We monitor uh marijuana businesses in the city and county because we believe they have serious implications for public health and safety and land use.

I'd like to call your attention to a very non-transparent process of approval for MPF applicants and ask you to urge the city to make changes for a more transparent process for these applications.

The problem is that neighboring businesses generally have no idea that MPFs are coming in, and they have no way of knowing that they're coming in.

This can be changed with a few steps.

One, the DSD notifies neighboring businesses within 300 feet.

That should be expanded to a broader width of neighboring businesses.

Um a notices are supposed to be posted on buildings, but this often is not done, and that should be enforced.

The city should notify businesses when applicants are coming before community planning groups, because this is where significant and pivotal decisions are made and critical information is introduced.

A PG approval, planning group approval is a golden seal of approval for these applicants.

If a PG approves, the hearing officer is almost sure to approve a project.

Unfortunately, P planning groups often approve without CEQA and cycle review processes being completed.

Um if there are serious problems and a neighboring business knows about them and wants to appeal, then they have to up uh file a CEQA appeal or a hearing officer appeal at the cost of a thousand dollars each.

These fees are ridiculous and should be waived.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

And Martha Welch Martha Walsh, I've been to three police stations and they're always closed.

Office told them, not officers.

Now I I think the academy didn't go all the time.

The math doesn't up doesn't work because I've I've been here for three years looking at all this stuff.

Now the fire on fire number two is so small, I don't think they have sleeping, eating and and and cooking.

I don't think so.

So um on the picture on the seven, they didn't show up where they sleep, they show the chairs and exercise and a kitchen, but no sleeping.

So I don't think that right now.

Now, also fire, why don't the uh fireplace um stations don't come to the to the city because they're private?

Now that's why we don't do now if they're private, why don't we have a budget for them to um to pay them back because they could they do they they do our job to the city why don't we pay them what uh AMI uh AMI why we went why don't you why don't we pay them to do that that they're taking your job away from so that's it's hidden to me.

You don't you're not honest in everything, you don't tell you don't tell what goes on right now.

You know, also this um two minutes we didn't vote to the council ever but the committees, it would be up there in front, so you just change the rules all the time, and that's not fair.

Also, there's a lawsuit, and I hope you I'm gonna talk to them myself.

Uh and also um right now public station is uh uh to us is number one, but you are pensions.

That's what you care about pensions.

Um that's uh because you on the council and and and um police the only people on the pension right now, and because part part um proposed M D um B was a good is over.

It's up to you to pay conventions back um um go back to the people if you don't do their 401 is not a uh retirement, it's like they fake, you can't do it.

You have to change the rule or you won't hire anybody in the city because nobody will have a pension or if a 401 won't be enough for a pension.

So you guys are so crooked about that too, you're not honest.

So if you don't want to fix the fire and the police, you're gonna be in trouble.

Moving on to committee member comments.

Any committee member comments, IBA, city attorney, mayoral comments.

See none.

Just a couple quick points.

If you're here for the hearing officer meeting, that is in the normal committee member room, just at the other end of the hall.

Um, we've got a couple speaker slips for the hearing officer items, so make sure uh you go to the correct room.

Um we're gonna take a few things out of order uh this morning.

If you're here for the scooter item, we're gonna take one minute of public comment, so please plan accordingly want to make sure we have all the speakers available so you'll be have you'll have one minute for public comments on the scooter item.

So just want to give you a heads up on that.

The first item is gonna be uh the re proposed response to the grand jury reports entitled the resource access program.

We have Chris Olson from the IBA's office as well as Chief.

I think I see you there as well to answer questions.

So uh when everybody, Mr.

Olsen, the floor is yours.

Thank you.

Good morning, uh Chairman Kate and committee members.

My name is Chris Olson.

I'm with the Office of the Independent Budget Analyst.

We have a PowerPoint presentation that is on my computer, but there we go.

Now it's on the main screen.

So as I said, my name is Chris Olsen with the office of the IBA.

Uh I'm here to present our proposed response to the grand jury report that was entitled The Resource Access Program, a successful program disbanded.

Um I want to start out by making some introductions.

At the table to my left is uh our fire chief chief stole, joined by deputy deputy chief Heiser and uh uh the RAP program manager Ann Jensen.

They're available to answer any questions related uh to the facts of our response and to the program.