All right, good morning.

Welcome to the rules committee meeting of March nineteenth, twenty twenty-five.

I'm Joel Vacalva, Councilmember for District One and Chair of the Committee.

Our committees liaison Sarah Jordan will go over instructions for today's meeting.

Thank you, Chair Lakava.

Well, members of the public are able to attend the meeting in person.

This meeting is being televised and live streamed on the city's website, and the council administration will continue to make arrangements for the public to comment using the Zoom webinar platform.

Members of the public who wish to provide virtual testimony must enter the virtual queue by raising their hand before the virtual queue closes.

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

Members of the public can also join the webinar by computer tablet or smartphone by accessing the link, which is listed online in the preamble language of the agenda on the city's webpage.

If you need to participate by telephone, you may dial 1669-2545252, inputting webinar ID 161-232-7007 pound.

This information is also available on the agenda and it will appear on the screen during the public comment period for each agenda item.

Please note that if you're watching via City TV 24 or online, there may be a delay.

Please participate via the audio on your phone and mute your TV or computer when it is your turn to speak.

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Chair.

All right.

Thank you, Sarah, for reviewing those instructions.

Again, confirming that we do have a quorum.

And I note that council member Elo Rivera has now joined the meeting.

With that, we will 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 and committee meetings.

Sarah, please proceed with non-agenda public comment.

Thank you, Chair Lakava.

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 if you need to participate by telephone, you may do so by dialing 1669-2545252, inputting webinar ID 1612 7007 pound.

We've not received any speaker slips here in the committee room, so I will begin the five-minute timer for all those in the virtual queue to indicate if they wish to speak to non-agenda public comment.

Beginning testimony with Blair Beekman.

Please unmute yourself and provide your testimony.

Hi, uh Blair Beekman.

Uh happy morning to everyone.

I wanted to hopefully address three items this morning, uh non-agenda public comment.

Item one, I'd like to continue to uh make an ask and a plea for uh Mayor Gloria to very much reconsider in the future his future traveling to foreign countries to promote the San Diego military industrial complex.

Um to have a part of the military industrial complex.

I think we're all a part of it in some way in San Diego, but to be proactively promoting uh the military industrial complex, that's an issue.

And if that's what's at stake, uh, I hope we can have community discussions and how to distance ourselves as elected officials from the military industrial complex a bit more.

Mayor Gloria grew up in a in a culture of health and human services in his work.

Uh, I hope he can return to that space and respect uh the process.

Uh, what we're really trying to work on, uh, I think for our community future.

With that said, um, item two.

You had an item last week about organizing with state officials about the future of encampments on state property and how to develop strategies and organization.

I think that can be an okay thing to do.

Um, I hope within that that you'd be willing to work to uh create uh when you want to create notices, notifications for people having to move that it can be uh, you know, a week time, a week's time or three or four days time, not a 24-hour process.

Uh, if you create good standards and you know, good human practices for for this new organization things, I things can be accomplished.

Good luck in really working out a humanistic approach.

With my final 15 seconds, um, I wanted to admit I have thoughts in how I've been addressing over the past year how the uh parks and rec has to be more open and clear about their tech policies.

I want to talk more at length about that uh in upcoming meetings.

Thank you.

Thank you for that concluding remark.

Our next speaker is Kathleen Lippett.

Thank you.

Good morning, committee members.

I attended a uh one of the city's planning groups last night, and this is not a complaint unique to their community, but they were worried about a two-story home that woke up to a an eight-story project going up next door.

Part of the problems with these developments is that the city is not demanding infrastructure up front.

And they also conflict with fire codes.

They talked about the fact that we have 50 community fire safe community councils in the city.

People should take advantage of those because when they have a fire safe council, they can call on them to come out to their house to make sure that they're that they are fire hardened against wildfires in where they urban interface.

If you live there, they'll visit your home, give you advice about doing fire hardening and making homes safer from fires.