Good afternoon.

Welcome to the Lane Newson Housing Committee meeting of July ninth, twenty twenty-six.

Our committee lays on Natalie Kessler will provide information and instruction for the public to participate in today's meeting.

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

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

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

We appreciate the public's cooperation.

Chair.

I'll now call the Laney St.

Housing Committee meeting of Thursday, July 9th, 2026 to order.

Natalie, please call the rule.

Vice Chair Elo Rivera.

Councilmember Whitburn.

Here.

Council Member Moreno.

Present.

And Chair Council President Pro Tem Lee.

Here.

Also attending the meeting today.

Chris Ac Chris Ackerman Avila with Mayor Todd Gloria's office.

Deputy City Attorney Corinne Newfer with the city attorney's office.

Amy Lee with the independent budget analyst office, and Angeli Hoyos, committee consultant.

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Chair.

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

A quorum is now present.

As a reminder to the public and staff, item six was removed from the agenda and was sent out as a revised agenda with that update earlier this week.

So we'll start by taking 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.

Natalie, please proceed with non-agenda public comment.

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

Each speaker will have two minutes.

And we've received two speaker slips here in the committee room.

We will begin with those in person.

Maximilian Schmidt, please approach the lectern, and you'll be followed by Blair Beekman, and you'll have two minutes to speak to non-agenda public comment.

After in-person concludes, we will move to the virtual queue.

And there are currently four hands raised in the virtual queue.

Hi, um, I have thought of something that can actually end the um what some people call the thousands year holy war, and what others call the underground genocide that is being hidden out of sight where people are um cast as mentally ill.

And there's a book by um Thomas Friedman called The World Is Flat and talks about how in this new age of the internet um new technological advancements have flattened the economic uh playing field.

I think it's a socialist book.

Um, however, um we can there's tons of people who are um experiencing what's um um many pagans um what's going on is um for thousands of years um the through the very real third eye that um pagans get when they do a cult group rituals uh since the time of Christ, um they call it the third eye because you have two eyes and then one eye um you can see through other people's eyes.

Pagans have been driving people to insanity, and these are the poorest and most marginalized people on the planet, and every country is doing this for thousands of years by basically um saying what the person's doing.

And for never uh saying what the person's doing.

Some people call it live broadcasting their actions.

When people do it to me, I just kind of freeze up and disassociate into confusion and don't don't know what to do.

And never before in history, um, people are looking for answers on the internet, and there's hundreds of books on Amazon about targeted individuals, and it talks about um how mind control technology is being confusing these mentally ill schizophrenics.

So people are looking for answers.

We need to let them know that pagans are actually doing cult group rituals where they can look through your eyes, and we need to draw awareness, and with awareness, we can end the holy wars.

The thousand we can end the thousand-year holy wars, and we can end the underground hidden genocide that casts people's mentally ill and leaves no evidence.

Thank you.

Blair Beekman, please approach the lectern.

Hi, thank you, Blair Beekman.

Um, to try to get into weighty subjects here at this time.

Uh, one, we talked about um Emerald Hill issues at council a couple days ago.

I was um I am just learning the concepts that um what um racial discrimination has meant to the many African American community persons who've lived there for uh over 50 years, you know, in that area, and that as a decent as the environmental um ideas are for the future of the area.

Um the African-American community, many of them do feel, I feel a sense of um it's memorializing something that makes them uncomfortable.

And we have to know how to have that conversation more regularly.

You guys have been working with that knowledge and understanding when a lot of the community has not.

And so they've been left out of a process that if we had the process and you would be openly discussing those sort of subjects, it wouldn't be so confusing now.

And you're keeping people away when you continuously hold back saying that you have, you know, big brother answer.

So good luck.

What we can be doing and working this out together and really understanding that there's serious issues with um discrimination that um holding people back from further wanting environmental concerns for the future of the area.

Good luck in the efforts to consider it.

Boy, 40 seconds, I'm gonna try to speak to um you know, I've been talking about all this ALPR stuff.

How we can be leaving Flock.

We have to be able to address Israel, um, that Israel is our ally and friend, and yet we're trying to work towards concepts of peace that I think may take in a more important precedence in the end.

We're just learning how to do that.

Really interesting.

Good luck how we can do that with Flock.

And we've had, you know, because of the Islamic Center issues, we don't know how to talk about ALPR issues in real time yet.

We need to have open public conversations on that, and from that this fall, we can grow community dialogue on the future of our tech.

That's a slow approach.

Thank you.

Thank you.

This concludes in-person public testimony.

We will now move to the virtual queue.

I've started the five-minute timer, and we have five hands raised in the virtual queue.

We will begin with Madison.

Please unmute and begin.

Hello, good afternoon, the Anderson Housing Committee.

My name is Madison, and I'm here to urge you to make smoke-free multi-unit housing a priority in San Diego.

For families living in apartments and condominiums, there is often no way to keep the smoke out of their homes.

Smoke from neighbors travels through walls, ventilation systems, hallways, balconies, and shared spaces, leaving children exposed where they should be safest.

This issue has become even more urgent as marijuana has become increasingly commercialized.

A newly published analysis of US poison centered data found that reported cannabis exposures in children under age six increased from just 132 cases in 2009 to more than 8,400 in 2024.

Among children ages 6 to 12, reported exposures rose nearly 14,000 percent during that same period.

Researchers also found that the most severe poisonings in young children results from ingesting cannabis edibles.

While smoke-free housing wouldn't prevent every exposure, it does help reduce normalization of marijuana use around children, decreases second-hand smoke exposure, and creates healthier living environments for families.

As you work to address San Diego's housing needs, please also ensure that the homes we build and preserve are healthy places to live.

Affordable housing should also be safe housing.

Smoke-free multi-unit housing is a practical evidence-based policy that protects children, seniors, and residents with asthma and other health conditions.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

The next speaker is Becky Rapp.

Please unmute and begin.

Becky Rapp, I've asked you to unmute.

Good afternoon, Chair and members of the land use and housing committee.

My name is Becky Rapp, and thank you for this opportunity to speak today.

I'm asking the committee to consider updating the city's process for cannabis business ownership changes, particularly when a permit approved through a public process is transferred or sold to a completely different operator.

In Rancho Bernardo residents and the Ranch Bernardo Community Planning Board invested significant time and effort reviewing the original cannabis permit application.

Community members attended meetings, asked questions, evaluated the proposed operator, and considered the potential impacts on the neighborhood.

That public involvement was an important part of the approval process and helped build community confidence in the decision.

That permit has now been sold, and the location will operate under a new name and new ownership as the cake house.

While the transfer may be allowed under current regulations, the community that participated in the original approval process received no opportunity to meet the new operator, ask questions, or understand what commitments the new business intends to make to the neighborhood.

The conditional use permit may stay with the property, but the operator is who the public evaluated.

The ownership, management, and community relationships of that operator were important considerations during the original hearings.

At a minimum, residents and community planning groups should be notified when ownership of a cannabis business changes.

I also encourage the committee to consider whether the municipal code should be updated to review a new application or some form of discretionary review when a permit is transferred to a new operator.

A new um being a good neighbor means more than meeting minimum legal requirements.

It means introducing yourself to the community, attending a planning group meeting, explaining your operations, and listening to residents.

So I asked this committee to direct staff to evaluate stronger notifications.

Our next speaker is Terry Ann Skelly.

Please unmute and begin.

Good afternoon, Chair Lee and land use and housing committee.

My name is Terry Ann Skelly.

I'm a member of my planning group where we discuss the value of good public health policies and land use decisions of particular interest to my planning group has been smoke-free and vape-free outdoor areas, especially parks and trails.

The news today about cancer rates increasing is thought-provoking, and the issue is complicated.

However, one contributing factor that has been mentioned that has applicability to this committee is environmental exposures.

Especially environmental toxins like secondhand nicotine and marijuana smoke and vapor.

Both are considered toxic air contaminants with no safe level of exposure.

Exposure to secondhand smoke or vapor can contribute to lung cancer, heart disease, stroke, and trigger asthma attacks.

Even brief exposure can damage blood vessels.

American Heart put out a press release stating in a quote: many people don't realize that cannabis smoke and vapor contains components similar to tobacco smoke and vapor.

Smoking and inhaling cannabis has been shown to increase the concentration of poisonous carbon minoxide and tar in the blood similar to the effects of inhaling smoke from a tobacco cigarette.

End quote.

Thank you.

The five-minute timer concluded.

We have two hands remaining in the virtual queue.

We will take no additional callers after these two individuals.

Phone number ending in 870.

Please press star six to unmute and please begin.

Joy Sanyata, a uh a thank you, a congratulations, and a homeless story.

So, first of all, I want to thank uh Chris.

If you could tell Meo Gloria for me, then I thank him for anything he did to help the half round six happen.

I really appreciate a really appreciate his work on these matters and be sure and tell him that.

And then the congratulations goes to Mardine Matics.

She's the new president and CEO of the San Diego uh Convention Center.

I just send her blessings and love on her work with that wonderful big project that really needs uh her help.

So now the homeless story.

I uh went out on the sidewalk and saw a homeless person, a short little tiny woman who had just filled bags and bags with recycle materials out of bins that are out there.

And I went over to say hello to her, and I thanked her because she had not left debris on the on the roadway and the sidewalks from her her sorting through things.

And after I thanked her, she did something very sincerely.

She went back to where she had worked, and she started picking up every little tiny fragment to make it look absolutely perfection.

And and it was just the most beautiful moment when she did that, and then when she finished it, she came back to tie one of her bags and she couldn't get it tied.

So I went over to help her and like put my finger on the place and help her make the knot.

And when I when I looked down at her hands, they were so beautiful.

They were like the hands of coal miners from my state of Pennsylvania.

I had coal miners in the family.

Thank you for that concluding statement.

This does conclude your time.

Thank you.

And our final speaker in the queue is Kathleen Lippett.

Please unmute and begin.

First of all, thank you for letting me speak.

And I'd like to thank Joy Signata.

That is one of the most compelling comments that I've ever heard her make, and I appreciate it.

I wanted to talk about the core of our of the United States constitution, which is equality.

And it's been a subtle change, but the subtle change from equality to equity has caused an enormous amount of division in our country and our local government.

Equity is not a path forward but a step back to tribalism.

It is a want, not a need.

Discriminating against any population simultaneously discriminates against another.

The goal of achieving equity is a myth, but a useful strategy for politicians.

Equity goals distort incentives, reduce motivation, and trap disadvantaged groups.

Independency without a vision for the future.

My mother was a social worker, and one of the things that some 50 years ago that she noted was the government began to pay black women to, if more money, if they did not have a husband in the home.

And what that amounted to was they did make the husbands leave so that they could get more money.

And that was the beginning of unraveling a black community strong family structure that did not need to unraveling.

It should have been modeled after.

Shame on the government for undermining that.

Thank you for letting me speak.

Thank you.

And Chair, this concludes non-agenda public comment.

Thank you.

Do we have any committee members, mayoral staff, city attorney and independent budget analyst comments?

Hearing none.

Do we have any requests for continuance?

Seeing none, we will now take up our consent agenda.

Do we have any requests to pull an item from the consent agenda?

Hearing none, uh let's move forward with public comment on the consent agenda.

Thank you, Chair.

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

The consent agenda includes item one, approval of the committee minutes of June 11th, 2026.

Item two, authorization to execute a relinquishment agreement between the city and Caltrans for the transfer of Caltrans owned land on the east side of SR 15 at Alcohon Boulevard and Adams Avenue to construct the Central Avenue Bikeway.

And item three, authorization to grant a First Amendment to overhead and underground electrical easement to San Diego Gas and Electric Company along portions of old SeaWorld Drive between West Mission Bay Drive and Interstate 5 within Mission Bay Park.

No organized presentations were submitted for these items, so we will move on to in-person public comment.

Each speaker will have one minute per item for a maximum time of three minutes.

And we have received two speaker slips from two individuals in the committee room who wish to speak to the consent agenda.

Maximilian Schmidt, please approach the lector, and you've indicated that you wish to speak to items one, two, and three.

So you will have three minutes placed on the clock for you to manage.

Um, I've said this uh uh already a bunch of times.

I don't mean to be facetious, but for the minutes, I think we should have an asterisk if anyone may have may have done a pagan occult group ritual or be a Freemason and can uh look through someone's eyes for just for safety reasons.

Um as for the um central um avenue bikeway, um I do not consent to um further progress of the bikeway until we talk about the bikeway itself more in detail about why people use the bikeway.

People use the bikeway to relax and enjoy themselves.

And until we talk about problems with the bikeway, can we really fully do that?

Some personal problems I've experienced um on embarcadero uh bikeways across San Diego is um the holy war that's going on between pagans who've done a cult group rituals and can uh see through people's eyes and um people who haven't.

And um I've experienced tons of legal harassment until that is addressed.

I don't think we should go any further on the bikeways.

For the San Diego gas and electric uh company deal.

I think we should also um not do any more um deals with San Diego Gas and Electric, because I know we're doing already doing the massive deal where we're um putting all of the telephone polls underground.

Um it's a hundred million dollar deal.

I think it's one of the biggest things going on in San Diego's um expenses right now, and um I think we need to uh stop doing business with San Diego Gas and Electric with taxpayer dollars because we're allocating so much money and doing so much business with San Diego Gas and Electric with taxpayer dollars.

Meanwhile, people like me, I'm in the middle of a holy war in San Diego, and gas and electric to me, when I go to job interviews and a pagan says, like, um, how do you like witnessing the teleporting because pagans teleport to try and drive me crazy?

Um, I can't even things like that seems like a like a uh far fetch where I've basically I'm not just an isolated stranded uh traveler in San Diego.

I'm in the middle of a holy war, and I've been homeless for about a year and a half trying to get a job, and I've probably been to um 40 job interviews, and I get harassed by pagans at job interviews, and I'm living on the streets in the middle of the holy war.

So I think that we need to start addressing.

I think it needs to be talked about, maybe a discussion agenda item.

Thank you.

Blair Beekman, please approach the lectern and you've indicated that you wish to speak to items one, two, and three.

So you'll have three minutes to manage.

Hi, Blair Beekman.

I'm gonna mostly be speaking on items two and three.

I don't think I'll be speaking on the minutes today.

Um for item three.

Um, I'll start with that one first.

Uh working on uh SDG and E is working on uh undergrounding issues in old Sea World Drive area.

Um I've commented recently that you don't have to go full out on the municipality idea.

I was listening to San Francisco's ideas how they would and why they want to be leaving uh PGE in the Bay Area, SF Bay area.

I'm sorry I didn't make I wasn't more sensitive to that.

I mean, it was mentioned many times that we're trying to find ways to leave the high rates of P of S D G and E.

And the municipality idea is a way to do that.

Good luck in that.

What I suggested previously was uh we can do little stopgap things like uh funding underground undergrounding for local neighborhoods and stuff like that as ways to create municipalities uh purpose.

Um, but if you need to take on uh S Genie, uh I'm sorry I wasn't more sensitive to that previously.

Um item uh two uh I wanted to comment.

This is a big project.

It um it's important to Sandag, it's important to our community in future.

How the tech will be involved with that project uh is important.

I hope by this fall, you know, with so many uh elections going on and different things.

I've been suggesting that I think first and foremost, we gotta have a public discussion on what ALPR use in real time means for our SDPD.

It would really define what went wrong on the day of the church uh the uh Islamic Center incidents.

And I I think from that conversation, that public conversation, we could be talking more about our tech overall this fall and set a standard how we can be really addressing our tech together in 2027.

Thank you.

Thank you.

This concludes in-person public testimony.

We will now move to the virtual queue.

I've started the five minute timer.

There is one hand raised in the virtual queue.

Phone number ending in 870.

Can you please unmute and indicate which item or items you wish to speak to?

Uh two and three, please.

Two minutes, please begin.

On two, uh, of course I say yes to this, and I'm very happy for CD9.

Uh, I want to thank thank uh Caltrans, I want to thank Sandag, this bikeway, and it also is a place for pedestrians, uh, and it's going to be a safe uh activity area.

So I just I'm a former biker for many years.

I went to all my meet all the meetings on my bike, and I can't bike anymore because of my uh vision isn't as great as it used to be, but love biking and love bikeways, so big yes on that on item three with the involvement of the easement and SDG and E.

Not long ago I read an article in the UT about some very uh dicey issues.

I don't know if litigation was involved, but between SDG and E and some decisions on uh working with the underground uh network and the work that's being done there, and apparently it can get very dicey sometimes.

So I just want to have improvement with SDG and E as far as collaboration on all of these very, very I I love the underground work.

So uh I do say yes to this, and I thank everybody involved, and I'm looking forward to in my own self and with others uh improving our collaboration and our work and uh just my inner feelings toward S D G and E.

So thank you for listening in love to all.

Thank you.

And Chair, this concludes public comment on the consent agenda.

Thank you for the comments.

I'll turn it over to committee members for any questions, comments, and motion on the consent agenda.

I can start us off by making a motion to uh approve the consent agenda.

We have a second by Council Member Woodburn.

Uh seeing no other speakers, we'll go ahead and call the roll.

And that passes 3-0 with Vice Chair Ila Rivera absent.

Thank you.

We'll now hear our discussion agenda, and we'll start with item number four.

Item four, approval of an agreement with Roe Solutions Incorporated to provide meal delivery services.

Those participating virtually that are part of an organized presentation should raise their hands in the virtual queue at this time.

Chair.

Thank you.

We'll let the team um situate themselves, and if you'll introduce yourselves for the record and let us know how much time we'll need.

Sarah Jarman will need about five minutes, please.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, Chair Lee and Committee members.

My name is Sarah Jarman, and with me today is program manager Tonia Carnell.

Today we are here to request approval of an agreement with Rose Solutions to prepare and deliver meals for city-funded shelters and programs.

On December 8th, 2025, the city released a request for proposal for meal delivery services for homelessness shelters and programs on an as-needed basis.

Following the competitive RFP process, Rose Solutions has been selected to serve as the vendor to prepare and deliver balanced, nutritious, and individually packaged meals to specific city-funded shelters and programs.

At this time, meal delivery services are needed at the city's OLOT Safe Sleeping Program located near Balboa Park.

As a reminder, the Safe Sleeping Program provides individuals experiencing homelessness with a safe place to sleep and access to essential services, including meals, restrooms, showers, and transportation.

In addition, participants have access to case management, housing navigation, referrals to behavioral health and medical resources, and substance use disorder treatment and other supportive services to prepare them for the most appropriate long-term housing intervention that best meets their needs.

The OLOT site includes approximately 580 spaces with capacity to accommodate up to two individuals per tent.

Under this agreement, ROE Solutions will prepare and deliver two meals per day, seven days per week, 365 days per year for program participants.

All meals will meet the United States Department of Agriculture's nutritional standards and provide a minimum of a thousand calories.

The agreement has a total not to exceed amount of 13.1 million dollars over the course of five years.

An estimated 2.5 million dollars is anticipated to be expended in the first year of this agreement with the remaining 10.6 million dollars expected to be spent during the additional four option periods.

In summary, we are requesting approval of an agreement with Roe Solutions for meal services.

This completes our presentation.

We are happy to answer any questions you may have.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh we'll turn next to Amy Lee with the IBA's office for comments.

Thank you, Charlie.

Amy Lee with the IBA's office.

The item before the committee is to approve a new meal delivery contract with Roe Solutions on an as needed basis, where currently need exists at the OLOTSEF sleeping site.

To provide additional context, in the first contract year, the annual contract cost is estimated at 2.5 million.

The per meal price for breakfast is $5.50 per meal, which represents a 19% increase from the current cost.

All dinner is $6.50 per meal, which represents a 15% increase from the current cost.

Despite the price per meal increases, the cost estimate for the current the first contract year is slightly less than the fiscal year 2026 projected cost of 2.6 million due to changes in the quantity of meals assumed.

Whereas the previous cost estimates assumed roughly 662 individuals based on a 95% occupancy rate and 20% of tents housing to individuals.

The annual contract estimate in the item before you is calculated based on a minimum of 581 individuals to be served at OLAT each day.

This assumes one person per tent and a pairs aligned with the actual occupancy in any given week.

Given potential currently unknown changes to the city's meal delivery services needs in the future, HSSD has indicated as per all contracts, continued monitoring of the contract, actual expenditures, and the not to exceed amount.

Thank you.

Thank you.

With that, let's turn to any public comment.

Thank you, Chair.

The public comment period for item four is now open, and we have not received any organized presentations submitted for this item.

So we will move on to in-person public comment.

We did receive two speakers is from two individuals in the committee room.

Maximilian Schmidt, please approach the lecture and you'll have one minute to speak to item four.

And Blair Beekman let us know that he will be uh calling in for this item.

Hi, um uh 10 City OLOT and the um city meal city Delivery Services um at 2.5 million dollars being spent.

I think um need to address other problems.

And I know she mentioned um that these places offer uh referrals to behavior health.

Well I was actually um in a homeless shelter, and I think these stories are common.

And I uh I was being terrorized by pagans saying my thoughts out loud, and I said, sure.

Um I said they said, we're gonna call our behavior health on you.

We're gonna call behavior health on you when I filed incident reports.

So then behavioral health came, took me to a site ward against my will, and they terrorized me more in a site ward, saying my thoughts out loud even more in a site court.

And then I told the police, and the police gaslighted me, said I'm crazy and mentally ill, but pagans actually can say your thoughts out loud.

I'm not crazy.

Thank you.

This concludes in-person public testimony.

We will now move to the virtual queue.

I've started the five-minute timer.

There are two hands raised in the virtual queue.

Phone number ending in 870.

Please press star six and begin.

You'll have one minute to speak to item four.

Did you say one minute?

Yes.

Okay, thank you.

Uh Joy Sanyata, of course, yes to this item.

Now, Sarah Jarman, I want to put a spotlight on you, because you get five stars for your robust discussion with council member Ila Rivera on the HAP item.

I just really think you are five stars, and I thank you.

It's such a tough job.

And of course, I love the rest of the team too, but it's such a tough job, and you're so good at it.

Please stay with us as long as you can.

We just need you, and you're doing an absolutely great job.

Uh love the material delivery, and it's just a great item.

Love to all.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Blair Beekman.

Please unmute and begin.

Hi, Blair Beekman.

Um, this sounds like a nice item.

Uh, two meals a day.

Uh, if that's guaranteed, uh that's a good thing.

So thank you for doing that.

Um, it's an important step.

Uh DRA has been reporting, you know, that at least two people have died in the past week uh in the area.

And um I think we really have to address that.

I'm I'm offering uh you know the ideas of how to create smaller uh encampment spaces, uh city-sponsored spaces, like San Jose does.

Maybe it can be more manageable to work in those terms.

Um this is a help.

What now what you're trying to do with this item.

I hope it really can grow and it's uh and it can be consistent and maintained well, and um good luck that we are we're addressing this issue.

We're addressing um we we have to make improvements.

Uh good luck how it can be our uh regular open conversation for ourselves.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And Chair, this concludes public comment on item four.

Thank you to all the members of the public for participating.

We'll turn it over to committee members and we'll start with Councilmember Whitburn.

Thank you, Chair.

Uh, thank you for the presentation.

Really appreciate the good work uh that uh the city staff and the contractors do at our safe sleeping sites.

Uh and I'm happy to make the motion to approve the staff recommendation.

We do have a motion by council member Whitburn.

I'll offer a second.

Um, and with that, seeing no other speakers, go to call the role.

And that passes three zero with Vice Chair Ilo Rivera absent.

Thank you.

Let's go ahead and introduce item number five.

Authorize a 50-year ground lease between the City of San Diego and the San Diego Unified School District for city owned real property located in Balboa Park at 3366 Park Boulevard, San Diego, California, 92103 for the operation of a performing performing arts auditorium.

Chair.

Thank you.

We'll turn it over to staff if you'll introduce yourselves for the record.

Let us know how much time we'll need.

Hi, I'm Mary Carlson, Assistant deputy Director, Economic development Real Estate.

I'll need three to four minutes.

Probably less.

Thank you.

Um this item is a 50-year lease agreement with San Diego Unified School District for a portion of the auditorium at Roosevelt Middle School, and I believe we have representatives from San Diego Unified School District online.

The proposed actions are to make a finding that the lease serves a public purpose by providing a recreation and cultural facility that is open to the general public.

Authorize the 50-year lease and determine that the lease is exempt from CEQA.

The property is located in Council District 3.

And in 1921, the city granted a portion of the land to the school district for the construction of Roosevelt Middle School at 3366 Park Boulevard.

The school district's property is not part of Balboa Park, but it is directly adjacent to the park.

And the city's park property is colored in green on the aerial that you can see.

This slide shows the city's property, Bellboa Park, in green next to Roosevelt Middle School.

In the early 1970s, the school district requested to build a portion of the school's auditorium on the city's property.

And in 1974, the city and the school district entered into a 50-year lease agreement to allow the auditorium on the city's property.

The auditorium is outlined in orange and is also shown in the photo on the right.

In addition, the school district has been maintaining the landscaped area along Park Boulevard and Zoo Drive.

The lease expired in October of 24, and a new 50-year lease has been negotiated.

The lease is for a 0.288 acre portion of the city's property for the auditorium, and a license agreement within the lease allows the school district to maintain a landscaped area at the corner of Zoo Drive and Park Boulevard as additional consideration.

The city's land under the auditorium was appraised at 90,300, and the rent is requested to be waived because of the public purpose of a recreational and cultural facility open to the general public.

An auditorium is a legally permissible use of dedicated park land consistent with Charter Section 55, provided that the auditorium is available for public use.

The auditorium can be reserved using Facilitron, which is the school district's web-based scheduling program.

The school district is responsible for repairs, operation, and maintenance, and the lease is not a disposition under the surplus land act because the property will be continued to be used for the same use and purpose, and no demolition or development will occur.

That concludes the presentation and I'm available for any questions.

Thank you.

Uh, we'll turn it over to any public comment.

Thank you, Chair.

The public comment period for item five is now open, and we have not received any organized presentations for this item.

So we'll move to in-person public comment.

We have received two speakers slips from two individuals in the committee room.

Maximilian Schmidt, please approach the lecture and you'll be followed by Blair Beekman.

Um I wanted to use my first amendment to say I do not consent and do not support and do not agree with any.

Basically, the grounds of Balboa Park.

Um Balboa Park is um one of the highlights of the city.

And you can't even enjoy it anymore because there's so many pagans saying your thoughts out loud when you walk around.

And this doesn't sound like a joke.

Uh, this isn't a joke.

This is a holy war.

People are being driven to madness and turning to drugs and suicide and dying in San Diego and and also every urban center across the world.

This needs to be talked about City Hall as a discussion agenda item.

Thank you.

This concludes in-person public testimony.

We will now move to the virtual queue.

I see that Blair Bakeman has his hand in the virtual queue.

I've started the five minute timer.

Each speaker will have one minute to speak to item five.

Blair Beekman, please unmute and begin.

Hi.

Blair Beekman.

Uh this item, uh, I just see a lot of history in it.

And even Max offered the history of the lease agreement process.

Um wow.

I think this is an uh an amazing item.

And it's just nice to hear um how uh middle schools uh auditorium can be can be uh a regular public part of the community.

And uh so uh it's interesting for that.

Uh this is this is just um, you know, I grew up in San Diego in the in the late 80s, and I this is the kind of places I used to hang out.

So this item's really nice to hear and uh thanks a lot for it.

Thank you.

The next speaker in the queue.

Is phone number ending in eight seven zero zero.

Please press star six and begin.

A joy sonatanyata.

Yes to granting the lease.

Lots of yeses on this.

Yes to public purpose, yes to exempt from sequa.

I'm from C D 3.

I live in C D three, so yay to C D3, and uh I hope I get this right, the math.

But if you add 50 and 50, you get a hundred years.

Boy, that kind of stability, uh it could last forever.

And so that was just it just is I hope I got that right.

So I love schools, I love parks, and uh this is another great item of today.

So uh it was a wonderful meeting and love to all.

Thank you.

And Chair, this concludes public comment on item five.

Thank you.

We'll go ahead and turn over to committee members for any questions, comments, and a motion on item five.

And once again, we'll start with Council Member Whitburn.

Thank you very much, Chair.

Appreciate all the work on this and very much appreciate the partnership that the city has with the San Diego unified school district.

I'm happy to make uh motion to approve the staff recommendation.

Thank you.

And uh I'll chime in on this as well.

I'll second the motion and just note that it was actually new to me to find out that um one that that piece of property was is not part of the park but part of the school district, and then yet it we retain that little segment that is for the auditorium.

And so it was just intriguing uh to see how in this particular case we work together with another agency to to be able to serve the public in a meaningful way.

So um thank you for again for that presentation.

And uh seeing no other speakers, we'll go ahead and call the rule.

And the motion passes three zero with Vice Chair Ila Rivera absent.

Thank you.

And that brings us to the end of today's agenda.

So I will now adjourn this meeting of the land use and housing committee to our next regularly scheduled meeting, which is on Thursday, September third, twenty twenty six at one o'clock pm.

We are journal.