuable asset in her time to the climate advisory board.

She is certainly a fierce advocate within the community as well, and I'm confident and grateful for her service, um, her continued service with her expertise to that um board as well.

Um thank you both for your willingness to serve our city uh in these capacities.

Seeing no other speakers, again, we have a motion by Councilmember Campillo, a second by Councilmember Moreno.

Uh Clerk, will you please call the roll?

Thank you, Council President Pro Tem.

Please cast your vote.

That does pass unanimously eight to zero with Councilmember Moreno and Councilmember Ilo Rivera voting no on item 101.

Thank you.

Uh moving to any mayor, council, city attorney, independent budget land analyst or city clerk comments.

Uh I believe we have some comments by Councilmember Ila Ribera.

Uh thank you.

Um Thank you, Council President Pro Tem.

I I I have a question or a request um for Randy and the mayor's office.

Uh we've continued to hear um very concerning and and disturbing stories about deaths at um one of the city's shelter sites.

Um I would very much like to know if uh what what's what's going on there.

Um if there are deaths of any sort in in shelters that the city is operating, I think it's important for us to know about those.

And so if I could request that the um the mayor's office or staff um share with the council um if there have been deaths, when those occurred and under what circumstances.

Um I I um it just feels like an important thing for for us to know about and to um not ignore.

Thank you, Councilmember.

We'll be happy to follow up and provide information to the council on that.

Okay, I I appreciate that.

Um and then um on a on a very different note, Council President Pro Tem.

I I uh didn't want to let today pass without acknowledging uh that it's the uh two-year anniversary of um October 7th, um those those attacks.

Um obviously that was a horrific day.

Um Israelis um were hunted down and and and murdered uh brutally, including babies.

Um it was a day that rattled me for sure, and I I know that uh many here in San Diego.

Um there's are are still dozens of hostages.

Um it was a day that unleashed an immense level of suffering for um Palestinians, um, uh a new chapter of suffering that um is um still going on.

Um so um it would it just felt like a thing that I wanted to make sure was was mentioned today.

Um I still uh I still struggle with everything that's happened since then as someone of of Jewish heritage, um but as someone who because of my Jewish faith um sees the um inherent value in all human life and not seeing that honored um I'm very much struggling with that uh and continue to do so.

I I heard a story this morning on um NPR of a of a man who was um grieving having lost his toddler um in recent weeks from a bombing and so if I could request that we just have a a short moment of silence um for all those lives that were lost on October 7th and since October 7th.

Um Council President Pro Tem, I'd appreciate that you thank you.

Uh next we'll turn to Clerk Fuentes.

Um thank you, Council President Pro Tem.

I just wanted to make note that on November 4th, 2025, California will be holding a special statewide election.

Ballots started being mailed out to registered voters on October 6, 2025, yesterday, and beginning on October 7th, 2025, ballot drop boxes will be available for submission of ballots through election day.

A ballot drop box will be located just outside the city administration building in the breezeway, providing a convenient option for voters to deposit their ballots that live in the downtown or work in the downtown area.

The voter registration deadline will be October 20th, 2025.

If voters miss the deadline, they can still conditionally register and vote by visiting the San Diego County Registrar of Voters or a vote center through election day.

For more information, please visit SDvote.com.

Thank you, Council President Pro Tem.

Thank you.

Seeing no other comments, we'll turn next to take up non-agenda public comment.

The council members respect and appreciate the public's input and are fully committed to protecting every participant's free speech rights at council and committee meetings.

Clerk, do we have any non-agenda public comment?

Yes, we do.

Per rule 2.7, non-agenda public comment is an opportunity for members of the public to comment on items that are not on the agenda but within the subject matter jurisdiction of the city council.

Each speaker will have two minutes.

Please note if there are eight or more speakers on a single topic.

The maximum time for the topic will be 16 minutes.

If you're in chambers, please submit your speaker slip now to the front of the room in the clear box.

And if you're joining us virtually, please raise your hand to speak by tapping the raise your hand icon.

Or if you are calling participant, star nine sandy.

If you can please come up to the microphone, you'll have two minutes.

You are currently our only speaker that submitted a speaker slip here.

Thank you, Councilmembers, for their attention.

Um guys are know me now.

Um here.

All right, so I'm gonna be I have about 10 minutes worth of presentation I'm gonna be doing, so you'll be seeing me in the next subsequent weeks.

Uh, what I intend to accomplish here with these presentations is um regulation of input by the busker community, um as well as um maybe throwing my hat into the ring if anyone would like uh any input from myself using my attention that I have received during the ticketed information situation, which I ended up getting a lot of.

I'm using that as a platform for the the larger community.

Um we are allocated to these four by eight spaces, and it's not acceptable.

Um, not everybody can do what they do in 4x8 space, and plus we can regulate ourselves in the process.

I understand that the Port Authority and other affluent individuals had created uh facilitated these regulations with no input from the buskin community or little input or unheard input.

Um everyone uh wants uh to be able to connect and have purpose.

Everyone uh that's uh that uh what we do is many of us as myself, this is our living.

Um I do I always finish my my sets with if you got value, joy, or have been reasonably entertained, earned gratuity is appreciated.

Um the Rangers are confrontational.

We only have and some people sign uh come there at 4 30 in the morning to get these allocated spaces.

Okay, we allocate our own spaces beforehand, and it was fine.

Um we're not panhandlers, we provide a public service once again at no cost to the city.

Uh we are the personality of San Diego.

Uh parts of okay, I think I covers it for today.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

I've started the five-minute timer here in Council Chambers going to those participating remotely.

Um we have nine speakers in the queue, starting with Blair Beekman, if you can please unmute.

Hi, uh Blair Beekman.

Thanks for the morning meeting today.

Um, to try to better elaborate uh well, I guess the first offer um thank you for the words of Sean El Rivera, thank you for the words of or Council President Oliver and Um DRA talking about uh, you know, the our sponsored housing encampment issues.

Thank you for the words of council person over and um DRA talking about uh, you know, the our sponsored housing encampment issues.

Um I've tried to offer before that if their staff can be more open and flexible to ideas and changes to their program from when they get input from people.

That was a big problem six, eight months ago.

Uh how is that issue being addressed?

You know, you're coming in with new funding, new ideas, um, but you were lacking, they were lacking how to better uh you know, take in ideas from people, just offering constructive criticism.

It sounded like so.

Good luck that you can work on that simple concept.

Uh, I think that can be an important step to re-mention at this time.

Um again, yeah, thank you for the words of uh Council Person El Overa about uh the events of October 7th.

Uh, he he says things very eloquently that I've been trying to say for years that I have been having so much trouble to say.

Um, we have to really acknowledge that this is all started based on a violent action by Hamas by a uh Palestinian group.

I feel that their violent action was not to decimate Israel, but to really make a cry that they are sick and tired of what was been going on in Gaza and wanted answers.

They wanted change.

I think Israel really needed to respond to that, not with the concepts of continual war for the past two years.

We uh we've been trying to come out of 9-11 in this country to really address a future without war.

Israel really needed to make those same steps.

It takes effort, it takes work, and and and trust and patience, and they needed to work on that.

And I think we're all upset that they're not making those efforts.

It takes a lot of practice to do that.

They need to practice those things.

Good luck we do that together.

Thank you.

Uh, thank you.

The original, if you can please unmute.

My apologies.

Can you please unmute?

Yes.

Um, thank you, Sean.

Um, I know that you guys, you know, dislike me, but it's so important to look into this.

So I may not you were probably the last person I thought, but I really do um appreciate it, and I hope you really do look into it.

But I want you to tread with caution because Dreams for Change is attempting to, and and I believe the city is attempting to hide the deaths and the sexual assaults.

Um, and there's evidence of it.

So I'm willing to meet with you and whoever would like more information that's coming from people on the inside.

And you know, when there's a lot of money being exchanged in hands, and when Stephen Whippern is friends with Teresa Smith, you know, I just please use discernment when you're getting this information from the city, because it's not being reported to the police, the sexual assaults, like I'm saying, and they're encouraging the victims and and not even just encouraging, like, you know, intimidating them so that they don't do anything because then you know the money gets lost.

It's like if you guys really care about you can't call it a safe sleeping site when every two months someone's dying.

I mean, that's it, it's happening more often than that, obviously.

It's been three weeks since someone died.

And just this morning, Bobby died, and the coroner just left Tent City.

So if you really do mean it, please don't just take what information the city's going to give you if they're not going to be reporting it right, and be open to accepting more evidence that would help you determine what's really going on there and what needs to be done.

People shouldn't lose their lives because money is being exchanged and that's more important.

Please do something, Sean.

Thank you, Nexus Harry Ann Skelly, if you can please unmute.

Good morning, San Diego City Council President Macaba.

My name is Terry Ansgelli.

I'm a planning group member, a parent, and a public health educator.

There is a well-known podcast called Dreamland, hosted by Sam Canones.

I might not have his last name properly, forgive me, who is a substance abuse counselor.

His observation from the field have assisted those of us in public health.

He recently said, and I quote, there's a lesson I thought the opioid epidemic had taught us, which I believe was this beware of drugs that are one legal, two highly potent, three made widely available with four unfounded claims of their risk-free nature, and perhaps most important, number five, promoted, marketed by profit-motivated groups or corporations.

End quote.

This description goes a long way to describe our marijuana industry today.

Hot capitalism has transformed weed into a hyperpotent mutation, bearing no resemblance to the naturally grown plant.

This cessation of pot, or really THC, means that the mental health consequences of hyperpotent pot and THC products now equal those like fentanyl, meth, and cocaine.

He speaks about the spread of psychosis he and his colleagues see regularly, especially among young men.

He regrets the permitting of pot because it has allowed for industrial innovation of TSA products in mighty and devastating potent supply, such as dabs, waxes, and vapes, and especially families where the parents are shelf-shocked by their young adults' cannabis addiction.

We need these real-time podcasts to counter the aggressive social media and marijuana business billboards around town.

Thank you for hearing my concerns this morning.

Thank you.

Next is Madison and then Megan Stewart and Becky Repp.

If you can please unmute.

Hi, thank you.

I'm here this morning to recognize October as Youth Drug Prevention Month and to promote Red Ribbon Week, which is taking place from October 23rd to the 31st.

It also might be nice to have a proclamation here at City Council about Red Ribbon Week and Youth Drug Prevention Month.

Red Ribbon Week is the nation's largest and longest-running drug prevention campaign.

It serves as a powerful reminder of the importance of educating our youth about the risks of substance use and empowering them to make healthy drug-free choices.

Each year, schools, community centers, and families across San Diego come together through this campaign to inspire positive action and resilience.

This year's theme, Life is a Puzzle, Solve It Drug-Free, encourages young people to prioritize mental wellness and stay away from harmful substances.

Please make it known that you support this message.

Parents like me always appreciate knowing that our city is promoting school and community-based prevention programs.

Your leadership can help reinforce to kids and teens that San Diego stands behind them in choosing a healthier, brighter future.

Thank you for your time and your service.

Thank you.

Next is Megan Stewart, if you can please unmute.

After that, Becky Rapp, and then 1384.

Thank you.

Good morning, members of the council.

My name is Megan Stewart, and I have experience working with youth.

Every day, the impact that the normalization of any drug use, whether it's vaping, nicotine, or marijuana is having on our youth, is becoming more and more evident.

The truth is simple.

When you see it, especially being used, they're more likely to try it.

When marijuana stores are visible in our communities, when vaping ads pop up on social media, and when adults normalize these behaviors, kids don't see the risk, they see permission.

Recent data backs this up.

The 2023 National Youth Tobacco Survey found that 64% of U.S.

six through twelfth graders were exposed to secondhand e-cig or tobacco smoke.

Those who are exposed just to the smoke were two to three times more likely to try vaping themselves.

In other words, just being around it, seeing it, smelling it, breathing it in makes them more likely to try it for themselves.

And this exposure is not just leading to use, it's leading to harm.

We know that early and ongoing substance use takes a deep toll on mental and emotional health.

It disrupts brain development, increases anxiety and depression, and can make young people more vulnerable to self-harm and hopelessness.

What starts as curiosity can quickly become a dangerous coping mechanism.

According to the East County magazine, Dr.

Lev reported last month that marijuana was found in 43% of suicide toxicology reports among youth under 25 in San Diego County in the year 2022.

Nearly half.

That should stop every single one of us in our tracks.

We cannot keep sending mixed messages telling youth to make healthy choices in efforts like Red Ribbon Week while allowing advertising, visibility, and public use of addictive substances that glamorize the very behaviors we warn them against.

Thank you for your time today.

Thank you.

Next is Becky Repp.

After that, 1384, and then Francine Maxwell.

Good morning.

My name is Becky Rapp, and today I wanted to bring to your attention the passage of assembly bill 455 signed by Governor Newsom on October 3rd.

This important new law requires home sellers to disclose in writing if there's been any smoking or vaping on the property, and directs the Department of Toxic Substance Control to update the homeowner's guide to environmental hazards to include the dangers of third-hand smoke, which is the toxic residue that clings to walls, carpets, and furniture long after smoking stops.

This action by the state highlights what public health experts have long known.

Second and thirdhand smoke are serious health hazards, especially for children, seniors, and people with chronic illnesses.

These toxic exposures don't just stop at walls or units.

They travel through vents, hallways, and shared spaces, impacting everyone nearby.

Now is the perfect time for our city to follow the state's lead and strengthen our own policies.

Specifically, we should update our local smoke-free multi-unit housing ordinance to ensure that all affordable housing properties are designated smoke free.

This would not only align with California's growing public health protections, but also help ensure that the residents who are most vulnerable, those living in affordable housing, are not exposed to preventable toxins in their homes.

By taking this step, the city can demonstrate its commitment to protecting health, promoting equity, and supporting the state's efforts to create cleaner, safer living environments for all Californians.

Thank you.

Thank you.

1384, if you can please unmute.

Hello, Ernie Casco, La Jolla resident senior pilot.

SDPD referred me to district attorney to stop the illegal commercialization of Torrey Pine's glide report by an out-of-control snapshot flight tracker, turning our freedom into privilege for a license and fee is completely illegal.

$400 annually to use a glider port understead of violence or else is straight up unacceptable under any terms.

Under retaliation, I've been assaulted, given a deadly wing that collapsed in flight.

My home was invaded, threatened with meth sales and poison with the deadly virus and biohazard.

Is the city committing genocide?

Because I'm dying with stage four cancer.

It's time to compensate those who have been damaged, falsely accused, and arrested.

The San Diego recreational waiver ends the dispute by separating the business from normal public access.

The waiver is a compromise where pilots will be paying $200 annually, which keeps the park and school open for officers operating as a club without discrimination.

United States Hangled and Paraglidon Association provides pilots with insurance and flight rules that exceed FAA legal requirements.

Any other administrative fees, such as an access waiver and pass in question, is again misappropriation of public funding into private accounts.

Hang lighting and paragliding are both free sports like surfing and voting, are already covered by California recreational law.

The San Diego recreational waiver stops the crime, secures city liability, restores our constitutional recreational rights and freedoms back to the original agreement.

I have a petition on change order.

Black speech recreational scandal.

Stop the commercialization and privatization of San Diego Parks with nearly 700 signatures demanding authorities take action.

It's time to end the dispute and implement the San Diego recreational waiver into existence.

Thank you, Ernie Casco.

Thank you.

Next is Francine Maxwell.

After that is Judy Strang and then 7499.

Francine, you can please unmute.

Can you hear me?

Yes, please proceed.

Oh, okay.

I didn't get the box.

Sorry.

Francine Maxwell, Southeast San Diego resident.

I'm excited today that we want to talk about building trust in politics.

And so we're asking politicians to sometimes use plain language, proactively disclose information, combat misinformation, and provide clear expectations.

The community would love in this last quarter of the year that we have to get some hearings.

Rather, it's a public safety hearing or if it's an audit hearing to teach and educate our community.

Yes, we have a strong former mayor of government.

Yes, our mayor is also the COO.

But when his director of community engagement says that they will not engage unless the city council makes the first step, then the community is stuck between a rock and a hard place.

How many city council members have had town hall meetings giving the constituents the education that is needed so that they can advocate throughout the entire year, not just the budget season.

Again, if the city council won't come out and educate the community, we can't ask and elevate to the mayor's office to get assistance.

We have been told this countless times again.

Linda Vista community is asking for a town hall, a state of the district.

We have the water that you kick down the road.

We had the city come out a couple years ago and begin to tell us about how much we're going to be paying.

You can only make them come back out to the community.

Make them come out.

Then we can hold the mayor and you accountable equally.

Again, we want to build trust again.

So let's do it as we continue to finish 2025.

Let's finish strong.

And again, CPP, we have some trust issues, and those can be solved as well with communication.

Thank you.

Next is Judy Strang.

After that, 7499 and our final speaker, 8055.

Judy Strang, if you can please unmute.

Yes, good morning.

Thank you.

I wanted to share some information from the October 1st National Law Review that came out last Wednesday.

It's entitled The Cannabis Industries 6 Billion, that's a B debt wall.

And it goes on to say a debt avalanche is bearing down on the U.S.

cannabis market in the tune of six billion dollars coming due by the end of 2026.

The sector's reliance on costly debt has set the stage for a potentially messy unevening uneven reckoning.

And then proceeds a long list of what might be the outcomes.

There were a couple that I thought had applicability to the city of San Diego and the marijuana storefronts there.

As they point out, as credit tightens and cash becomes shortened in terms of demand, the market will shrink.

And how will the workplace exit of work people could turn violent?

And we've seen that before, so it is something to be prepared for.

And also there will be a tendency to cut corners because vendors are going to be left with merchandise and without the cash to pay for it.

So it's going to be important on the behalf of the city that we have good oversight, forensic interviews of those businesses so you can collect your taxes before they disappear.

And probably some very careful enforcement activities around the marijuana storefronts as they slowly shrink.

Thank you for letting me share this information.

Thank you.

Next is 7499.

If you can please unmute.

And for nearly two decades, and through many council members, mayors, and city attorneys, the city of San Diego has refused to take any steps to protect citizen rights to use our own city park.

In fact, the city of San Diego has actually gone the opposite direction by intentionally ignoring the ongoing bullying accidents, violations, and deaths at Tory Pines Glider Port.

Throughout those two decades, I have continually wondered what might motivate this council's blatant disregard for citizens' rights in our public park.

I believe the videos from that October 7th, 2023 attack shed important light on that question.

On the second anniversary, I suspect we all know the answer.

I suspect that the Tory Pines Glider report is being used in connection with some kind of covert military or paramilitary training.

That would explain everything.

It would explain why the supposedly liberal city council has turned its back on citizens being abused by a business in our city park for decades.

It would explain a holdover lease that continued for years and years without a legitimate competitive bidding process.

It explains the city losing over a million dollars a year and lost revenue.

It explains the killing of the Tory Pine City Park Advisory Board.

It explains Sherry Leitner, Barbara Bree, and Joe LaCava all supposedly supporting citizens until they got into office and learned the city's dirty secret about the Tory Pines Gly report.

As I said, this theory explains it all.

Eventually the truth will come out.

It always does.

That's when we'll know that this city council and mayor have sold out the citizens they were sworn to serve.

Support Mr.

Casco's waiver and reactivate the Tory Pine City Park Advisory Board now.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Our final speaker.

I think he lowered their hand.

I no longer see them in the queue.

That does conclude non-agenda public comment.

Thank you.

Thanks to the public for their comments.

Um we will now adjourn for the noon recess and reconvene open session at 2 o'clock PM or shortly thereafter.

Thank you.

Everything seems to be all right.

I said Joe, are you going to the party at the code?

She said he's picking me up.

Thank you all for being here.

I appreciate you coming out.

And the guy that gets to lead the effort planting those thousands and thousands of trees was the gentleman who's uh kicked us off.

So let me turn it over our city forester Brian.

Brian, come on up, come back up, eh?

Thank you, sir.

Thank you, Mary.

And thank you, Director of Parks and Recreation, Andy Field.

Uh, you guys have covered a couple of things that I was gonna say already, so this will be nice and uh short and sweet.

Um, but so proud to be here today with all these volunteers as well as city staff, which has been mentioned.

You know, we've got our tree maintenance teams from both parks and recreation and transportation departments that are in some cases working 24 hours, seven days a week, uh, to address tree issues, not just for uh forest health, but for public safety, including public safety within the right of way.

So it's not just about planting trees, but it's also about maintaining the existing trees that we have here in San Diego.

Uh today we're gonna be planting a total of 27 trees, 27 trees.

Uh 14 of those will be done by our volunteers, which include five fringe trees, three pink trumpet trees, three pistache trees, this large ficus tree, which is gonna be the demonstration tree behind me, and two oak trees.

And then our contractor will be planting the other um uh thirteen trees uh to make a total of twenty-seven trees today.

So uh urban forestry program, our mission is to plant, protect, promote, and like I said, maintain um our existing trees for a more livable and sustainable San Diego.

Let's grow a green San Diego, everyone.

Uh and just gonna emphasize too that as we plant these trees, that's not it.

They're gonna be watered for the next three years.

That's part of our grant agreement with the Department of Agriculture.

So trees need to establish, and so for every tree we plant, it's gonna have water for three years and a brand new um brand new mulch too as well.

Um and then just a reminder, uh, just want to talk about safety just briefly here.

Just be mindful of tools that are on the ground, um, and pick up um tools that you're not using.

Uh, just work safely, work safely if you're working near the street.

And um, I see almost everyone, well, a lot of people are wearing their bright green shirts, so we won't miss you, of course.

Um, but that's for safety reasons too, as well.

Uh, so now we are ready to start planting, and like I said, we've got our demonstr uh demonstration tree kind of almost directly behind me, and our arborists from Parks and Recreation, Eric Cast, as well as uh John Ide, who's our urban forestry program coordinator, are going to kick us off by leading in that tree planting demonstration.

So thank you so much for being here today.

It's so exciting.

This kicks off actually our tree planting season here in San Diego with these first twenty-seven trees.

Let's grow a green San Diego and plant some trees today.

Good afternoon.

We will now reconvene the city council meeting of Tuesday, October 7th, 2025.

Clerk, will you please call the roll?

Thank you, Council President Pro Tem.

Council President Lakava.

Council Member Campbell.

Councilmember Whitburn.

Sure.

Councilmember Foster.

Councilmember Von Wilbert.

Present.

Councilmember Campillo.

Here.

Councilmember Moreno.

Present.

Councilmember Elo Rivera.

And Council President Pro Tem Lee.

Here.

Also attending the meeting, our Assistant City Attorney Leslie Fitzgerald, Senior Fiscal and Policy Analyst in the IBA's office, Erin Noel, Director of Policy in the Mayor's Office, Matt Yagan, and myself, your city clerk, the NFW and those.

Thank you, Council President.

Pro tem.

Thank you.

Clerk will uh go ahead and introduce item three thirty.

Item three thirty is the proposed response to grand jury report.

Gas lamp enforcement team needs the community's help.

Exclamation point.

The item is not subject to the mayor's veto.

If you would like to speak on this item, now's the time to submit your speaker slip to the front of the room in the clear box, or if you are participating remotely, star nine, or the raise your hand icon.

Thank you, Council President Protect.

And I did want to confirm that a quorum is present.

Um we'll turn it over to the IBS office uh to introduce this item to let us know how much time we'll need.

Thank you, and good morning, Council Council Vice President Lee and members of the council.

I'm Aaron Noel with the office of the IBA, and I'm joined by Bakou Patel from our office.

We need about eight minutes for this item.

Our office released a report on September 4th, providing a draft response to the grand jury report gas lamp team's uh gas lamp enforcement team needs the community's help.

This item was presented to the public safety committee on September 18th, where it was unanimously recommended for council approval.

This report outlines concerns about public safety, staffing shortages, and community trust in the gas lamp quarter, including a call for expanded daytime bicycle patrols and enhanced community engagement.

Per the grand jury report, the mayor and council are required to provide comments to the presiding judge of the San Diego Superior Court on the applicable findings and recommendations within 90 days.

However, the council president's office requested and received an extension for the response to November 21st, 2025.

One recommendation, that is recommendation number five, is directed to both the mayor and city council.

For this grand jury report, various departments assisted the IBA in the development of the proposed council response, including compliance, the San Diego Police Department, City Attorney's Office, and the Mayor's Office.

And staff are available here to address any questions.

For action, the council is being asked to provide feedback, approve the proposed response, and authorize the council president to submit it to the presiding judge of the Superior Court by the November 21st, 2025 deadline.

Per California Penal Code 933-05.

In responding to each grand jury finding, the city is required to either agree with a finding or disagree wholly or partially with a finding.

Responding to grand jury recommendations must indicate that the recommendation has been implemented, has not been implemented, but will be implemented in the future, requires further analysis or will not be implemented because it is either not warranted or is not reasonable.

While only recommendation number five requires a joint council and mayor response to provide context, we are providing a brief summary of the draft responses of those findings and recommendations directed to the mayor.

So finding one is building confidence in public safety in the gas lamp, requires a concerted effort by day and nighttime gas lamp enforcement teams.

And the proposed response is that the mayor agrees.

SDPD emphasizes a multi-pronged approach, including the downtown response team, homeless outreach teams, and the reinstated gas lamp walking team to enhance visibility and engagement.

And finding two by adhering to the neighborhood policing policy and patrolling on bicycles during daylight hours, the gas lamp enforcement team has the opportunity through community outreach to build the types of relationships with residents, visitors, and businesses that lead to crime reduction and trust in law enforcement.

And the proposed response, uh the mayor disagrees in part.

While SDPD supports community outreach, it notes operational limitations of bike controls.

For example, limited emergency response capacity and equipment access and stresses the need to balance visibility with readiness.

Now I'm going to pass it off to Baku to discuss a third and final finding as well as responses to the five recommendations.

Thanks, Erin.

So the grand jury's last finding, finding three, was that the rise in crime combined with SDPD staff shortages make it even more critical for SDPD to garner the help of community members in reducing crime in the gas lamp quarter.

The mayor agrees with this finding and in the response highlights SDPD's ongoing commitment to community policing, including regular engagement with residents, businesses, and stakeholders.

Moving on to the mayor's response to recommendations one through four.

Again, to be clear, these are directed to the mayor only.

So starting with recommendation one, which is to treat staff shortages as an opportunity to be creative, and resourceful, and thereby more effective with existing staff levels.

The mayor's response to this recommendation is that it has been implemented.

SDPD created the downtown response team and reinstated the gas lamp walking team using data-driven deployment to maximize impact despite limited staffing.

Recommendation two is to maximize the use of officers patrolling on bicycles in the gas lamp to include it.

The mayor states that this will not be implemented, and SDPD sites current staffing constraints and long emergency response times as barriers to expanding full-time bike patrols.

Recommendation three is to mandate inter interpersonal skills training for gas lamp enforcement team for the gas lamp enforcement team with an emphasis on application of SDPD's existing neighborhood policing guidelines.

This has been implemented.

SDPD provides extensive training, including de-escalation, communication, and equity focused leadership development with additional team-specific training for the gas lamp unit.

Recommendation four is for SDPD to direct the gas lamp enforcement team to build trust by being more approachable and available to gas lamp quarter residents, visitors, and business owners in order to deter and prevent crime.

The mayor's response to this recommendation is that it has also been implemented.

SDPD has established internal meetings, identified senior officers for leadership, and continues to prioritize community engagement.

And finally, we come to recommendation five, which again is the only recommendation that is directed to both the mayor and the council.

Recommendation five states that the city should appropriate additional funding and resources to SDPD to maximize the number of officers patrolling on bicycles in the gas lamp to include a day shift five days a week and on weekends and holidays.

The proposed joint mayoral and council response is that this recommendation will not be implemented because it is not reasonable.

SDPD has more than 200 sworn vacancies for positions that are already budgeted, and so additional funding for new officers cannot be justified until those vacancies are filled.

Whenever that happens to occur, future funding requests will be considered by the mayor and the council through the annual budget process along with all other citywide needs and priorities.

I do uh want to note that while this is a joint mayoral and council proposed response to recommendation five, the council may choose to amend or change this response.

If the final response that the council approves is agreeable to the mayor, then the joint city response will be sent to the presiding judge.

Otherwise, the council and mayor will send separate responses.

So that concludes our presentation.

The requested action uh is to provide feedback and approve the proposed response to the 2024-2025 San Diego Grand Jury report.

The gas lamp enforcement team needs the community's help as included in IBA report 25-2019, uh excuse me, 25-29, dated September 4th, 2025, and to authorize the council president on behalf of the city council to execute and deliver the response to the presiding judge of the San Diego County Superior Court no later than November 21st, 2025.

Thank you.

That concludes our presentation.

Thank you for the presentation.

Clerk, let's proceed with public comment.

There's nobody here in Council Chambers for this item.

Going to those participating remotely.

We have three speakers in the queue.

Have two minutes each, starting with Michael Trimblay, if you can please unmute.

After that is Blair Beekman, and then the original.

Good afternoon, Council, President, and members of the Council.

My name is Michael Trimble.

I serve as the executive director of the Gas Lamp Quarter Association.

For over two decades, I've worked closely with businesses, residents, and visitors in the gas lamp.

And I can tell you with confidence that keeping the gas lamp safe is not just important, it is essential to the future of downtown San Diego.

The Gas Lamp Quarter welcomes millions of visitors each year.

It is the heart of the city's nightlife, dining, and entertainment.

It is critical driver of our local economy.

But rising concerns about safety combined with police staffing shortages have put both of the reputation of our community and a sense of security at risk.

That is why I strongly support this proposed response to the grand jury's report.

The Gas Lamp Quarter Association and I have worked closely with Chief Scott Wall, Central Division leadership, and the gas lamp enforcement team, and we're very supportive of all the work they do to keep the district safe.

Their efforts, especially uh the reinstatement of the gas lamp walking team has already made a real difference in the community by building trust, improving visibility, and deterring crime.

We understand the challenges of staffing and resources, but the gas lamp quarter cannot afford to be seen as as unsafe.

A strong visible and approachable police presence is not just about enforcement, it's about protecting the vibrancy of San Diego's historic heart.

We urge you to approve this proposal and continue working with our association and our businesses and our community partners to make the gas lamp safe and a top priority.

And launching an eight hoc in late October, the GEQ safe committee will be collaborating with sending a police department, gas lamp business owners, and the committee will focus on sharing best practices and collaborating to strengthen public safety in the gas lamp quarter.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you.

Next is Blair Beekman, if you can please unmute.

Hi, Blair Beekman.

Thanks for this item.

Uh very much for the ideas of public safety.

I think you did some important public safety work on the future of uh the bicycles in in downtown uh the gas lamp quarter, you know, the um I can't remember what they call you know, the bicycles that carry people around.

You had to make some decision important decisions around that.

Um I spoke yesterday of the importance that even though there's peace talks going around going on around the world at this time, that peace may not happen for another couple years.

I greatly fear there's going to be a ramping up of war, quite possibly.

And our local communities are going to be the product of that ramp up.

And this item is speaking directly to how you can be ramping up the future of surveillance and technology uh in the future of the gas slamp.

And I think we have to be really cautious how we proceed with this question.

In Oakland, they're voting on ALPR stuff right now.

Their city council, a very progressive liberal city council, good people.

They're, you know, very actively saying, you know, public safety and and uh surveillance is A1 top priority.

They're basically saying that, you know, that and they're talking about ALPR stuff a lot.

Um ALPR use can be used for more than just ALPRs.

It can cover a lot of surveillance tech issues and questions.

Um are we drifting into that conversation now?

Because you know, we were promised that uh ALPR use was going to be limited, and there are going to be fences put up within the ALPR use.

And they're talking in Oakland of bringing all that down.

And I get the sense you guys are gonna want to be doing that too, all for public safety.

And I think that's the really, really wrong approach.

I mean, we have a commitment and a duty to practice accountability as was spoken yesterday to do the to practice good practices with our tech.

Um, we need to be doing the that good efforts and have our lanes, and let's do that swell.

Thank you.

Blair is right on point with that.

Because when you have a shortage of, you know, sworn officers and people that are going to be doing the policing, you know, and then you're talking about community policing.

This all leads to AI and surveillance being used together.

And again, we already have Palantir in San Diego, and it's being used by the police and law enforcement and what have you.

And you know, you just add AI to that, and then you got a real, you know, big problem on your hands, but it's always, you know, coming in under the guise of safety and you know, just for you know, public safety.

But in reality, it's it's not it's not about that.

It's about, you know, policing.

And, you know, the police used to be peace officers.

Now they're out to, you know, make sure to enforce things.

But you know, when you have homeless and you talk about a homeless response outreach team or whatever going out, and you know, it's illegal to be homeless, but we don't have any, you know, room in in shelters, and and even the ones that you do have, like Tent City, I mean, people will die before they get out of there.

And it would be better for them not to be there because it's basically very traumatizing to the people that are there, but it's also very dangerous to be out on the streets.

But instead, I mean, people congregate outside of the council outside city hall at night.

And they're right in your face.

And yet when you ask people if they've been helped, you know, they say no.

And then, you know, when you ask like city staff, they'll say, well, they don't want help.

So there seems to be some disconnect, but you know, is it the need of safety because there's more homeless and different things like that?

And could that be mitigated by you guys making sure that you're actually helping them, um, not harming them?

And so, yeah, the a big concern as well is you know, all of their surveillance that's gonna come because you're not gonna be able to keep up with what you need to do.

Our time has concluded, and that does conclude public comment on this item.

Thank you.

We will now take council member questions and comments, starting with Council Member Woodburn.

Thank you very much, Council President Pro Temp.

Thank you to uh Ms.

Doel at Mr.

Patel uh for your work on this, uh, the San Diego Police Department, uh, and of course the County Grand Jury for their work on this report.

The nightlife in the Gas Lamp Quarter attracts thousands of people locally uh and uh tourists as well, especially on weekends downtown.

And while this report shows that the majority of gas lamp businesses operate responsibly and create the kind of vibrant uh nightlife that we want downtown, there are a few bad actors who consistently serve people too much alcohol, and that fuels incidents that undermine safety, and that has got to stop.

We cannot let three or four reckless bars put the reputation of an entire neighborhood at risk.

The city is stepping up code enforcement, and for that I want to thank Elise Lowe and her team and the city attorney's office as well.

And if the state's alcohol beverage control is able to step up, it's enforcement of bars that serve customers too much alcohol.

I would also support that.

We cannot stand for behavior that compromises the safety of our police officers or members of the public.

And I want to thank Chief Wall and our department leadership for being proactive in the face of staffing shortages.

The new downtown response team and the reinstated gas lamp walking team are smart creative steps that give us more visible patrols.

Public safety cannot rest on nightlife entertainment alone.

We also need more daytime attractions to make the gas layup a place to visit for people of all ages.

Opening of the gas lamp this week, Taco Zel Frank.

Our development services team downtown, especially Brian Schoenfish has done a great job to incentivize uh new businesses in the area.

And we look forward to seeing more and more of these types of businesses opening in the heart of downtown.

And with that, I will make the motion to uh uh approve uh the uh staff recommendation.

Thank you.

We have a motion by Councilmember Whitburn uh and looking to see if there are any other speakers.

Um I'll go ahead and um offer a second um to the motion as well and want to thank the IB's office uh for their work in compiling the responses as we see them.

Uh I see count Councilmember Von Wolper on the lights, so I'll turn to her.

I think I was just gonna offer a second as well.

We heard this at our public safety committee meeting, and we got uh great discussion.

Thank you to our officers and for being here as well in the work you do downtown.

We too are recruiting.

So uh if you know anybody who wants to become one of CNDGs police officers, let us know because we need more people.

We have a staffing shortage.

Uh but thank you to the grand jury for this work, and I will support the motion.

Thank you.

See any other speakers, click.

Will you please call the rule?

I'm sorry, the voting system, please cast your vote.

That does pass unanimously, 8 to 0 with council president Lacava absent.

Thank you, Council President Pratem.

Thank you.

Let's go ahead and move to item 332.

Item 332 is the 2947 E Street right-of-way vacation, PRJ-1087644.

This item is not subject to the mayor's veto.

If you are here with us and like to speak to this item, please submit a speaker slip to the front of the room in the clear box.

If you are joining us virtually and would like to speak to this item, please be sure to raise your hand by pressing star nine or the raise your hand icon.

Thank you, Council President Pro Tem.

Thank you.

We'll turn to staff and let them introduce themselves for the record and uh let us know how much time you'll need for the presentation.

Good afternoon, Christian Hoppe with Development Services.

I'll need five minutes.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, Council Members.

Christian Hoppe with Development Development Project Manager with the Development Services Department, presenting item 332, the E Street Public Rideaway Easement Vacation.

The project scope includes the vacation of a 4,749 square foot, 0.11 acre, 80-foot wide portion of the public right-of-way of E Street between 29th Street and 30th Street, and the associated public improvements to construct a cold-de-sac with curb, gutter, and sidewalk, along with a new public storm drain.

The area zone RM2-5, residential multiple unit within the Greater Golden Hill Community Planning Area.

Today's actions includes seeking approval of easement vacation number PMT 321-3089.

Two, adopting a resolution determining that the project is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act pursuant to CECO Guidelines Section 15305, minor alterations to land use limitations, and 15332 in fill development projects.

This is an aerial view of the project location adjacent to 29th and 30th Street.

The existing public right-of-way does not connect to 29th Street to the west of the canyon from its current western terminus.

The area was originally acquired with the intent to become a street during the mapping of the original subdivision.

However, this segment of E Street is not used for circulation through the neighborhood, and there are no current or anticipated plans to extend E Street due to the nature of the slope, which is a 20 to 50 percent incline and exceeds the maximum allowable grade of 15% for local streets per the current street design manual.

A public right-of-way vacation of this portion of E Street with public improvement conditions was previously approved by the City Council of San Diego on May 12, 2009 by resolution number R 304 895 and recorded as document number 2009-0258582.

However, that approval expired in 2012 when the conditions were not fulfilled.

The current project seeks vacation of the same area as part of the proposed street vacation.

Public improvements will be required as condition of approval.

These include a 35-foot radius cul-de-sac with curb, gutter, storm drain, and sidewalk, which will improve vehicular turnaround, provide pedestrian access where none currently exists, and improve the drainage patterns of this sloping area by installing curb and gutter and public storm drain.

The applicant presented to the project presented the project to the Greater Golden Hill Planning Committee on September 25th, 2023, and they voted 5-0 with one abstention to recommend approval of the project with no conditions.

In summary, staff has reviewed the proposal, including all issues identified through the review process and determined that all project issues have been addressed.

The project conforms with the community plan, the adopted city council policies and regulations of the land development code and is determined to be exempt from CEQA.

Therefore, the staff recommends approval of the project.

This concludes the presentation.

Staff and the applicant are available for any questions.

Thank you for the presentation.

Since this is a quasi-judicial item, I will just note that the applicant, as I understand it, did not wish to present.

Uh therefore we only have the staff's presentation.

Concerning that, Clerk, do we have any public comment?

We have no speakers here in Council Chambers, and we have one speaker in the virtual queue.

I've started at the five-minute timer.

The original, if you can please unmute.

So I'm guessing wondering, I mean, is it the same applicant that was here in 2012 that didn't fulfill the conditions?

Um, and so it expired.

Um, and that's why it wants to be approved with no conditions now.

Um just a little interesting.

Um if you know that did take place and it's been 13 years.

Um, you know, I guess what were the conditions that needed to be fulfilled?

The thing like the cul-de-sac, the storm drain, and the sidewalk.

Um I don't know, it's interesting, but I think you guys could potentially have a little bit more information.

Part of your slides when you were talking about stuff.

You could have had a slide to talk about those things that you were um addressing at the time, but um, you know, I'm sure it'll be approved.

Hopefully, it helps the community.

Um, but again, I just wonder why you would want to do it with no conditions this time, and if it's because they wouldn't be able to fulfill it, and if that's the case, then why wouldn't they be able to fulfill um those obligations?

And if they can't, why would you want to approve it?

That's it.

Thank you.

That does conclude public comment on this item.

Thank you.

We'll turn it to any council members for questions or comments, starting with council member Whitburn.

Thank you, Council President Pro Tim.

Uh, thank you to staff for the presentation.

And uh, as was mentioned during the presentation, uh, the Golden Hill Planning Group took a look at this.

I appreciate them evaluating this and recommending approval with no opposition, and I'm happy to make the motion to approve the staff recommendation.

We have a motion by Councilmember Woodburn.

We'll turn next to Councilmember Campbell.

Thank you.

I just have a quick question about the proposed cul-de-sac.

Uh is the city going to build that.

That is a condition that the applicant will be required to fulfill.

Excellent.

I would like to second the motion.

Thank you.

We now have a motion by Councilmember Woodburn, a second by Councilmember Campbell.

Seeing no other speakers, clerk, will you please call the rule?

Sorry, the voting system, please cast your vote.

That passes unanimously 8 to 0 with council member, council president Lacava absent.

Thank you.

Thank you.

That does conclude our discussion agenda.

And with that, I will now turn to Councilmember Foster, I believe, who has an adjournment in memory.

Uh yes, thank you.

Um, Council President.

It is with a heavy heart we adjourn today's meeting in memory of one of District 4's steady pillars, Pastor Glenn A.

McKinney.

Pastor McKinney was born and raised here in San Diego and devoted his life to serving people.

He led St.

Stephen's Church of God in Christ in Southeastern San Diego, guiding a congregation that has stood beside our community for generations.

In 2021, he answered the call to lead the church as father, the late Bishop George Dallas McKinney built.

He honored that legacy while steering the ministry forward with his own calm, thoughtful leadership.

You didn't have to be a member of St.

Stephen's to feel his influence.

He showed up for young people looking for direction, for families navigating hard seasons, and for neighbors who needed someone to listen to.

Pastor McKinney brought people together, faith leaders, nonprofits, and residents.

He knew our progress depends on us working side by side.

He had a gift for lowering tensions and steering towards solutions.

As a husband of First Lady Carol McKinney and a proud father and grandfather, he led with the same care at home that he showed in the community.

His example of integrity, patience, and consistency helped shape countless lives.

Many of us sought his counseling during challenging moments.

He was guided by service and chose a hard, quiet work that helped change outcomes.

In District 4, he leaves a living legacy.

Young folks who found mentors, elders who found care, and parents who found a community that had their back.

This Friday, October 10th, our community will gather for Pastor McKinney's celebration of life.

We'll grieve a profound loss and will also give thanks for a life spent lifting others.

On behalf of the Fourth Council District, I extend our deepest condolences.

Our prayers are with First Lady Carol McKinney, their children, the entire McKinney family.

Our prayers are with St.

Stephen's Church family and the Church of God in Christ community who mourn alongside us.

Thank you to the McKinney family for sharing your husband and father with the community.

His steady service strengthened families and neighborhoods across District 4.

His legacy lives on in you and in those he mentored.

Let our remembrance be action.

We can honor him best by putting his values to work.

Lift up our youth, support our families, and keep building a community where everyone belongs.

His example is our mission.

We will keep it moving.

Rest in power, Pastor Glenn McKinney.

He was truly a good man and will be missed.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Foster, for the touching adjournment in memory.

And on behalf of the council, we certainly send our condolences to the McKinney family, the St.

Stevens family, and to District 4.

We'll now adjourn council to the next regularly scheduled council meeting on Monday, October 20th, 2025 at 10 o'clock AM.

The regular meetings of October 13th and 14th, 2025, have been adjourned.

Thank you.