Good afternoon.

Welcome everyone to the Economic Development and Intergovernmental Relations Committee meeting of September 3rd, 2025.

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

Thank you, Chair Kimpeel.

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Chair.

Thank you.

Let's call the role for the economic development and intergovernmental relations committee for Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025.

Here.

Councilmember Campbell.

Here.

And I know Pro Tem Lee is on his way.

I am present.

Also present with us is Sergio Alcalde, Associate Fiscal Policy Analyst from the IBA.

That is actually Mr.

Noah Fleischmann is from the IBA.

Deputy City Attorney Daphne Scogan from the Office of the City Attorney and Coda Zeiser from uh Council Affairs Advisor to Mayor Gloria.

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Chair.

Thank you, Sarah, for reviewing those instructions for the benefit of the public.

A quorum now being present.

I'll simply note that we'll be taking the agenda out of order today.

We will begin with the consent agenda items one through five, we'll then be followed by item number seven with our airport friends, and then moving to items six, eight, and then nine, and a non-agenda public comment uh will be heard uh after we take up agenda items.

Uh let us proceed uh to committee member mayoral staff city attorney and IBA comments.

Seeing none, uh we have uh any requests for continuances.

Seeing none, let's move on to our consent agenda.

Any pulling of items from the consent agenda.

Hearing none.

Uh Sarah, please proceed with the public comment.

Thank you, Chair.

The public comment period for the consent agenda is now open.

The consent agenda includes items number one through five.

Item number one, approval of the committee minutes from June 11th, 2025.

Item number two, approval of Brownfield Airport Master Plan and preferred alternative and certification of the program environmental impact report for the Brownfield Airport located in Otai Mesa.

Item number three, Mercado Apartments assignment, assumption, and amendment to loan documents.

Item number four, approval of an affordable housing loan agreement with 73rd Street investors in an amount of three million dollars for the 73rd Street Apartments Affordable Housing Project.

And item number five, approval of an affordable housing loan agreement with the Market Street Senior Housing LP in an amount of five million dollars for the Market Street Apartments Affordable Housing Project.

Each speaker will have one minute per item with a maximum total of three minutes.

So we will begin in-person testimony with Caesar Javier.

If you'll please approach the lector, and you have indicated you wish to speak to items one through five, and you have been seated time by Parita Javier.

So I will place six minutes on the clock for you to manage to speak to all consent agenda items.

Minutes, benchmarks, lesson learned, to remember, respect.

The good, the bad, and the ugly.

Oh, you're now smiling, Councillor Campbell.

Thank you.

You failed us.

You failed us, queen of the toilets and portalets.

It's in the minutes.

In all our attendances here.

Now you're smiling.

You are inhaling the clean air, ma'am.

This is an independent local core city.

The leadership have the power.

We know that.

We are guided in governance.

And we are doing what is supposed to be within the tenets of this engraved literature constitution.

Number two.

I wonder how Mr.

Gloria, oh, sorry, I cannot definitely explain the prefix.

I'll just say citizen Gloria.

The most senior member governing body, air pollution control district.

Coupled by Citizen Rivera, good that he is not here.

But I saw him rushing up, going to the office.

Last time you asked the office, can we talk to the staff?

The response was nobody was there.

They're all working so hard somewhere.

Absentee.

I asked this EIR.

Mom Campbell, I hope you learned with your attendance with the air pollution.

EIR is environmental impact report.

Is the city capable of producing this analysis or report?

Answer us.

Are you capable?

Executive branch.

You don't have to answer.

Because we know the answer.

Look what happened to the river valley crisis.

Just an example, Mr.

Chair.

I'm not debating from the minutes of this.

Let's look back.

EIR.

Projects after projects after projects, handle procured with the capable contractors.

And who are these contractors?

We know that.

We know the miscellaneous thing, Mr.

Citizen Henry Poster.

Why are we building and building and building shelter?

We know it's congesting.

We are just packed like surgeons.

Do you think that the 101 building will be good for survival of families of teachers?

That's what declared by Attorney Campiglio.

No, sir.

It's a pity for the young people.

Of that or purchase for some time.

To look ahead.

Few more years, the 1.339 population will expand to something like it depends on our religious and faith.

Go ye and multiply definitely.

Asian will multiply fast.

And we should be prepared for that.

Are you prepared, sirs, ma'am?

The queen of the restroom, toilet and portalette.

You know, EIR should be rendered right there in our compound.

Uria smelling is a pollution, Dr.

Campbell.

You have done nothing.

And now you're the I am debuting, sorry.

I'll go back to the Ashimode.

Is this shelter a rational endeavor of this council working group?

That's another question.

Is this not for preponderance of the effort of the planning department and the department of development services?

Because they have the blue.

Enforcement.

They are the implementers of what the planners could have been done for this shelter.

It's not for economic development spear, if I may humbly say to you.

Where is your priority, Dr.

Campbell?

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

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Hello.

Thank you so much for your patience.

We're able to hear you now.

Hello.

Hello.

Can you hear us?

Hello.

We got you, Miss Angata.

Go ahead.

Thank you, Chair Campiel.

So nice to hear your voice.

Welcome back, everyone.

Okay.

Um I think it's Sarah, right?

Sarah, I will excuse me, I've got to get away from my TV.

Um there we go.

Um this is Joy.

Thank you, District Three.

I will be speaking on three, four, and five, Sarah.

Three minutes, please begin.

And number three, yes to the Mercado apartments loan, two hundred and twenty-two units.

We have the old with demolition, construct some new.

Um number five, uh, yes to the market street senior housing, five million dollar loan, county owned land, thank you, county.

AMI.

It's a quarter of a mile from MTS number five transit stop.

That's doable.

Good for seniors to walk if they're able.

I don't know when those will kick in, but I'm sure that we're studying them and that we're going to uh use them as applicable.

And I'm very excited about that.

Total cost per unit on this, which does include the acquisition.

Are you ready for this?

It's so exciting.

449,000.

So that's great news on the um EOC and the workforce report.

Now, this is the county of 32 employees.

Uh the county is much more stringent, it seems, and it's very detailed and cleared.

I think with seven pages long.

So the underrepresentation is Latino in management and financial and Asian in admin support.

So thank you, County.

Uh again, I was amazed at seven pages.

The workforce is seven pages.

If you want to really look at what a workforce uh we're thank you for your comment.

Your three minutes has concluded.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Thank you.

Thank you, Sarah.

Good job.

Our next speaker is phone number ending in 8813.

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Okay, can you hear me?

We can hear you, yes.

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

Okay, I'm gonna touch base on all items, but specifically uh speaking on Brownfield Airport.

Okay, three minutes to manage.

Please begin.

Okay, thank you.

Okay, gonna swallow here.

So tonight, or not tonight, this afternoon.

Um discussing Brownfield Airport no time.

On the surface, this looks routine, like routine business, airport upgrades, master plans, user fee adjustments.

But when you zoom out, this is a part of a bigger picture.

Brownfield is a public asset.

Yes, fees keep rising, landing fees, hangar fees, parking fees across car access card fees, even fuel surcharges.

We're constantly charged more.

Um like the city parking, water rates and taxes.

What do we get back?

What is the real return on our so-called investments?

Uh where's the tangible benefit?

Communities who live here.

Isn't about brownfield.

It's the same pattern across sandag, the school boards, the water boards, and every agency in this county.

These boards act and act in lockstep, pushing more fees, more restrictions, and more control, while the people shoulder the costs and see it, see very little in their return.

And here's where agenda 21 comes in.

Many people have never heard of it, but it's a framework from the 1990s that pushed sustainable development worldwide.

Sounds nice, but in practice, often means central planning, reduced local autonomy, and decisions made without genuine community consent.

See it right here.

Development plans that benefit corporations and agencies, not families.

Uh sustainability used as a slogan, while the costs of living skyrocket.

Who benefits?

Because it doesn't look like it's for us.

Everyday San Diego and pays the bill.

If this city is serious about Brownfield future, then every dollar collected, every plan approved, must serve the public good, real community investment, real transparency, real accountability, not just another line item and a long chain of regional control.

It's time we remind the people that they're not leaders, the public servants who they in fact work for.

Thank you.

Thank you for that concluding remark.

The five-minute timer has expired.

We have three hands remaining in the virtual queue, and we'll take no other callers beyond these three individuals.

Paul Hankin, if you can please unmute and let us know which item or items you'll be speaking to.

Okay, can you hear me?

We can hear you now.

Thank you for your patience.

Yeah, sure.

Items um two, three, four, and five.

Okay.

Three minutes, three minutes total.

Please begin.

And Jennifer, don't be a stranger.

Move up next to the podium.

Easier to hear.

Um Brownfield comprehensive plan, preferred alternative, does in fact look best.

But I hope by the time you do the EIR, the city is better off financially, if not politically.

And um uh maybe you can uh reduce some of those fees so you won't have to um make up for all the silly projects that have been um built or planned.

Um the Mercado apartments now now.

Let's get serious about the affordability crisis.

The overview says it will provide the housing for people making 30% to 60% of the um average the AMI, the annual median income.

Uh however, the project description changes this to 35% to 60%, a bit higher, I guess.

But uh in fact, neither is affordable to extremely low-income people.

Um, you know, like uh homeless people or uh really low-income people.

I mean, you know, you're in a housing crisis and affordability crisis.

I mean, so again, let's get serious.

Uh San Diego should be welcoming to all renters above and below 30 percent of the AMI.

Therefore, I would urge you to reject this.

Um I don't think it really contributes that much to the city right now.

Um change the terms may be, you know, maybe it can be bitter.

Uh nice that the 73rd Avenue apartments now are offering uh financing to help the homeless and extremely low-income people who rent apartments there.

Um I like, you know, I like it that uh city embraces all people.

Um I do not, however, like that the loan term is 55 years.

I mean, a lot can change in 55 years.

Um the developer might go bankrupt or something, and you'd be in a fix to find a new one or new terms or deal with the building.

I mean, I think you can really do a lot better than thank you, Mr.

Hank.

And this does conclude your time.

Thank you for your comments.

Our next speaker is Becky Rapp.

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Good afternoon.

My name is Becky Rapp.

I'd like to address items four and five.

All right, two minutes, please begin.

As as you consider approving millions in public funds for the 73rd Street Apartments um affordable housing project, I urge you to require that all city supported affordable housing developments be smoke-free.

The project will provide 119 units restricted for families earning 30 percent, 60 percent of area median income for the next 55 years.

So these homes will be designated as affordable housing.

Families who qualify for affordable housing often include children and seniors or those with health challenges, the very people most vulnerable to the dangers of secondhand smoke.

Right now, San Diego does not require smoke-free policies in privately developed affordable housing, even when taxpayer dollars are invested by adopting the standard.

Every family deserves a safe, healthy home.

Please make smoke-free housing a requirement for all affordable housing developments that receive city support.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And the final speaker in the queue is Kathy Torres.

If you can please unmute and indicate which item or items you'll be speaking to.

Uh, yeah, so I'm Kathy Torres, and I am a senior that lives in a tripex in North County in Rancho Bernardo.

And I it's an not something that's on the agenda, but it's about the trash can issues.

We live in a tripex.

I've got a 90-year-old, an 80-year-old, and we're the youngsters at 70 years old, and we can't pick which trash cans we want.

They're saying all three households has to pick a bundle, and we don't have room for nine cans, and I can't see a 90-year-old taking a full 95-gallon can that's I'm gonna that's out to the curb.

And I can't see a 90-year-old taking a full 95 gallon can out to that out to the curb.

I I just can't see it.

We've got a hundred and four-year-old lady that lives next door.

What they're offering us in sizes does not meet not acceptable.

The bundles are not acceptable.

We need to be able to choose single.

My name is Yvonne Torres.

And I thought it uh this whole thing of trying to defend what we really need.

We do not need nine trash cans.

Thank you for thank you for your comment.

Your time has concluded.

Thank you.

And Chair with no other hands in the virtual queue.

This concludes public testimony for the consent agenda.

Thank you to members of the public for your participation on this consent agenda.

We will now go to council member questions and comments and seek a motion for the consent agenda.

Do I have a motion?

Absolutely, Chair.

And I have a second from Councilmember Campbell as well.

Thank you very much.

Very briefly, uh, didn't pull any item, but I do have a question about item five uh related to the market, street apartments, affordable housing.

Um, and this comes in the context of uh questions I've asked in the past regarding affirmatively furthering fair housing.

Um, if the member from EDD uh is is available to answer this question.

I see we got senior housing going in with a sizable child care facility at this location, and this seems to be uh a county property that was put up under surplus lands act.

Um, and so this would be the city financing a proportion of that project.

Um I know that we've had recent lawsuit that related to affirmatively furthering fair housing, and I know that this is what's located in in terms of a census tract uh designation as low resource area.

And I know part of our uh lawsuit settlement is that we are seeking to promote policies that put more housing in high resource uh high resource through moderate resource uh locations.

Um someone here from the EDD that can respond to that.

Uh how we're approaching AFFH through bridge to home program.

Um, I know that this is money that well, I guess the first question in terms of the financing, this isn't just five million dollars that we can spend on anything.

This is has to be designed for a very specific type of program, correct?

Correct.

Thank you for the question, Chair Campillo.

Monica Hardman, Assistant Director with the Economic Development Department.

I'd first like to just go back to the goals of our bridge to home affordable housing NOFA.

As you are aware, we have several goals of our NOFA program that aligns with our consolidated plan, our affordable housing master plan, um, as well as other city and economic development specific plans.

A specific point that is mentioned is that in that is that we will agree to really focus and prioritize housing production in moderate, high, and highest resource areas.

So in our newest round of our bridge to home NOFA, where um submittals are due later this month, you will see that we actually prioritize the scoring and provide bonus points that are in those areas, and that's really to um incentivize and to ensure that we are um doing our best efforts.

Um, as you mentioned with this specific site, um, it is located on county land.

This is also a project that was in a prior round of our NOFA, so a couple cycles ago.

So we've been working very diligently to make sure that we provide our best efforts with the settlement.

Understood.

So uh what you're telling me is uh economic development has a rubric, and if everybody who applies through this NOFA to receive money with bridge to home dollars, uh this wasn't necessarily one of the projects that was done under that rubric, but moving into the future more points will be awarded to projects that are located in higher resource areas.

That is correct.

Okay.

Um this this current project, there was a rubric, it's just that it didn't have the sort of extra bonus points that go towards placing towards awarding in other uh high highest, high and moderate resource areas, correct?

That is correct.

So at the time it was a priority, but it did not give the extra bonus points that are included in this current round.

Okay, just so I have a good understanding of this.

Do you get more bonus points for being in highest than in moderate, or is it if you're in one of those three, you get the same number?

You're exactly right, Chair Campillo.

So you get a certain percent, certain number of bonus points for moderate, you get more for high, and then you get the most for highest.

Okay, all right, very good.

Um I think it's it's uh important that I know that legal settlement had particular uh requirements of where city policy is supposed to change.

Um I hope that the goal of that settlement influences every other program that we uh have that incentivizes building of housing, uh, and I'm glad to see that the rubric that that the economic development department will be using for bridge to home uh will be giving even extra points to those highest resource area projects uh so that we can get developers to look at areas there where in highest resource areas where the land will be uh probably more expensive.

Uh and so uh that way we can really meet the goal of integrating our communities uh and seeing folks with rent restricted housing live in places where there's more jobs, more parks, more hospitals, and all the other benefits that we want to see throughout our entire city.

Um with that, I think I have no further questions.

I see Councilmember Foster's come on the lights.

Thank you.

Yes, um, thank you for those um questions.

Um but as we are talking about the rubric as we're moving forward, this project, as you indicated, is not new.

It has been on the books for quite some time.

We um actually in the district, um, we have the new Live Well Center where county staff vacated the current property and moved to the Live Well Center.

But it's also my understanding that this was part of um as we had the successor agency and we had certain things that had to be met, that this project was specifically uh I guess I'll use their term well, I'll say identified as an affordable housing project within their I guess mandated efforts to meet their housing needs.

Um can you touch upon that?

Um because we still are uh going through certain efforts in regards to the disillusion of of the successor agency and properties and so forth when we have these very specific properties, uh, because at the time when we were looking at the um sale of the Tub and Chavez, we had very specific conversations with the county.

And I remember specifically that this was put on the table as a land swap, but they wanted to put restrictions on the deed, indicating it had to be used for affordable housing.

And uh councilmember or the council member at the time, uh Monica McGomber Stebb did not accept those terms.

Um so can you touch on how will the rubric and how will this come into play as we are talking about these older projects and and certain things and how we square that up with the commitment and settlement that was made with the with the focus in high to high resource areas?

Thank you for that question, Councilmember Foster.

Um, related to the specific details of this property, I would be happy to discuss this offline with you because I do not want to give um an accurate information.

I don't have those details with me, so happy to offer a briefing where we can really dive into those details.

Um what I will say in terms of the overarching goal is that is the exact reason why we created this rubric is because we have to drive a way to incentivize what we award with our very precious and limited funding to ensure that we are providing investment and incentivizing development in these moderate high and highest resource areas.

And I appreciate that, and I'll take you up on the on the briefing.

Um but what I'm specifically looking for is how are we handling all of these?

Um I don't know if you want to call it grandfather invested, however, we're doing this where projects were originally on the table, and now we have the settlement, and how are we squaring that up?

Are they just out of that conversation?

Or are they um going to be um reviewed in accordance with the new uh standards in the settlement and and what impact that will have?

Does that make sense?

And that does make sense, and thank you.

So when we originally went through our scoring criteria for the specific project, um the settlement was not yet finalized, but we definitely hear you we're taking into consideration, and it's something that is on our radar, where we want to make sure that we are not only in compliance with it, but that we're meeting the goals that you and other members of cancel of council have shared with us that are important.

Thank you for that one last piece.

Just if there are any other properties that are in this similar state, please identify those so we can understand impacting where we're at in regards to the settlement and how we're proceeding.

I appreciate that, and we will do so.

Thank you.

Thank you for your questions.

Uh Councilmember Foster.

Uh last just bottom line, bottom line of the loan, five million dollars.

It is loan money, it's not grant money.

They pay it back to the fund eventually over time, correct?

Correct.

It's a residual receipts loan, 3% simple interest, 55-year term.

Okay.

I I know a caller said that if uh the developer goes bankrupt or something, and I essentially we might not see that money returned.

But I what what what happens if the project doesn't move forward for some reason and somebody owes us or hasn't used that money for construction or is unable to pay it back?

Thank you for the question.

So if there's a project, we come through council right now.

It's at EDNIR, then it would go to council.

We do not send out any money until we actually have a closing.

So it would be a financial closing.

And this project is not acquisition, it would be for construction.

So we would do it when they submit their actual draw.

So it wouldn't be the money up front.

It would be, you know, every month, every two months, whenever they would submit that.

And if there was a situation where let's say the the project was unable to be completed in our loan agreement, we have all of that spelled out for how we would be able to remedy that.

Okay, and if we essentially pull that money back, would that be used in a future NOFA in which we'd be using the rubric that has the extra points, or would it be the old rubric because it's money from a different cycle?

It would be the new rubric.

Okay, very good.

Thank you very much for that.

Seeing no further questions and comments, we had a motion and a second.

Uh, all members in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

All opposed.

Hearing none, that passes unanimously with all members present on the consent agenda.

Let's move forward to information item number seven.

Sarah, please introduce the item.

Thank you, Chair.

Item number seven is the report from the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority.

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I'd like to welcome our friends from the airport authority.

Um I said earlier our airport friends.

We have multiple airport friends here today.

Uh but this item in particular, uh, we will have chair of the airport authority board, Mr.

Gil Cabrera, and president and CEO of the Airport Authority, Kim Becker, uh, presenting, and I will uh let you take it away and let us know how much time you're gonna need.

15 minutes should do it.

15 minutes, thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember.

And uh with us also is Matt Harris, who's our director of government relations and strategy.

I got it right.

Um so it's great to be here.

We are in the very exciting month where our new terminal will open.

We'll get to a lot of fun pictures uh and uh updates on that.

I just wanted to give you an overview of our agenda in terms of what we'll be talking about and uh sort of going through the process.

Like I said, we'll we'll have a lot of discussion on new terminal one.

That's usually what our friends want to talk to about us about these days, which we're happy to do.

Um, and then let me just walk you through the authorities' role just so you can take a look at it.

It's a single-purpose entity uh that was uh created by legislation in 2003.

We own and operate San Diego International Airport.

We also serve as the region's uh airport land use authority uh and uh we lead the regional aviation system planning process.

Um so we've got a few hats that we wear.

Uh the main one obviously is is running uh your your San Diego International Airport.

So in planning for the future um growth of the airport, I always like to remind people the runway is our big limiter.

Um that is the thing that that will control how many flights come in and out, and so that's that's the thing.

It's not the number of gates, it's not uh pretty much anything else we do to it.

Uh and then the marketplace obviously determines the number of people that fly.

Right now we're at about 25 million uh passengers a year that go through the airport.

We expect that to hit 35 million by 2035.

Uh nice symmetry in numbers, but that's the current plan.

Uh and then our recent improvements, including the new terminal, will essentially make us more efficient, make the customer experience better.

I know all of you love flying out of current terminal one.

I was just there a week ago.

Uh, and um I'm not sad to see it go.

Um, so we're so a lot of that's just gonna be improving our operations and our efficiency on the customer experience.

All right, here's the fun part.

So uh let me just walk you through the overall scope of the project and and what it really does.

These um this image gives you a sense of just how comprehensive it is.

It really covers almost all of our, not all of our real estate, but a good chunk of our real estate.

And the fun part, of course, is that it's right in the middle of the airport while we're operating the airport, so it has made for some interesting challenges to our operators, but they have uh performed with a plum, and um I think we've maintained the uh customer experience throughout.

The new um uh updates basically are as I said, they're comprehensive.

It's both air side and land side, including and in addition to the terminal itself.

We'll uh the landslide includes the new on airport road, which we just opened um uh a few weeks ago.

And um, for those of you that have now traveled um down harbor into Point Loma post-road opening, it's like a different universe.

Uh Harbor is now wide open because we've taken 40,000 cars a day off of Harbor, which is an amazing uh change.

Uh the Terminal One parking plaza is now fully open, and that offers up to a little more than 5,000 spaces, making it easier for passengers to find uh convenient parking.

And then we've uh set aside in that purple box that you see there on the slide space for a future uh transit station that could connect the to a future regional transit solution that's currently being discussed by Sandag.

On the air side, I just want to mention one of the big changes is the uh in addition to just the linear nature of the run of the new uh terminal is also a new taxiway.

Remarkably, for all these years, we've been operating with one, effectively one uh all the way uh taxiways, and it's as you may know, those are one way, and so when you've got airplanes moving back and forth, it sort of can slow things down when you have to turn them around.

So having two-way of the ability to have two-way traffic will again incredibly improve the efficiency of our air side operations.

So as I mentioned, we are very close.

You can see the sort of milestones there, and we're all the way down to the bottom now, which is September of 2025.

Uh phase 1A, which is the first 19 gates of new terminal one, will open on September 23rd.

Actually, on the September 22nd, I'll cover this in a little bit.

Um, some of the last planes to come in will park in the new terminal, so it should be amusing to see passengers getting out of that uh of those airplanes, confused as to whether or not we landed them in a different city.

Uh, but they are and they will be in fact in the beautiful uh new terminal.

After that is completed in early next year, we'll open a few more gates, and then by early 2028, we'll open the balance of the 30 gates.

And then by mid-28, the air side improvements will be completed.

Uh new Terminal One has a number of notable features.

Kind of see most of them here.

The big one is 1.2 million square feet of space.

This is more than three times the space of new Terminal One, of old Terminal One.

Let me assure you, it feels a lot bigger.

It's you you think three times and you think, oh, that's not bad.

It's it's mind-bogglingly different.

Um it's just a completely different experience.

You really won't recognize it as as our airport.

Um there's an outdoor dining area which overlooks Sandy downtown and the bay, which will be very popular.

The um restaurants, 30 new restaurants and shops.

You're gonna want to get there early and actually enjoy the experience, and as I'll go through a little bit later, the quality of the restaurants and the local nature of them is really remarkable.

We've covered the new airport road and all the closer uh parking structures.

There's the a cool children's play area that's coming in in phase one B that is very San Diego.

It actually is kind of a beach scene, and the slide I think is a is a is a uh flip-flop, um, a sandal for lack of better words.

So it's kind of fun.

All right, and these are some of the new uh sustainability features um of the new airport.

Uh let me highlight a few of them.

Um one of the big ones is that we are moving to um hydrant fueling throughout, and so that'll that'll take a number of of our our own vehicles off of the ramp so that we'll be able to put uh fuel directly in there.

Um we'll also have we've also included um 250 plus electric vehicle charging stations plus an additional 250 EV ready spaces so we can scale as that need grows.

Um 300 plus bike bicycle parking spots to encourage active and eco-friendly commuting.

Uh we have an all-electric shuttle, which is currently running uh from old town to and from our uh both of our terminals, um the San Diego Flyer.

And then we have two underground uh sorry, we have two uh stormwater uh capture and reuse systems featuring a 900,000 gallon underground cistern to conserve water.

So it's a it's we've done a ton of work to try to make us as efficient and as eco-friendly as possible.

So these are the airlines that'll be assigned to the new T1.

Uh most of them you can see will move in in a couple weeks.

Uh Breeze, Frontier, Jet Blue, Southwest, Spirit, and Sun Country.

Uh, in early 26, I mentioned we have a few more gates coming online.

That'll be Air Canada and Westjet.

And then in early 2028, when we open up the remaining uh for the full balance of 30 gates, uh, Delta will be moved over to the new terminal.

All right, concessions program.

Uh, this was one of the more fun things that we got to do on the board is approve the concessions terminal, uh, the concessions program.

Our big push was to have as much local flavor and presence as possible.

Um, and you can see we sort of really kind of nailed it with a lot of the the options here, including a taco stand, um, so you can get your your uh fish taco or your California burrito on your way in or out of the airport now.

Um we do have some national brands for folks that really want those, but for the most part, it's gonna feel very local uh in flavor and space, and then even the marketplaces will have a local vibe to them.

There's one that's gonna be very Liberty Station focused or themed, um, as well as some other uh uh halls and markets places that are very again, San Diego.

We want people to sort of get the vibe of San Diego from the moment they touch down.

And then our art program has been an incredible thing to also see and watch being developed.

Um you'll see it from the moment you sort of come up as you as you sort of come up on the ramps, you see um the migrations structure that's right around um the the sort of uh on the airport roads.

On the corner of Terminal One, you'll see Rise, which um we all are calling a jellyfish, but it's more than that, and it's beautiful, and it changes color at night, um, so it's even more um dynamic.

Um the inside of the terminal itself and the wall is art.

The the entire uh wall is called a luminous wave, and it was built, it was it was a joint venture between the artist and the and the uh architect to make it so that we had both art and function in that space, and the way it lets light in is beautiful.

It's very bright, it's very airy, but you will not get direct sunlight in the eyes of people.

And then uh near the near the uh sorry, I love talking about the art stuff, near the there's two more pieces I want you to see and be sure to focus on when you're there.

They're both around the security checkpoints, which are enormous.

One is outside the security checkpoint, and that's the Torrey Pines.

It's this incredible hanging structure that looks like a Torrey Pines when you're looking right at it.

Um if you look to the side, you can see it's made up of of thousands and thousands of little pieces.

And then each of the columns on the exit to security is itself a mosaic tile uh work of art uh called the Day in the Sun.

And uh so this will give you a sense of what it's starting to look like.

We've included the rendering, and it's always fun to be able to show you what the what we thought it was gonna look like and what it looks like, and we we did a very nice job of it, and you can sort of see the difference between the rendering and the actual picture there, um the which is the larger one, and that's the um what's that one called?

Rise.

I always call it the jellyfish, but anyway, Rise is right there.

All right.

Uh this is the arrivals curb, uh, same same deal.

You can sort of see how the renderings really kind of nailed it.

Um, and then this is the new ticketing hall, which is again, it's just life changing.

It's it's uh open, airy, sunlight, natural light.

Um, that brown area there where that the ceilings change, that's the security area, so it'll be very easily denoted in there.

And then this is that outdoor dining area that I mentioned.

There's already tables and chairs in there, but um, this gives you a sense of it and how and and if you look straight out, you can see the the downtown's uh skyline right there.

And there'll be airline tails uh there that you'll see as well because there's a number of gates on that side.

Here's the post-security uh screening checkpoint area again.

It's just a lot more space, a lot more lines.

There's now one, it's it's I know it's a crazy concept, but one security checkpoint for the entire terminal as opposed to uh picking one or the other, depending on the gates you're going to.

Here's the look at the concourse looking eastbound, east uh uh down the concourse.

Um, and you can see some of our lighting features there as well, and just a beautiful um again uh I can't say open and area enough because that's really the entire feeling of it.

Uh this is an overview of the on airport road uh that is now open and fully functional, and so you can it's a it's a different way to get on um to the airport now from Laurel, the right lane will take you only on to the airport road.

Um the left lane will take you on to harbor um northbound, and then if you're coming on harbor northbound, uh you get in the right lanes, and that'll hop you onto the on-airport road.

Uh let's see.

That's the new parking plaza, as I mentioned, 5,000 plus spaces for Terminal One.

This is an overview of the on-airport road, so you can see it uh yet again for those that haven't uh traversed it.

I encourage it.

Uh here's some of our mobility stuff that we've mentioned in terms of um the San Diego Flyer, which again it's that's been operating now for a number of months.

Drop offs are about every 20 to 30 minutes, depending on the traffic on Pacific for the most part.

It's all electric fleet.

It's very popular, and it's a great uh connector to our current uh transit options, especially coming from the north.

Uh we did a number of roadway improvements on a number of roads to sort of both grapes on Grape Street, uh Palm Street.

We also did Sassafras, I believe.

And so just to sort of improve the flow through for those roadways, those were uh it's kind of a big deal for the for an airport to do that.

The FAA does a lot of uh control in terms of our ability to use airport and airline funds for um anything off the airport, so that was a lot of work by our team to sort of allow us to help improve the traffic flows onto the airport, even though we were improving off airport property.

So, as I mentioned, on the evening of the 22nd, the last few couple dozen or so flights coming in.

We'll get to park in Terminal One for the first time and stay there overnight, and then on the 23rd, we'll do the good old-fashioned ribbon cutting, and all the all the departures that day will be full operations.

It'll be it's gonna be a long night.

A lot of us will be in the building, but essentially on the night of the 22nd, old Terminal One shuts down, and then everything gets moved into new Terminal One, the people, all their stuff, and then they open the next morning operating out of terminal out of the new Terminal One.

And we almost immediately start tearing down old Terminal One.

Oh, I wanted to mention a couple of the community events.

Uh, we've been advertising these as much as possible, but you can see new terminal one before it opens on the 23rd.

That's open to the entire uh community.

On the morning of September 14th from 9 to noon, you'll be able to take a self-guided tour through the terminal.

There'll be staff there to sort of help you along, but for the most part, you just get to wander the space before we before we lock it down.

Um, and we'll validate parking uh in the new T1 plaza.

And I'll turn it over to Ms.

Becker for the Small Business Development Program.

Great, thank you, Chair Cabrera, and thank you, and um thank you for having us here today.

Um it's very fitting that the chair ended the presentation talking about the community because one of the things that we cherish at the airport is bringing the community to uh the airport and using an inclusionary approach to doing business.

We really like to create economic opportunities, open doors, create connections for small local businesses in the community, and we do that not just through making sure that the regulatory compliance is there, but we also offer certification training and a lot of programs to help make sure that they are connected with contractors and uh other opportunities at the airport.

And an example of the example of some of the initial results for new T1 for for spending is listed here.

You'll see this is after 1.9 billion dollars of a $3.8 billion project.

This does not include our concession um work as as Chair Cabrera mentioned, and we still have a significant amount of work to do on the program.

So I anticipate these numbers will increase tremendously.

I mentioned the outreach and education.

Um in this year so far, we've either hosted or participated in 11 different community events.

Um that in and then a few upcoming events are listed here.

Uh, the next being the veteran success, where we honor veterans and also talk to them about how to do business at the airport.

Uh we continue an ongoing work with Turner School of Construction.

We have uh had 1,500 participants over the past uh 10 to 12 years in that program, and we teach them again how to do business at the airport, how to respond to RFPs, the procurement process, how to go for bonding, all sorts of things about business at the airport.

And uh as a result of participants going through that program, we've had quite a few come back and do significant amounts of work at the airport.

I'm gonna switch gears and talk a little bit about um air service at the airport.

Um you see our route map right here, and you can see for the most part we cover most of the United States.

Uh we have 88 non-stop destinations and move on that uh quite a few international.

I'll talk about those in a minute.

In the last year alone, uh, these are the flights that we've added or resumed.

You can see Alaska and Southwest have added quite a number of flights, or resume service to those flights.

Frontier as well, and we've had two international carriers start in this year so far, which is tremendous.

Um that doesn't happen all the time.

COPA and KLM, COPRA to Panama and KLM to Amsterdam.

Um, this is our entire list of destinations by international carrier.

We have increased our seat capacity with those two new additions by 11% year over year.

And we're we're quite pleased that a lot of these carriers increase service to daily over the summer, and British Airways recently went to double daily.

Now over the winter months, they may scale back to three or four times a day to get through the less traveled periods of time.

But we have we've been quite pleased with the results of this service.

As a matter of fact, we had the highest recovery rate in in uh California out of all the airports since the pandemic.

Our employments have grown at record levels.

We're at 12.6 million uh passenger and plane passengers this year, or yeah, and playing passengers this year.

And um go ahead on.

And this is some of the recent press that we've had over that new and expanded service uh in the international, especially and then Southwestern Alaska, who are um really focused on San Diego right now, and you will see representatives of Southwest and uh Alaska Airlines in the community at different events, uh trying to really be a part of the San Diego community.

Now we're not done.

We have quite a few other areas that we want to accomplish.

You'll see that we've checked quite a few of the objectives here, but we are also continuing to look for a second gateway to Asia.

Uh we have the the Jow flight that's daily, but there's some room there for additional flights, and we also want to connect to the Australia Asia Gateway looking at uh new New Zealand and that region as well.

We don't have service in in any of that area.

And uh on the domestic front, we were just absolutely thrilled that we had we um were able to secure uh the beyond perimeter exemption to uh operate out of Reagan National this year.

Um that was many years in the working, and uh we find we're finally able to secure that service.

And then there's some other um uh airports noted there that we are uh looking to grow or add service.

And with that, I'm happy to take any questions you may have.

Thank you.

Thank you very much for the presentation.

Uh let us go with public comments, Sarah.

Thank you, Chair.

We'll begin with in-person testimony.

Cesar Javier, if you'll please approach the lector, and you have been seated time by Parita Javier, so I will place two minutes on the clock.

César in Purita.

Thank you.

We haven't attended the advisory board if I might say it.

We haven't heard we didn't participate.

We do not know how to participate.

We do not know the location.

By electronics, we can push the button, but we cannot exactly know where, how, when that's part of the public engagement education.

So hopefully we could hand you incremental or decimal point inputs which may improve our aviation industry.

We cannot stop development as population growth.

My question first, what lessons could we input in your development from what is happening?

Cross landings, etc.

etc.

The twin towers.

And landing, what lessons?

Give me one.

Of course, you don't have to answer.

We noticed some destruction in the guise of you know what we mean.

We are trying to find out that hypothetical, not just assumption, but professional guess.

The corruption as far as the world getting.

Proposition 59.

Proposition 65.

We do not know even whether you are the lead agency at the county level or the city.

And the main the mayor is just smiling.

More to come.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Karen.

And you will have one minute, please begin.

I won't be that long.

I just had a quick question, because I heard in your presentation that there were gonna be 300 spaces for bicycle parking.

And I don't know if it's for like community members that park their bikes and go jogging or I had a hard time visualizing.

The first thing I thought is how is a traveler, yes.

How is a traveler gonna bring his staff on a bike and park it?

So that was my question is how does the bike parking situation fit in with your plan?

That's all.

Thank you.

Thanks.

Thank you.

That concludes testimony here in chambers.

So I will begin the five-minute timer for all those in the virtual queue to indicate if they wish to provide comment on item number seven.

Each speaker will have one minute, and we will begin with Paul Hankin.

Please unmute and begin.

We can hear you, please proceed.

Okay.

Gil said the runway is the big limit or big limiter.

If there are more passengers in the future, you need a bigger runway.

Uh glad you'd build a new access road, but it ain't a runway.

You need a runway in a different direction to accommodate both increased air traffic and shifting winds.

I congratulate you on a bigger terminal one.

It sounds like a lot of fun, especially for the kids.

Local flavor concessions is good.

Hope that the host is done to get overextended and break when you do the hydrant fueling.

But again, you need a second runway, which means larger airport, maybe at Miramar.

Unless you get this, all your improvements are nice, but are not what the airport needs.

We pair taxes for the airport, not an enhanced mall.

Thanks.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is phone number ending in 8813.

You can unmute by pressing star six.

Okay, Clint Fellow here.

Can you hear me?

We can hear you, please proceed.

Okay, great.

Okay, so let's see.

A great thing.

Uh that we have uh improvements.

Uh we have um well, we know it's not for the benefit of the people, but uh I just wanted to make a comment regarding um when you do have that brand opening or whatever, the first day of the blah blah blah blah, bringing the community together, and uh you know, I just want to point out that's the least you can do, considering how much the people do and how taxed we are, and yet you know just so evident that the people will not set the benefits of this new uh receive the benefits of this new airport.

They'll see little in their investment of their taxes of putting this whole thing together, and that's like, yeah.

So the least you can do is Thank you.

This does conclude your time.

Thank you for your comment.

And share with another hands in the virtual queue.

This concludes testimony for item seven.

Thank you to the members of the public for your participation.

This is an information item only, so no motions required.

I'll turn it over to committee members for questions or comments.

I'll kick us off real quick.

Thank you very much for the presentation and obviously the the successful roll out of the terminal as it's as it's unfolding.

Uh just between the economic importance of it, but also the just to put it simply the beauty of it.

It's really, really important for us to be able to point to a major piece of our infrastructure and be proud of it on multiple levels.

And I do appreciate Mr.

Cabrera, you pointing out that uh the experience that people will have in it, uh, it will be more um will reflect the the local culture, particularly through food, uh, and that's something that will keep people coming back over and over again, I'm sure.

Uh I did want to ask a question about how we're gonna go from 25 million passengers to 35 over the next decade.

Um, first of all, what was have we gotten back to 2019 pre-COVID numbers?

Uh I don't remember if that was specifically mentioned, but we are we are back and above pre-19 numbers.

Okay, very good.

And I'll let uh Miss Becker talk to you about the 35 million.

I did want to comment on two things.

Uh three things.

One is uh the bicycle question.

Um you'd be surprised how people get to the airport.

We've seen people ride their bikes with a roller on it and somehow park it there and everything.

The other aspect of that is uh so there are people that do ride their bikes to travel, but we also have employees that ride their bikes to the airport, so that's part of it as well.

Um and then somebody had a couple of mentions of taxes.

It's important to recognize the airport is funded through um user fees.

Um we don't we're not a taxing authority, so we don't actually levy any taxes at the airport.

Uh with that, I'll turn it over to Miss Becker.

Yes, thank you.

Um the the 35 million annual passengers is a maximum number that we envision getting to.

Um the way with only one runway and the only bill, only the ability to have one runway.

The way that we can get closer to that number uh is through better technology.

As you know, the federal government is really focused on the FAA and advancing the air traffic control system right now.

Um that will help.

You'll have reduced separation.

Um, you'll have more efficient ways of landing and departing aircraft.

Um, and it's also upgauging aircraft, more seats on aircraft.

Um, that number will not come without some pain and some delay.

That is truly the maximum number that we could get on that in that airport in the future.

I appreciate that answer.

I think to go from 25 million to 35 million, that means essentially 27,000 more people per day going out to get that extra uh extra 10 million um more bigger planes and closer together.

Obviously, we don't want to sacrifice any amount of of uh safety, so I trust that uh between your oversight of that and the FAA's uh programming uh that we can maintain stellar standard for safety that we've seen at San Diego International Airport while also continuing to bring people here and improving our local economy because of it.

Um I really don't have any other questions at this point.

Uh do we have anything from any of my colleagues?

They are all very happy with you.

Uh so uh I do want to say thank you very much for your good work uh and for um really keeping the public apprised of the construction and the entire rollout of it.

Obviously, uh the number of questions we get from constituents through social media and through email as to what to expect as they drive along Harbor Drive has been immense over the last several years.

Uh and I think the city could learn from you guys about how to put that message out there when we have things of similar uh of similar um not scale, but similar um uh interest to the public.

So thank you very, very much and keep up the great work.

Thank you very much.

We will now move on to item number six, which is part of our discussion agenda.

Sarah, please introduce the item.

Thank you, Chair Campio.

Item number six is a resolution approving San Diego and Marseille's sister city application.

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Thank you.

We will now turn to the Chief of Global Affairs for the Mayor's Office, Ben Moore, and director of the World Trade Center for San Diego, Lucas Coleman.

Uh, please let us know how much time you're gonna need.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Uh, if we could have 10 minutes, we'd appreciate that.

Very good.

All right, thank you.

Uh so today we're gonna go over the uh proposed sister city relationship between San Diego and Marseille.

I'm gonna cover that in four parts.

An overview of the process and sort of how we got here, uh note on some of the relationships that exist between our two cities now, um, highlighting some of that economic partnership as well as our upcoming trade mission, uh, and then finally outlining the next steps, which include uh the resolution for this committee.

I would note just stepping back in terms of the overall process.

If we could zoom out and look at the international relations landscape of today, it's obviously there's a lot of division and tension out there.

I think a lot of that, of course, caused by our own national government in some ways, but I think this offers opportunity uh for San Diego to demonstrate global leadership in a way that embraces many of the things that we are so proud of here, including the fact that we embrace diversity, cultural vibrancy, and human connection, as well as of course economic development and reflecting this in the actions we take, uh no matter what they are, as well as the ways in which we demonstrate ourselves around the world, I think is incredibly important.

And it hits at the entire uh origin and intent behind the sister cities program post-World War II, looking at human connections, subnational diplomacy connections between cities, uh between peoples, regardless of what's happening on the national level.

So, with that, noting that I think this uh is an action before us that is perhaps small but is deeply meaningful for San Diego to take.

I can give you a quick overview of kind of how we got here today and then talk a little bit about what's to come.

Uh, the Sissor City process essentially looks like identifying mutual interests and shared connections, and for us with Marseille, and in no small part, that began at least in 2015, if not before, and that developed into uh friendship city status, which we uh officially um embarked on in 2021.

It's a relatively informal status, but basically the idea is two cities connecting, agreeing that we have areas of partnership, and we want to explore eventually a sister city connection.

And now, uh bringing us fast forward to this summer, our international affairs board, the city's board, uh, endorsed the sister city status and the the elevation of that in July at their meeting.

Uh now before you today, we're talking with this committee and uh eventually seeking council approval for this relationship, which would be followed by a mayoral signing.

Uh the management of sister cities for us looks essentially like the city of San Diego, so specifically my position, and then all of us who are looking at different points of connection between our cities, uh working as much as we can together on areas of mutual benefit, and then of course, managed by our good friends at the San Diego International Sister Cities Association, which are here with us today, and then finally with our sister city committees that exist in both of the cities with which we have relations.

In terms of San Diego Marseille, I've been told I don't have time to go back to 600 BC when the ancient Greeks founded Marseille, but I can tell you that it is go there if you have time.

So I'll start with those mariners before us.

Uh I can say that uh we have a lot of points of connection and in commonality, and Marseille is actually the second largest city uh in France.

Um, innovation, life sciences, maritime industry, world-class port, all of these we share, uh, both very diverse cities in terms of their immigration and welcoming, um, good vibes, if I might add, and overall population of about 900,000 in Marseille itself and two million in the greater metropolitan area.

Um, relations between the two, I would characterize personally as positive, uh, mutually beneficial and exciting, I think, building a lot of momentum with these shared uh both industries and cultural points of connection.

And then talking a little bit about kind of what this means for San Diego.

Some of you may be aware we have an extensive uh French American community here in San Diego.

Uh it's nearly two percent of our population, 59,000 people.

Um, we have the House of France, of course, at the iconic Balboa Park.

Uh go visit, it's an incredible place with some good food.

Um, and we have other organizations in town like the French American Chamber of Commerce that are really uh propelling the relations forward.

Um, we'll talk more about the economic piece in a second, but I think there's a lot of uh exchange that's happened between the two ports, uh Marseille and San Diego.

Um, there's academic and cultural ties, uh, and then of course, city to city engagement, which include letters between our mayors, um, conversations that have gone on, especially since the Friendship City status.

Um, and then finally, turning to economic connectivity.

I just mentioned two up front, which French Bio Beach, Local Industry Group, Eurobiomed and Biocom, life science trade groups on either side.

There's a lot of points of mutual benefit here that I think makes sense in terms of sister city relationship.

But economic being something we want to focus on very pointedly.

So, on that end, I will turn it over to Lucas Keene, director of our World Trade Center.

Thank you, Ben.

And good afternoon to the committee, and thank you, Chair Campio, and to your fellow council members for having me today.

Uh, by way of introduction, my name is Lucas Coleman.

I'm the director of the World Trade Center team at the San Diego Regional EDC.

And as many of you know, the EDC operates the World Trade Center brand here in San Diego on behalf of its three license holders, the City of San Diego, the Port Authority, and the Airport Authority, and with and through you all and more than 150 businesses here in the region.

We execute an inclusive economic development strategy that maximizes economic prosperity and keeps our region globally competitive.

Um, Chair Campio, you of course uh represent the city on the EDC board, and we're really grateful to have Mayor Gloria joining us for our France trade mission in just a few weeks' time.

Um, France is a market that we've been really excited about going to and engaging further with over the past decade, it's a top three uh origin for foreign investment into our region.

It's a global innovation hub, certainly a leader within the European Union, and it's a country that over the years has made a really concerted effort to build the relationship here with San Diego, particularly when we're talking about the south of France, the PACA region, and we'll get into that a little bit.

But Marseille has been a market that has made an effort to come out to San Diego and really highlight all the different areas where it's a complementary market to us.

But for this trade mission, if we can stick here for just a moment here, we're really focusing on the industries that San Diego excels in and how we interact with the rest of the world, the life sciences, maritime technologies, clean technologies.

Just last week we were celebrating General Atomics providing the primary U.S.

contribution to the world's largest nuclear fusion effort, one of the most ambitious science projects ever undertaken that could transform the future of alternative energy.

That's coming out of San Diego.

And so with this, we want to do a few things.

We want to highlight what some of the key employers from our region and France are doing and see if we can grow those opportunities and lend support to that.

We want to open doors for small and medium-sized businesses that seek to do business on both sides of the pond, and we want to build those diplomatic ties that uh bind our regions together.

Next slide, please.

So just to give you a sense of some of the things that we'll be doing out there, foreign investment attraction will be a big part of this trade mission.

We'll have uh several different forums where we can talk about the major development opportunities for French companies to come and employ San Diegans.

Uh if you'll recall, just a couple months ago, uh Novartis from Switzerland, a company that uh is a Swiss life sciences giant that had started with smaller investments in San Diego, inked a deal for what uh is one of the largest life sciences investment deals in recent history.

Uh Santa Fe's kind of in a similar spot.

They have some smaller acquisitions that they've made, and in the past year have pledged to invest 20 billion dollars in the US market uh for life sciences.

They're trying to catch up in things like MRNA therapeutics, somewhere where San Diego is very competitive, and so we want to bring a delegation of business, academic, and government leaders and make the case for why San Diego is where that investment should go.

Um, Eurobiomed is uh the lead life sciences trade organization for Marseille in the south of France.

Uh their chairman is actually uh a Santa Fe executive as well.

Uh we want to continue to build the relationship between Biocom and Neurobiomed, between EDC and the pure economic development organization there, uh, because Eurobiomed has proven to be an organization that we can count on to continue bringing life sciences companies to San Diego.

They've done it multiple times for bio international conference, where they've chartered private flights for uh life sciences companies to come to that conference.

They've done it for hematology, and they plan to do it for the American Association of Cancer Research Conference that's coming over the next year as well.

Now, that further supports the case that we can make for more international route service, which ultimately is one of the best things that we can do to generate more investment and trade between two regions.

And as we've said before, the French market is one that we really want to be engaging with.

In addition to that, from an academic uh from an academic standpoint, UCSD has long been engaging with CNRS, which is the French government's lead research institution.

And recently, with San Diego State's ascension to R1 status and putting it into an elite cadre of universities for research, CNRS will now be working with San Diego State and putting researchers here in San Diego.

Um, in addition to that, we sort of talked about nuclear fusion and that project in the south of France for the Eater effort, which essentially is recreating the strength of a neutron star here on Earth and seeing if we can create self-sustaining reactions, which is sort of the holy grail for clean energy.

And then finally, I'll call out that Marseille is the second largest city in France.

It's a coastal city, and it's a city that the Port of San Diego has taken delegations to before and interacted with on efforts for cargo, for clean and alternative energies and electrification of the port.

And then finally, uh with the World Cup in 2026 and the Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028, I think there can be a lot of lessons learned on how cities like Marseille were able to capitalize on the effort of having a city two, three hours away by train that was hosting major events.

And just here in San Diego, we'll have our universities hosting Olympic delegations as well.

So all that's to say, I think there are a lot of different areas that we can be working together, and Marseille has been a proven partner that's been interested in coming here and building those relationships.

Thank you, Lucas.

And we certainly look at the sister city status as a way to sustain those relationships, post-trade mission and help us work together.

So just quickly outlining our next steps.

Um, those include pending city council approval.

Part one in Marseille, where we intend to have uh mayor sign a non-binding memorandum of understanding.

Uh the Marseille City Council is not back from recess until October, so perhaps that's a lesson learned for us to do or not to do.

Uh but once they are back, they will be able to formally approve the agreement.

Hence we have it in mind to have the deputy mayor of Marseille come here in October, where the two mayors or the deputy mayor and mayor would sign the official agreement, which is the binding piece of it.

And finally, just noting the staff recommendation here, just offer you three points to take away.

One is just looking at San Diego's role in the world, how we can demonstrate the importance of human connection and what we hold dear here in terms of our values.

Um, two, the mutual benefit we derive from this relationship economic, culturally, etc.

Um, and then three, uh, my recommendation uh that we go ahead and uh make a motion to adopt a resolution um to move this forward, uh, the sister city application and status.

And I'll conclude there.

Thank you.

Thank you for your presentation.

Let's turn to public comment.

Thank you, Chair.

We'll begin with Cesar Javier.

If you can please approach the lectern.

You have been seated time by Perita Javier.

Each speaker will have one minute, so I will place two minutes on the clock.

How many have we just map?

It's one minute per speaker, so two minutes total with her seat, her time ceded to you.

That's the power of a local core city to do to plan.

No, let's use electronics to discuss things about these businesses.

We use the money to cure medicate the victims of Tijuana River District 8 people.

Right?

Where is Councillor Moreno?

We use the money to help them clean the land, clean the water or the sewer and the coastal pollution.

I'm sorry.

I like that, but we have no electronic means to discuss things.

Don't you spend money?

Now we learn that whenever local officials, this city goes abroad, it is approved by the council.

Mayor Gloria went to the Philippines.

For what?

That's our money.

Explain legislatures.

Civil rights advocacy, Council Foster.

Come on.

And Dr.

Campbell.

We are inhaling not the clean air.

Mayor Gloria is sick, drinking not the clean water, inhaling not the clean air.

And he went to the Philippines and contaminate my fellow brethren.

They spend money for 120,000 dollars, which you have not investigated yet, Councillor Forster.

Now you're going to spend again money for something that you could do it through electronics.

We have the get it done.

Why don't you course it to that?

Get it done.

Do it now.

That is the truth.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Michael McQuery.

And you will have one minute on the clock.

Yeah, thank you.

Um Chair Campillo, Council members, staff, Ben, Lucas.

Thank you for being here.

I'm here to stand in support of this resolution.

We are excited to bring this forward.

The Marseille San Diego partnership will not be alone.

San Diego Sister Cities has 24 sister cities, eight of those are in uh Europe.

Eight of those are in Asia Pacific, for those are in Africa, and uh for those in the Western Hemisphere.

They will be joining a large family of growing relationships that bring uh support and strength to our local city and to our international partners.

We come together in order to build youth and young engagement to build our local communities, to grow our international partnerships, and to strengthen and move towards world peace.

This is a very positive move, an outstanding opportunity to establish a major connection with a major city in a major country to build not only peace throughout the world, but to make a meaningful connection between us here and them there to become part of a larger global family.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comment.

I'll begin the five-minute timer for all those in the virtual queue to indicate if they wish to provide comment for item number six.

We will begin testimony with Paul Hankin.

Please unmute.

You will have one minute.

All right.

Um let's say a lot of sister cities.

No brothers.

Didn't hear anything that really stood out about um the other cities, except um I was interested to hear how large our French American population is.

Um and it's nice to have a sister city with a large number of people from that country to support them.

Um I think that France does have a number of progressive industries, and they've been around along a lot longer than we have.

So they have a different outlook, possibly uh more varied and in my opinion, better scientific outlook.

Um a different perspective on life, and interestingly, say for the comments.

This does conclude your time.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Dave.

Please unmute and begin.

You will have one minute to provide comment for item six.

I am Dave Johnson.

I don't agree with what you're doing.

You need to stop taxing us out of existence.

You won't talk about sister cities and things that have nothing to do with the average citizen, but the elephant in the room is that you are taxing us out of existence.

Affordable housing is not affordable.

I'm gonna live in my own house, not a stack M and PAC M.

You do not have my permission to add trash fees and water fees and make more fees.

That is illegal, and you're very corrupt.

Instead of paying people to make charts and graphs and fancy presentations, rather save the money and don't tax us out of existence.

You spent millions of dollars on cameras all for what?

So you could watch the homeless people pee on the street because you lock the bathrooms and they have nowhere else to go.

You're turning perfectly good two-lane roads into one-lane roads with traffic circles, causing traffic jams and smog.

You all should be ashamed of yourselves.

Thank you for your comment.

Our next speaker is phone number ending in 8813.

You can unmute by pressing star six, and you will have one minute.

Amen, Dave Johnson.

Ditto to everything that he just said.

Uh, I just, yeah, ditto to everything that he just said, and also um another thing is that um I want to encourage everyone.

If you have not, please do your deal due diligence and research the United Nations agenda for the 21st century, because that in fact is what is happening before our eyes.

And they move incrementally, remember bit by bit, so that the common people, the distracted masses, the tax cattle do not know what is going on, and all of a sudden we end up, you know, in their 15-minute cities and their fish bull cities that they want us living in where we have little say, but yet we pay for everything.

So uh, yeah, again, United Nations agenda for the 21st century.

Please look it up.

And uh yeah, power to the people.

Thank you.

This does conclude your time.

Thank you for your comment.

Chair with no other hands in the queue.

This concludes testimony for item six.

Thank you to the members of the public for your participation.

Uh, this is a discussion item.

We'll go to committee members for questions and comments and entertain a motion, and I'll start by kicking us off.

Uh I do appreciate the presentation and the work that uh goes into creating a sister city relationship.

Uh, they're important for multiple reasons, but bottom line, the very bottom line of this is the economic relationships that will be created uh that really put San Diego out there uh on the map in ways that many people might not know, but opening the doors for small businesses and big businesses alike uh are something that bring economic progress to us.

Um that's not to say that cultural and academic exchange don't also yield similar economic benefits, uh, but really looking at how businesses are gonna be impacted by us having this uh is something that I think is really really important for the public to acknowledge uh and to uh continue to find more sister city relationships that we can have.

Uh so uh with that, uh I'm happy to make a motion to approve the staff's recommendation uh on item number six, and I will go to Councilmember Campbell.

Merci What?

Monsieur, uh si beaucoup.

I I am so happy about this.

Think about our history, folks.

The French came and helped us in the revolution.

And when you go to Paris, in the middle of the square, they've got a great big statue of George Washington.

It's fantastic.

And they just love us and we love them, and we always have been good friends and partners.

And so I am just delighted.

And as you can tell, I love the French language.

What do they say about the French language?

You can you can never pronounce it the way it's spelled.

Boy, is that the truth.

So that's the difference between French and Spanish.

But uh I love them both, and I am just so grateful that we're doing this.

It's a wonderful thing.

Thank you so much.

I second the motion, and I'm a weird that's yes, right?

Yeah.

Uh seeing no further comments or questions from my colleagues.

Uh, again, thank you for the presentation.

We had a motion in a second.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

All those opposed.

That passes unanimously with all members present.

Thank you very much.

See you at City Council.

Uh, and we will now move on to our next item.

Back to our information agenda.

Item number eight.

Sarah, please.

Thank you, Chair Campio.

Item number eight is an informational item regarding the fiscal year 2025 consolidated annual performance and evaluation report for the U.S.

Department of Housing and Urban Development Programs.

If you're watching on City TV or the live stream online and you'd like to dial in to speak, please call 1669-2545252 and input webinar ID 160-324-0614 pound.

Chair.

Excellent.

Let us move to uh our community development coordinator, Melissa Via Via Bando, uh community development specialist Nadine Hassoon and community development specialist Ashley Gain.

Please let us know how much you need and in time and begin.

Good afternoon, Chairperson Campio, and committee members.

My name is Angela Nazareno Clark filling in for Melissa today, and I am a program manager with the Economic Development Department, Community Development Division.

With me today is Nadine Hassoon and Ashley Gain, both community development specialists.

It is our pleasure to provide you with a brief overview of the draft fiscal year 2025 consolidated annual performance evaluation report.

We respectfully request 13 minutes for the presentation.

The CAPER is a year-end report discussing the expenditures and outcomes of the fiscal year.

It shows HUD how the city is doing what it said it would do.

The CAPER summarizes activities implemented with three federal entitlement grant programs, community development block grant, home investment partnership, which is home, and emergency solutions grants, ESG.

The report covers the July 1st, 2024 through June 30th, 2025 time frame, which is year one of the current five-year consolidated plan cycle.

Our presentation today will highlight the 2025 expenditures accomplishments and progress made on the goals outlined in the city's five-year consolidated plan.

This slide lists the five-year consolidated plan goals.

These five goals help guide the investment of HUD entitlement funds with a focus on affordable housing, homelessness services and shelters, small businesses, public and nonprofit facility improvements, and community services.

And the county has been designated as the city's alternative HOPWA grantee.

Hopwa is the housing opportunity for persons with AIDS program.

As a result of this alternative grantee designation, HOPWA activities will be reported by the county in its CAPER and will not appear in the city's CAPER or this presentation.

During fiscal year 2025, the city partner with over 60 nonprofit organizations to support 125 unique projects.

The city invested over 39 million in federal HUD program funds to support these unique projects and completed 59 projects discussed in aggregate in the CAPER.

Outcomes included serving over 33,000 people, 76 households, 353 businesses, improving seven nonprofit facilities, and one public facility.

When we report people served, we count individuals who benefited from direct services offered by our nonprofit partners.

These are unduplicated clients, meaning our clients are counted only once during the course of a contract term.

For example, a meeting, a meal, excuse me, a meal delivery program would count a person served when the first meal is delivered.

That person could receive hundreds of meals throughout the course of the 12-month program, but they would only be counted once.

We count people served by certain facilities, such as park or community centers with defined service areas.

The affordable housing goal is funded with CDBG and home funds.

In fiscal year 25, 15 households benefited the construction of new affordable rental housing.

This slide shows an example of an affordable housing project.

The developer National Corps received $2 million in home funds to construct 15 home units in a 74 apartment complex community.

Nestor Senior Village for a low-income households serving 78 serving households at 25 to 30 percent of Mary of area median income in Council District 8.

This slide lists the five-year goal, the 25 fiscal year 25 outcomes, and the progress to date for the affordable housing activities.

I'll pause a moment so you can take in this information.

Another goal of the consolidated plan is to develop this to develop and strengthen small businesses and local entrepreneurs using CDBG funds, economic development projects, supported 353 small businesses, and 635 low and moderate income entrepreneurs.

This support included microenterprise technical assistance, offering general business support, business plan development, and marketing assistant to launch or expand businesses with five or fewer employees.

The Corin organization, for example, provided the City of San Diego residents with business counseling to establish or expand their businesses.

The Corinna organization offered business counseling sessions to 48 CDBG clients.

During the project year, the Corinth organization supported one existing business expansion and two new small business owners to start their businesses in the city of San Diego.

One of those businesses is the AYA Mini Market pictured on this slide.

Two other microenterprise programs to highlight include on the left the Somali Family Service of San Diego, operated a microenterprise program that created economic opportunities for eligible to low and moderate income East African refugees and immigrants in City Heights.

This program offered technical assistance and training workshops to help participants establish or expand their microenterprise businesses in San Diego.

On the right is the Logan Heights CDC's Supporting Emergent Entrepreneurs Project.

This project supported 10 microenterprises and empowered 10 individuals with technical assistance and resources to build their sustainable businesses.

This slide is that goal, the outcomes, and the progress to date made for small businesses and local entrepreneurs.

I will now pass the presentation over to Nadine, who will go over the remaining goals and additional information.

Thank you.

Thank you, Angela.

Another key goal of the consolidated plan is to develop vibrant neighborhoods by investing in critical infrastructure and supporting both public and nonprofit facilities.

One example of this is the San Isidro Health Center Solar Energy Project.

With support from CDBG funds, the project installed a state-of-the-art solar power and energy storage system.

The goal is to enable the San Esidro Health Center and the Maternal Child Health Center Clinics to operate independently from the utility grid in the event of an emergency.

This investment ensures that San ESEDR health patients have uninterrupted access to critical medical services, especially during emergencies or natural disasters.

This slide shows the goals, outcomes, and progress made so far for our public facilities and infrastructure activities.

Infrastructure projects have longer timelines, typically 24 months from or more from start to completion.

As a result, outcomes for projects funded in fiscal year 2025 may not be reported until fiscal year 2026 or later.

We currently have 16 open projects in the pipeline representing continued investment in community infrastructure.

The city's HUD-funded homelessness programs are administered in partnership with the city's homelessness strategies and solutions department and the San Diego Housing Commission.

These efforts directly support goal four of the consolidated plan.

In FY25, CDBG and ESG funds totaling approximately 2.1 million dollars were invested in a range of programs positively impacting more than 7,600 individuals experiencing homelessness or at risk of becoming homelessness, becoming homeless.

Specifically, overnight shelter operations served over a thousand people, and rapid rehousing activities supported 37 households.

The image on the slide features the family shelter program operated by the Alpha Project.

This program provides emergency housing and supportive services to families with children, helping them transition to longer term or permanent housing.

It follows the housing first model, which prioritizes safe, stable housing as a first step before addressing other challenges.

The goals, outcomes, and progress to date for the activities related to improving housing stability are listed on the slide.

The final goal of the consolidated plan focuses on public services or community services.

Projects funded in this category promote equity by improving or expanding access to community programming.

In FY25, 24 public service projects were completed, benefiting more than 9,800 individuals.

Services delivered through these projects include behavioral health support, meal delivery and food distribution, hosted senior lunches, language assistance, and educational advocacy for children in the juvenile dependency system.

On the left side of the screen is a photo from Bayside Community Services faces of food security project.

Bayside Senior Programs and Services Project provides weekly food distributions to food insecure families, case management, daily lunches for seniors, and monthly food deliveries to homebound seniors in Linda Vista and surrounding neighborhoods.

On the right, you'll see an image from Mama's Kitchen, which operates a home-delivered meal service for low-income San Diegans facing serious illnesses such as cancer or HIV.

This program ensures that clients and their dependents receive the nutritional support they need during extremely vulnerable times.

A final example of a community service project is reality changers expanding college readiness programming, which aims to increase college readiness by providing college and career focused academic and leadership support for low to moderate income students in San Diego.

The goals, outcomes, and progress to date for community service activities are listed on this slide.

Also, to increase the capacity of nonprofit organizations, staff held 65 technical assistance meetings with nonprofit organizations to better position those organizations to receive grant awards and deliver valuable services.

And finally, the city in partnership with the Legal Aid Society made strides to affirmatively further fair housing by operating a fair housing hotline, investigating fair housing complaints, and conducting workshops and training sessions for homebuyers, tenants, property managers, landlords, and nonprofit agencies.

I'd also like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the commitment and energy of the consolidated plan advisory board members.

The city achieves its goals with the assistance of its dedicated partners, and we thank the board members and each of our partner organizations for helping to address the most urgent needs in San Diego communities.

This also includes a special thanks to the 14-person HUD grants program in the economic development department and our fiscal operations colleagues.

The draft keeper was released for a 15-day public comment period that begins today, September 3rd and ends on September 18.

The CAPER will be presented to the consolidated plan advisory board on Wednesday, September 10, and this will be an additional opportunity to receive public comments on the document.

We plan to present the draft caper to the full city council on September 22nd.

All public comments received during today's meeting, the CPAB meeting and at council will be incorporated into the final draft of the CAPER before it is submitted to HUD on or before September 28th.

Staff responses to public comments will also be published at that time.

Once the CAPER is finalized, supplemental materials such as infographics and project profiles will be provided online at the CDBG webpage.

This concludes the informational presentation on the draft caper.

Representatives from the Housing Commission and the Economic Development Department are available to respond to any questions.

Thank you.

Thank you very much for the presentation, Sarah.

Let's push uh proceed with public comment.

Thank you, Chair.

We'll begin with in-person testimony.

Cesar Javier, if you can please approach the lector, and you have been seated time by Perita Javier, so you will have two minutes total.

Cesar and Corita.

Definitely we are on the burge of corruption.

You see a while ago we discussed about this abusion development, etc.

etc.

Along with it or has been the merging of three uh executive branches of uh the city.

We are confused.

And it's correct destruction towards or from the priority sensitive or crisis going on.

We can never attain affordable housing.

We can never attain a uh shall we say preponderance of ownership of a even a simple shelter.

Look back in our community.

The promotion, the advertisement is almost perfect.

And what is becoming of that perfect plan then and implementation then?

Look at Altadina rental apartments there on the corner beside the church.

It's not only, shall we say inexpensive, but that is not the kind of shelter for Americans.

District 9 should be here, part of this, because this is the driving force of development.

Wealth getting for the city, so we could invest it in real time wealth getting in return.

The priority should be not the affordable housing, but rather prepare our workforce, educate them, train them to get a better job.

Thank you.

Thank you for your testimony.

Our next speaker is Imani Robinson.

Good afternoon, counsel.

Looking at those large numbers, that is an extremely big budget for reaching a very few people.

I am really disappointed in this consolidated plan.

Um there's a lot of things missing from it.

I understand housing first, but I am watching people getting put into housing without proper acclamation into homes, which is putting them back on the street.

I am seeing them without able um to keep up their income or get a decent job to pay the rent.

Affordable housing is not affordable.

Um, a one-bedroom is over what 1,200 a month.

Um this plan is not touching the people that it needs to touch.

It is touching just a fraction.

I'm very disappointed.

Thank you for your concluding remark.

This concludes testimony here in chambers.

So I will begin the five-minute timer for all those to indicate in the virtual queue if they wish to provide comment on item number eight.

Each speaker will have one minute.

We will begin with Paul Hankin.

Please unmute and begin.

Um just wanted to point out that um there are always proposed fees on just people who live in single family homes or in buildings.

Uh just less than four units, which is really pure discrimination, a mockery of your equity gambits over the years.

I mean, maybe we'll be selling out more taxes in the future to provide for more reduced cost meals because people need them because of the fees they have to pay, or maybe lower income people will just have to spend an increased percentage of their budget on rent because of fees.

And um, as the last speaker said, um years spending two.

Thank you for your comment.

This does conclude your time.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Becky Rapp.

Please unmute and begin.

You will have one minute.

Good afternoon.

My name is Becky Rapp, and I wanted to thank staff for the detailed um report and for highlighting the city's progress in using HUD funds to expand affordable housing in community services.

As we review these investments, I want to raise one important gap, and that's the absence of smoke-free housing requirements in city-supported affordable housing projects.

HUD has already recognized the dangers of second-hand smoke by requiring smoke-free policies and public housing.

Yet our local HUD-funded private projects are not held to the same standard.

By making smoke-free housing a condition for city-supported affordable housing, we can protect families, seniors, and children from preventable health risks while also reducing fire hazards and maintenance costs.

I encourage this committee to explore adopting such a policy so our federal investments not only create homes but also ensure safe and healthy living environments.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is phone number ending in 8700.

Phone number ending in 870.

You can unmute by pressing star six, and you will have one minute.

Can you hear me, Sarah?

We can hear you.

Thank you.

Please proceed.

Sorry about that.

Thank you.

I'm having technical difficulties with my phone.

So it's something to do with me too, not just on your end.

A joycinata district three.

Well, this was a surprise to me.

And I don't know if it was supposed to be a surprise because it looks to me like HUD has really gotten much stricter with everyone.

And saying, hey, heads up.

We're gonna get money to you.

We're gonna give you funds.

But we want to know exactly how you're using them, how you're spending them, what's left, and all of that.

I really look at this.

I absolutely it's not doing any much for affordable housing.

But here's the good news.

Look at those lists of projects.

They're awesome.

The list just goes on and on.

Thank you.

This does conclude your time.

Thank you for your comments.

Thank you.

Our next caller is phone number ending in 8813.

You can unmute by pressing star six.

Phone number ending in 8813.

Okay, phone follow here.

Okay, so I wanted to um let's see.

So affordable housing has become a cruel joke in America.

Um, HUD, a program, um, like it pretends to serve the people, but in reality, they create dependency, concentrate poverty, and funnel billions into the hands of developers and nonprofits who profit off human suffering.

Look at the so-called affordable units.

Rent is still out of reach for working families, and people are trapped in a long waiting list uh while more taxpayer dollars are wasted.

Meanwhile, the same boards and agencies raise our taxes, charge us more for basic needs, and tell us it's for our benefit.

If HUD really cared about people, they'd empower families with true ownership, sovereignty, and freedom, not keep us managed, uh managed by the city.

Thank you.

This does conclude your time.

Thank you for your comment.

Our next speaker is Pat Johnson.

Please unmute and begin.

You will have one minute.

Hello, I'm Pat.

You say you want to support homeless people and child care.

But you keep taxing people so high that they lose their homes to pay taxes to shells.

Okay.

NSP debt.

Single existence.

Fines and tax on top of tax.

I can't even park on the street without paying for it now.

I'm drowning in all your tax bills.

I want to be able to stay in my house, not live in one of your homeless shelters that you built with the money that you stole from the tax and more tax.

Please grow a conscience and let people keep their homes so they don't have to live in homeless shelters.

You build with their money.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Madison.

Please unmute and begin.

You will have one minute.

Thank you.

So I also want to highlight how smoke-free multi-unit housing connects to both health and affordable affordability for San Diego County.

In 2018, HUD required all public housing nationwide to go smoke free because secondhand smoke travels between units and harms children, seniors, and people with health conditions.

But HUD also emphasized something we don't always hear.

Smoke-free housing saves money.

It reduces fire risk, lowers maintenance and turnover costs, and keeps rent more stable in the long run.

For young families like mine in San Diego, where affordability housing is already scarce.

Every dollar matters.

Policies that prevent costly repairs and protect children's health directly support affordability and stability.

If HUD sees smoke-free housing as a basic standard for safe, cost effective living, it makes sense for us to consider how this same policy could benefit families in this community.

Thank you.

The five minute timer has concluded.

And then sit here and like, but I have a solution for you.

It's going to make your life better, right?

You make sure that people can't own a home, and then you're like, but you know what?

We can provide to you is a safe sleeping area, right?

Like a tenth city, right?

And you know what happens at 10th city?

Like you guys think you're worried about a lawsuit that has to do with rats and different things, but people are dying on your watch.

You guys allow people to be tormented in spaces where you call it a safe space, a place where they're supposed to find refuge, where they're supposed to go into other housing.

That's not the plan.

The plan is to, you know, get rid of the people, but at the same time keep them in the business so it's like, you know, whatever you guys do to make it seem like you're really helping the people.

But people see through you, so keep doing what you're doing because you're handing us on a silver platter all your demise.

Thank you for that concluding remark.

And chair, this concludes public comment for item eight.

Thank you very much to the public for your participation on this item, and thank you for the presentation.

It's an information item only, so no vote is needed.

Uh not seeing any of my colleagues on the lights uh with any questions.

Uh, I do want to appreciate that on several of the goals, many of the sub goals, we are uh on on the road to uh meeting progress over the course of the five-year plan.

Uh, and then there's several that are that are not at 20%, one year out of five, as we would say.

Um, I know that ramping up plans, ramping up programs uh does not uh have uh a linear uh impact or a linear um correlation to how we're gonna help the number of people we're intending to uh and it takes time to take things to scale.

Certain things are almost already at a hundred percent of their uh of the goals of number of individuals to be served.

So I just want to appreciate that you're staying focused on this.

Our economic development department is implementing this plan.

Uh and um if there's no questions or comments from my colleagues, uh we'll thank you very much for your good work on this.

And I know this is a long-term uh long-term project that we're working on with many people to be helped.

So thank you for your good work.

Let us now jump to our final item number nine.

Please introduce.

Thank you, Chair Campio.

Item number nine is child care in San Diego progress and next steps.

If you're watching City TV or the live stream online and you'd like to call in to the meeting to speak, please dial 1669-2545252.

And when prompted, and put webinar ID 160-3240614 pound.

Chair.

Thank you.

Uh, with this item, uh discussing child care in San Diego.

Uh, we're happy to hand it over and uh to Alicia Jurik, Tara Ryan, Serena Lynn, Julia Lohman, and Courtney Baltiski, who will be presenting on behalf of the city and multiple organizations.

I'll let you take your time to set up.

Yeah.

Good afternoon, Council members.

Um, we are here to present on the child care blueprint, San Diego Child Care Blueprint.

Um, quick introductions.

I'm Tara Ryan with the Office of Child and Youth Success.

I'm here with my colleagues Courtney Baltiski from the YMSA, also chair of the Children First Collective, Alicia Jerrich from Policy Innovation Center, Julia Lohman from Neighborhood of House Association, and Serena Lynn from Educational Enrichment Systems.

And we need about 15 15 minutes.

Very good.

Thank you.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

My name is Alicia Earrick, and I'm an economist at the Policy and Innovation Center.

I think we can all agree that we care about children and we want them to be well.

Sorry about that, thank you.

In order to do that, children must be well cared for.

Traditionally, this has been done by parents and their extended child, their extended families.

More recently, this has also been done by paid child care workers.

San Diego is a city of migrants, and increasingly parents are also taking care of their elder parents.

And so for the purposes of my talk today, I'm gonna really focus on parents and paid paid child care workers.

But these, of course, are not the only people for which child care matters.

This also matters for employers who employ and manage parents.

It matters for policymakers like yourselves who set standards, regulations, minimum wage requirements, and it matters for our entire economy.

Now you probably don't need an economist to tell you, but I'm here, so I will say that being a parent in the United States is expensive.

And it's particularly expensive here in San Diego.

At the area of median income, it costs between 12 and 18% of a person's income to put an infant in child care for a year.

This leaves parents with a really hard decision.

Do they pay that child care cost and stay out of work, or do they give up their jobs to stay home with their children?

Now more than three quarters of parents in California do go to work at least part-time and they pay that child care cost.

But when people decide to step out of the labor force in order to take care of their kids, it's almost always mothers that are impacted.

Mothers give up their jobs, they give up their wages, they give up their opportunities for promotion in order to take care of their kids.

This isn't just an individual level impact.

This ripples throughout our economy.

If women participated in the labor force at the same rate in San Diego as they did in Minneapolis, which is the top bar here in my chart, we would have an additional 38,000 workers contributing to our economy here in San Diego every year.

That's huge.

The bottom line for child care workers is we do not pay them enough.

The median wage for a child care worker in San Diego is $18 an hour.

That's just over the minimum wage.

It's less than the minimum wage that you're considering in a couple of weeks for hospitality workers.

It's less than a self-sufficient wage and a family sustaining wage.

That means that if a person wants to be a child care worker, they either have to be on government assistance, they have to have a second job, or they have to have a high income earning partner in order to do their job and pay their bills.

They cannot make the cost of living on their income alone.

It's really, really hard to attract and retain qualified talent at that at those wages.

This is a hard job, and it's an important job.

Our kids who have access to high quality early childhood care have better cognitive outcomes, they have better academic outcomes, and later down in life, they have better employment outcomes.

So far from being a niche issue, child care is central to our economy.

I'll now turn it over to Tara Ryan to talk about the child care blueprint.

Thanks, Alicia.

So the San Diego's commitment to child care really is captured in the child care blueprint.

The child care blueprint is a countywide plan to strengthen the entire uh child care ecosystem for families, for the workforce, and for young children.

The request to develop the blueprint came from San Diego Board of Supervisors unanimously in October 2022.

And soon thereafter, the Children First Collective and First Five San Diego facilitated development of the blueprint along with a number of community partners and other stakeholders through 2023.

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Since then, a team of county child and family well-being department staff and community partners are currently developing the blueprint implementation plan, which includes strategies ahead and those already in progress, as well as resources existing and needed.

Partners are currently implementing communication and engagement strategies to bring child care messages to broader audiences and offer opportunities to contribute to solutions.

And successful implementation of the child care blueprint will include partnerships and collaboration among municipalities such as the City of San Diego, public agencies, and community organizations, really all of us.

I know this is hard to see taken from directly from the child care blueprint, but I will read the call to action, which is that San Diego County needs an equitable system that simplifies the child care equation for working families and makes it possible for child care providers, a vital component of our economy to earn a competitive wage.

And the note is that to equitably and fully commit to these recommendations, those in the child care blueprint, a significant local investment for San Diego's child care sector is needed to support children families and child care providers.

There are three goals of the child care blueprint.

Number one is focused on the workforce.

The child care workforce is well trained, supported, and valued as a profession, and paid competitive wages.

We just heard a lot about that from Alicia.

Goal two is primarily about facilities and infrastructure.

It is that safe and quality facilities are developed and renovated to expand child care programs, particularly in geographic areas where child care is scarce or family demand outpaces supply.

And goal three is that all families have access to child care that meets their needs and preferences and supports their children's learning, physical and mental health, and social emotional development.

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And just a quick reminder, you might recognize the image in the middle, which is the child and youth plan, San Diego's first strategic plan for children and youth, which was adopted by council just about a year ago in July 2024.

An update is coming soon.

And we just want to point out that the one of the focus areas or five focus areas in that child and youth plan.

One of those focus areas is child care, and the child and youth plan for the city of San Diego really mirrors the child care blueprint.

So the various uh really focused on goal two around facilities and infrastructure, but the various strategies and action steps that are relevant to the city of San Diego are captured in our child and youth plan.

And I will turn it over to Serena to talk a little bit about goal one.

Okay, I think I'm on first.

Thank you so much for having us here.

Um I'm gonna try and monitor my comments, keep them in alignment with the economic development.

So why do we care?

Why are we here?

Why are we talking about child care?

Um I also want to do a shout out.

Thank you, Chairman Campio and the city council members.

The parental leave that you pass for the city is a huge step in the right direction and right in alignment with the blueprint.

So I just want to thank you for that.

Um I work for Educational Enrichment System.

We're a nonprofit Title V state subsidized early education center.

We serve infants, toddlers, and preschool aid students, um, over a thousand every year.

So we have sites all throughout San Diego City and throughout San Diego County.

And I want to highlight who is our workforce.

Who are we talking about?

We are talking about women and we are talking about women of color.

So when we talk about child care and access to child care, we are talking about an equitable economic development strategy that the city can incorporate and support.

We are talking about small business owners.

I would love to talk some more with the panel that came before us, the CCBDG, man.

I think they should get some child care in there.

I didn't see any, and I want to see some.

I think that would be a really awesome collaboration, and I hope the city looks into it.

I'm here to help.

Um, and I also want to say child care workforce, these are women with bachelors, with masters, with ECE units that are taking care of our city's children each and every day.

And when I sent my two children to child care, I wanted to make sure that it was a safe environment and a quality environment where they could thrive and be safe and taken care of and have quality interactions with their with their child care providers.

And as she said earlier, the child care workforce needs to be well in order to take care and provide quality education.

So this is a preventative strategy.

We're talking about economic development, and I'm talking about a prevention strategy that saves you money in the long run in addition to providing a beneficial service for our children and our families.

It will help to disrupt the cycle of poverty.

It is honestly, it's a crucial foundation for an equitable economic development in San Diego City, and I'll just keep saying that and hope it sticks.

One of the things up here, let's go to this slide.

San Diego County's cost estimation model.

We San Diego County performed one with P5 fiscal strategies, and it was seen that so parent pay, part of it, and I'm sure you all know, but I'm just gonna say it again.

Parent pay is the price of child care, but that is not the true cost of care.

The true cost of care includes professional wages for our staff.

And it also includes all of the quality elements in a quality program.

It has books, it has diaper changing stations, it has diapers, it has so much more quality curriculum.

I could go on and on.

So the estimate, what's happening is that the women, the women of color, the small business owners that provide the care are putting the system on their back and earning $18 an hour for providing the care that they should be paid a lot more.

And that's a huge gap.

The estimate was approximately $2,000 per child monthly gap between the contract rate or the tuition that parents pay and the actual true cost of care.

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And who pays the who pays the price?

We pay the price.

Small business owners pay the price, employers pay the price.

San Diego Economy pays the price because child care is the only way that parents, working parents can go back to work.

I probably many of you in this room behind me and in front of me use a child care provider to take care of your children.

And they are closing at alarming rates.

And I think the city should be aware of that and notice it as a priority and an academic and economic economic development structure.

I think we're on yes, and here's what we're doing.

What are we doing?

Great.

Let me give you some positives.

San Diego County Office of Ed awarded 575 workforce pathways grants from $600 to $6,000 for professional trained workforce.

The child care workforce investment program allocated over $2 million to providers for workforce retention and retainment and held an early years conference.

I will say a big gap is the sustainability.

So whatever is funding our child care system needs to be sustainable so it can raise wages because we cannot increase access to quality, affordable early child care education without the workforce.

These are professional women of color and women, usually women of color, and they deserve more.

They really do.

So excited to work more collaboratively with all of you and with the city.

And thank you so much for allowing us to be here.

I'm back with goal number two, which again is focused on facilities and infrastructure.

And child care facilities are extreme, they add to the cost, the overall cost of child care, they add to the cost that providers bear.

And it's also extremely expensive, time consuming, and confusing to go through the process to get a building up to child care licensing standards.

So the permitting process through the city or other municipalities takes a long time.

There's fire clearance, there's a lot of different facility sort of requirements to meet licensing regulations.

It's expensive, and again, it can be a really confusing process.

So that's really where we're making recommendations in the child care blueprint in terms of the specific strategies.

The strategies start with looking at the current system that exists and just trying to make it easier and more accessible.

And then as we move through the strategies for goal number two, uh, they're really about changing the current system.

So policy recommendations, uh, new uh financing and funding streams to make the process easier, more affordable, um, and more timely.

I want to share just some of the progress that we've made as a community toward goal two.

Uh we have received uh the Office of Child and Need Success in partnership with the Children First Collective and Jewish Family Services has received grant funding from the National League of Cities Early Learning Nation to convene local fire marshals, community care licensing, and permitting officials to work towards system alignment and collaboration.

There's some models of this type of convening that happens around the state, and they have been successful.

So we're looking to sort of replicate that with grant funding that we have been awarded.

We've also identified funding to develop a City of San Diego guidebook on the child care facility permitting and licensing processes and developed conceptual plans for a countywide uh online navigation hub that would be for child care workers, providers, families, employers, and other parties interested in the local child care sector with a comprehensive platform for all of the things uh related.

Um the guide that I just mentioned to sort of support uh the permitting and licensing processes would lead into this navigation hub.

Um, some other goals.

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Other achievements.

Um, we've identified new opportunities for updating the San Diego Municipal Code to ease child care facility development, identified opportunities to include child care priorities in community plans and the city's general plan, and we also celebrate the inclusion of child care space as an incentive in the San Diego Bridge to Home Program and look for other incentives in other development.

And now to Julia with goal three.

Thank you all for your time and your willingness to gain a better understanding of the work being done here in San Diego and in the work being done in support of the families, the working families of San Diego as a native San Diegan that has been in the early care and education field for over 30 years, and parent that's a single parent that's been in the system.

Um this goal is near and dear to my heart.

Uh, choosing care for San Diego means choosing to care about all San Diego families and children that need equitable access to quality care reflects their unique that reflects their unique preferences, which is the heart of this goal.

The goal three work group was composed of local grassroots and top stakeholders across sectors that reflect the diversity of our county and our city.

The development, the work that we did entailed and continue to do, includes the development of a comprehensive policy proposal addressing multiple policy elements that together can address access and affordability, including infant and toddler care.

Additional elements of the policy involve early childhood educator financial support, infrastructure grants, cost of care program supplement, especially for infant toddler care, expanding existing support for all eligible families, expanding eligibility for support into higher income levels using a sliding scale, workforce pipeline strengthening, child care business and program success and sustainability as well as more.

Within this, we're exploring opportunities to leverage existing funding streams to support vulnerable families such as FFPSA, which is Family Friendly Services Act, and TANF, which is the temporary aid for needy families, and enhancing social worker referral processes for care.

We've also drafted a family-friendly workplace matrix to promote business through Live Well at Work.

Two more items as far as we've developed recommendations for central supports for early childhood development and mental health services, all that have definitely tied to a lot of the things that have been on the agenda today.

An application for child care funding assistance.

Okay.

And I'm the last batter, a scale home run, friends.

Call me Tatisa Pier.

Thank you for playing with us today.

We're gonna close it out.

What does this mean for the city of San Diego?

We're talking a lot about a program that is a public good that needs to be publicly funded.

At this point, the federal government is not moving to fund a comprehensive child care program.

So it's our opportunity to do as much as we can locally.

And as you can see, even though we have not yet codified significant dedicated funding for child care on a county or municipal level in San Diego, we're well in our way to be able to do that.

And we've been able to take every opportunity to at least get one-time funding to keep our child care program on its lifeline.

Again, my name is Courtney Baltiski, and I'm also with the YMCA Child Care Resource Service.

So we are your data go-to for child care.

I can tell you that in the last five years, uh, the San Diego region has lost 10% of our child care centers, 5% of those small businesses, family child care homes.

At this point, you know, the city of San Diego itself is largely defined as a child care desert.

So it's been thrilling to be able to work with partners like EDD at this city to have co-location in things like the Bridge to Home program.

So as you can see, there are a number of really positive things that have happened and are in the works.

But our recommendation today is to remember kids.

Who do we remember?

Kids.

Oh, I know it's almost five, but we're here to remember kids.

And if anybody's late for pickup, it's a dollar a minute.

But we're remembering kids here.

They're not often here at City Hall, uh, but it's all about them, right?

And setting San Diego for future success.

So K keep that progress.

Highlight uh diversify and grow the progress that the city's already established.

So that includes the expanded parental leave, which has been a huge success.

That includes the municipal um child care referral program that the Office of Child and Youth Success has championed.

That includes the co-location initiative.

I increase visibility and funding for your Office of Child and Youth Success.

Um last year during a very difficult uh budget season, uh the Office of Child and Youth Success uh lost its executive director and was tucked into the library department.

Um and though it may make sense um for OCYS uh to hunker out this budget storm in library, uh it also makes sense for the city to make a commitment to restore it to a place of visibility and celebration.

D, deliver on the city's CYP.

So, as Tara mentioned, um, your child and youth plan revision is coming to full council for approval, approve it, leverage it, um, and see it through.

Um, we know that we have a tremendous council and mayor uh who do not let plans sit on shelves.

Um, so act on what's in there because as you see, the San Diego County Childcare Blueprint is embedded and there's already wins happening.

And then I stay knowledgeable.

Um we are all aware that we're in a very dynamic um political time.

So uh stay connected with Children First Collective and all of your community partners here to understand how federal uh policy and budget decisions as well as state decisions and county initiatives can impact your constituents and city of San Diego decisions uh in policy and budget.

And with that, um we're happy to take questions and stay connected with y'all.

Thank you very much uh for all of your uh contributions to the presentation.

Um let's move to public comment.

Thank you, Chair.

We'll begin with in-person testimony.

Cesar Javier, if you could please approach the lectern.

You have been seated time by Perita Javier.

Each speaker will have one minute, so I will place two minutes on the clock.

Where are the executive branch public servants here?

Representative from the mayor's office, sir.

Listen carefully.

City attorney, you're fake there.

You're not the city attorney, Mr.

Chair.

This is not to be rude or what?

This is our observation, which is vital in our discussion.

This is a destruction.

What one benefit is just to let you know that human health services must be one of the departments of this great city.

Yes, ma'am Dr.

Campbell, ma'am.

How could they provide child care when the city hall is smelling urine?

It's the truth.

Do you think children will live healthily on the seventh floor at 101 as property?

Come on.

Dr.

Campbell is deadly smiling because who cares?

Lanyus mug mogul.

Who cares?

But I know Chair Campio cares.

I know him.

I know his heart.

We gave the petition to him because he is trying to make the CPD at Nabajo to work harder for the community.

The only thing is they cannot solve our issue more than child care.

Toxicity.

How could child care be effective when there is a toxic gas in the community?

When children are like servants.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Alexis Primo.

Alexis, you will be followed by Megan Moore and Michael Brando.

You will have one minute.

Right here.

I'm a mother, a student, a community organizer, and a previous child care provider.

And I'm here as a community organizer to encourage, because what I do is I encourage parents to speak with elected officials to share their experiences and their challenges with the hopes that they're heard.

It's been so hard trying to give parents the opportunity to have hope because we went to Sacramento.

We're trying to get our care for children pledge signed so that we know that elected officials they have the best interests of our families at heart when they sit at a table, but none have been signed us since September.

Um not September, since May 12th.

So and now I'm trying to meet with district directors, and I'm being tossed around.

So it is just so hard to give parents hope.

Uh, when it comes to the child care blueprint, I really appreciate the fact that we have moved forward with it, but my hope is that we actually move towards implementation that we have like a strategic plan and not just um review it and plan to um move forward, but actually execute it and have parents at the table where they're able to hear this does conclude your time.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comment.

Our next speaker is Megan.

Good afternoon.

I'm a parent here in San Diego, and I just want to share my support for the child care blueprint.

Um, as a mother who had to make the tough choice of working just to make enough for child care or leaving the workforce to care for my kids.

I believe parents and providers should be given the tools and resources to thrive.

While I had the option to stay home with my kids, not everybody does.

Um, I've lost years in progress in my career and my upward mobility.

Um, parents and providers work hand in hand to raise the next generation.

So not only should we be rooting for them, but we should be investing in their success.

The child care blueprint can get us there, so let's keep progressing and growing care.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Michael Brando.

If it's a child care blueprint run by the county, that means it's actually run by a domestic terrorist, domestic terrorist.

If you haven't been watching the last few series of county meetings, it's on record that the county of San Diego is involved in child trafficking.

You can roll your eyes, Jennifer Campbell, and how dare you do that.

Because you're actually involved in murder, yeah.

Murder from promoting the bioweapon serum injection.

And speaking of the county, Wilma Wilton, the former public health officer, was recommending that killer shot to six-month-old babies.

You people are practicing evil.

Raul, I hope you really do get out of this business because these evil doers like Jennifer and others are gonna drag you down.

Be careful, Jennifer.

That's not a threat.

The cosmos is watching you.

Thank you.

This concludes testimony here in chambers.

So I'll begin the five-minute timer for all those in the virtual queue to indicate if they wish to provide comment for item number nine.

We'll begin testimony with the original.

Please unmute and begin.

You will have one minute.

Child predators given a clue print for child trafficking.

It's so funny to see you guys sit here and act like you're gonna actually help children.

Michael Brando is exactly correct when he's talking about the county of San Diego engaging in child trafficking.

In fact, you guys are complicit in that as well.

What happens with children in San Diego is so egregious, it's malicious, and it is very telling as far as like where you guys stand, where you stand on the side of history.

Because you guys aren't willing to course correct.

See, you guys have engaged in some very detrimental things to children.

Yet you sit here and you act like you're going to do what is safe for them.

That's why people need to pay attention when the government tells you this is for your safety.

You better run and hide and protect your children because they're coming after them hot.

And this Satan is hard at work.

Good job, you guys.

Thank you.

This concludes your time.

Our next speaker is Paul Hankin.

Please unmute and begin.

Okay.

Um looks like the child care pay scale needs to be evened out with other services.

Not a good year for kids or school kids.

A B495 will allow strangers to pick up or authorize medical procedures for students.

It violates the California Constitution, Article 1, Section 28.

No legal hearing, no background checks, no countability of the child that's harmed, and no welfare checks.

ABAD4 wants to defund our charter schools at a time when a better deal and public education is needed.

Public education more and more just indoctrination rather than education.

The absence of choice versus free thinking.

Robotic kids anyone.

More for the next generation.

So I you know, I thank you for your comments.

This does conclude your time.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is phone number ending in 8700.

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Thank you so much, Sarah Joyce and Yata District Three.

You know what I miss in this meeting, these meetings.

It just came up for me after listening to everyone on this agenda item.

I miss the art of conversation.

We just run into walls with each other.

You know, we we hear things and and we don't know what's behind it.

We we we can't have the art of conversation, which would be so wonderful.

We have to recreate a whole new uh hybrid, wouldn't we?

I would love that.

So on this item, uh, quickly, uh, policy.

I didn't see clarity about what's being done with policies on the city level on the county level and the collaboration that's needed to make sure the integration feels right on all sides.

And the other thing on the strategic plan for the city and the staff report.

I didn't like it.

It had to do, I think, with prosperity, but I didn't see the world chat word children.

Thank you.

This does conclude your time.

Thank you for your comment.

Sorry.

Our next speaker is phone number ending in 8813.

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Okay, Gonzalo here.

So okay.

So they say uh their focus is on physical and social and emotionally uh develop development.

Let's uh not kid ourselves.

Nothing is more healthy for a child than being raised by their own family, not by the state.

But we live in a twisted system where parents are praised for joining the workforce while neglecting their own children, and government programs step in as if they know better.

That's not health, that's control.

Children don't need more agencies and policies, they need the love, presence, and stability of their own loving families.

The state should never be raising our kids.

Families raise children.

Anything else is a broken backward system, dressed up in nice words.

Wake up, San Diego.

Um, you know, start questioning things.

Thank you for that concluding remark.

This does conclude your time.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Aaron.

Please unmute and begin.

You will have one minute.

Hi, thank you so much.

Thank you, Chair Campillo and um council members for hearing this item here today.

Um, I want to commend the speakers for really uplifting um what's happening with child care across San Diego County.

And I just want to elevate the opportunity that the city has to really be a part of something transformative.

Um, the San Diego Childcare Blueprint as a county um is really something unique that's happening in our region.

Um, and within the child and youth plan, um, that's a great way to plug into that um super transformative uh plan.

So I just want to uplift and celebrate that um and encourage um the reinstatement of the Office of Child and Youth Success and a strategic position that really can bring the city to full fruition of realizing um the best city for for kids and working families.

Thank you.

Thank you for your concluding remark.

The five-minute timer has expired.

We have one hand remaining in the queue, and we'll take no other callers beyond this remaining individual.

Becky Miller, please unmute and begin.

Child care is just an excuse for more tax.

You love tossing around trendy buzzwords and flashy presentations while keeping your hands firmly planted in our pockets.

It's the kind of behavior that, if I were to replicate it, would land me behind bars.

If I walked into a store, took something off the shelf and helped myself to cash every time they made a sale, I'd be arrested in a heartbeat.

But you, you call that tax.

It's a fancy way of justifying theft, dressed up in legal jargon and shiny rhetoric.

The only difference between what you do and common theft is that you found a way to do it on a massive scale and with the full backing of the system.

Think about that.

Why don't you give vulnerable families equitable opportunities for theft?

Why keep all the proceeds for yourself?

Thank you.

And chair with no other hands in the queue.

This concludes testimony for item number nine.

Thank you, members of the public, for your participation on this item.

It's an information item, so no motion is needed, and we will go to Council President Pro Temli.

Uh thank you, Chair, and thank you all for coming out to present.

Uh, one of you nailed it on the head.

Uh, I'm watching the clock because I don't want to pay a dollar a minute.

Uh, I don't actually think we have that option uh in our particular case.

So um I I think just speaking from my own personal experience, uh, you know, when I started here, even from a campaign standpoint, my kids were two and four, um, they're five and seven now.

Um, I think that there's a lot that's outlined in the blueprint that obviously focuses um on the the enormous cost of infant child care and child care preschool.

Um and I think we all recognize, at least those of us on the council who have kids, how much that really is an impact.

Um, certainly in our family, it was a significant portion.

Um, and and we had to balance the fact that there are very few options available.

Um I think we also recognize that as kids grow up, that child care need doesn't go away.

It changes.

Um, and so for many parents who have kids in school, um, that child care before school starts as well as after becomes a significant factor as well.

So I I think I I really appreciate the presentation.

I've always understood that the city has its limitations on how much we can engage in child care.

Much of what we do have an opportunity to do is really consider how we affect uh land use policy that allows for more child care facilities to develop programs uh that might be small in nature, even what the city has for what we are offering um city employees is unique and and is welcome.

Um, and I think there's more work to do to think about how we incentivize the creation of new child care facilities in um housing that we see come forward, how we uh have um office uh locations and other sort of locations really consider co-locating child care as an option as well.

And I think these are all parts of the work that I hope that we can continue to do at the city.

I think at the end of the day, the the objective for all of you as a collective is to really engage all the different partners, and I imagine the county is a big piece of that to ensure that there are resources to deliver towards child care.

Um, one big question I wanted to ask is that just in the last couple of years, we have seen a really significant shift in in the with a huge impact on child care, especially for infant and toddler um care, which is that as schools within the entire state have moved towards providing universal TK, which many people very much appreciate.

I think we've also seen the hints of how that is really decimated child care providers by taking away a block of um potential child care um users, I guess, uh and with a significant impact on the financial model for child care providers that are already struggling to deliver their services.

Um, and now we're seeing, for example, Santa Unified, the move for the San Diego region to be pushed up over the district to be pushed up into the rate one structure for extending learning, which I imagine will again impact a number of child care providers that are providing services on sites.

So, how do you see that?

How do you see that impact because and how it plays out?

Because obviously, more child care provided or more educational opportunities that are provided that help reduce the need for child care is a wonderful thing for families, but it has a really significant impact on the system.

Um how do you see that being tackled moving forward?

Sorry, I know that's a you could probably see how.

Yeah, and happy to follow up with your your team on more data on this.

I think as advocates for early care and education, you know, our encouragement to the state is really to build out a full continuum of care and education, right?

So that starts prenatal all the way to 25 plus.

Um I think that California, as the fourth largest economy in the world, certainly has the capacity to do that if we prioritize it.

So what you're um describing, Pro Tem Lee is absolutely correct, right?

We have significant transitions with universal transitional kindergarten, and now a terrific opportunity for expanded learning that's happening on school campuses.

Um this is free care and enrichment for families, which is a huge relief once your kids hit four.

Um but if you have another child or you're really looking at a holistic economic picture for the city, yes, um, it comes at great detriment to the earliest part of the continuum.

So the question at all levels of government is really do we care, right?

And if we care, what can we do about it to incentivize providers to care for infants and toddlers?

Um and that's really what we continue to explore with the state.

I'll say that there is a new select committee on child care, and we have both assembly member ward and assemblymember Shark Collins on that committee.

Um, and they'll really be delving into more of those issues and some of these unintended consequences tied to our education system that are impacting child care.

Um maybe the other thing I will chime in on also, and sorry, sorry to interrupt, but um, the city obviously provides a number of services that we really fought for in our budget when it comes to parks, rec centers, um, libraries, and so as as we see a shift, I think there is a greater and greater need, knowing that schools also have a limited capacity in terms of classroom space and providers that they can work with.

And so there is what I hope to be some opportunity to connect some of the services that the city is already providing in park and rec facilities and libraries that could connect with extended learning um needs at schools as well, and that is certainly an area I would love to explore.

Um, we had a measure of the city that passed several years ago before right before I first came into office that was trying to open up the possibility of using utilizing city facilities for child care.

I don't know that is not something that we've successfully been able to move forward quite yet because of many challenges in terms of space um needs, but um, after school care might be just one of those types of um areas where it would be easier to deliver and is something I would hope that the city will explore.

So I'll just put that out there.

So I'm sorry to interrupt.

I was just gonna add to the earlier question, and I just want to make sure it's really clear that even though uh TK has gone universal and is now serving all uh four-year-olds, and that is I guess decreasing the demand for child care for that age group, there still is um a demand that out that exceeds the supply of child care.

So we're not at a point where it's like, oh, TK is there, and therefore we don't have a child care scarcity issue anymore.

We certainly do.

Um, and so I just want to make sure that that's clear that even though now a large you know number of uh four-year-olds are going to TK, that demand for infant and toddler care, three-year-olds is still there.

Yeah, and in fact, I I should emphasize one, and thank you for clarifying that because I I didn't intend to even give that impression off, because I I think what TK UTK has really done is changed the model for how early child care works.

The ratio for for younger infant care is very different than a four-year-old.

And so now there's actually a greater need for the number of folks that were already limited in spaces, and so I I think what I'm worried about is we've watched in the COVID years this exodus of child care providers, both home care and um even centers across the region, and it's something we don't really get a chance to really talk about and address.

And so to your point, there's there's a lot to be done regionally to deliver the resources and um look forward to continuing figuring out how we can how we can do that.

Just say one more thing too about parental choice.

I think that the city, our programs, transitional kindergarten, it's really about parental choice and what they feel is right and the best for their family and their child and their student.

So that's early child care programs, that's transitional kindergarten, that's what school they go to.

Um, and so I think that's kind of um built into that, that we're not forcing anybody to do anything.

We just want to support working parents that need quality care.

And then I think um the second piece is working, and I'm not sure if this is with the city or not, so but I'm just gonna throw it out there about licensing, like licensing restrictions.

There are some things in place that make it very difficult to transition from serving four-year-olds to serving two-year-olds for good reasons, these like these um restrictions are in place, but there are really ways that we could edit policy to make it easier to serve children safely and in quality environments.

These light these um restrictions are in place, but there are really ways that we could edit policy to make it easier to serve children safely and in quality environments.

And I just that is a that is more like a um city-county area than more the provider field.

So just want to put that in there.

Absolutely.

And what you'll find at least from uh my office and myself is this this has been an area of a huge interest of mine from the moment I I knew I had this opportunity to serve.

Um, but I know that we have this limitations.

Licensing is a great example where that is uh, as I understand very much a county um responsibility.

Uh, but I still remember when I first started school, I think um my kids used NOIMCA um after school care.

Um, but the model in which they were licensed became a challenge the very first year we were there and had to shut down for a couple of months as they re-oriented staffing in a different licensing model in order to be able to deliver those services.

And it was mind-boggling to me that that was actually a challenge that folks had to figure out.

So it I we can certainly be advocates, I think, uh, even with our county partners, um, because I think this is something that will be critical for, as you said, every working family in the region.

So thank you again.

Thank you, Chair, for providing a good time.

Thank you, Pro Tem.

Uh, seeing no one else on the lights for comments.

Uh, first, just I wanna thank the uh presenters for the amount of collaboration you put into uh presenting us with uh where things are and where they need to go.

Um I requested the presentation because child care uh is one of the biggest barriers facing San Diego's uh families and the local economy from moving forward.

Uh without reliable care, uh families can't go to work, but more importantly, they don't have choices.

I think that was the big thing.

It shouldn't be that everyone should be able to go to work, they should be able to have an affordable choice uh regardless of what that choice is.

Uh and providers can't stay open without the proper support.

So when I when I see this, I'm thinking that the uh freedom of people to live the lives in the way they envision that's what's really been lost uh in a way that uh you can't get back.

And we know that child care costs, roughly speaking, $572 a week in San Diego, uh, which is an unsustainable cost for most people.

Uh and while the city isn't in a place to solve it all by itself, uh, the real steps that we can take are truly numerous, and with whether it's the permits that we can streamline for facilities, uh helping support workforce, uh training people to get into that profession, creating an environment where people want to go into that profession.

I've never met a child care provider who didn't find it to be the most satisfying, rewarding employment that they've had in their life.

I know that I was merely a teacher, not a child care provider with with young kids who are trying to run around.

I taught fifth graders, but the ability to shape young people's lives is something that uh is a ticket straight to heaven for the people who have kids under the age of five.

I'll say that.

Um and the partners with the county and state to make sure that funding is in place.

Uh, it is an overlooked investment that I think people uh in big positions of power don't adequately address, and I'm not entirely sure why, because the vast vast majority of them have had children and they still don't seem to put it at the top of their list of things to fix.

Uh and and the vast vast majority of the workers are women.

Um, so this is deeply inequity issue as well.

Today's presentation was uh illustrative of how county and city partners can do more, um, but of course, all the things that they are doing.

Uh and with our child care blueprint at the county and our child and youth plan here at the city, uh we know that the county and city have uh similar goals and just need further alignment to make sure this works.

You gotta build the facility, you gotta train the worker, you gotta put it near people's work or their home, so it's not an expensive uh amount of transportation to get their child there.

Uh, and then you need to make it affordable for them uh to actually make that choice.

Uh so when people are losing or leaving their jobs because they can't find care, businesses lose their employees, the economy loses productivity, and uh all of that leads to a less safe, less productive society as well.

Um so while we can't solve this alone, I'm committed to making sure the city remains a strong partner and budget investments, which I I appreciate uh Pro Tem Lee bringing up about uh our budget and the way we uh put it forward for implementation.

Um that can and should be at the forefront of our minds.

Uh this helps us in always and always and ultimately it's the biggest bang for your buck that you can have as a government, and we should always remember that.

Uh so with that, I'll leave it there.

And uh seeing no further comments or questions from my colleagues, thank you for your presentation.

And we got a lot more work to do, but I'm committed to doing it.

So uh it our entire society really needs this.

No it's answer butts about it.

Thank you very much.

Uh that was an information item, so no uh motion was needed.

Let us now take up non-agenda public comment.

The council members respect and appreciate the public's input and are fully committed to protecting every participant's free speech rights at council committee meetings.

Sarah, let's move forward with non-agenda public comment.

Thank you, Chair approval 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 are within the subject matter jurisdiction of this committee, and each speaker will have two minutes.

We currently have six slips here in chamber, so we will begin testimony with Elinor.

Eleanor, you will be followed by Karen V and Patty McClerk if you would like to come up to the front seats reserved at the front of the room.

And Elinor, you will have two minutes.

Okay.

We hear you, we see you, and when people try to overreach into your personal lives, demean, dehumanize, etc.

We, the city council, will have your back.

Raul Campio, those are your words.

Were you laughing inwardly when you uttered them, openly mocking the living people of San Diego?

I'm here today on behalf of many, many people who are living in the city of San Diego to let you know that we do not consent.

We do not consent to your tyranny and your overreach.

We do not consent to your trash can scan.

We do not consent to RFID chips in our bins.

We do not consent to being monitored and tracked, thereby dehumanizing us.

We do not consent to the extra fees you have attached to the property tax illegally.

We do not consent to subsidizing bonuses for your NGOs, because there has been, to say the least, gross mismanagement of city funds.

We do not consent to being taxed into poverty because you are trying to roll out agenda 2030.

We do not consent to your poo water initiative.

We do not consent to your 15-minute cities, we do not consent to your fraudulent agenda, and you might want to think about it too, because once you have all fulfilled your purposes for the World Economic Forum, you'll be thrown to the wolves just like all the other minions.

Is this how you want your children and your families to remember you?

Perhaps you should look deep within your souls and ask if what you are doing is honest and moral.

Which side of history do you want to be standing on?

We, the living, breathing people of San Diego, men and women do not consent.

We hear you, we see you, and we are watching you.

People are waking up.

So, in the words of County Board uh Supervisor Montgomery stat, you'd better be careful.

We are watching you.

We do not consent.

Thank you for your comment.

Our next speaker is Karen.

Good afternoon.

I'll make it short.

I'm I'm here to talk about my unhappiness with the trash tax and how it was implemented.

And I know two of you on this board right here voted against it.

And I thank you both, um, Councilmember Foster and Councilmember Campia for voting no on that because you had issues with the process, um, transparency, uh, the fee, and you were under an enormous amount of pressure to vote yes.

So uh people are looking into this more.

Attorney Mike Lagheri has a lawsuit or trying to make an injunction against it because it was kind of of a bait and switch with the fees.

And I also have an issue with those RFID tags, um, the expense and also perhaps an intrusion into our privacy.

Like, can they tell what we are dumping if the items we throw away have those RFID tags?

Can your truck readers read it?

So, anyway, thank you very much, and I'll be back again.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Patty McClure.

Hello, council members.

This is my first attendance of a council meeting, and I must say it's been pretty eye-opening.

Um, my topic is about fiscal responsibility, and yes, this does involve the solid waste management fund, which has been newly created, and unfortunately, having 22 years in budget experience, I see an awful lot of multimillion dollar debt transfers that you will have to justify.

I'm letting you go on record as knowing that I have many uh public record requests out for which I've received no documentation from any.

I'm told it will come September 15th, which is a full month from when I requested it.

But I will be going through your operating ledger transaction detail for every single transfer and expense that you've budgeted in that budget because when Measure B passed, the fiscal impact statement was fraudulent.

It was it was based on what the city told the Office of the Independent Budget Analyst.

They said they service 285,000 customers.

The actual number was proved to be 222,485.

That is a 28% error.

Measure B only passed by a 1.4%, a 1.46% margin.

Do the math, something's really wrong here.

I would like to see if people knew what the true cost, which you're now proposing at 4759, which is 51% higher than what was disclosed in the public impact statement for measure B.

I'd like to see a revote and see what those people would think now.

And as Proposition 218 gives us, we the citizens have the power of initiative to repeal those taxes.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Michael Brando.

And Mr.

Brando, you will be followed by Cesar Javier.

For the record, let it be known that Jennifer Campbell fled the premises.

She acted like she was so offended by my words earlier.

That's the way a narcissistic bully acts.

And that's what she is.

If you recall back during the scamdemic, there was a marketing campaign cost millions of dollars, probably billions of dollars, called pandemic of the unvaccinated.

Absolutely based on lies and fake science with the dollar sign spelling science.

She was one of the ones that was promoting the bioweapon serum injection, Raul.

I know people whose family members were killed by that shot.

Killed, murdered.

And that's what I referenced earlier because she was one of the ones in the political scene pushing it.

That makes her no different than Donald Trump.

How about that?

The good news about this is all of this is coming to light.

If you notice a lot of the politicians are trying to backpedal and say, we didn't know, Pfizer didn't give us the correct information, and they're all playing games to hide behind one another to see where the dominoes are gonna fall.

I can tell you where the dominoes are gonna fall.

This is going to come out clearly in people's consciousness where it can't be avoided.

People used to refer to Wilma Wooten as Dr.

Death at the County of San Diego.

That is a fitting title for Jennifer Campbell, Dr.

Death, because she taught Gloria and others terrors people about getting this shot, and they're hiding behind their sexual identity.

Like, don't question me because I've got this sexual identity.

They hide behind that.

When you really need to step out of your body and look at what they're doing, it's evil, and it's coming down.

Thank you.

And our final speaker in chambers is Cesar Javier.

Oh, excuse, and Perita Javier will follow.

My name is Perita Bayavier.

To whom it may concern.

My patient.

Very request my documentation in regards to how my surrounding environment affects my health.

I continue to have significant anxiety in regards to the possible health effects related to air quality around my home.

My neighbors have a kiln.

The use of fits may have contributed adverse symptoms, if not to her health physically, then psychologically.

Previews is calling for the Prussian via the pH.

Nine.

According for anxiety for the GAD seven questionnaire is 16.

And in the moderate anxiety reigns.

She lives in fear in her own home and avoids being outside the anxiety.

This anxiety has contributed to increase forgetfulness and elevated blood pressure.

Caesar Javier.

Thank you.

This is your mission.

We protect San Diego through our dedication to justice and the welfare of our people, especially the vulnerable resident.

Is this true?

Yes or no?

You don't have to answer.

You're not under investigation.

We protect taxpayers in court.

And by advising officials on the responsible management of neighborhood resources.

Dr.

Campbell violated our constitutional right.

The mayor, Councillor Rivera, Consular La Java, and the rest of you.

Except Councillor Campillo.

You will be apprehended.

Violation of our society.

You are criminals.

Violators of our criminals of our society, property, and persons.

You are criminals.

This does conclude your time.

Thank you for your comment.

That concludes testimony here in chambers.

So I'll begin the five-minute timer for all those in the virtual queue to indicate if they wish to provide non-agenda public comment.

We'll begin testimony with the original.

Please unmute and begin.

You will have two minutes.

You know what I mean?

Like that's why you have all these people that you know kind of encroach in people's lives.

We gotta make sure that you're gonna take care of your children, and then you know, when parents are, they wind up having their children taken by the county and the city, you know, different whoever it is.

And then you know what they do, they also hide sexual assault, which is interesting.

And you know, then they just blame it on the parent.

Like, oh my gosh, how can this parent just you know create all of these allegations of sexual abuse, you know, and like to protect the children?

We're going to terminate, you know, parental rights and reunification, and then adopt them out so they can go and be trafficked to another country.

Oh, it's so interesting.

And then things like the Polinski Center where children die because they're suffocated because some guard is just, you know, sitting on a nine-year-old until he suffocates.

Or, you know, a five-year-old little girl who by one of the workers had her hands burnt so badly they had to be amputated.

And then she wound up dying in Polinski from an infection.

But hey, let's put you guys in charge of taking care of children, right?

That open up opens up the gates to heaven.

Says Satan himself.

Like you guys are so evil that you can't.

I mean, I can smell the soil from here.

It is insanity to things that people believe that you know, when the government says we're here to make sure that your children are taken care of, they surely mean it in a way that nobody fully understands, and until people understand that they're coming for your children too, and you better do everything in your power to protect them, which means stay away from the fucking government.

Your time has concluded.

Our next speaker is Madison.

Please unmute and begin.

You'll have two minutes.

Okay, thank you for the opportunity to speak today about an issue that directly affects the health and well-being of our young people, which is marijuana access and its impact on teen mental health.

A recent study led by researchers at USC and Kaiser Permanente surveyed nearly 100,000 California adolescents.

The findings are striking.

In communities that banned both marijuana storefronts and delivery services, teens experienced a 67% lower prevalence of psychotic disorders.

Even prohibiting delivery alone was linked to a 93% lower prevalence of anxiety disorders among youth.

Location also matters.

Teens who lived more than 20 minutes from the nearest marijuana retailer had 47% lower rates of psychotic disorders compared to peers living within a five-minute radius.

In other words, the closer marijuana outlets are to kids, the more their mental health suffers.

Today's cannabis is far more potent than in decades past, and adolescent brains are especially vulnerable.

Keeping retail access at a distance follows a principle we all know well.

Location, location, location.

By carefully considering zoning, storefront restrictions, and delivery policies.

The evidence is clear.

When we limit access, we safeguard our kids.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Becky Rapp.

Please unmute and begin.

Good afternoon.

My name is Becky Rapp, and I'm here to urge your support for AB8 by assembly member Aguar Curry.

Right now, intoxicating hemp products like synthetic cannabinoids and high potency hemp drinks are being sold without the same safety standard we would require for marijuana.

That means no consistent testing, labeling, or oversight.

These products that are often marketed as harmless, but in reality, they can be just as intoxicating as the marijuana sold in our local pot shops.

And they're ending up in the hands of youth.

AB8 closes that loophole by bringing intoxicating hemp products under the same safety and tracking system as marijuana.

It also gives state and local agencies clear authority to seize unsafe products.

This is a critical and necessary move.

It protects public health, especially for youth.

AB8 empowers state and local agencies to act quickly, harmful or illegal products enforcement gaps that currently put communities at risk.

This is about parents, schools, and law enforcement are all in full support.

Stronger.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comment.

The five-minute timer has concluded.

We have six hands remaining in the queue, and we'll take no other callers beyond these remaining six individuals.

Terry Ann Skelly, please unmute and begin.

Good afternoon.

EDNIR committee members, Chair Campillo.

As a planning group member and a parent, I've appreciated the committee's attention to supporting young adults in their journey to meaningful employment through the city's internship programs.

Since school is back in session, it would be great to have a staff presentation regarding these programs, the number of young adults served, and what satisfaction surveys say about the experience.

Among other items, it stated that cannabis use, whether it's over the past 12 months or past 30 days or daily reuse, remain near or at the recent highest levels ever recorded among adults ages 19 to 30 year olds.

And it has come and with it has come an increase of diagnosis of cannabis use disorders.

Cannabis use disorder is a mental health condition in which you have issues fulfilling responsibilities at work, at school, or home due to cannabis use, and/or its use causes problems in relationships, and/or its use makes worse ongoing physical and psychological problems like depression or anxiety.

So thank you and the city for the internship programs and for not adding more marijuana businesses to our neighborhoods.

A next great step would to support a young adults would be to remove the marijuana billboards from all of our neighborhoods.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Paul Hankin.

Please unmute and begin.

You will have two minutes.

People are angry.

They rejected your prop E's tax hike.

Your attempt to turn them into your personal piggy bank.

So now you're resorting to a trash scam on very shaky legal ground.

Trash is trash and does not need RFID radio.

Frequency monitors, huge or extortion, and fees are expensive gimmicks in order to work.

And this that this fee is only on people who live in single family homes or buildings just less than four units is pure discrimination, a mockery of your equity gambits over the years.

People in multi-unit buildings make about the same amount of trash as people in single-family homes.

It's nonsensical to trash to judge trash makers more because of the structure they live in.

Should not be put on its citizens.

And especially since most of them do not even earn median income.

Instead, you hired Bay Area consultants none for selling the highest trash collection rates in California.

And I'm sure it was with our tax money, not yours.

Thank you for that comment.

Your time has concluded.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Judy Strang.

Please unmute and begin.

You will have two minutes.

Excuse me.

Good evening, City Council members on the EDIR committee.

Thank you for your service there.

I came because of my concern regarding vaping and smoking, be it marijuana or tobacco, as the number one cause of preventable disease and death.

Because it is an extraordinarily expensive situation to have poor public health in our city.

What it looks like for employers is that it creates expenses for them, not only in the cost of bringing a health care system to their employees, but in reduced productivity as well.

Now for the employee, the cost to them in unemployment is huge.

And the cost of the illnesses when they have to seek help care is expensive if they do seek it.

So as we look at items related to smoking and vaping and stores that sell these products, be they vape shops, pot shops, smoke shops.

Let us take a new look and realize what this costs employers.

And perhaps limit the number that we have in our city and more carefully enforce the laws that these stores have already in place, but are not obeying.

Thank you.

Thank you for your testimony.

Our next speaker is phone number ending in 8700.

You can unmute by pressing star six.

Phone number ending in 870, please begin.

Joyce and District 3.

I have good news for you.

I have given up the structural budget deficit.

And I'll tell you why.

When I moved into the reef, the month of the recess recess, I was uh continue to be upset with the statement of budgetary principles and that word any, which referred to the structural budget deficit.

And I really, really struggled with it after 18 years of working with it and giving it my all in a lot of ways.

But yet, over time and with some meditation, I realize that it's time to give it up.

It's been hanging around for years, and we don't need it anymore.

It's just words, and they don't work, and what we've tried to do for them hasn't worked.

So I'm giving it up, and I suggest that you give it up the SBD acronym.

What I'm gonna do is each time I participate in an agenda item.

I'm gonna look closer at it.

I want to look at the money we're spending, what we're expending the expenditures.

How are we covering those expenditures?

Who's suffering?

Who's being cut, who's given the gift of the expenditure?

So that's what I'm going to do.

And then I want to read you from the union tribune really quick and end with this uh from June 5th of this year.

Attempt to restrain the federal deficit spending e to the nation's future.

And here's a paragraph.

Government reform works best when the executive and the legislative branches collaborately design the necessary.

Thank you.

This does conclude your time.

Thank you for your comment.

You're welcome.

You're welcome.

Our next speaker is Siena Vallarta.

Please unmute and begin.

You dress your theft in ordinances and signatures, but it is theft all the same.

You have taken what is already paid and called it new revenue.

You pile a trash tax on our property tax.

Double charging honest citizens who already bleed enough to keep this city afloat.

That is not governance.

That is extortion.

And now with colder hands, you reach for something darker, RFID.

You would tag us like cattle, track our steps through our own neighborhoods, reduce free men and women to moving dots on your private grid.

You call it innovation, but it is the architecture of control.

San Diego was not built to be a prison of invisible bars.

Do you think we do not see?

Do you think your words cloak your crimes?

You are draining the city for your own power, dressing corruption as necessity, and selling obedience as progress.

The people do not consent.

We will not pay twice for the same service.

We will not wear your electronic chair.

You sit in those chairs because we allow it.

But understand this: every tax, every tracker, every theft drives the people closer to pulling you from them.

Power does not belong to you.

It belongs to those you are sworn to serve.

And today you have betrayed that oath.

Know this, your power hangs by a thread.

The people owe you nothing but contempt.

You rule only because we allow it, and that allowance is burning away.

Keep stealing, keep tagging, keep tightening your leash, and you will learn the leash was never on us.

But on the last strand of trust keeping you from collapse.

San Diego does not belong to thieves.

It belongs to the people.

Thank you.

And the final speaker in the queue is phone number ending in eight eight one three.

You can unmute by pressing star six, and you will have two minutes.

Amen.

Ditto to everything she just mentioned.

Every policy you pass in this chamber is not just going to affect the people out there.

It's going to affect you, your children, and your grandchildren.

You sit in those seats believing you're insulated from the consequences.

But you're not.

Agenda 21 is not some abstract plan.

It's being rolled out through every board, every council, every policy in this county.

And you are the ones advancing it.

Let's strip away the illusion.

Government is not here to serve us.

That's the story we've been sold.

Government is here to tax us, to regulate us, to manage us.

You raise fees, increase fines, stack regulations, and call it progress.

But the truth is we are paying for our own enslavement.

Every dollar we hand over funds, the very s every dollar we hand over funds the very system that is squeezing the life out of us.

And every few, very few are paying attention.

People are distracted, overworked, and struggling to survive.

And while they fight to make ends meet, this board and others keep advancing policies that ship away at freedom, family, and sovereignty.

That's not representation, that's betrayal.

I stand here to remind you and everyone listening that the consequences are not far away.

They are here now.

The air you breathe, the water you drink, the future of your children, all of it is on the line.

And when this system fully shows its hand, no little, no board, no seat, uh, no illusion of power will protect you from what you've helped set into motion.

It's time to stop pretending you're serving the people.

You're serving an agenda, and the people are waking up to it.

Done.

Thank you.

And Chair, this concludes an on-agenda public comment.

Thank you to the members of the public for your participation for my colleagues for their good work today.

Uh, that will conclude the meeting of the Economic Development and Intergovernmental Relations Committee meeting until our next regular schedule meeting, which will be Wednesday, October 8th at 2 p.m.

Thank you.

Have a great rest of your day.