That's necessary for the supportive programs to help our youth, our young ladies that are involved in this trade in really an interesting bad position in life.

This law will be a game changer and will allow police and prosecutors to do our jobs of protecting the most vulnerable.

San Diego is not a place to traffic in children.

And if you do it, you're gonna have a police department that's gonna arrest you, and you're gonna have a DA that's gonna prosecute you.

Don't do it here.

We're planting eight trees and giving the park a fresh look by painting our park furniture and the playground.

And this event's part of our ready set grow San Diego effort to bring more shade, more beauty, and more green space to neighborhoods like City Heights.

Teralta Park is a special place and a product of community members coming together to provide a central gathering place to mitigate the division of the neighborhood that the 15 freeway brought.

And before this freeway was here, there were homes here, right?

And the freeway had a huge impact on the community.

We're standing above a fruit on a park that's above a freeway.

And that's not common.

It's one of the first places in California that that happened, and it was a direct result of community voice.

Having you all here to help with these kinds of tasks and to help make this park better by you all being here creates ownership.

And when you all feel like you own this park, you'll want to come back again and again and again.

It's about the the what we're planning for future generations.

So currently here at the Miramar Greenery, we separate any contaminants from our organic waste materials and compost through a screening process that removes most of the contamination and our end compost has less than one percent contamination by weight.

This process that we're piloting right now removes contaminants on the front end of that process, which then will result in a lower amount of contaminants at the end, which is a better compost product to put out in our community.

Organic materials when they go to the landfill create both methane and leachate, though which then we have to control through environmental containment systems and can create air pollution as well as water pollution if not managed appropriately.

When we divert organic materials through composting programs like this and other programs around our region, we're able to reduce that amount of methane, capture a viable, reusable resource, and could and get it back out into the community.

Compost can replace chemical fertilizers, which then improve the overall environment that we all live in.

Well, the green bin it's meant for all of your organic waste material.

That would be all of your yard trimmings, so maybe your grass cuttings, maybe your trimming bushes, um plants, flowers.

It also includes all of your food scraps.

So any any vegetable, fruit, even your meat and bones, your bread, as well as food-soiled paper products.

And when I say that, I mean think of a coffee filter with coffee grounds in it, or napkins or paper towels that have been used and soiled, all of that can go in your green bed.

The city is educating all of our residents, people who live and work in the city in San Diego about their green bin and what they are allowed to put in it and what they're not allowed to put in it.

So we do not allow plastic bags or compostable bags at our greenery composting processing facility.

In fact, it was exactly two years ago today that we stood on this piece of land, what was then just a patch of dirt to break ground on this project.

Two years later, here we are to dedicate and add a hundred new units of affordable housing to our city's inventory of homes that everyday San Diegans can afford.

This is difficult work, and the fact that we have people who are passionate about this issue, myself included, is why we're making some progress and hopefully people start to feel it in their pocketbooks.

This is a proud moment, not just for the community, but for the entire city because today we're opening up 100 new affordable homes for families.

This is how we address the housing crisis with action, but also with compassion.

And today, this commitment stands right here in an embodiment at the IRS.

The Iris is more than just a building.

It is a bold statement about our values.

This is not just housing.

This is thoughtful, sustainable, and connected development.

The county is dedicated to improving health outcomes, fostering stability, and opening doors for residents to thrive.

I think that's important.

When we ask communities to accept more homes in their community, it should not just benefit the new folks who arrive in the community.

It shouldn't just help the new folks, it should help the existing people who live in the community.

And that's exactly what we're going to do with Howard Lane Park so that they can all feel like their quality of life is being enriched by this new housing, which I believe that it does.

This truly is a great day in our city.

And the future of the tens and thousands of students who call SDSU home during one of the most important chapters of their lives.

This is the first comprehensive plan update in more than 30 years.

And for me, the best thing about it is more options for future SDSU students to stay close to the campus.

What I heard was a community that wanted to elevate their community.

A safe community, a community with a high quality of life, a place filled with belonging where everyone has the opportunity to be where they want to be.

And a community that's it for everyone.

A road diet and a usable park will not only activate the corridor, but connect the various neighborhoods and communities of permanent residents and students that tend to be isolated.

From housing affordability to transit access, safe streets, welcoming public spaces, all directly affect whether or not students can focus on their learning, graduate on time, and build their futures right here in America's finest city.

The goal was and is to make the college area a destination and a place people want to live in.

This is smart growth.

It's growth that supports our city's climate goals, it supports our local small businesses, creates safer and more vibrant streets, and growth that reflects the reality of a major American university inside a top 10 American city.

Electrification of a building is removal of natural gas burning systems.

So switching from gas furnaces and kitchens to electric systems, which allows us to remove uh greenhouse gas emissions from the environment.

The financing agreement is cash flow neutral.

We're essentially shifting our operating costs from energy bills over to loan repayment across a 25-year term and with no upfront cost to the city.

Construction should begin in summer of 2026 and will last for around two years since we have so many projects to uh to to get completed.