All right, good afternoon, everyone.

And welcome to the public safety committee meeting of April 15, 2026.

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

Sarah, please proceed.

Thank you, Chair Von Wilpert.

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Chair.

Thank you.

I'll now call the public safety committee meeting of April 15, 2026 to order.

Sarah, please call the roll.

Vice Chair Kempio.

Here.

Committee member Campbell.

Committee member Whitburn.

Chair Von Wilpert.

Present.

Also attending the meeting today is Jill Christiak Chris Chick, Office of the City Attorney.

Baku Patel from the Office of the IBA and Coda Seizer from the Office of the Mayor.

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Chair.

Hearing none, do we have any requests for continuance?

Hearing none, let's begin with our consent agenda.

Um Sarah, please.

Uh oh, do we have any requests to pull from consent?

Okay, hearing none, um, please proceed with public comment.

Thank you, Chair.

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

The consent agenda includes items number one through three.

Item one is the approval of the committee minutes from March 11th, 2026.

Item number two is the authorization to execute a second amendment to the contract with SBCS cooperation corporation, excuse me.

And item number three, second amendment to the agreement between the city of San Diego and Texco doing business's auto-return to provide management and dispatching services.

Towing services, excuse me.

Um, each speaker will have one minute per item, up to three minutes, if you can please indicate which item or items you'll be speaking to.

We will begin with in-person testimony.

Allegedly, Audra, if you would please please approach the lector, and you have indicated you wish to speak to all three consent items.

So I will place three minutes on the clock for you to manage.

So with the minutes.

The fact that the city is complicit because you guys are on the property, you see what's going on, you are witnessing the atrocities and it still continues.

And the concerns of Stephen Whitburn being very good friends with Dr.

Teresa Smith makes me wonder if there's kickbacks coming to him in some way because it's pretty concerning that you know none of that kind of stuff gets written in the minutes.

So I would appreciate if when the minutes are being taken down and I'm addressing Dreams for Change and your guys' being there on the lot, that that is reflected in my comment because when you're taking that out, it it doesn't show what I'm really saying.

I mean, you're talking about me addressing two men that came from B lot that were complaining about things that I've been telling you guys about for a very long time, and it went unaddressed.

So I think that you guys need to be more specific because it needs to be reflected in the record that there is um negligence happening instead of hiding it.

So with uh number two, this SBCS cannot be trusted.

I'm wondering how much money they're taking from these contracts with the 750,000 more that they're getting in a not to exceed amount of 1.25 million, um, because the county of San Diego gave them six million dollars of ARPA funds to open the transfer site that Stephen Whitburn refused to talk about when I asked him why there are military-age men being brought over to the elementary school and bring brought out in white buses.

So they took two million dollars for four months and three weeks of work to pay their employees.

They took one third of the money, which is ridiculous.

I don't know how many employees you could possibly have that you would have to pay two million dollars to over a four-point month period in three weeks.