Good morning, Mr.

Stump.

Would you like to do a mic check for us?

Hello, how are you?

Good morning.

Thank you.

Mike Chatter, the Microsoft.

Good morning, Mr.

Musum.

Would you like to do a mic check?

Sorry, can you hear me?

We can hear you great.

Thank you so much.

All right.

Good morning, and welcome to the Rules Committee meeting of March eighteenth, twenty twenty-six.

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

Our committee's liaison, Sarah Jordan will go over instruction for today's meeting.

Sarah.

Thank you, Chair Locava.

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 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 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.

Councilmember Campio here.

Councilmember Moreno.

Present.

And Councilmember Elo Rivera is currently not in attendance, and I am present.

Also attending the meeting today, Jillian Andalina with the Office of the Independent Budget Analyst, Kathy Steinman with the Office of the City Attorney, Matt Yeagan with the Office of Mayor Todd Gloria, Abby Reuters, the committee consultant.

With that, Sarah, please continue with public comment instructions.

Thank you, Chair.

If you're in person, please complete a speaker slip located at the entrance of chambers and place it in the box indicated in the table at the front of the room.

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

In-person testimony will conclude before virtual testimony begins, and 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 160-439420 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 CD TV 24 or online, there may be a delay.

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

If you wish to speak to a particular item, please wait for that item to be called and then raise your hand to speak by tapping the raise your hand icon, or if you're calling participant by pressing star nine on your phone.

If you raise your hand during a non-comment period, your hand will be lowered.

Chair.

All right.

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

A quorum is now present.

We will now take up non-agenda public comment.

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.

Peru 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 are within the subject matter jurisdiction of this committee, and each speaker will have two minutes to provide their non-agenda public comment.

And again, to participate by phone, you may dial 1669-2545252, inputting webinar ID 160499420 pound.

We will begin with in-person testimony, Catherine Rhodes.

You will have two minutes to share your non-agenda public comment, and you will be followed by allegedly Audra.

Hello, this is Catherine Rhodes.

And what I want to talk about is Donna Fry and her wonderful leadership, what she would do.

Whenever I would come when she was here, or I'm sure Joe Lakava too, because he's been around for a while, we would come here and during non-agenda public comment or during any agenda item, what she would do, and she would say to the city attorney, um, I don't think we had the IBA there or the mayor's office, she would always say, is that correct?

And then she would get them to actually answer all our questions.

So we would come here and just say, um, you know, let's just say any of the ballot measures or anything.

She would say that um she would ask questions.

And anytime we had anything to do with the environment, let's just say the children's poll, um, she would actually meet with us and she would bring it up and she would be our champion.

And so right now, we don't have any champions of you and the city council.