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The Rules Committee met on October 14, 2026, with Chair Joe LaCava presiding. Council President Pro Tem Lee, Councilmember Elo Rivera, and Councilmember Campillo participated; Councilmember Moreno was absent. No agenda or minutes were included in the source material, so this summary is based on the raw transcript. The committee took the agenda out of order: after non-agenda public comment and the consent calendar, it heard the Funds Commission information item, then the two campaign-finance discussion items.
Good morning. Welcome to the rules committee meeting, October 14, 2026. Joe Locava, Councilmember for District One and Chair of the Committee. Our committee's liaison, Sarah Jordan, will go over instructions for today's meeting. Thank you, Chair Locava. While members of the public are able to attend the meeting in person, the speech 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. The virtual 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. 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 on the agenda of the city's webpage. If you need to participate by telephone, you may dial 1669-2545252. 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. Uh I note the council president Pro Tem Lee has now joined the meeting. Thank you, Sarah, for reviewing those instructions for the benefit of the public. A quorum is not present. As a note to the public, we'll be taking our agenda out of order. After we take up our consent agenda, we'll take our information item four, followed by discussion items two and three. Again, we'll be taking up information item number four, followed by discussion items two and three. We will now take up not 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. With that, Sarah, please proceed with not agenda public comment. Thank you, Chair Lakava Perule 2.7 on agenda public comment as 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 can dial 1669-2545252, inputting webinar D 160-439-9420 pound. We will begin with in-person speakers. We've received three slips here in the committee room. We will begin with Joyce and Yada. You will be followed by Max Schmidt, and then allegedly Audra. Good morning. Okay. So now I'm gonna speak off the cuff. So uh yesterday on consent, I spoke with a shaky yes or no on the uh Muni Code amendments for the Cultural Affairs Department, which has uh you know navigated into economic development department. And uh I think it's uh uh care, it's more appropriate for me to say this today. So when I looked at that item, which perhaps should be very clear, you know, okay, this is you know Municodes, let's let's go for it, let's do it. It's simple. But it wasn't simple to me. And last night I looked at the Muni code adjustment, and I realized how tough it is to have an open government, because it's vast, and with our lack of resources right now, it really, really makes it difficult for us to feel we can trust the process, especially with what the audit committee is continuing to tell us over and over again. And to me, their list is growing bigger and bigger as far as what they need to look at. So when I looked at that cultural fairs muni code change item, I just thought, wow, what happened between March 25th when it was approved, and now a year and a half later, how did that work out? You know, what were the conflicts of interest, if any? You know, just let me know as a public. That was a big change. And to me, all those going into economic development is too much. It it's just too vast. So anyway, that's part of it today.