2026-09-29 - City Council

council meeting of Tuesday, SEPTEMBER 29th, 2026 to order Clerk Please call the roll. Thank you. >> Council PRESIDENT Council Member Campbell Council Member Whitburn here Council Member Foster Council

Member Ron Wilber Council PRESIDENT Pro Tem Lee Council Member Campo Council Member Moreno Present Council member Ella Rivera and Council PRESIDENT LaCava present Also attending the meeting our Chief

Deputy City Attorney Nicole Denault Deputy Director and Independent Budget analyst Jillian and Olina Council Affairs Advisor in the Mayor's office Code advisor and myself your city clerk Diana

Fuentes. >> All right. A quorum is now present. We will begin this morning with the land acknowledgment and the Pledge of Allegiance led by council member Whitburn. >> Please stand. >> We respectfully

acknowledge that the committee should are the original inhabitants of the unseated led. Now notice Diego Despite enduring the horrors of genocide and colorization, the spirit remains unbroken. We

honor the resilience of their ancestors who fought to protect their culture and land Today they carry their legacy forward ensuring that their traditions continue to thrive and gratitude and strength

We stand with the covid nation connected to our past and committed to a thriving future. Please face the flag Place your hand over your heart ready to begin. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the

United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under GOD, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> All right, Clark, please go over how the public can offer their

testimony. >> Thank you. Council PRESIDENT. I like to highlight the slide on the screen that reviews how the public can offer their public testimony during today's meeting. Please note that the time

allocations for proclamations and consent items for meeting management purposes and the order can be found on the agenda Summary found online at the table in the back of the room online or at the

table in the back of the room. If you are in person please complete the speaker slip Looking at the entrance of chambers and bring it to the front of the room in the clear box. Council ambassadors are

available near the entrance to assist with questions and speaker lips. No further in-person testimony will be taken once the Council begins Virtual testimony. >> Thank you, Council PRESIDENT All

right. Thank you. City Clerk And as a brief reminder on Tuesday mornings we usually have a consent agenda for those who MAY have watched or participated in yesterday's Monday session. We did take care

of our consent agenda at yesterday's afternoon session so this morning will otherwise be our standard Tuesday morning we will start with the proclamations Any comments from colleagues and other staff

and then we will go to the non agenda public comment. So let's dispense with the approval of the proclamation items. >> Clerk Please proceed with public comment. Thank you. The public comment period

for the proclamation items is now open. Each speaker will have one minute per item per person. If you would like to speak on three or more items you will have a maximum of three minutes. The

proclamation items being approved are items 30 through 36 and as 500 If I can have joy Senator, please come up to the microphone You're speaking on items 31 3336 and as 500 so you will get three

minutes. Please proceed. Number 31 San Diego Hunger Awareness Month SEPTEMBER 20th, 26 Thank you. Jacobs and Cushman San Diego Food Bank And thank you San Diego Hunger Coalition Negative. The

statistics are grim 84,000 are children very positive Regional network of 450 nonprofit partners. We must address the root causes of hunger as we do our noble best to provide food for all our people.

Love to all Number 33 National Pedestrian Safety Month OCTOBER 2026 In California It's this month and in San Diego we have divisions here or goals which are safety safe engineering measures, education

enforcement practices, drivers and pedestrians share responsibility for safety. I love that one. In OCTOBER I'll sprinkle in between my other comments some tips about what works for me for public

pedestrian safety As I'm an avid walker love to all number 36 Hispanic heritage Month SEPTEMBER 15th through OCTOBER 15th This year 1.1 million Latino Latinos live in the San Diego region favorite

whereas we're as we celebrate the histories, cultures and contributions of her Spanish and Latino communities, these community years are making history every single day with resilience, creativity and

leadership now love to all of you and love to all s500 I love this one Amigos San Diego Car Club 50th Anniversary Day which is today I'm going to celebrate . I have loved cars all my life including

lowriders. These cars have a lot of personality along with their owners and drivers. This is my favorite part of being human to celebrate, to have fun and to promote Congratulations lowriders on your

first ever u. S Postal Service stamp. That was a really big accomplishment. Thanks for listening. >> I love this part of our meeting and love to all. >> Thank you. Jeff Kerwin If I can have the

following individuals please come up to the front row after Jeff is Maximilian Schmidt as well as Blair Beckman Andrea Caldwell, Alondra Alvarado and allegedly Audra as well as Teresa Contreras. If

all of you come please come to the front row That would be much appreciated. >> Jeff you're speaking on item 32. Please proceed. Thank you so much. I'm Jeff Turin. I'm the head of school at La Hoya

Country Day and I'm so excited that the city Council is considering a proclamation to honor our centennial on OCTOBER sixth, 1926, Luis Vollmer started a school with just four students in the village

and now we've grown to a school of over 1100 students on our campus on Genesee Avenue. We've we've educated thousands of students where they have found their voice. They know they belong and they can

pursue the arts, academics and athletics and bring in voice to the world where they can have a positive impact. So I appreciate your consideration. We will continue to educate the kids in San Diego.

We're the only three year old through 12th grade coed school all on one campus. So it is a vibrant dynamic place where we want kids to know with their their voice, their knowledge anything is

possible. >> So I appreciate the vote and the proclamation and go to Thank you Maximilian Schmidt You can please come forward your speaking on items 3133 and 30 You'll have three minutes. >> Please

proceed. Hi Robert Pogue talked about in his book The Minuteman how in the 1960s he's movements were used to advance communism and now on In our current times we have climate awareness being used to

advance communism And how that works is that one it fear mongers into it's directly tied to China and communism because China has a monopoly on the rare earth metals and green energy and electric

vehicles on them is unfortunately going to have to create trade with this communist country that on the traitor Henry Kissinger on I got us into this has to be economically tied to China's economy and

things just keep getting worse and worse as liberal fascist demons try to spread climate smoke, spread climate awareness to further ties of China. So I'm opposed to item 30 the San Diego Climate Week.

As for item 33 National Pedestrian Safety Month, I'm Robert Pogue on the founder of the paramilitary group the Minutemen and a former member of the John Birch Society and a biochemist from Missouri. I

knew this day would come for National Pedestrian Safety Month. We need to have awareness to communism in California. I can no longer get an I.D. Card from the dmv and we should have awareness to

situations like that that the most vulnerable, poor and marginalized people on that the government thinks is Carrie Buck from the buck or Bell trial or something and thinks they're stupid are being

taken advantage of. And when I went to the dmv to try and get an id card they gave me receipt and said You can't have any temporary id card and you have to wait 60 days to get your id card in the mail

And I needed it to fill an I-9 to work on that day And so I wasn't able to do that. And then on after 60 days when it finally did come in the mail ,one of the Rothschild's telepathic henchmen mugged

me on the street and took my id card so I haven't had an id card in California for almost six months and it is communism because I'm also getting tortured by constant gibberish . >> Shame on all of

you Blair Beakman if you can please come forward. Blair begin your speaking on am 30 and 33. Hi, we're Beakman. I'm going to try this microphone today. Um, thanks for the meeting today. Thanks for the

proclamations. Um, I have been really kind of confused how we address our climate concerns over the past years. I understand people don't want to be hoaxed and they want to be led Truthfully, um, Lori

Saldana is doing some incredibly good efforts recently to really describe that the sea is rising down by the sports arena in our local coastal areas. We have to be understanding that and to wanting to

have those honest open conversations with ourselves. I ask that the same with tec accountability It really depends a lot on yourselves to want to practice openness for these things and clarity and

good luck how to do that. It's a lot to ask of you you guys have to rise to that occasion to this occasion. So good luck How we talk about these things openly and clearly and honestly. Thank you with

the community to address the national pedestrian month that will naturally involve tech use at some point we're relying on tech for our pedestrian issues a lot how we practice our tech accountably and

clearly with the public Same thing How how we can have straight forward conversations instead of being sneaky or offering code words like sports utility lighting We have to grow past that and we have

to learn to be really straight forward What we're talking about and dealing with and working with Good luck how we do that also and good luck how this proclamation process I had the idea of starting

the proclamation process at 9 A.M. On Monday going closed session at 10 A.M. And then the regular meeting and then leaving this time available for a city council item. >> Thank you. Thank you. Andrea

Caldwell Thank you. Good morning and thank you to Council PRESIDENT Cava and the members of the City Council for Recognizing Hunger Awareness Month today. My name is Andrea Caldwell. i'm the director

of government affairs for the Jacobs and Cushman San Diego Food Bank and our ceo kc Castillo senses regrets He had an unavoidable conflict today. This year's theme for Hunger Awareness Month is

working families hungry realities And it reminds us that having a job does not always mean that there is enough food on the table. Today more than 1 in 4 San Diego has experienced nutrition insecurity

including thousands of children and working families at the Jacobs and Cushman San Diego Food Bank. Our mission is to provide nutritious food to help people in need. Advocate for the hungry and

educate the public about hunger related issues. But hunger does not end when hunger Awareness Month does truly takes a community to feed a community and together we can ensure our neighbors have

access to the nutritious food they need not just this month but all year long. >> Thank you so much. Thank you. Alondra Alvarado, one of the council PRESIDENT And council members. My name is Alondra

Alvarado and as the PRESIDENT And ceo of the San Diego Hunger Coalition, it is an honor to receive this proclamation Today alongside our incredible partners of the San Diego Food Bank. People

sometimes ask why we still need a Hunger Awareness Month. We need it because hunger in San Diego is often invisible. If it is the working parent quietly skipping meals, the child struggling to

concentrate in school or the fixed income senior deciding between prescription medication and groceries according to our research, 1 in 4 San Diego ants including nearly 29% of our kids and older

adults cannot reliably count on three nutritious meals a day. Awareness months matter because they remind us that hunger is not a personal failure. It is a systemic change with solvable solutions.

Every proclamation, every public conversations break break the stigma that keeps families from asking for help. Thank you for your partnership ,your leadership and your commitment to a hunger free San

Diego. >> Thank you. Allegedly you're speaking on items 30, 31, 33 and 35. You'll have three minutes. Please proceed. After that will be tourist. That is a Contreras has those Martin Mega Ferry

Vergano, Erica Rodriguez and Catarina of Briscoe If you can all come up to the front row seats if you've already spoken, please return to your seat. Please proceed. So San Diego Climate Week I am so

tired of the gaslighting of the people and the propaganda that is used to control people through fear mongering. And it's sad because the sea level isn't rising over in that area. This used to be

under water. So it's rising back up to where it once was. So that's a problem in itself. But when we're using it to claim that the climate is changing, we've got to get people out of their cars that

are using this as a control mechanism to put people in a 15 minute city, make everybody walk and bike and take the public transit that isn't even conducive to get around. And it's like we don't even

know how do people evacuate in an emergency like that? It's very dangerous. The things that you guys do and it takes being humble and having humility to admit that you were wrong and that what you're

pushing isn't right because it is detrimental to the people. The things that are being sprayed above us that come down upon us and into our bodies that control the weather. And with the San Diego

Awareness Month it's crazy because there's all these manufactured things that happen and we give awareness to it but we don't ever solve the problem And that's that's the problem. And so there is

homeless that are outside that you know are just want to eat so we can see it. We don't it's not invasive to us It's there. And then even when you guys put people into some kind of program, the food

that they get isn't even anything that you would eat. And that's what's so sad too. And then we have, you know, national Pedestrian safety Month. I mean how many times are we going to have litigation

regarding pedestrians and injuries And you know, you just go out and look at the sidewalk and it is in need of repair. So it's like how can you sit here and be like we're going to have Safety Month? I

mean when are you guys going to do something to actually provide that instead of make sure that people are getting injured Just because they're pedestrians and you want people to walk and bike, why

don't you make it safe? I mean I have to worry about slipping in a crack when I'm just going out and walking downtown. It shouldn't be like that. There are elderly people that do that and you guys are

putting them in danger so don't sit here and act like you care by giving a proclamation for this And even autism acceptance month just that word acceptance is so disturbing because it's like we

shouldn't accept that autism exists when it is being given to people by them taking a vaccine that has aluminum and mercury in it which is totally corrosive. They bubble when you mix them together and

that goes past your blood brain barrier into these children and they have highly toxic heavy metals in their brains that is causing this. They can be detoxed but this is being intentionally done to

children while we sit here and we have an acceptance day. I don't want to accept that is reality and we should be doing everything to stop it, not have a proclamation for it So these children get to

suffer so that you guys get to feel virtuous. When are we really going to stop the things that are happening instead of gloating like this and acting like what you're doing is good? >> Theresa That a

second term is you're speaking on item 35. You'll have one minute. Please proceed. Yes, Good morning. Thank you for having me here. Counsel PRESIDENT And council members I am the executive director

for Autism Society San Diego and we are honored to have this autism acceptance being more brought to attention nationally. It is 1 in 31 here in San Diego it is one nine 1 in 19. And Autism Society

San Diego has been serving this community for 60 years this year. So we thank you for bringing it to everybody's attention. We are huge on autism acceptance, not just awareness. So thank you all so

much for having me here today and for this proclamation Hexo's martin I am 36. Please proceed. Good afternoon. My name is because it was Martin I was Munoz and the community organizing coordinator at

the Chicano Federation As a first generation Mexican-American I grew up with the lessons of a collective fight against injustice that have been instilled in our identities. And I mentioned this

because I recognize young Hispanic Heritage Month as recognizing our collective struggles, our perseverance and our commitment to each other as Latinos, Chicanos and Hispanics. San Diego is home to

thousands of Hispanics who came to this country to look for a better future to provide our loved ones and contribute to the advancement of our communities. Recognizing this month as Hispanic Heritage

Month allows us to celebrate both our advances for our community and the struggles of our perseverance on behalf of the Chicano Federation, thank you. Thank you for recognizing our struggles and

perseverance and thank you for the fight that will follow. >> See Supporting Thank you Meg Meg you're speaking on item 30. >> Please proceed. Hi, my name's Catrina Prisco and I like to thank you all

for recognizing the second annual San Diego Climate Week with this proclamation this morning San Diego Climate Week starts OCTOBER 1st through OCTOBER 8th and we like to invite you all to attend and

spread the word about this homegrown event. >> Good morning. I'm sorry there's no organized presentation so I do have to restart your time for the one minute. Please come forward. Okay. Good morning.

My name is Eric Rodriguez. I am co-chair of San Diego Climate Week. And just wanted to give you some context of why we started San Diego Climate Week was to really just have a community come together

and to talk about climate and to really bring the voices that need to be on this stage. It started last year. We actually accomplished with 120 events all around San Diego County with 100

organizations participated and close to 6000 registrations. And this year as of right now we are more than 200 events and 100 orgs participating this year. So thank you and thank you again. My name is

Meg Berg, now co-chair of San Diego Climate Week. We are so excited to announce despite some dissent that we heard today in the room we are organizing around Unity this year and that theme is

incredibly important right now In a time of such division especially with misunderstandings around climate change. And we have five incredible summits this year Starting on OCTOBER 1st we will have a

paddle out and our water summit . And then on the third we'll have our land summit up in Oceanside and the sixth we will have our fire summit at the National Natural History Museum And the seventh

we'll have our air summit which will review the Climate Action Plan with the Climate Advisory Board. And we welcome you all to these events. On the eighth we'll have our wrap up with the People's

Summit and we'd love to see you all. >> We have over 200 events on our calendar. >> Thank you, Tony Ross you'll be speaking items 30 3136 and se 500. You'll have three minutes. This is our last

speaker here in council chambers before we go to virtual speakers. >> Good morning City Council. I will be speaking in favor of item 31, 30, 33 and 36 as well as item sb 500. Big fan of item 30. Love

everything that we're doing to acknowledge Climate Week and to acknowledge the reality of our planet which is getting hotter. I live in Boulevard where we've had three fires over this last 4 or 5

months. I won't digress too far from the topic but I do want to give a shout out to Councilmember Robert Camille who's done a lot in his district to champion Citrus Tech. That means a lot to me So

thank you for pioneering that and hopefully we'll see you at San Diego Climate Week. Thank you for acknowledging Hispanic Heritage Month. Thank you for National Pedestrian Safety Month. Hopefully we

can continue working with the multimodal traffic team And thank you Councilmember Whitman for what you've done with regards to making streets safer and making San Diego more accessible for bikes.

Thank you. Thank you. Starting the five minute timer going to those participating remotely we have four speakers in the queue Million Mile Man If you can please unmute and let me know which item or

items you wish to speak to. >> I guess Grant Safety Month. >> Just that one item You'll have one minute Please proceed . >> Henry Ford invented the Model t into model a for exact same reason that the

e bike was invented. Now look at the history setting the chronology of human behavior for 10,000 years. It is not volatile. It is immutable. Everyone will cut a tangent. They will cut a tangent.

Humanity will cut a tangent. And this is the problem and this is what occurred with the little boy in Pacific Beach. He had a false notion of security on that bike. If he was on a pedal bike this

never would have happened. >> Thank you. Thank you. Hector, If you can please unmute and let me know which item or items you wish to speak to Like to get sector 30 3136 Excuse me. >> Let's just say

please proceed. You'll have three minutes. >> My apologies The noise in the back of the have to redo my balcony but the new law in California law So that's what's going on a jackhammer The whole house

That was a new law in California that we didn't need one of them But there is possibly grant anyway The climate holds The climate is measured in centuries the weather in decades. There's no there's no

climate change over the centuries. It's just it's just another scam. And those climate guys is that an ngo? Are they getting paid by the government to do what they're doing? You know, are they doing

it on their own dime? It sounds like you're just getting financed by you guys you all these meetings. So anyway on 31 the other week if we if we really work on for the 100 people in San Diego if we

deport all illegal aliens that are here and get them out of here rapidly that will open up more jobs for people that are on food stamps. They'll get higher pay and they can afford to buy their own

food And also when they get their food stamps out and take three laps around the store because a lot of those guys are obese and there's a lot of obesity going on with all these food stamp guys. But

thank GOD they're not in paid Cokes No more. They're going to buy healthy food which is cool. So in the future to eliminate hunger we've got to eliminate the guys that shouldn't be here to begin with.

They're eating the food that you know if the other guys get out you know the Hispanic heritage this is the poster my art I don't want the Hispanic guys to do the Latin next stuff. That's an

abomination to the Mexican culture. You know the Sinaloa that's what they are down there And even in San Diego I think the last stop that's to be rid of it And then in San Diego growing up to go down

to two sides and eliminate the gift shop and also demo the bathroom down there and put a hole in the ground when Mexico is great who saw the great growing up here? But we got to make Mexico great

again. I go in for the PRESIDENT Of Mexico Being a Jewish woman in the 50s it's all a mess. And guys the women Mexican women control the house. They're the top dogs in the houses. But the men ran the

show so we got to get back to Mexican potatoes. The guys down there Mexicans and the Spanish guys in San Diego feel that they can make Mexico great again. We come against the drug dealers not because

we want America but your time has concluded. Natalie if you can please unmute and let me know which item or items you wish to speak to. It's pretty good for the state I'm sorry you cut out. I couldn't

hear the items I You are cutting in and out. You sound a bit robotic with that three items It was five there. >> I think we can hear you better. Please proceed. You have three minutes. Item 30 sd

climate which were recognized stigmas that need to be broken. I think what is happening in our skies here I don't know if I believe in climate change as in making it work is that the sun recycles And

so when that happens it makes it be all the hotter or spitting out different. You race will be participate in these false narratives. We're never going to get off this timeline a sticker It's not a

one Why are people hungry in the United States? It doesn't make any sense to me . Now we go on and you wait next . I don't understand. Nobody should be hungry here. My son asked me that question Why

are we planting food? Why can't the 132 let's just now stick out there Only four students I heard gentleman say they are all the people the natives. We're difficult but yet we're on a time like that.

We're failing to acknowledge what is happening. What are those needs The government? Well we abc so we stand up We know the tribe didn't touch a book We just talk fly flag symbolizes what step wise to

you or to participate I'm not just general plan autism except to say I was one of the speakers I did not accept that we are instructing our children That's poisonous. When I was in school there was

not that many children that I've created. It can be a little bit fixed. I created how you set up a classroom. You set up your house to help with this and I'm not a genius but I was able to do it. A

Hispanic mom and my mom's first generation Mexico redlining We were never generation Nobel for time has concluded and that does conclude public comment for the proclamation today. >> Thank you Council

PRESIDENT All right. Thank you. City Clerk We do have a very long list because we skipped proclamations last week. I'll kick it off and move the proclamations. Start out with item 31 Hunger Awareness

Month in partnership with Council PRESIDENT Pro Tem Lee Council members of the burden of all will be proclaim SEPTEMBER 26th to be San Diego Hunger Awareness Month Access to seasonal and accessible

produce and groceries are a part of the everyday challenge That too many families can face. The challenge of food being step up to address every day distributing record breaking amounts of food to San

Diego and food banks across the city big or small make the difference on whether or not someone has nutritious food on the table And one of those players in fighting hunger at the 20 of 100 coalition

as we heard there are advocacy committee partners that combat hunger on a different scale. The work of fighting hunger is one that requires community dedication and empathy traits that our

distribution centers and food banks take seriously to all the food banks and distribution centers, staff, volunteers and advocates. Thank you for the work you do to ensure the San Diegans have the

food they need to thrive. I am thinking of Climate Week with Mayor Gloria and Councilmember Ella Rivera. We proclaimed the week of OCTOBER 1st through eighth to be San Diego climate Week with a focus

on increasing environmental education, advocacy and awareness in the city of San Diego. You might not realize that this is only the second climate week in San Diego given that there are over 150 of no

way over 200 events As we got updated, our plan for this one week on it is both inspiring and humbling to watch San Diego and come together to foster conversation planning and action. Climate change

is ever present and increasingly impacting our environment and more particularly our quality of life as a grandfather gives me hope that San Diego continues to show up to protect our quality of life

And I want to recognize Maggie and Erika, the co-chairs of Federal Climate Week for your organizing and managing such a mammoth undertaking on behalf of San Diego. To all the organizers, organizations

and individuals involved. Thank you and I look forward to being a part of it. I am 32 by the way a Country Day Centennial Day with Council PRESIDENT Pro Tem Lee. Congratulations The La Hoya Country

School for reaching its centennial year of exceptional education and preparedness for its students and future generations to come. My wife Laurene who is a retired kindergarten teacher and I witnessed

firsthand just how important education is to ensure that our youth are prepared not only for themselves but for those around them as well. Our schools provide so much more than the ability to read and

write that gives students the opportunity to develop their social skills and create lifelong relationships. This milestone would not be possible without the community that our Country Day School has

built over the years to the staff, teachers, parents and students you are the reason behind the school success and have created such a strong foundation to allow your students to prosper Again

congratulations on 100 years and thank you for being a pillar in our community and in San Diego I am 33 National Pedestrian Safety Month I joined Councilmember Whitburn in proclaiming the month of

OCTOBER to be National Pedestrian Safety Month in the city of San Diego. Traffic safety is a shared responsibility that we all must play a role in to ensure that everyone gets to their destination

safely. National Pedestrian Safety Month highlights the importance that our streets are places to be that people deserve to be safe and accessible for our family, friends and neighbors. And whether

you are driving bicycling or walking to your destination safety on our roads and streets is of the utmost importance. On the city side I highlight the work on the Comprehensive Speed Management Plan

converting traffic signals to leading pedestrian interval sometimes called the late green and the increased investment in rectangular rapid flashing beacons and pedestrian hybrid beacons sometimes

called signals and the slow but steady repair of our sidewalks. Unpopular but equally important to the state's daylighting law I want to highlight the commitment that city has made through this

material to create safety road safer roads for all through increased visibility of roadways reductions, speed limits, education and more. Thank you to the advocacy organizations like the Vision Zero

Coalition Circulate San Diego Families for Safe Streets, San Diego and many more to do incredible work to make our city streets safer every day as winter approaches and the amount of daylight lessens

slow down, stay diligent and look out for each other. Your actions can make all the difference in creating safer roads for all. And then for my last one item 34 Scott Mercer Day. Congratulations Scott

on your retirement from the Planning Department After 29 years with the city of San Diego from working with the Department of Finance Environmental Services, the former San Diego Redevelopment Agency

and now at City Planning. Scott's vast expertise in multiple areas made him a trusted and respected member of the city planning team. Scott your work with the city has been nothing short of impressive

and it's clear by how many people are here today in chambers to support your retirement. Scott has earned its fair share of award His fair share of awards and recognition But his work as program

coordinator with the Fiscal and Administrative Services section create an experience that continues to keep the city up and running. For that we thank you. Thank you Scott for your service and

congratulations on your well-deserved retirement. I have a couple of minutes left. >> Would like to say a few words Scott. >> I'm sorry. That was for two minutes. >> Thank you so much, Council

PRESIDENT. It's just been a pleasure and an honor to to work with the city for all these years and and just the most outstanding group of people out here. I just can't say enough about the city

planning department and my colleagues. So just thank you all so much for this special recognition and I really appreciate it. >> Thank you. Thank. And again I close by moving the approval of the

proclamation items. >> We'll go next to Councilmember Moreno. >> Thank you. I have comments on item 36 Hispanic Heritage Month. Today the city of San Diego officially proclaims September 15th through

OCTOBER 15th as Hispanic Heritage Month in the city of San Diego. I want to start off by thanking council members Foster Gambino and Isla Rivera for joining me in to Celebration. San Diego is a

vibrant bi national city where Hispanic heritage is not just a part of our history. It is American heritage. Across our region over 1.1 million Latinos contribute every single day to the cultural

richness, economic strength and civic life of our communities. From our small business owners and educators to our community leaders and advocates the resilience and creativity of our Latino community

shapes the future of San Diego. This celebration carries special meaning in District eight I represent a community where these roots run deep, where family traditions thrive and where the value of

hard work and mutual support defines our neighborhood. For me this month is deeply personal Standing here as someone of Hispanic heritage seeing our community recognized is a powerful reminder that

our stories belong here. Our contributions matter and our voices shape the city. As we continue to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. Let us remember that our communities are not just celebrating

history. We're making history every single day. And that's exactly why I'm so proud to recognize an organization that has made history this year. Item 500 recognizes Amigos San Diego Car Club's 50th

Anniversary. So established on APRIL 18th, 1977. Amigos San Diego Amigos Car Club was created to promote a positive image of lowriders and lowrider culture while celebrating Chicano culture, history

and art. The Amigos Car Club devotes most of their time and effort into their lowriders and these vehicles truly become art on wheels through their cars and involvement in the club, members are able

to express their culture identity and pride in their community. One important part of Amigos Car Club is giving back to the community. The members participate in community events and are positive role

models for our youth. They've helped coordinate the annual lowrider car show for over 40 years and have also assisted with the production of an award winning documentary film titled Everything Comes

from the Streets. >> Amigos Car Club became the first car club to receive approval to create a mural in Chicano Park in 2019. The club was also recognized for its community involvement and named among

the icons of low writing Class of 2023 in the state of California. Now I personally would like to think amigos Car Club for their crucial role in the unveiling of the first ever lowrider stamp with

the United States Postal Service. It was truly an honor to be a part of that recognition. And one of the things I mentioned at that event is growing up I didn't see our culture represented in

mainstream America whether it was on television, on planes or in government. Now with the unveiling of the lowrider Stamp, we've changed our children and grandchildren's lives. Our culture is

reflected in mainstream America because this is America. Amigos San Diego Car Club represents more than just a car club. >> They use lowriders to bring the community together and to celebrate Chicano

art, culture and history. Congratulations on 50 years in La Raza. >> Now I do recognize that there are other Hispanic, Latino, Chicano organizations here so I want to definitely give a shout out to

sdp and the Chicano Federation for being here today. Thank you for the work that you guys do. You guys continue to make us proud. And I also would be remiss if I didn't congratulate La Hoya Country

Day for your 100th anniversary. Congratulations. That is a very difficult task 100 years. And also I want to thank Scott Mercer for your dedication to the city of San Diego. We appreciate you more

than you know And thank you. Thank you so much for giving so much of yourself and your family for giving so much of yourself a true public servant. With that I'm happy to second the motion and that

concludes my comments. >> Thank you. All right. Thank you, Councilmember. >> So we have a motion by myself and a second by Councilmember Moreno to move the proclamation. >> We'll go next to council

member Campo. Thank you, Council PRESIDENT Thank you everyone who's in chambers today and watching online. And congratulation to everyone on their various proclamations today. Hunger Awareness Month

really appreciate the organizations that help put food on the table for many of my constituents are struggling National Pedestrian Safety month obviously having a death a traffic related death of a

young boy last year was deeply affecting to our community And so having pedestrian safety is something we take incredibly seriously. And Scoutmaster Day, thank you for your long career here at the

city. We will MISS You. I will now speak on item 36 Hispanic Heritage Month. Thank you Council PRESIDENT And thank you to my colleagues Councilmembers Foster and Moreno Eddie Rivera for their

proclamation on this with family roots in Calexico right on the border with me. I grew up spending holidays there and learning the values of faith and family and hard work and showing up for your

community. That brought me to public service right here in San Diego And I know that story is shared by so many of the roughly 1.1 million Latinos in our region and that doesn't even include the folks

who live in Tijuana and San Diego a proud binational city. Hispanic heritage is integral to American heritage and it shows up in our small businesses and music, our food and our festivals and our

fight for fairness in our schools and workplaces And it shows up right here and its members on the city council. So this month we celebrate that history and we recognize our Latino communities for

making history every single day and shaping San Diego's future with resiliency, creativity and leadership. In MARCH of 1961, one of his four speeches given on foreign policy, PRESIDENT Kennedy said to

diplomats from nations all across Latin America and I quote We meet together as firm and ancient friends united by history and experience and by our determination to advance the values of American

civilization For this new world of ours is not a mere accident of geography. Our continents are bound together by common history the endless exploration of new frontiers and our people share a common

heritage The quest for the dignity and freedom of man. So to the men and women of the Americas, to the campesino, to the fields and the operators of the cities and these to the countries of the

schools call forth your strength and let each devote our energies to the betterment of all so that your children and our children in this hemisphere can find an even richer and freer life. We need

leadership from the highest offices of this land to the city councils like ours that acknowledge that history, practice those values and respect the people and this council does. So I'm proud to join

my colleagues in proclaiming SEPTEMBER 15th to OCTOBER 15th Hispanic Heritage Month in the city of San Diego. And that concludes my comments. Thank you. Council Member Kennedy. >> Next we'll go to

Council Member Whippany City Council PRESIDENT. Congratulations to everybody who's being recognized with proclamations this morning. I'm pleased to join my colleagues in bringing forward the

proclamation highlighting San Diego Hunger Awareness Month and the work being done by the many organizations across our city every day to make sure that our neighbors have enough to eat. Here in

District three organizations like Serving seniors provide more than 1.5 billion meals each year while helping older San Diegans remain healthy and independent. And other organizations like the San

Diego Hunger Coalition, the San Diego Food Bank, Mother's Kitchen Feeding Side Diego and others do wonderful work making sure that nutritious food gets to people who need it throughout District three

and across our region. And we thank their staffs and volunteers and donors of the many community partners who helped to make an incredible difference in the lives of San Diego And every day. As the

chair of the City Council's Active Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, I'm pleased to join Council PRESIDENT LaCava in bringing forward the proclamation recognizing OCTOBER as National

Pedestrian Safety Month. OCTOBER's shorter daylight hours and increased pedestrian activity around Halloween make heightened awareness of pedestrian safety especially important for children and

families in San Diego's neighborhoods. Since 2015 the city of San Diego has been committed Division zero with the goal of eliminating traffic fatalities and severe injuries through a combination of

engineering measures, education and enforcement practices. And we couldn't do that work without the leadership of the Vision Zero Coalition led by circulate a policy that I would like to invite up

circulated board chair Melody commit to say a few words We appreciate you being here and very much appreciate the work of circulated all the work that is done year round to help ensure that children

families that everybody is able to get to where they're going safely. Thank you Councilmember Whitburn for this proclamation and your continued leadership on safer streets. And thank you to Council

President LaCava and the entire Council for this recognition. I'm honored to accept the proclamation as board chair of Circulate Planning and Policy and on behalf of the San Diego Vision Zero

Coalition which brings together advocates, community organizations and San Diegans committed to making our streets safer for everyone. As was mentioned, OCTOBER is national pedestrian safety Month an

important reminder of how fundamental walking is to our daily lives. It's how kids get to school, how employees get to work and how people access transit and services throughout our city. Recent

crashes on our streets have seriously injured San Diegans and taken lives a painful reminder of why this work matters. Each of those losses affects families, friends and communities. These tragedies

are preventable. We know what makes streets safer. Designing them with people in mind reducing dangerous speeds, providing safer crossings and protected infrastructure and prioritizing improvements

where they're needed most. San Diego made a commitment through Vision Zero that no loss of life on our streets is acceptable. This proclamation reaffirms that commitment and we appreciate the

Council's continued partnership. We look forward to continuing that work together so every San Diego and can walk, bike and roll safely. >> Thank you. Thank you. And I also want to thank the many

community groups who advocate for pedestrian safety along with our city's transportation department. The police department for their engineering and enforcement roles and also help to advance

pedestrian safety. >> I am also pleased to bring forward the proclamation recognizing OCTOBER 3rd as autism accepted stay at the city of San Diego. 60 years ago a group of San Diego parents came

together because they wanted their autistic children to have support and opportunity and community. Their work became Autism Society San Diego the oldest affiliate of the Autism Society of America.

Today that organization continues to make a difference for autistic people and their families while promoting acceptance and inclusion across our region. You could see that mission in camp I kid at

circuit where individualized support gives campers of all support needs the chance to enjoy summer activities and build skills and make connections. You could see it in family events, adult programs

and support groups that bring people together throughout the year. Thank you to Teresa Contreras, the executive director of the Autism Society of San Diego for being here and for her words this

morning And of all the staff and parents and volunteers with this work. Thank you for helping to make say Diego a more welcoming place for people with autism and their families. Thank you. Council

PRESIDENT. All right. Thank you. Council member Woodburn. We'll go next to Council PRESIDENT Pro Tem Lee. >> I think as PRESIDENT I'll share my gratitude with my colleagues for bringing forward a

number of meaningful proclamations today addressing climate change. The continued need for pedestrian safety. I want to thank the San Diego Autism Society for your many decades of service to our

community. And finally wishing all those who are celebrating a happy Hispanic Heritage Month. I want to take my time to speak to two proclamations in particular items 31 and 32. It's an honor to join

Council PRESIDENT LaCava and Councilmembers whitburn and Von Wilpert as we bring forward the proclamation recognizing SEPTEMBER 2026 as San Diego Hunger Awareness Month. Hunger affects an estimated

362,000 San Diego ends including many children seniors, veterans, students and countless working families who are struggling to balance the rising costs of everyday necessities and Hunger Awareness

Month gives us an opportunity to shine a light on this issue and more importantly to come together with compassion and action to try to build a regional network where no one has to worry about where

their next meal will come from. Our officers especially been proud to have been the headquarters district wise at least to the San Diego Foodbank which is the county's largest hunger relief

organization. And last year the Foodbank distributed more than 51 million pounds of food served an average of 400,000 people per month. And our office always looks forward to partnering with Foodbank

to provide fresh produce and food resources to our residents including during the holidays with our upcoming turkey distribution. We know from feedback from our residents that many of them are working

families who have reached out over the years to share that without their support, without that support they MAY not have been able to gather around the holidays with their loved ones. And it's just a

reminder that access to adequate food is a fundamental human right and that no family should have to choose between putting food on the table and meeting the other essential needs. So thank you again

for the saying of your food and to everyone working each day to address hunger and to support families within our region. Next I want to take a moment to recognize a truly historic milestone in our

District six community. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the La Hoya Country Day School. And for a century this institution has been more than just a place of learning. It's been a cornerstone

of our city's history and a sanctuary for generations of families. La Hoya Country Day School's Impact on the public good of our city is immeasurable because for that 100 years they've dedicated

themselves to nurturing young minds, instilling deep values and shaping our future leaders, innovators and caretakers of our community. When you look at the fabric of our city you can see the hands of

the like every day school alumni everywhere whether it's in our local businesses and nonprofits, our health care systems and even right here in public service. And a centennial anniversary is

certainly a testament to their resilience, tradition and wavering commitment to excellence. It also means surviving challenging and changing times while still holding on to a mission of guiding

children towards Bright Futures. I know we had a chance to hear from the head of school DR. Jeff Kerwin, but we want to take a moment to recognize the administration, the dedicated faculty and staff

,the parents who sacrificed to provide this education and most importantly the students past and present for being part of a century of dedication and part of our city's history. So again,

congratulations on your 100 years. And we certainly look forward to celebrating the next century of success. And with that we're proud to proclaim OCTOBER 6th along with Council PRESIDENT To cover as

our Country Day School Centennial anniversary day here in the city of San Diego. Thank you Counsel present All right. Thank you. Council PRESIDENT Pro team We will go next to council member Foster Oh

yes. Thank you council PRESIDENT And congratulations to all of the approximate Asian recipients here today. I just have a few that I would like to speak to starting with San Diego Climate We just

thank you to the Mayor, council PRESIDENT And council member Sean Isla Rivera for bringing this recognition forward. Climate and environmental justice go hand in hand. We know there are communities

that have carried the burden of pollution, flooding poor infrastructure and environmental neglect for far too long. We have seen that firsthand in District four and eight and nine protecting our

environment also means making the investments necessary to protect our neighborhoods and make sure our communities are prepared and resilient. Climate Week gives us an opportunity to bring people

together around that work from government and community organizations to residents and businesses. So I appreciate everyone participating throughout the week and continue to push for cleaner,

healthier and more resilient San Diego for every community I was just speaking with someone the other day and I said you know when I was young I remember there was a time where you didn't need ac ac I

was totally I was not familiar with the air conditioning unit. We just simply had ceiling fans open the door and we were in a good place. But as you can see from the recent weeks I have I didn't

realize with this humidity I had to ask was I in Virginia? So as you can see there is a significant impact and why we need to make sure that our infrastructure is where it needs to be. Also quickly,

San Diego Hunger Awareness Month We have more than 360,000 San Diegans experience that experience nutrition and security including 84,000 children in District four. We know there are families working

hard and still struggling to keep food on the table. Just want to give a quick shout out and recognize project New Village Minister Muhammad and the I Am I brother keepers food distribution program

Donna Walls and her food distribution efforts and the countless other organizations and community leaders who can consistently show up to feed our neighbors. Thank you for everything that each of you

do. Also national pedestrian safety Month Thank you to Council PRESIDENT And Council whitburn for bringing this forward. Pedestrian safety is especially important in District four a resident should be

able to walk to school, catch the bus, visit a neighborhood business or simply cross the street without putting their safety at risk. Again, this is why I continue pushing for infrastructure that

makes our streets safe for everyone especially in communities that have gone too long without improvements they deserve. I'm especially looking forward to the new Hart system that we will be getting

installed at 47th and Hartley Autism Acceptance Day. Just simply every person deserves to feel accepted, supported and valued for exactly who they are. For autistic individuals and their families

access to supportive programs, resources and a community that understands them can make a real difference. I want to recognize autism society It's society San Diego for 60 years of supporting

individuals and families and creating opportunities for connection and belonging. Thank you so much. Hispanic Heritage Month Proud to bring this recognition forward alongside my colleagues. This

recognition is personal for me. My mother is Mexican and that heritage is part of my family Just as Hispanic and Latino heritage is part of the story of so many families across the city of San Diego.

This is especially true in District four where generations of Hispanic and Latino families have helped build our neighborhoods, our small businesses, our schools and a strong sense of community that

makes our district what it is. Thank you so much and happy Hispanic heritage Month to each and to each and every person here in the city of San Diego. Also just want to give a big shout out to Amigos

San Diego Car Club 50th anniversary. Give yourselves a hand. 50 years of service. 50 years of a fellowship of brothers and sisters coming together to celebrate culture to celebrate heritage And thank

you for everything you do in bringing the city of San Diego together. And so with that council PRESIDENT That concludes my comments. >> All right. Thank you. Council member Foster two Council member

Ella Rivera Thank you. >> Council PRESIDENT As you mentioned a lot of really good important stuff on our proclamation agenda this morning. So I want to say thank you to my colleagues for bringing

these proclamations forward. I'll start with San Diego Hunger Awareness Month. I want to thank you for your work. Thank you for the work that everyone does in this space. I think that the issue of

raising raising awareness is an important one. The idea that we would have any hunger at all in the richest country in the history of the world should I think appall all of us but also makes it that

much more important that we make sure that people get fed and get the nutrition that they need. Scott thank you for your 29 years of service. But it is a great run with the city very much appreciated

. Councilor Whitburn, thank you for recognizing Autism Acceptance Day. I appreciated the timeline you provided. 60 years of families here in San Diego looking to step forward and support their kids.

That is a effort that is worth acknowledging and supporting and that is really, really noble work that they are doing . So thank you for that. I will pivot now to San Diego Climate Week which brings

the region together to learn, connect and act on climate change. Its second annual week runs OCTOBER 1st through OCTOBER 8th with events across the county. This is for everyone and I appreciate that

aspect of it. Residents, students, scientists, businesses, organizations, environmental justice leaders and policymakers all have a role to play in addressing climate change and this week the

activists and organizers have created is a great example of that. The focus the focus is local events create space to work on the challenges San Diego has already faced including extreme heat, rising

seas, fires, floods, poor air quality and environmental injustice. I also will acknowledge there's some fun involved as well. Last year I participated in a very very fun and very big bike ride which

is all part of the way that we take climate action. The goal is action beyond one week. Climate Week helps people build the knowledge, relationships and momentum to advance solutions and strengthen

resilience. There are many ways to participate. You can attend an event, you can volunteer, you can collaborate with another organization or host an event of your own. Last year Climate Week hosted

over 100 events. And this year they've gotten even bigger with five main summits a kickoff with the water summit on OCTOBER 1st. The water summit will bring together last year's call to action. We

want to river air pollution crisis and this year's call to action say no to off offshore oil drilling. The other summits are fire, air, land and people. And this year there are already 200 events

scheduled thanks to the leadership of Erika. Megan I know Katrina. I think she had to go but she's a District nine business owner. And I want to ensure she gets her love as well. And I will take the

nonprofit partners including the Sierra Club, Sandy Hook housekeeper Canyon Lands Wild Coast, the Samuel Lawrence Foundation, Environmental Health Coalition, sd 50 and so many more. Thank you all for

your leadership. Thank you for your organizing. It's an important week but also a very fun week and I really appreciate how much you all poured into it. Last but not least, I want to take a moment to

recognize is National Hispanic Heritage Month which celebrates the history, cultures and contributions of people who came from Spain, Mexico, South America and we're my favorite family came from the

Caribbean and Central America. This is a I'll just speak for myself here. I think when a community or any group of people is under attack, there are different ways that that can be experienced. A

community can be divided. Community can shrink or a community can step up and step forward and take care of it. Take care of each other. And I think with that in mind I feel especially proud and

grateful for the organizations that are here today and that are doing work in our community including the San Diego Senior Organizing Project, Chicano Federation and so many others who are serving

everyone in San Diego But with a particular connection to our larger Hispanic latinxs community and the city of San Diego. This is a time where there is incredible amount of pain and fear in our

community but our community has always faced adversity with strength and community and we see this in the way rapid response networks have been formed. Mutual aid efforts have been organized in the

way that neighbors continue to look out for one another And every time families gather, share a meal or keep traditions alive. We are saying we're here, we belong. We're not going anywhere And our

strength is in the fellows who passed down recipes the small business owners who open their doors every morning and young people who carry their languages and cultures with pride. We have a role in

this city to protect the safety and dignity and well-being of every resident regardless of their culture, their identity, their immigration status. And that's special. That certainly sounds true for

folks of Hispanic or Latino heritage. We honor the community that is both resilient and joyful. One that has given San Diego so much of its character, its culture and its heart. And again, I'm

incredibly proud and grateful for the organizations here and to be a part of this community. Kathryn, what I know you had a much your transition was very smooth actually from Hispanic Heritage Month

to Amigos San Diego. Thank you guys for the work that you've done. I really, really appreciate everything that you've done that you're doing and the recognition provided by Councilmember Moreno. That

concludes my comments. Council PRESIDENT All right. Thank you, Councilmember Yellow Rivera So every council has spoken so we have a motion by myself to move the proclamations and it's seconded by

Council member Moreno So with that clerk please call the roll. Thank you. Council PRESIDENT Please cast your vote and that passes unanimously 7 to 0 with Councilmember Ron Wilber and Council Campbell

absent. Thank you. Council PRESIDENT. All right. Thank you, City Clerk And with that we will now pause for photos and we will start with item 35 autism acceptance day And then for the other groups if

you could watch Heidi and she will guide us to the next order of photos and I will go and All right, back to the leader of the morning business. >> So first, are there any comments from the mayor's

office, city council member, city attorney, independent budget analyst or city clerk? >> I don't see anybody Lights Oh, City Clerk Sorry. Thank you. Council PRESIDENT Good morning. I am pleased to

announce that once again my office in partnership with the County Registrar of Voters has secured a ballot drop box for the NOVEMBER 3rd election. The ballot drop box is going to be located in front

of the Old City Cafe across from the entrance to City Hall also known as a city administration building Any county of San Diego registered voter can vote using these ballot drop boxes as voters are

not limited to specific voting locations in the county. This means those that live in other cities such as Chula Vista or Carlsbad can use this ballot drop box to cast your vote to support civic

engagement and voter turnout here. City Hall is an extraordinary location for voting. There is a parking near the drop box, an accessible ramp and we are next to the orange and blue mts trolley stops.

This location is close to thousands of city and other government employees and near large employment hubs. The ballot drop box will be open and available OCTOBER 4th through Election Day on NOVEMBER

3rd Drop boxes will now be open 30 days in advance of the election which are two additional days than prior elections due to Senate Bill 884. I am committed to working with the registrar for each

election to continue having a ballot drop box at City Hall. The ballot drop box will be locked at 8 P.M. On NOVEMBER 3rd and the ballots will be collected by the registrar ballot security teams which

always consist of two staff members working together. The deadline to register to vote for this election is October 19th. After this date eligible voters can conditionally register through Election

Day Conditional voters can cast can cast a vote with their ballot being processed and counted Once the registrar has completed the voter registration verification process. Voter registration forms are

available in multiple languages on the first floor of this building by passport and city connection staff are more than happy to assist you to register online or to check your voter registration

status. You MAY also do that at sd vote.Com. That concludes my comments. Council PRESIDENT Sorry for my overzealous very long talking points on the fact it is certainly important with elections coming

up right around the corner and ballots dropping any day now I'm not for a brief comment as well. Yesterday afternoon on council took an action that we do very rarely but it does happen a continuance

The way that I handled that continuance is the way that I've learned how City Council has handled ever since I started watching council Maybe 15 plus years ago and the way that the general process and

protocol has been done to members at least two members of the public raised some question about in fact was that the proper way to handle a continuance under the requirement of the Brown Act? I have

tried to be very clear that just because we have done something in the past is not necessarily a justification for how we do it going forward. So I'm working with the city attorney's office getting

their guidance and if we need to pivot about how we do both continuance issues as well as returning items to council, this council PRESIDENT Will in fact pivot And any guidance I get I will share with

my colleagues as to how chairs of our council committees follow the same kind of protocol We can always learn and not just rely on the way things have been done in the past. So I did want to mention

that as soon as I began to learn and educate myself. So thank you The members of the council like that mentioned that and alerted that to me in their public comments. All right. With that we will now

take up non agenda public comment. The council members respect and appreciate the public input and are fully committed to protecting every participant's free speech rights at council and committee

meetings with that clerk. Please proceed with public comment. >> Thank you. Council PRESIDENT Pearl 2.7 An Agenda Public comment is an opportunity for members of the public to comment on items that

are not on the agenda but within the subject matter jurisdiction of the City Council. Please note everyone will have two minutes and that if there are eight or more speakers on a single topic the

maximum time for the topic will be 16 minutes. If you're in chambers please submit your speaker slip to the front of the room a for your joining. If you are joining us virtually please raise your hand

to speak by tapping the raise your hand icon or star nine if you're calling participant Joy Sonata if you can please come up to the microphone after that will be Daniel LaSalle. Thank you. This is

from the adjourned 18 I'm meeting agenda from last week and it's also from Google, the San Diego County Civil grand jury released a 33 page report titled Shifting Gears San Diego Peddles Bicycle

mobility through a city dominated by Cars. The report critiques the city's patchwork bicycle infrastructure while praising recent protected lane projects. Key findings of the report Inadequate

maintenance Dangerous Gaps Spotlight on Success Commuter Knee support end of Google and end of the Grand jury info Now I downloaded the 33 page report yet haven't had time to fully review it so I'll

say this two days Shortly before this report came out I was sitting at my desk and I had a daydream about San Diego being a much more bicycle pedestrian friendly city And I remembered long ago when dc

wanted to make the c Street corridor predominantly for pedestrians it was a grand vision that fizzled. Now Vision Zero is a grand even noble vision for our city. Thank you grand jury for your report

and dear public let's support this report And in my opinion first we must come together and create a grand and noble vision statement for our beautiful city. Now one people, one family, one San Diego

This tool was in it a great morning. >> Thank you. Thank you, Daniel The listen how you guys doing is going to shake this love and that's right for the festival of shelters or boots or zoo coat I'm

going to pause your time Please stop those comments from the audience. People have a right to speak. >> Let them speak. Thank you. Council PRESIDENT Happy coach on So it's the festival of shelters or

the Festival of Ingathering we call it to the Jewish community And last seven days says in the Old Testament that in the future all the nations will celebrate this festival And if everyone got a hand

out for Lady Justice . Look at Lady Justice. There's a reason she traditionally wears a blindfold. The blindfold means justice isn't supposed to care who you are, how much money you have, whether

you're wearing a police badge. But in San Diego County I believe Lady Justice is peeking underneath that blindfold. Kanoa Wilson was 16 years old. Remember that 16 On JANUARY 28th, 2025 gunfire

erupted inside the Santa Fe depot. Kanoa was not the suspect. He was running away from gunfire when Officer Daniel Golden second shot him in the back The city You guys later agreed to pay his family

$30 million $30 million criminal charges against the officer None. I'm not asking anyone to presume an officer guilty. I'm asking for equal justice when the evidence legally supports criminal charges

filed that case put the evidence before the court Give the officer every constitution All right. And if the case goes to trial, let a jury decide guilty or not guilty a bad shouldn't make you guilty

but it should never make you untouchable. >> Kanoa was 16. What's that phrase? No one's above the law. Put the blindfold back on Lady Justice. Justice should be blind. >> Thank you. Next is Blake

Beakman If you can please come forward After that will be Maximilian Schmidt allegedly order and then Toni Ross. Hi we're Beekman. To better clarify my public comment from yesterday I think the city

of San Diego will simply be looking for a better principal diaper vendor Besides Clark by the end of 2027 Although myself and many people of San Diego would prefer a large reduction of surveillance

tech use and local government in control of their own data. Good luck to our good work. Coming up, Jane Tech and not Genentech does some Aoe pr going to work for the city of Seattle. Their website

page offers a commitment to social responsibility practices. This should be an important direction in how to consider a future api vendor for San Diego Even if Gen Tech is in our final future choice I

hope we can be having upcoming open for community discussions to make sure San Diego simply does not supplant Floc with a new api. Vendors like Axon, a company heavily committed to police body camera

use and a corresponding camaraderie they have in working with local police police departments across the country. I hope technology that serves an entire community and not just a police department can

be a long time goal of a more open career, better choices and holistic choices for the future of San Diego. Perhaps more experienced community advocacy can speak here at public comment time on the

importance to always question technology how to better level pr use and to seriously reduce over surveillance technology use especially in low income neighborhoods and that we can all more regularly

address reduce tech and social services ideas that can offer the same amounts of neighborhood public safety help. Please notice to conclude please notice how tech accountability and public oversight

can help with can be of help with the current overall accountability problems with traffic issues at this time and please work to keep alive the good spirit of new Good Day center And however we move

forward in the next few years and in Good Luck a woman spoke at public comment yesterday. She perseveres in her long list of asks Good luck how she can do that. She had a good list. >> Thank you

Maximilian Schmidt on There's a guy in the chamber threatening to kill me by the way. Anyway there's a current genocide happening on and every city on the planet that has neo brutalist architecture

which is on almost every single city And this architecture is used to try to depopulate good people when their eyes are put into a trance by unnecessary noises so that they disassociate more because

brutalist architecture can look two dimensional And all I want to do is expose the holy war with a conscious teleporting and mind reading and torturing people gibberish to try and get them to commit

suicide. And because I want to do this I'm getting heavily targeted in San Diego. I'm currently in the homeless shelter and they're speaking gibberish at a very soft level and I would rather get

tortured by repeatedly poked with needles than listen to this And they're trying to get me to leave the homeless shelter And it's because it's dangerous to sleep on the street. And when I sleep on the

street in California and try to mind my own business, I get viciously attacked And I've had numerous concussions from people attacking me Usually large African Americans. I've walked around with two

black eyes and a broken nose on down in downtown San Diego in Los Angeles And what's going what's going on in the shelter right now is on I'm suffering terribly and I'm getting tortured all across San

Diego, everywhere in public But I'm getting tortured most aggressively And they're telling me like we have to suffer under the table to torture you and we're actually being tortured worse than you in

order to torture you and they keep telling me that to try and get me to feel bad for them And I just want to say I hate you all. I think you're a liberal demon. >> Shame on you Allegedly under . Thank

you, Joe. Appreciate that. Any who so much to say here I am very concerned about the weaponization of information and data that is currently taking place that but also with the potential of it to take

place when you know we have all of these smart technologies it's seemingly benign but it is not benign when this is being used against the people And by way of controlling information and having

people give this information freely. So this starts from the Department of Defense and all of these technologies will come forward and go into the public sphere like Facebook. Facebook was life long.

It was a Dafa operation that ended on FEBRUARY 4th, 2004, the same day that Facebook came online. And this was a way to have people just freely give all of their life down to how you put your children

up there. You put where you're at all of these things and this is where all this technology starts and the Department of Defense and it goes out to the to us and when you understand they're using it

as a weapon or they weaponized those things and then they put it into our sphere, you can't say that it's not going to be weaponized and used against us and so as we are using things like Floc when it

has a facial recognition, you know, we don't know where that data is going technically you really don't because once it goes out of your hands and it goes into someone else's it'll go into someone

else's and someone else's and someone else's. And so there's absolutely no control over it. And when we are implementing this on a massive scale it makes you wonder we're feeding A.I. All of the

information it needs to destroy us and so when we're not being mindful of that and we're putting all of this governmental information into there, imagine if it wanted to take you out It would just

flip a switch and it could do it. Tony Ross Good afternoon City Council I wanted to spotlight and thank Evan Greer from the New York Times for covering the story that they did about Flock and about

Darth Vader appearing at the city council last month. They were spotlighting the fact that it has in this era of air doom and so many of us are feeling afraid and like we don't have any accountability

for this surveillance technology that this has inspired a new wave of local activism across the country. But I don't want to talk about myself. I actually was here because I wanted to read this

article that appeared in the San Diego Union-Tribune. It was talking about the race between Henry Foster, a council member Henry Foster and Martha Abraham. And one thing that I really wanted to

spotlight is the difference in the positions on Floc. It says on surveillance cameras the city uses to help fight crime, Foster said they should be eliminated for privacy reasons While Abraham called

such a move premature, it's mass surveillance, Foster said. I think we need to take those cameras down immediately. Abraham agreed that there are growing concerns about how cameras are used, but she

said more analysis is needed to prove they are a bad idea. I could not disagree more with Martha Abraham. I think that we have plenty of evidence that these block cameras are an unconstitutional

overreach. I think that we have plenty of examples even if we look at neighboring Los Angeles where they had a 32% error rate, they had over 167 false tags in one month alone. And I think we need to

not kid ourselves in thinking that we can trade one vendor of the surveillance technology for another because if we look at who the primary investors are in Axon, we find that Donald Trump himself is

a huge owner of stock in that company. I think we need to be looking more at what our constitutional rights are and the fact that our rights are something that should not be taken away, that they

should not be optional, they should not be something that our city council can vote on because they're supposed to be a fundamental part of our democratic process. >> Thank you for your time. Thank

you for the five minute timer going to those participating remotely. We currently have eight speakers in the queue Barbara Gordon If you can please unmute. Thank you. Good morning. As a public health

educator I am urging the city to increase enforcement regarding their ban on the sale of kratom. In recent years Kratom popularity has grown in San Diego and beyond. These products have not been

tested for safety, consistency, effectiveness, accuracy of labels and have not been approved for sale by the fda. When combined with alcohol, marijuana and prescription medications they can cause

serious respiratory depressions and fatal outcomes like we've seen. More and more smoke shops even some convenience stores are still selling Creative extract which are openly marketed as organic

holistic products. Which has led to medical emergencies again and even fatalities. From 2015 to 2025 the Center for Disease Control have reported at least 233 creative associated deaths in the us.

More than 10% of those deaths occurred in San Diego County in the past five years alone. The rising number of deaths and other medical emergencies have left cities throughout the county to outlaw

kratom and crack down on stores that sell them. California Department of Public Health has warned that Kratom and several products have been linked to serious health risk really including addiction,

overdose and other adverse health things. The public is asking for your leadership with a more informed when it comes to the sale of all these kratom products. Thank you for letting me speak . Judy

Strang If you can please unmute. After that is back up. Judy strains. Good morning City Council staff MAY get rid of that echo. >> I'm not sure if the meeting is in. Maybe you have the meeting playing

in the room. >> That's sometimes what causes the echo. Let me try again and get rid of this echo. >> I apologize for holding up. We're not hearing the echo anymore. >> We can proceed. Okay. I'm so

sorry. Working from your work site sometimes is a very difficult situation. Here at my work site we receive a lot of public health information and I wanted to share with you a research series of

studies going on that are presented by Isaac. Isaac is the International Academy of Science and the Impact of Cannabis. As you can imagine on people in society and the most recent one coming up in the

month of OCTOBER. This is a concern regarding the use of marijuana and tobacco and the risk to help. This is kind of a different approach. We're certainly aware of the risk associated with marijuana

use and we're certainly aware of the concerns we have about the use of tobacco. But when they're used concurrently and the research seems to suggest we're seeing more and more of that there's a whole

body of research being conducted about why and what are the problems associated with it because when they're smoked together either in blood or split during the same or just during the same time

period, they multiply their force multipliers if you will and it increases the chance of dependance makes it incredibly difficult to quit. And because this research is being put on by a panel of

neurologists, you can imagine they're concerned about the damage to the brain because of that. The research then indicates the role that that will play in psychosis risk and they focus on adolescents

and young adults. And as a youth advocate for young people that's where my work is. That's the work side of calling it from. I just want to call to our attention that not only is tobacco use your time

has concluded. >> becky Rob, if you can please email after that as medicine. >> Good morning. I really appreciate it. My name is Becky Rapp and I appreciate the city's commitment to Vision Zero and

the goal of making our streets safer for everyone drivers, pedestrians, bicyclists and families. >> But if we're serious about safer streets, we also need to look at the messaging people are receiving

throughout the city. When we talk about impaired driving, a dui is not just about alcohol but it is also about drug impaired driving which is a serious traffic safety issue. And specifically that

includes marijuana. Marijuana can impair reaction time coordination, judgment, attention and the ability to respond to changing conditions on the road. While we're asking people to drive safely, we

continue to see marijuana advertising throughout our communities and especially on billboards. And that creates a mixed message. We should not be using highly visible public spaces to promote an

addictive substance while simultaneously asking residents to make responsible choices behind the wheel. If Vision Zero is truly about preventing traffic that said, serious injuries, I asked the city

to consider how we can use those same public spaces to reinforce prevention instead of advertising marijuana emergency messages reminding drivers. Impaired driving isn't just about alcohol. Drugs can

impair driving to or if you use marijuana don't drive impaired. As we move towards mixed use neighborhoods and more people walking and biking near businesses, our public health and traffic safety

messages need to work together not against each other. This in addition to zero should mean more than designing safer streets. It should also mean sending clear messages about the behaviors that

people put at risk on those streets. Thank you. Thank you. Madison if you can please unmute. Hi there. I'd like to bring your attention to some recent research about the impact of tobacco use on

fertility and reproductive health. According to a recent report from the World Health Organization, women who smoke have a 40% higher risk of infertility compared to nonsmokers. The report also found

that tobacco use can also harm male reproductive health contributing to several conditions that MAY make it more difficult for couples to have children. Importantly, this concern is not only for

people who smoke. The World Health Organization warns that exposure to secondhand smoke MAY also increase infertility risk and reduce the likelihood of conception. The effects can extend beyond

individual to families and future generations. These findings remind us that tobacco is not only linked to cancer, heart disease and respiratory illness. It can also interfere with one of the most

fundamental hopes many people have the ability to start or grow their family. And San Diego continues to advance public health policies. I would encourage the city to support policies like smoke free

environments. I also encourage continued efforts to protect people from secondhand smoke exposure in public spaces and in multi-unit housing settings. If young people are taught to understand the long

term consequences of tobacco use including impacts on fertility and reproductive health, they MAY be more likely to avoid it starting in the first place. Understanding these consequences can

definitely have an impact on behavioral health. A healthier San Diego means helping residents not only live longer but also achieve the life goals and family aspirations that matter most to them.

Thank you. Thank you. Next with that I'll ask you if you can please unmute. >> After that will be 7499. >> Hi Natalie. Actually I wanted to touch base on A.I. And discernment as well. We really need

to have during this season of life the narratives that we are continue to be fed It's fear. When I spoke yesterday about Aristotle and these programmers had the ability to program A.I. In the way that

they wanted. Now they're going to the U.N. And saying Oh we need boundaries or we need to eat when they're also possibly being sued. Fear is what they're constantly trying to feed us. But we also feed

into that when we do have these automated license plate reader we have to discern what is real in reality of ours or what's not. I'm trying to have children that know how to discern. And I'm hearing a

lot of adults that aren't really taking a step back and questioning their belief systems. It has to happen. What is it that we truly believe? They're having a mental warfare on people. The narratives

are distractions. We don't have to participate in the mongrels that are feeding this. So my hope and my ask is for people adults to have discernment and start questioning their belief systems. Your

time has concluded. 7499 If you can please unmute please play the video. >> Thank you. As you see here this video shows just one of many flights I made at Dockweiler Beach in Los Angeles just

yesterday SEPTEMBER 28th, 2026. It's interesting to note that while the city of San Diego has implicitly conspired with your concessionaire and usurper to keep me from flying at Torrey Pines, the

county of Los Angeles has done just the opposite. The Dockweiler concessionaire wrote a glowing letter about my skills and conduct and the county of Los Angeles led by Janice Hahn ensured that

citizens were not retaliated against for testifying in court or speaking up about problems at public parks. I can fly at Dockweiler to this day but I haven't been able to fly Torrey Pines Glider for

over a decade due to the actions and inactions of this corrupt council and mayor. How could it be that the city of San Diego is exactly opposite from the county of Los Angeles when it comes to

standing up for citizens rights against private business interests? How can that be? Since you all claim to be advocates of the people, the answer is obvious. Each of you LaCava, Campbell Whitburn,

Foster Von Wilpert, Lee Campo Moreno and Emilio Rivera are liars. You say one thing to the public but you do exactly another thing behind everyone's backs. You grandstand here in council chambers

condemning our great PRESIDENT Donald Trump for protecting the citizens of this country while you sell out your own citizens to private businesses running our own city parks. The abuses at that glider

port are not the most important things in this city but they clearly show everyone that this council and this mayor are not on the sides of citizens And that is important for us to see. You're on the

sides of the insider businesses that leech off the wealth of this city every single day. Every one of you should be run out of town and never elected to any position of trust or authority ever again.

Nexus Hector, if you can please. And you here win the blind and the blind you end up as San Diego is now with the Mexican sewage seeping up on District nine. For decades. What has he done? Nothing.

The man grows up in Sacramento, have done all these laws, took all the money of billion dollars to the railroad to nowhere. We didn't get a piece of that action Even though mob rule Nancy Pelosi has

made hundreds of millions of dollars off insider traders trading. Did you guys know her? Could you give us some tips so we could make somebody come on the long rolls? I have that expression. Let's

give the white boys little bread and do a appreciation month when all this bad guys go up to in and thank them for giving them jobs and giving them money and buying their cars and doing this stuff.

And you know that if you're Hispanic you're above this struggle. What's the struggle? You're Hispanic. You're Mexican. I don't care what why you guys give up the struggle. What is it a struggle to be

a Mexican or a white guy or whatever it is Just give up the struggle and struggle and become a lawyer and do this and whatever you want to do. Do it. And I love that new expression Mongols about what

we should be a mongrel creation day And then anyway I wouldn't elect anybody like district four guy. You let that stuff build up for decades. What did you do? Why would you want to elect that guy? Get

some new blood and get some new blood. Hopefully it's a mega blood and Darth Vader is going maga. Yes, he's going back in time as concluded at the end. You are our final speaker. Please unmute. >>

Hello, my name is Nikolai. I reside in 90 115. I'm addressing the severe life threatening infrastructure defects deficits being ignored by this Council's housing policies. Massive multi-unit backyard

expansions are being greenlighted without requiring a single upgrade to our decades old electric electrical grids or enforcing basic construction safety. Let Marnie know that there is an e-mail for

public safety that mirrors some of what I'm talking about. For the record and some very, very upset homeowners that I've talked to on the cta Drive, the city approved a massive build at 6142 macedo

while a heavy heavily modified house at 4923 Rockford Drive was already drawing maximum power from the exact same legacy poorly run air conditioning the pool and a hot tub. And Steve Gandy had already

planned to replace the failing transformer but hadn't gotten around to it yet. The permits are issued anyway. The moment these contractors fired up industrial air tools on a great push past its

breaking point, the utility infrastructure exploded. The part the poll sparked igniting a fire that nearly burned down 6122 Cedar Drive a single family home owned by the same resident for over 30

years. Innocent long standing homeowners are nearly losing everything because you refused to force updates to the infrastructure developers are destroying. Furthermore, your lack of oversight on these

multistory infill sites are physical threat to public safety. We just watched a catastrophic scaffolding failure on a Mississippi street that crushed six vehicles and forced immediate tenant

evacuations at Stewart Manor. Because of safety, shortcuts were ignored. Yet now at 6738 Mohawk Street Contractor llc was mimicking those same exact dangerous scaffolds. You're overloading the

transformers and blowing our grids and creating little safety tracks we're tracking every time has concluded and that concludes on agenda public comment for today's meeting. Thank you Council

PRESIDENT. All right. Thank you City Clerk And with that we will now adjourned for the noon recess and reconvene open session at 2 P.M. Or shortly thereafter. Okay. >> Good afternoon. I will now

reconvene the city council meeting of Tuesday SEPTEMBER 29th, 2026. Clerk Please call the roll. Thank you. Council PRESIDENT Council member Campbell Council Member Whitburn here Foster Council Ron

Wilber Council PRESIDENT Pro Tem Lee Council Member Can't be here Council Member Moreno Present Council member Eli Rivera and Council PRESIDENT Also turning the meeting our Assistant city Attorney

Leslie Fitzgerald Independent budget Analyst Charles Moraga Council Affairs Advisor in the Mayor's office Code advisor and myself or city clerk Diana Fuentes. Thank you Council PRESIDENT All right.

Thank you. City Clerk Let's get right into it, please introduce item three three item 330 of the Second Amendment to the city of San Diego Percentage lease Interim Sports Arena lease with Midway

Racing Venue Management llc for city owned property located at 3500 Sports Arena Boulevard San Diego, California 9 to 1 with no public comment Time for this item will be one minute If you submitted a

speaker site please be sure to submit that Speaker's up to the front of the room or raise your hand Now by pressing Star nine or the raise your hand icon that you council PRESIDENT All right. Thank

you. All right I see staff settled in. Please introduce yourselves for the record. Let us know how much time you need. Good afternoon. Council PRESIDENT Council members I'm Christina miller, director

of economic development. Only three minutes. All right, you ready? Thank you. We're here to present the Second Amendment to the percentage lease for the pachinko arena otherwise known as the Sports

Arena site. Looks like the requested actions are to approve extending the lease with Midway Rising Venue Management llc, which is the existing lessee to approve the related Ziegler Categorical

exemption for existing facilities as well as allow the city to receive revenue associated with the lease extension into the general fund. By way of background the city entered into the current

percentage lease as an interim lease in JULY of 2023 with an effective date of AUGUST 1st 23 which allowed continued operations of the sports arena while negotiations for the full redevelopment of the

site were ongoing. The term of the interim lease coincides with the exact exclusive negotiating agreement for the redevelopment of the site which both expire DECEMBER 4th, 2026. The interim lease was

administratively corrected in SEPTEMBER of 23 to clarify rent payment amounts. And finally the First Amendment to the interim lease was executed to update the lessee with no operational or revenue

impacts to the lease itself. The Second Amendment will grant a five year extension to the existing lease terms that will ensure continuity of operations and future bookings at the sports arena. As

there is nothing booked at the site currently passed this DECEMBER, the Second Amendment will ensure revenue flows to the general fund as it is a standalone lease and the timing will allow for

operations to continue irrespective of the decision coming forward to Council on the redeveloped project. However, in the instance that Council approved the future action related to the redevelopment

of the site. This lease was negotiated by the parties to remain in place until a full ground lease closing for the horizontal improvements is executed and will be absorbed into that future action

which will be discussed at another time and not the action before you today . So the structure of the lease remains the same with the first three years almost completed and the minimum rent increasing

3% annually for the next five years through DECEMBER 4th of 2031. Again the action staff recommends approval or again on the screen for your consideration. This completes my presentation and I'm happy

to take any questions. Oh and I'm joined at the dais by program manager Nick Baldwin who is in the real estate division as well. Thank you. All right. Thank you for the presentation And we will now go

to public comment. Thank you. Council PRESIDENT Starting with Maximillian Schmidt. If you can please come up to the podium After that is Joey Sonata Blair Beekman and then allegedly Audra and is one

minute each on. Hi. I've been getting threats not to use my First Amendment And if you don't like my First Amendment you can move to Beijing, China. I don't care. This is America on four Item 330. The

Second Amendment to city of San Diego percentage lease with midway rising the new management. i'm opposed to item 330 and the reason why I'm opposed is because I believe that the San Diego City

government should be shut down and to all city council members get life in prison for treating me cruel and unusually that deserves its own pretending to talk to each other and speaking my thoughts

out loud at a very soft and painful gibberish before the meeting starts And I'd honestly rather get repeatedly stabbed by needles than listen to this painful gibberish. And this should not be

happening in America And they're actually depopulating people And this everyone every one of you deserve life in prison. Shame on you. >> There will be justice. John, if you can please go forward. >>

I'm on the fence regarding this due to info from the u-t article so legend just took over sports media operations in AUGUST of 24 Legends also acquired the arena's previous operators acm Global Global

renamed Midway Rising Venue Management. At that time this triggered a lawsuit from the Department of Justice. Legends paid the federal government 3.5 million to settle the matter. Now Upcoming will

have the dea close escrow on horizontal horizontal ground lease hd language suggests that the redevelopment transaction being contemplated includes multiple leases starting with a ground level

infrastructure lease and followed by a separate building or vertical leases. End of article. Thank you for that concludes and hope. >> Purchasing and contracting is looking at this letter between All

right thank you for everything if nothing else. Obviously I hope city government contract can make clear the importance of what city government contracts can be and city owning land and leasing land.

It makes money for ourselves and it's an important commodity that I think we have to worry about Our continually selling off pieces of land and city government at this time. Good luck to address that

and to once again try to address for all the Midway Rising projects coming up all the court appearances it has been going through as of late. I wonder where exactly is sea level rise Issues are part

of that process. We don't seem to know how to talk about it but I think it's there somewhere And you know I've has been doing a great job. I hope I can just become easier to talk about a very obvious

subject matter. We can still be talking about building but we have to include the issue of sea level rise. >> Thank you. Allegedly Andre I guess who's in your guys's pockets that would make you want

to press forward with this being that the acquisition process has been fraudulently done? Just the fact that you know it's going to put people in severe detrimental danger to build in that area. I'm

just wondering like when you guys want to press forward when it is actually extremely negligent makes me wonder like what is what's your decision making process And much of the time it's money or some

kind of incentive because you would actually be doing what the people don't want and what would be again detrimental to them. So I think there's always time to course correct. You guys don't have to

move forward with this but obviously you're going to and it's just going to show the people why you can't be trusted when you put profit over the people. Sorry the moment in time are going to those

participating remotely. I'm sorry I apologize. My zoom worked out right in front of my eyes. We have three speakers in the queue. Amanda, if you can please on mute you'll have one minute. Okay. I

think I'm in the District seven. I don't have anything prepared to say today but I just want to cosign I guess what I've been saying what I've just been saying with what you've been saying that

although we know that Square can be used as a tool that's not what happened in this court case. We had civil engineers that came to the meeting that were begging you not to build on this ground. The

California Supreme Court said that it's subject to the qualification and you should not be building tall structures on this ground. We're having sea level rise that's going to affect the coastal

communities. And also I'm with Audra. I'm wondering why is this getting pushed so hard? We're going to find out. We're going to audit. We're going to find out eventually And we don't want to do

business with a shady business man cocky. Thanks. Thank you, Alexis. Hector, if you can please unmute back here just fine And I thought the native Americans were involved in this but I guess they

bowed out So I think we should get more ice raids at the swap meets and then we can help the guys that have a lease accountable to for allowing less illegal products to be sold. They're like stolen

and human trafficking is involved in you guys selling the stolen things like at the beach Guys are working, they're human traffic. They all pay all the cartels money so they force them to work. So

there's human trafficking going on at the sports arena on the weekends too those swap meets so maybe we can go after the money. The big guy midway raising venue management company to get hold them

accountable for allowing it to happen And they can't just be ignorant about it because I know you guys do ignorance of the law all the time. You don't know and it works for you guys But these guys got

some money. >> Time has concluded. Our next speaker is Mentally Rescue be complete and you might not looking at this I'm saying repeat before who gains and who loses who games what the developers they

are five more years bring that is fixed in revenue from the events they can keep control the site and close by taking over housing or connected construction then in a not notch alterations with the

city approval so they can adjust the benefits needed. The cost of buildings falls on the state rather than the developers and promoters and concessions in the state of the bank without a cap anything

that you could take this for this is put up bit Is it the mayor How long is it going to take? Thank you. Thank you. That concludes comment on this item. Thank you City clerk One of the things I do

sitting up here and trying to manage meetings is to be consistent in terms of how I manage the meeting And when there's only one minute of public comment I'm really reluctant to interfere with that

one minute Let people just say what they're going to say. This is not about the Midway Rising project. This is about the existing sports arena and maintaining the operation of the existing sports

arena and who should be managing that. It is not about the Midway Rising project as this pillar described. If that project ultimately is rejected by the Council we still have an existing sports arena

that needs to be manage and operate and generate revenue in the 7 or $15 million a year in revenue to the city. So I just wanted to insert that. So if anybody says why didn't you interrupt that's why

you don't want there's only one minute. So with that we will start with council member Campbell. Thank you so much. This is in my district of course And so I'm delighted to be able to bring forward a

motion. I want to thank you for everything you've just explained to the public And I might just add that there is someone in the public who said we're selling the land. No, this is almost 50 acres of

land owned by the city. It is not being sold. Okay. We have the sports arena. The lease on it is running out and therefore it is time to renew the lease. So we are renewing the lease such that the

sports arena will be an operation for the new sports shows and other events until we get the new sports arena an entertainment center built And that's why this is five years long just as Council

PRESIDENT Pointed out, the city makes many millions of dollars a year from this venue and we will continue to do so while we are in the process of getting everything going for the new sports arena and

entertainment center. This is really a partnership of everybody. Someone said who wins? Who loses? We all win especially people looking for housing. There will be 4200 new houses in the Midway Project

which isn't what this bill is about. This bill is just about the original lease and keeping everything going so that we can continue to make progress for the future. I move staff recommendation and

thank you Council PRESIDENT All right. >> Thank you Council Mayor Campbell. So we have a motion to move The staff recommendation will go to council member Whitmer Happy to second a motion. All right.

So we have a motion by Councilmember Campbell second by Council member Whitburn. I don't see anybody else in the lights. I'm going to ask a question because we get accused of something when the

conversations happen about what's happening in the midway area. Most hotels are dirty not a general public comment. Our protocol is not to respond to the public, not a general public comment. The

Midway Rising project which is not here will actually be a quasi judicial decision So we don't talk about judicial until the actual hearing so stay tuned for that. So my question is the condition of

the sports arena and the concerns about flooding to the midway. Sea level rise Is there any reason to believe that the sports arena will not have a five year lease from today because of all those very

real things that we see in the midway area? >> So in its current format the property is fully maintained and operated by the lessee and any challenges associated with flooding are mitigated by them.

But it's not currently happening within the arena itself. We do understand that's happening in the neighborhood But that being said again future actions and mitigation for future development that have

to develop up will be accommodated and adjusted Then however this lease was before council today takes into consideration continued of operations and maintenance of the site in its current form. Okay,

thank you for that. So yes we can't talk about it. We can't find a way to talk about it. Tell us what's a good moment to phrase that question since we have an existing building out there and a 100%

impervious site. Right. All right. That's all I wanted to ask about. So we do have a motion by council member Campbell second by Council member Whitburn to move the staff recommendation. >> clerk

Please call the roll. Please cast your vote That passes unanimously 8 to 0 with Councilmember Von Wilpert absent. Thank you Council PRESIDENT All right. Thank you again for the work with that clerk

Please introduce item 331 Item 331 is the 14th Street and Alcohol Boulevard right of way vacation project number p rj Dash 11 47743. This item is not subject to the mayor's veto and public comment

time for this item will be one minute. If you would like to speak to this item please be sure to submit your speakers up to the front of the room or if you're participating virtually now's the time to

raise your hand by pressing Star nine with the Raise your hand icon. Thank you Council PRESIDENT Thank you City Clerk With that I see staff are seated Please introduce yourselves for the record and

let us know how much time you will need. Good afternoon, Council PRESIDENT Council Members My name is Van Hyphen Happy I'm a development project manager with development services and only up to ten

minutes. All right. Proceed when you're ready. The project before you today is the 40th Street and El Cajon Boulevard Public right of way vacation project. >> The project site is generally located

south of Interstate eight and is just west of Interstate 15. If we take a closer look at the area, the project site is public right away as shown here in Orange which is generally located just south

of four three, four, four 40th Street and north of Elkhorn Boulevard . >> The Interstate 15 southbound off ramp parallels the eastern portion of the site and is separated by concrete walls. An

existing alley also runs along the west of the project site and two vacant undeveloped parcels identified above or adjacent to the proposed public right of way vacation areas. Residential development

is to the north and west and commercial properties are located to the south along Elkhorn Boulevard The 0.10 acres of public right of way spans across the central urbanized plan District two four and

see you to four zones and a residential parking standard Transit Priority area Transit Priority area and transit area overlay zone The c two four zone is intended to accommodate development with

pedestrian orientation and high density residential use while the city to four zone provides transition between the c you two four zone and above the abutting residential use areas, the site is within

the normal heights neighborhood element of the Mid-City community's plan area and the land use designation is general commercial and mixed use. These only designations will not change as a result of

the right of way vacation The public right away application is proposed to vacate two areas Parcel a is 3645ft in the western portion of 14th Street shown here in blue and parcel b is 786ft of an

unnamed alley shown here in Orange that runs west from 40th Street between two vacant lots outlined here in white labeled plots 29 through 32 and 25 to 28. The state of California acquired the

feasible interest in parcel a for highway purposes and then later relinquished its fee interest to the city of San Diego in 2005 40th street or Parcel eight is located currently comes to a dead end

and due to the proximity of the interstate 15 freeway off ramp was never approved for street or highway purposes beyond the dead end and will not be improved to provide vehicular access to Elkhorn

Boulevard since the city still owns the fee interest in this area, the sale of the portions of Parcel eight will be presented to the City Council by the Economic Development Department Real Estate

Division at a future hearing date. >> Parcel eight currently provides a turnaround for vehicles Therefore as a condition of the public right away vacation the applicant is required to dedicate and

improve additional right away sufficient to construct a vehicle turnaround area adjacent to the vacation area on 14th Street which is generally shown here in Green. The existing alleys located to the

west of Parcel b that provide access from 39th Street to meet Avenue will remain unchanged. Parcel b does not provide access from the existing western alley to 40th Street for general vehicular use

Unlike parcel a parcel b was dedicated to the city in 1908 as part of subdivision map number 1108 Therefore following the regulation of the public right away vacation the public's right to use parcel

b would be eliminated at all rights of ownership within parcel b shall revert to the abutting parcels underline for the owners to the north and south the southern end of the vacation area and along

the eastern perimeter of lots 25 through 28 currently features a pedestrian access way from 40th Street to El Cajon Boulevard seen generally represented in green The project includes the dedication

and improvements of additional right away into the Western lot which will allow for enhancement of this area to a 26 foot wide pedestrian promenade The pedestrian and bicycle access from 14th Street

Elkhorn Boulevard will be preserved and enhanced. The project also includes the reservation of a public utility easement on the southwest portion of Parcel b for existing third party utilities

including at&t and San Diego Gas and Electric And as a condition of approval all public water and sewer and storm drain utilities that affect the proposed vacation area will be abandoned and or

relocated prior to the record ation of the vacation. This is a photo on 14th Street Fate is facing Southwest. >> The vacant lots can be seen to the right and Elkhorn Boulevard is in the distance. This

is a photo of the alley with 39th Street to the rear and the portion of the alley to be vacated near the center 43 is seen in the distance. The Development Services Department's Environmental analysis

section analyze the project and determined it is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act or sequel pursuant to Section 153 all five minor alterations and 15332 infill development projects

and on MAY 4th 2021 the Normal Heights Community Planning Group recommended approval of the project ten 021 with no conditions. >> Please note there were previous council actions on DECEMBER 13th 2021

a secure exemption determination and public right of way vacation under project number 682 when 86 were approved the public right away vacation resolution expired on DECEMBER 14th, 2024 due to the

conditions of approval not being met within three years of the approval date. The applicant today is seeking his musical exemption determination and a new public right of way vacation approval on JULY

21st, 2022 the City Council declared parcel a as exempt surplus land and authorize state sales to the applicant's predecessor. The Economic Development Department Real Estate division is currently

preparing an item for the First Amendment to the purchase and sale agreement for Parcel a between the city of San Diego and Bridge Deck Owner llc. The First Amendment corrects a sequencing order in

the agreement and will allow for the closing of escrow and recognition of the public right of way vacation for parcels and to proceed in a more logical and organized manner. The First Amendment to the

agreement is a separate action that will be presented to the City Council by the Economic Development Department Real Estate Division at a future hearing date on SEPTEMBER 3rd, 2026. The Land Use and

Housing Committee recommended approval of the First Amendment to the agreement. >> The project is not proposed Any development deviations or variances and it meets all the rules and regulations of the

San Diego Municipal Code. All conditions of approval are contained within the staff report. Therefore staff recommends the City Council approval of a resolution determining the project is exempt from

secure and to recommend approval of the public right of way vacation. This concludes my presentation. Staff and myself and the applicant are available to answer the questions. Thank you. All right.

Thank you for the presentation and the work I understand on a quasi judicial we allow a dedicated time for the applicant. I understand the applicant does not wish to speak at this time . So with that

clerk please proceed with public comment. Thank you. Council PRESIDENT Maximillian Schmidt If you can please come forward. You'll have one minute and I do not see him here. Roy Salem, if you can

please come forward. You'll have one minute after that If I can have Trudy Thomas Blair Beekman Allegedly. Audra, please come to the front room. Please proceed. My name is Ray Salem and the owner

Bud's the alleyway. I can finally have two concerns. I have a communication to Benjamin. One is the hammerhead for the fire. The fire turnaround is not clear. I haven't seen clear document. Explain to

me how it's gonna work. That's a big concern for fire risk And the second item is they mentioned that they're going to move sewage systems and drainage systems from this from the from the vacate where

are they going to go? This area already floods and we have it what about three years ago? We have three units of this property. They almost all got flooded. So any further damage to the drainage

system is horrible and it seems to be carefully considered And those are my request. Thank you. Thank you. Trudy Thomas. Hello, Council members. Thank you. Trudy Thomas Algoma Boulevard bia I stand

today in favor of getting this vacation process right the second time I always welcome a do over vacation. John o'Connor who is here with us today. John grew up on the Boulevard and we love working

with conscious builders and golden projects like this projects that serve our neighborhoods and keep them neighborhood high and that utilizes the transportation amenities and infrastructure and

infrastructure that we have on the boulevard bringing opportunity to residents of the Mid-City. Thank you. Thank you. Blair Big Ben, if you can please come forward after that will be allegedly Audra

and then Maximillian Schmidt Hi. >> Where? Beekman I don't know if I heard this project. Quite right. It's my first time hearing it but I heard that you're going to end the alleyway and parcel b

Parcel b has been part of this lot development since 1918. You said that's kind of like really important And I think to end the alleyway access if that's what you're saying you're going to do is a bit

detrimental and not very neighborhood inspiring. I know it can serve the land better possibly but in terms of the quality of the neighborhoods something is detracted and I hope that can be considered

in how you're going to talk about this item. I certainly don't want to hurt the process but man I don't want to hurt quality neighborhood life and street life in San Diego that I just love You know I

love walking down the old alleyways of San Diego. >> So please be considering that. Thank you. >> Allegedly Andre I guess I'm not sure really what this vehicle turn around is for and if you're going

to put it somewhere else, what's the purpose of it? And if this place floods again, why are we going to put housing there That's detrimental And then I mean with no evacuation but it doesn't

necessarily need to have parking. So then you could take out the need to use your car but then I guess you just need to run if there's a fire and hopefully you're not going to get caught by it. But

yeah, these are just interesting the way they are kept for so long with no purpose. But even with the thought of 190 affordable units or whatever you guys want to claim with this state of housing at

this point it's like we keep getting into these projects and again in detrimental areas that you claim like you put the people's safety over going we want to provide you a home. I'm pretty sure they

would rather have their life than be put in a home that could potentially, you know, kill them or cause them to lose everything. So it's just it's an inverted world's great Thank you. >> That does

conclude public comment hearing council chambers for the five minute timer Oh sorry My apologies Maximilian, please come forward . Hi. I'm opposed to item 331 and I believe that not only and the

reason why is I believe that not only should the San Diego City Council who sits in front of me right now with none of them looking at me, looking down at their computers or very rudely and also when

I speak make certain strange noises to try to break my speech on before the meeting starts. They speak in a very soft gibberish that's so painful I'd rather get stabbed by needles and listen to it And

it's also happening to me in the homeless shelter And it's also happening all over downtown San Diego And I believe that these people deserve life in prison because it's a it's extremely cruel and

unusual and meets the definition of torture. These people are physically assaulting me with their voice on basically it's called Tasers. It's on And there will be justice. Thank you. I would like to

note for the record that Josh o'Connor did submit a speaker slip slip in favor but did not wish to speak And then Hector is on the line. Hector, if you can please unmute you'll have one minute. Please

proceed. It's a little off topic but hey Max, we love you out here. Matt, you should go down to Austin, Texas and get on kill Tony on the comedy show there You'd make a fortune man We love you, Max.

But maybe they could if you guys could get a couple guys in white coats when Max is around just to make Hector you know the rules better than most. >> Can you stay on the topic? Please Unmute us.

Sorry about that. I was just trying to give Max up, put a smile on his face. Sorry about that Off topic but conclude your comments and oh yeah that's right. That concludes with a comment on this item.

Thank you. Council PRESIDENT All right. >> Thank you. Thank you Hector. With that we'll turn to the council members questions, comments and entertain a motion and we'll start with Council member Isla

Rivera. All right. Thank you Council PRESIDENT X for the presentation here. I did want to give staff an opportunity to respond to some of the concerns or questions raised from committee member that

that raise them. Is there anything that was mentioned there that you all feel like you can address? >> Yeah, we can address some of the concerns from the neighbor. We'll start off with the Hammerhead

turn around. We have Tyler Larson with the fire rescue department who can speak to fire access And if slide number 20 can be pulled out, please. >> Good afternoon. Council members Tyler Larson,

supervising deputy fire marshal for San Diego Fire Rescue Department been involved in this project since 2021 And while this is being pulled up so just north of the vacation area there is a what we

call a modified t turn around that meets fire department requirements for Appendix d of the California Fire Code. With that and through access via the pedestrian walkway sort of vehicle access only

situation During an incident we approved the diagram as shown. >> Got it. So understanding that it meets it, it meets the requirements. I think I'm just trying I want to make sure that we're

translating this for folks within the community so you're not you're not able to interject in the in the middle. I apologize but I'm doing my best I'm doing my best to ask the questions that that were

raised. So if we can translate that in terms for a neighbor to understand why the fire department feels like the safety concerns that were raised are not something that should keep them up at night

just because that's the sort of thing you know and changes are happening in your neighborhood. You want to make sure that you're going to be able to get in and get out and the emergency vehicles can

get in, get in, get out, etc.. >> Right. So during an incident the first alarm first alarm, second alarm units whether it's five to maybe ten apparatus typically are going to be lined up stage

probably before that turn around for a modified t and and then waiting for assignments for for whatever building or you know, future building in that area and whether we need to relocate an apparatus

for various tasks that are needed to be performed be performed. We have a quick means of doing a three point turn with minimal apparatus movements Got it on on the ground And then correct me if I'm

wrong I would assume that there is a kind of a 360 degree assessment of what's going on around the property as well. Correct is what you can do at that property or the surrounding properties is not

just based on what's happening on one side of it but on all sides of it. All right. I mean it's going to be doing the 360 Thank you. And any other any other issues raised that staff want to address.

Thank you, sir. Appreciate the response. Yes, we could address the concern regarding the drainage of slide number 11 can be pulled up. >> Please. That's why it's actually fine. So if we if we look at

this slide right here up on the upper left, there's these two storm drain inlets that are proposed there. They're square. They have like smaller squares. Those are going to be private. And there's

also a footnote that says that the existing storm drain is to be abandoned. So those two storm drain inlets are going to be private and then there's going to be another connector to a another public

storm drain inlet right there that's kind of like to the furthest to the left We have these the engineering on the call They might be able to to expand But I think this is that this is how the storm

water's issue is going to be addressed. Got it. And is there a timeline You'll know if there's a timeline for that. So there's a right away permit application that's currently waiting to be issued So

that the time frame is two years from when that permit is issued. It should be issued within the upcoming weeks. Thank you. All right. I appreciate all the work that gone into this. Our office will

continue to work with constituents and and kind of liaison between our constituents and you all to make sure that they understand what work is being done, what work is planned to be done and how the

safety of the community is being kept at the forefront of everyone's mind As this work goes forward I'll move approval. >> Council PRESIDENT All right, Thank you Council Member Eli Rivera So we have a

motion to approve the staff recommendation. Um, I'm not seeing any action by my colleagues on council PRESIDENT Pro Tem We have second the motion so we do have a motion by council member Eli Rivera

and a second by Council PRESIDENT Pro Tem Lee. I just got a couple questions. So there's this action there is an action for the transfer of land. Is there a land development action or is this

ministerial at that point I Excuse me are you referring to the sale of parcel a The sale Yeah that would be would come back to us . There is no ministerial action associated that with that that's I

think I'm sorry What I meant was the land development component to develop the property there there is no active ministerial building permit application at the moment. However there are pending

applications for public easement dedications So I'm sorry I'm not sure if that answers your question at this point. Future actions would likely proceed administratively for any land development on the

private property adjacent to the public right away. Okay. My apologies for not getting the question out more articulately. I think the only thing that I appreciate Councilmember De La Rivera is kind

of digging in on some of the issues raised by the public and the thought process the graphic that shows even though that's not part of today's action the fire lane in addition to the Hammerhead really

tells a good story on that particular issue. One of the things I've noticed is that there is an alley on the east side of the property that I think is unimproved. That is that a dedicated alley that

there's there is an alley to the to the west To the west I'm sorry. Right west Right. Yeah. So the alley at the alley to the west it is going to remain in place. However as part of this project they

are required to dedicate 2.5ft and should future development occur with the adjacent property areas they'll be required to dedicate 2.5ft where the overall angle of eventually widening the alley 220

20ft should future development occur. >> All right. But just by previous experience are you getting nervous about alleys that intersect at 90 degrees and being able to navigate that turn? I will leave

that in your hands to think about that or the developer when they actually think about their project Otherwise good work. I appreciate I appreciate you being ready to answer questions that were being

raised by the public and by the council. So thank you for that. Thank you. All right. See anybody else on the lights? We have a motion by Councilmember Eli Rivera and a second by Council PRESIDENT Pro

Tem Lee to move the staff recommendation. Clerk please call the roll. I'm sorry The voting system Please cast your vote That passes unanimously 8 to 0 with Councilmember Van Wilpert absent. >> Thank

you Council PRESIDENT All right. Thank you. And with that we will now adjourn council to the next regularly scheduled council meeting on Monday OCTOBER 5th, 2026 at 10 A.M. We are