Good afternoon, and welcome to the economic development and intergovernmental relations committee meeting of March fifth, twenty twenty-five.

Our committee liaison will provide information and instruction for the public to participate in today's meeting.

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

Also present with us, Noah Fleischmann from the office of the IBA.

Julie Inman from the Office of the City Attorney.

Stephen Hill, senior policy advisor from the office of the mayor.

Sarah, please continue with public comment instruction.

Thank you, Chair.

If you're in person, please complete a speaker slip located at the entrance of the committee room and place it in the tray indicated at the front of the room.

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

In-person testimony will conclude before virtual testimony begins.

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

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

And when prompted, input webinar ID 1603 0614 pound.

This information is also available on the agenda and it will appear on the screen during the public comment period for each agenda item.

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's your turn to speak.

If you wish to speak to a partial particular item, please wait for that item to be called and then raise your hand to speak by tapping the raise your hand icon, or if you're a column participant by pressing star nine on your cell phone or landline.

If you raise your hand during a non-comment period, your hand will be lowered.

Chair.

Thank you, Sarah for reviewing those instructions.

The quorum is now present as a note to the public.

We'll be taking our agenda with items one and two, the consent first, followed by the information item number five, that will then tee it up for the discussions in number three and four.

And non-agenda public comment will be taken at the end of the meeting.

Uh we'll now move to committee members, mayoral staff, city attorney, and IBA comments.

Do we have any comments from members of the committee?

No.

I'll take a moment here to start us off.

I want to recognize and sincerely thank Stephen Hill for his decades of public service to the city of San Diego and to congratulate him on his well-earned retirement.

Mr.

Hill has dedicated his career to making our city a better place, and he has successfully done that since 1989.

He served elected officials with expertise and commitment and good heart.

And since 2008, he has been a trusted advisor to Mayor Gloria in his council member days, uh, helped shape many successful policies and critical areas and have strengthened our city's future.

So on behalf of our committee in the city of San Diego, thank you very much for your service.

Steve, we wish you the best in your next chapter.

You've certainly earned it, and congratulations.

So thank you very much.

Any uh other comments.

Hearing none, do we have any requests for continuances?

Seeing none from our committee members, we'll now dispense with the approval of the consent agenda.

Are there any requests to pull from the consent agenda?

Hearing none, Sarah, let's please proceed with comments.

Thank you, Chair.

The public comment period for the consent agenda is now open and the public in the consent agenda includes approval of the committee minutes from February 5th, 2025, and item number two is the fiscal year 2026 business improvement district budgets, annual appropriation process.

Each speaker will have one minute per item.

We've not received any c slips here in the committee room, so I will begin the five-minute timer for all those to indicate in the virtual queue if they wish to speak to consent agenda items one and two.

We will begin testimony with phone number ending in 8700.

Phone number ending in 870.

You can unmute yourself by pressing star six.

And if you can please indicate which item or items you'll be speaking to.

Yes, thank you, Sarah.

Uh Joy Sanyata, district three, I will be speaking to uh number one and two.

All right, two minutes, please begin.

Thank you so much.

First of all, Chair, uh, real quickly, uh, Chair Campiel.

Thank you.

I know Stephen Hill for years just from my work in government.

He is absolutely tops.

The only thing I would like from him before he totally leaves, if he hasn't already and retired, how does he stay?

He he stays young forever.