For example, Richie Burgos from the Latin Lawriders.

Landlord as being one of the pioneers.

Probably the oldest lawrider car club here in San Diego.

In our research, we found that there were other car clubs prior to the land of lawriders.

But we gotta think in terms that most of those clubs were mixed.

Mixed meaning it was a mixture of lawwriters, customs, hard rods, and so forth.

Just the fact that in the 50s and 60s, the fact that you had a car, you were already cool.

But the evolution of law riding that started developing, particularly in the 60s here in the late 60s, the land lawriders was a pioneer club that actually brought it to light.

Some of those pioneers are here with us.

I know Victor Perez is here from Atlanta's recognition and respects to that.

Other brothers that are here, some that are not, are people from Brown Image.

He designed that plaque for Brown Image back in 1969, 1970, somewhere in that arena.

Once again, our compliments to those folks.

Also was instrumental, at least for us in the SAPA, was an icon.

And the names goes on and on.

Few people though, few people, a handful of people that I could say in my 50 something years of being a lawwriter, as somebody that has never left.

There's many people that were active in the 70s, they disappeared for 34 years, then they come back.

And that's fine.

But there's very few people that have stood that have been consistent throughout the years.

Some of those folks, some of our here, some are not.

I know that I wish Massa was here.

Steve Wade Massa, he's here was a he's been a consistent uh lawrider for more than 50 years.

He's in the hospital right now with Wishamara Love and his recruiting for health.

Uh David Aguilar, I know he's around here someplace.

He's been consistent.

He's another consistent person that has been here, never left, always was here.

And the names could go on and on.

I apologize for not mentioning everybody.

I would like to acknowledge every single lawrider that brought their cars here today.

For me to name them, we'll be here all night.

But there were they are 22, now actually 20 because two didn't make it, unfortunately.

Two cars didn't make it, the cars were coming from out of town.

And we have programmed 22 cars to be here, but we got 20.

To all those 20 people, thank you.

Thank you for being here.

Thank you for supporting.

In the lawriders, aquí estamos todavía.

Aqui estamos y no nos vamos.

Gracias.

I hope you enjoy this privilege, this honor to be recognized at this level by the United Postal Service.

In behalf of all the lawriders here in San Diego and throughout the world, muchas gracias.

Now you're here for something truly special.

These are students who are remarkable.

They've done a couple events for me for the community.

And there are you could hire them for quizaras.

Weddings, divorce parties.

I'm kidding.

Alright, Mariachi Aguila.

Lowrider culture is representative of Chicana and Chicano Mexican American culture.

These are creative expressions that are thoughtfully practiced.

Often described as low and slow.

Low riders are built for show, not for speed.

Car culture low riders are more than simply beautiful vehicles, although they are clearly that.

They are arts, they are design, they are engineering, they are culture, they are our community.

And while they were once criminalized for being a part of this community, now we celebrate it with a USP as stamp, everybody.

That's incredible.

Today's stamp unveiling affirms the culture, artistic, and historic impact of the Lowrider movement, especially in this community.

One, two, and three more.

It's an important goal of the Postal Services Stamp Program to raise awareness and honor the people, places, and things that represent the very best of our nation.

As Chicanos from this neighborhood, as Mexican Americans, how we identify with that.

And so today's stamp celebration is certainly of the low rider culture.

And you should all be really proud of that and own it.

This is about all of you.

But the real Low Rada culture isn't under the hood.

It's in the community.

And that's why we were so proud to be able to bring it to the Logan Heights community today.

This day belongs to all of you.

Don't let anyone ever tell you that you are not a part of this community, a part of this culture, a part of the city, and now a part of this country.

This is a great historic day, and I'm so thrilled to share it with you all.

Three, two, one.

It is my honor to welcome you to the grand opening of Skyline, our newest transit-oriented development right here in Rancho Bernardo.

Skyline represents what is possible when we reimagine the role of public transit in strengthening our communities.

What we are doing today is creating more homes that are affordable to local San Diegans and giving them the opportunity to change their lives in a very positive way.

Having an option to be able to stay within the community means everything.

And with that stability comes the ability to dream.

Those dreams will make our city move forward, and I couldn't be more proud.

This is where our kids come to learn to grow to have safe fun.

And so let's have a day of service.

Let's have a day of cleanup, and let's make sure we put our blood, sweat, and tears into this park and make sure we make it available for the families.

As we talk about the importance of this park, I'm a proud graduate of Lincoln High School.

At that time, Lincoln High School didn't have a baseball field.

And I remember we used to have a walk down here, and this is where we practice.

We're gonna be doing painting, trash pickup, brush removal, and working on this playground behind me.

Removing weeds and import importing new sand.

This park has been in this condition for a very long time.

And these are the kinds of incremental improvements we can make to help bring it up for the next generation of ball players, whether it's soccer, basketball, baseball, softball, this park is for you, and that's what we hope to bring to all of you as part of little projects like this.

Thank you to San Diego FC for always stepping up and coming out and helping the community.

I want to thank the Harvey Family Foundation for making this their home.

Continuing to make this their home.

To make sure that we're getting the resources and the attention that this park deserves.

We have a critical drainage in our area that we have to go inspect and monitor.

When it rains, uh, water starts flowing down the alley.

We have to uh monitor that, check for any loose debris, the leaves, we gotta pick them up.

Uh that way the water has somewhere to go in uh prevent any blockages in our drain station.

Many homeless and businesses are located in low-laying areas and are prone to flooding.

We have pumps set up here along the alleys.

Uh, whenever the rain picks up, uh, we go in and run these pumps and control any water to prevent any flooding.

Flood prevention is a stormwater department's primary focus all year round.

Before the rainy season, our stormwater channels team is removing tons of sediment and invasive vegetation from the channels to allow stormwater flows to be conveyed during the rainy season.

We try to remove the debris and try to grade the channel.

We already did the invasive removal, so we see a lot of castor beans, a lot of a rondo.

Our job is to restore the channel as it was before the storm.

Fix the banks so there's no degradation of the channel that might go into homes or private property.

During the rainy season and during a rainy event, our city forces are monitoring channel locations and responding to any issues as they arise.

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.

Hi, I'm Bethany Bizak.

It takes a lot to keep the eighth largest city running.

A lot of buildings, roads, sidewalks, street lights, parks and reservoirs, and a lot of vehicles.

In fact, San Diego has more than 5,000 vehicles in its fleet.

Think trash trucks, fire engines, and police cars.

All of these vehicles need fuel and regular maintenance.

But over the past several years, fuel prices have continued to rise, and that's directly impacting San Diego's budget.

In fact, for every one cent increase per gallon at the pump, the city's monthly fuel costs rise by 10,000.

We know that San Diegans are also feeling the rising impact of prices at home.

It's not just our vehicles.

Construction and insurance costs have increased dramatically over the past several years, and our city revenues have not kept pace with those rising costs.

As we face some difficult budget decisions, we want San Diegans to know that we're listening.

We will continue to prioritize public safety and protecting our neighborhoods and work to create a more efficient and effective city government.

All right, good morning, folks.

We're gonna get started.

I will now call the city council meeting of Tuesday, April 7th, 2026 to order.

Clerk, please call the roll.

Thank you, Council President.

Councilmember Campbell.

Councilmember Whitburn.

Here.

Councilmember Foster.

Councilmember Von Wilbert.

Council President Pro Tem Lee.

Councilmember Campillo.

Councilmember Moreno.

President.

Councilmember Elo Rivera.

And Council President LaCava.

Present.

Also attending the meeting, our assistant city attorney, Leslie Fitzgerald, independent budget analyst, Charles Matica, Council Affairs Advisor in the Mayor's Office, Coda Zeiser, and myself, your City Clerk, Deanna Fuentes.

Thank you, Council President.

All right.

Thank you, City Clerk.

A quorum is now present.

We will begin this morning with the land acknowledgement and the pledge of allegiance led by Councilmember Baden Wilbert.

Thank you.

Good morning.

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

Despite enduring the horrors of genocide and colonization, the Kumeayay 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 Kumeayi Nation connected to our past and committed to a thriving future.

Please face the flag.

And thank you all for letting me stand amongst you.

Um, please encourage city council to allow the flow of information getting through to your office.

All of these things are very important.

But so is the public's comments, concerns, complaints, things we need to bring to attention to city council men and women that represent us as the people.

So I'm gonna decline to speak any further other than non-agenda public comment.

And uh thank you all.

Taylor, you're speaking on item S501.

Good morning.

I just wanted to take a moment and sincerely thank you for recognizing something that impacts so many families, yet is often carried in silence.

When we say that one in six people struggle with infertility, and one in four pregnancies in a miscarriage, these aren't just statistics, they re represent real people, real grief, real journeys, and deserve to be seen and supported.

Your decision to bring awareness through uh this proclamation sends a powerful message that those walking this path are not alone and that their stories matter.

It helps break the stigma, invites uh conversation, and creates space for compassion and community.

On behalf of everyone that's experienced the heartbreak of the waiting, the hope that comes with building a family in unexpected ways.

Thank you.

Uh, your recognition means more than words can fully express, and it brings light to the journey that uh many carry quietly.

So thank you with standing with us.

Thank you.

Allegedly, Audra.

You're speaking on S501, S502, S504, and 32.

Please proceed.

It's interesting the uh proclamations you guys bring forward, and then the things that we don't talk about that have to do with these types of things, like um uh 32 and S502 about teachers and education and what's really going on in schools and what children are and are not being taught, and the fact that they are you know learning more about sexualization than their ABCs and one, two, threes, and um learning how to be a productive human.

Um, so it's very sad to see what's happens in the public education system because children are given pornographic books.

In fact, they can't even go read them at their school boards because they're so graphic.

And with all of the sexual abuse that happens with children, it is very dangerous because that is a place where they get groomed, and things happen when you are sexualizing children like that, and you have adults that come in and take advantage of that, and I just don't think that we talk about that, as well as the infertility awareness week.

I can't have kids, and I know there's reasons, there's medical reasons and medical things that are taking place that are causing infertility, like all of the vaccines that you guys think are so great, like a lot of the toxic chemicals that are in food or the water or the air that nobody wants to really acknowledge.

You guys actually toxify the water, you don't make it something that is is something that people can drink and do it in a way that they're going to be healthy.

So it's like as we have these awareness things, it's like we should be talking about why they actually exist because it doesn't do anybody a service just to have a day of awareness, and it's sad, and then with the Kappa, the sorority stuff, it's like that's a whole other aspect of something that can be super nefarious, and it's like we live in a world where you know it is very inverted, and it's like people don't like to talk about that and the real things that are going on, but it's true, and these places are places where you know they put people into secret societies because they do a lot of nefarious things in these sororities or frat houses.

I mean, I saw a video of these guys, they were sitting there bloody, the police had come and they were all sitting there silent because they thought it was part of the test to stay loyal to that entity.

And so nobody wanted to talk about why they were all bloody standing up against a wall and things like that.

And it's like this leads to a lot of the nefarious things that we see that are going on on our world.

And I just think it's sad that people don't want to acknowledge that.

We look at some things and not all things, and the more that we recognize this place that we're in and how inverted it is, it's because it is void of God.

And it's a reflection of that.

And it's sad because we shouldn't be turning away from our creator and allowing the ruler of this world, which is our adversary to run rampant, and the things that happens to kids, it's very sad, or just the people in our communities, and some of it's recognized and some of it isn't.

It just depends on if you check a certain box.

So I just would hope that you guys would course correct at some point.

Andrea Ebbing, S501, 3231.

You'll have three minutes, please proceed.

Thank you.

My name is Andrea Ebbing, and uh the first one I will speak on is uh S501.

So National Infertility Awareness Week.

I just pray uh for the families that are struggling to conceive and have children because having children is one of the most special rewarding blessings in this entire world.

And I'm so blessed to have had three beautiful daughters, Bianca, Vera, and Camille, who now reside in two separate states with their felony charged fathers, who are both perpetrators of domestic violence, with me as their name victim, which charges were removed from the Argus system after the case was buried by SDPD and SDA, because my ex is a six million dollar county contracted rehab owner, who is a partner of a dope dealing enterprise in San Diego.

That's a fact, according to DEA convictions.

But I love my daughter so dearly, even though we are also deeply traumatized by the abandonment of the city and county and what took place.

I also hope that even though I don't plan on having more children, that my organs are still intact after I was brutally beaten by the San Diego Police Department's Anthony Warner in public on March 21st in front of 40 children, who I was encouraging to use their First Amendment rights, do the right thing.

I think in some of the video clips, I I look like I'm talking crazy, but I was telling them you don't want to wind up in a position where you're in jail or you're in trouble because I live in a um, you know, in a uh low-income community in Linda Vista, and I think these kids are awesome, and I want them to succeed.

But I was brutally beaten, and every time I told the officer where I was hurting most, he would hurt me there most.

Um, there is an open rape kit for me because when the folk ambulance arrived, the um the EMT had a needle in his hand.

Even though I was handcuffed, had a bag on my head, several broken bones in my face.

Um, and I was in a burrito, they still wanted to do chemical restraint on me.

Um, we're missing a period of time, and I was telling the officer, what if I'm pregnant?

And at that point, he just started hurting me more in that area, digging his knee kicking me.

And when they did the rape kit, they found that I have some internal damage.

So I just hope that I don't plan on having more children.

I just hope that I wasn't altered in any way.

Um, in terms of uh the the April 10th, Francisco Castorita Day.

I think that's wonderful, and I just thought that was my birthday, and I thank God that I will see it here on Friday.

I'll be 46 years old, and I lived through uh ruptured aneurysm, uh second rupture on November 4th, and they tried to failure to appear me and put a hundred thousand dollar warrant when I was getting brain surgery at Scripps La Jolla.

So thank you.

That concludes all the comment here in Council Chambers.

I've started the five-minute timer going to 7499.

If you can please unmute your only speaker currently online for Prox.

7499.

Please let me know which item or items you wish to speak to.

Items 30, 31, 32, S501, S502, and S504.

Thank you.

I'll have three minutes, please proceed.

Bob Kazuski here.

I'd like to amplify some of what some of the other speakers have said about the hypocrisy of this council regarding the La Jolla Shores proclamation and all of these proclamations.

At just one example of your hypocrisy, I'm gonna read a letter from La Jolla Shores Association to Joe La Cava, dated November 13th, 2025, just a few months ago.

Quote to whom it may concern.

The La Jolla Shores Association respectfully submits this letter in support of establishing the Tory Pine City Park Advisory Board and its role in overseeing operations at the Tory Pines glider port.

Our association believes this matter is vital to the safety of park users, visitors, and the surrounding community.

We encourage the city of San Diego to carefully evaluate whether solo flyer pilots should be required to pay annual membership fees and or maintain insurance coverage to fly at the glider port.

These measures would help ensure accountable and responsible use of this unique coastal resource while preserving safe and equitable access to a valued city park.

Thank you for your attention to this issue and your continued stewardship of Tory Pine City Park.

Sincerely, John Pierce, president of the La Jolla Shores Association.

Joel Accava has completely ignored this letter and many other letters throughout his term.

And yet he has the audacity to proclaim it to be La Jolla Shores Association's 60th anniversary day while totally ignoring the wishes of that body and of all the people they represent.

It is disgusting how this council has used these proclamations to pretend that they're on the side of the people and the side of these good organizations, while you just thumb your nose at what they bring to this city and recommend that this council do.

With great disgust, I'm done.

Thank you.

Travis Bushard.

Please let me know which item or items you wish to speak to.

Travis.

I'm uh just speaking for open time on uh I want to speak to flock cameras.

Okay, that'll be during non agenda during the end of the morning session.

Patricia De Arman.

Are you speaking on the proclamations?

I'm speaking on um not agenda public comment.

Okay, that will be at the end of the meeting.

Thank you.

That does conclude public comment on the proclamations.

All right, thank you, City Clerk.

I'll turn it over to my colleagues uh for comments and entertain a motion, and we'll start out with Council Member Moreno.

Thank you.

Um I have comments on items uh 31 and 32 today.

Um, item 32 recognizes Miss Alice de la Torre, a lifelong educator and leader whose work has shaped uh generations of students, families, and communities across Southern California.

Miss de la Torre was born in Los Angeles, California, where she attended local parochial schools before graduating from St.

Mary's Academy in Inglewood.

She went on to earn a Bachelor's of Arts in Elementary Education from California State University Los Angeles, and a master's of arts in school management from the University of Laverne.

Miss de la Torre began her career in the 1960s as a fourth grade teacher in the Mountain View School District in El Monte, laying the foundation for a lifelong commitment to public education.

If we could roll the images, please.

Over time, uh she took on greater responsibilities, serving as a junior high counselor and later as a principal, always focused on supporting students and strengthening school communities.

Her dedication and leadership to her appointments as assistant superintendent of personnel, where she became known for her tireless work ethic and unwavering commitment to both educators and students.

In 1997, Miss de la Torre brought her experience and leadership to the San Diego region, serving as assistant superintendent of personnel services for the San Isidro School District.

In this role, she helped strengthen educational systems serving families throughout Southern California, leaving a lasting impact on the district and also the community of San Isidro.

Beyond her professional work, Miss de la Torre has been deeply committed to expanding opportunities for young people and families.

She promoted literacy through book giveaways, partnerships with classics for kids to introduce students to classical music, and also played a key role in the effort to bring a new public library to San Isidro after more than two decades of advocacy.

Even in retirement, she's remained active in numerous organizations, including the San Isidro Women's Club, Hearts and Hands Working Together, the Otai Mesa Chamber of Commerce, the City Senior Affairs Advisory Board, Friends of the San Isidro Library, the Border Transportation Council, and the San Isidro Education Collaborative.

On top of all that, and through her leadership, she helped raised over $500,000 and counting and worked to establish a lasting endowment to fund college scholarships and student incentive awards for youth in San Isidro.

This work ensures that her work will continue for generations, opening doors and creating opportunities for students long into the future.

But what truly defines Miss de la Torre's legacy is not only her accomplishments, but the way that she uplifts and encourages countless families and young people throughout her career.

Her dedication to education and community has strengthened San Isidro and District 8 in ways that will be felt for years to come.

Ms.

De la Torre, I hope to one day have half of the heart that you have.

You are such an amazing giver, and you're such an amazing example of what community members, what we should strive to be.

So it's an honor to recognize Mr.

La Torre today and proclaim April 7th, 2026 as Miss Alice de la Torre in the City of San Diego.

Thank you for all your work.

Item 31 recognizes Mr.

Francisco Castrita.

He's also here as well if you want to raise your hand.

He's dedicated more than four decades of his life to serving people in San Diego.

Mr.

Castrita was born in Tijuana, Mexico in 1996 and came to the United States in 1972, where he was raised in San Isidro, community that will later become central to his life's work.

Mr.

Castrita attended local schools in San Isidro and graduated from Var Mar Vista High School in 1985, later earning a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Phoenix.

In 1984, Mr.

Mr.

Castrita began his career with the City of San Diego's Park and Recreation Department, starting a journey that would span 42 years of dedicated public service.

Through his career, he served multiple communities, including San Isidro, Paradise Hills, the Memorial Area, and Mount Hope Cemetery, leaving a lasting impact.

Over the years, he's held several roles, including recreation aid, recreation leader one, recreation center director, and area manager.

If I may have just two more minutes.

Steadily growing as a leader and as a mentor.

No matter the position, Mr.

Castritra bought brought consistency, professionalism, and a strong commitment to improving the lives of residents through accessibility and meaningful community programming.

Mr.

Castrita's work helped strengthen neighborhoods by creating space where families could gather, youth could grow, and communities can stay connected.

While his professional accomplishments are significant, what truly defines Mr.

Castrita's career is the way that he approaches people with respect, with care, and a genuine commitment to the community.

Now, beyond his career, Mr.

Castrita is a devoted father to Athena, Lissette, and Julian, and takes great pride in his family.

Now, after 42 years of service, Mr.

Castrita leaves behind a legacy built on dedication, leadership, and a lifelong commitment to the communities he serves.

It's an honor to recognize him today and to proclaim April 10th, 2026 as Mr.

Francisco Castrita Day in the city of San Diego.

Thank you so much for your service to the city and to the residents of San Diego.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And with that, Council President, I'm happy to make a motion to move the proclamations forward.

Thank you.

All right, thank you, Councilmember.

So we do have a motion by Councilmember Moreno to move the proclamations, and we'll go next to Councilmember Ilo Rivera.

Thank you, Council President.

Let me begin by seconding the motion.

I'll uh thank my colleagues for bringing forward the proclamations that are in front of us today with a special appreciation to you and Councilmember Campbell for bringing forward item S501, proclaiming April 19th to the 25th to be National Infertility Awareness Week, as I've shared in the past.

That's a um my family's experience pregnancy loss and um knowing how painful that experience is, um, how common it is, but um often untalked unspoken about.

Um I do very much appreciate that we're bringing uh this forward um and letting folks know who've experienced um that very, very, very painful um experience and journey uh that the city is with them, supports them, and uh I want to just say thank you for that.

Thank you, Council President.

All right, thank you, sir.

So we have a motion by Council Member Moreno and a second by Council Member Elo Rivera to move the proclamations.

We'll go next to Councilmember Foster.

Uh yes, thank you, Council President, and um just congratulations to all of the um proclamation um acknowledgments.

Um I'd like to speak briefly on item 31, S501 and S504.

Um, just to start with item 31, Francisco Castruita.

Um, I just like to acknowledge um Francisco's um decades of service to Southeastern San Diego.

Um years of service to the city of San Diego.

Um I don't think we see that too much anymore.

Um just on behalf of the Fourth Council District, um I would like to just say thank you.

Thank you for your years of service.

Thank you for all the lives that you touched, thank you for all the other city employees that you helped that you that you brought along.

And um thank you to your family.

Um you know the work that we do is not always easy as you show up and serve every day.

Um, but thank you to the family for sharing you for 42 years.

Um, thank you so much.

Um, and thank you to Councilmember Moreno for bringing this um well-deserved recognition forward.

Um, item S501, National Infertility Awareness Week.

Want to thank Council President Jolikov and Councilmember Jennifer Campbell for bringing forward this important recognition.

National Infertility Awareness Week highlights an issue that affects more families than many realize.

We recognize the strength and resilience of those navigating infertility, often quietly and with great courage.

Too many still face barriers to care, including cost and limited access to treatment.

This week is about raising awareness, reducing stigma, and making sure people feel seen and supported.

Um lastly, item S504, Delta Epsilon chapter of Kap Alpha Cy Fraternity Incorporated Day.

Um I'm proud to be here not just as a council member, but as a lifetime member of Cap Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated, an organization that helped shape the man I am today.

My time, um, I was initiated spring of 1994 at the Beta Kai chapter of Hampton University, and I must say being a member of this organization has helped to ground me in discipline, accountability, service, and these are the values that I carry every day.

When I look at Delta Epsilon chapter here in San Diego, I see that same commitment.

Today we recognize the Delta Epsilon chapter's legacy of leadership and impact in the city of San Diego, celebrating 75 years of service in the city of San Diego.

This chapter has produced leaders across education, law, public service, and more, including former Councilmember George L.

Stevens, a 1953 initiate who represented District 4, a legacy I'm proud to carry forward today.

They've done the work, mentored young men, and created real opportunities for those coming behind them.

You can see that impact across this city in the lives that have been shaped and the doors that have been opened.

So today, again, I want to say congratulations on 75 years, and here's to continuing to build, lead, and set the standard for the next generation.

And I close with a yo to the noops.

That concludes that concludes my comment.

Thank you, Councilmember Foster.

Uh, we'll go next to Councilmember Campbell.

Thank you, uh Council President.

I just as a family physician, I really should say a few words about National Infertility Awareness Week.

Uh, I'm so delighted that families that are facing these problems are able to be helped by medical science.

And let us hope that we continue to advance so that it isn't quite so difficult as it as it is.

You have to be extremely brave to go through this.

So thank you to those families that do, and to those who who uh who step up and try this.

Uh God bless you, and thank you so much.

And thank you to the medical community, and of which I am so proud to be a part.

Let us continue uh into the future with advancements.

Thank you so much, Council President, and congratulations to everyone.

All right, thank you, Councilmember Campbell.

Uh, seeing no one else in the lights, I'll kind of wrap it up.

Uh thank you to my colleagues for the proclamations that are brought forward.

Congratulations to the individuals, organizations, and causes that are being recognized.

I will speak to two of the items.

Uh, item 30.

Today's La Jolla Shores 60th Anniversary Day Proclamation recognizes the generation of community members who have volunteered their time and effort.

Since 1966, the La Jolla Shores Association has served as a community forum for the shores.

Liaison to the larger La Jolla community and advisory body to the city.

Thank you to all the directors and community members, past and present, who continue to volunteer their time working to protect and enhance La Jolla Shores for residents, business businesses, and visitors, and to ensure that the La Jolla Shores Association is a consistent and unified voice for the community.

Thank you for your work.

Item S501.

Today I am honored to join Councilmember Campbell in proclaiming the week of April 19th through the 25th as National Infertility Awareness Week in the City of San Diego and shed light on an invisible struggle that affects millions of individuals and their families.

Acknowledging their experience is an important step towards building a more supportive and aware community for all.

Another important step is making sure individuals have access to the proper resources and support systems for those navigating the challenges of infertility.

Through organizations like Resolve, their mission to increase accessibility to health care, family building resources, and advocacy removes the stigma around infertility and allows those affected to receive the care they need.

Thank you to all the health care providers, infertility specialists and organizations like Resolve who play a vital role in helping individuals impacted by infertility, feel acknowledged, supported, and empowered.

And with that, uh, we have a motion by Council Member Moreno and a second by Councilmember Elo Rivera.

Clerk, please call the role.

And always keep your eye on Heidi, who will identify who the new personality is.

Okay, back to council business.

We will now proceed with the approval of the consent items.

But first, I will turn to Mr.

Codus Eiser from the mayor's office for a statement.

Thank you, Council President.

I do have uh statements on two items.

Uh quickly on item one thirteen, there has been a correction made to the staff report and resolution for the youth commission appointment.

Uh, it has been corrected from Council District Four Webster to Council District One La Jolla.

And then on item one hundred on February twenty-third, the council approved the third addendum to the third amended and restated management agreement between the city and the convention center.

Due to administrative error, uh, an earlier version of the third addendum that did not include all of the language that the city and the convention center had agreed to, and which the convention center corporations board approved was uploaded with the materials for that item.

So again, this is the version that was approved by the convention center uh by ATI committee, but was uncorrectly uploaded when it came to council last time.

All right, thank you, sir, for those corrections and clarifying uh statements.

So first, are there any requests to pull an item by council?

Not seen any request.

So with that, clerk, please proceed with public comment.

Please make sure you've submitted your speaker slip if you have not already, or are raising your hand, star nine, or the raise your hand icon.

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

There are quite a few, so please bear with me.

Item one ten is the potential appointment of Miriam Mendoza and reappointments of Lucas Coleman, Benjamin Eastman, Juan Carlos Rivas, Garcia, Heidi Nuff, Dr.

Shar Shazrod Com Yab, and Dr.

Luke Lenine to the International Affairs Board.

Item one eleven is the potential reappointment of Mr.

Tufik Tabachori to the audit committee.

Item 112 is the potential appointment of John Embry and Merley Merle Richmond and reappointments of Chase Michael Franzen, Ron Lee, and Peter Doft to the Airports Advisory Committee.

Item 113 is the potential appointment of Parsa Arya Avaz Barundish and Jackson Turner to the City of San Diego Youth Commission.

Item 114 is the potential reappointments of Matt Stamper and Ted Wamak to the Privacy Advisory Board.

Item 115 is the potential reappointment of Ian Clampett and Erica Morgan to the Resiliency Advisory Board.

Item 116 is the potential reappointments of Jeremy Bloom, Danielle Lehman, and Dr.

Judith Munoz to the Parks and Recreation Board.

Item 117 is the potential reappointments of Christy Byers, Rami Cortez, Dr.

Michael Province, Melissa Sophia, and Melanie Woods to the Historical Resources Board.

Item 118 is the potential reappointments of Patricia Williams Bevlin, Sarah Moga Allemani, Mark Tren, and Dr.

Scott Walter to the Board of Library Commissioners.

Item 119 is the potential reappointments of Marilyn Carrill, Wendy Arishima Khan, Gail Fritz and Carla Nesbitt Stokes to the Commission on the Status of Women.

Item 120 is the potential appointment of Lydia Ball Van Note to the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority.

We did receive comments on items 54, 19 in favor, and items 114, one in favor via our e-comment form, which have been distributed to the council.

Now going to those who are participating in public speaking here in chambers, if I can have the following individuals, please come forward to the front row in the yellow reserve seats and the other seats.

Bethany Case, Luis Guerrera, Patricia Mondragon, Christopher O Gomez, Omayra Yousefi, and Ramo Abdi.

If you can all please come forward to the front row.

Bethany Case, if you can please come to the microphone.

You're speaking on item 107.

Good morning.

My name is Bethany Case.

I'm the senior community relations facilitator at Southwest Middle School.

I facilitate our state community schools grant, which aims to transform our school into a community hub.

I'm here to support the Grove Neighborhood Park.

There are several large apartment complexes within walking distance of the park.

And because many of our students live in these complexes, they are deprived of space to play pickup games and gather with friends.

They don't have a mall nearby to hang out, and they end up finding places that are unsafe or where they are unwelcome.

The area surrounding the park doesn't have open space for the community to gather, and because of the pollution at the beach, the large free area, that large free area of recreation is not safely available.

Additionally, we have an incredible before and after school program called Hype, who will be able to use this space to expand programming.

Expanded programming helps keep students whose home school is Southwest Middle School from going elsewhere, and it brings students from outside of our zoning onto our campus with shrinking enrollment.

This is a huge benefit.

Thank you for that conclusion.

Thank you so much.

Luis Guerra, good morning.

My name is Luis Guerra.

I am the advocacy and external relations director at the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, the largest nonprofit deportation defense organization in California, proudly serving the San Diego immigrant community.

I'm here in strong support of the passing of the due process and safety ordinance.

We want to thank uh Councilmember Sean Elo Rivera for listening to the community and working collaboratively to bring this forward.

This ordinance provides critical protections for our most vulnerable neighbors in much needed clarity for city employees by setting clear limits on involvement in immigration in immigration enforcement, especially at a time with our uh when we're seeing extraordinary abuses of power at the federal level.

We urge you to support this ordinance.

Thank you.

Patricia Madragon.

Patricia, you have time, people seeding you time.

Aaron Sumoto Grassi.

Thank you.

And Jesse Schmidt.

Thank you.

You'll have three minutes.

Please proceed.

Thank you.

Good morning, Council members.

Patricia Mondraguon, Regional Policy Manager for Alliance San Diego.

I'm here to express our strong support from Alliance San Diego for the due process and safety ordinance.

This ordinance is about upholding the most basic promise our city can make to its residents.

That everyone deserves to be treated with fairness, dignity, and respect, no matter who they are or where they came from.

It reinforces our shared values of justice and equality by ensuring that city departments and contractors respect people's rights and due process.

Right now, that due process, our safety, and our rights are under threat.

San Diego has seen a three-fold increase in immigration arrests, arrests that have led to family separation, and a significant increase in the detention of children.

Residents are afraid to leave their homes.

Even immigrants who have lived here for decades or with legal status are fearful that they could be targeted or separated from their loved ones.

This fear erodes public trust and makes our city less safe.

The two due process and safety ordinance helps rebuild public trust by setting clear limits on how city resources are used and by requiring transparency when federal agencies operate in our communities.

By aligning the caliph with the California Values Act, it ensures that San Diego is doing its part to uphold the due process and public safety of our residents.

It improves reporting on joint task forces, clarifies the San Diego Police Department's rule when immigration enforcement occurs, and requires federal agents to have judicial warrants before entering non-public spaces.

These are practical, lawful steps that protect everyone's rights while strengthening community safety.

Equally important, the the ordinance protects the privacy and freedom of all San Diegans.

It prohibits the sharing of data based on protected activity or characteristics and safeguards reproductive rights, free speech, and personal autonomy.

These protections are essential to a healthy democracy and to a safe city.

Passing the due process and safety ordinance is about leading with courage.

It's about ensuring our city operates with integrity, transparency, and compassion.

It tells every resident San Diego will stand up for your rights.

Thank you, Councilmember Sean Eloh Rivera, for your dedication in passing this ordinance, working with advocates and community and reaffirming San Diego's commitment to justice, accountability, and equal protection for all.

We urge the council to pass the due process and safety ordinance today.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Criso Foro Gomez.

You have time stated to you by Marco Brionis.

Thank you.

You'll have two minutes.

Good morning, Council members.

My name is Chris Foto Gomez, and I'm an organizer with the San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council.

We represent over 130 unions and 200,000 working families across the county.

We're also here as proud members of the San Diego Immigrants' Rights Consortium.

So first I want to thank uh Councilmember Ilo Rivera and his team for their work on the due process and safety ordinance and to the rest of the council for moving it to this point.

We are in a moment where it's truly incumbent on local government to do everything in their power to protect their constituents, our workers, and their families from the terror and violence of this federal administration.

And so we thank the council for joining in on a regional effort to do just that.

So we urge your support today to uh vote yes on the due process safety ordinance.

Thank you.

Thank you.

If I can have the following individuals, please come up to the front row as well.

Well, Tazin Nizar come up to the microphone.

Then we have Amira Yusefi, Ramo Abdi, Anita, Wukinik Turner, uh Ramo Abdi.

I think that's a that's a dupe.

Omira is also a dupe.

After that, Andrea Ebbing, allegedly Audra, Weetran, and um Say Calderon Vargas.

If you can all please come up to the front row.

Tazi, please come up to the microphone.

Good morning, council members.

My name is Tazina Zam, and I'm here on behalf of the San Diego Immigrants' Rights Consortium.

When due process is abandoned, communities are left to live under fear rather than the law.

Families become afraid to report crime.

Workers avoid public spaces.

People live with a constant threat that their rights can be taken away any minute, just based on the way they look.

This kind of environment does not make anyone safer.

It destabilizes entire neighborhoods and erodes trust in every level of government.

Local governments cannot turn a blind eye when federal agencies engage in unconstitutional conduct.

I have been a 25-year U.S.

citizen, and today I carry my passport card with me everywhere because I am afraid of being taken, deported without due process.

This is why institutions need to make ensure that due process is exercised at every level of government, and you, my friends, are responsible for making sure that San Diego City practices it on a daily basis.

Thank you.

Omira Yosefi.

You have a time ceded to you by Patricia Sarrano.

Patricia, if you can put thank you.

You'll have two minutes, please proceed.

Thank you.

My name is Hamira Yusufi with PANA.

I'm here today to express our deep gratitude to you all, and especially Councilmember Ilo Rivera for bringing this due process and safety ordinance forward.

When the community need it needs someone to like stand with us, council member, you're always there, and we appreciate that.

Even when it's not the most popular opinion, you're always there and you work with community.

So I really want to thank you and all of you for initially getting it passed, and now we're finally here at the other end to the finish line.

So thank you all for that.

Um the Trump administration continues his attack on immigrant communities and all vulnerable communities.

Now is the time more than ever that we need an ordinance like this in place.

Honestly, I wish we had it a year ago because it would have provided valuable information to us today, right?

Um, our local city need and our police department needs um transparency as to what is happening and what and which partnerships exist with the federal administration as they continue to attack our communities.

So we're really excited that this ordinance is coming into fruition now.

It will provide us valuable information, but I hope we also see it as a first step, right?

Um, that this is the first step that council can take to support immigrant communities, LGBTQ communities, vulnerable other vulnerable communities, Muslim communities like mine who are also under attack with this administration.

Um, you know, we have asked time and time again for the city to end its contract with Flock because our data is not safe with a company that continues to collude with the Trump administration that continues that um collaboration on the back end.

We have seen that no matter what we try to do at a local level to keep our data safe, we cannot keep it safe with Flock.

So we can we ask for you all to continue to see this as a first step, but to really um take other steps to ensure that our communities are protected.

Thank you.

Ramo Abidi.

Hi, good morning.

Uh, my name is Rahma Abdi, Director of Organizing with Pana.

Uh, I'm here again to support to express my organizational support for due process.

And thank you, Councilmember Sean Eloh for supporting these and always standing with our community.

This ordinance is about protecting people who are already caring so much.

It is stand with those who often felt targeted or afraid.

People staying reproductive health, care, our immigration, our immigrant communities, people leaving with disabilities, religion minorities, and other who just want to live in peace and dignity.

For San Diegans, this is more than just a policy.

It is the first step towards feeling safe again.

It helps clear it, it's helped cle set clear boundaries to our community, know that know what to expect, especially when it comes to how the police department responds to immigration enforcement.

It brings some light and transparency situations that have caused fear and confusion for too long.

At the end of the day, this is about people.

It's about making sure everyone, no matter what.

Thank you for the concluding comment.

Thank you.

Anita.

Hi, my name is Anita Wisinek Turner.

Um, I didn't know I was gonna speak.

I thought it was just gonna be a proclamation, everybody votes on it, but I have a few things to say.

Um I'll keep it short.

At a time when our nation is experiencing lawlessness, uh constitutional violations, democratic viol law violations, it is so refreshing to think that the city council is bringing this up and try to do the right thing.

And special thank you to you for leading this.

And um I hope that you and the mayor will do the right thing and sign the due process and safety ordinance, which protects and implements everyone's civil rights and ensures that our city is no longer complicit in unlawful or discriminated discriminatory enforcement.

Thank you all.

Thank you, Andrea Ebbing.

You're gonna cede your time.

No, I don't know.

Oh you're speaking on several items.

101, 102, 104, 107, 111, 116, 118, and 119.

You'll have three minutes.

I'd like to address that.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you.

So the hypocrisy is quite interesting because we talk about due process and we claim that it's for all, which this is only being brought forward due to undocumented immigrants.

And as a victim of somebody who has no due process and also has very close friends who have also, I've been beat up by the sheriff.

Andrea Ebbing was just assaulted brutally by the San Diego police department.

And nobody is up in arms about it.

It is very disturbing to see that it's like if you are a certain demographic or if you check this box, then it matters.

But we don't even have due process here.

That's what's so crazy.

And people are complaining about it, and it's like, welcome to America.

That's the way it works here.

And so until you guys are going to make it equitable and inclusive to the people in your own community, Raul Campil.

A woman was brutally assaulted at the Linda Vist escape park.

There are no cameras there.

There are no lighting.

There have been four murders there, two within two days.

And it's like, how can women be assaulted like this that are in your own community and you guys turn a blind eye?

If that was an undocumented woman, if she was undocumented and that happened, and Linda Vist Escape Park, you guys would be pissed.

It would be all over the fucking news.

So it is so appalling and just offensive to have that kind of stuff happen to you.

And nothing gets done about it, but it gets brushed under the rug.

In fact, the San Diego police department said I am a threat to them because I was assaulted by a sheriff.

I still walk with the cane four years later.

There's no due process.

And when you guys sit here and you act like you care about people, then prove it.

Prove it.

The people in your own community should matter.

No woman, nobody should be assaulted like that.

Brutally.

And it's all for speaking out.

I was speaking at a board of supervisors meeting and got drug out, had my head slammed into the ground, my back was missed.

I have dislocated ribs.

I have nerve damage in my arms from him twisting my arms so bad.

And you know what he tells me every time I have to see him at the board of supervisors.

You're welcome.

You're welcome for assaulting you.

And nothing happened to him.

He got exonerated.

I was told that I should have just complied because he had a badge.

He wears a fucking costume, and I have been arrested there before for speaking publicly using my voice.

And that is not the protocol that goes on.

That man is proud of beating the shit out of me.

103, 109, 114.

You'll have three minutes.

Please proceed.

Thank you.

I'd like to add 54 as well.

My name is Andrea Ebbings, speaking on due process first as well.

I want to talk about a case which started about five years ago in which I was the victim and my children were.

So these individuals, and I hope everybody Googles those names are an enterprise.

This is a Rico Enterprise due process is important because when felony charges go missing from the RJ system, and they choose to create a falsified case against me with motions in Lemon A, which say there was never an order to be violated, which they said I violated, and that the jury should not know this information, and then abandon my abducted children and me and tell me that we aren't the victims.

I am the defendant and carry it on.

And just don't allow me to get emergency brain surgery at Scripps La Jolla on November 4th, but do issue a 100,000 warrant for me, and then send me to Las Colinas for eight days when I have active shingles, extremely contagious, and they wanted to deny me my antivirals for eight days in a row that I was supposed to take four times a day.

And just don't allow me to get emergency brain surgery at Scripps La Jolla on November 4th, but do issue a 100,000 dollar warrant for me, and then send me to Las Colinas for eight days when I have active shingles, extremely contagious, and they wanted to deny me my antivirals for eight days in a row that I was supposed to take four times a day, uh, and my antibiotics, but they did give me the stool softener just to make fun of me.

Um they saw my blood pressure was 210 over 110, denied me medical care.

But also, when I say this was fake, I don't mean I'm not exaggerating.

Here is a call from our bail bonds we just got the other day.

Because they took it.

So why did they take my bail away?

Like what was it?

100,000.

We came up with the money.

You were like really, really helpful.

So um, we're just like in part of piecing it together.

I was just wondering to know, like, I had like um tortured 100,000 my game.

I came out put down the 10 of that.

Why did they take my bill away?

Like, what was it?

Did they say why they took the bond away?

Your time has concluded.

Your time has concluded.

We trend.

If I can have the following individuals, please come up to the front row.

Say Calderon Vargas, Blair Beekman, and Nicole Lilly.

Please proceed.

Hi, my name is We China, executive director of Big Voices.

My organization work with a lot of immigrant Vietnamese community, um, all of our county San Diego.

Recently, we have to organize canvassing to support small businesses, um, giving them information how to protect immigrant workers.

Is the real fear in my community?

When you canvassing, when I canvassing in the neighborhood, when I come up to the people, I can see them scurrying away, trying to hide because Asian people we learn to put our head down to the live.

I don't want my people to live like this in a country where they come to seek for for freedom for a live opportunity.

So this is the best thing that we can do for now to protect our region of people.

Uh it would leave celebrate in diversity.

Um, and you know, it's a proper thing to do, the government.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Say Caleron Barrias.

Good morning.

My name is Dr.

Sique Galeron Bargas, and I am here on behalf of the San Diego LGBT Community Center in support of item 54.

Our center serves thousands of LGBT San Diegoans, many of whom are living in fear right now, fear that their gender identity, their I'm immigration status, or their personal choices could make them a target of federal federal enforcement.

This ordinance matters because it ensures that San Diego's own resources, our city employees, our contractors, our police will not be used to harm the people we serve.

LGBTQ people, especially our transgender and immigrant community members, deserve to access health care, go to work, and live freely without fear.

Please vote yes on item 54.

Thank you, Councilmember Ilo Rivera, for your leadership and standing with all vulnerable communities.

Thank you.

Thank you.

My apologies for misfelling misstating your name.

Blair Beekman.

Um I should have three minutes.

Oh, my apologies.

Yeah, thanks.

I have a whole bunch of items.

I put them all on one card for easier.

Please proceed.

Thank you.

Um to speak first.

Uh excuse me.

The uh item 50, photocopying.

I have about six items all together here.

Uh, photocopying um is a contract for about five million dollars over five years.

It's about 900,000 a year.

That to me is a bit strong for uh photocopying things uh for each year.

I just wanted to note that, and uh, you've had this up here before, so it has to be brought back here for some reason.

Um good luck in addressing it if it needs to be questioned.

Uh smart water meters.

Uh, you're doing a whole series of practices that's not just creating a new smart future for San Diego, but it's how to involve the community in the process.

And you're really making those efforts.

And um, I hope we can continue those good efforts so community can call into public utilities, have their questions answered.

Uh council has been working really well on that.

It's a community effort to build our tech future, everyone.

It's not just you guys thinking you're high on the hog.

Okay?

We're clear on that.

This is a community effort of technology.

It's not just you guys.

With that said, thank you.

On to item uh parks.

I have three items uh that you talk about park issues 56, 116, and 107.

Umgrat when the park commissions get hired.

I hope they're considering the importance of accountability and data collection practices.

When the um uh Trump administration first came in, the San Diego park system put kind of a hiatus and a hold on how their technology is working in their park systems.

They took a break to kind of reassess how to move forward, and I was an awesome idea.

I think we're more reflective and responsible how we place tech in our park systems.

Learn to really talk about it clearly with the public.

And it's okay, it's safe.

You feel it's unsafe for some reason.

It is safe.

Don't fear the public in those conversations.

And with that, that leads to item 54 Brown Act issues.

That thank you.

It's a beautiful measure.

It I think it it works on the early park uh department's ideas of how to address the future of the Trump administration and data collection, and you guys are doing it with this item.

Um, I hope this item is a good beginning uh for you know, current uh accountability people, tech accountability people want to work towards a future of uh warrants for uh AOPR things.

I think this is a good uh start for that kind of question to be better asked.

So it's a great measure, thank you.

Uh PAB people are being uh rehired, uh reappointed, and good luck to their continuing efforts that we talk more clearly uh about our tech and that uh inner international affairs.

Um good luck that we really talk, they're more inclusive of an international level and how to talk about our issues.

Thank you.

Nicole Lilly.

You have time speed ceded to you by Sparky Metra.

Thank you.

You'll have two minutes, please proceed.

Hello, my name is Nicole Lilly.

I'm a 23-year-old renter, resident of District 3, an executive director of our time to act, a youth-led nonprofit organizing powerful youth for a more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable future.

It is absolutely essential that you pass item 54.

Our community is under attack, and this ordinance affirms the city's responsibility to its residents.

This council is not powerless in the face of extreme threats we face.

I want to express gratitude to Councilmember Ilo Rivera and his office for their leadership on this action and in getting this to be a cross-county effort.

Across the city today and across the county, families are wondering not only how they will pay their rent, keep the water and electricity on and food on the table, but also whether or not it's even safe to leave their home to go to work and school and get their basic needs met.

That is an unacceptable reality, and this ordinance does work to actually protect those families' ability to live.

This item is only a first step.

This council must go further to protect our community.

We must cancel our contract with Flock.

We must stop investing more in surveillance and in policing of our communities and more into the basic needs of our communities.

Every single day, families are struggling to live.

They are waking up and wondering where their next meal is going to come from, wondering whether or not they're going to be able to make rent this month.

The least we can do is protect their due process and their safety across our city.

I sincerely urge you to pass this ordinance and continue to seeing that your hands are not tied.

You have responsibility to us as your constituents.

You have a responsibility to community with the power that you are given as elected officials.

And I sincerely hope that you consider that going into the budget season and where you allocate your money, especially in consideration to surveillance and policing of our communities.

This is only a first step, and I urge you to pass this item.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I've started sorry the five-minute time we're hearing Council Chambers going to those participating remotely.

Currently have four people in the queue, starting with Cena Sanchez.

If you can please let me know which item or items you wish to speak to after that is 8700, and then Catherine Rhodes.

Cena, I can't unmute for you.

A pop-up should have come up.

If you can't unmute, I will need to move on to the next caller.

I'll need to move on to the next caller.

8700, if you can please unmute.

After that is Catherine Rhodes and then Hector.

Thank you.

Uh 50, 51, 52, 100, 110, 111, and 112 through 120.

Thank you, City Clerk.

Thank you.

Please proceed with your three minutes.

Number 50.

Uh, yes to the contract with Conica Minolta for print services.

40% white male.

Uh under representation in the African American and female in tech, Latino and female in sales.

And number 51, yes to the contract with file on two for software plus more.

72 percent white with a balance between white male and female, yet under representation again in female and African American in tech, and again in Latino in tech and sales, number 52.

Yes, two contract with PMAM, PANAM Corp for alarm permit software, 30 employees, 10 Asian females under representation, African American and Sales, female in tech on 100 convention centered, only reapprove if you trust necessary transfers to carry out any budgeted VIP projects if determined appropriate by the mayor.

Dear mayor, the big yellow canary that is covered with band-aid, also known as the boiler.

Please transfer the funds for this very appropriate item.

Thank you, CODA for clarification of the backup material.

Um good item.

Uh 110 and 112 through 120.

I'll bump them all together.

That's 10.

10 appointments, reappointments.

And I have to give two big thank yous on this.

First to Chida Warren, the director of the uh boards and appointments and so forth, and the second to Mayor Gloria for his continuing recognition.

Excuse me, let me say that a word.

Uh to Mayor Gloria for his continuing encouragement of this service by the public in his weekly newsletter.

It's well written and really inspiring.

So it's it's been a great morning.

Uh, and I'll miss this afternoon, but uh thank you very much, everyone for listening.

I love to all.

Thank you.

Next is Catherine Rhodes.

If you can please unmute after that is Hector and then Patricia D Arma.

Please let me know which item or items you're speaking to.

Lovely, thank you.

Items 55, 54, 100, and 105.

Please proceed.

Wonderful.

Um, first for item 54, the due process.

Thank you so much for bringing this forward.

Yes, people need to be able to feel safe.

And um, you know, the faith-based community, if if you could make sure that they get involved too.

They want to help.

Um, you know, they want to help keep people safe, um, and you know, keep families together.

Um, the the one for item 55, East Village Green.

I'm hoping that you put any of these cost increases on the recognized obligation payment schedule for this accessor agency to the redevelopment agency, because this was a line item in the ROPs, and all you have to do in order to have the full 84 million dollars paid for is put it on the ROPs.

But did you do that?

I don't know.

What what what are what's the funding source for this?

I'm not sure.

So, anyway, back in 2014, um the cost was going to be 45 million dollars.

Now it's going to be 84 million dollars, so it's you know, uh almost double, not exactly doubled the cost, but you know uh a very large cost increase for what I don't know.

Um, so in you know, 12 years the costs somehow escalated, and also 34.4 million dollars was money that came from the successor agent housing agency affordable housing funds.

And what happened is you built you bought property on an act of fault when I told you you can't have it on the act of fault.

So now you're having a park and open space, which is what you have to do, but we haven't gotten back the 34.4 million, and so I think that you should put that on the ROPs also to get it back for the affordable housing fund.

Um, for number 100, um the convention center corporation.

Remember, in nine years, if they don't have a convention center expansion project, you're going to lose that 3.25% of the TOT.

That's $77 million that's coming in.

If you don't have a um a solution for that, and of course, I have the solution for that, which is a ballot measure um that hopefully you guys will put forward, and that way the um it includes one percent for the convention center.

So I think they're getting like 45 million dollars now, and it'll get bumped down to like 35 million, but uh with all the other things, they should actually be whole.

Um, when we make the other if the other changes go through also.

Um, so maybe you guys could somebody can discuss that with them because nobody has talked about it.

Then you have the three surplus properties, two of them seems like we should just give them to the San Diego Housing Commission.

How come the San Diego Housing Commission doesn't want to use two of these empty lots to build um a condo complex?

You can actually do this.

Why don't you keep the the the property yourself and actually build something?

Um that's what I would like for it to do.

And the other one, there's one property um that is close to an open space, and it seems like it's uh uh uh on the uh on the slope right next to us open space.

So I would look for that and maybe see if you can make that into a little pocket park for the neighborhood on Fairmont Avenue.

Um thank you so much.

Your time has concluded.

There are three speakers with their hands raised when the five-minute timer concluded, only those three speakers will be taken.

If you were not able to unmute the first time, please feel free to send in comments to City Clerk at Sandiego.gov and those will be distributed to the council.

Hector, if you can please unmute after that is Patricia Dearma and 7499.

Hector, please unmute Hector and Kent.

There you go.

On the status of women committee, I hope these guys have a couple men on the board there.

I'm sorry, can you pause one second?

Which item or items do you wish to speak to?

Uh 54 and the status of women.

I forget the number now.

Okay, so it'll be two minutes.

Please proceed.

Okay, thanks.

On the status of women, uh, I wonder if there's any men on the board.

That would be a good indication of the perspective of men's perspective on the status of women.

I think I look at that, it's probably just all women, but I want to get some men on the board next time or this time.

And then on 54, this is where I really called in.

When uh Joe Biden and Carmela Harris said he said on the TV and said, Don't come, don't come.

The trouble with that is they came and they ignored our laws and they blatantly came.

But the trouble with that is too Trump, he wants to come, and he's come and ask him.

So uh we cannot hear you here in Council Chambers, but you are unmuted.

I'm not sure if the difference is for the uh and Trump might even have a bounty on these guys because they're gonna charge a thousand dollars a day if an illegal alien has to be in here every day.

So that's a lot of money, man.

So there could be why don't you guys instead of living in fear, just pack up your bags and go home.

Don't come in here anymore.

We gotta redo our whole thing.

We've got a good border now.

We gotta move on with America.

Now, all these other guys, there's guys getting killed by illegal aliens, and the only way aliens are are living in our houses, taking up our rent, driving the price of rent up.

If we get rid of a hundred thousand of them, it'll lower the rent, it'll make the freeways less crowded, it'll be all together better in San Diego if we just deport them all rapidly, and everyone can cry about it, and then we can just get on with live and with the uh with our American citizens if not change.

Yeah, absolutely.

Your time is concluded, Patricia Dearman.

If you can please unmute after that, our final speaker is 7499.

Patricia.

Good morning, City Council.

My name is Patricia Dearman.

I'm the only sibling of Christopher D'Arman who is atrociously murdered.

Excuse me, ma'am.

Please stop your time.

Ma'am, can you please let me know which item or items you wish to speak to?

Item 54.

You'll have one minute.

Let me reset your clock.

Please proceed.

I am the only sibling of Christopher D'Arman who was atrociously murdered by San Diego Police on January 20, 2023.

Well, I understand the importance of this ordinance and the need for its implementation in order to protect immigrants during ice encounters.

I am curious to know how this ordinance will affect and protect people that continue to be unprotected.

For example, ex-velance, people with priors or those who simply fit a certain stereotype.

The same racial profiling that has been happening since the Trump administration took office has been happening for decades on the streets.

Racial profiling, targeting, harassment, discrimination, and the violation of civil and human rights is nothing new to Southeast San Diego, Barrio Logan, and other disparate communities that law enforcement claims to be up to no good.

Just as San Diego police did in my brother's case.

No officers ask for my brother's driver's license.

I apologize.

Your time has concluded.

7499, if you can please unmute.

Please let me know which item or items you wish to speak to.

Bob Kazuski here would like to speak on 50, 51, 52, 112, and 116.

Three minutes, please proceed.

5051 and 52.

These three items alone total over $7 million in contract spending of the people's money.

I don't know the details of these contracts, but I do know for a fact that the city has a dismal history of overseeing other contracts where I do know all of the details.

I urge all citizens and all citizen advocacy groups to get involved in digging into the details of these kinds of contracts.

I know what I've witnessed with the Tory Pines Glide report under Todd Gloria and Joe LaCava has been abysmal.

And that's just one very, very little example.

I suspect the city is riddled with insider contracts and gross abuse of the city's resources.

Please find an area that interests you and dig into it.

112 appointments and reappointments to the airport's advisory committee.

First of all, there is no such thing as an advisory committee.

The City Charter Section 43 is very clear that there are two types of such groups.

City Charter Section 43A defines what the city charter calls advisory boards.

43A clearly defines the requirements and conditions of advisory boards.

Similarly, 43B of the City Charter defines what the City Charter calls citizens' committees.

There is no such thing in the city charter as an advisory committee.

It's either an advisory board or a citizens committee, period.

Yet here you are appointing members to what you call an airport's advisory committee.

The city's blurring of these terms intentionally confuses our citizens.

I can't understand how this mayor and city council are so inept that you can't even bother to read the city charter except when you want to circumvent it by creating, for example, the Tory Pine City Park Advisory Board under City Charter Section 43B, which only defines citizens' committees.

Second, your lessee at the Tory Pines Glider Port has claimed in court that the Tory Pines Glider Port is an airport.

Yet the airport's advisory committee has not provided any oversight of the property known as the Tory Pine City Park.

What's going on here?

What is keeping this city from providing oversight of that park through either park and rec or real estate assets or the misnamed Airports Advisory Committee or the Tory Pine City Park Advisory Board?

Item 116, Park and Recreation Reappointments.

The park and recreation board has been ignoring its necessary role in ensuring the public safety and public access at the Tory Pine City Park.

Every time I've attempted to bring this matter to the of the glider port to the park and recreation board, I've been told to go see real estate assets.

And yet real estate assets claims that they just manage contracts and aren't involved in the management issues of the park.

What kind of vetting process produces a park and recreation board appointees who refuse to do their job?

With great disgust.

Thank you.

That concludes public comment on the consent agenda.

Thank you, Council President.

All right.

Thank you, City Clerk.

With that, we'll turn it over to my colleagues for questions, comments, and entertain a motion.

And we will start with Council Member Elo Rivero.

All right.

Thank you, Council President.

Thank you to everyone who engaged today.

We've got a number of folks from District 9 who I want to make sure I uh recognize.

Heidi Nuff, uh Ted Womack, Danielle Lehman, and Mark Tran.

Um all four of these folks.

The there's a common thread of of sincere uh passion for the work that they do on these boards uh that is carried out through the work that they do on a day-to-day basis.

Um I can think about conversations I've had with each and every one of these folks about why um about why they care about the work that is involved in each of these boards and commissions, and so I want to say thank you uh to each of them for stepping up and serving in this capacity.

Uh and then I want to speak to another appointment uh with the person who I know best amongst the appointees today, uh Lydia Ball.

Um Lydia um is being appointed to the airport authority.

I think this is an outstanding appointment that will um be very, very good for for San Diego.

Lydia has a wealth of experience in a variety of sectors from government to the nonprofit sector.

Uh she's been a champion for the environment for years, which will um pair very well with the airport's commitment to sustainability.

Uh she's a champion for workers' rights.

Um, she's an outstanding leader.

And um, if um, and if all that is not enough, um she has the patience of a saint, and how do I know that?

She worked alongside me for four years.

Um so uh Lydia, thank you for stepping up to serve in this capacity.

I'm really excited to see you step into this role and see the airport benefit from your leadership, your strategy, your strategic mind, and just your overall goodness as a human being.

So thank you for that.

Moving to item 54, the second reading of the due process and safety ordinance.

We heard this way back in October.

A lot has happened in the world since then, but one thing that has not changed is the need for the city to adopt this into law.

As a reminder, the ordinance establishes clear constitutional guardrails requiring judicial warrants for federal and out of state law enforcement access to non-public city facilities, extending those same protections to city contractors, lassees, and grantees, prohibiting participation in any enforcement targeting individuals based on political or religious expression, race, ethnicity, gender identity, disability, reproductive care, and will mandate multilingual know-your rights, education at city sites.

The reason for this is simple.

We deserve to live in a city where law, order, and rights actually mean something where safety and dignity go hand in hand, and this ordinance makes it clear that our local government will uphold the constitution, protect our people, and fight for our communities.

The ordinance builds upon the California Values Act and the Truth Act, state privacy laws, and the Constitution itself, expanding the protections to a wider range of residents and situations, including health care, housing, and faith settings.

It also sets a new national model by extending these standards beyond city operations to city funded entities, ensuring consistent protections across the region.

I want to say thank you to all the community members who helped bring this forward, who provided feedback to ensure that we are doing what we can within the confines of this ordinance to make sure that it's meaningful in what it offers to San Diego residents and visitors to our city.

I want to say thank you to uh regional partners from various cities, including Vista, Chula Vista, and the County of San Diego, who brought forward similar policies in each of those jurisdictions.

And I also wanted to mention one thing.

This is not the protections within this law apply to everyone.

And there was a part of the conversation that I think there's an opportunity here for folks to see that a threat against a person's rights is unacceptable, no matter who that person is, that rights are rights, and whether you are an undocumented person or someone who's lived here for years, whether you are a person who has who has right wing ideology or left-wing ideology, whether you are Muslim or Jewish or Christian or uh atheist, um, your rights are your rights, and that is the whole point of this ordinance.

And so if your rights have been violated, that's unacceptable, regardless of what political affiliation you have.

And so I just don't want that to be missed here because what we saw today were folks from or support or um thank you for the additional three extra minutes.

The comments we heard were from folks who stand alongside people who are people who on a day-to-day basis are living in fear because an completely lawless federal regime is targeting them.

And the targeting that they feel is no different than the target than others who are in this chamber feel, and it doesn't matter what the source of that targeting is, it's unacceptable.

And so I just want it to be clear that we are not separating anyone out in terms of protections here.

The protections in this ordinance apply to literally everyone.

So if you're a supporter of rights and you believe that government should be held in check and there should be uh commitments made, you should be a supporter of this ordinance.

And this is a law, not just a resolution, and it is a law because with a law comes more enforceability, and that's why it took so long to get to this point.

And so with that, I want to say thank you, Coda, for your work alongside Rosa in my office to make sure that each and every one of the city's um uh uh uh REOs, uh the unions that represent the city's workers had an opportunity to provide to ask questions and provide their feedback.

I want to thank each and every one of those REOs for providing that feedback.

Um then I do need to say this part because it's important.

This is an important ordinance, it will certainly improve protections and give people stronger ground to assert their rights.

And what it will not do, unfortunately, although I wish it could, is guarantee protection from a completely immoral and increasingly unhinged fascist president and his fascist regime from attacking community members.

It cannot, unfortunately, protect the community leader in District 9 when she goes out to move her car, and ICE agents snatch her for no reason whatsoever, and up and her life and her family's life.

It will not provide protections against a military wife who is dropping off her husband for deployment.

I wish it could.

But it's the best we can do in the moment, and we should be proud of that.

And we should be continuing to be pushed to figure out all the ways that as a local jurisdiction, we can provide more protections and firmer ground for San Diegans and visitors of the city to assert their rights.

So I want to thank my colleagues for the support they provided back in October.

I want to thank the community again for everything that you provided, not just in helping inform the language of the ordinance, but also in continuing to push us to do better.

With that, that concludes my comments and my motion, Council President.

All right, thank you.

So we have a motion by Councilmember Elo Rivera to move the consent items.

We'll go next to Councilmember Campbell.

Thank you, Council President.

I'm going to speak on some of our appointments from District 2, which I am honored to represent.

And I'm glad that Peter Doft, a resident of Point Loma in District 2, will be reappointed to the Airport's Advisory Committee.

He is an attorney and retired Superior Court Commissioner.

He also served San Diego as a public defender.

And prior to that, he practiced law in his own firm.

Has been a licensed pilot since 1978.

Mr.

Doft is an aircraft owner and holds instrument aviation rating.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts from NYU and a jurisdictor from New England School of Law, where he ranked number one in his class.

Given his dedication in serving San Diego and his expertise in aviation, I support the reappointment of Peter Doff to the Airport's Advisory Committee and appreciate his willingness to continue to serve.

Also on item 112, I'm honored that Chase Franzen, a resident of Point Loma in District 2, will be appointed to the Airport's Advisory Committee also.

He held various technology leadership roles in banking and finance, earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Master of Business Administration from the University of Montana.

Additionally, he's a certified pilot and flight instructor at Montgomery Field.

Given his financial expertise and flying certifications, I'm grateful for Mr.

Franzen's willingness to continue to serve on the Airport's Advisory Committee.

On item 116, I'm honored that my friend Judith Munoz, a resident of Claremont in District 2, is willing to be reappointed to the Parks and Recreation Board.

She's a right retired vice president of the Scripps Research Institute, has also worked as administrator at UC San Diego and the University of San Diego.

Judith has served in leadership positions in several nonprofits, including the San Diego Natural History Museum, the Claremont Town Council, the San Diego Humane Society, and is a member of the Mission Bay Park Committee of which she was chair.

She earned both a bachelor's and master's degree from University of Oregon.

Her PhD is from the University of San Diego.

Given her dedication serving San Diego and her patience, intelligence, good heartedness, I support the reappointment of Judith Munez to the Parks and Recreation Board and appreciate her willingness to continue to serve.

And next on item 118, I would like to uh say that I'm honored that Sarah Moga, a resident of Point Loman District 2, will be reappointed to the Board of Library Commissioners.

She served as Mayor Tant Gloria's Binational Affairs Manager, where she focused on issues related to the ports of entry and the Tijuana River Valley.

Before this role, Sarah was an Emmy nominated news and entertainment television producer and a writer for various news outlets, including CBS News, Fox, Newsweek, and The Daily Beast.

Sarah is a mother of three young children and values the importance of libraries in our San Diego communities, appreciates how they can have such a profound positive impact on children's development.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and Spanish from University of San Diego, Master of Arts in Latin American Studies from University of Chicago.

Given her dedication to serving our community, I'm grateful for Sarah's willingness to continue serving on our library board of commissioners.

And I would also like to say how honored I am that Lydia Ball, a resident of Point Loma in District 2, is willing to be appointed to the Airport Authority Board of Directors.

Lydia currently is a consultant working on advancing infrastructure, clean energy, and regional economic development.

She advises nonprofits, foundations, and public sector leaders.

And prior to that, she was chief of staff for our council district nine office.

She has also served as on the San Diego Foundation, directing their environmental programs.

She earned her Bachelor of Science from Southern Illinois University.

And given her dedication and experience serving San Diego, I support the appointment of Lydia Ball to the Airport Authority Board of Directors, and I so appreciate her willingness to serve.

And I would also like to uh second the motion uh to pass the consent agenda, except I would like to say that I will be voting no on item 108.

And I thank you, Council President.

All right, thank you, Councilmember.

So we do have a motion by Councilmember Ila Rivera and a second by Councilmember Campbell to move the consent agenda.

And we'll go next to Councilmember Moreno.

Thank you.

Um I have comments on items 107 and 111.

Um item 107 is the approval of 4.2 million dollars of state grants to launch phase one of Grove Neighborhood Park.

Um, first and foremost, I'd like to recognize the board members of the Otai Mesa Community Rec Council, Miss Dottie, Mike, and Shirley, as well as other community members who've never stopped pushing for what they were promised many decades ago.

Uh, with this support, we're not only building a park, but we're fulfilling a promise to the Otai Mesa Nestor community.

Uh for many years, residents have looked at an empty lot and have been told basically to wait.

Uh, this investment finally transforms decades of advocacy into action for a neighborhood that has been underserved and park deprived for far too long.

Uh phase one will deliver essential amenities, uh, children's play areas, picnic spaces, public art, uh new lighting and safe walkways that families have envisioned for generations.

Uh this grant ensures that phase one is not only uh is not only just a set of right-of-way improvements, but a true park, uh recognizing that everybody deserves accessible green space, uh safe recreation, and just space to gather.

Uh with phase one fully funded, uh, Grove Park stands next to Riviera del Sol, Robert Eger Senior, Coral Gate Memorial, and Byer Park among the list of parks our communities have seen built or revitalized since I took office.

Um, this is a a little bit of an anecdote here, but when the San Diego uh Park and Rec uh Foundation asked for a tour of my parks, um I took them to two of them, uh, one of them being um this park.

And when we walked around in the open plot of land, um, it was a really hot day too.

They said, Why did you bring us to an open plot of land?

And my response to them was because this is what our kids in D8 have to live with day in and day out.

Um, so I'm very, very happy that this is moving forward uh right before I end my turn tenure as a council member.

And I would be remiss if I didn't thank Assemblymember David Alvarez uh who championed this funding.

Um moving on, item uh 111 is the approval of the reappointment of Mr.

Tufik Tapsuri as a public member to the audit committee.

Um, I would like to thank Mr.

Tapsuri for his continued service and willingness to serve another term as a public member of the audit committee.

Um, as chair of the audit committee, I greatly value uh the perspectives that public members bring to our discussion.

And Mr.

Tapsuri brings extensive auditing experience from his work with MTS, Sandag, and the City of San Diego.

Uh his expertise and insight insight have been invaluable, and our discussions in audit committee have helped city departments strengthen their processes and programs.

So, Mr.

Tapsuri, thank you for your willingness to serve, and I look forward to continuing uh the work for the next eight months.

Um, also I want to congratulate a few folks on item 112 for the airport uh authority, Miss U Lydia Ball.

Thank you for your willingness to serve.

And on item 117 for the Historic Resource Board, uh, thank you to Mr.

Rami Cortez for your willingness to serve as well.

Um that concludes my comments, Council President.

Thank you for the time.

All right, thank you, Councilmember Moreno.

We'll go next to Councilmember Campio.

Thank you, Council President.

Thank you to uh all of the folks who are stepping up to volunteer on multiple boards and commissions.

I truly appreciate them.

I do want to call attention to two new appointees who uh live in District 7 and representing District 7 in one way or another.

Uh John Embry from the Sarah Mesa community who will be serving on the Airport's advisory committee.

I appreciate him reaching out and being so concerned about safety as it relates uh to aviation around Montgomery Gibbs Executive Airport and for all the people around uh in the flight path, uh, which includes many, many neighborhoods.

So I thank him for stepping up on that.

And for the youth commission, Jackson Turner, really appreciate him also uh given the amount of time you're gonna be spending as the captain of your varsity football team as the president of the youth sports for all club and youth circle leader while having a 4.5 GPA and taking many AP courses.

Uh thank you for stepping up to be on the youth commission too.

We need leaders like you uh helping the city of San Diego.

So uh thank you very much.

And uh that will conclude my comments.

All right, thank you, Councilmember Campillo.

We'll go next to Councilmember Foster.

Uh yes, thank you, Council President.

And today I'd like to provide some quick comments on items 110, 114, 116, and 118.

Um we have quite a few appointments.

I'll first like to congratulate Miss Miriam Mendoza on being appointed to the International Affairs Board.

Miriam is uh currently serving as an international policy advisor for the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce.

Currently, she leads the planning and implementation of the Chamber's quarterly international business affairs forums and the sustainability and industry committee.

Previously, she served as a district representative for State Senator Padilla, where she acted as a binational affairs lead and also coordinated immigration-related efforts along the California Mexico border.

Thank you again, uh, Ms.

Mendoza, for your willingness to serve.

Also, very quickly, just like to say congratulations to Ted Woolmack on being reappointed to the Privacy Advisory Board in the equity focused organization seat.

Mr.

Woolmack is the civic engagement manager for Alliance San Diego and serves on several civic engagement coalitions and groups.

I want to note that during deep civic engagement work in the community and serving on the board on a board like the Privacy Advisory Board is a heavy lift.

This board requires a strong time commitment and requires uh board members to review complex matters.

Thank you, um Ted for your leadership and willingness to serve.

Also on the Park and Recreation Board, just want to say congratulations to Danielle Lamont on being reappointed to the Park and Recreation Board.

Danielle is a longtime volunteer that has served on the Choyous Lake Little League Board, Choice Lake Recreation Council, and Eastern Area Community Planning Group.

You'll always find Danielle advocating and sharing information about programs at Choyous Lake and community meetings.

Thank you again, Danielle, for your willingness to serve.

And also, item 118 reappointments to the board of library commissioners.

Just would like to really thank and congratulate Miss Patricia Bevlin on being reappointed to the Board of Library Commissioners.

Miss Bevlin is a very active member of the Friends of the Oak Park Library.

Your tireless efforts in planning for the new Oak Park Library are deeply valued and appreciated.

With all of your efforts and others throughout the Oak Park neighborhood, I'm excited that we will be breaking ground on the new Oak Park Library on May 14th, 2026.

Thank you again for serving on this board and for being an unwavering advocate for quality library programming and services in District 4.

And with that, that concludes my comments.

All right, thank you, Councilmember Foster.

We'll go next to Councilmember Von Wilbert.

Thank you very much.

And I want to thank Chaida first of all for all of the appointments to our many boards and commissions and thank my colleagues for bringing forth so many great nominees.

On item 110 for the International Affairs Board, I am pleased to support the mayor's appointment of Dr.

Lenine to serve on the uh qualified county resident seat representing District 5.

Uh Dr.

Lenin is an associate research scientist and doc director of the Air and Sea Interaction Laboratory at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

His work focuses on how the ocean and atmosphere interact, including our coastal systems, surface waves, and the impacts of climate change.

It's incredibly important scientific work you are doing, and we appreciate you very, very much.

On item 117, Historical Resource Board, I'm also pleased to support the mayor's reappointment of Ms.

Woods to serve another term.

She brings uh real on-the-ground experience in land use, housing, and workforce development, areas that are critical to our city right now.

Uh, in her role with our California Apartment Association, she has worked at the intersection of government, business, and community interest, helping move forward throughout uh the development of policy here in San Diego.

In addition, her previous work with the San Diego Workforce Partnership shows a strong track record of managing multimillion dollar budgets, launching job training programs, and bringing in new funding to expand opportunities.

She has also become a fantastic neighbor and friend as her leadership with the Script Rance Civic Association has been exemplary.

Ms.

Melanie Woods, thank you so much for your work.

I look forward to the next time we have a party in one of our parks.

On item 54, the due process ordinance, I want to thank our colleague, uh Council of Marshani La Rivera for bringing this forward to protect the rights and safety of San Diegans and minimize economic instability.

The proposes ordinance establishes clear constitutional guardrails to ensure city property personnel and funding are not used to facilitate unauthorized discriminatory or extrajudicial enforcement activities from everything from immigration to disability status to getting same transgender care to making sure that women have the rights to reproductive freedom.

Our community is strongest when we live up to our shared American values, a respect for life, liberty, dignity, and fairness under the law.

So thank you for bringing this forward.

Thank you to my colleagues for supporting it.

On item 120 for the San Diego Regional Airport Authority Board, I'm happy to support the appointment of Lydia Ball to the San Diego Regional Airport Authority Board of Directors.

A welcome.

She brings a breadth of experience in the last 20 years, advancing infrastructure, clean energy, and regional economic development initiatives, all of which the airport is very strong on.

And as many people have seen, we have opened only one half of the new terminal.

We are still in the middle of that nearly $4 billion project.

And so Lydia is coming at a time that is crucial to make sure that that project does get finished with the new T1, and then we have much more to come.

So very excited for you to join the board.

It's a fantastic organization.

I think you're going to love it there.

We're going to love having you there.

I obviously got to work with Lydia before here when she was at the city.

And believe me, building green infrastructure is one of our specialties there.

So we are very excited to welcome you, and I'm very, very happy to support your appointment.

Also on item 119, Commission on the Status of Women.

I am pleased to support the mayor's reappointments of Marilyn Carrillo, Wendy Oristra Makan, Gail Fried, and Carla Nisbet Stokes to the Commission on the Status of Women.

Thank you so much for all of the work that you have been doing on this incredible commission of with your backgrounds in education, workforce development, policy advocacy, and a clear commitment to helping people grow and succeed.

And the challenges that women, and especially women of color are facing now under our federal administration are dire.

Many people might have seen the news just last week about what the uh equal opportunity, the EEOC commission is doing.

In 2024, in the fall, about 250 female employees of a Coca-Cola distributor gathered for an unremarkable meeting inside the ballroom of a Connecticut casino for a day of speakers and teal and building exercises.

Their theme was embrace your authenticity.

It offered women a chance to mingle with higher-ups, bond over their shared challenges in a male-dominated workplace.

One participant said it was fun, energizing, and useful.

She said we learned how to deal with I rate customers, for example.

Simple strategies for women to succeed in their workplaces.

Well, last month, Trump's EEOC sued Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast for this conference, claiming that they engaged in unlawful discrimination against male employees under the Federal Civil Rights Acts.

The agency is now seeking unspecified compensatory damages and punitive damages.

Just so the public knows, the EEOC receives tens of thousands of complaints a year for discrimination in the workplace, and they hardly file any of the lawsuits.

It's very rare to get the EOC to actually take action.

And the fact that they chose to take action against Coca-Cola for simply having a woman's empowerment day is very, very telling.

Founding in 1977 and headquartered in New Hampshire, the Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast employs about 3,400 people who bottle, pack, deliver, and sell Coke products across the region from Boston to upstate New York.

More than 85% of their employees are men.

So back in late 2024, the company decided to hold its first in-person women's forum.

Before the event, the company notified its 11 unions asking whether they had any objections and not a single union raise an objection to a woman's forum.

At the event, the attendees heard from women executives, who described their career paths, and they watched a demonstration by a trainer of a service dog sponsored by the company.

One employee who attended the 2024 event wasn't aware it had triggered a lawsuit against the company.

She said it should happen every year and still uses some of the lessons she gleaned in her work, including strategies for remaining calm when dealing with IRA managers or customers.

She said, quote, it is very empowering for women to get in the same room.

And so what I see is that this lawsuit really is not about a single networking event.

It's about whether efforts to support and advance women in workplaces where they remain vastly underrepresented can be treated as discrimination rather than progress.

A voluntary forum designed to foster mentorship, connection, and professional growth for women is now being framed by Donald Trump as unlawful.

This risks turning back the clock on so much progress we have made.

It echoes a time when women were excluded from opportunity, silence and professional spaces and told that gathering to support one another wasn't itself a problem.

Actions like this send a chilling message that even modest modest efforts to level the playing field for women may be challenged or punished by the federal government.

And that is what this litigation is really about.

It reflects a broader fear of women simply organizing, speaking openly about our challenges, and building pathways to leadership in male dominated fields.

And empowering women to fully participate in the workplace and simply ask for equality in civic life is not discrimination.

It's progress.

So I want to thank you very much to the women who are serving on the status of the Commission of Women.

You have a dire challenge ahead of you, and you have our full support here at the city.

So thank you very much, and thank you to my colleagues for all of the incredible appointments today, and I'm happy to support the consent agenda.

All right, thank you, Councilmember Bon Wolpert.

We'll go next to Councilmember Whitburn.

Thank you, Council President.

Uh I too want to congratulate and thank everybody who is being appointed or reappointed to boards and commissions today, especially all of those who live in District 3.

Uh, but thank you to all of you.

These positions are really important, and your service is very much appreciated.

On item 54, uh, I want to join everybody in uh appreciating Councilmember Elo Rivera for bringing this forward and everyone who came to City Council today to speak in favor of it.

We live in a day when too many Americans are afraid of their own government.

Uh people who were born and raised in San Diego carry their passports because they are afraid of being deported.

I know some of them.

Uh and I'm glad that Councilmember Elo Rivera made the point that while we unfortunately can't fully protect San Diego's from the Trump administration, uh, this ordinance isn't just symbolic either.

Uh and I appreciate the examples that are provided of the materials where this ordinance can really help protect people.

Uh, I have a lot of construction going on in my district, uh, as does Councilmember Elo Rivera, some of it funded with city resources.

And this ordinance prohibits federal agents from going in and detaining construction workers at city funded projects without a judicial warrant.

It provides due process.

Uh there are other examples where this could help protect our residents from the Trump administration.

So thank you for bringing it forward.

Uh I'm glad it's going to be uh enacted today.

Uh thank you, Council President.

All right, thank you, Councilman.

Yes, thank you, Council President.

And my apologies.

I did not see Lydia here.

I just wanted to take a moment and give Lydia a quick shout out.

Um, had the pleasure to work with Lydia as the former chief of staff uh for uh council member and at the time council president Sean Elo River.

Just a pleasure to see you back.

And uh just wanted to say congratulations and thank you for your willingness to serve.

So thank you.

All right, thank you, Councilmember Foster.

Not seeing no one else in the light, so I think actually everybody has spoken.

Um a couple of thoughts myself.

Uh, I'll join the chorus on item 54, thanking Councilmember Elo Rivera, the D9 staff and everyone who worked on bringing forward the due process ordinance.

Uh, as I did last time it was heard, I will register a no vote on 55 sub-item A.

Um item S500.

Uh, this is regarding the La Jolla Shores banner district.

I want to thank the La Jolla Shores Association for working through uh the red tape and the bureaucracy to uh expand the uh boundaries of the La Jolla Shores Banner District and to develop a working relationship between the La Jolla Shores Association and the Shores Business Association uh in operating that banner district.

I know it'll accrue to the benefit of both the La Jolla Shores residents and the businesses there and everybody that passed through uh that district.

So thank you for the good work and a special shout out to Abby Reuter and my staff for navigating uh this process.

It turned out to be a little bit harder than we originally thought.

Uh the uh items 110 and one through 120.

I certainly want to congratulate and thank all those who are being appointed or reappointed.

Uh your volunteer time is very much appreciated serving on our city's boards and commissions.

Uh and of course, a shout out as Councilmember Von Wolpert said to Ms.

China Warren for all the work behind the scenes to bring this forward, monitoring the vacancies, checking people who want to be reappointed, validating the qualifications of those who want to be appointed for the first first time, and then of course, docking the items is no easy task.

So thank you for that very good work.

And then on item 120.

Uh, despite the fact that Lydia unceremoniously kicked me out of a social justice coalition many years ago, I hold no grudge and will continue to uh support your appointment to the airport authority.

I hold no grudge and will continue to uh support your appointment to the airport authority.

Congratulations, and I'm glad to see you're back in the uh circle of the city business.

You'll be a great asset uh to that authority.

So, with that, we have an appointment, excuse me, a motion by Councilmember Elo Rivera and a second by Councilmember Campbell.

Clerk, please call the roll.

Thank you, Council President.

I've started the voting system.

Please cast your vote.

That does pass unanimously 8 to 0 with Councilmember Campbell voting no on item 108 and Council President Pro Tem Kent Lee absent.

Thank you, Council President.

All right, thank you for that.

And again, congratulations, everybody that was appointed or reappointed.

So uh next item on the agenda.

Are there any comments by the mayor's office, city council member, city attorney, independent budget analyst, or city clerk.

We see the city clerk has a comment first.

Thank you, Council President.

I would just wanted to take a moment to mark the 95th anniversary of when San Diego voters approved our city charter on April 7th, 1931, otherwise known as Charter Day.

The document serves as the foundation of our city government structure and operations.

While it has been amended over the years, it continues to guide our work.

And if you'd like to learn more, the city charter is available online at www.sandiego.gov slash city clerk.

Happy Charter Day.

Thank you.

All right, thank you, City Clerk, and happy Charter Day to you as well.

Uh and we'll go next to Councilmember Elo Rivera.

Uh thank you, Council President.

Um, just as I as is often the case, I feel like it's important when we at least acknowledge things that are completely unacceptable or extraordinary happen outside of this of these chambers.

Um, this morning a increasingly unhinged authoritarian said that an entire civilization could die today.

Um, that authoritarian is our president.

Um that civilization includes 92 million people in the country of Iran and at least five million people in a diaspora, uh, including family members of at least two of us on this dais.

Um that would not just be a war crime.

He literally just said that it could be a genocide tonight.

So um again, just in the spirit of not pretending like there isn't a maniac uh in the White House and like there's any um semblance of normalcy to those sort of statements.

Uh I felt like I needed to say something.

I pray to God that that is just uh the rantings of a maniac and not something that he will actually act on because again, there's 92 million people in Iran and five million people in a diaspora, and that would be what the death of that civilization would look like in human terms.

Thank you, Council President.

All right, thank you, Councilmember.

Uh, not seeing anybody else in the lights.

We will now take up our morning discussion agenda.

Clerk, please introduce item S503.

Item S503 is a 10-year nonprofit lease agreement between the City of San Diego and YWCA of San Diego County, a California nonprofit corporation for city-owned property operating as a housing facility, providing specialized services.

If you'd like to speak on this item, please be sure to submit your speaker slip to the front of the room in the clear box, or if you're participating online, now is the time to raise your hand by pressing star nine or the raise your hand icon.

Thank you, Council President.

All right, thank you, City Clerk.

I see staff is settling in.

Please introduce yourself for the record and let us know how much time you need.

Turn to Mike on.

There you go.

Hi, my name's Alexandra Clark, and I will need about four minutes.

All right.

Begin when you're ready.

Good morning, Council President and Council members.

My name's Alex Clark, property agent with the economic development department.

I am joined today by Deputy Director of Real Estate Lucy Condreras and Nick Baldwin, program manager for lease administration.

Today we'll be presenting for your consideration a lease agreement between the City of San Diego and the YWCA of San Diego County, a California nonprofit corporation.

The item proposed is a 10-year lease with the YWCA with one five-year option to extend for a total potential term of 15 years.

For safety and confidentiality reasons, the specific property location is intentionally omitted from the public record as the site serves individuals receiving sensitive and protected services.

Staff is requesting five actions today.

Make a finding consistent with council policy 700 12 that the proposed lease serves a valid public purpose.

Approve and authorize execution of the lease agreement.

Waive the council policy 700-12 requirement for a market rent appraisal, given the significant significant public benefit provided through these services.

Authorize the chief financial officer to accept and deposit the lease consideration and determine the approval of the lease is categorically exempt from CEQA under CEQA guidelines section 15301.

The YWCA of San Diego County was founded in 1907 and is dedicated to empowering women through services that promote safety, stability, and dignity.

They have operated at the city owned site since 2000, providing transitional housing and critical supportive services to women, children, and families in crisis, including survivors of domestic violence.

Their prior lease expired on October 1st, 2025, and staff has negotiated this new agreement to ensure continuity of these essential services.

The proposed lease allows the YWCA to continue operating these services under a 10-year term with one five-year extension option.

The annual rent is set at the city's nonprofit administrative fee at $4,827 with 50 cents with a 3.5% annual increase.

The lessee will be responsible for all costs associated with maintenance operations and improvements to the property.

For refant for reference, an appraisal completed was completed in September of 2025, valued the property at approximately 3.6 million.

In summary, the lease enables the continued operation of a long-standing high impact service provider delivering critical housing and supportive services to vulnerable populations while ensuring the city's asset remains maintain and operationally self-sufficient.

Staff respectfully recommends approval of the five requested actions.

Thank you.

And we're available for any questions.

All right, thank you for the presentation of the work to bring this forward.

Clerk, please proceed with public comment.

Thank you, Council President.

Andrea Ebbing, allegedly Audra and Blair Beekman.

If you can all come forward to the front row, Andrea, if you can please come up to the microphone.

You'll have two minutes.

Thank you.

My name is Andrea Ebbing.

I support housing women, children.

I support the um funding of programs for underprivileged individuals.

I would just suggest that we kind of look at not creating those situations in the city.

Uh after the proclamation, because I think that with due process, both federally and locally, um we'll have a lot less of these needs.

And I think that we yes, we need to take care of things like this, but we also need to care of like driving revenue into the city as well.

There's been a really long delay on a um a lease for an organization or a space in Balboa Park called Starlight Amphitheater.

And if you look at the names that have performed there, Beastie Boys, the Rolling Stones, the Ramones, um, Elvis Costello, incredible at.

And I know there was okay, they have to pause for airplanes to fly over, but that venue is so amazing.

Like it is so amazing, and I just genuinely believe that it could drive so much revenue into the city.

Um, you know, there's a lot of work that's gone into it so far over uh the past several years, but with just a little help, maybe just some sponsorship.

Um, that could help situations and maybe actually help employ uh women that or women and men that are gonna go into this facility and provide employment opportunities and great venues for graduations, speaking engagements, and an extension of the convention center.

I think we could upsell the space for large speaking engagements for orthopedic surgeons or the TED Conference or Comic-Con.

So just something to think about.

Thank you.

And allegedly, Audrey.

It's like there's this is very, very bad.

You guys are doing a 10-year contract, and and just with a quick look, you can see the types of um things that have uh taken place with the YW uh WCA and different things like that.

And um, you know, it's when we have these programs that are supposed to be housing people, and it's like, of course, that's what we should be doing, but we should actually be doing that, not making it harder for people to get into housing, to get off the streets.

It's like all of these things when we're contracting with these nonprofits.

I feel like there's no checks and balances.

It's like you guys go ahead and get in contracts with these people, and then it's like you just kind of go, it's up to them to do whatever.

Like you're not also complicit in it.

I mean, literally, 10th city should be shut down, it should be ran by somebody else.

I mean, I I talk to people day in and day out.

These people are actually afraid to come because they're afraid they're gonna lose their spot there.

So it's like, how can that take place?

And you have people that come in here and you don't even want to go and talk to them and go, hey, what's going on?

I mean, deaths and sexual assaults are bad.

And the fact that the city is literally on that site, and there's code violations up the yin yang.

Like it just shows that you guys can be there, watch it happen, and not do a damn thing about it.

But have people kick me out so that I can't I don't get to talk to those people and count the public or the homeless.

And it's like I don't need to be there to get people to come to me.

But the fact is is that you guys should be doing something about it.

It's supposed to be being audited, but it's like it's it's still running and they're still getting money, so you can't be trusted when you're picking these entities.

Thank you for that concluding comment.

Blair Beekman.

Hi, Lawyer Beekman.

Thank you for this item.

Um I had read a re a news report over in the past week that um uh Mayor Gloria delivered a really important memo to yourselves this past Friday on the work that you need to be doing.

Um into in addressing unhoused into addressing unhoused issues at this time, and um it stressed the importance of what uh the uh the tent city, the city-sponsored encampments are doing, and by you know, um I don't know, it just set a set of a standard of course of how to talk about the issue and to prepare ourselves how to talk about unhoused issues into this uh coming year.

So good luck what we can be doing with those issues together.

Um DRA and others have made a really important point about you know, uh there just needs to be a a better sense of organization of how uh 10 city is is kept and uh worked on.

Good luck that we're doing that.

And um I've had the idea in being from San Jose, they they've taken on the 10 cities ideas too, but to a much smaller degree in much smaller land parcels.

Is that an option for San Diego?

San Diego has chosen chosen this large bulk system of Tent City.

Uh how about little smaller neighborhood ones?

I know you don't like to hear those kind of words, but uh it can much be much easier to maintain, possibly.

And um there's just uh be a sense of uh a familiar sense more possibly to it that may be an interesting idea that I felt it was time to mention, along with this item, which is really important, and thank you for it and good luck with it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Sorry, the five-minute timer going to those participating remotely, starting with 8700.

If you can please unmute, you'll have two minutes after that is Catherine Rhodes.

Uh, thank you.

Uh Jerry Send a C D3.

Uh, first of all, uh good news on this item.

Uh, it's an operate, the operation of a transitional housing facility.

That's so wonderful.

And and the second good news is that 57,000 will be going to the general fund.

And it's precious, precious revenue.

So let's use it wisely.

I um so before I uh say something that's a little difficult, uh, yes to the 10-year lease with the YWCA of San Diego County.

So I just want to say this.

I've been doing this work for about 20 years now, and I have really, really listened attentively most of the time to the voices.

And thank you, Blair, for what you just said.

Uh, what I really like is that you said, how do we talk about these things?

And that's kind of where I am at.

Because I want uh resolution and I want prevention.

And I don't feel we're getting this in some of these really, really difficult items uh that are coming up that are being spoken to by the people of San Diego.

So I don't know what to do about that.

I just want and appreciate you listening to me, but there's just sadness in my heart.

And uh how do we talk about these things?

I want more clarity on all sides.

So thanks for listening again, and love to all.

Thank you.

Catherine Rhodes, if you can please unmute Hello, this is Catherine Rhodes, and of course I um very much support this.

You know, it it's only $56,633 to the general fund.

So you're actually giving to um women who really need your help.

Um one of the things that when I was just looking through this, um I saw that you only have annual rent increases of 3.5%, which is great.

But I wanted to tell you um, you know, uh a similar thing that you're doing, which is not so or the San Diego Housing Commission is not is doing that's not great for the Mount Edna um properties where they're doing um on county land um up in Claremont.

Your San Diego Housing Commission is charging seniors and people with mental disability, people that had mental retardation, instead of the annual increase of only 3.5 or lower, they're increasing their rent by 8.8 percent for no reason.

Um when most of this money that came for building this um came from the county of San Diego and from state um tax credits, not really the San Diego Housing Commission put a little bit of money in in it, but it looks like they're trying to um make money off the poor and the disabled.

And if these if you're giving this to the um the YMCA for uh annual rent increases of only 3.5 percent, I would like somebody to um to push this to your city attorney and the mayor's office and figure out why the San Diego Housing Commission is trying to charge an 8.8 percent increase that will make some of the seniors who moved there less than a year ago, and some of the people with mental disability and mental retardation not be able to afford rent anymore.

So please somebody um look into that.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

That does conclude public comment on this item.

All right, thank you, City Clerk.

With that, we'll turn it over to my council colleagues, questions, comments, entertain a motion.

And we'll start out with council member Campio.

Thank you, Council President.

Thank you to our uh real estate uh staff on this lease here.

Um thank you to the YWCA for uh providing this really, really important service, and uh I will make a motion to approve staff's recommendation.

Thank you.

All right, thank you, Councilmember Campia.

So we have the motion to move the staff recommendation.

I'll go uh council member Whitburn will second the item.

Not seeing anybody else on the lights.

Um please call the roll, clerk.

Sorry, the voting system, please cast your vote.

That passes.

Oh seven to two.

Yeah, that council that passes unanimously with council president pro tem lee and council member Campbell absent.

Thank you.

All right, again, thank you to staff for bringing this item forward and to the YWCA.

Okay, we will now 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, please proceed with public comment.

Thank you, Council President Perule 2.7 on agenda public comment is an opportunity for members of the public to comment on items that are not on the agenda, but 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 are in chambers, please submit your speaker slip.

If you're joining us virtually, please raise your hand to speak by tapping the raise your hand icon, or if you are calling participants star nine, starting with Jacob Edwards.

If you can please come to the microphone, after Jacob, we have Steve Stopper, um Henry Wallace, Andrea Ebbing, allegedly Audra and Blair Beekman.

I do not see Jacob Edwards here in chambers anymore.

Steve Stopper.

Please come up to the microphone.

Uh, my colleagues have run out.

We do not have a quorum, so we have to adjourn the meeting at the direction of the city attorney, which I concur with, uh, sadly, and frustrated with.

So I think it's about problems rules of order.

And if you don't have a quorum, then the public can actually take over the meeting.

So that's a problem.

Okay, until you vote that before you said that.

I'm the one that brought it to your attention.

So I would like to invoke that right now.

This is serious.

I'm serious right now.

Okay, to the point that security lets you stay in here, that's fine.

The meeting itself is adjourned under the Brown Act.

Yes, but I called Robert's rules of order.

That's fine.

Prior to you doing that.

I am the one that brought it to your attention that you did not have a quorum.

You didn't know that until I said something.

And now you're trying to circumvent that and say that as long as security lets me stay.

So are you threatening that you're gonna have them come after me because I'm trying to take over a meeting that you negligently did not have a quorum for that we're continuing with so like through Robert's rules of order?

Okay.

All right, you've made your point.

I understand it.

Okay, that's fine.

Okay, that's fine.

That's fine.

You've made your point.

I understand the point that you've made.

Please.

No, I'm telling you, you had no quorum.

Okay, I understand your point.

You are now going to the point of being disruptive.

It's about legalities.

You can't continue the meeting.

That's right.

We are now ending the meeting.

No, now you know what I'm doing, and you're trying to circumvent that because you're scared shitless that what just happened.

I'm not I am correct.

Okay.

If I invoke Robert's rules of order, when you do that, you can no longer run the meeting.

He is adjourned as city council member.

And you're trying to act like that.

Why would you try and circle this?

That because you know that you messed up, you know that what I'm saying is that you know it.

I just have nothing.

I know what she got up.