Good afternoon.

It's two o'clock, and I'd like to open the joint meeting for the rules and open government committee.

Um roll call, please.

Candelas here.

Foley here.

Come here.

Cohen absent.

We have a quorum.

Thank you very much.

Moving on to item A in our agenda.

We uh have a cancellation of the May 26th meeting, and we have a draft agenda for June 2nd.

Let's take a look at that.

We have uh 9 30 a.m.

closed session and uh regular session at 1 30.

Uh we have consent starting on page five, going on to six, seven, eight, nine, ten, ending on page eleven, moving on to strategic support.

We have uh reinstatement remote participation and amendments to council policy zero thirty-seven.

We have public hearing on liens um on page 12.

We have uh transportation aviation services on uh page 13, environmental services on 13 starting there, moving on to public hearing for residential garbage and recycling, uh public hearing for municipal water system on page 14.

Going on to page 15, 6.4, public hearing for approving the Muni water system shortage contingency plan.

Um we don't have anything in neighborhood services, community economic development starts on page 15, 8.1, 8.2, on page 16, 8.3, page 16, and then we have uh one item for the redevelopment successor agency on page 17.

We have land use starting on page 17, going on to 18, and that's it.

Is there any uh public comment?

Yes, Brian.

Thank you very much.

This is the last part of the agenda, and it's on every agenda.

It is the public meeting decorum, and all I would suggest is all this is understandable, but it's sort of an agreement between the people who participate on that side of the diet.

It would be nice if something was written right on the same page, that our letters are lit red, our phone calls are answered, or at least documented in some way, and that that agreement between us sharing with you and you sharing with us is at least taking place as the same expectation that we have when we come here because at the end of this it says we can be arrested.

Now, granted, that's an extreme example, and people aren't hauled out of here every day.

Thank goodness.

But if it makes sense, it does to me, maybe it doesn't to other people.

It should be both ways that there's an agreement on that side of the dias that there is this.

What we do does have an impact when we talk, when we write, when we make phone calls that it's it's numbered, it's tabulated.

I know you can't give away with your methods of how you deal with your own internal communications with the public, but just something even generic because it does make a difference.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Back to the committee, thank you.

Move approval, second.

There's a motion and a second.

Any other questions?

Listen, no, list vote.

Motion passes.

Thank you.

Moving on to um item B consent calendar.

We have one, two, three items on consent.

Is there any questions on consent?

Second.

Okay.

Public comment?

No public comment.

Okay, uh, seeing no question.

Let's vote.

Motion passes.

Okay, and then on our item uh C, we have one item policy analysis of vacant commercial storefront activation tools, and that has been deferred.

So uh we don't have anything else.

We're up to open forum.

No, we still need to vote on the deferral.

Move approval of the deferral.

Is there a public comment?

No public comment.

Okay.

Thank you very much.

Um please vote.

Motion passes.

Thank you very much.

And we are up at open forum.

Ryan.

Two things really quick.

The first of all, it's memorial day.

I recommend at least I usually spend between two or three hours on Memorial Day reading um people who uh are medal of honor recipients, and um the great price they paid.

On the roads in California, between 300 and eight, but 3800 and 4500 people are killed each year, 200 to 250,000 people are injured.

It costs this direct cost is six billion dollars, and if you take in all of the social factors and medical costs and everything, it's well over it's tens of tens of billions of dollars every year.

The this body and a lot of other bodies take on things that are really important, you know, divesting from certain Middle Eastern pursuits, you know, the companies that deal with business with Israel or something like that.

This is something that directly is controlled by the state and local um authorities in the state of California.

This is not mostly the federal government, it's the state government, and it's the local governments.

Every time I drive here, every time I go home, at every intersection, I'm peak times somebody blows through a red light, somebody's going through at every single intersection.

Either somebody walking, somebody riding a bike, a scooter, or somebody in a car all the time.

Right up the street on 4th Street.

There's a bus that stops, big sign comes out.

You take as a driver, you take your life in your hands because you're supposed to stop and wait for the kids to cross the street.

The people behind you get extremely angry, almost violent all the time.

And I've called, I've made complaints.

I don't know what happens with that.

I don't want to see children hit.

This is something that is directly controlled here.

And so I would just think that we should take and be asking questions every meeting.

What is being done about this?

This has a profound effect on people.

Thank you.

Back to the committee.

Thank you.

And with that, we adjourn at 207.

Thank you very much.

Um, yeah.