Good morning.

Welcome to the community and neighborhood services committee meeting of March 21, 2024.

The committee layers on Natalie Kessler will provide information and instruction.

Thank you, Chair.

While members of the public are able to attend meetings in person, this meeting is being televised and live streamed on the city's website, and council administration will continue to make arrangements for the public to comment using the Zoom webinar platform.

Additionally, members of the public who wish to provide virtual testimony must enter the virtual queue by raising their hand before the queue closes.

The queue will close when the last virtual speaker finishes speaking or five minutes after in-person testimony ends, whichever occurs first.

This will allow for better meeting management between the two platforms and ensure the committee is able to manage and conduct city business.

We appreciate the public's cooperation.

Chair.

Thank you.

I will now call the community and neighborhood services committee meeting of Thursday, March 21, 2024 to order.

And I will now call the roll.

Councilmember Campillo.

And I am present also, and Vice Chair Von Wilbert is absent today.

Also attending the meeting is Coda Zeisser from the Mayor's Office.

Karen Lee with the city attorney's office.

Baku Patel from the Independent Budget Analysts Office.

Natalie Kessler, our committee liaison, and Lizelle Gloria, our committee consultant.

Natalie, please continue with public comment instructions.

If you are attending in person and wish to speak on any items, please complete a speaker slip located at the entrance of chambers and place it at the box indicated at the speaker's lectern at the front of the room.

Please do so in a timely manner to ensure proper meeting management.

Come up to the reserve seats at the front of the room when your name is called and be prepared to come up to the lectern in the order called.

In-person testimony will conclude before virtual testimony begins.

And members of the public can join the webinar by computer, tablet, or smartphone by accessing the link which is listed online in the preamble language of the agenda on the city's website.

To join the Zoom webinar by telephone, please dial 1669-2545252.

When prompted, input webinar ID 161-556-3735 pound.

This information is also available on the agenda.

Please note that if you're watching via City TV 24 or online, there may be a delay.

Please participate via the audio on your phone and mute your TV or computer when it is your turn to speak.

When I introduce the item you would like to speak on, please raise your hand by either tapping the raise your hand button on your computer, tablet, or smartphone, or you can press star nine on your phone.

You will be taken in the order in which you raise your hand.

When it is your turn to speak, you will receive a pop-up notice to select to unmute your device.

If you've called in, please press star six on your phone to unmute yourself.

We will review these instructions again briefly when the public comment period on an item is open.

Chair.

Thank you, Natalie.

A quorum is now present.

And so uh we will dispense with the approval of the committee minutes from February 8th, 2024.

Natalie, please proceed.

Thank you, Chair.

The public comment period for the committee minutes of February 8th, 2024 is now open.

And Chair, we have not received any speakers lips from individuals in chambers to speak on the past committee minutes, but we do have one hand raised in the virtual queue.

I will begin the five-minute timer for all speakers to indicate if they wish to raise their hand to speak on the past committee minutes.

The original, please provide your comments.

You'll have one minute yes.

Um as we're uh in those minutes for the eighth.

Um, it was talking about what I said was um I was talking about recent storm city leadership land use after the storm and the need for to help um affected communities.

Um, you know, I want to be clear that I was talking about the geoengineering in the recent storms, the weather modification, the cloud seeding that was taking place.

And um, you know, I think it's important to be um transparent with the people so that they understand and also the land use after the storms.

I was talking about land grabs because that's what happens when we have um you know disasters that come.

It's very lucrative business, and it's something where people can come in and do that, just like in Maui.

Um, and we do need to help these affected communities, but uh what I was saying is that you know they're not getting the help that they could because the um, you know, the especially with the people that are you know crossing the border, they get way more help than our communities do, and it's just very sad to see because our communities deserve more than they're getting.

Thank you.

And our next speaker to speak on the past committee minutes is Lori Saldania.

Please provide your comments.

You'll have one minute.

Uh yes, thank you.

Good morning.

Last month a comment was made regarding the lack of public forums for the Midway Rising program or project.