Good afternoon.

Welcome to the economic development and intergovernmental relations committee meeting of July 8th, 2026.

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

Thank you.

We will now call the meeting of the economic development and intergovernmental relations committee to order and call the role.

Dr.

Campbell.

Council Member Foster.

And I am also present and present with us, Noah Fleischmann, Senior Fiscal Policy Analyst from the Office of the IBA, Senior Deputy City Attorney Kate Malcolm from the Office of the City Attorney.

Let's please continue with public comment instruction.

Thank you, Chair Campio.

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

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

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And no further in-person testimony will be taken once committee begins virtual testimony.

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Chair.

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

A quorum now being present.

Let's take up non-agenda public comment.

The council members respect and appreciate the public's input and are fully committed to protecting every participant's free speech rights at council and committee meetings.

Sarah, let's proceed with non-agenda public comment.

Thank you, Chair Campia.

Per rule 2.7 on agenda public comment is an opportunity for members of the public to comment on items that are not on the agenda but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of this committee.

Each speaker will have two minutes and will be in testimony with in-person speakers.

Maximilian Schmidt, you've submitted a slip to provide non-agenda public comment.

Please approach the lecture, and at this time you will have two minutes.

Hi, um, I wanted to talk about how architecture and and build architecture and buildings in San Diego and every city across the world are using um architecture to um depopulate people.

Basically, um, what they do is they'll have a um noise come from a building maybe every three seconds or high pitch frequency.

And a lot a lot of what I'm about to say gets brushed under the rug as conspiracies or even mental illness.

And um they'll have like, and what they'll try and do is they'll try and make someone's eyes dart back and forth.

And if you think of a pocket watch, someone swinging a pocket watch in front of your face, um, it will make what um some people call space out, um, go into a trance or disassociate.

And then once this person's eyes are moving back and forth from the um synchronized noises in the city, and they start to do this, um, you could even say the person's thoughts out loud, and they would think that it's normal because they're in a trance and they could hear it all the time and be driven to madness or become crazy.

And also the the on brutalist architecture building design in city hall is the perfect example of brutalist architecture, is actually used to um one look kind of uh make people uncomfortable intentionally when they look at it and as well as look two-dimensional to help to make the person space out even more or go into a trance or disassociate even more because a two-dimensional building uh messes with your deaf perception, and when you're in a trance, um it's almost like when you intentionally make your eyes blurry is what it's like to have your eyes constantly made to go back and forth.

You're it's like um you go in you space out, go into a trance, and then once you're in this trance in this urban environment in the city, um, you can be driven people are being driven to drugs and suicide and madness intentionally by um Freemasons' uh architecture.

Thank you for your concluding remark.

That concludes testimony here in the committee room.

So I'll begin the five minute timer for those in the virtual queue to indicate if they wish to provide non-agenda public comment at this time.

We currently have six hands raised.

We will begin with Terry and Skelly.

Please unmute and begin.

Good afternoon, economic development and intergovernment intergovernmental relations committee.

My name is Terry Anscelly.

I'm a parent, a planning group attendee, and a public health educator in our local elementary schools.

AI is most interesting.

I recently Googled the question, and I quote, how does the sale of marijuana affect public health and safety?

The answer I got was I quote, the sale of marijuana increases its availability and normalizes its use, leading to increased negative health consequences, particularly among young people, and increases economic disadvantages to society.

And what are these economic disadvantages?

First, a less productive workforce and less available city residents prepared to work.

As the Journal of American Medical Association reports, marijuana use, particularly among adolescents and college students, is generally associated with lower academic achievement, including lower GPAs, higher rates of absentism, and increased risks of dropping out.

Frequent use impairs cognitive functions, essential for learning, such as memory, attention, and motivation, often leading to reduced educational attainment and delayed graduation.

A second disadvantage?

The cost to society, or in our case, the city for city resources like first responders who respond to marijuana induced erotic behaviors or marijuana impaired car crashes.