With the city's housing policies, which are intended to encourage more home development, especially in places that have access to transit and access to jobs.

This implements the city's climate goals.

Phasing implementation gives us an opportunity to see where the increased density makes the most sense.

It also gives us an opportunity to address issues like fire safety, climate resilience, fair housing considerations, and historic resources.

Today we are on a business walk in North Park.

Business walks give us the opportunity to have face-to-face conversations with business owners in their own space.

It often feels a lot more personal than giving uh giving them a call from behind the desk.

And as a result of these business walks, we often have the opportunity to solve complex issues, whether it's getting the support of other city departments or other government agencies in the area.

Today we are joined by the mayor's office, Councilmember Whitburn's office, as well as North Park Main Street.

It's really important when the city government is working together with our neighborhood businesses.

There is so much involved in running a business we understand it could be difficult.

They're navigating permitting processes, they have questions about uh how to get things done, how to get started, and our city government is there to help.

It's there to be a partner.

I really appreciate our economic development department because they are working every day to help these small businesses succeed.

And when our small businesses succeed, our neighborhoods succeed.

The city offers more than half a dozen business incentive programs to help businesses succeed.

Some of these programs are one-on-one technical assistance, the storefront improvement program, a revolving loan fund, a the incentive program, as well as an outdoor business grant.

Our commercial corridors are part of what makes San Diego such a special place to live and a great place to visit.

Our ability to help businesses keep their doors open and provide jobs is a benefit to the general public.

Current property owners should aim to make changes by February 2027.

Preparedness takes all of us.

Visit San Diego.gov slash defensible space.

Hi, I'm Bethany Bezek.

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 pond, 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 Sandigans 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.

Good morning and welcome to Council Chambers.

Sorry, that was my double echo.

Good morning and welcome to Council Chambers.

Before the meeting begins, I just wanted to make an announcement to those that are on the virtual queue.

If you were on you with your hand raised yesterday on non-agenda public comment before non-agenda public comment virtual got trailed, that will be taken at the beginning of today's session.

We did take a screenshot, so we have your names.

You will have an opportunity to speak during non-agenda public comment at 10 a.m.

as soon as we begin the meeting, and then again at the end of the meeting during non-agenda public comment.

So please be sure to raise your hand now if you had your hand raised yesterday during non-agenda public comments period.

Thank you, Council President.

Thank you, Council President.

Councilmember Campbell, Councilmember Whitburn.

Here.

Councilmember Foster.

Here.

Councilmember Von Wolpert.

Council President Pro Tem Lee?

Here.

Councilmember Campillo.

Councilmember Moreno?

Present.

Councilmember Ila Rivera.

And Council President Lacava.

Present.

Also attending the meeting, our City Attorney Heather Ferber, independent budget analyst Charles Monica, 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.

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

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

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

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

If we will all join me in facing the flag.

Or at the table in the back of the room.

If you're in person, please complete a speaker slip located at the entrance of chambers and bring it to the front of the room.

Council ambassadors are available near the entrance and can assist with questions and speaker slips.

Please note that no further in-person testimony will be taken once the council begins virtual testimony.

Thank you, Council President.

All right, thank you.

Uh City Clerk.

Again, as City Clerk had announced earlier, we will be taking non-agenda public comment for those individuals who attempted to participate virtually at the end of yesterday's council meeting.

Due to the loss of quorum, we were not able to get to them.

So this is uh for those people that again had their hands up raised at the end of non-agenda public comment yesterday afternoon.

City clerk kept a record of those individuals, and they will now be taken.

As a reminder, we will continue to do non-agenda public comment at the end of this morning's session, as we typically do on our Tuesday uh council hearings.

So, clerk, please proceed with the trailed virtual non-agenda public comment.

Thank you, Council President.

There were seven people with their hands raised.

I do have that for the record.

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

Starting with the original, if you can please come up to the microphone.

Technically, Blair and I should get uh two minutes for the non-agenda public comment that you robbed us of the first time that I caught you not having quorum when you couldn't continue the meeting.

You said I was being disruptive.

I have since caught you four other times with no quorum.

You said I was being disruptive.

You had me escorted out by the police with threats of arrest.

And you cannot continue a meeting like that, and you know it, as you are now course correcting and saying that you have to have a quorum.

But the city attorney sat there, or whoever's in that seat, whether it's Heather or not, watched this happen, and you guys know that you are cannot illegally conduct a meeting, whether it's through the Brown Act, Roberts' rules of order, your own board policy.

You have to have a quorum, and you know it.

And you treated me like a criminal for calling it out and calling out your misconduct, and you guys all blatantly look me in the face as though you were saying, Fuck you.

When you know again that it's illegal, that's why you have since said we have to have a quorum.

You stopped the meeting yesterday because of it.

And it's like, I mean, I feel like I'm owed an apology because you deprived me of my rights.

You had me escorted out, blatantly knowing what you were doing.

Time and again, you did it repeatedly.

I mean, and Sean, you're like, we're just behind the wall.

It doesn't matter.

You guys know that, and it's like, how can you guys sit there and do that?

I mean, I get it because you guys don't like me, but you were acting and conducting business illegally, and you treated me like a criminal for it.

And so it's like, how can you guys be trusted when you're willing to do that?

That's what's so horrible about it is that you've course corrected, but you you stuck your feet in the ground and treated me like a criminal.

Thank you for that.

Next is Tony.

I do not see him online.

Next is Ernie Casco.

I do not see him online.

Next is Becky Rep.

If you can please unmute.

Thank you, and good morning.

My name is Becky Rapp, and I'm here today to ask the city to prioritize enforcement against illegal cratum and flavored tobacco sales that are happening openly across our neighborhoods.

Our uh one of our neighboring cities, Oceanside is actively enforcing the law, and according to recent reports, Oceanside police and code enforcement seized more than 6,300 prohibited flavored tobacco and nicotine products during one operation alone.

Under their municipal code, every violation can be treated as a separate offense, and each day the violation continues, can create additional penalties.

Businesses are reportedly facing hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines because Oceanside understands that enforcement matters.

Meanwhile, in San Diego, we have smoke shops selling flavored vapes, illegal nicotine products, kratom extracts, and high potency substances with little to no visible enforcement.

Our penal penalties are minimal, and many businesses simply treat them as a cost of doing business.

Kratom is not harmless.

Highly concentrated kratom products are being described by the DEA as being stronger than morphine and are now being called the smoke shops heroin.

The California Department of Public Health has already warned against these products and prohibited their sale for human consumption.

Yet cities still lack the local enforcement structure needed to truly address the problem.

If enforcement requires stronger policies, then this council needs to act.

When businesses violate the law, they should be held accountable.

Please strengthen San Diego's enforcement policies.

Increase penalties, and direct code enforcement and SDPD to make this an urgent priority.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Madison, if you can please unmute.

Yes, thank you.

Good morning, council members.

For teenagers, even low-level use of marijuana is linked to higher risks of psychiatric issues and poorer school performance.

There are also a lot of growing concerns about addiction and mental health.

Today, more people report using marijuana than alcohol daily.

That sounds like a pretty addicting substance.

Among daily users, about one in four will develop cannabis use disorder, meaning they struggle to stop.

They build a tolerance and they feel off if they don't have it.

While marijuana is often marketed for anxiety and wellness, research shows it can actually worsen anxiety and mood disorders for some users.

And now six percent of young people ages 18 to 24 choose to use marijuana as a sleep aid as well.

The same way people might use melatonin or magnesium to help them fall asleep.

The concern we have is for the young people.

The developing brain is especially vulnerable.

Adolescent marijuana use is linked to a risk of depression, anxiety, psychosis, and even measurable declines in memory, learning, and IQ over time.

Instead of expanding access to this harmful substance, we need to make sure that prevention, education, and public awareness keep pace.

Let's do this for our young people.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next is next.

Next is Kathleen Lippett.

Somebody here has the um the zoom meeting.

If you can please silence it.

Kathleen Lippett.

You don't have your hand raised, but you were one of the people trailed.

If you can please unmute.

Or we'll need to move on to the next caller.

Moving on to the next caller.

We have eighty-seven hundred.

Eighty seven hundred, if you can please unmute star six.

If you would like to just speak later, you can.

I'll move on to the final speaker, 5457.

And you are not present.

Anyone else who has their hand raised, you did not have your hand raised during yesterday's non-agenda public comment.

They will still have an opportunity at the end of this morning's session to speak during that time.

That concludes non-agenda public comment trail from yesterday's meeting.

Thank you, Council President.

All right.

Thank you, City Clerk for attempting to navigate that again.

We will continue to have non-agenda public comment at the end of the morning sessions, as we traditionally do on our Tuesdays.

With that, we will now dispense with the approval of the proclamation items.

Uh clerk, if you could introduce those items and then proceed with public comment.

Thank you, Council President.

Public comment period for the proclamation items is now open.

Each speaker will have one minute per item per person.

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

Proclamation items being approved are items 30 through 34, S500, and S504.

We have several speakers here, starting with uh William.

William Petum, if you can please come up to the microphone, speaking on item 32.

William.

After that, we have James Udan, if you can please come up to the yellow reserve seats at the front.

Kathleen Deng, please come up to the yellow seats at the front, and Wesley Quatch.

Please proceed.

You'll have a minute.

Good morning, Council President, Council members, and fellow commissioners, and members of our community.

My name is William P.

Toom.

I serve as vice chair of San Diego Senior Affairs Advisory Board.

It is an honor to stand before you during Older Americans Month to recognize the wisdom, resilience, and lifelong contributions of older adults throughout San Diego.

As a proud San Diegan born and raised in the city, this moment is deeply personal to me.

Because when I look at San Diego, I do not see progress.

I see the generations of older adults who sacrificed hard work and perseverance helped build this foundation of the city we proudly call home.

Today, many seniors continue facing challenges, including housing affordability, social isolation, transportation access, and increasing pressure of caregiver, caregivers, and healthcare systems.

As our population continues to age, we have an opportunity and a responsibility.

To all older Americans throughout San Diego, thank you for your wisdom, your sacrifice, and your continued contributions to our city.

Thank you.

James.

Good morning.

I'm James Udan, a board member of the City of San Diego Philippino American Employees Association.

I would like to thank Kent Lee's office for inviting me here today.

My comments are my own and do not necessarily express the views and opinions of my employer or any organizations I am affiliated with.

Thanks for the proclamation recognizing Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

Beginning as Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, May was chosen as it coincides with the first Japanese immigrants to the United States in 1843, and the completion of the first transcontinental railroad, which partially relied on Chinese American labor in 1869.

Though Asians have been in what is now the United States long before then, Filipinos landing at Morrow Bay in 1587, an Asian Indian at Jamestown in 1635, a native Hawaiian at Fort Historia in 1811.

We look forward to many of you joining us for our luncheon on Tuesday, the second of June in Balboa Park.

Have a good rest of your day.

Kathleen.

Good morning, City Council members and city staff.

I'm Kathleen Dang, board secretary of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, one of the oldest Chinese American organizations founded in downtown San Diego in the late 1800s.

And what was then the Chinatown of San Diego, where many notable people have roots from, such as the former San Diego City Council member Tom Hom.

Our organization has been active in San Diego for over 125 years.

Some of our programs include the San Diego Chinese New Year Fair, the Lucky Lion Dancers, and the C Space Senior Garden, an affordable senior home property in the Asian Pacific Historic Thematic District.

Please know there is more work to be done to support the organizations here and not present today doing critical community engagement work.

We call on you to protect and support all our organizations who produce programs that help San Diegans thrive, whether it be a community festival or an educational project.

Thank you for highlighting this month the Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and please continue to build more pathways for our communities and organizations to thrive.

Thank you.

Wesley Good morning, City Council members.

My name is Wesley Quatsch.

I am the Director of Business Quarter Enhancements at City Heights CDC.

I'm joined here with my colleagues Ranyel Guzman and Luis Flettez.

And I want to mention that I'm also on the board of the CCBA as well.

But regards to City Heights.

City Heights is home to a large Asian American Native Hawaiian Pisagonic community, including many Southeast Asian families from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, who came to the United States as refugees in 1970s.

My own family is part of that story.

My grandparents opened a small retail business in City Heights in 1985, and it's still open to this day.

Their story reflects the American dream and the resilience of City Heights, a community built by hardworking immigrant and refugee families who have helped shape the culture, businesses, and spirit of our neighborhood.

From everyone here at City High CDC, I just want to thank the city council for recognizing Asian American Native Hawaiian Heritage Month and for honoring the contributions of our communities.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

And you had time seated to you by Ranielle Guzman.

Please raise your hand.

And Luis Fleets.

Thank you.

You didn't use all your time, but thank you so much.

Blair Beekman, if you can please come forward.

You'll have three minutes speaking on items 33, S500, and S504, and then after that will be allegedly Audra on 3132 and S504.

Hi, thank you, Blair Beekman.

Thank you for um first off allowing uh uh public comment uh from yesterday bringing it back here today.

Uh a really really nice gesture of you guys, and I hope it can set a good precedence we can do in the future as well.

Um good luck what we can do.

I sent you guys a letter on on uh protocol ideas on how to work on quorum, different ways to coordinate.

Hope you can read it and uh I think it can be helpful.

Um for item 33 um is um Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

And um, you know, I've been visiting Hawaii almost every year now uh in the winter time to to listen to the whales to just swim underwater and just hear them talk and sing to each other and um for quite a few years now, and um they have real problems in Hawaii, and I think there can be some good back and forth between San Diego and Hawaii on our ocean issues, erosion issues.

Um there's a lot of a lot of ideas that I think can be really worked on.

So this is an important item uh in how we consider the future of Hawaii and the Hawaiian people and what we're doing with our future lives.

So thank you for this item.

Um for uh S500 Professional Municipal Clerks Week.

Um, some nice words were said about uh Council of City Clerk uh Fuentes a few weeks ago.

And yeah, I wish I could say more about how important uh the work of a city clerk does as a go-between between public government.

Uh the work they do can be really incredible.

And uh good luck and continuing good efforts and and creating public accessibility and accountability and and a public participatory process, which I think uh uh City Clerk Fuentes can be really good at, and I hope she continues those sort of good efforts.

It's always just really heartening when she does.

And uh so thank you.

Good luck in those continued good efforts and building safety month uh S504.

Um, Spirit Airlines just ended, and they were like this really low-cost, awesome airlines for low-income people.

I mean, you they you can get to San Francisco there for 25 30 bucks, where the bus is now like 80 or 90, or you know, around that.

And um Spirit Airlines always worked on uh safety, they always had a really good safety record, and it reminded me of that in with this item good building safety is important.

Good luck.

What we're doing is midway rising things.

I think you're really gonna have to review the environmental reporting on that.

And uh, we build safely, and we always talk about that.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Allegedly, Audra.

Um, items 3132 and S504, and you'll have three minutes.

Please proceed.

Yes.

With this genocide remembrance day, I just find it interesting, the things that people do when our nation is actively engaged in genocide and other countries, and we bomb like schools of children and stuff like that.

And I don't feel like people necessarily are kind of standing against that.

It's like, let's wait to bring forward a proclamation one day for these children and you know, all these people that are being killed in the holy land, and our you know, occupation of Israel that is, you know, leading us to do some really nefarious things.

So, you know, at one point maybe we could like stand against that kind of stuff, but I guess if it's you know not going to you know fit into what you guys are doing, you're not gonna do it.

Uh, but it just makes us look really bad when we're gonna be like, we're gonna stand up for this, but also be engaged in genocide ourselves.

Um, and then older Americans month.

This is nice, but the way we treat older people is pretty crappy.

Uh, you know, they get their homes taken and probate.

I mean, we throw them into these really horrible, you know, nursing homes instead of being like, let's keep them active and keep their brains like going, you know what I mean?

Instead, let's fill them with pharmaceuticals so they have dementia and basically, you know, spend the rest of their golden years locked away somewhere where nobody wants to see them sitting in a wheelchair in one of those homes, probably missing their teeth or their eye because someone took it.

You know, it's just really sad to see those things happen, and then we also just have a proclamation to kind of wash it away.

I feel like that's what we do.

We just wash things away by, you know, pretending like we're really supportive of that uh when what they go through is horrible.

Um, and then the building safe, building safety.

It's interesting because you guys put people in fire dangers with your buildings or what your projects you bring through and all of the density that you guys want to bring forward, and then like no evacuation routes.

It's cool, right?

So it's like how when are we gonna actually do stuff that would like fall in line with that?

Is what I'm wondering.

Um, because it seems like, again, you guys try and wash the things away by putting this forward, and then your actions kind of prove that do you really care about that?

I mean, are we just like following what the state wants?

And so we're just gonna have everything in San Diego be a very high fire zone and densely populate it.

Smart.

I mean, shoot, I'm a criminal for calling out your guys' misconduct and your inability to do a meeting without a quorum.

But I was wrong, right?

Good thing I was treated like that.

So nice.

Kelly Charles.

Speaking on item S 504.

Hello, good morning, council president and members of city council.

My name is Kelly Charles.

I'm the chief building official and deputy director of our building construction safety division and development services department.

I want to sincerely thank you for proclaiming May 2026's Building Safety Month in the city of San Diego.

This proclamation highlights something that goes unseen but touches nearly every one of us the safety, resilience, sustainability of buildings, and infrastructure that we depend on every day.

Your recognition affirms that a strong and thriving San Diego is built on a foundation of safe homes, workplaces, and public spaces.

We are especially grateful for your continued leadership in advancing building codes and policies that address critical issues such as energy efficiency, wild uh water conservation, and disaster resilience.

In a region we face risks from wildfires, earthquakes, and floods.

Your commitment gives our community confidence that the places we live, work, and gather are designed to protect us.

The 2026 theme, built to last.

Thank you.

Thank you.

That does conclude public comment on proclamations here in Council Chambers.

Going to those participating remotely.

Yes, thank you.

Good morning.

I'd like to speak to item 30, Youth Symphony Day, item 32, Older Americans Month, and uh item S504 Building Safety Month.

Thank you.

Please proceed.

Uh, regarding the uh Symphony, Youth Symphony Day, I I appreciate very much this being recognized as uh an essential part of any community that music and the arts are essential ways for young people, especially to not only learn the basics of reading music and performing with others, but also of self-expression, which is in classical education is the highest form of education that we can offer to people at all ages.

Uh also studying music uh is uh something that helps our STEM activities.

Uh when I taught information technology and coding, I realized that those students who had studied music did much better in learning uh computer skills as well.

There's something about um the keyboarding and the coding that translates whether it's on an instrument or into a computer.

So by supporting Youth Symphony, we're really supporting future tech leaders as well as talented musicians.

San Diego, as I mentioned in my comments yesterday, needs to do more to protect older adults, including myself, from hazards as we go about our daily lives.

Uh sidewalks that are broken and uneven, uh, other things that they get in the way of our independence and mobility and end up uh causing injuries.

It not only puts a personal cost to trying to be active throughout our lives, but a broader cost to our community.

If we are disabled and unable to participate in activities without assistance, uh it does put a cost, and especially when it comes to caregiving, a cost on women in particular who who wind up caring for older adults who are disabled and not able to do live independently.

So I appreciate this the recognition of the importance of this, and I encourage San Diego to do more to have safe mobility corridors for everyone, but especially those later in life.

And finally, on Building Safety Month, the the safest building you can put up in San Diego is in the safest possible location.

And as we see with a changing climate, what happened along Choyas Creek, what is happening on our coastline, there are some areas that are simply no longer safe to place a building.

And top of that list is the midway area.

And I realize midway rising, or as I refer to it, midway sinking, is a premier project for this city council and the mayor in particular.

But the reality is that is a coastal zone, and it is having subsidence.

All of us who live in the area who drive in the area can see it and feel it.

The water tables are changing in our coastal areas.

And to build safely means to choose wisely, and that location is not a wise choice to put more people, larger buildings, ultimately they will be in harm's way.

Thank you for that concluding comment.

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

I like to go to the old guys, the genocide 31, and the building safety thing.

No, sorry, I didn't see it here at the first one.

It's the three minutes.

The old guys, the genocide and the old and the building.

Okay.

I could go.

Okay, so the building uh safety proclamation.

Uh the city is really lacking integrity because the building you're sitting in right now is a total fire hazard.

It's unsprinkled.

There's no sprinklers in that building.

And now if a fire broke out on the third floor, who's going to be able to get down the stairs?

12 stores of stairs.

So you have their charts and lithium batting batteries on the third floor.

It smolders and then it explodes, creates a fire, creates smoke.

The elevators stop working.

They're not working.

How are the people in your room there going to get down to the floor?

With firemen's coming up, confusion, a lot of smoke.

The very building you're sitting in.

You should remove that proclamation for the building's safety because where it's coming from is an unsafe building.

You know, it's crazy.

Then on the genocide, Armenian genocide's a real thing.

And we should not, even use slavery in our country.

It's a real genocide too, man.

And then one thing with the the Chinese and the Japanese, the Asians are great people.

You know, great San Diego San Diegans throughout San Diego, they're Asians, and they're beautiful people, they're great people.

But one thing about Japan, they did.

You had some technical difficulties.

Moving to the next caller, John Stump, please unmute.

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

Um 32 33 S500 S504.

Please proceed, you don't have three minutes.

Okay, thank you very much.

Um thank you for recognizing seniors.

And I I particularly appreciate the senior members of council, those old guys and women on council recognizing a day for us.

Excuse me.

Um 500 municipal clerks.

Uh I really appreciate the clerk's office and its work.

Um Clerk's office makes things run.

It's essentially the secretary for the municipal corporation.

And uh I have had the great experience with the previous four city clerks.

Uh on building safety.

Most of you um aren't aware that the original functioning of the council, the city hall, was not the way it functions today.

The committee rooms and meeting rooms were all on the plaza level above um the conven the convention rooms.

That way people didn't have to enter the building, go up the elevator, and be in um committee rooms.

It was done on the plaza level, and that was much safer and much more efficient.

It was a retrofit to put the council chamber on the twelfth floor, because that was kind of a hierarchical thing.

The other thing about building safety is that we have added to the council chambers, hazards.

You know, originally there were no chairs behind the council members because they had no staff.

Uh, and you know, there wasn't a trip and fall hazard with the white plastic chain, uh, and they wasn't reserving all those seats for staff members.

None of that occurred originally under the city manager form of government.

Uh the council chamber was much safer.

And then there was one final item.

I I I just really appreciated.

I uh hope council starts to recognize service to senior citizens by keeping fees low.

Thank you, Bunch.

Thank you.

The five-minute timer had concluded.

There's two speakers in the queue.

No additional speakers will be taken.

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

Yes, good morning.

I called in to speak to item 32.

I felt as an older San Diegan, it was probably my responsibility, and as a retired social worker, and now one who advocates for public health policy, I would remind us that that uh older Americans, and the definition that I'm using here is over 65, aren't particularly vulnerable to marijuana use due to age-related physiologic physiological changes, which include higher body fat and slower metabolism.

Having trouble reading these things about older people.

Whoa, poor us.

And for example, what this looks like is a cardiovascular strain, marijuana can cause rapid heartbeat and elevated blood pressure, which can provoke heart attacks, angina and strokes.

And its contribution to falls and injuries strikes fear in the heart of older people.

Marijuana is known to cause dizziness, lightheadedness, impaired balance, and significantly raising the risk of falls and what comes with them fractures and injuries and respiratory problems.

I'll close with because we all know that smoking and vaping marijuana like tobacco as Dexter has to be.

Thank you, sorry.

And our last speaker is 7499.

If you can please unmute.

You'll have three minutes, please proceed.

I'd just like to remind this council that the rights of all of these people to speak on these proclamations was won through a lawsuit initiated by attorney Craig Sherman and his Center for Local Government Accountability.

Prior to that, the city council would give out the proclamations, take the photos, and watch the recipients leave the council chambers or at their awards before allowing the public to speak on these items.

I spoke several times to this council requesting the right to speak before proclamations were voted on, but this council refused to follow the law.

So I eventually brought the matter to Mr.

Sherman, and he had to take the city to court to force the city to allow the public to speak on these proclamations before they were voted on, as we do now.

There's a lesson to be learned here.

Rather than treating public comment as a mere annoyance, this council should see all public speakers as an important resource to help guide this council's decisions and keep this city out of trouble.

This council needs an attitude adjustment to give proper respect to the people.

That includes sometimes taking non-agenda comments up front rather than forcing it to the end.

Finally, I'd like to endorse many of the comments by the previous speakers on these topics.

Thank you.

Thank you.

That concludes public comment on the proclamations today.

All right.

Uh for the record, it wasn't this council that got sued.

It was prior council that got sued, and we've continued uh that appropriate um action that Mr.

Kaczynski made happen.

Uh so with that, we will turn it over to my thank you, City Clerk, for handling the public comment.

I will turn it over to my colleagues for question or uh comments and entertain a motion.

We'll start with Council President Pro Tem Lee.

Thank you, Council President.

I'll start by moving the proclamation's agenda and we'll speak to items 31-33, 34, and S500.

Um I actually want to start with S500, as I'm honored to join uh this proclamation with Council President Lacaba and recognizing professional municipal clerks week.

Uh there are many public servants who do not often receive enough recognition, and I believe our municipal clerk is a strong example of just that.

Um they serve as a vital link between residents and the government that represents them.

And so I think we're taking this opportunity to celebrate our fantastic city clerk, uh Diana Fuentes, who leads a critical office that ensures the transparency of our city government, ensures access to the public, maintains official records, and carries out many other essential functions that keep our local government operating effectively.

We know that Clerk Puentes and her team go far above and beyond that capacity, and I think you see that in the care in which they approach uh their conversations with every member of the public who looks to have their voice heard uh in how they expand access, uh whether it's through language, uh providing passport services and more, uh, so that the public does feel engaged with their local government, and we are very fortunate, Clerk Puentes, for your leadership uh in that capacity.

So thank you to your team for the work that you do every single day.

Uh next I'll speak to item 31.

I want to thank my colleagues, uh Council President Lakaba, Council Member Ilo Rivera, for bringing forward today's meaningful proclamation and recognizing April 24th as Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.

Uh today we come together to remember and honor the Armenian people and the lives lost during one of the first genocides of the 20th century.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire faced increasing prosecution and discrimination during a period of political unrest and war.

And on April 24th, 1915, Armenian intellectuals and community leaders were arrested, marking what is the beginning of the Armenian genocide.

From 1915 to 1923, approximately 1.5 million Armenians were killed through massacres, forced deportations, starvation, and death marches.

Families were displaced from their homes and survivors were forced to rebuild their lives in communities across the world, including in San Diego.

Despite an unimaginable loss and hardship, the Armenian people preserved their culture, faith, and traditions through resilience and strength.

And today those communities continue to enrich cities around the world, including San Diego.

And so we're here to recognize Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day to honor the memory of the victims and survivors and stand in solidarity with the Armenian community in condemning the atrocities that were waged by the Ottoman Empire.

And I want to especially thank the team from the University of California San Diego Local Affairs, along with members of the Armenian Pre-Law Society, I believe, who helped to draft and bring forward this proclamation for our consideration today.

And join them in commemorating the remembrance of all our Armenian lives and celebrating their contributions.

Next for item 34, I want to celebrate the 19th annual San Diego Dragon Boat Festival today, the festival day, which is coming up shortly this next weekend.

This tradition dates back more than 2,000 years, and locally the San Diego Alliance for Asian Pacific Islander Americans has hosted the event annually, almost every year, except for I think during the pandemic perhaps.

And we appreciate the coordination and dedication that it takes for a group of volunteers to bring teams from all over early on a weekend morning to get out on Mission Bay and to participate in these races.

I'd actually like to welcome the president of their organization, Hui Zheng, to share a few words about this incredible event and the important work their organization does.

So uh good morning, uh council president and council members.

Uh my name is Hui Zhang.

Uh, on behalf of uh San Diego Alliance for Asian Pacific Islander Americans, I would like to thank you for your support.

This is a great deal to uh our community.

So today I'm honored to bring my team members uh to hear and uh celebrate this uh important day and also share a few words as well.

Thank you.

Hi, my name is Linda Tu.

I served as president of the San Diego Alliance for Asian Pacific Islander Americans from 2005 to 2020.

The first meeting that I held for the Alliance was a community picnic at the Presidio, and Congresswoman Susan Davis' district rep at the time, Todd Gloria came.

Of course, today we know Todd as the mayor of San Diego.

The first San Diego Dragonville Festival that I headed uh from beginning to end was the second one.

I worked on the first one as well.

But um, and uh city council member Donna Fry, whom some of you might possibly remember, uh, came as did county supervisor Greg Cox and Congresswoman Susan Davis.

And then we held walks in the Asian Pacific Historic District with Congresswoman Susan Davis, and City Councilmember Kevin Faulkner came and he told me, well, Congresswoman Susan Davis is also my Congresswoman, and that was a period of bipartisanship and reaching across the aisle.

Throughout the history of the alliance, has been also the history of San Diego and the history of the county of San Diego and San Diego's mayors.

And you have always all been behind us, and thank you, Kent Lee, for for having been to all going to all three of our San Diego Dragon Ball Festivals the years that you have been council member.

We are grateful to you all and hope that we continue to walk and work together.

Thank you.

Good morning, dear uh council president, council member, and uh honored guest.

So, Flores and I will thank you all to still part of our uh Dragon Bullet Festival.

As the organizer uh Alliance that has been always idle, okay, yeah around Dragon and Board race, and this year is our will be our night hands, INU San Diego Dragon Bullet Festival.

They are all be athlete from not only from San Diego, also from a Newport, Los Angeles and Northern Northern California.

It will be a fun event.

You're all welcome to see us on these from this side today at Mission Bay.

Thank you very much again for the support.

Juliana.

Good morning.

I'm Juliana Chang.

I am captain of Musing Dragons, which is San Diego Chinese Historical Museum's official team.

We won gold last year.

This is my second year participating in the festival and learning this amazing sport of my heritage.

I'm so proud to participate in it.

And I look forward to being on the water again this year, paddling my race, my heart out for the race and for my team.

And I'm so proud to participate in the sport in this festival in our wonderful city of San Diego and hope to define our title.

So go musing dragons.

Thank you.

Thank you all.

Thank you.

And thank you to San Diego Alliance for all that you do to put this event together.

Look forward to seeing you out there.

Finally, on item 33, I'm proud to join my colleagues in proclaiming the month of May as Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

San Diego is home to more than 250,000 residents of AA and HPI descent, and is important that we continue recognizing and celebrating the community's invaluable contributions to our city, state, and nation's economic, civic, social, and cultural fabric.

This Heritage Month was first federally commemorated in 1977 as Asian Pacific Heritage Week, later expanded to the full month of May.

And the month was chosen, as you might have heard from one of the public comments to recognize the arrival of the first Japanese immigrants to the United States on May 7, 1843, and the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad on May 10th, 1869.

Both historic achievements, a historic achievement made possible to the labor of Chinese immigrants who are often exploited and excluded.

The uh effects to federally recognize the significance of ANHPI communities came through the White House initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders, which helped to guide efforts since its establishment in 1999 until it was eliminated by this current administration on January 20th, 2025.

So at a time when cultural communities continue to face discrimination, erasure, and attacks on their histories and identities.

We proudly stand with all those represented within the Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander community.

And we take this opportunity to recognize how diverse that community truly is so that we can continue to disaggregate the data, broaden language access, and truly celebrate each of your unique cultures, histories, and needs.

I want to thank the organizations dedicated to advancing this work, some of which are present with us here this morning.

And this A NHPI Heritage Month.

We encourage all San Diegans to continue learning about celebrating and uplifting the rich histories, cultures, and contributions of the community, and recognize the work that still has to be done ahead.

Thank you, Council President.

All right, thank you, Council President Pro Kimley.

I'll take that as a motion to approve the proclamations.

All right.

Made it right in the beginning.

It's just been so long, I kind of forgot.

Uh we'll go next to Council Member Whitburn.

Thank you very much, Council President.

Good morning to everybody here at Chapers who's joined us sporting.

Congratulations to everybody who is being recognized with proclamations today.

Uh, item 30, I am pleased to join City Attorney Herbert in recognizing today as San Diego Youth Sympathy Day.

For 80 years, the San Diego Youth Symphony Conservatory has been one of the most important arts institutions in our region.

Uh this season more than 900 musicians between the ages of eight and twenty-five are enrolled at their Baldola Park ensembles through their community opus project.

They also provide free after school music instruction to students throughout San Diego County.

The influence of the San Diego Youth Symphony goes beyond music.

Uh these young participants build confidence and discipline and community.

Their Caesar Fidel concerts are this weekend at Balboa Park.

I know a lot of people are looking forward to those performances.

The executive director of the San Diego Youth Symphony, Kate Battenfield is here with us in Chambers this morning, and I'd like to welcome her up to say a few words.

Thank you for joining us here.

And uh please feel free to join us at the microphone and welcome to Council Chambers.

I'll make it taller.

Thank you.

And good morning, and uh thank you so much to City Attorney Ferbert, Councilmember Whitburn, the entire city council, for this great honor.

It's genuinely an honor to be here, and I'm so proud to represent the San Diego Youth Symphony and its thousands of students, family staff, and teaching artists who bring dedication, joy, and learning to everything we do.

Each day, we show up for young people across the city, from our youngest learners in our early childhood groups to our advanced ensembles and our students.

This work matters deeply to families, and it matters to San Diego.

San Diego has always been a city that values culture and arts.

We've seen that commitment show up in so many ways over the years, and we're grateful for it.

We also know that cities with thriving artistic institutions attract young families, draw talented workers, and drive tourism and economic vitality.

The arts are not something that San Diego can afford to lose.

The arts are woven into everything this city has to offer.

Their infrastructure for a thriving city.

San Diego Youth Symphony has been here for 80 years.

We plan to be here for 80 more and beyond.

And we trust that San Diego will continue to invest in the culture and the creativity that make it such a remarkable place to live.

On behalf of the San Diego Youth Symphony and my colleagues here today, thank you so much for this incredible honor.

And thank you for prioritizing arts and culture in San Diego.

Thank you very much, Ms.

Battenfield, and congratulations.

Thank you for all that you and your team do for young people around the county, including the board of the volunteers, all the parents who are a part of it.

Really appreciate your presence and everything you do.

So thank you again.

On item 32, I'm pleased to join Council President LaCava and Councilmember Campbell in recognizing this month as Older Americans Month in the City of San Diego.

Older Americans Month is a time to honor the contributions and resilience and continued impact of all the older adults in our communities.

Many of our older residents are leaders, mentors, caregivers, veterans, volunteers, and neighbors who have helped build the San Diego that we know and love today.

They continue to play a vital role in strengthening our families, supporting our youth, and enriching our civic life.

Older Americans Month is not just about recognition, but it's also about reaffirming our responsibility to support the quality of life of older adults year out in our city.

And I want to thank the many organizations and caregivers and activists and advocates who work every day to serve older residents across our city.

Happy to second the motion to approve the proclamations.

All right, thank you, sir.

So we have a motion by Council President Pro Tem Lee and a second by Council Member Whitburn to move the proclamations.

We'll go next to Councilmember Campbell.

Thank you, Council President.

Congratulations to everyone receiving proclamations today.

I personally want to speak on items 32 and 31.

I'm going to start with the older Americans month.

A large percentage of our city's population is age 65 and older, and I want to take this opportunity to recognize just a few of the many important organizations who serve this population.

Serving seniors is one of them.

It's been an incredible partner in providing resources for San Diego's population from meals and health services to opportunities for connection.

Recently in District 2, they began operating a new senior center in Claremont, the Judith L.

Seltz Senior Center, in the newly opened affordable apartments for seniors and families at the Mount Etna campus.

Also, we have meals on wheels, delivering healthy meals to seniors around the city and county, allowing them to age in place while having access to proper nutrition.

Elder help of San Diego helps meet seniors where they are by providing assistance with daily tasks of living, like grocery shopping, health appointments, transportation, and more.

All of these organizations and many, many more play a crucial role in supporting San Diego's older population.

And I want to thank them and all their volunteers and staff for the work that they do to allow our seniors to age with dignity and support.

And next I'd like to speak on the Armenian genocide remembrance.

They did so, and the rest of the world did not complain.

Thank God many Armenians were able to escape and now enrich all our cultures around the world, including right here in San Diego.

It is reported that Hitler referred to this genocide and how it was ignored when he ordered his government to murder the Jewish people of Europe and all the other people who disagreed with him.

Let us not forget he killed 12 million people.

He murdered 12 million people.

And so let us never forget the lessons of genocide, which unfortunately are going on today as well.

And so I want to thank the bringers of this proclamation for reminding us about the poor Armenians, what they went through, and that let us realize that all of us are God's children.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Campbell.

We'll go next to Council Member Elo Rivera.

Thank you, Council President.

Um thank you to my colleagues who um brought these proclamations forward today.

I'll start by expressing my appreciation of you, Council President and Council President Pro Tem Lee for joining me in recognizing Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.

Um also had an opportunity to briefly meet some students from the Armenian Pre-Law Association.

Great job in working with Council President Pro Tem Lee's office and drafting this.

I think it's an important um uh proclamation for a number of reasons.

Um, just and I could see it in the students' faces, the recognition that the city that they live in where they study is recognizing um their community, the history of their community, and as we know, uh and as has been said uh already, this is a community that had to has had to fight for the recognition that this atrocity occurred.

Um, so as if the pain of that atrocity is not enough, having to deal with the trauma that comes from having to share the stories and the evidence that um that the Armenian people were targeted and and um uh targeted in this way, makes it even more important for cities, states, and countries around the world to recognize Armenian genocide and all genocide uh as it's something that is never acceptable and should be um called um for what it is when we see it, and never allowed to happen when we see it happening.

Um I'll also uh express my appreciation to Council President Pro Tem Lee and Councilmember Foster in uh joining me in proclaiming May 2026 to be Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

Uh, I couldn't be more proud to recognize to represent District 9 uh and all the diverse communities in it.

The Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities within District 9 are such an important part of our district.

They're such an important part of our city, and uh have been for a very, very long time.

And so please see this proclamation as a way of saying thank you for those contributions and for everything that you um you do uh for and in our city.

Um I am very appreciative of it and glad that we are bringing this proclamation forward.

Um and then finally, um, thank you to Councilor President, uh, to you and Council President Pro Tem um for bringing forward uh professional municipal clerks week.

Um Ms.

Wendis does an amazing job along with her team.

Um I had a chance to kind of see up close um just how hard they are always working um when I was uh in your role, Council President.

And it's it's really amazing.

It's not just the um friendly faces and kindness and patience that are demonstrated here during council meetings, um, but an incredible amount of work and preparation that goes into making these meetings happen, uh, of keeping um us moving in the right direction and making sure that um uh the the work of the city um the important things that need to get processed, all of that is happening.

Um so uh Clerk Wendes, thank you um for the work that you do.

Thank you for the work that your team does.

We're deeply appreciative of it, and I know that the public appreciates it as well.

Thank you, Council President.

All right, thank you, Councilmember Yellow Rivera.

Uh, we'll go next to our city attorney.

Thank you, Council President.

It's my privilege and honor to join Council Member Whitburn this morning on item 30 recognizing San Diego Youth Symphony Day in the city of San Diego.

The San Diego Youth Symphony has been inspiring young musicians across our community for 80 seasons.

What started back in 1945 is a single high school orchestra founded by conductor Leo Shear has grown into a program that now serves more than a thousand students every year.

It's also one of the oldest continuously operating youth symphonies in the country, which is something our region can be incredibly proud of.

What stands out to me is how committed the organization has stayed to making music accessible.

Youth Symphony has also helped create wonderful early childhood programs like Chimes and Music Discovery, helping younger children and families find their way into music.

And those children often become part of the youth orchestras as they grow.

The San Diego Youth Symphony is more than an arts organization.

It's a force that lifts up young people, supports families, and strengthens communities all across our region through the power of music.

We're grateful for everything they do, and it's an honor to recognize them today.

And I encourage everyone to check out their 80th anniversary season concerts happening this weekend.

Hope to see you there.

Thanks so much.

Thank you, City Attorney.

We'll go next to Councilmember Von Wilbert.

Thank you, uh Council President.

Thank you to my colleagues for bringing forth wonderful proclamations as usual.

And there's so much to say about all of them, but with item 30, San Diego Youth Symphony Day.

Uh, congratulations to everyone involved in the San Diego Youth Symphony.

I actually played the French horn for many years of my life as a young member here in San Diego, including in the San Diego Youth Honor Band.

So I really appreciate all the work that people do to teach young people music.

It's incredible, and the arts are incredibly important, and we need to support them and fund them here at the City of San Diego.

So thank you for your work.

Um item 31, Arminian Genocide Remembrance Day.

I want to thank my colleagues for bringing forth this important commemoration of the 1.5 million Armenians who lost their lives during the Armenian genocide from 1915 to 1923.

Thank you to the young people here who are continuing to hold up this legacy because we have to learn from history so that we do not repeat it again.

So very much appreciate my colleagues in the beautiful words you've already brought forward.

Um item 32, older Americans month.

I would like to recognize older American Month and celebrate the many older people and older adults whose leadership, experience, and contributions continue to strengthen communities across San Diego, including many older adults in my life.

Uh approximately one in seven San Diegans are age sixty five or older, and that population continues to grow, making it even more important that we support healthy, connected, age-friendly communities.

You know, up in Rancho Bernardo, we got to celebrate uh the Ed Brown Senior Center and the Oasis Senior Center.

We have a lot going on, and we need more and more.

Um, my grandfather actually was with us to 102 years old.

And believe me, he was with it.

Uh, he could even log on to Zooms during the pandemic at 101.

So we definitely want to invest in in older Americans.

Item 33 Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

Thank you to my colleagues for bringing this forward as well.

I want to celebrate all of our Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders here in our greater community.

You make our community vibrant and strong with contributions to civic life, to the arts, to philanthropy, to business.

We had a wonderful celebration just over the weekend of the hundredth year anniversary of the Chinese language school here in San Diego and I look forward to making San Diego more inclusive and welcoming city for all through these proclamations.

Municipal Clerks Week item S504 thank you so much to Clerk Fentez and her entire team for your tireless advocacy and work.

You know they get here much earlier than any of us do and often stay much later than any of us do to make sure that the public can participate in democracy.

So if we could just take a second give all of you a hand.

Thank you very much and as item S504 Building Safety Month thank you so much to all of our hardworking city employees who work so hard to make sure that buildings are safe and able to have a we're able to be inside buildings in San Diego.

You know we do have wildfires, earthquakes, flooding and other emergencies that can impact us so making sure we have strong resilient buildings is important.

I mean we saw tragedies come out of nowhere such as in Florida when the entire half of the condo complex collapsed after erosion from the sea.

So just thank you for your work we appreciate you and thank you to everyone for bringing forward these proclamations.

All right thank you Councilmember Bombard will go next to Councilmember Foster.

Thank you Council President and quite a few fantastic proclamations hereem 32 Older Americans month just thank you to my colleagues Council President Lukava Council members Campbell and Wentburg Whitburn for bringing um forward this proclamate proclamation recognizing older Americans month our seniors have poured so much into our communities families and neighborhoods and deserve to age with dignity support and connection in District 4 we see that work happening daily at the fourth district senior resource center where Ms.

Pope and her team have crafted or created a space where seniors can stay active socialize and find support.

Also just a quick shout out to the Bay Terraces Community Senior Center.

That's a center um in district four that um took about 20 25 years to get it to where um our seniors have a place they call home and a place they use quite frequently also just want to thank the neighborhood house association for everything they do in the district and their senior center that they maintain.

Just again with our senior population as it continues to grow we have to keep investing in programs and services that help older adults live healthy engaged and independent lives.

You know District 4 don't know what else more needs to be said you know I remember growing up when Lincoln High School across the street had an empty lot you could see um our Samoan brothers and sisters out there playing cricket um in the lot I just remember that so vividly growing up but this is a month we celebrate Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month a moment to recognize the cultures, histories and traditions that help shape communities across San Diego and especially in District 4.

Thank you to the community the families the small businesses all the contributions that help to strengthen our community the diversity the vibrancy of our neighborhoods is again something that has been near and dear to me as I grew up in District 4.

Also just congratulations on the 19th annual San Diego Dragon Boat Festival Day, 19 years on what a milestone, approaching 20.

Also, just want to give a quick shout out for Professional Municipal clerks week.

Thank you, Madam clerk, to you and your team, everything that you do to make sure that we are able to function, just what the council does, but also for the public, and everything that you do in making yourself available to make sure the public has resources, make sure the public is informed and has access to information.

Also just want to thank, give a thank you and congratulations to our building professionals.

All the work that goes into making our buildings safe, I want to say for 25 years in my past life, work closely with a lot of the inspectors, and just know how critical their role is as we build our facilities, whether it's a library, a fire station, whether it's a multifamily development, it's just such a pleasure to work with that staff and the work that they do to make sure, and I say the golden ticket, right?

That's the golden ticket.

So thank you for everything that you guys do.

And Council President, I will conclude there.

Thank you.

All right, thank you, Councilmember Foster.

Not seeing anybody else in the lights.

I'll offer my comments.

You know, the route to positive change is an opportunity for us as council to recognize causes and individuals, help amplify their voices and make sure everybody recognizes what this city represents in our diverse demographics.

Thank you to my colleagues for all the proclamations.

In the interest of time, I'll focus on just a few of them, at the risk of repeating some of the things my colleagues have already said.

But item 31, Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, with the Council President Pro Tem and the Council Member Ilo Rivera.

We recognize and remember the genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian people.

Over several years, more than one and a half million Armenians were killed, marched to death, deported or exiled from their homeland, recognizing this as one of the dark chapters in human history while honoring the resolve and resilience of the Armenian people.

Despite enduring those atrocities, the people the Armenian people have rebuilt their lives, preserved their culture, and contributed to the fabric of their communities as they've done so here in San Diego.

We stand in solidarity with them, acknowledging their stories, and recommit ourselves to the work of stamping out hate.

On item 32, in partnership with Council Member Campbell and Councilmember Whitburn, the three council members who are the youngest at heart, we proclaim May as Older Americans Month.

As the population continues to age, it is important to continue to uplift services and resources that help support older adults in San Diego.

The City of San Diego Senior Affairs Advisory Board is an excellent example of local resources that continually emphasize the needs and voices of older adults through policy advancement and age-friendly programs.

These include the parks and recreation department's age well services, SDPD's retired senior volunteer patrol program, both of which foster community engagement and connection that strengthen San Diego every day.

And I'll be tapping into those in January 2029.

Thank you to those whose lifelong contributions continue to strengthen and rich and guide our community every day.

S504, I am proud to proclaim May 2026 as Building Safety Month in the city of San Diego.

And in doing so, we highlight the people and the work it takes to ensure the safety of our communities.

As an engineer myself, I'm grateful to the fellow engineers being recognized today at every level in the building safety industry.

The amount of precision, expertise, and care that is required to ensure that our facilities and infrastructure is safe is often overlooked, but it's essential to protecting and maintaining public safety.

The city relies on the development services department and fire rescue to play a critical role in the oversight and determination of sound infrastructure.

Building Safety Month highlights the unseen work that is done in buildings before we enter them.

Thank you to all the building safety and fire prevention professionals, engineers, architects, tradespeople, and others in the industry for your dedication to keeping San Diego's buildings and the public safe.

And in closing, S 500 Professional Municipal Clerks Week.

And whether it is translating official documents into eight different languages, making records accessible to the public and even offering passport services, they consistently exceed their mission to provide accurate information and maximize access to municipal government.

Regardless of language or experience with local government, the public can consistently rely on the clerk's office to deliver accessible and accurate information.

So as my colleagues have said, thank you, Clerk Fuentes, and your amazing team, including Mary Way back there, for all the work that you do to keep our meetings running smoothly and San Diegans civically informed.

And even though this role is the one that is probably the most visible to the public, as the council member Elo Rivera kind of alluded to, what you don't see, and that the council president has the opportunity to see that starting, I don't know, maybe about nine o'clock in preparation for council hearings, and all the way through, no matter what happens, what technological glitches, what difficulty the public has either coming up to the microphone or calling in, and all the emails and texts that are coming your way during the course of the meeting.

Um just relentless in what you do.

So we're just very, very appreciative of that.

Um I'm gonna allow Clerk Fuentes a few comments before we close.

Thank you so much, Council President.

I'll try to keep it short while even time myself.

Just kidding, I won't.

On behalf of the Office of the City Clerk, I really want to sincerely thank the council members and the council as well for the proclamation for this proclamation recognizing Municipal Clerks Week.

Being remembered, I almost forgot it was municipal clerks week, honestly.

And so being remembered and being brought to our attention really meant a great deal to me and my office.

The recognition just means so much because it reflects not only the importance of the work we do, but the trust you place in myself and our office every single day.

It is truly an honor to serve as the city clerk for the city of San Diego, and I never take lightly the responsibility and trusted in me to help uphold transparency, accessibility, and the integrity of our democratic process.

But I am especially grateful.

Oh, I got a little.

I'm especially grateful for the opportunity to lead such an extraordinary team of dedicated public servants who make our office shine through their professionalism, expertise, and real heart.

The work of the clerk's office often happens behind the scenes, but it is foundational to ensuring the public can engage with their government.

While we don't usually toot our own horns, we do appreciate and really take our jobs seriously, whether it's coordinating city elections, maintaining and preserving official records, supporting the legislative process, providing language access, modernizing systems, providing passport services, or ensuring the public has timely access to information.

Our team really does approach every responsibility with care and commitment, and that's what makes the difference in being a part of the clerk team.

The work we do and the things we accomplish are only possible because of the incredible individuals, each member of my staff, and the leadership team of Day Chie, Christina, Kevin, Mark, and Miley, who consistently go above and beyond in service to the city.

Their work ethic, integrity, and dedication inspire me every day and help me move forward.

Thank you again to the council for this meaningful recognition for your continued partnership and for your trust in our office.

We are proud to serve the people of San Diego and remain committed to carrying out our mission and vision.

Thank you, Council President, for the time.

All right, absolutely.

Absolutely.

Okay.

With that, we have a motion by Council President Pro Tem Lee and a second by Council Member Whitburn.

Clerk, please call the roll.

I'm sorry, the voting system, please cast your vote.

That passes unanimously, seven to zero with Council Member Campio absent.

All right, with that, we will pause for photos starting with item 30 San Diego Youth Symphony Day.

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And then we're going to be in the middle of the end of the day and then you can continue the other one.

And then we can do that and then you can do the end of the day and then we can do that.

And then we will be in the middle of the end of the morning and then we'll do it.

Alright, I'm not going to restart the meeting, so we have six people.

Um we have consent items of the consent agenda to deal with and then not agenda public comment.

I'm going to call it right now that we will take the in-person, not agenda public comment.

And I hope four of my colleagues will stick around for the in-person, not agenda public comment.

And we will trail virtual non-agenda public till uh two o'clock this afternoon.

So again, virtual non-agenda public comment will be taken at two o'clock uh this afternoon, or shortly thereafter, as we like to say.

So with that, uh before we proceed with the consent agenda, I will be returning item one oh six, item one oh six back to staff at their request.

Once again, item one hundred six is returned to staff and will be heard at a later date.

So with that, we will proceed with the remainder of the consent items uh do I are there any requests to pull an item by council there's no requests with that clerk please proceed with public comment on the remainder of the consent items thank you council president please note each speaker will have one minute per item per person if you would like to speak on three or more items you have a maximum of three minutes the consent agenda includes items 10 50 through 66 100 and 105 100 through 105 107 through 109 11 through 118 and s501 through s503 with item one oh six return to staff as noted also please let me note for the record the potential appointments and reappointments that are on the agenda this morning item 116 is the potential appointment of William Tippets to the Mission Bay Park Committee Item 117 is the potential appointment of Kofi Reed and reappointment of Antoine and Toine Antoine thank you Pierre Jackson to the San Diego Housing Commission Item 118 is the potential appointment of Yolanda Franklin to the commission for arts and culture we did receive comments for uh item 51 in opposition and item 518 one in favor those were distributed to the council when they were received via e-comment going to public comment uh Robert Wood if you can please come up Robert would you were seated time by Michael Michael please raise your hand thankful thank you you'll have two minutes on item 109.

Hi I'm Robert Wood with Fat Outreach and the reason I'm here is because the issue of additional funding for gun and gang violence interruption in the San Diego areas came into play.

This is Cornelius Bowser our CEO as you can see we have uh other community based public safety professionals out there in the audience people from SBS SBCS are here I'd like to say thank you to to all of you for considering this Henry Foster Stefan Whitburn Jennifer Campbell uh Joe McCava I'd like to thank everybody here right because the thing is is that we go out in the community and what we do people have to understand our function is different than the police function.

They go and they're once it happens we're before it happens we're prevention so we're intervention and prevention so what we're trying to do is before something even takes place prevent it and then if something does take place then we reach back into the community with our connections and we try to prevent more from taking place so we try to prevent violence from happening in the first place and then what does happen we swing into acting to try to prevent the spread of violence another part of our intervention efforts is at risk youth mentoring we try to reach out to the community and identify the youth that we feel are most at risk and we take those youth in we mentor them we offer them wraparound services where possible and we do everything that we can to get them right.

So you can see that we have a multi face to the approach to improving the safety of the communities to stopping gun and game violence interruption some of us are even um domestic violence counselors include myself and bishop so I want to say I appreciate you guys please make it possible for us to continue this work.

Thank you for that concluding statement Sandy Keaton.

Ask the following individuals to please come up to the yellow reserve seats.

Sandy Keaton Alvin Hayes Jeffrey Rea allegedly Audra and Audrey Ebbing I'll also just note that if you submitted a speaker slip for the consent calendar and I did not call your name please come up to the yellow reserve seats I did receive one with no name, so I don't know who you are.

Uh please proceed.

I uh good morning.

Or actually almost afternoon.

I want to thank the council.

I'm here.

My name is Sandy Keaton.

I'm actually from SBCS.

And mostly I'm here to show my gratitude for the leadership of the council to continue to support um the programming that really is rooted in lived lived experience and community, um, to recognize the value that this brings in addressing the harm that comes from violence in our community.

It's a positive partnership between law enforcement and community, and it's part of SPCS, mostly we want to just expect uh extend our gratitude and thank you for recognizing the value of this program doing all the work on Shabbat as well.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Alvin Hayes.

Morning everyone.

Uh my name is Alvin Hayes.

I'm also a team member of Shapat Outreach, uh No Size Fire Program.

Um as my colleague just said a while ago, it's very important.

It's very important for this.

And uh I I want to thank each and every one of you who had a hand in this for us to excuse me to continue with what it is that we're doing.

Um also to raise the importance of even though we're out there doing the community outreach, you know, it's still, you know, there's still the violence is still there, unfortunately.

Uh I was one of the victims of gun violence.

You know, I got shot one one night in uh January the ninth this year, and uh it only put a bigger exclamation point for me how important it is to try to make our community safer, you know.

And uh so I would like to just thank you guys again, you know, for even considering this.

You know, the work that we do is very important.

Some people don't like what we do, but that's not our issue.

So we're gonna continue to push forward and hopefully with your help and support, we will continue.

Thank you for that concluding comment.

Jeffrey, Raya.

Good afternoon.

My name is Jeffrey Reyes.

I just want to thank all of you guys uh for this opportunity for us to continue to do our work as an ex felon gang member.

You know, it's amazing to be able to promote um positivity and a change in our community to reduce violence because we know San Diego is beautiful.

We want more tourism here, we want more families to raise their children, we want the elderly to retire, and our job is to be able to influence the generations that come before us through even uh you know, the credibility that we have for being where we once were, but now telling them that they can change their lives and do something better.

So um, you know, just like my co-workers are saying, we don't just focus on gang gun violence, we know that's broad.

There's Hispanic gangs, black gangs, there's Asian gangs, we're we're in the mix of all of that.

And uh we're even helping with domestic violence, you know, we're helping with suicide awareness, emotional uh abuse, and um even mental health, substance abuse.

We're really uh, you know, trying to do what we can to make a difference because my family's here too.

So thank you.

Thank you for that concluding comment, allegedly, Audra.

You'll have three minutes.

You're speaking on items 102, 109, 112, 5560, 59, 63, and S503.

All right.

Cesar Chavez Parkway, we're renaming it because of potential sexual abuse and assault.

It's interesting that we care about it sometimes when there's not any evidence, but then when there's clear evidence in front of you guys, you know, do anything because we got ambulances that we're contracting with that are raping women and drugging them in the ambulance on their way to who knows where jail, hospital.

Just depends.

Um yeah, and then number sixty-three IGM technologies.

Are you guys stoked to be uh contracting with Black Rock and Vanguard?

That's good, right?

That's how we keep our data secure.

Especially with our lease assets.

So smart to give them that data.

Can't worry about that, right?

It's probably just Trump.

I mean, but that's attached to Trump, Larry Pink, right?

Who knows?

Um, anywho, and then we have let's see.

Uh, yeah, so 102 with this dispatching for towing services.

It would be interesting if San Diego Police Department wasn't uh engaging in bait cars by leaving people that they assault, uh, having their keys just thrown on the ground so someone comes and takes their vehicle, and then it's uh you gotta pay a thousand dollars to get it out.

That's smart.

Um, good for them because we also have bait bikes, right?

It's not entrapment or anything.

Poor guy who wound up stealing it and then he's getting charged for it.

Um, and then 109.

Um, SBCS cannot be trusted with money when they had six million dollars of ARPA funds and they were doing the transfer site that Steven Whitburn wanted to pretend didn't exist.

Um, they took two million dollars of that for their employees.

I find that very interesting.

It was only four months and three weeks.

How many employees could you possibly have that you're gonna take a third of the money for your pockets?

So I would hope that if you care about this uh, you know, no shots fired program that you would seriously rethink giving SBCS any funding for it.

Um, and then 112 with the California violence intervention and prevention grant.

I'm wondering if you're gonna use that to make sure the police department isn't assaulting women, like beating their face in.

You know what they want to say is that she's incompetent.

How funny is that?

Just because you're talking about the things that are happening in the jail, right?

And it gives the police officer good warranting, you know, reason to slam your face into the ground.

Good thing it wasn't one of you.

Anywho, and then S503, the continued state of an emergency.

It's so funny when things become routine after decades.

It's like, is it really an emergency?

Are we treating it like an emergency?

Is this how we should have people at dispatch on 911 react?

It's like maybe 30 years later we'll come.

I don't know.

Just depends on how much money we can get from it.

Good job.

Andrea Ebbing, if you can please come forward, you're speaking items 112, 57, and 58.

You'll have three minutes, please proceed.

Thank you.

Oh, I'm 57.58, and what you put 112, 57, and 58.

Okay, so um, yeah, 112, I would just say fiscally, just looking at this again.

I'm asking not to look at me as the victim of everything she just mentioned, because it's true.

Um, but more of an executive in San Diego who's driven like twenty-five million dollars, twenty-four million dollars into the county city through various efforts.

I brought Kanye West here.

I mean, I've done a couple of things, and um, you know, I just think that if we had a better grip on what's going on from the felony side of things, the felony cases that are coming out, and even the county cases that are misdemeanor.

I understand that I have issues with some or step and I have big issues with Summer Stefan, but everyone up here should as well, because everyone looks bad when we create cases for people that aren't real.

It costs so much money, and it's very unfair.

It causes homelessness, it causes gun violence, it causes uh conflict.

So, for example, what she was just mentioning up there, I got a letter from the city attorney's office after I was beaten almost to death, literally as a survivor eruption aneurysm by Anthony Warner, and I got a letter from the city attorney's office, which I was thrilled.

I thought, oh, maybe there's like movement.

But it said that I was a victim of a crime, and the crime I was a victim of with having my beautiful new Tijuana stolen from the place where I was beaten to death almost because after they did that to me, 24 officers showed up.

They won't show up to any non-emergency call in Linda Vista for hours, days, but they showed up within seconds to watch.

But nobody picked up my keys or anything, so I had to go get my car out for a thousand dollars, and then now the person that took my keys, which were sitting next to the car.

Who wouldn't?

Beautiful R line black rimmed cinnamon leather interior, and you've got somebody who he's a kid, they're gonna take the keys and they're gonna take the car, and they did.

Uh, but also, you know, and I I know I'm on one twelve, I think that this shots fire program is good, but the route is that these people are put in a bad position that's generational.

Once you lose your home, once you lose your rent, you missed your rent for that month, and you were incarcerated, it's a it's a ripple effect.

Because they couldn't pay the lady.

There's a new website called SDRico.com.

That's S D R I C O.com.

And on the DA Pay to Play page, you can see defendants in major cases who have paid the lady.

Here's Leo Hamill, God bless him.

I love his jewelry store.

Don't take any offense, Leo Hamill.

$84,000 to summer Stefan.

These are her 460 forms, by the way.

From SDvote.com.

Here's the Poway Synagogue shooting, Dallas Marston, the guy that sold the gun, Lenny McGill, Glockstore, Ghost Gun Case, Lee that shot her husband in Carl's bad.

Thank you for that concluding comment.

Blair Beekman, if you can please come forward.

Your final speaker here in Council Chambers.

You're speaking on items 116 S503 and 61.

Three minutes, please proceed.

Hi, thank you.

I think I was the person without the uh name on my card.

Thank you.

Or uh, yeah, and those are my numbers.

So you first speak on um item uh all right, first speaker on item sixty-one, the uh uh floating bathroom restroom within our one of our lake systems.

This is an item that comes around every once in a while.

Um I it was cute, I thought at first and worth just kind of mentioning.

It actually brings out some sort of imagination from staff.

They come up with other ideas of restroom use in downtown area actually previously.

But I I got a uh conversation on the subject and it was spoken here in public meeting time.

Uh it's actually a bit uh dangerous and pollutive, it sounds like I'm a bit concerned about it now.

I don't think it's really worth it at this point.

I wanted to make my feelings known on it, but I still want to be able to work on downtown bathroom issues, and then we have that going on.

Uh that should uh accessible downtown bathroom use, should always be a priority for ourselves.

Uh on to items uh 102, and it was related to me to item 55 uh tow issues and an agreement with uh parking citation issues.

Good luck on practicing good equity with these things.

I think we've we've done some amazing good work on towing equity issues.

Uh I mean model examples.

So keep up that sort of work and effort, how we talk about our equity.

Uh I think uh uh issues with those items, uh those type of items.

It's important, and that people aren't overcharged, and that we you've you guys have figured out a good system for that, and thank you.

I continue that good work.

Um to item one sixteen appointment to Mission Bay Park Committee.

You had a good item on Mission Bay Park issues yesterday.

Uh good luck in those continued efforts.

I talked about wildlife trail technology policies that uh can be really uh accessible and understandable and can work well.

Uh Davis always has good examples.

I also need to mention the concept of biometric tech in San Diego.

We keep saying it's sports utility tech.

You keep using that term as a euphemism.

Uh I understand why I can go into great detail why you're doing that.

It's a bad practice.

We have to be clear, we're talking about biometric tech, and that shouldn't be a scary concept.

It's around our lives a lot.

You guys are too afraid to simply say those words publicly when it's okay.

We know what you're talking about.

Can you please speak the words?

Have the honest conversation, direct conversation with ourselves, please.

Um, and finally, um S item S503, uh, Tijuana sediment, uh, you know, issues with Tijuana, good luck and and dialogue, communication, and that's another thing not to be fearful of.

Good direct dialogue, and that we're all open to it.

Thank you.

Thank you for that concluding statement.

I'm sorry, the five-minute timer going to those participating remotely.

Currently, have three people in the queue.

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

Uh, thank you.

Yes, I'd like to speak to item one fourteen, item S 503, and item one fifteen.

Thanks, Christine.

Uh thank you.

Regarding establishing the third franchise compliance review committee for people who may not understand um this is actually a committee that's looking out for the rights of San Diego ratepayers.

Our rights are frequently overlooked in deliberations by this council, and this is why we pay the highest rates for electricity in the country.

And adding to the cost of living challenges that many people face.

So the franchise compliance review committee members, they're on their the second report.

I hope the council is paying attention to what they're recommending.

Families who have been paying literally for decades since this franchise has gone on now for over 75 years.

They still don't have undergrounded utility lines overhead.

They're still overhead rather.

So I hope this compliance review committee will put some teeth into enforcing things like undergrounding in communities, older communities that have paid for that for decades and have nothing to show for it.

I remind this council that the city of San Diego lobbied extensively 30 years ago for the construction of this facility, even while ignoring the your own staff's environmental impact report stating that the industrial waste were unmitigated and would cause toxicity problems in the near shore environment, and this is exactly what is happening now.

Thirty years of filing this resolution is like crying fire and doing nothing to put out the flames.

I suggest the city work with Tijuana to develop a source control for the industrial waste that is killing people in the river valley, contaminating the soil, and causing health problems with our first responders, people who do training down there, and the families that live near the river.

An industrial source control and pre-treatment plan would go a long way to protecting the health and safety of San Diegans and people who live in the Nestor area at San Diego and elsewhere, or people who just visit the river valley for recreation.

That pollution was brought to your attention decades ago, and this council has continued to ignore your culpability in approving that project and benefiting from it in many ways, and now it is poisoning people in the river valley.

And finally, I want to bring up a hundred seventy-five thousand dollar settlement that went to a former city employee who was riding a bicycle in Pacific Beach and claims that the street caused an accident, creating personal injuries, extensive personal injuries.

Again, take a look at the mobility issues facing those of us who would prefer not to be in our cars, we'd rather be walking or riding our bikes.

But when we put ourselves in harm's way because of lack of infrastructure and repairs, it's costly not only to us but to the city.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next is Sally Small, after that is Hector and then 7499.

Sally, please proceed and let me know which item or items you wish to speak to.

Sure.

Uh 58, 62, 63, 109, 112, and S503.

Yeah, three minutes.

Starting starting off at 58.

Um, I appreciate that you're making the efforts to make things better for the brown act and for public participation.

But even if you look at the basic cheat sheet that you wrote, uh it lists cab as the location for meetings.

The general public doesn't know what cab is, and there's no address listed.

Uh looking at the group presentations, there's no address listed.

So please get on that ASAP if you want participation.

Uh the seat at the table is something that you guys still need to consider that the community planning groups put out all the effort, but they don't even get money for appeals anymore, and now it's only the CPC, and that time is limited.

But developers get their free reign.

Thank you very much for choice green infrastructure and the storm drain improvements.

Uh 63, the tech makes me nervous.

Um, oh nine with no shots fired.

Um, I believe in the program.

Doing the mentoring and prevention in the first place is awesome.

They need to be able to reduce violence in our neighborhoods.

Uh 112 the same.

Just keep track of the money.

Um, I am worried because in my neighborhood, uh Emerald Hills, Lincoln Park, uh, Valencia Park.

We have organizations that are helping people after the fact, but we need more doing uh prevention and mentoring locally.

Um S503 with the Tijuana, so which I agree.

Uh 30 years is way too long to figure out an answer, and I know the federal is slower than molasses, but you guys are too.

So um please, please get that in gear.

Uh we need to have the health and safety of the people that live in the in the South Bay to uh have what they need to function as normal people and having to smell that is nasty, and things could have been done long, long time ago.

Sorry, my cat's yelling at me.

Uh I'm done.

Thank you.

Thank you, Hector.

If you can please unmute and let me know which item or items you wish to speak to after that is seven four nine nine.

The five minute timer has also concluded.

There are four speakers in the queue.

No additional speakers will be taken.

Hector, please proceed.

Thanks for taking my call.

I got a better internet connection now.

The other one dropped off.

Well, 112, 503, and 51.

Now the 112, uh congratulate the brothers, man.

They know the difference between right and wrong.

There's right and wrong in the world, and they're on the right side.

They probably taste of the grace of God, man.

At one time, they were on the wrong direction.

We should support these guys.

They're they're gonna whatever we can do.

I a way to do it.

That uh other guy wants to tax the rich.

Let's start taxing the rich.

How about uh Scott Peters, our council person?

He's got six hundred million dollars, and Sarah Jacobs, she's worth like sixty million dollars.

Let's put a tax on those guys, three million apiece until the money runs out.

A year though, just a year.

Sarah is a is the granddaughter of Jacobs.

He's a billionaire.

Don't be taxing him because he might split with all the money.

Anyway, Bullstrong with the black guys are doing a great job, man.

It's dangerous, it's crazy work.

And then the Tijuana River thing.

Let's um take some of that money from taxing the rich and turn the Tijuana open sewer line the whole thing's sewer line, it's not river.

Turn it into uh San Isidro uh Bay Park Bay Park like Mission Bay Park, put Mission Bay Park right down there on the river thing, put a huge channel in the ocean, and put a big wall up there and top of the line sewer system.

Turn that water into drinking water, take the water recycle water out of it, and and start doing uh hemp for us.

We'll start growing this is a good idea.

We're gonna grow marijuana hemp plant, which was the declaration of independence, was written on hemp.

And you know the history of paper.

The other guys with the trees took it over.

We'll have hemp paper factory right down there.

That'll be jobs.

We'll have mission bay, boating ramps.

The whole deal will turn a lemon into lemonade, man.

That'd be something to be proud of, man.

And then let's see, there's so many numbers, but uh one thing, what's our problem is we're Gloriaville 2.0.

Remember when Billton said Gloriaville?

We're living in Gloriaville.

This is Gloriaville 2.0.

He's cutting funded even in that Christmas thing in Balball Park.

That's an abomination.

And then uh, oh man.

I actually talked to Bill Clill uh and thanked them for calling it Gloriaville.

That's when the the Bell Bowl Park started cleaning up the homeless.

I was down there last week.

There's more homeless guys in Balball Park now.

The regular homeless and the aggressive homeless that kind of beg to you.

I was there at five o'clock, walking from Presidio to bus station at 120.

There's more home.

And our last speaker is Madison 7499.

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

I'd like to speak on all the items, but I'll be brief.

So three minutes, please proceed.

Bob Kazuski here.

First, if you look at the agenda for most of these items, you'll see virtually no substance about the item to let citizens know what it's about.

There's a link for more detail, but today's agenda, for example, contains 47 items.

That's a lot of links to check just to see what's actually on the agenda.

I'm therefore asking the city clerk to please put at least some substance into these descriptions.

Thank you.

Second, I noticed that many of these items are contracts.

As you all know from my many comments on the lack of oversight at Tory Pines, this city has a terrible track record of overseeing contracts.

I urge this council to ensure that all of these contracts contain provisions for proper oversight.

Third, I'd like to commend the city for continued appointments to boards and committees.

These bodies provide the city with valuable expertise that the city does not have.

If you read the city charter, you'll find that's the purpose of these boards and committees.

That's exactly why the city council needs to reactivate the Tory Pine City Park Advisory Board, which is an obvious area where the city has no actual expertise.

Fourth, despite all your flowery words, it's clear that this council does not respect the wisdom that seniors bring to these council chambers every single week.

Actions speak louder than words, Joe LaCava.

Finally, congratulations to City Clerk Fuentes, who has kindly given me so much of her time on a number of recent issues.

That concludes my remarks on the agenda.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next is Judy Strang.

If you can please unmute.

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

I'd like to speak to item 58 regarding SB 707.

Thank you.

You'll have one minute, please proceed.

You bet.

Thank you for the time that we all many of you put into making this come to fruition.

Those of us who watched SB 707 go through the legislature, we're thrilled to see that we're now seeing it put into place in our city councils.

I'm particularly pleased that we've kept in effect the opportunity for non-agenda public comment and that the 16-minute limitation for subject matter applies separately for in-person and separately for Zoom.

But those of us who are at work during the day and we have to call in, we really appreciate that if we make the effort and it just so happens that we're eight speakers on your item.

You still have that chance as part of the Zoom meeting.

It's a good step forward.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And our final speaker is Madison.

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

Yes, thank you.

Item 58.

Please proceed.

So I also wanted to say thank you for continuing to allow the five-minute timer at the beginning of Zoom public comment for speakers to raise their hand as the city updates these rules of council to comply with SB 707 and ensure equal access for virtual and in-person participants.

I think this is exactly the kind of practical accommodation that helps make remote participation genuinely workable.

That extra window may seem small administratively, but for many members of the public, it makes participation much more accessible.

People joining remotely are often balancing work, family responsibilities, technology delays, or simply trying to follow when their item is being called.

And those few minutes help ensure they do not miss the opportunity to speak.

So thank you for that.

Thank you.

That concludes with a comment on the consent agenda.

Alright, thank you.

Uh City Clerk and uh before we go to my colleagues for questions, uh, comments and entertainment motion.

Um, we I understand there was an audio glitch during a meeting management announcement that I made earlier.

Uh, and that is uh given the hour, the late hour this morning or now this afternoon.

We will only take non-public not agenda public comment from those in chambers after this item.

Uh remote non-agenda public comment will be taken at the two o'clock hour and I'll repeat that again but again uh we will trail remote or virtual non agenda public comment on till the two o'clock or shortly thereafter afternoon session so with that um we will first start with council member von Wilbert.

Thank you, Council President, and I'm happy to make a motion to approve the consent agenda.

I want to start with item 109 uh for our no shots fired program.

Thank you to Bishop Bowser and all of your team, Alvin, everyone for being here.

Um thank you to South Bay Community Services for the work you're doing as well and to our San Diego Police Department for your partnership with um Chef Hat's incredible work.

Uh I want to be abundantly clear that gun violence is still a challenge that we are all facing in our communities and we cannot reduce gun violence overall if we only act in a reactive manner as we have to be proactive as well.

And so I just want to thank all of you for your continued work with the city.

You know, since I've been you're on this dias for six years, we've had great partnership with no shots fired.

Not only are you intervening when violence happened, to prevent more violence, uh you're also remembering how to care for for victims.

You know, you're with us every time when we when we have the summer of peace or we have an annual gun violence remembrance, and so thank you for your work also uh into helping victims of domestic violence because often gun violence can come so often in domestic violence situations and and Alvin, I'm glad you're okay.

I'm sorry that you also suffer gun violence in the midst of your work, but we just appreciate you and this partner for the city, and so um on behalf of the public safety committee, we're glad to have you anytime.

You gave a great presentation last time as well, and I want to thank the No Shots Fired program for working hand in hand as part of our public safety team.

Um item 112 accepting California gun violence intervention and prevention grant uh cohort funding for our peacemaker project.

Um I'm very much in support of this item because it once again it represents a proactive investment in violence prevention rather than simply intervening after violence occurred.

Uh the peacemaker project focused on addressing the root causes of violence by connecting at-risk youth and families with mentorship, mental health care, education, workforce opportunities, and community support before situations escalate into tragedy.

And finally on item S 502, I would like to make some comments about item S502.

During last year's budget review process, we had a lot of discussions about our reservoir recreation program.

You know, Lake Miramar, Lake Murray, Lake Hodges, all of these are not in fact actual lakes, they are reservoirs.

They're drinking water reservoirs, and they have become such a public part of our uh such a uh fabric of our public institutions that people do use them for recreation, which is wonderful.

Um at the same time, it has been very hard to maintain some of these reservoirs as uh public accommodations when we really have to focus on on the water quality.

So I was very happy to see that this year's budget, we have received a $600,000 contribution from the county, an effort that was led by Supervisor Joel Anderson, uh, around uh was a 1.4 million local assistance grant funding coming from Senator Brian Jones, all going towards keeping El Capitan reservoir access open all summer.

So I want to thank the Senator, I want to thank Supervisor Anderson as well for their partnership, and I really want to thank the friends of the San Diego Lakes.

They have done a great job advocating for the reservoir recreation program, and I thank them for pushing these collaborations across the finish line because we should all be working together for these valuable community resources.

So thank you, Council President.

All right, thank you.

So we have a motion by Council Member Von Wolpert.

We'll go next to Councilmember Campbell.

I'm happy to second the consent agenda.

Thank you.

All right, thank you for that.

Uh Councilmember Foster.

Uh yes, thank you, Council President.

Um, and thank you to the No Shots Fire team for everything that you do.

Um, this is something that I believe started in uh 2022, I believe, um, or thereabouts, where my predecessor um had a conversation and discussion with Bishop Bowser, and then I was given a directive to uh get this program in place.

And um just want to thank you for all that you do, as we see your team does put their themselves at risk, and so I just want to make sure that we um recognize that and understand that as all of you have families and folks that you have responsibilities and obligations to take care of.

And also thank you for bringing your lived experience to our young people.

And I think that speaks specifically to the work that you do.

As often as you are told no, you tend to stay committed and stay dedicated, and don't accept those no's and uh keep looking forward.

And I'm glad to hear the program is actually expanding.

Um, doing some work at the county now.

Um, and so just looking forward to continuing that good work and um just from from me to you, just a sincere thank you for everything that you do.

Um also um just want to say congratulations.

Um we have a few appointments.

Um to the housing commission, um, my good brother uh Kawafi Reid.

Um, thank you for everything that you do.

Um, not only with with um the housing that you are providing um building that generational wealth and and uh the clients that you um target.

Um, just thank you for making those opportunities available.

Also, um would like to congratulate Dr.

Yolanda uh Franklin for your appointment to the Arts Um and Culture Commission, executive director for the Common Ground Theater.

Um, and uh just thank you for everything you do, the historical context associated with common um ground theater.

Again, another um what I will say an institution where we had to make our own way, right?

Create opportunity, create a space for our people to uh flourish and to participate in the arts and their talent.

So um thank you and thank you for continuing uh to keep those efforts um going.

Um I will um and and congratulations um to the mayor.

Um I think the Cal VIP grant um another round um of that funding.

Um I just think it speaks to um where we once were and where we are now and continuing um to work with the community to bring alternatives because um that work again um folks are our community public safety professionals are able to go to place go into spaces where our law enforcement professionals cannot go.

Um and so thank you for that.

Um with that I will conclude there.

Um Madam Clerk, um, as we move forward, I would like to um register a no vote on item 57, the salary ordinance.

And that concludes my comments.

Thank you.

All right, thank you, sir.

And again, we do have a motion by Councilmember Vaughn Wolpert and a second by Councilmember Campbell.

We'll go to Councilmember Ila Rivera.

Thank you, Council President.

Um I'll make this pretty brief.

I just wanted to speak to um to the No Shots Fired program and um thank Bishop Bowser and the uh Shapat uh team who's out here.

Um you all do incredibly important work.

I appreciate you putting your bodies on the line, the way you do.

Um Alvin, thank you for continuing to show up despite um uh the way you've been impacted.

Um, it's an incredibly important part of creating a safe community.

Um it's it's it I'm really glad to see the arc um that this program has taken from when council member Montgomery Step and Council uh Chief of Staffoster Um started championing it.

The way it was responded to from within the system and now where it is.

Um the you all have proven the the um proven that what you were arguing for and advocating for um wasn't just um you know a nice idea.

It was a it was it was born from evidence and and experience.

Um and then uh Councilmember Boster, thank you for being a champion for it and continuing to seek out resources that can support the program.

Um again, this is a really really important uh really really important part of of keeping San Diego safe.

Uh thank you, Councilmember Ila Rivera.

Uh, not seeing anybody else in the lights.

Um, I will congratulate uh the funding as my colleagues said, uh those who are being appointed and reappointed with a special shout out to uh district one residents Bill Tippets uh who is being appointed to the Mission Bay Park Committee in the district, one of the district one seats.

Uh his wealth of environmental experience will be crucial to the upcoming work of the board.

So thank you for your contributions and your willingness to serve on the mission bay park committee.

Uh oh, I'm sorry, Councilmember Moreno.

I apologize, my intention wasn't to speak.

Um, but I do have a question on item 57.

Um I just want to clarify uh did we um I wasn't here for the first reading, so I understand this is a second reading, and I see a car allowance for this assistant to the city manager, which is the mayor, deputy chief of staff classification to exhibit F auto allowance under $475 per month.

I just I was under the impression that that was removed, and I just want clarification on that.

Um, I see folks in the back.

Did you want to speak to that?

I think the idea was to remove it when after we adopt the budget and then we update the salary ordinance after that, but I may not have that correct.

Uh thank you so much.

Abby Geraldvelds, deputy director of the human resources department.

So the direction was to go back to status quo, and that position did have the um pay at the time.

So the remaining position titles were changed, but everything else was remained status quo per the direction of the city council.

Remain status quo.

Meaning if the position was already listed, that position was not removed.

The titles were changed, and that was the only change that was requested.

Okay, and my question, um, once again, I'll reiterate does this include a car allowance?

There is an auto allowance for that position, currently, um, given the budget circumstances that we have, and that my community is facing um libraries being shut and um park and rec programming being eliminated.

I don't think it's appropriate to add a car allowance at this moment for um deputy chief of staff for the mayor's office.

So I will be registering a no vote on item 57.

I do look forward uh to it being eliminated as the budget um as we come and vote for the budget, but given what's in front of me today, I don't do not feel comfortable uh giving a car allowance to the mayor's deputy chief of staff.

Thank you.

All right, thank you, Councilmember Moreno.

Uh good catch.

Uh Councilmember Ila Rivera.

Yeah, I just I'm not gonna make a whole thing out of it.

I just I'm not a hundred percent comfortable with the way that I the way that that was described, and so I'll also be casting a no vote on 57 based on how it's moving with an understanding that it'll come back to us um a little later on.

Thank you.

Fair enough.

Uh Councilmember Campbell.

I also would like to cast a no vote on 57.

I'd ask the uh mayor uh before he even presented the bud his first draft budget to please get rid of the car allowances.

I know uh there's only a few of them, it doesn't add up to a horrendously large amount of money, nevertheless.

Every single bit counts, and I think that we uh are very out of date to be giving car allowances at this time.

Thank you.

Um, what happens if we just pull item 57 right now?

Uh defer to the city attorney's office.

There is a charter requirement that requires a first and second reading to occur.

Um, so defer to the city attorney's office on next steps with regard to that.

Approval of a second reading, not just a second.

Correct, correct.

I don't think the city attorney was prepared for a question like that.

Oh, yes, Tom.

The one widely waving his hands.

So yeah, uh, I the the problem is the charter requires the charter section 11.1 requires the salary ordinance be passed by May 30th.

So if it doesn't pass today, there's no time to pass it by May 30th.

So there'd be a technically a charter violation there.

We don't have the votes.

Yeah, five votes.

Yeah, all right.

I think I think a message is being said, sent pretty loud and clear.

Which is what we I think navigated last time.

So if I could just add I I believe that there will be an amendment to the salary ordinance coming shortly, and at that time you could address the Carl Allen.

Yeah, Council President, I believe the next amendment will be coming forward June 16th to include the uh reached labor negotiation agreements, and so we could revisit this conversation at that time and then move forward with a vote today to uh meet the charter mandate.

Okay.

Um I don't think we want to revisit it.

I think Coda just want to get it done.

So uh so if we hold firm like that, we can president I think that that's the the way I heard the response was I think it was I thought it was a more or less settled matter when we discussed it last time.

So I I'm willing to vote yes with the commitment that this is gone when it comes back to us.

Um yes, council member.

Okay.

Uh then I understand that this needs to move forward.

Um we'll cast a yes vote with the expectation that that commitment be adhered to when we see it next time.

Okay.

Uh one of several bureaucratic things this council has to deal with where we feel like we have very little choice or a voice.

Uh, but I think the point was made.

So thank you, Councilmember Moreno for catching that.

So uh Council President Pro Tem Lee.

Yeah, despite my inclination to also have the same uh challenge, uh I will support it, knowing it needs to move forward, and um, the may revise is gonna be upon us shortly anyway, so frankly, the budget's gonna be in the council's hands.

I think that'll be an opportunity for the council to determine what it would like to see incorporated moving forward in the salary ordinance.

So look forward to doing that.

All right, thank you, sir.

Um, with that, um, I think everybody has spoken.

So we have a motion by council member von Wilpert.

We have a second by council member Campbell, and I think we still have no votes from Councilmember Moreno and Councilmember Campbell on 57.

So you have that and council member Foster.

A little musical chairs here, but that's okay.

That's what we're here for.

Uh so with that, Clerk, please call it.

I've been a little uncomfortable with the way this is unfolding here.

I don't think we've actually had a full discussion on this and I'm a little uncomfortable with no votes here and commitments there about future action of the council.

I don't want to vote on something that's gonna tie my hands.

Well, the mayor's office is committing to bring it forward with the removal.

The council will still have an opportunity to vote, right?

Hang on.

Council President, would it be possible to return this item to staff and redocket it for next Tuesday to ensure that we meet the second reading prior to May 30th?

Sure.

Okay, I could live with that.

We will return this to staff then.

Okay.

So item 57 is going to be returned to staff.

Um, so uh with the uh concurrence of the um motion maker, council member on Walbert with 57 being removed, and the seconder uh we will vote on the remainder of the items.

So clerk, please call the roll.

I sorry the voting system, please cast your vote just for the record again.

Items 57 and 106 were returned.

The remaining items were passed unanimously eight to zero with council member campio absent.

Thank you.

All right, and thank you for the reminder about item 106 as well.

So uh, thank you, Conan.

And Abby and Tom for your uh so with that um again, we're going to take not agenda public comment that it's in chambers.

Uh we will trail the virtual non-agenda public comment until uh after uh until the two o'clock session.

So, first, are there any mayoral council city attorney independent budget answer for city clerk comments?

I don't see any.

I'm gonna uh make a comment to correct a um on the record, but I'll do that next week in the interest of time.

So let's now take up not agenda public comment.

Council members respect and appreciate the public's input and are fully committed to protecting every participant's free speech rights of counsel and committee meetings.

Uh clerk, please proceed with the in-person public comment.

Again, we're deferring the virtual or trailing the virtual until the two o'clock session.

Thank you, Council President.

Before proceeding with non-agenda public comment, um thank you to those that were appointed today.

If you can please go towards the uh back of chambers, my staff will be there to give you your oath of office.

Thank you for your service.

Um can I have allegedly Audra and then Andrea Ebbing, please come up to the front row and uh Audra, you could take the microphone.

Two minutes for an agenda public comment.

As a reminder, per rule 2.7 on the gender 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.

Please proceed.

Do I get to take it with me?

Is that all right?

So I'm wondering if you guys can humble yourselves for a moment because you know that you violated not only your city charter, but the Brown Act, and those could potentially put you guys up for misdemeanor charges and civil penalties per violation.

It was five times I caught you guys doing it, and you literally treated me like a criminal.

That's not fair.

And you're making me want to go further and hold you guys accountable because you won't even admit that what you did was wrong and illegal.

And this should be looked at by the ethics commission.

Because how can you be trusted when you literally blatantly look at me in the face, and then we're like laughing pretending pretty much about it.

When you know, you know that you can't do business without a quorum, but yet you are so arrogant that you dug your heels in and you did it five times, and I have record of it.

Because you guys have your own city TV that will hide that.

Yeah, because the music will come on, the the video will change, and out of transparency, those are things that you should let the public see how you treat people, especially when you're violating the law, and you like literally blatantly do it.

Like, what?

What are you guys?

What are you gonna do about it?

So now I'm gonna prove to you what I'm gonna do about it because this shouldn't continue.

You shouldn't treat the public like that when you're violating the law, and then you're acting like I'm violating the law, I'm making a disruption.

When your city attorney can't even go, we shouldn't be doing business like this.

So good for you guys and your arrogance.

Look forward to fighting this further.

Andrea, if you can please come forward.

Hi, Andrea Ebbing.

Uh, I was there for one of the times that happened, and uh I obviously support Audra's efforts, and um I think that we don't want to deem her incompetent for saying that because if it does turn legal, that could be a good strategy to shut her up because when slamming her on the ground didn't work, and then trying to silence her didn't work, we could always deem her incompetent, which is what they're trying to do with me.

So uh it's funny because the officer that beat me to almost death doesn't have a case.

This man came and he admitted on the stand that he grabbed my hands and basically started to assault me without ever instructing me one moment about what he was doing.

Not knowing the trauma I had just lived through.

So I want this on the record, that there was no jury trial set because my public defender filed a nine five nine nine five, and she also filed a pitches motion.

I'm obviously competent, I make great money.

I've survived something you can't even possibly imagine, and here I am today balancing work in this, I'm very competent.

But when this was going to fall through, because they obviously know that they're in the wrong, they decided to try and make me incompetent, which is going to be a challenge because I actually just built a beautiful new website called SD Rico S D R I C O.com, which talks about a lot of the patterns and behavior I talk about up here.

So uh this is not a social media page.

The county has an illegal ban on me for social media.

That's total violation of my first amendment rights.

I own this website.

I will do what I want with this website.

It is not social media.

And um, enter the wicked world of the enterprise.

Explore all new SD centric space for all things public corruption, fraud, waste, and abuse, and the unsolved mysteries of questionable decision making.

SD Rico explores a pattern of behavior and predicate acts that can be defined under the RICO statute.

Thank you.

Thank you for that concluding comment.

That does conclude non-generalic comment in person as noted, the virtual will be trailed to the afternoon.

Thank you, Council President.

Thank you.

It's just to be clear, it'll be trailed to the first item in the afternoon session.

We will now adjourn for the noon recess and reconvene open session at two PM or shortly thereafter.

Okay, we know we've got people that we said we would start uh virtual non-agenda public comment.

I want to be respectful of that.

We do have five here in chambers.

So good afternoon.

I will now reconvene the city council meeting of Tuesday, May twelfth, twenty twenty six.

Clerk, please call the role.

Thank you, Council President, Councilmember Campbell.

Here.

Councilmember Whitburn.

Here.

Councilmember Foster.

Councilmember Von Wilbert.

Council President Pro Tem Lee.

Here.

Councilmember Campillo.

Councilmember Moreno.

Present.

Councilmember Elo Rivera.

And Council President Lacava.

Also attending the meeting are assistance city attorney, Michelle Garland, independent budget analyst, Charles Monica, Council of Affairs Advisor and the Mayor's Office, Code Desizer, and myself your city clerk, Deanna Fuentes.

Pearl two point seven, per rule 2.7.

Each member of the public has two minutes.

Non-agenda public comment is an opportunity for members of the public to comment on items that are not on the agenda, but within the subject matter jurisdiction of the City Council.

Now it's time to please raise your hand to speak by tapping the raise your hand icon, or if you're calling participants, star nine.

I'm sorry, the five-minute timer, we currently have seven people in the queue, starting with Kathleen Lippitt.

Please unmute.

Thank you.

Um, I'd like to address the difficulty that the public experiences when they try to track changes in city codes, amendments, ordinances, and policies.

When as Blair Beekman pointed out, items are not clearly defined.

Even the briefest of explanations would be appreciated.

If a ledge bill is cited, please identify its intent.

An acronym, abbreviation, or alphabet agency may be familiar to you, but not to the public.

The public has learned to be suspicious of vague euphemistic or dysfamistic terms as they have been used to hide what is being done or avoid public opposition.

Providing a single minute for a public response undermines the claim that you welcome the public voice.

Regarding the 2026 Muning Code updates, 134 proposed amendments, many of which were of great interest to the public, were bundled, leaving the public one minute to respond.

That disenfranchises the public voice.

The excuse of streamlining has been worn thin.

Streamlining should only be used when it benefits both the public and the city council.

Strategies such as these, replacing commonly understood words or phrases with jargon created with a political lens and intended to obscure is reminiscent of childish teen speak used to obscure the meaning from adults.

You are all adults.

Have the courage to mean what you say and not hide behind jargon.

Adults take responsibility.

Releasing 15,000 violent state inmates were released only during public to protect them from COVID.

That never made sense to the public.

Prop 47 reduced numerous felonies to misdemeanors and sexually violent criminals.

Concluded.

Next speaker is Terry Ann Skelly.

If you can please unmute.

Good afternoon, Cindy City Council, Chair Lacava.

A special thank you to Budget and Government Efficiency Committee and Chairs Foster's work in preparation for the week-long budget meetings.

And to many of the city council members who handled the leadership roles during last week.

The journey through middle and high school into college or employment or vocational training is far more complicated and stressful than ever.

So I must say, as a parent that it is disheartening for parents to battle against marijuana storefronts in their neighborhoods.

And their advertising, promotions, and the city's billboards, all suggesting the use of marijuana is a solution to young adults' anxiety and stress.

Now would be a great time to eliminate these billboards as a first step in demonstrating to young people that a life substance-free is a good choice for them.

Thank you for hearing my concerns today.

Thank you, Peggy Walker.

If you can please unmute, after that is Judy Strain.

Peggy.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, and thank you for approving tighter regulations on marijuana advertising and promotion yesterday.

This is important to public health, especially in light of confusion over federal rescheduling, which may reinforce misconceptions about marijuana safety.

To be clear, recreational marijuana remains Schedule 1 at present and federally illegal.

Scheduling, rescheduling, applies to FDA approved, non-intoxicating products, and state controlled or state-approved, quote, medical uses.

California allows marijuana for 11 medical conditions, but extensive research shows little to no evidence it benefits those conditions.

Open-ended law also allows use for conditions deemed chronic persistent or limiting daily activities.

This essentially means medical marijuana is whatever a medical cardholder decides it is.

Those card holders pay no sales tax and can buy greater quantities of the same pot products, so those recreational, leading many to call quote medical use a scam for sales tax-free recreational pot.

Data shows that medicalizing high potency marijuana has produced rising addictions, poisonings, ER visits, DUIs, suicides, and psychiatric disorders.

Contributing to this problem are loose marketing and advertising regulations that enable manufacturers to exaggerate therapeutic uses and downplay harms.

Lawsuits nationwide, alleging fraudulent claims by the industry, demonstrate that people are being hurt.

In addition to tighter advertising and marketing control.

Good afternoon, San Diego City Council.

Thank you.

I want to continue my thoughts from this morning regarding marijuana use and adults, because I what I didn't get to share is something that's been a concern to us.

My husband is a pharmacist, and he is gravely concerned as all of us that are either have older adults for whom we're responsible or older adults ourselves, regarding the unfortunate dangerous interactions between drugs that older people take and marijuana use, not the least of which is blood thinners, sedatives, and opioids used for pain.

The combination of these drugs can either undermine the effectiveness of the drugs or exaggerate the use of the drugs, both dangerous situations.

Not to mention the combination of marijuana with alcohol and the problems that would lead to, not the least of which is dangerous sedation or cognitive issues.

A couple of more things I'm going to share, but I mentioned that this morning and the items now all come from the Stanford School of Medicine fact sheet.

They've been expressing for a period of time their concern about marijuana use for adults.

They point out to us that older adults metabolize drugs slower, so that THC in marijuana can persist longer, which intensifies side effects and of course increases the risk of accidental overconsumption.

They also point out the concern they have with cognitive impairment.

Some of that may already be age-related.

However, marijuana exaggerates that.

And to have that interfered with by marijuana is a reason for all of us to be concerned, not the least of which we should also care about.

The mental confusion, anxiety, paranoia that can occur with marijuana use by older adults.

Cautiousness is the name of the game.

Access and availability in advertising needs to be controlled.

Thank you.

Concluded Madison, if you can please unmute.

After Madison is Blair Beekman, and then 799.

Hi, thank you, and thanks again for the opportunity to listen to the public speaking.

Today I'd like to highlight an issue that applies to nicotine and marijuana products, which is the environmental and hazardous waste impact of smoking and vaping.

Vapes are hazardous waste.

They contain lithium batteries that can spark fires in parks and trash systems.

They contain nicotine, THC, and other chemicals that can leach into our soil and waterways.

And because they are made of mixed materials, plastic, metal, electronics, they are extremely difficult to break down or recycle.

The volume of this waste is growing.

And our schools are on the front line of this problem.

Every day, administrators confiscate vape devices from students.

Sometimes they have hundreds at a time and are storing them in boxes, often without clear guidance.

That creates risks of fire hazards, chemical exposure, and liability.

Schools are being asked to manage hazardous waste without standardized protocols, without proper storage systems, and without consistent support.

But there is an opportunity here because many young people today care deeply about the environment.

When they understand that vaping contributes to pollution, fire risk and toxic waste, it changes the conversation.

It becomes not just a health issue, but an environmental one.

And that connection increases awareness and engagement.

We can support clear citywide regional protocols for safe disposal of vape products.

We can explore partnerships with hazardous waste and recycling providers.

And most importantly, we can invest in prevention, especially in those upper elementary and middle school grades, and focus on their decision making, long-term consequences, and peer-to-peer education.

Let's please make choices to protect not only public health, but to protect our environment as well.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next is Blair Beekman.

If you can please unmute after that is 7499, and then Hector, the five-minute timer did conclude.

The four speakers in the queue.

No additional speakers will be taken.

Blair, please proceed.

Hi, thank you.

Blair Peakman.

As part of the budget items from last week, I also wanted to ask the question.

Uh I spoke at public comment yesterday on such things.

Today I wanted to ask uh more about um on the Friday meeting.

The uh police review uh board.

I I I'm sorry, I don't quite know their name still yet, but um they're you know, their new name.

I don't um they're they were supposed to give a presentation and they didn't give one and um it was excused.

Uh you know, they're going through some pretty difficult times, I'm understanding.

It's not a cakewalk for them right now.

And I think uh a public process for everyone would be much appreciated and understood as uh, you know, airing out what needs to be uh addressed.

And I can understand that people want to kind of keep uh a bit secluded and work it out privately, and that's understandable too, but um, I I'm not fully around them all the time, but I'm hearing kind of sad stories of what's going on with them, and I need to uh better understand what what they're going through.

And I think you know, uh them going through the budget process would be really helpful.

Can they be rescheduled for an open public uh process?

Um, I think it would be beneficial to everyone of the community, and I've written yourselves letters uh asking uh such questions.

Good luck and such efforts.

Um good luck that we've renamed uh Cesar Sabez uh time.

Um in doing so, I hope we can uh really acknowledge what people like Andrea Edward are going through right now, not just with police de-escalation issues, but with EMS.

What was going on with EMS as well that we need to be asking questions about?

And um, I had one more item of concern with eight seconds left that's uh uh my brain isn't coming up with it, so I have to wait.

Uh thanks.

Thank you.

Next to 7499.

If you can please unmute, then it's Hector and the gambler.

7499.

Bob Kuzki here.

First, I'd like to comment on the video that I showed this council yesterday.

That video was taken one week ago today, and it reflects nearly nine years of free flying access at a public popular coastal hang gliding site right in the heart of Los Angeles.

Joe Lakava knows very well that we've been flying under a simple one-page waiver at that site in Los Angeles since 2017.

Yet he's refused to entertain that same idea at Tory Pine because he wants to protect that business and their iron fisted control of our city parkland.

It's shameful, and I'll continue speaking on that in the future.

Second, I want to address Mr.

Elo Rivera's ridiculous comment yesterday, trying to deny the obvious connection between San Diego's illegal population growth and its effect on our water shortages and housing shortages.

I don't know how stupid a person has to be to not recognize on its face that both water shortages and housing shortages are a direct consequence of population.

Anyone who has taken economics 101 should know that it's the supply and demand curves that dictate the prices and quantities of everything from apples to acres.

Neither land nor water are manufactured.

So they do not benefit from economies of scale as implied by Mr.

Elo Rivera.

But I don't think Mr.

Elo Rivera is stupid.

In fact, I think he's very smart.

But he thinks the citizens are stupid.

He thinks we'll continue to believe whatever he tells us because he's gotten away with it for so long now.

I'm sorry, Mr.

Elo Rivera, but I'm going to continue to shine a light into every dark corner of the city I can find until this council finally remembers who you're here to represent.

I would rather spend my retirement years hang gliding at Tory Pines, but you and the rest of this rotten council are precluding that.

So here I am.

Thank you.

Next is Hector.

If you can please unmute.

Well, thanks for taking my call.

Yeah, just uh this morning was a classic example of the city trying to blow stuff by us.

When that one lady came up with a mask on, and she said, Oh, that's just uh, we're gonna have the car thing.

It's it's cool, don't worry.

And I thank the councilwoman who had the ears to listen when she heard bullshit.

She spoke up.

And that's how we're feeling.

Everyone that comes up there with the mayor, you gotta look with a 10 grains of salt and like a bullhorn, you know, just because it's they're jiving us.

It's like a half-truth lie.

And a lot of you, some of you guys on the council grew up gay and stuff.

So you guys learn how to tell half-truths with the best of them.

And plus, if you're a lawyer, that's what lawyers do.

They shade, conceal, and reveal the truth.

That's their job.

So that's a double whammy, as far as a liar goes.

A half-tooth liar is a half-tooth liar, man.

But you just, they're usually smiling when they're lying to you.

But anyway, uh, we've we've been through like the last four or five years total lawlessness.

People stealing.

We're just trying to come up.

Who's in loss pertain to, who gets a free pass.

The governor's lying every time he opens his mouth, you know, and the mayor's is Todd Gloriaville 2.0.

We gotta like fire a thousand city employees, take the money and fund the young kids' stuff.

Have them take the bus to work.

No more city cars, take the bus to work and the trolley.

We'll buy them a trolley pass for the month.

That'll say the city a bundle.

We've got all sorts of ideas, man.

But it's gotta take it a day at a time, man.

Okay, good luck to you guys.

Good luck.

And the gambler, if you can unmute, please.

How are you guys doing this fine and lovely day?

I like how you want to go ahead and get us out of the car, but you have no problem going and doing that employing bullshit.

You know you guys were trying to bullshit, and that's why you want to go ahead and pass it.

You you are forced to vote on issues and pass them.

You flat out said it today.

Matter of fact, I'm going around and posting on whoever's running for election and telling them if you hire ballot harvesters.

I gave them a video on how to steam open an envelope.

I also basically pointed out that you could collect as many unused ballots as humanly possible, and then go around and harvest ballots, steam them open, takes about 30 seconds, and you could switch the contents.

This is a complete crime, and it should be looked into.

Matter of fact, I think we discovered this back in the 80s.

Now it's funny when I take a look at majority of the supervisor or you guys up there.

And I realize that you guys work for these organizations that fraud was discovered in the 80s.

In the 90s, we decided to create the NBRA regulations.

I don't know that.

We're going to protect the people committing that fraud.

So A, you could go ahead and collect ballots and steam them open and switch a content.

Or B, set out a regul uh uh walking list, fill out registration cards for the people on that walking list, and vote for them.

I mean, it's not like we're gonna actually check because we love lawlessness in San Diego County.

Actually, we encourage it.

Because, well, fuck it.

Why do we need bike lanes going to places that people can't go?

Just to waste money and get a little bit extra cash.

Why do we build up these hotel rooms and charge what an ungodly amount of money and then they remain empty, you know, for low-income housing, right?

Why is it that a homeless and city city?

All right.

Thank you, City Clerk.

Uh, and thank you for everyone and your patience and pivoting to continuing the virtual uh until this afternoon.

So, with that, Clerk, please introduce the City Council Housing Authority companion items.

Item.

Sorry.

Item 332 is no 331.

Sorry.

My apologies.

Item 3.

331 is a tax equity and fiscal responsibility act for resolution for Mercado apartments, and item HA3 is the final bond authorization for Mercado apartments.

If you'd like to speak to these items, please be sure to submit a speaker slip to the front of the room in the clear box, and or not as a time to raise your hand by pressing star nine or the raise your hand icon.

Thank you, Council President.

Alright, I see staff is uh getting themselves set up, and when you do, um give us your name for the record and let us know how much time you need.

Good afternoon, Council President.

My name is Colin Miller, Senior Vice President of Real Estate, and I'm joined today by Michelle Maniz, director of underwriting, along with representatives from the developer.

We'd like about eight minutes, please.

Alright, when you're ready.

The item before you today is a request to take the final steps to issue up to $30,000 seventy-three thousand fifty-two dollars in tax-exempt multifamily housing revenue bonds to facilitate the acquisition, rehabilitation, and new construction of the Mercado apartments.

The Mercado Apartments is a proposed rehabilitation and new construction of an existing 144 unit property, which is comprised of 142 affordable units and two unrestricted manager units.

The project is located at 2001 Newton Avenue in the Barrio Logan neighborhood of San Diego in Council District 8.

The project was originally constructed in 1994 and is affordable for households with incomes up with income levels from 30 to 60% of San Diego's area median income, which translates to incomes between 39,700 per year up to 99,240 per year for two to four-person households.

Once completed, the affordability restrictions in the project will be extended for another 55-year term.

The proposed development will take the existing 144 units, uh demolish 12 of them, and then build 92 new units in that space for net increase of 80 units.

The developer plans to rehabilitate the remaining 132 units.

Relocation benefits will be provided for all tenants.

The developer, Metropolitan Area Advisory Committee on Anti-Poverty of the San Diego County Incorporated, or Mac for short, is an experienced nonprofit developer that has developed over eleven hundred units of affordable housing in San Diego.

Mac will continue to be the service provider for the Mercado apartments.

Services will include case management and resource navigation, as well as items listed on this slide.

This slide shows the site and map of the development.

The closest transit is the Barrio Logan trolley station, located less than one half mile from the property outlined in purple.

The closest grocery store is the Northgate market and is located 0.1 miles away from the property outlined in green.

And the closest school is located one third of a mile away from the project site outlined in blue.

Notable sources of funding include a bond financed permanent loan, assumed loans from the housing commission, as well as the city of San Diego, capital contributions, deferred developer fee, and tax credit equity.

Units will be restricted at 30 to 60% of area median income for the next 55 years, and rents will range from $930 for a one-bedroom unit at 30% AMI to 2,580 per month for a three-bedroom unit at 60% AMI.

Should this item be approved today, the project will close on construction financing at the end of this month and start construction in June.

The developer expects to complete construction in December of 2027.

This is the architect's rendering of the development.

In summary, you're considering approvals to take the final steps to issue up to 30 million, 73,052 dollars in tax exempt multifamily housing revenue bonds.

The bonds would not constitute a debt of the city.

If bonds are ultimately issued for the project, the bonds will not financially obligate the city, the housing authority, or the housing commission, because security for the repayment of the bonds will be limited to specific private revenue sources of the project.

Neither the full faith and credit nor taxing power of the city nor full faith and credit of the housing authority will be pledged to payment of the bonds.

Staff recommend the council take the actions directed in the staff report and shown on the following slides.

This concludes our presentation.

Michelle and I, as well as the representative from the developer, are available to answer any questions you may have.

Thank you.

All right, thank you for the work and the presentation.

Clerk, please proceed with public comment for these two items.

Thank you, Council President.

Allegedly, Audra.

If you can please come forward, you're gonna be speaking on item 331.

Yes, it seems nice what you guys are doing, but the problem is these entities that you guys contract with can come in and give you false reporting, give you know, come in and want to get these contracts with the government to provide affordable housing, but they engage in fraud and doing it.

And it's unfortunate because people are waiting for housing, people really want it, and the fact that this is it's a business to, you know, do whatever is happening in the city, and it's unfortunate because people like are expecting you guys to provide something, not engage in fraud, waste and abuse.

And that's what happens many times, especially when people are tax exempt for providing this type of housing.

They can go ahead and uh, you know, put a couple of apartments or homes up for rent for a certain amount, but get the full cost through all of their other apartments.

So it's just sad that this kind of stuff can take place when people are really, you know, hoping that you're gonna provide what you're saying.

Thank you for those comments on 331 going remotely starting the five-minute timer.

The gambler, if you can please unmute.

Are you spoken speaking on 331 or HA3?

Okay, Fuck Tards.

Let's go ahead and get some straight some stuff straight about this.

Are you speaking on both?

Absolutely.

Or you can figure it out.

So, what I'm going in and talking about is all these freaking buildings that you're doing.

You guys are fucking morons.

I know why you're doing it.

You're doing it because of proposition 13.

The housing, you know, the income tax.

I mean the uh property tax.

And you lock them the value so you don't have enough money to go ahead and pay for the roads.

So what you go ahead and do is you keep on rebuilding the same type of deal and to increase the uh the taxes you could get off that property.

And when you say non-profit organization building shit, and then you're gonna give them the building to go ahead and manage it and collect all that money, that is not non-profit, you fing morons.

That is a for-profit company posing as a non-profit so that you could go ahead and pat yourself on the back.

How much of a fucking moron are you?

The reason why we do the 15 minute cities is because you don't have the money to go ahead and fund the streets.

Am I correct?

Of course you're not gonna go in and talk because you guys have your thoughts so far up your ass, you don't even know the difference between night and day anymore.

Why don't you go ahead and adopt Julian Brown's technology, recycle plastic, get the money to go in and fix the roads instead of fing us over any fucking chance that you have.

Give me a call because I've been calling you for fucking years to deal with this shit.

But you want to pretend that you're all Holly Mighty, and you could do it.

I cannot wait until people snap.

And it's gonna be because of you guys, and they're not gonna snap on each other.

They're gonna be going after the people in charge.

When that happens because you overextended your boundary, I'm gonna be friggin' celebrating.

That is what is gonna happen on my behalf.

You wanna go in don't take that as a threat.

I'm taking telling you that as a fucking warning.

You continue this shit and you guys are fucked.

Beyond fucked.

People are your time has concluded.

Next is Blair Beekman.

Hi, Blair Beekman.

Um, I'm not fully understanding this item, so I'm just kind of sitting and listening.

Um, I always like the gambler's uh words and ideas on items.

Uh he always has an interesting perspective and point of view.

I hope uh if he speaks on future public comment that he can offer a little more decorum and a middle road in how to use language and to share his good ideas and that he doesn't have to use so many explicatives.

Um I know freedom of speech is important, but um I like the idea of public meeting decorum, and there's a middle ground where we can all respect uh we have standards and uh hopefully it can be respected as much as can as it can.

Uh anger does happen, and uh, but uh learning to bring that in.

Hopefully it can take place also and respecting the decorum.

Thanks for this item, and good luck how it can be talked about and uh all ideas can be understood and and listened to.

Thank you.

Thank you, Hector.

If you can please unmute.

All right, I'll talk to the bond and the apartment thing.

I would in this particular area of town, it's very sensitive area.

And I wish the uh barrio would get its own mayor.

Or I don't see a lot of people in the room supporting this apartment.

So I don't know if the barrio likes it, which is good for them, or I would like to see some those guys talk about it.

But um the bond looks pretty good if it's all the guys' responsibility.

But it is a res- it is a thing where the companies they're doing it for the money.

It's kind of sounds good when they get all these topics anti-this, anti-that.

But that's just an indicator that's it's not so much for the poor guys, but it's for them too.

You know, they're they're taking the money for their families and their stuff, but the barrio needs to get more participation, because they've been really misused for you know decades.

And it's really I think it'd be cool to have a uh uh like the mayor of Barrio Logan, or however you guys want to call it more like a Mexican village.

You know, that'd be so nice because it's it's such a treasure that we got.

And uh all these different public things, this all the different uh I wish they we need to get away.

We need to go mag on this and do the accounting on all these all these things that are non-for-profit, this and that, and find out exactly where the money's going.

And it because it's always shady, Matt.

Just like the lady that wanted the free car thing for the mayor's buddy, you know, it's really shady, guys.

You gotta really gotta look at everything with scratching your head.

Go on.

What's the real motivation here?

And I've been I've been I mean I've talked to you guys kind of bad sometimes.

I try not to do that now, but Joe Joe gave me some uh good advice one time.

So anyway, have a good day.

Thank you.

And our final speaker is Michael Schmidt.

Hello.

Um I'm sorry I had to leave you guys.

Um I was gonna say I don't agree with that guy who's um who's personal you guys at all.

I appreciate it best um about housing committee um that's going on in Congress.

Um I really appreciate it, but I don't recommend people that are cheating you guys right now.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, and that does conclude public comment on these items.

All right, thank you, City Clark.

Uh with that we'll turn it over to council members' questions, comments, entertain a motion.

We of course will take two votes uh as a council and then as a housing authority, and we'll start with a council member from District 8.

I think an entirely appropriate voice for something in Barrio Logan.

So we'll start with council member Moreno.

I am not the mayor of the Pueblo, but um I do have the honor of representing uh district eight as their city council member, and thank you for the presentation.

Um, I want to start off by expressing my support for this item.

Um, it it I just want to put it out that it represents exactly the kind of investment, particularly in Barrio Logan.

Uh the Mercado apartments represent a hundred and thirteen million dollar investment in Barrio Logan.

Uh the project will deliver 224 homes, of which 92 will be new construction.

Let me repeat that.

92 will be new construction, and 132 will be rehabilitated.

Uh, existing units, uh, with 222 units deed restricted at 30 to 60 percent of area median income for 55 years.

Uh, this project will ultimately be building new affordable units for Barrio Logan.

Let me repeat that.

Barrio Logan is one of the communities facing some of the greatest housing pressures, um, the housing pressure of our city.

Uh, this is precisely the type of development the region needs.

Um, at a time when affordability continues to be one of the biggest challenges for families.

Uh, projects like this are critical to ensure people are not pushed out of the communities that they were born and raised in.

Um, I do want to recognize the Metropolitan Area Advisory Committee, also known as MAC, uh, for being a just a tremendous partner, not just in district eight, but just across the city.

Uh, my Mac has a long track record of delivering affordable housing with integrity and with purpose, while also providing the wraparound services uh that help families succeed, uh, whether it's child care, workforce development, food assistance, youth programming, or financial counseling, these types of services matter uh because affordable housing is not just about putting a roof over someone's head, it's about creating stability, opportunity, and at the end of the day, a stronger community.

Uh, this project, as I mentioned, um, it where I haven't mentioned this, but it's it's an investment in the future of Barrio Logan and in the families who deserve a chance to stay and thrive there.

Um, I need to put this on the record, and it's very unfortunate that a top advisor for Mayor Gloria is trying to sway this council to deny these funds uh to the community to a community of concern.

It's my understanding that this top advisor, who also serves as a commissioner on the San Diego Housing Commission, sent a letter to each council member expressing his opposition to this affordable um housing development.

The letter just completely misses the mark.

And I think this letter is on the record, right?

We have it on the record, and I want to take the time to read it.

Firm opposition to Mercado Apartment's expansion now advancing to City Council, sitting as a housing authority for consideration.

I would vote for the record that this project reaches you without a recommendation from the San Diego Housing Commission.

At Thursday's hearing, the commission's motion to approve uh approve failed to secure the four affirmative votes required for an endorsement, and that the item moves forward with no position from the body whose charge it is to evaluate exactly this kind of proposal.

The absence of this endorsement is itself meaningful, and I would urge the housing authority to weigh in accordingly.

Furthermore, I would respectfully urge the housing authority to take one of these three paths.

And number two is redirect the equivalent subsidy to produce 92 affordable units at a site with comparable transit access and materially lower air quality risk.

Portions of the Midway District, Mission Valley, and the sports arena redevelopment areas are obvious candidates.

To say that that letter misses the mark, I think is an understatement.

The letter this advisor sent out worries me about the type of counsel the mayor is receiving.

This ill advice approach to affordable housing in Barrio Logan could hurt not only this community but other communities of concern that need this reason these resources.

Again, it's deeply concerning that a senior advisor to Mayor Gloria would seek to withhold critical affordable housing funding from the residents of Barrio Logan.

This raises serious questions about whether this position reflects that of Mayor Gloria and his administration.

This administration has not handled real estate projects properly in the city of San Diego.

It makes me question and I have formally asked for the MOU that the mayor just signed with the San Diego Community College just yesterday.

I could only urge my colleague, I would urge my colleagues on this dais to stand with Barrio Logan by approving this funding and supporting the creation of desperately needed affordable housing.

So with that, I move staff's recommendation, and that concludes my comments.

Thank you.

Alright, thank you, Councilmember Moreno.

Moving the staff recommendation, we'll go next to Councilmember Rivera.

All right.

Thank you, Council President.

I will start by seconding the motion, and simply say that the um the addition of these housing of this housing up sort of housing opportunity.

And Barrio Logan is something that the community is definitely worthy of and is badly needed as Councilmember Moreno shared.

These are units that will, these are homes that will create housing opportunities for folks who want to stay in their community and have been facing uh displacement gentrification and pushing back in a really inspirational way.

I will just briefly speak to the um the question raised about the environmental quality of the community and say that.

I don't think there's a single neighborhood in San Diego that's worked harder to improve their environment and improve air quality than then Barrio Logan.

They've literally been fighting for generations to improve the air quality there.

They've oftentimes done that against incredible opposition from industry over.

Overcame those obstacles, passed a um a community plan update that accounts for the environmental injustices that they've experienced, specifically in order to create housing opportunity that is is safer and healthier than what previously existed.

So with all that work being done, I think that the community very much deserves to see the housing be built, and I'm glad uh that we will have an opportunity to support uh the building of that housing.

That concludes my second.

All right, thank you, Councilmember Ilo Rivera.

So we do have a motion by Councilmember Moreno, second by Council Member Ilo Rivera.

Um, I don't see anybody else in the lights.

It is curious that the housing commission board voted 5-0 back in July of 2025 to make this project happen.

This is a separate consideration and action that is necessary, and that the housing commission actually forwarded this for action even without a recommendation, which is something we do at council.

Committees may forward an item uh without a recommendation going forward.

Ms.

Jones, would you like to?

I will just note that we didn't have a full board that day, so we only had five of our board members, and we ended up with a 3-2, and we need four to move it forward with recommendations.

So we just moved it forward without.

All right, thank you for that.

Uh uh that added bit of history of how we got here.

Uh so um I appreciate Councilmember Moreno's uh reaction to that and uh a little bit of dipping into history by Councilmember Ila Rivera about what the Barrio Logan community has been able to do.

Uh that so, with no one else on the lights, uh we have a motion by council member Moreno and a second by Council Member Ilo Rivera to move the staff recommendation.

Uh please call the vote.

Sorry, the voting system, please cast your vote.

And for the record, it was to approve the resolution since there was no staff recommendation.

Yes, thank you.

Thank you for that clarification.

That is passes unanimously seven to zero with council member campio and council member von Wilbert absent.

Thank you, Council President.

All right, thank you.

We will now adjourn as the city council and convene as the housing authority to vote on housing authority item three.

Councilmember Moreno motion.

Councilmember Ilo Rivera, a second, all right.

With that, please call the roll.

Sorry, the voting system, please cast your vote.

And that passes unanimously seven to zero with Council Member Campio and Council Member Von Wilbert absent.

Thank you, Council President.

All right.

Uh thank you to Ms.

Jones and staff for the work on that item.

We will now adjourn as the housing authority and reconvene as a city council.

Uh City Clerk, please introduce the city council housing authority companion items.

Thank you.

Item 332 is the tax equity and fiscal responsibility act TEFRA resolution for Hillcrest Hall and final bond authorization HA2 is the final bond authorization for Hillcrest Hall.

If you'd like to speak to this item, now is the time to do so by submitting your speaker slip to the front of the room in the clear uh tray or by raising your hand by pressing star nine or the raise your hand icon.

I will just say now for the record so I don't miss it, that for the purposes of item 332, a federally mandated toll-free number is available for members of the public to offer public comments.

The toll-free number is 833 568-8864, meeting ID 160943 0466.

This toll-free number is in addition to the customary public comment phone number that is available to the public during every item.

It does not replace that number.

Both numbers will be available for the public to utilize during the public comment period of this item.

Thank you, Council President.

Alright, thank you.

Uh, we have the same staff for this item.

Uh, this is a district three project.

Did you want to waive the presentation?

I'm happy to wave the uh presentation if my colleagues are comfortable uh with that.

This is not controversial uptown community planning group unanimously supported it.

Alright, I don't see anybody else objecting to that, so stand by for any questions and thank you for continuing to be here.

With that, clerk, please proceed with public comment for these two items.

Allegedly, Audrey, if you can please come forward, you submitted a speaker slip for item 332.

I will just note that you've only submitted it for 332, not HA2.

You can come up to the podium if you'd like to speak on both items.

Please proceed.

It's confusing how you have it here.

So anywho.

What I was trying to get at before, and it's funny because you guys, I mean, Vivian, you're wondering what kind of counsel the mayor gets.

I'm wondering what kind of counsel you guys get when you act illegally in a meeting and nobody tells you to course correct.

Anywho.

Um, you know, the 24 billion dollars that uh California has thrown away with all of this homeless and housing initiatives, a lot of that came to San Diego, and that's why there's question in these, you know, tax exempt bonds, because like I'm saying, they can falsify documents, the um environmental reviews, the cost of projects, and this has already happened, and it's kind of a play pay to play type of a thing, and um it's just a problem because there's a misuse of public funds, and when they want to come in here and say that they're gonna provide affordable housing, like literally, they only have to do a certain amount, then they can go and rent these places out for you know full market value, and the problem is that people are waiting on the streets, they see these buildings being built, and they think, am I gonna be able to go into that?

Like they look at it as an opportunity, but yet they're kind of kept from being able to access it, and that's what's really sad is that a lot of fraud, waste, and abuse happens.

I mean, even the HCD uh has like 320 million dollars that's potentially been misused.

So, I mean, you guys want to sit here and act like I'm crazy for saying these things, like your face, Joe.

I mean, you guys aren't good at like hiding your disdain for me, but I mean, the things that I'm bringing forward are not crazy, it's like those are things that actually take place, and I mean people are just expecting you guys to do the right thing and to make sure that you guys provide what you claim that you are, and when there's fraud, waste and abuse happening, it's like it's just sad because uh it doesn't have to be this way, but you guys want to continue with the script.

So, for other speakers here in council chambers, going to those participating remotely.

We have three speakers in the queue, starting with Hector, then it's the gambler, then it's Blair Beekman.

Hector, if you can please unmute.

Oh, yeah.

Shout out to Vivian, man.

That was great, man.

That's like the Mexican hardener.

That's the heart of a real Mexican woman right there, man.

Thanks for all the work you do.

You're doing a great job, man.

So that's all I want to do.

Shout out to Vivian Matt.

Thank you.

Thank you, Nexus.

The gambler, if you can please unmute.

Okay, I should go ahead and show you respect when you can't even have enough people in there to have a forum.

And then you go ahead and punish people for even calling that out.

You flat out don't answer anyone's call, and I'm supposed to treat you with respect.

How about you start treating us with respect?

And then I won't go ahead and curse every friggin' chance that I have.

I won't tell you what I think of.

And matter of fact, let's go ahead and talk about 2015 with the 100-year anniversary of Balboa Park.

How did you get how did the city of San Diego spend that money?

How much money went to actual events for the people, and how much money went to consultants' organizations, NGOs, and all that stuff.

Only 12% actually went to something that the people could enjoy.

All the rest of the money, the 2.5 million dollars, went to your buddies.

This is how you go ahead and treat our money, and then you go ahead and pretend you're gonna go ahead and do something right.

How many of these people are actual citizens or upcoming citizens in your in your viewpoint?

How many of these people are being housed?

Because 90% of the homeless population on our streets of San Diego are citizens of San Diego that you kicked out because of rising prices, because you can't afford the roads.

Right?

But you don't want to go ahead and met the actual true mechanisms that is causing you to do this, because I have no idea.

You love being on your knees with knee pads and service being the friggin' NGOs instead of supporting the people.

I could go into great detail on every single one of your things and it hit it in every single way.

The money, how you spend it, why you do this.

But you don't want to look for the problems.

You want to just increase them.

Take citizens out of their houses so you could rebuild those areas so you can no longer need to work on those roads because they're controlled by big alterations, right?

You're gonna hand over our time has concluded.

Next is Blair Beekman, your final speaker.

Hi, thank you.

Uh Blair Beekman.

Uh I wanted to ask a procedural question.

Is there going to be a um housing authority non-agenda public comment uh today?

Uh as there were items from the housing authority uh on the agenda today.

Thanks a lot, and thank you to Gambler for uh I you can speak uh uh often a lot of the same things, the same things can be said without having to swear.

And he did it perfectly.

He did it awesome.

Uh, thanks for his conveying his ideas.

Thanks.

Thank you.

That does conclude public comment on these items.

Uh thank you.

Uh I think this council's pretty used to being sworn at.

It's the courtesy to those listening, either here in person or remotely, uh, that I think Blair was speaking to, and thank you, Blair, for your comments the other time.

So uh with that, um, we will turn it over to council members for any questions or comments and entertain a motion, and we again will be taking two to votes on this.

This is a district three matter.

So council member Whitburn will start with you.

Thank you very much, Council President.

Hillcrest Hall is exactly the kind of project that our community needs.

Did D7 units of truly affordable housing right at the heart of Hillcrest, where we know the demand is tremendous.

Uh, what makes this project particularly appealing is its location.

It is situated on University Avenue, so residents will have immediate access to rapid transit with grocery stores, schools, and parks nearby, making this a truly transit-oriented walkable development for working families.

The Uptown Community Planning Group unanimously supported this project, which speaks volumes about how well it fits into our neighborhood's vision.

And with ID7D restricted affordable units for 55 years, we're not just addressing today's housing crisis.

We're making a long-term commitment to affordability in this community.

I'm also pleased that the development will include odd sites, social services through life steps, providing residents with educational programs, health and wellness resources, financial literacy trading and more, because we know that quality affordable housing is about more than just four walls.

And I'm happy to make the motion to support the staff recommendation.

Alright, thank you, Councilmember Whitburn, and to make the recommendation to approve the resolution, and we'll go next to Councilmember Moreno.

Happy to second.

All right.

So we have a motion by Council Member Whip and a second by Council Member Moreno to respond to a question that was or an issue that was raised by these are 100% deed restricted units.

That's correct.

Okay.

And the other one was as well.

That is correct.

100%.

This is still in the search for mixed-use projects.

That's a conversation for another day.

All right.

Uh as council, uh, we have a motion by Council Member Whitburn, second by Council Member Moreno.

Please call the roll clerk.

Sorry, the voting system, please cast your vote.

And that passes unanimously seven to zero with Council Member Campio and Council Member Von Wolpert absent.

Thank you.

Right, thank you.

With that, we will adjourn as a city council and reconvene as a housing authority to vote on housing authority item two.

Uh Councilmember Whitburn, Councilmember Moreno.

I'll make the motion.

All right.

We have the motion by Councilmember Whipburn, the second by Councilmore Moreno to move the item as the housing authority.

Please call the roll.

Sorry, the voting system, please cast your vote.

And that passes unanimously seven to zero with Councilmember Von Wilbert and Council Member Campio absent.

Thank you, Council President.

All right, thank you, City Clerk.

Thank you, staff for the presentation of the work to bring those items forward.

Clerk, please introduce housing authority item one.

Housing authority item one is an informational report from the housing authority executive director.

If you'd like to speak on this item, now's the time to raise your hand by pressing star nine or the raise your hand icon, or to submit your speaker slip to the front of the room in the clear box.

Thank you.

All right.

All right, Ms.

Jones.

Please introduce yourselves formally for the record and let us know how much time you need before you.

Sorry for my shortcut.

Good afternoon, Council President and Council members.

I'm Lisa Jones, the Housing Authority's Executive Director and the Housing Commission's president and CEO.

I'll need about 10 to 12 minutes for my presentation.

All right.

I wanted to provide updates on the changes in our voucher and public housing programs.

About a month ago, we started formally notifying families in our rental assistance and public housing programs about changes we are implementing later this year.

Late last year, our board approved some changes to how we calculate family contribution amounts for our households.

This was to ensure that everyone could remain stably housed and we could still afford to support everybody that is on our programs currently.

We recently received our approval from the U.S.

Department of Housing and Urban Development for the updates to how we calculate the amounts that families contribute toward their housing in these programs.

We started providing information and public noticing to the families as early as last October and have continued to talk publicly and meet with community-based organizations and advocacy groups around this work, getting information out to our families and to the community.

As you know, but for the members of the public who are watching today's meeting, program participants pay a portion of their income toward their housing.

That is known as their family contribution.

The housing commission pays the difference between that family contribution amount and the total due to the landlord up to the payment standard for their rental home.

However, we have found it necessary for us to increase these family contribution amounts because our federal funding is not meeting the rental assistance needs of all the families we currently serve.

If we did not implement these updates, hundreds of families could lose their rental assistance entirely.

Our goal in this process is to make sure families continue with this assistance and remain housed.

By making these changes, we expect to be able to continue to assist all the families currently in our rental assistance and public housing programs.

With these updates, our elderly disabled households will pay 32% of their income toward their rental housing.

And we will continue to not have any required minimum family contribution for our elderly disabled families.

The family contribution amount for households that are workable will be either 40% of their income or a minimum family contribution amount.

The minimum family contribution amounts are based on the household size and the current minimum wage of 1775 per hour in the city of San Diego.

For instance, a household with one workable adult would be calculated at one work-able adult working 25 hours a week at minimum wage.

This is the approach that has been in place for a number of years.

The only change being that we updated the minimum wage to the current minimum wage effective January of this year, and we added a new tier for families with three or more work-able adults.

As noted on the slide, a family with two workable adults would have a minimum family contribution of $1,155 per month, and a family with three or more workable adults would have a minimum family contribution of $17.35 per month.

We have sent letters to our participating families through the U.S.

mail and through email.

And we will continue to send additional notices before the new family contribution amounts take effect on October 1st of this year.

The most recent letter went out on April 10th, and the next one will go out in the next several weeks.

We have also provided information through frequently asked questions and explanatory videos on our website, and these resources are available in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese.

Our staff are committed to working with and supporting our families during this process, answering questions, offering guidance, and helping them prepare for these changes, making sure that they are accessing the resources they need to be successful.

Our goal is to ensure that all families we currently serve remain stably housed.

We have a dedicated page on our website with a list of many community resources available to our families.

We have worked with our community-based organizations to make sure that that web page is robust, robust, and updated regularly, and that information is included in letters to our families.

Our notices about the updated family contributions also include information about these community resources available to them and our SDHC Achievement Academy.

Our achievement academy helps families confirm their eligibility for other government benefits and collaborates with community partners to develop job skills and career plans and financial budgeting.

In addition to the resources provided by our achievement academy, we are collaborating with community partners to host resource fairs for affected families.

I will provide additional details regarding specific dates and locations as they become available, but we are very thankful to our friends at PANA, Logan Heights CDC, Chicano Federation, our Central Library, and many other community-based organizations that are helping us pull this together.

We will offer time-limited hardship assistance for eligible families when the new family contribution amounts are implemented, and details about how to request this support will be included in each household's family contribution letter.

We know families we serve may also reach out to our community-based organizations and policymakers for help with resources as well.

So we are also working with council offices and our state and federal representatives, local offices, and have shared information and links to resources with them to assist families who may reach out with questions.

And we have updated the members of our community-based organization advisory group that these changes and the resources available about these changes and the resources available to assist affected families.

One of the reasons we have had to revise the family contribution calculations in our rental assistance and public housing programs is the ongoing uncertainty about our federal funding, which already has been insufficient for these programs.

We only recently received our funding letter from HUD.

Our initial assessment is that funding is coming in at about what we projected, so we do not anticipate seeing any significant changes as our budget comes back to you in June.

As insufficient funding continues, though, it is important for us to have opportunities to connect directly with federal lawmakers, to share our priorities, and how the lack of sufficient federal funding affects the families we serve in our community.

We were able to join City Council members and the mayor at the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce mission to Washington, D.C.

on April 27th and 28th.

On this trip, we met with representatives Sarah Jacobs and Mike Levin and the Chief of Staff for Representative Scott Peters.

At our meetings in Washington, we discussed housing affordability, federal rental assistance, homelessness, and how federal resources are essential to assisting families in our community and what the impacts are when funding is insufficient.

We thank the chamber for organizing this important mission to Washington, D.C.

and for the opportunity to continue to advocate with our lawmakers to support our community.

State resources are also crucial to the housing and homelessness programs that we administer.

A couple of weeks before the Washington trip, we joined people assisting the homeless or Path and Council President Joe Lacava on a trip to Sacramento to meet with state lawmakers.

We had the opportunity to connect with State President Pro Tempore Monique Lyman's staff, the governor's deputy legislative secretary, Miles White, Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel staff, and consultants for the state Senate's budget subcommittee and Senate Housing Committee.

In our meetings, we talked about the state's homeless housing assistance and prevention or HAP program funding and how critical that is for the city to continue its efforts in addressing homelessness and how potential cuts to homelessness services and programs can impact our community.

You'll recall that the state did not include any HAP funding in the current state budget and proposed half of that amount from previous years for the coming fiscal year.

We have advocated for more PAP funding from the state, and we will continue to because it is a crucial source of funds for homelessness programs the Commission administers and the city funds.

We are also continuing to create affordable housing opportunities in our community for families that need them.

I think we have to remember in these challenging times to also celebrate our successes and focus on what we do well and continuing to create new opportunities in our community.

Last week, our senior vice president of real estate development, Colin Miller joined Mayor Todd Gloria, developer community housing works, and additional partners at the grand opening of Jack Aranda on 9th.

This development provides 87 new affordable rental apartments in the Cortez Hill neighborhood.

They will remain affordable for 55 years for households with extremely low income.

And 14 of these units are for people who have previously experienced homelessness.

We awarded rental housing vouchers to help the residents pay for their housing at Jack Aranda, and we also support the development with financing through a loan and multifamily housing revenue bonds, which our board and council approved.

The grand opening of another new development on April 16th celebrated the addition of 72 affordable rental apartments in city heights for families with low income.

I joined Councilmember Ila Rivera, the mayor, the developer of Wakeland Housing and Development Corporation, and Price Philanthropies Foundation for the opening of the Toralta.

The Housing Commission awarded 33 rental housing vouchers to this development to help families with extremely low income pay for their housing at that site.

The Toralta was built specifically to provide three and four bedroom apartments for larger families.

And I can't say how important that is.

Having sites that support larger families is a huge need in our community.

And Wakeland did a terrific job really building a site that fits well, and the community enhanced enhances the main corridor of that community.

With rents that they can afford, these families will have a greater opportunity to devote more of their time to research and limited resources to work, school, health, and to building community in their new home.

Finally, we celebrated the groundbreaking for a new development that when it is completed will provide 59 rental apartment homes.

Sarah Mesa apartments will transform a city, former City of San Diego library site into affordable housing.

A great new use for that site.

About half of the rental homes there are for veterans who experience homelessness, and we awarded 30 Veterans Affairs supportive housing vouchers to that project and for those veterans.

We also supported the development with a loan.

Our senior vice president of real estate, Colin Miller joined the mayor, community housing works, and additional partners for this ground banking on April 14th.

That concludes my report this afternoon.

I thank you for your time.

All right.

Thank you for your work under challenging times in the presentation today.

Clerk, please proceed with public comment.

Allegedly, Audra, if you can please come forward.

Yes, so I feel like you guys gaslight the people when we sit and talk about affordable.

Because I mean people cannot afford to even feed their children.

And there has been fraud, Joe, with the deed restricted units continually having their rent being increased.

So that's a problem, and that's what we have to be weary of.

But it's interesting that you're saying if you change the calculation of the housing contributions, you can help all of the people.

But there's reasons why this kind of stuff happens.

And it's like if we can't help people in our own community, and we're like, we're gonna help you.

It's like, what does that say to them when you say that you care, and then you're like, well, I mean, if you're homeless and you're in Cer Chavez Park and you're an illegal, we'll go ahead and put you into housing because this is a really sensitive subject.

But it's like people are on the streets, people go outside here every day and just wait for the same.

I'm sorry, the five-minute timer going to those participating remotely.

We have two speakers in the queue starting with Gambler.

If you can please unmute.

You guys know you're bull of shit, right?

I went ahead and took a look at all the deals.

So basically, um, as long as they do the bare minimum and provide you the bare minimum housing on a project, you'll give them maximum benefits.

Matter of fact, if you wipe out parking, you'll give them benefits.

You'll go ahead and reduce uh rules and regulations just to go ahead and make everyone around that building's life a living hell.

Meaning you're not gonna go ahead and provide enough parking in these locations, which is gonna go ahead and eat up parking spaces, and businesses are not gonna get the foot traffic that they're expecting.

These buildings aren't gonna be filled up because they really don't have any parking around them.

And these places are gonna go half.

But hell, the land developers are making a killing deal because of how many breaks that you give them, how many guarantees of money you give them?

This isn't about solving a problem.

This is about funneling money, and then now you're pissed off at the federal government because the the money that they gave you to help out the problem was not to create an endless problem where you don't solve shit.

They want answers, they want accountability, they want records, you don't want to provide them.

That's your job.

Not the NGOs, it's your job to make sure that they're spending that money properly.

You're saying fuck that.

We don't need to go ahead and look at that at all.

We don't have to provide numbers, we don't have to show who we're housing, we just have to tell the people, and then when they ask, we can tell them to fuck off, right?

I mean, that's how you guys run.

It doesn't matter who asked, the president of the United States could ask you, and you tell them to fuck off.

So who do you listen to?

Apparently not the people, apparently not the federal government.

Do you only listen to the unions and the NGOs that you go ahead and funnel the money through?

Is that the only people that you can.

Why?

Thanks for taking my call.

As you know, I'm in for the uh mass rapid deportation of illegal aliens who live in San Diego County, and there's seventy-five thousand of them on Medi-Cal, which is threatening the healthcare system, plus their families and stuff.

They can they can take the thousand dollars and go back to whatever country they came.

So that's gonna create a lot of new lower the rents for everybody, like 100,000 people are gone from San Diego County.

Just make the rents coming down, competition for lower rents.

It'll be really a uh gold mine to everybody, people off the streets.

I don't think Trump is gonna give you guys any more federal money.

He might even take it back, so he might even delay some more of it.

So there's no hope there, but I think if once we reset San Diego and Samuel County with no illegal aliens and get tight on immigration, it's gonna be a lot better from everybody, especially the people living on the street, it's gonna make it easier for you guys.

Plus, we're gonna have to go against the drug dealers, too.

And that's gonna require the Marines.

We're gonna have some cops in here with the housing.

Look at look at these high-rise higher.

Are they those guys have illegal aliens in them?

The housing authority guys, have they opened up the books to ice?

Because who's living there?

They can't have yes, they're illegal either.

They can't have their girlfriend move in without them and stuff like that, or their kids from this guy or that.

So we can really, you know, we won't have to.

If they would just leave, we wouldn't have to get tough on them.

You know, they've got enough time now.

They can think about it.

You gotta make a decision and you move to LA or just move back to your country and take your thousand dollars.

Okay, thanks a lot.

And Blair Beekman, our final speaker.

All right, thank you.

Well, big thing.

Uh thanks for the report.

Um, it was interesting to hear.

Um, I just had the quick thought that uh hopefully from the July 2025 meeting uh of the housing authority on the previous item, that they can be possibly a good mediator between the mayor's office and uh what Council President Moreno's working towards and um good luck in such efforts uh of mediation.

Um, I think uh a good mediation process can happen.

And uh thanks for for this item as well.

Thank you.

That does conclude public comment on this item.

All right, thank you, City Clerk.

I'll turn it over to agency member for any questions or comments of our executive director.

Uh Councilmember Whitburn.

Thank you, Agency President Lakava.

Um I just want to thank Ms.

Jones for the update uh this report.

Uh, but also thank you and Council President LaCava for your advocacy work at Sacramento and Washington DC to preserve funding to help people who are homeless.

Uh these are people who in many cases literally have nothing.

Uh so it is crucial that we offer them shelter and help them as best that we can.

Uh at your hard work at advocacy to preserve funding will help us do that.

So thank you.

Uh thank you, Council President.

Alright, thank you for your comments, Councilmember Whitburn.

We'll go next to Council Member Elo Rivera.

Um thank you, Council President.

Thank you, Lisa, for the update.

Um just extraordinarily difficult circumstances to be doing the work that you do and appreciate you being transparent with um the challenges that that we're facing and that the residents of our our properties are are facing as well.

Um feels especially frustrating because then you don't have to respond to this part.

It feels extremely unnecessary given what um the Trump regime is dis instead spending money on.

Um spending money on the things that we do uh while seniors and other vulnerable people um are gonna be stretched even more thin and families will be pushed to the brink, if not into homelessness, um, is incredibly incredibly um frustrating and yeah, I'm just I'm sorry that your work has made that much more difficult as a result of that.

So um I g again as always thank you for the update and um we'll have to just keep plugging away.

Thank you, Council President.

All right.

Uh thank you, Councilmember Ila Rivera, or agency member Rivera.

Didn't want to stand out there, Council Councilmember Woodford.

Uh yeah, I'll just add my thanks.

Uh you know, it's an extraordinary difficult times and uh force you to make very hard decisions uh with um how to spread the the finite dollars to the most families um going forward um and um I'm hoping that we see some action at the state level in terms of the hap funding, hopefully that advocacy works.

I know going to DC is a tough conversation, although we have a lot of sympathetic legislators there, so uh just the predictability and the reliability would be a big benefit if nothing else.

So thank you again for taking the time to come out and making the presentation here today and the good work you do every day with your entire housing commission team.

So there's uh this was information only and no uh motion was required.

We will proceed next with the approval of the housing authority minutes.

Clerk, please pretty uh proceed with public comment on the housing authority minutes.

Thank you.

The public comment period for the housing authority minutes is now open.

Please know each speaker will have one minute per item per person.

The minutes being approved are for the items.

The meetings of Tuesday, March 17th, 2026 special and Monday, April 20th, 2026 special.

We have Audra here, allegedly Audra.

Two minutes, please proceed.

Yeah, Stephen quit pretending like you care about homeless people because they're dying in your district.

Um yes, I don't understand why in the housing authority minutes you don't put anything for regarding like uh non-agenda public comment, and then you'll do it in your minutes for the council meeting.

So isn't it the same person taking the minutes?

I would think so.

So I think you should be more equitable.

Um and then in April 20th, you were talking about employee valuations.

I think we need to just really be mindful of how things are not, you know, getting better.

And so yet we continue to increase salaries.

It's interesting.

Usually that used to be based on like employee valuation.

It would be like a, you know, individual basis, and we seem to do things in like a group.

Like let's just like your consent.

Get it all done.

You know what I mean?

Instead of really looking at people's ability to really increase the uh people getting off the streets, instead, it just gets worse.

But I guess that's what we pay people for.

So that's interesting.

And projects and initiatives.

It's like, I'm wondering when we're going to be evaluating Tent City.

I mean, you guys have a lawsuit.

And just what's going on?

You guys tried to claim immunity, which is really sad.

Because it's like, I mean, you guys, have you any of you been down there to see what's happening?

Especially Steven.

No.

Does Teresa just tell you what's up?

She's like, it's good.

I want people to stay here as long as possible.

That should be terrifying to you guys.

Isn't the idea to get them off the streets, not keep them in a program?

I guess not because that's not where the money's at.

You guys are good at ignoring people.

It's awesome.

Love it.

Just shows how efficient you guys are.

I start with the five-minute timer going to those participating remotely, the gambler.

Please let me know which minutes you'd like to speak to, or if both.

Oh, big ball, but please proceed.

So let's go ahead and clarify who you guys work for.

As you guys flat out stated, uh, the president of the United States.

I mean, we'll just recognize that the president of the United States was voted in by the people.

You did disagreeing with the president of the United States is basically disagreeing with the people.

You not listening to the people in your own district is also another indication.

You could give a rad to ask about the people.

So who do you fucking work for?

Is my question.

Do I have to look at all the NGOs that you are signed up with?

And then when we finally go ahead and do an investigation on the registration cards that come through the online portal from these organizations that you guys are in fucking bed with, are we gonna find out that they have committed fraud to keep you elected?

I'm being I'm going to be teaching.

I mean, I'm telling people how it's done.

Step by step.

The more people doing it, it gets exacerbated until finally we have to do that investigation.

I'm hoping that this is gonna happen sooner than later if it takes smooth flat out in the law and telling people this is how you should go ahead and this crime.

This is how you do it in every single aspect in order to get that out there.

I am more than happy to do that.

So think wisely.

If you want to go ahead and say it, fucking corrupt organization and do their fucking bidding.

You are going to be facing serious consequences.

You don't believe me?

Tack your fucking love.

Because I'm tired of it.

You guys pretending you work for the people when you clearly don't, and when you say, hey, we don't like President Trump.

I don't give a fucking shit if you don't like him.

He was voted in by the United States.

I mean, by the people of the United States, regardless if you liked it or not, that is the case.

You work for the fucking people.

Your time has concluded, and that concludes with a comment on the housing authority minutes.

All right, thank you.

So we'll take any questions or comments, but more importantly, a motion to approve the minutes.

Um Council Member Moreno and a second by council member Whitburn.

So seeing nobody else in the lights, uh, please vote.

Sorry, the voting system, please cast our vote, that passes unanimously seven to zero with agency member Campio and Von Wilbert absent.

Thank you.

Yeah, and my apologies.

I forgot to mention the city clerk does not produce the minutes for the housing authority.

So the question came up.

So we will now take up housing authority, not agenda public comment.

Housing authority members respect and appreciate the public's input and are fully committed to the protecting every participant's free speech rights at the housing authority meetings.

Clerk, please proceed with public comment.

That is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the housing authority.

Each speaker will have two minutes.

Public comment period for the housing authority and on agenda public is now open.

And if you're entering 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 a call-in participant star nine.

Allegedly, Audra, please come forward.

Who does those minutes is the question?

The Housing Commission.

Okay.

Maybe you guys could give them notes.

Anywho, I'm just wondering if you guys could humble yourselves for a minute.

Like real people with a soul.

And think about what you're doing with the litigation with Tent City.

And how time and again over 365 very long time.

I have been bringing you guys information.

People from Tent City have been bringing you guys information, and you're facing litigation regarding the abuse that's taking place there.

And this has nothing to do with the deaths or the sexual assaults.

This just has to do with the living conditions that you guys have been having these people live in.

And the city is on the property, along with Dreams for Change and Downtown Partnership who you contract with downtown partnership to come in and keep the city clean and also clean up the people, the homeless that sit outside City Hall every day at 6 a.m.

and around downtown so that you don't have to look at it.

And this city attorney is trying to say that you guys are immune from anything, and that this isn't a shelter, and that basically these people should be abused like they are.

And at that same moment in the hearing in federal court, Teresa Smith is sitting here and talking to you guys about getting more money.

And not further abuse them by saying that you guys are immune when you guys have contracted with these NGOs that are supposed to be giving people help.

And they're not.

Maybe you guys could put yourself in that position and and feel what it would be like if that was you.

I don't think it's possible.

Going to those participating remotely, starting with Blair Beekman, if you can please unmute.

Hi, Blair Beekman.

Um GRA speaking today reminding me uh, speaking on these items at the housing authority today, reminding me of uh the uh, you know, I I'm not sure what it can be like, but the um the city of San Jose, um, when they practice their uh government sponsored encampment issues, they are using much smaller land areas and and doing like you know 20 or 30 tents or 50 tents in a little land area.

Whereas you guys, you know, have these massive huge things.

And I'm wondering what uh wanting to, you know, having the massive huge one is good, but uh having a few additional little ones, what would that do?

Would that be helpful?

I know they complain sometimes about the ones in San Jose, and I think they actually they may want the larger ones, system of lands, you know, and and it's so it's trade-offs, but I just uh I'm curious if if that is a a good option at this point, and so I thought I'd just mention it once again, and to offer a bit of a stretch that I think can be applicable to uh housing authority non agenda public comment.

It was spoken at the budget time uh about uh certain set of police issues that to relate to neighborhood public safety, um that they're they're reducing the amount of uh civilian police hiring.

And I'm interested if that actually correlates to let making things less safe.

And and more expensive, actually.

I I don't know if it's less or more expensive.

I don't I didn't hear the budget reasoning on that, but that was simply stated that uh civilian hiring is not going to be happening in a police department when it tends to cost lower to do that.

And um, so I wanted to ask, and just the overall projection of what we're moving towards.

So I wanted to ask yourselves what's up with that.

I do have concluded.

Gambler, if you can please unmute.

You know, well, you want to go ahead and disrespect the people by flat out ignoring their concerns, comments, and basically telling the people that we do not care about who you elected into office in the federal government that oversees the federal money being wasted all over the place.

You say fuck that.

We don't have to go ahead and take accountability for that act.

We could go ahead and fill out as much money as we want.

We could go ahead and do as many time studies with high consultants as we want.

And if we need to go ahead and cut the budget, fuck it.

We don't need police and firefighters.

Fuck that, that's not important.

They should go ahead and the people could go ahead and fend for themselves.

We'll just go ahead and say you can't own a gun.

All the good people won't go ahead and be able to protect themselves, but sure as shit, the people that should care less about your rules and regulations are gonna say, fuck that crap.

Now I have free gain, and I can go to steal from whoever I want.

Less police officers means less chance of me getting busted.

I love the criminal society you are turning San Diego into.

I'm going to go ahead and encourage people that you guys are encouraging that.

I'm like, I'm just gonna go ahead and tell as many people as humanly possible that organizations that you're working with, I'll find out, call them out.

I'll go ahead and take a look at who's collecting voter uh registration cards, who is harvesting ballots, and who they're working for.

You guys already know that they work, you guys work for them.

You don't work for us, you don't work for the people.

You could care less what the people have to say.

You don't have to show answers because you work for them.

They're your boss.

They don't want you to give that answers, you're not gonna go ahead and give that answer.

Is that really the the legacy you want to leave behind?

How far do you think you're gonna get away with this?

How long until they're sleeping giant lake, and you feel the reckoning.

It looks like it's coming.

It's getting kind of hard to follow him, man.

He's so fired up.

The housing authority, one thing with all these big government run things.

You're dealing with people that have a lot of money, and they always kind of hide in the shadows like BlackRock and these huge companies.

They operate with other companies, and they might not be doing it for profit right away, but they're doing it to hide their money.

They got 300 million, 400 million dollars, they can just make it out of nothing.

They want to put that money somewhere, and they're looking at Logan Heights, going, Logan Heights has got a view.

You go 20 stories in Logan Heights, you're looking at the park.

You're looking at the ballpark, you're looking at the ocean.

It's a lot.

Logan Heights is worth a lot of money, man.

That's why Todd didn't wasn't going for the other thing.

He was going for the high rise, man.

That's what is that's what's going on.

You know, now they're kicking the homeless guys out of East Village.

That's like making a move to try to get rid of them.

It'd be a better world for all those guys if there were no homeless there.

We gotta put them in Spring Valley.

Where are we gonna put them?

But that's what the power move is.

You guys know that.

That's what's happening in the shadows and in just straight up.

So that housing authority um, I think it should be free uh free enterprise, not subsidized with everything.

It's like uh I'm I'm still with the Trump dude, man.

Orange man, we're just getting started on this.

And have Mark Levin, tax him too.

I forgot about Mark Levin.

I don't know how many I searched those other guys on Google.

Sarah Jacob's got 60 million, plus he's you know big time ready for taxing the rich.

And we could put it to housing in Barrio Logan.

That'd be even better, man.

Open up some really good places out of taxing the rich.

That would be a good agenda to adopt.

Okay, talk to you later.

Bye.

Natalie Rashke, if you can please unmute.

Your final speaker.

Natalie Rashki, a pop-up should have come up for you to unmute.

I can unmute for you.

There you go.

Hi, Natalie Rashki.

I'm still kind of confused on why HUD isn't being pressed when they have created this problem for a very long time.

I'm not getting any answers on that.

I'm not getting any answers from Padilla's office.

I've gotten one answer from Sarah Jacobs' office, and it doesn't seem to be like the issue is being pressed hard enough about what is potentially going to precede us with homelessness.

I have an EHP and it's been cut.

The time is ticking.

Their urgency for people, families, to become homeless doesn't seem to be an urgency at all.

It's extremely frustrating when I'm not receiving any answers.

It's frustrating to watch HUD continue to not be accountable for all of these situations, all these programs that they start, and then they stop them and just go on.

Nobody's being held accountable except for homeless people are being held accountable or being gaslit.

It's absolutely disgusting, and I don't have any answers from anybody why HUD is not accountable.

Thank you.

Thank you.

If you had raised your hand, the five-minute timer had already concluded.

So that does conclude the public comment.

Non-agenda public comment for the Housing Authority.

All right.

Thank you, City Clerk.

Uh we will now adjourn as the Housing Authority and reconvene as the city council.

And with that, please introduce item 330.

Thank you.

Item 330 is the first amendment to the agreement between the City of San Diego and NAMI San Diego for supportive services and temporary housing financial assistance program.

If you're here in Council Chambers, please submit your speaker slip to the front of the room in the clear box if you'd like to speak on this item, or if you're a participant remotely, now it's time to raise your hand by pressing star nine or the raise your hand icon.

Thank you, Council President.

All right, thank you.

So I see staff settling in.

Introduce yourselves for the record and let us know how much time you need.

Thank you.

We'd like four minutes.

All right.

Again when you're ready.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, Council President Lacava, Council members.

My name is Katie Keach.

I'm the deputy director of the homelessness strategies and solutions department.

With me today is program manager Kedra Carter, who leads our outreach program.

Today we're here to request approval of a First Amendment to the agreement with the National Alliance on Mental Illness, or NAMI, San Diego, for the supportive services and temporary housing financial assistance program.

And this amendment is for a time extension and scope modification.

The city council first approved the agreement with NAMI San Diego on October 18th, 2024.

The agreement was executed the following month on November 4th.

The agreement allocates funding from the state of California, encampment resolution funding grants, also referred to as ERF grants.

Specifically, this agreement includes funding for two of the city's ERF projects, the I 15 Corridor and the San Diego Riverbed.

Funded by ERF grant dollars.

The program provides supporting housing services, including intake assessment, housing placement, advocacy, mediation, self-sufficiency services, services to promote the coordination of care and housing retention, as well as temporary financial assistance.

Last year, AB 130 was passed, which amended the ERF grant expenditure deadlines for both projects.

The I 15 corridor project expenditure deadline was extended from June 30th, 2026 to September 12th, 2026, and the Riverbed Project Deadline was extended from June 30th, 2026 to June 14th, 2020 2027.

The first amendment to the agreement with NAMI extends the contract term from April 30th, 2026 to June 14th, 2027 to coincide with the updated ERF expenditure deadline.

The amendment also adds the option to extend the agreement for two additional one year option periods at the city's discretion if the grant is expenditure deadline is further pushed.

Lastly, the First Amendment modifies the scope of work to align with standard homelessness strategies and solutions department requirements and ensures compliance with the city's trust ordinance.

As mentioned, this agreement supports both the Riverbed and I-15 corridor encampment projects.

Since the program started, the San Diego Riverbed Project has served 129 individuals, with 70 people transitioning to housing, and 39 individuals currently enrolled in interim shelter.

In addition, 99 individuals have been served through the I 15 corridor project.

Forty-three individuals have already been connected to housing, and 30 individuals are currently enrolled in interim shelter.

The extension of the agreement with NAMI allows for rapid rehousing efforts to continue to be provided and may support additional individuals who remain in the encampment areas and are engaged with our outreach services.

In summary, the item requests approval for a first amendment to the agreement with NAMI San Diego.

This completes our presentation.

We're happy to answer any questions.

Alright, thank you for that work and the presentation this afternoon.

Clerk, please proceed with public comment.

Thank you, Council President.

Allegedly, Audra, you're speaking on item 330.

Please come forward.

And so it's interesting to see that some do work, but it's sad to know that these people wait in Tent City, which actually, if it's not a shelter, it'd be like the largest encampment that the police should go get rid of.

But it it's it's nice to know that you know, if people go and navigate on their own, they can find housing, they can get off the streets.

Do you guys ever go talk to the homeless people, like really like sit down with them and have like a heart-to-heart or is that like off limits?

Crickets.

It's interesting.

I love to course correct in life, you know.

I find it really interesting because I like to better myself.

I like to go, hmm, what am I doing that I could do better at?

It's interesting to come before people and just see them like, oh, I'm good as it is.

There's no need to be better.

We love what we're doing.

Homeless are suffering.

And we're just gonna, we're done like that's not happening.

I mean, seriously, like they shouldn't be dying on your steps out here.

Like that's really sad.

It really is.

It's a reflection of like what's going on.

And it's sad to go and like talk to these people and like get down on the ground with them if you have to and give them a hug, because there are brothers and sisters, and not just like discard them because they may not smell right or who knows.

In fact, I have some food.

I'm probably gonna give someone outside these steps after we're done.

Wish you guys would you know feel compassion for these people.

Oh sorry, the five-minute timer going to those participating online.

We currently have four speakers in the queue.

Gambler, if you can please unmute.

You know, it's crazy how you go ahead and set up these communities.

I mean, hell, this person right here talking looks for different ways to create grants to go ahead and steal from the federal government.

You go ahead and do this, but yet you never monitor to do its programs.

Yes, some of them do work.

You don't talk to the homeless people.

Matter of fact, they talk to Audra.

I have one person constantly calling me saying what they could do to get into housing.

They've talked to these organizations, but since she does not fulfill their her their political belief, they don't want to help her.

I mean, that's flat out what it is comes down to.

Two years that she's been asking, going over, doing that.

I'm trying to convince her to go to the board meetings or call in at least to go ahead and tell the tell you guys directly how your pieces of shit.

How you don't even want to go ahead and listen to the people when they're also asking you for the data instead of asking you constantly saying, look, we don't have to provide you data.

We just need your money.

Matter of fact, we're not getting the federal money, so we're gonna go ahead and add taxes, we're gonna add more expenses to you.

Your trash, we're gonna go ahead and double tax you on that.

Uh what else can we go ahead and do?

Parking?

Fuck that.

Any parking needs to have uh paid meters now.

You don't get any free stay in here.

So basically what you're gonna do is wipe out the businesses, but that works out perfect for you because you could go ahead and redevelop those areas and increase the property tax, right?

I mean, that's why you're pushing people out of their houses.

That's why when the flood took place, you blamed 11 property owners for the flood.

Not the fact that you did zero to go ahead and come uh fix our infrastructure.

You did nothing.

You blamed people and you sued them using our money to push the blame off of you and put it onto the citizens.

You don't take it sorry.

Your time has concluded, Natalie Rashke, if you can please unmute.

Hi, Natalie Rashke.

When we do these contracts, we have information at our fingertips at this point.

And when we do these contracts, I spoke about this the other day, and companies like Con Am that have are directly in a lawsuit right now, they have raised the rent prices on the algorithm, causing funds to be depleted faster.

I hope we're double checking who we choose to do business with.

So they create the problem and they have the solution.

And who loses?

I have been given an option to move into a con am apartment that have an F with the Better Business Bureau.

So it's I'm in a catch 22.

I'm pushed in a corner.

We have people that have had situations happen to them like COVID, that have messed up their living situation, and now it's like one thing after another, and still the federal government is not being held accountable.

When do we start fact checking?

Fact-checking, and doing our due diligence.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next is Hector, if you can please unmute.

Thanks for taking my call.

Uh, the tsunami group, I think should double their pay.

These guys have been there from the get-go with mental illness.

And when schizophrenia just happened to young people without doing drugs.

Now, a lot of times with uh schizophrenia, it's not really true schizophrenia, it's organic brain disease.

If you're like 17, you're a UCSD, and you and you get true schizophrenia, you haven't done drugs.

It's just something in your in your in your mind, in your brain, you know, they're doing brain scans now, they never used to, but these nanny guys have been there from the get-go, like in 60s, I think.

They're great, man.

And then uh the rampant mentally ill problems we have now is just from all the drugs people are doing.

Drugs that are coming in from Mexico and China.

China's been trying to kill us with the drugs.

The China thing, the China virus, and then the Mexicans doing the drugs.

You know, they don't give a shit.

They're billionaires, man.

The billionaire Mexicans that are in Tijuana, and they just indicted 10 guys, the governor and everyone else were linked into the drugs.

The mayor of adding to our mental illness problem is the drug dealers from Tijuana.

The mayor's linked up of Tijuana into the drug deals.

You know they are.

It's all payola, but it's leading to mental illness on our streets.

And a lot of it is just organic brain disease.

We're getting your brain fried by doing drugs.

So, but yeah, pay these NAMI guys.

They're like friends and relatives of the mentally ill.

These guys got it together.

Double their money that you can.

You're able to do that as well.

Well worth it.

Thanks a lot.

Next is Blair Beekman, and then our final speaker is John.

Hi, Blair Beekman.

Uh, thanks for this item.

Thank you for the work of Nami.

Um, they're they are one of the good ones.

They do a lot of good work.

And um I wanted to comment uh that uh I'm concerned uh with the most recent uh unhoused issues.

We're kind of entered a next wave of our unhoused issues, and um good luck what you can be doing with that.

Um I I'm not fully clear what all of the work that you've been doing downtown, what that is exactly accomplishing.

And I would love to be more clear on that.

Thank you.

Um I'd love to be more clear on that.

Cities like Oakland, they're now creating policies like San Diego.

Uh I know San Jose wanted to, but they couldn't.

Um, the city would the community wouldn't allow them.

Um I have real concerns about the pro we have a set of practices here that are unique to San Diego that when they try to be emulated in other cities, just look nothing like they just look anything, they just simply look like uh I don't know, a police state.

And you're you're answering questions of a police state, and you're answering questions of a police state, and I'm worried.

And I I want to know what our next steps out of a police state is.

What is the steps of uh returning to uh community uh housing and you know, government uh housing people asking questions, working the system, you know, and helping people out that way.

And I hope I can continue to see more of that, and I hear that language more and um I know it's there, and I'm not trying to be overly strong, but uh good luck how we can talk about this in terms of our city government and community and not police and community.

Thank you.

Thank you, John.

You're our final speaker.

Please unmute.

I can't unmute for you.

Thank you, John Brady here.

Uh with uh lived experience advisors.

Uh, really want to compliment Nami and the team here.

I know that a tremendous amount of effort goes into understanding each individual or individual group or family that is on our streets uh to understand what their needs are and to use these funds effectively to uh identify the best longer-term solution for housing.

You know, the reality is many of these programs are gonna end in a couple of years.

Uh, but this these programs, particularly the encampment clearing programs, are funded for up to two years to really identify the needs and get people stabilized in housing.

My concern goes with this is what encampment clearing looks like when it's done right.

We're not just pushing people around a city where we are actually identifying uh individuals, clarifying what their needs are and getting them the resources that they need to recover from homelessness.

Um, you know, we spent a lot of money playing whack-a-mole in this city uh because this is the kind of funding that's necessary to solve the problem that we don't have uh from the state and federal government.

So thank you very much.

Compliments to the program and the team.

Thank you.

That completes public comment on this item.

All right, thank you, City Clerk.

We'll turn it over to the council for questions, comments, and entertained motions, and we'll start with Council Member Whitburn.

Thank you, Council President.

Uh, thank you for the presentation.

Uh, it has really been great to see the results of Dabby's work along the San Diego River.

Uh that work in the riverbed takes a team and mental health services from Dobby uh have been a big part of that team.

Uh the work includes an intake assessment, connecting people to shelter or supportive housing, log term case management, and the work has proven effective.

We've seen a reduction of more than 50% of people living at the riverbed.

Takes a lot of partners, working good coordination to achieve those results.

Uh thanks to Dobby, Path, uh, Healthcare at Action, the San Diego River Park Foundation, uh, our city's environmental services department, uh, the San Diego Police Department's homeless outreach teams, and Betty Bohr, who all play roles in this.

So uh happy to support this extension, and I'll make the motion to approve the staff recommendation.

All right, thank you, Councilmember.

So we'll have a motion by Councilmember Whitburn to move the staff recommendation.

We'll go next to Councilmember Campbell.

Thank you so much, uh, Council President, and thank you for that motion.

Um, thank you for the wonderful work that you guys have done and to Nami for helping with this in such a great way.

Uh, I'm happy to second the motion.

All right, thank you.

So we have a motion by Councilmember uh Whitburn by Councilmember Campbell to move the staff recommendation.

We'll go to Councilmember Elo Rivera.

Thank you, Council President.

Um, I just want to say thank you for uh the effort that goes into this.

Um appreciate the work that's being done here.

Um the deep and and kind of um methodical work that this involves, um, the persistence that it involves, uh, I think is really important, and I know it's not easy, um, but um from what we've seen, it also has more of a lasting effect than other uh other ways of addressing it.

Encampments.

Um I know that uh the corridor project in particular, you can see the difference.

Um that doesn't mean that effort is not continuously required there, but um I do appreciate that um this work is being done the way it's being done.

So thank you for that.

Thank you, Council President.

All right.

Uh thank you, Councilmember.

So, not seeing anyone else in the lights.

We do have a motion by Councilmember Whitburn, a second by Council Member Campbell.

Please call the roll.

I have set up the voting system.

Please cast your vote.

The item passes unanimously with District 7 and District 5 absent.

All right.

Thank you for the item, and thank you for the work to bring it forward.

So with that, uh, please introduce the last item of the day, item 333.

Item 333 is the Mid-Coast Transit Corridor Public Right of Way Vacation Project Number PRJ 066 4727.

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

All right, all right, as you settle in staff.

Uh please introduce yourselves for the record and let us know how much time you need for the presentation.

Good afternoon, council president.

Um, Mark Lopez, project manager at development services, and I with me joining is uh Michael Prince, assistant deputy director, also with development services.

And if I can get five minutes, please.

All right, when you're ready.

Good afternoon, honorable council members.

My name is Mark Lopez, project manager with the Development Services Department, presenting item number 333 for the Mid Coast Transit Corridor public right-of-away vacation under project number, PRJ 0664727.

The project proposes to vacate dedicated right-away portions of Morena Boulevard, formerly Valley Forge Avenue, Yorktown Street, Pasadena Street, and Brandywine Street on an existing developed parcel comprising a total vacation area of approximately 2.31 acres.

The subject property, more commonly referred to as the Balboa Avenue Transit Center, is located northwest and southwest of the intersection of Balboa Avenue and Morena Boulevard, east of the MTS Blue Line Blue Line Railway and Five Freeway in the C-1-2 commercial office zone within the Balboa Avenue Station Area Specific Plan and the Claremont Mesa Community Plan.

The existing right-of-way portions were originally created to allow circulation, access, and public services intended to serve a subdivision that was never developed.

In 2015, the City Council approved the sale of various properties originally owned by the city of San Diego to Sandic for the development, construction, and operation of the Blue Line Railway Expansion.

In relation to the site, a quick claim deed was recorded thereafter in 2019, which consisted of a land transfer sale of city-owned land along along with the memorable memorialization of a sewer easement reservation.

Approval of this action will revert the vacated areas, the vacated effective parcels back to the underlying fee owner, Sandag.

The city would also be relieved from any encumbrance caused from maintain the right-of-way portions.

The public, including Sandag, will also benefit from this action as it would allow the continued use of the transit center.

The result of the vacation will not impact access or circulation as vehicular and pedestrian access from the via Morena Boulevard and the pedestrian access from the north via Garnet Avenue will remain.

As previously mentioned, the project area contains existing sewer facilities within the dedicated right-of-way portions and will remain in place and protected via memorialized easement reservation, thus further ensuring the active sewer facilities can be accessed, maintained and continue to operate without disruption.

And here is the graphic of the proposed site plans.

As you can see, the uh proposed right-away portions to be vacated.

On March 16th, 2021, the Claremont Community Planning Group voted 10 to 1 with one abstention to recommend approval of the proposed project without conditions.

Staff hereby recommends that the city council adopt the following actions in this report.

This concludes my presentation.

City staff and the applicant team are available to answer any questions.

Thank you.

All right, thank you for the work and for the presentation.

I understand the applicant's here, but does not wish to make a presentation.

All right.

So with that, please proceed with public comment.

We will begin with in-person public comment.

Allegedly, Audra, please come forward.

You'll have two minutes to speak.

Yeah, it's interesting when we uh take up land and hold it, and then we don't complete projects.

Not really sure what was supposed to be there, but the fact that it wasn't developed and it's been like 16 years.

Um, this like tends to happen quite a bit with private property owners and easements and you know, needing to take it for some public use, and then it's like it holds this property in limbo for however long until it's decided not to be used.

Um, so it's just interesting the things we do in government.

Do you guys enjoy it?

Um, I mean, this is that why you're up there.

Is it fun?

Having billions of dollars at your disposal.

Right?

I mean, imagine being the president or the governor and you have trillions of dollars.

That is so exciting.

I mean think about how many kickbacks you can get in that arena.

You know what I'm saying?

With the billionaires that we need to go after.

Like Trump right?

Start going after BlackRock.

When are we gonna do that?

Can we start doing that?

Is that in the script at some point?

Vanguard?

Or is it just Trump?

Is it I'm just wondering why are we selective with the billionaires?

We should be really going after it.

Do you know what I mean?

Let's go after all the people that are screwing us.

Right.

No?

Oh my gosh.

You guys are like you're no fun.

You know what I mean?

We pay you to engage.

Do we not?

No.

Just to criminalize us.

It's good.

I've been having the police escort me out so I can get a real good run for my money.

So alright you guys bye.

Thank you for your comment that concludes the in-person public comment.

We will now move to the virtual public comment I've started the five minute timer in council chambers and we'll now turn to the virtual queue in which there are currently two participants requesting to speak.

Belair Beekman please proceed.

Hi uh Blair Beekman I realized uh that Nami uh San Diego Conservancy I'm hearing their names more as in in council chambers uh and how to talk about homeless issues uh thank you for that at least that and it's been good to hear that and and uh there's something positive in what's happening so thank you for that with this item I wish I could better uh relate to it um you had you know you're coming up with SB 79 uh uh you know i uh to do and work on those issues and you're trying to navigate that as well as you can um it's my understanding that um the Claremont area and the college area two big housing developments coming up with transit concerns um may have different choices in how to proceed with them uh I don't know if that's accurate or not but that's why I'm understanding it and I guess that's navigating around 70 the SB 79 and I don't know if it's legal to say that or not I don't know if I'm being in uh good taste in saying that so I just thought I'd ask that and and that I am thinking of these things and how to talk about them better in the future and uh good luck on how you work on this item as well.

Thank you.

Gambler please proceed.

You have to unmute me there we go.

How are you guys doing?

So let's go ahead do you realize that all your actions everything you approved is public record.

Do you realize that the reason why I was able to figure out why we have no money and why you do these things is because I just looked at the laws that were passed and who passed them did you do you recognize the fact that I looked up why we made the NVRA regulations and what the narrative was when that was happening and why we have have and why we went ahead and allow these people yeah no I know the arguments and each one of these arguments sound good on faith right but when you layer them all together you see the big picture of stripping us of our shit and giving it to corporations because you do not have the money to fix our infrastructure.

And because you've been playing games so friggin' long, you have no idea what your responsibilities are, except to protect the status quo.

That's why you don't listen to the people.

That's why you disagree anything that the federal government said, you demonize them.

I mean, hell.

You go ahead and say people are trying to kill trans people.

I've not seen one record of that really happening.

I've seen trans people go out and shoot out and kill thousands of people.

The only reason why they're doing that is because you tell them that we're trying to kill them.

Which is factually not true.

You are creating division so that you could go ahead and get this magical money to go ahead and solve a problem you guys helped create.

Do you recognize that there is records of every single action that you've taken?

Every single person that you did.

That's the greatest thing about being a public employee.

You have to document the shit out of things.

And because that I know the organizations that are tied to basically stripping us and creating a monopoly.

That concludes public testimony on item 333.

All right.

Thank you for that.

Well done.

Okay, we'll now turn it over to the council for questions, comments, and entertain the motion.

And we'll start with Councilmember Campbell.

Thank you very much.

This is a piece of land upon which the Balboa transit station is located for the blue line for the trolleys.

And it's been a wonderful success.

And in between the tracks and Moraina Boulevard.

So it's a triangular shaped piece of land.

And this uh worked out to be an excellent place for that trolley to be built.

It was already owned by Sandag.

And I was told by the previous director of Sandak that the reason it was chosen for the blue line is because there was no hassle.

They already had the land.

And they did indeed have this uh portion of land worked out beautifully.

The thing that's so interesting to me, uh, living near it, there's no sound from it.

It doesn't make any noise for the neighbors who live in Bay Park, which is really quite nice.