2026-10-20 - City Council

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01:18:36will take out the ground in English . >> Good morning.

01:18:44I will now call the City Council meeting of Tuesday OCTOBER 20th, 2026 to order. Clerk Please call the roll. Thank you. Council PRESIDENT Council Member Campbell. Council Member Whitburn Council Member Foster here.

01:18:58Council Member Von Wilbur. Council PRESIDENT Pro Tem Lee here. Council Member Campo. Council Member Moreno PRESIDENT .

01:19:08Council Member Isla Rivera. And Council PRESIDENT Lee Kevin. PRESIDENT. Also attending the meeting our city Attorney Heather Ferber, Independent budget analyst Charles Monica. Council Affairs Advisor in the mayor's office Curtis Iser and myself your city clerk Diana Fuentes.

01:19:18Thank you. Council PRESIDENT. All right. Thank you City Clerk With that a quorum is now present. We will begin this morning with the land acknowledgment and the Pledge of Allegiance led by council member Campbell.

01:19:36We respectfully acknowledge that the culmination are the original inhabitants of the Unceded land now known as San Diego. Despite enduring the horrors of genocide and colonization, the ice spirit remains unbroken.

01:19:47We honor the resilience of their ancestors, fight to protect their culture and land and today they carry their legacy forward ensuring that their traditions continue to thrive in gratitude and strength.

01:20:00We stand with the culmination connected to our past and committed to a thriving future. Please face the flag and over your heart. Ready? 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

01:20:18justice for all. City Clerk. Please go over how the public can offer their testimony.

01:20:29Thank you. Council PRESIDENT I'd like to highlight the slide on the screen. Please note the time allocations for proclamations and consent items for a meeting manager purposes.

01:20:38The order can be found on the agenda summary online or at the table in the back of the room. If you are in person please complete the speaker slip Slip Located at the entrance of chambers and bring it to the front of the room where the blue Arrow Points Council ambassadors are available near the entrance and can assist with questions and speaker slips and no further in-person

01:20:56testimony will be taken once the council begins Virtual testimony. Thank you, Council PRESIDENT. All right. Thank you City Clerk And friendly reminder that when you're speaking the items that are on the agenda that speak specifically to that agenda item not agenda public comment is your opportunity to speak

01:21:12more freely on things under the city's purview. We will now dispense with the approval of the proclamation items.

01:21:21Clerk 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.

01:21:35The proclamation item is being approved or items 330 2s5 hundred s5o2 and s5o4. We will begin public comment with Joy Sonata.

01:21:44If you can please come up to the microphone you'll be speaking on items 30 s 500 and s5o4 so you will have three minutes.

01:21:57Number 30 happy Filipino American History Month OCTOBER 2026 Earliest documented proof of Filipino presence in the continental United States is OCTOBER 18th.

01:22:19I still am amazed by this 1587. >> No, I'm going to try this. Luis on if ineos set foot in what is now Morro Bay, California Wasn't that a great step forward for the Filipino

01:22:35people? Love to all s500 a big yes to California flood preparation the week of OCTOBER 17th through the 24th 2026 first

01:22:52whereas I really like this. These wordings encourage communities to take proactive steps and last whereas wording City of San Diego continues to work year round to reduce flood risks.

01:23:11Flood plain management Storm water infrastructure maintenance Emergency planning public education coordination among city departments and regional partners.

01:23:26For me the word for this work is r o b u s t. Robust. It's been robust lately. I just absolutely am thrilled by it.

01:23:38504 yet. Oh good. Yes. 504 Yes To Bill Walton tidy a tie Dye Day NOVEMBER 6 to 2026.

01:23:54He was born to shoot a basket. That's my word. And success is off the charts. He devoted himself to civic engagement, philanthropy, mentorship, local causes, youth sports and the everyday people

01:24:14who make this city great. Wasn't that Bill Walton and the everyday people who make this city great?

01:24:24Bill Walton was a big time slam dunk guy. Love to all. Thank you.

01:24:33Allegedly. Andrea, if you'd like to come forward to the microphone you're speaking items 3132 us 500 as people to testify before you will have three minutes. Please proceed.

01:24:45>> Yes it is always nice to honor people but I feel like we spend more time doing these proclamations than actual business that needs to really be paid attention to and it's sad because we kind of brush over the things in the city when we do these things and I

01:25:04just wish more time would be spent On the business at hand with Captain Alberto Leo's Day. You know, it's interesting because we have officers who work on child abuse and domestic violence and I feel like they don't go all the way

01:25:20that they could. There's a lot of child abuse that takes place even in our schools. I mean they're given pornography And I don't understand why people you know, that we can honor people that do those things But there's so much crime that takes place that's ignored And even with

01:25:38the doctor, Maria, I mean medical professionals were doing things that are just harmful to people And I find it unfortunate. I just wish people would stand in the gap and tell the truth.

01:25:48And with this California flood preparedness Week this is kind of embarrassing because you guys were not prepared. You're not now we've got $5 billion we need for a storm infrastructure.

01:26:03It's been 50 years in the making that there's been nothing that's been done. The county had to bail you guys out. You failed miserably and you're actually suing people that are victims of the flooding.

01:26:17And we also have significant litigation regarding the flooding. So I just feel like this is a slap in the face to be even having this problem And that's why I don't understand why we do this kind of stuff.

01:26:31We spend so much time on it and yet like look at the world around us. I mean even for this colonel it's like the military We we don't even take care of our military.

01:26:42We can give people like this proclamations but you can go out on the streets and see military people that are homeless or that are being, you know, left behind after they fought wars for our country which are also totally because you know, they're not for the reasons that people claim

01:27:01and this bill and that's nice again but it's like we're honoring baseball players and we have a bunch of business to do. You guys are going to go through it so quick You give us one minute to talk on it, you'll brush it through in all of consent and it's like this is you guys spend billions of our dollars that it's just like

01:27:24we don't even you know, take the same type of care with those types of things that you do for this. And I just find it unfortunate because it shows that you really don't care as much about our money that you guys get and the suffering of the people that are just outside your doors.

01:27:43>> So yeah, there's always time to course correct. And then James Newton submitted a speaker slip in favor for item 30 but did not wish to speak starting the five minute time for hearing council chambers and going to those

01:28:01participating remotely. We have two speakers in the queue starting with Hector. If you can please let me know which item or items you wish to speak to. Good morning guys. I'd like to speak to the Filipino one and Bill Walton.

01:28:12You'll have two minutes. Please proceed. Thanks. First off the Phil, I want to thank all the Filipino men for bringing your women to San Diego your mothers, your daughters and your spouses.

01:28:27They're the most beautiful women around. There's very. And thank you for protecting them and bring it on And having them live here.

01:28:37Man you guys are doing the world a favor, especially San Diego. And then on the on the Bill Walton one, I had the pleasure of meeting Bill a couple times before he died and the first time I thanked him wholeheartedly about calling out our mayor and calling it

01:28:58Todd Gloria Bill I just like thank you Bill for doing that. And Gloria Bill still persists today. We got to shut down the bathrooms to save money on toilet paper.

01:29:09We got the trash can bait and switch. We got Gloria Bill going right now. Invite your own buddy to be the city manager.

01:29:19That's total Gloria Bill, that's a gangster move. Well, actually she's from Washington D.C. When the gangsters were doing that so she's probably pretty tough.

01:29:28But Bill's a cool guy. He's a basketball player to man. He's not a baseball player anyway. He grew up like I did in San Diego the best of times.

01:29:37He deserves all the credit for what he did. Yeah, he's a really a great guy. His brothers, his whole family. Thank you, Bill.

01:29:48Thank you Once again, rest in peace, man. Goodbye, Blair Beakman if you can please unmute and let me know which item or items you wish to speak to.

01:30:03What Big Man Item 30. Item 31 and item s 500 and a couple of other items are so it's 5 or 4 and possibly item 32 you'll have three minutes.

01:30:16>> Please proceed. Thank you. To first speak to the Filipino-American month thank you for it in San Jose I learned how you know that

01:30:33the 1500s was a time that the Filipino community first started arriving in North America. Well I don't know if the first but it was the three marked as such as as quite celebratory as as Joyce pointed out, it's my understanding for a Filipino

01:30:52American History Month idea is that, you know, people of the America it's the Hawaiian Islands and in Asia, you know, they were kind of traveling pretty frequently to see over the oceans before 1492 And I think we're not quite clear enough yet on that concept.

01:31:10We still put a lot of weight on 1492 as opposed to 19 1492 when we were just a lot of sailing was happening around the world and we need to better acknowledge that And traveling through the oceans around the world I hope we can better acknowledge that as what we were about as human beings.

01:31:29And for Captain Alberto Leo Day I read that he was a survivor of the McDonald's shooting of 1984 where a person guess a middle aged person was tired of life and he just went down to a sandwich studio at McDonald's

01:31:45and just, you know, machine gunned a lot of people That was a middle aged person. We're now dealing with young people who are kind of doing the same thing. It's kind of to something that's kind of it happens every once in a while within our society We're really addressing young people and I hope we're really finding answers to

01:32:02address how young people don't have to feel they have to resolve to that form of violence in order to create social change. And I think we're seeing ways to do that and understand that better could work.

01:32:12We can continue those efforts. I think we can accomplish something really important that way. And good luck with the item you had yesterday to address Automatic rifle used for our future.

01:32:22It can be limited and we can still be a good society. I have constitutional values and in such to conclude California flood preparedness Week very much of a thank you to the words of Lori Saldana.

01:32:39She's been a one person team who's made it really clear that we have to talk more about sea level rise issues and especially for projects like Midway Rising and I've tried to back her up by working my ideas with tech accountability.

01:32:53We have to be able to want to create a better language when we see it. It's clear there are problems and they're issues and you guys keep ducking the problem and not talking about it openly.

01:33:03We have to make those efforts whenever we see that really happening how to practice more open accountable conversation and dialog that to me that's my main focus How do we do that better and practice that well That's building our better sustainable future because

01:33:19cannot separate. >> Thank you. Thank you for that Concluding comment. The five minute timer also concluded No more hands are raised and that concludes with a comment on the proclamation items.

01:33:28Thank you Council PRESIDENT All right. Thank you City Clerk And with that I'll turn it over to my council colleagues for questions, comments and entertain a motion and we'll start with Council Member Campo.

01:33:37Thank you very much. Council PRESIDENT I'm of approval of the proclamations and speak briefly to a few of them. First of all Captain Alberto Leo's thank you so much for your 39 years of distinguished service to our communities.

01:33:50Obviously surviving the McDonald's massacre, taking that profound experience and turning it into a belief 32 years of San Diego Police Department Chula Vista before that and obviously for your role and being the captain at Eastern Division for a few years and and taking care of constituents in my district So

01:34:05thank you very much and congratulations on your retirement for DR. Maria Carrier Those senior settles they really appreciate all the work you've done to make sure our community health is is excellent Working at San Ysidro Health I want to thank Councilmember Moreno for

01:34:21bringing that forward as well And of course Colonel Eric are Eric Herman Day Thank you for your service of protecting our country and serving so many folks throughout California and San Diego all the different ways in which not just warfare but in terms of energy resilience and you know, coming up with the idea for the goats

01:34:39to make sure we get rid of the brush and fuel out there that protects our entire community. So thank you for that. And of course Bill Walton died I'd have to say I'm a big fan of Bill Walton was obviously very sad with the entire San Diego community to see him pass away And I'd say that the one time I was privileged to meet

01:34:58him he was sitting down and he was still taller than me So you know, thank you for bringing remembrance to his name and obviously the values he stood for peace and love but also excellence in his time as a basketballer in San Diego.

01:35:13And on issue of California flood preparedness Week, I want to thank you council PRESIDENT And of course council member Yvonne Wolpert for joining me and bringing this forward OCTOBER 17th through 24th.

01:35:23We all know that we are facing a very big El Nino storm coming and our role as a city to prepare for that and have people be prepared for that.

01:35:32One thing that goes often unnoticed is the work that we do throughout the year keeps people's insurance bills low because the city goes beyond federal floodplain standards.

01:35:42San Diegans with a National flood Insurance Program policy get a 15% discount on their premiums. Not every city in the county does that work and gets those savings on premiums for the residents who have that insurance and need that insurance.

01:35:54So we're doing good work on that And I think the department that works on that and to help residents get ready I will be hosting a town hall with the city's Office of Emergency Services and aarp this Saturday at the Mission Valley Library 9:30 A.M. Everyone is welcome to come ask questions and learn about flood risk as well.

01:36:10And last but not least Filipino American History Month. Thank you. Council PRESIDENT Pro Tem Lee Councilmember Foster for bringing this forward as a representative for Linda Vista with a strong Filipino American history and culture in that community and of course all across San Diego.

01:36:25It's something I'm very proud of and always enjoy being part of celebrations with that community And I believe a member of my staff who is part of our Filipino workers Association here in this city Anthony Hackett whose mother is Filipino Would you like a few

01:37:01minutes to say some words? >> Good morning Council PRESIDENT And members of the City Council. My name is Anthony Hackett, vice PRESIDENT Of the City of San Diego Filipino American Employees Association.

01:37:12On behalf of our organization, I want to thank you for recognizing Filipino American Heritage Month and presenting us with this proclamation. It means a great deal to our association and to the Filipino American community here in San Diego.

01:37:22For me being Filipino means pride, joy and of course lots of food. It means celebrating our culture, our traditions and the connections we share with family and community.

01:37:32But it also means having a responsibility to help other Filipinos find their way open doors for one another and make sure the next generation has opportunities to succeed.

01:37:41Those values have helped shaped who I am and how I approach my work with the city of San Diego Filipino Customs, Filipino customs and traditions teach us the importance of respect caring for others and showing up for our community and public service.

01:37:55Those values translate into listening to residents building relationships, helping people navigate challenges and making sure they feel heard.

01:38:04Representation matters too. Filipino Americans have made meaningful contributions to our communities and in some and it's important that our voices, experiences and perspectives continue to be represented in public service.

01:38:18Our association brings city employees together to celebrate our heritage, build connections, support professional development, provide scholarships and give back to the community. It reminds us that we can take pride in where we come from while continuing to make a difference in the place where we work and live.

01:38:34And as we celebrate Filipino-American History Month I want to take some time to thank a few people starting tonight Sophia v Hackett Marami Salamat at Mahalo and alQaeda.

01:38:44So in the moment I began to think about this question but I think salamat I knew that at a talking among Mattapan and at the tropical Southeast and Diego at the skyline Maraming salamat at among Kasama and Candido so City San Diego Filipino American Employees Association Marami so honoring.

01:39:03Thank you again to the City Council for this recognition and for Sela and for celebrating Filipino American heritage Month. Mabuhay. >> Thank you very much Anthony and to everyone from the organization Salamat Po thank you for being here.

01:39:16And that concludes my motion. Council PRESIDENT All right. Thank you Council members So we have a motion by Council member Camp Hill to move the proclamations. We'll go next to Council member Perrino Thank you and I'll second the motion.

01:39:27I have comments on item 31 Captain Alberto Leo stay in item number 32 DR. Maria Garrido Semi settles day Captain Alberto Leo's story is one of resilience, courage and deep deep commitment to giving back to the community In 1984

01:39:46as a high school student, he survived the tragic mass shooting at the McDonald's in San Isidro. In the aftermath, he and his family received support from the very community that would later become central to his life's work.

01:40:01Captain Leo's his decision to pursue a career in law enforcement became a meaningful way to give back to those who had helped him through one of the most difficult experiences of his life.

01:40:11His career began with the National City Police Department. Then he joined the Chula Vista Police Department and eventually the San Diego Police Department.

01:40:21In 1994 while serving as a patrol officer, he continued his education at night, earning both a bachelor's degree in behavioral science and a master's degree in public administration.

01:40:36His dedication to professional growth helped prepare him for the many leadership responsibilities that followed through his career with sd pd. Captain Leo served in a wide range of assignments including patrol investigation, internal

01:40:53affairs, recruiting and division leadership. Now as a lieutenant he helped oversee the hiring of approximately 500 new police officers contributing to the department's ability to serve and protect San Diego residents.

01:41:08Captain Nielsen's career has also been marked by extraordinary acts of courage. In 1994 he rescued a man trapped inside of a burning vehicle.

01:41:21The lifesaving act reflects the sense of duty and compassion that has characterized his decades of service. Beyond these accomplishments, Captain Leos has consistently emphasized the importance of community oriented policing.

01:41:34Through his career he's worked to build relationships with residents, community organizations, fellow officers and regional partners.

01:41:45Captain Leos recognizes that public safety depends not only on enforcement but also on trust, communication and collaboration.

01:41:56His service as captain of Southern Division brought his career to full circle. Leading the division has served Sundays he drew men returning to the community whose support helped shaped his path.

01:42:08This is a powerful reminder of how a personal experience can become a lifelong commitment to serving others. As Captain Leos enters retirement, his legacy extends beyond his years in uniform.

01:42:22It includes the officers he mentored, the lives he helped protect the relationships he built and the community he served with dedication and integrity. On behalf of the city of San Diego and on behalf of Otay Mesa and Nestor Egger and the San Diego community, I

01:42:40extend my sincere gratitude to Captain Leos for his more than 39 years of service. Thank you for your courage. Thank you for your leadership, your enduring commitment to the people of San Diego.

01:42:57But most importantly thank you for your humanity. I thought I saw him here. Oh, he's hiding behind me. >> If we can give him a round of applause please.

01:43:29>> Another individual that I have the honor to recognize is DR. Maria Carrillo. Cindy settles her history is one of perseverance, purpose and an enduring commitment to community.

01:43:45Born and raised in the South Bay as the youngest of six children in a working class family, she graduated from Sweetwater High School before earning her degree in economics from Harvard University.

01:43:57Her path to medicine was anything but conventional. Inspired by the compassionate compassionate care her father received during a serious illness, she returned her school to return to school in her 30s to pursue medicine.

01:44:14Ultimately earning her medical degree from uc San Diego in 2000, DR. Guerrero said he settles Journey reminds us that it's never too late to answer a call and make a difference in the lives of others.

01:44:27Following her residency at Scripps Chula Vista, DR. Carlos and he settled Join San Ysidro Health where she has dedicated her career to serving the community that helped shape her.

01:44:39As vice PRESIDENT And chief medical officer, she's helped advance access to quality health care and strengthening services.

01:44:50I MAY have three more minutes and strengthening services for patients and families throughout the region. Her impact extends beyond direct patient care. She has helped develop the next generation of physicians through medical education and her leadership in establishing San Ysidro Health's internal

01:45:08medicine residency program which welcomed its inaugural class in 2023. DR. Carlos Cindy Sales has also made history through her professional leadership.

01:45:21In JUNE 2026 she became the first Latina PRESIDENT Of the San Diego County Medical Society and its 156 year history a milestone that reflects her contribution to the medical profession and

01:45:37expands representation in health care leadership. Through her leadership with Champions for Health Foundation and Project Access San Diego, she has also helped advance access to specialty care for uninsured patients by supporting a network of volunteer physicians, hospitals

01:45:57and community partners. Now what makes DR. Gary courageous and he said this story especially meaningful is that her work remains rooted in service.

01:46:08She has used her education experience and leadership to create opportunity opportunities for others and helped ensure that access to compassionate quality health care is not determined by a person's circumstance.

01:46:20Now on behalf of the city of San Diego, I congratulate DR. Maria Carrillo said He settles and with this well-deserved recognition Thank you for your dedication, for your many years of service, your commitment to the South Bay and the broader

01:46:38San Diego community and also the example you set for future generations of physicians and community leaders. Thank you so much for your commitment to our community. And that concludes my comments.

01:46:49>> Council PRESIDENT. All right. Excuse me. Thank you. Council members.

01:47:03>> So we have a motion by Councilmember Kemp here in a second by COUNCILMAN Moreno to approve the proclamation items will go next to Councilmember Campbell. >> Thank you so much, Council PRESIDENT. Congratulations to everyone raising price today and especially my sister physician

01:47:20. Thank you for all you did. I want you know I started med school 50 years ago when I was 31. So I followed you. Well, maybe I was first and then you can because you're a lot younger than I am.

01:47:30But anyway, I think it's I think it's wonderful that we do that And I loved every minute of my career in medicine. I want to speak today about my dear friend.

01:47:41I was one of his hundreds of thousands of friends Bill Walton what a wonderful person he was and how much we MISS Him .

01:47:53So I want to recognize that we are going to declare NOVEMBER 6th, 2026 as Bill Walton Tie-dye Day Yes he loved tie dye in the city of San Diego.

01:48:05Bill was so much more than legendary National Basketball Association star. He was a proud native of San Diego, a devoted father and grandfather and husband and someone who brought an incredible amount of joy and energy into every single room

01:48:23that he entered. I was fortunate to know Bill personally and what made him so special was his warmth, his humor and the way he made people feel like they were part of his family.

01:48:36He had a huge personality, an even bigger heart. He was a Grateful Dead fan who tried to attend all of their concerts no matter where they were through the years He never gave up on the tight old fashioned style from that era when the band began Billboard

01:48:54San Diego and San Diego Love Bill his spirit will continue to live on through his family and through his many friends many of whom are here today who worked with him and who love him just as much as all of us will do and even the public who

01:49:12didn't know him love him because he was so wonderful and his heart just shines through. He he inspired all of us basketball players, his family, the community that he gave so much to and his and his entire history As we celebrate

01:49:29the inaugural Billboard Classic next month on NOVEMBER 6th at Pachinko Arena in my district District two I hope that everyone will join us that day and wearing tie dye and celebrating a life that was truly one of the one of a kind

01:49:46Happy Billabong Tie-dye Day And Marc, would you like to come up and say a few words about the event on on NOVEMBER 6th? I really appreciate it.

01:49:56Thank you very much Councilmember Campbell So Bill Walton Yes, he was a great basketball player. I would say he was the greatest college basketball player that ever lived.

01:50:10But more than that he was also a great San Diego and an incredible human being, one who lifted people up. Anybody who ever met him has the same story that he lifted you up and made you feel better

01:50:26. We need to remember people like Bill as they oftentimes provide a roadmap of for us and for future generations on how to be great. Bill Walton was great and it's because of that that sports San Diego started the National University Bill Walton Classic

01:50:46that we'll be doing a much longer arena and a whole series of events around it as well And we're honored to help honor the life and legacy of Bill Walton.

01:50:58>> We thank you very much for the proclamation. Thank you. Can you help us with how we can get tickets to the event? >> Walton Classic Icon It's all there.

01:51:09Okay. Bill Walton classic icon. It's going to be one of those when I heard the long and short of it and he actually did lift me literally up He was so fun

01:51:27One time he even we were somebodies house or in a party and he even made them bring out a six foot ladder made me climb up till I was taller than he was.

01:51:38We used to have fun standing next to each other and get pictures taken. Anyway he was a wonderful man with a great heart and he inspired us all. So bless you for all and I'm so glad this classic has come to be in his honor.

01:51:51He would have loved it. Thank you. Thank you, Council PRESIDENT. All right. Thank you Council member. We will go next to Council President Pro Tem Lee Thank you Council PRESIDENT I'll focus my remarks on items three and it's

01:52:07vital to I want to start by thanking Councilmember Foster for joining me in proclaiming OCTOBER as Filipino-American History Month in San Diego the Filipino American National Historical Society established Filipino American History Month in 1992 to commemorate

01:52:23the first documented arrival of Filipinos in the continental United States on OCTOBER 18th, 1587 is what in what is now known as Morro Bay, California. Since then Americans have become the third largest Asian origin population in the U.S.

01:52:40And Santiago is certainly proud to be home to a large Filipino community that has enriched neighborhoods across our region from mere Mesa to Paradise also to Mesa and many others in District six in particular I've been grateful for the opportunity to work alongside our Filipino American community in numerous facets.

01:52:59I still know that some of the most fun events that have gotten to celebrate are often with the Filipino club members in high school especially when they hold Filipino culture nights with hundreds and hundreds of attendees.

01:53:11We have a number of artists throughout our region. We have central Filipino Film Festival that folks MAY not know about that takes place just around this time of year and then a ton of cuisine which in my time at Pacific Arts Movement we got an opportunity to really celebrate bringing

01:53:28the number of celebrated Filipino-American chefs from throughout our region that many of your favorite restaurants they are at the helm And part of sharing I think not just their expertise but their culture through the language of food.

01:53:46It's our privilege to really share this month today with the city of San Diego's Filipino-American Employees Association. So thank you for being out here today. They hold a number of events including a Filipino independence celebration typically in the spring and we always look forward to that.

01:54:04But thank you for your contributions in every facet of what the city provides to our community. I think it's just one of the many examples of how much the Filipino American community has enriched all of San Diego and we get to celebrate that for the month of OCTOBER throughout the region.

01:54:22So thank you again and thank you customer Foster for joining me on that proclamation on Item Espiritu We want to take a moment to recognize Colonel our Eric Herman, Colonel Herman has had a distinguished Marine Corps career defined by leadership and service serving around the world, accumulating

01:54:40more than 2400 flight hours in service and short flight hours and earning numerous military honors. Colonel Herman has served as the commander at hmcs Miramar for the last three years and he's made a lasting impact by advancing energy resilience,

01:54:56serving 14 million and securing $14 million in improvements for service members and their families and pioneering an innovative council member. You reference that 471 gold wildfire mitigation program in East Miramar and he's been a

01:55:13significant partner to our community because of the presence of Miramar. We often have conversations with committee members about how they can help to support local community functions and events.

01:55:25We know that the airshow takes place each year just past welcoming more than 350,000 visitors annually and Colonel Harmon has been a communicator in his time here both with our team and the surrounding communities to ensure that issues often get addressed.

01:55:42And so he's preparing to take his next capacity and he'll be relinquishing command as the commanding officer in Corps Air station Miramar. And so we're proud to proclaim OCTOBER 30th, 2026 as Colonel Eric Herman Day in the city of San Diego.

01:56:00While the colonel is not here today, I certainly want to extend my sincere appreciation again for his service, his leadership and his commitment to San Diego. The recognition is well deserved and we hope that we'll see him back in San Diego in the future.

01:56:14Thank you. All right. Thank you. Council PRESIDENT Pro tem We'll go next to Councilmember Foster. Oh, yes. Thank you. Council PRESIDENT.

01:56:23And just congratulations to all of the proclamation recipients . I'm going to speak briefly on item 30. You know, Thank you. Council PRESIDENT Pro tem for working to bring this item forward.

01:56:41The Filipino community is woven into the fabric of our city, contributing to our schools, small businesses and neighborhoods with pride, hard work and heart The presences I'm strong and alive in district four and I know in the proclamation we shouted You did reference Paradise Hills

01:56:59But I also want to shout out Skyline I want to shout out bay terraces and also a park has a very large population as well. Just thank you for everything that you do. Your contribution to the city of San Diego I And one thing that's very important to me is culture and our diversity.

01:57:17I mean one thing that I must say about our Filipino community you take pride in tradition and passing on those traditions to our young folks So thank you for everything that you do.

01:57:35Also just in regards to item that 500 California Flood Preparedness Week, thank you for bringing this item forward. It's is something that we need to watch closely as we are in an El Nino environment But just want to make a quick announcement OCTOBER 26th at the Jackie Robinson ymca 5:30

01:57:51P.M. District four we'll be having a town hall for the city of San Diego. So yes department will be there along with the county of San Diego as well.

01:58:03I'm so looking forward to that OCTOBER 26th discussion. So with that that will conclude my comments. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Councilmember Foster. We'll go next to council member Gila Rivera.

01:58:14All right. Council PRESIDENT Thank you so much And congratulations to all our proclamation recipients this morning. I wanted to give some recognition to our Filipino-American community really piggyback on

01:58:32the comments that Council PRESIDENT Pro Tem Lee made When I was thinking about this proclamation I was thinking about the way that in a very unique way and I mean in a in a literal way the Filipino community in San Diego has really helped make San Diego what Sandy is in 2026.

01:58:50There are whether it's food or arts and culture there's so much about the way that San Diego sounds looks it's that is directly attributed to the contributions of our Filipino-American community That's a positive note.

01:59:09I mentioned some of the excellent chefs Terry Monsod from a James Beard Award semifinalist and finalist Over the last couple of years Chef Philip, who's got a white raised bodega in District nine as two of the standouts and

01:59:25then the city's former poet laureate Jason Perez who did a beautiful job of telling the story of San Diego as the hardworking people that we are.

01:59:37When he was in that role as poet laureate. So I appreciate the recognition there but more importantly appreciate all the contributions that are Filipino sisters and brothers make here in San Diego.

01:59:53And then lastly I appreciate California flood preparedness the proclamation in no way, shape or form is having a California Flood Preparation Preparedness Week a flying of the Mission Accomplished flag by San Diego for its readiness for El Nino.

02:00:12It's a recognition that flood preparedness is important and a way of raising awareness about that And we do that in a variety of ways whether it's the event that COUNCILMAN Pastor will be holding the town hall the councilmember to be able to be holding that cleanup that we did this past weekend

02:00:28in partnership with COUNCILMAN Bong Alpert's office, the Harvey Family Foundation. I live in San Diego and many of our volunteers and city workers that action to get ready looked like getting 678 pounds of trash out of our storm channels in one hour.

02:00:45That was an example of why it's important to raise awareness and get everyone involved in this effort because the consequences of not being ready are too tragic to ignore. We have often talked about what that looks like because of the 2024 floods and I'm glad

02:01:04that we were talking more about it and doing more about it but most importantly doing more to get ready in advance of this year. That concludes my comments. Council PRESIDENT All right.

02:01:15Thank you Council member Eli Rivera I'll close out the conversation again. Congratulations to all those individuals or events that are being recognized or remembered within these actions.

02:01:28Thank you to my colleagues for bringing all of those forward. I will speak only on Earth 500 California Flood Preparedness Week in collaboration with Councilmember Campo and Councilmember Bond Wolpert We proclaim the week of OCTOBER 17th through the 24th as California Flood Preparedness Week in the city of San Diego.

02:01:45Although Nino continues to make its way to the region, flood preparedness is of the utmost importance to ensure the San Diego is ready for the increased rainfall and potential risk that it brings. I want to give special thanks to our Stormwater Department for the relentless work over the past few months Despite limited time and resources to

02:02:03complete the work needed to keep San Diegans prepared often working long days and weekends. I also want to congratulate a key player in the stormwater department Amir Williams.

02:02:15The mayor was recently awarded the Hog own Award for Meritorious Achievement in Floodplain Management recognizing his critical work in keeping our community safe and informed The good work that continues to be done day in, day out by the storm water department is what drives my support and advocacy for this necessary yet unfunded

02:02:33department and its aging infrastructure. Another key player in how San Diego State prepared our first responders the San Diego Fire-rescue Department, the Office of Emergency Services and Lifeguards play an essential role in responding to emergency calls, preparing

02:02:51communities for flooding, creating emergency plans and much more. And as I said before and I will repeat often one of the most important things that was done in the budget that we adopted in JUNE was to move the Office of Emergency Services into San Diego Fire Rescue Department.

02:03:08That will be a game changer that will resonate for years to come. And although the city is doing its part to prepare for the upcoming rainy season is equally important for residents and businesses to prepare as well.

02:03:20I appreciate economic development that is going out to our business districts and informing those business owners and managers about what is coming with our need to make sure that they do preparation now before the big rains hit state and for and making a go bag putting down sandbags are

02:03:38some of the few things that can keep you and your family safe in the case of flooding. So thank you to all our public works Staff are out in the field every day making sure that San Diego is prepped for El Nino And our first responders were on the front lines ready to respond when emergencies arise and helping

02:03:55keep our residents and neighborhood safe. And as was mentioned by my colleagues district one will hold a town hall with the Office of Emergency Services in NOVEMBER and a joint meeting with the Pacific Beach Town Council.

02:04:07But of course everyone is welcome. So with that I have a motion by Council member Campo and a second by Council member Moreno Please call the roll of start the voting system.

02:04:24Please cast your vote The position A.C. 720 with Council Member Governing Council in rebuttal for absent Thank you Council PRESIDENT All right. Thank you City Clerk And we will now pause for photos and we will start with Filipino American History Month and Heidi will guide us to coming

02:04:42into the pit as well as the other photo that will be taken

02:08:28and and

02:13:25All right. We will now proceed with the approval of the consent items. >> So first are there any request to pull an item by council Not seen any request Clerk Please proceed with public comment.

02:13:40Thank you Council PRESIDENT Please know 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 consent agenda includes items 1060 103 104s5o1 and s503 Starting with Joy Sonata if you can please come forward you'll

02:14:01be speaking on item 6104 s5l1 and s503 You'll have three minutes after that is allegedly Audra Berry Berman and William b Tombe If you can please come up to the front row that would be greatly appreciated.

02:14:1660 This yes is in support of the work of our city clerk's team to rename and update the municipal retention schedule five star I give you a lot of five stars but I love your work and I appreciate you

02:14:37all so very much On one of four How could I do my work without your work of a legislative calendar and budget development and monitoring Key date a big thank you and I just appreciate

02:14:52that so very much. You know I just rely on that all the time. I love dates and I love calendars and all that So that makes my work work.

02:15:05Thank you so much On se 501a big yes to the ordinance for crypto currency See a t m warning sign requirement it's it's really lovely when the city comes forward and has

02:15:21our back isn't it it just it just makes you feel good to know that when something unsafe or you know fraud you learn that you didn't even know could happen Suddenly the city takes care of it and and in you know that's gone It's just it's just

02:15:41lovely When the city council comes forward and has our back So love you so much on that And then the last one Oh but 5s503 Yes to amend chapter five

02:15:58Article 11 of the Muni Code relating to the adoption of the 2025 California Fire Code I wanted to really say that slowly because it's so important and I really appreciate that was again

02:16:17brought forward. I think it was pulled or returned or something and brought forward and now we have a chance to speak on it and you get to vote on it.

02:16:27So thank you to the San Diego Fire Department for ident defying and addressing unrelated and unrelated technical correction and a bigger thank you for to the San Diego Fire Department to all of

02:16:49you for your diligent service to the people of San Diego All of you get five stars I just I know I say this over lots of times but I think Chief Logan is just absolutely five stars and of course the rest of his team is But he's just he's just

02:17:12a top notch human being and he's got what it takes to make that kind of work done. Thank you. Love to all. Thank you. Allegedly. Audrey, if you can please come up to the mic.

02:17:21You'll have three minutes Speaking on item 6100 101 1 or 2 123104 As if I were one and it's 503. Thank you. All right, so retaining records this is interesting Some dates or less.

02:17:34Some or more But I think about all this data in your cloud system and several platforms and what would you do if it disappeared?

02:17:44Pay a lot of money to try and retrieve it? It's scary to think about it being up and who knows where that people's ability to just erase it.

02:17:59Um yeah but I mean I've done it with telling sandag but to terabyte so it's like think about all that information. Um but I think you should be able to retain them indefinitely at some point with these data centers.

02:18:13I mean you guys should just you know whatever I think you need to be putting the settlement money back up there.

02:18:22You used to write that on the agenda and it's no longer there but all these conflict of interest codes and stuff it's like people engaged in conflicts of interest are determining what are conflicts of interest and you know sidestepping them sometimes and you know, really enforcing them Others just depends on who it

02:18:41is And the future budget. It'll be interesting to see what kind of deficit we're in. That'll be exciting right? And where we're going to take and give money that'll be a fight to really look forward to and this cryptocurrency.

02:18:51So that's interesting because this isn't government backed money, right? But the c, b, d c is and that will be coming Right now there is a ban on it until 2030 because that's when our real you know, New World Order is going to be pushed.

02:19:10But you know, it's like we talk about scams and it's like okay, we're going to put these signs and I just feel like there's something more there because you're talking about it's difficult to trace.

02:19:20There's always you know, the devil's always in the details of why, you know, because it's not government back. You can't trace it and you can't figure out what people are doing with their money and tax it and all this stuff because the government is definitely not good stewards of our money And this fire code

02:19:39it's interesting because it's like you guys put people in danger with your projects by you know, not allowing like evacuation routes and stuff like that.

02:19:49So it's interesting that we don't have any fire codes to mitigate that. I'm wondering when the fire code is going to be changed as well to include, you know, preparation for data centers in fires that will come from these battery energy storage units?

02:20:07No. Do we just want it to burn? Let's not make requirements for that because that would be stupid, right? I know. Let's just ignore all the things going on around us because that is the way to be.

02:20:22You know the greatest trick the devil ever played was that it doesn't exist and his spirit is all over this place. >> Thank you, Barry Berman You're speaking on item s501.

02:20:34You'll have one minute. Please proceed. Good morning, Counsel. My name is Barry Berman. I am an aarp Calif fornia volunteer leader here in San Diego and I'm here to speak in support of the proposed ordinance requiring fraud warning labels on

02:20:51cryptocurrency kiosks. Fraud is obviously a growing concern and in addition to diffusing millions of dollars from our city, when an older adult loses money due to fraud, it can impact their ability to pay for necessities such as health care, food, housing and

02:21:07perhaps their risks their financial independence. Although no ordinance can eliminate fraud, this proposal represents a practical opportunity to intervene before others lose money and perhaps their livelihood.

02:21:21Aarp is committed to protecting the financial security of older adults and I'd like to thank Council PRESIDENT LaCava as well as his leadership team and the entire City council for considering this important consumer protection measure.

02:21:40>> Thank you. >> Thank you, William. Here's being an item 501 You'll have one minute. Please proceed.

02:21:48>> Good morning. Council PRESIDENT LaCava and Council members. I'm William Beecham, vice PRESIDENT Of these Senior Affairs Advisory Board speaking on behalf of the Board in support of the cryptocurrency atm warning sign requirement Behind every dollar lost to

02:22:08fraud is something that dollar was meant to protect a home, a prescription, a measure of independence.

02:22:17Scammers create urgency a clear warning creates a moment to pause and question them. The demand and seek help before transferring money that MAY be imposed.

02:22:33The able to recover that moment matters. Please support this practical safeguard and help San Diego and protect what they spent a lifetime building.

02:22:43Thank you so much. Thank you that I think the public comment here in council chambers going to those participating remotely I'm started the five minute timer Blaire Beekman if you can please unmute after that will be 7499 If you can please let me know which item or items you wish to speak to.

02:23:01Blair I Blair Big Bird I wanted to speak to Oh boy. Okay I'm waiting for my screen to pop up here and I wanted to speak to items s 5 or 1

02:23:22the last one item 104 and item one of three Please proceed. Thank you. Sorry about that. A quick comment That boy Thank you.

02:23:32And hearing the story of the police officer and proclamation who he dedicated his life he had to reassess his life after massacre events and we've all had to do those sort of things And thank you for learning.

02:23:48This is good learning his story. Thank you. I wanted to comment that for s51 the cryptocurrency the other side of life here people who scam other people What kind of people are they?

02:24:01Thank you that you've done this and created protections I think some sort of help scammers they have a tendency to offer some sort of opening to a person when they're scamming them that you know they're not quite who they say they are and they often try to do that to just

02:24:19make the game fair. So try to be aware of that as a as a senior like myself if you're being scammed as I have been scammed recently, you know to be aware of that it's important they try to offer an outlook for it, see it and

02:24:36fully understand it and it's a lot of learning and thank you for what you're doing. This this measure has a lot of learning measures to it. I think education good luck and how that can develop overall Thank you for I am one of four

02:24:57is legislative calendar budget development monitoring key dates really good luck with with this calendar process that we are just we can be much more clear in you know the f y 2028 preparation h and time period starting around APRIL or so We're just altogether more

02:25:16aware of how to address, you know, budget issues at that time and how we can address equity, how we have to address budget cuts and how to manage the budget.

02:25:30It'll be our third year of really you know, third or fourth year really getting into a balanced budget and and working with equity also finding that middle ground And I hope there won't be surprises for us this time.

02:25:45We'll just all kind of be ready On what are best practices Good luck How we do that together Well I'm hopeful of how we can do that together Well in fact I'm hopeful that we're really going to gel something together in San Diego in 2027.

02:25:55I'm really hopeful about that And for the last I am 103 with my remaining time contract interest codes with the nba office and if there's any way eBay issues this item can relate to campaign finance

02:26:13issues. Good luck with that. You guys are trying to starting some really important work that actually speaks to a real broader question of what exactly is our camp campaign finance practices about and

02:26:29what we that can be addressed Well and we're taking has concluded seven for 99 If you can please unmute and let me know which item or items you wish to speak to on the consent agenda.

02:26:45>> Bob because you ski here on item 61 or 2 and 1 or 3 Please proceed. You'll have three minutes. Item 60 is accompanied by 12 documents on the City Clerk's Outsourced website.

02:26:58Those 12 documents contain a total of 145 pages if you dig into them It appears that city staff spent a considerable amount of time tracking down every use of the phrase quote Master records schedule end quote and changing it to quote municipal retentions schedule.

02:27:17I quote What was the need City Clerk Fuentes to spend any amount of supposedly valuable staff time to make this change ?

02:27:27In one of the documents, City Clerk Fuentes wrote this quote The office of the City clerk proposes revising the defined term for the city's master record schedule to the municipal retention schedule use of the term municipal explicitly defines the citywide jurisdiction and authority and quote I have to

02:27:46ask City Clerk Fuentes doesn't the term master also explicitly define citywide jurisdiction and authority within a city document?

02:27:56I also have to ask what was the driving need to have some unknown number of staff people in this city generate 12 documents containing 145 pages and requiring an agenda item at this council in order to simply change the name of master record schedule to municipal

02:28:14retention schedule. Does this city have so much money and so little real work to do that you sit around thinking up new names for things?

02:28:24Is that what the citizens of San Diego are paying you to do ? That's all I have on these items. Hector if you can please unmute and let me know which item or items you wish to speak to I'd like to speak to 501103 and 104

02:28:44And then first off I'd like to thank Bill Walton again for giving us glory of Bill And every time we do a concert I also want to acknowledge Donna Frye for pointing out the dangers of the consent agenda.

02:28:59So those two guys are leaders in our communities and they've warned us. So all you guys got to pass through everything we do.

02:29:09Is this a Gloria Bill moves like the trash thing That was total Gloria Bill we need a Gloria bill committee to to stand up to the mayor and say this I really want to get on with the item.

02:29:22>> So the final one on the crypto we all know about Bitcoin at 5250. When did you guys hear about Bitcoin? Did you hear about it at 600 We should or would or could drop ten grand Just have them have

02:29:39the warning is buy bitcoin but don't sell it don't send it anywhere they can buy bitcoin Just do not send it to somebody like that.

02:29:49It's okay to buy it big time Banks are buying Bitcoin crypto now or that Trump coin went up like crazy Other coins But it's like just don't send it anywhere.

02:30:03Don't do that That's cool. Then the one two, three and the 104 Let's see now the conflict of interest on the interest card That could be our new city manager for doing it.

02:30:17Publish it a lot because they should definitely look into that And like when you do the leases on the conflict of interest that's a heavy sign there where we could let's get all the leases out and the open on pages like 980 of them and

02:30:36go over each one with interest and conflict of interest. That'd be something for her to do. She's a diligent worker. Hopefully she can do that in front of everyone and then the calendar on the budget that that goes with leases to Let's get the calendar When are we going to go over all these

02:30:55leases Do the which is the worst case scenario lease for us for the city not just the city employees but the city So citizens of the city She's like really tied to this.

02:31:08They're the workers of the city and the city employees. She's like on their side. She's not really arguing anything on our side. So more more meetings out in the open with her and ask questions and answers to her

02:31:25like have her own meeting every week for a couple hours a day man And we could ask her questions and without the mayor be in there.

02:31:35So he was awful close to her nudging her at the meeting and everything about that when you could see the smile on his face man he's pretty shifty.

02:31:44So we got to we're still living in Gloriavale We got to move on from here But we're still living there. >> Your time has concluded and so has the five minute timer That concludes public comment on the consent agenda.

02:31:53>> All right. Thank you. City Clerk I'll kick off the conversation on the consent items first by moving approval of the consent items and speaking specifically to 5a1 the ordinance establishing a cryptocurrency atm warning sign

02:32:10requirement. I want to start out by thanking Joaquin and Emily from my office for their work on this ordinance Stopping scams before they take place is critical.

02:32:20It can be the difference between facing life altering consequences or continuing to meet basic needs. Earlier this year the Senior Affairs Advisory Board and the American Association of Retired Persons aarp contacted my office identifying a new generation of scams that rely

02:32:38on cryptocurrency ATMs. These scams and schemes exploit the fact the cryptocurrency is digital currency currency that is not backed by the federal government or any government Right now San Diegans can convert their cash to cryptocurrency and over 100 registered cryptocurrency ATMs across our city.

02:32:57Once money is set it is gone almost impossible to trace and nearly irrecoverable. As such scams evolve so must our response to protect San Diego.

02:33:07The purpose of the ordinance is to inform the public about the dangers of cryptocurrency ATMs scams and empower businesses to recognize warning signs and help protect San Diegans from becoming victims.

02:33:21As was mentioned, it is one last opportunity to cause somebody to pause about why they are there, why they are listening to somebody on the phone giving them directions about what to do and depositing their hard earned reserves.

02:33:36The ordinance will require that all cryptocurrency ATMs have a warning sign informing San Diegans on the danger of such scams pending passage of the ordinance today. My office will initiate a day of action to inform businesses about the new ordinance and provide them with scam stopping materials again.

02:33:51As scams evolve our city will evolve to meet and address them. I look forward to San Diego leading the charge in becoming the first city in California to take action to protect consumers and address cryptocurrency atm scams.

02:34:04Again thank you for watching and for the good work on this and the support of the Senior Affairs Advisory Board and the aarp in their good work.

02:34:17Again, I will move the approval of the consent items and we'll turn it over to council member Eli Rivera. I thank you Council PRESIDENT. I will begin by seconding your motion and express appreciation for you bringing forward the ordinance that you did.

02:34:33I think I think about the scenario you and your team described in presenting the item and what the ramifications of someone falling into this trap would be.

02:34:46The stories that were shared with us by the Senior Advisory Committee and representatives of the aarp and one this is great because it does give us the opportunity to have someone take that moment to pause.

02:35:00I also appreciate that it's just a way of us showing that we're looking out for people and I think that that's important and very much appreciate your team taking this up.

02:35:10And then I did want to make a point to express my appreciation to Cllr Quinones and her team the work that the clerk and her team does on a day to day basis is not only enormous but it's it's done

02:35:28with a diligence and a commitment to fairness that is like truly inspiring to me.

02:35:42No matter how poorly the clerk and her team are treated by the some of the folks who come in here, the clerks out to the clerk and the clerk's office always provide those folks a fair opportunity to have their voices heard.

02:35:57And so quick point is I want to say thank you for doing that and the way that you do. I would encourage those who fail to see and appreciate that to be a little bit more grateful.

02:36:16Not for any of us on this dais but for the public servants who go out of their way to ensure that this is a place where people can show up and have their voices heard. The perspective I heard cardless of what those perspectives are Take it out on us not on the folks who are

02:36:36just doing their jobs here. With that I conclude my second council PRESIDENT. >> All right. Thank you, sir. So we have a motion by myself and a second by council member Eli Rivera to move the product or the consent item.

02:36:50Excuse me. Well, feds are feeling the same about the city clerk's office. I know there are disgruntled individuals out there who don't get answers. They like on other matters and take advantage of these opportunities to do what government is required to do.

02:37:05I think this was the first time this got updated in quite a few years so it was overdue and then looks dramatic when we catch up with things that have been dealt with in a while.

02:37:18So thank you for your entire team and the work that you do going forward. So with that again we have a motion by myself for second by council member Eli Rivera Oh.

02:37:31Council Member Temple Thank you Council for just a brief Thank you. As it relates to items 503 members of our fire rescue team here. Fire Chief Tosca, the fire code and the state laws as it relates to that and the importance that it is to get the little details right.

02:37:44I know they work very hard to make sure that those very minuscule changes that are hard to catch sometimes in state law are put forward And I know that they're implementing it well.

02:37:54So I just wanted to thank them for being here and their good work on that. Good. Council Councilmember Campo, thank you for mentioning that. So with that see no one else on the lights please call the roll clerk.

02:38:04I'm sorry The voting system. Please cast your vote And that passes unanimously 7 to 0 with Council member Whitburn and Council member Von Wilpert out absent.

02:38:19>> Thank you very much. All right. Thank you. City Clerk Are there any comments from the mayor's office? City Council member City Attorney Independent budget analyst or city clerk Not seeing any.

02:38:29We 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.

02:38:44Please proceed with public comment. Thank you Pearl 2.7 a general 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.

02:38:54Each speaker will have two minutes. Please note 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 speakers live.

02:39:04If you're joining us virtually please raise your hand to speak by tapping the raise your hand icon or if you are calling participant Star nine. We're starting with Brian Horner If you can please come forward to the microphone.

02:39:13You'll have two minutes. Please proceed when ready. >> Hello, my name is Brian Horner. I am an employee of the Justice Workshop Nonprofit.

02:39:26I've lived in Ocean Beach for 17 months. I moved here initially because I saw Ocean Beach had an active collection of artists, activists and community organizers. Since living in Ocean Beach I've attended community gatherings at Ethos Exchange on 4862 Voltaire Street which is a community hub operated by Dustin Johnson Ethos Exchange

02:39:46is currently in danger of being sold off to developers and this space matters to the people of Ocean Beach as it serves as a third space for community members to organize as we've all experienced during the pandemic, losing third spaces wreaks havoc on community cohesion.

02:40:04Once the space is lost it will be difficult to pick up steam again. How many of us have attended social gatherings who simply disbanded due to the pandemic If the community loses if there's exchange several community groups prompting promoting health, culture and activism will be forced to disband The property was sold

02:40:23to an interim buyer Don Rady who plans to get the property. His plans are to remove the community center and all residents.

02:40:33I encourage the council to intervene and avoid a lawsuit now that the city of San Diego Risk Management Department has reviewed the complaint submitted by Dustin Johnson Please stop the interim buyer before we lose something Great.

02:40:47Thank you so much for your time . >> Thank you. Amy, why don't have you can please come forward after that it will be allegedly Audra Joyce Joyce and Anthony Rawls.

02:40:57If you can start making your way up to the front row, please proceed on. Ready? Good morning, Counsel. The date is clear. The violations are documented, the damage and the tragedies already been done.

02:41:07Violent has devolved from an operational failure to humanitarian crisis. Let me take that back. The old law was a great It was a good plan.

02:41:16Theresa Smith and Dreams for Change has cost you a lawsuit. There's 21 dead The taxpayer dollars including a contract item scaled up to nearly 3 million for dreams for Change the just yet there's 21 people dead The people who complained about it died in their tents.

02:41:38The city of San Diego needs to From day one there was absolutely zero operational foresight. >> It defies basic science to think that standard synthetic tents would sit on children and direct blistering sun for three and a half years without entirely breaking down The negligent environment is a direct product of fractured leadership.

02:41:54Theresa Smith has spread her attention across too many projects and attention to many of them too many from her nonprofit.

02:42:03She's treating the lot as a testing ground for her separate 12 week training force program where individuals with criminal backgrounds are brought onto the lot for job preparation without any background checks.

02:42:13While the workforce entry is an admirable goal mixing rap and cycle training into unmonitored highly highly vulnerable already volatile crisis shelters a disaster for a recipe for disaster.

02:42:27We don't need to eliminate funding or resources. What we need to do is rescue them from a failing provider. We must cancel this contract with dreams for change immediately. We need transition operations to a highly focused, highly competent provider such as Downtown Partnership.

02:42:45>> Let's align our city dollars with our core mission That's for safety resources and humanity. Bill Walton and the officer you praised for humanity If they knew these details they would have to say Councilmember Campbell, what can we do?

02:43:01And for the city attorney they can't be denying you. Thank you for that Concluding statement Allegedly Andre good for her for coming in continually and more people

02:43:19will. >> Until you guys do the right thing. So let's talk about ubiquity and our need to cancel that contract act because people are concentrated on flock.

02:43:33It's a great bait and switch but it's like all of this data goes through ubiquity and with flock and ubiquity there is a perpetual lifetime of irrevocable data that is being collected and shared worldwide .

02:43:49So how interesting is that And you guys don't have any control over flock You're not contracted with them. You're contracted with ubiquity and ubiquity has a way to track and trace people's movements and listen to us from the streetlights So you don't even need flock.

02:44:08I mean that's collecting all pr data but it's also collecting people's movements. It's about tracking and tracing people and putting us in a digital present.

02:44:18So like you guys what you need to do is not contract with ubiquity. Do not redo the surveillance program like in DECEMBER when we're going to be talking about this you need to think about the entire surveillance technology not an entity but

02:44:36the technology and where this is leading especially when any point of connection where this data goes through from flock to ubiquity there's like an lte connection.

02:44:49All of those entities have the ability to take the data And that's what you guys don't understand is that it's none of it's safe.

02:45:00There is no way to block it And if you think a company isn't going to track or collect the data from which it from the people they contract with then you're sorely mistaken.

02:45:09That is what's happening. You guys need to understand this technology prior to you continuing to push this ubiquity you has to go and it will follow Android scenario If you can please come forward.

02:45:33Okay I have no no nothing planned. I mean I have plans. I did not want to put myself in any constraints when I talk on this topic.

02:45:48And first of all let me say something very good that council member Eli Rivera has said something very, very important and beautiful.

02:46:02What does this city want to be? I hope I said that right now. Council member Eli Rivera what that did about a question from my database what city are we been now?

02:46:22And the red flags are coming up in me now I'm not used to this all over the place and it really, really was exacerbated at the audit committee when I saw that long list of planned

02:46:41audits. You know what happens when we do planned audits? They're great but tough stuff comes out of them negative stuff, stuff that should never have been done.

02:46:56And so I've opened myself up to really looking at this history and in what's coming up in the future probably And I'm a little scared scared because my trust is being eroded in my

02:47:15government and I've never felt that before. I'm kind of on the side of not trusting That's not like me so I'm working on it But it's tough work and I just wanted to share that with you today.

02:47:32>> Love to all Thank you for that. Concluding comment. Anthony Ramos if you can please come forward. >> Good afternoon. City Council Today I'm feeling stuck between a rock and a hard place and I'm feeling like I'm forced to choose between draconian immigration policies from a man who appears to be

02:47:50well-intentioned but poorly informed and a woman who appears to be well informed with malintent especially for Palestinians and activists tired of being spied on with warrantless luxury mass surveillance.

02:48:00I've been asking for your protection since FEBRUARY when I warned you about Operation Warp Road flair in this chambers. The fact that neither of our sitting attorneys on this dais are using their legal expertise to defend the constitutional rights they swore an oath to defend is more than concerning.

02:48:18It's a reflection of where you stand in relation to your employer or where you think you stand arrogantly assuming it is your place to vote away our privacy rights under the bad faith arguments that our privacy concerns are invalid because we carry cell phones on our person.

02:48:33The obvious rebuttal to this ludicrous position is that we consented to having our cell phones for communication purposes not for the federal government to have unbridled access to our location information.

02:48:43Qatari versus United States agrees. We did not consent to authorizing your unconstitutional overreach of our Fourth Amendment rights. You know who else doesn't respect consent?

02:48:56No. Your place. I'm your employer. I pay for your salary. This chambers and for the salaries of the police whose convenience you prioritize over my public safety and my right of refusal to unreasonable search and seizure.

02:49:11>> I've been reasonable, respectful and routine in my efforts to remind you that the rest of the city is not as in paid as not as patient or as forgiving as I am.

02:49:21We're near the end of OCTOBER and there's a national movement to remove these blocked cameras by any means necessary. I want to be on the record as co-founder of Deep Luck San Diego and stating that I don't approve or condone of the vandalization of government property or that I don't want to see our public property

02:49:37destroyed. Like the parking meters were up at Ball Park by the hands of frustrated San Diegans tired of feeling ignored by their elected officials. >> Thank you for that concluding remark.

02:49:47Sorry the five minute timer going to those participating remotely. Currently have 11 speakers in the queue. Nathan Brenner If you can please unmute.

02:49:56Good morning Honorable Council Members. I'm Nathan Brenner with the Sierra Club Steel Society to discuss ongoing public safety and wildlife concerns at the Loya Code.

02:50:06In SEPTEMBER 2023 the City of San Diego's Coastal Development permit to close Pointe Loya Year around to protect sea lions and their pups was approved by the California Coastal Commission with special conditions special condition number three contemplated coordination and cooperation between the city's lifeguards

02:50:25and city park rangers. Sierra Club docents regularly observe massive crowds concentrated on the Cove Beach and stairwells often harassing sea lions which creates public safety issues.

02:50:41Visitors appear to be receiving different and even conflicting instructions from lifeguards and rangers as to the beach rules. This lack of consistent coordination between Rangers and lifeguards appears to be contributing to public safety problems and causing visitor

02:50:56confusion. We are therefore asking the full City Council to request that the city take five specific steps. First, manage the cove by requiring lifeguards and rangers to work together.

02:51:11Second station rangers regularly on the beach to establish and maintain safe viewing distances. Third use cones and tapes to create clearly defined buffer zones separating sea lanes from visitors.

02:51:26Fourth, establish protocols for beach overcrowding so that public safety can be addressed before conditions become dangerous. And fifth, close the western stairs when sea lions are vulnerable and redirect visitors to the eastern stairs.

02:51:43These measures are not about keeping people away from the Moya Cove. They are about making the beach rules clear, applying them consistently protecting visitors and minimizing harassment of the wildlife. Thank you for the opportunity to share our concerns.

02:51:54>> Thank you. Next is Peggy Walker. If you can please unmute. >> Thank you.

02:52:03Good morning Council. I'd like to address the county's plans for massive expansion of commercial cannabis activity in unincorporated areas.

02:52:13It's something that experts say will impact us here And the Man City attention data suggests the sheer scale of the county's plan. Up to 372 cultivation sites and 179 cultivate licenses poses a

02:52:29threat to the quality of life and economic stability of neighboring municipalities. Consider that other cities like Vista, National City and Oceanside are also considering commercial marijuana expansion.

02:52:50This presents what Eddie Lane, founder of No Skunk Bats, an opposition movement, warned that America's finest city risks becoming Spanx San Diego.

02:53:01That name is no joke considering potentially serious odor economic regulatory and environmental spillover effects of large scale county wide cannabis expansion.

02:53:18Experts say broadening licensing so aggressively will redistribute consumer traffic, disrupt local retail performance and create an unmanageable patchwork of conflicting policies.

02:53:34County wide, the city of San Diego will bear the brunt of buffer challenges and externalized costs including increased traffic hazards, security risks, heightened enforcement burdens, stressed water resources and compromised regional air quality.

02:53:52Pending legal action claims that the county's plan has failed to address weighty land use impact across our county and suggest our city should act to determine how to protect residents from external bird

02:54:10times has concluded. Dustin if you can please unmute That's in Johnson Thank you. >> Austin Council So the reason why I'm here is on property 486 to Voltaire.

02:54:26Jim Bell's Legacy and Ethics Exchange I just want to put the city on record once more. I was out there a couple of weeks maybe a month ago and as a consequences of the city's inaction on getting us a fire rebuild letter on our on our on the basically the House we were unable to secure our financing.

02:54:49We've had to basically the sold to an interim buyer and I call him interim buyer because he just plans on getting the property and kicking out the nonprofits the you know our yoga studio on all the different events that we do to serve the community as it has done for 40 years for 40 years under Jim Bell's guidance

02:55:06,our motto has always been to be energy, water, food and health self self-sufficient. We've written tremendous papers even Todd, Gloria and some of the past mayoral candidates a comment for the blessing of Jim Bell And also I've ran a campaign to help people become elected on these types of

02:55:24campaigns. My hope today is that this Campbell mayor's office takes this very seriously. I addressed both their offices and I have not got the responses that we need to The department has said they would give us a letter but then told us they wouldn't give us this letter.

02:55:41This has been a two year request and so we lost our ability to refinance. The interim buyer has agreed to possibly sell us back the property but he's investigating the highest the best use of what he can and cannot do and also try to get around any coastal permits on the property on any of the you

02:56:00know, any of the necessary coastal commission approvals. And the reason why the building is built the way it is was Jim Bell was pretty much exempted on a lot of different things on that building and there's a lot of things that were never completed as far as the permits go.

02:56:16So please look into that matter as well as it comes up on NOVEMBER 2nd. You can give me my apologies your time That's complete concluded Angela if you can please unmute.

02:56:29>> After that is 7499. Angela please unmute I think I can't remember.

02:56:47Thank you. Good morning council members. My name is Emily Ghetto but she her pronouns and and so this is basically the second meeting to be here today So for me about an extremist racism sexist group from the state of California and also in your area as well who have an agenda

02:57:07of legalizing and slavery they are focusing on women hence the reason why I mentioned sexism but also the other concerns that of Hispanic which is racist. Please leave me alone as marvel with a partner from their official and unofficial office not entirely public who they with want to be global

02:57:24dominators and which is visible that they try and make it as a universal. It MAY sound absurd but I only speak the truth on this matter. They're part of a national and international human trafficking ring called for labor and support the operations and all

02:57:40this part of the violence focusing as much on sexual violence. It is true that they have kept women in restraints both in chains and collars for long periods of time while being sexually assaulted. They are very excuse me they have several online aliases in which they hide behind double lives even while performing illegal extermination.

02:57:58But the only transformation of genders and that is from women and the sexes are to transform into a male gender or a transgender or a former transsexual gender for you please take action against a violent act.

02:58:13And then I followed through with I believe taking a in slavery And it's so important for public safety. I thank you very much.

02:58:22Thank you. 7499 If you can please unmute please play my video. Thank you. So here I want to start by saying that the city clerk's office is going backwards under Clark Fuentes During those Maitland's clerkship citizens

02:58:40could bring media to this council on a flash drive and have it show a flash drive could be submitted right along with the speaker slip. Now under Clark Fuentes, media from the public is no longer accepted here in council at all Even worse it now has to be submitted not along with the speaker slip or even 1 or 2 hours in advance.

02:58:57No city clerk for ten days now requires all media submissions to be delivered electronically up to eight hours or more before the item is called. That happened to me just yesterday which is why I wasn't able to present I had submitted my media at 9:31 A.M. For an on

02:59:13agenda comment that wouldn't be heard until after 4 P.M. At 6.5 hours later the court Fuentes rejected it stating it was received after the 8 A.M. Deadline which means it would need to have been submitted eight hours before the item was called.

02:59:28And how much is the city paying to seamlessly vox.Com for this lousy service? And if that wasn't bad enough, City clerk one day is simply place of media media for people with their hands raised in the queue which would be the obvious thing to do.

02:59:40No court for days requires people to unmute to play video that the city clerk already has in her possession. Let's listen to how the process works out under Clark Fuentes system these are all people who waited to speak and were denied.

02:59:57Tell me if you can please allow me to move on to the next speaker. Lexus Kathleen Lippert, Katherine with it if you can please let me to move on to the next caller, Carla, if you can please on you.

03:00:11I can't I mean for you if you cannot unmute we will need to move on to the next speaker or move on to the next speaker in Andrew are you completely new?

03:00:22I will need to move on to the next caller if you can on you Tony please on you Tony Academy before you I want to move on to the next caller if you can a mute for yourself.

03:00:34>> Our next speaker is Becky Rock. If you can please unmute. Good morning. My name is Becky Robin And today I'd like to bring to your attention the city's recently available bicycle master plan.

03:00:51It was recently posted on the city's website and comment open four days ago on OCTOBER 16th. It's important that residents know that now is their opportunity to make comments through the online portal and raise important questions about bicycle safety.

03:01:07The plan outlines a vision for a more connected and accessible bicycling network throughout San Diego. It emphasizes safer bikeways, improve connectivity and making cycling a practical option for people of all ages and abilities.

03:01:20I am concerned, however, about whether the plan addresses riding a bicycle or electric bike under the influence of alcohol or drugs. The collision analysis examined serious and fatal bicycle collisions but the analysis does not specifically address impairment as a contributing

03:01:37factor. This is concerning as it makes us wonder if the safety issues were adequately studied as San Diego encourages more people to ride bicycles and e-bikes. We should consider the full range of factors that can contribute to collisions and serious injuries.

03:01:56Infrastructure improvements are important but so are responsible riding public education and awareness of the risks of impaired operation . I ask the council and city staff that the city collect and analyze data on bicycle and e-bike collisions involving alcohol or drug impairment and was impaired driving specifically considered in

03:02:14developing the bicycle master plan and its safety recommendations If it wasn't adequately dressed. Would the city consider incorporating public education prevention strategies and coordination with existing traffic safety programs into the plan's implementation?

03:02:32Thank you. >> Thank you. Next is Hector if you can please. Um, you Hector here. Thanks for taking my call. Our country started as a Christian nation.

03:02:45They all saw us on the Bible when they did the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Christian nation wasn't Judeo Christian nation Christian nation.

03:02:57So the Bible is paramount in our country's beginning. Christ in Him crucified Jesus is the only way. That's it. That's what You didn't come here and make buddies.

03:03:10You came here to divide the righteous and the unrighteous. Sinners and saints. You didn't come here to unite us all. But anyway, our our city has been under attack ever since we said that America's finest city

03:03:25. The devil started here. School shooting started at Cleveland Elementary School. Our school. All these shootings are here because the devils out.

03:03:39Our first man wants us to fail. We're under attack. We've been under attack since the 5060s eroding our freedoms. And how great the city is.

03:03:49We have a great city but we're squandering in debt. We have a ship Mayor that's hiding in the bushes. He never comes out even talks to people. What we have a two hour session once a week and question answers of the mayor of

03:04:07the city manager. Even you guys use the city tv. It's available. Just say two hours a month. About two hours. Questions and answers We can ask you guys questions you can answer.

03:04:20The mayor could answer some questions. Yeah. He takes questions from the quote unquote press. You know what They don't answer the real question.

03:04:32Well, that's why everyone's so off. But we've been under attack by the double Matt. You want us to fail and our next I think the enemy now is the Muslim faith. The Muslims want our city, man.

03:04:44They do. Your time has concluded. Natalie Raskin If you can please unmute. >> Hi. Thank you for having me today. I just heard some really excellent speaking.

03:05:00Audra Choi Anthony They were really intentional about what they were saying and that made me feel really good. Enjoy your confused and scared because there is a veil that's

03:05:17being lifted. Humanity is at a precipice. We truly are. If you can't feel these shifts, they're happening.

03:05:31It's time we really start questioning our belief systems how we treat people, how we choose the choices we make who are the stakeholders?

03:05:43I brought that up yesterday. Who truly are the stakeholders in this? My children. I take it personally.

03:05:54I really do. Even Hector just said some really amazing things without, you know, taking it to the next level. I'm impressed by people today and what they said and being able to articulate how they feel about this city and what

03:06:17what is happening and really questioning our belief systems and who we put our trust into and what leadership roles are happening. And that's true. We should be able to have the ability to ask questions.

03:06:29When I was unhoused I wrote the mayor several times. I never got a response.

03:06:39>> And with the stakeholders I've had people that are in my group that work for big entities that have done things to them and allowed to block them from being able to speak and work and do the job that they are doing has concluded.

03:06:54>> My apologies Madison if you can please unmute. After that. Please proceed. I thank you.

03:07:05I would like to speak today about in substance use prevention and the importance of creating environments for San Diego children and teenagers. Much of the public discussion around substances such as tobacco, marijuana and alcohol usually focuses on adult use.

03:07:21However, from a public health perspective one of the most important goals is preventing youth initiation in the first place. The earlier a young person begins using addictive substances the greater the risk of developing long term substance use problems, mental health challenges and negative educational outcomes.

03:07:38Prevention is not simply telling young people to say no. It means creating communities where the healthy choice is the easy choice. That includes supporting evidence based prevention programs, reducing youth exposure to substance marketing, maintaining smoke free public spaces and ensuring

03:07:57that children are not unnecessarily exposed to products and advertising that normalize substance use when they're interacting in their communities. As a city we invest significant resources in responding to addiction overdoses and substance related forms.

03:08:15And those investments are necessary and important. But prevention remains one of the most effective and cost efficient public health strategies available to us. I encourage San Diego to continue prioritizing policies that protect you, support family needs and promote

03:08:32healthy development. Whether we are discussing tobacco, marijuana, alcohol or other drugs, our shared goal should be helping young people reach adulthood healthy, resilient and free from addiction.

03:08:45Thank you. Thank you, Blair. If you can please unmute. >> All right. Blair Bateman. Thanks for everyone's public comment today in the meeting today.

03:08:57Thanks for the words of Anthony who really boy he just does a really nice job. He talked about issues of public safety, what his ideas of public safety are about and there are a lot of things I don't say enough And what are people's ideas of public safety and what are people's ideas of

03:09:14privacy? He's made two important points that we're seriously questioning the future of our use of privacy issues. There's a real fight going on with the aclu taking San Diego to court saying that they're not respecting privacy because

03:09:31of 911 ideas were created that the streets are owned by our city government. They don't have to say anything to the public about what they take away in technology.

03:09:44There's an old law pre 911 that stated there's a certain expectation a reasonable expectation of privacy by the community around our public speech issues where returning to that subject matter we're leaving the era of 911 and continual war and it's a lot of

03:10:01relief. It's from that we are questioning the future of how exactly our technology will work in a community. I've been trying to offer words and how to prepare ourselves for some really deep conversations we're going to have in NOVEMBER and DECEMBER about the future of Plock And what does that mean?

03:10:20Ale pr use is like way out of control with their discretionary discretionary stops. But it has been doing well for a contempt trial Objection and emergency issues.

03:10:32That's one way to address it. We could consider issues we MAY have to leave open altogether. We have to really be thinking what is the future of ubiquity ?

03:10:44How do we have that conversation and how much surveillance tech they have? Can we leave flock Do they have an additional 500 apps besides you pick you up. Can you please answer those questions honestly?

03:10:56>> Thank you. Thank you. Sunny if you can please unmute I understand you have a video that you'd like to be shown.

03:11:06Hi, can you hear me? Yes, Good morning. My name is John. I represent the Sierra Club Civil Society. >> Would you please play the video that we submitted? Thank you. Thank you.

03:11:35>> This month's update at La Hoya Cove again documented persistent visitor encroachment on nursing mothers and pups. People entering the water to swim and snorkel directly towards pups.

03:11:52People crossing holding signs approaching animals on the stairs and beach and several incidents required volunteer docents to repeatedly intervene sometimes in the absence of Rangers.

03:12:04Next you will see a nursing pup and mother with mother barking to protect her pup and pop eventually leaves.

03:12:20The repeated pattern of visitors ignoring physical barriers signs, docent instructions, rangers instructions and even defensive behavior from sea lions demonstrates that passive measures alone are not sufficient. Consistent Ranger presence and active enforcement are necessary to protect wildlife and maintain visitor safety particularly during

03:12:37the continued concentration of mothers and pops at the Cove. Video This guy going through the sea lions and I ask him How come you went to the sea lions?

03:12:52He said Because the lifeguard told me I said I told you the beach is open. You see the city sign.

03:13:10This is just if you talk to me I'm not in the water up to me because you ski here I want to thank you. Next is Michael Schmidt. If you can please unmute.

03:13:21>> Hello everyone. Can you hear me inputting data? Yes please. I think it's pretty.

03:13:33I wanted to point out that between and between between driving and also trying to see if it's an overlay like that.

03:13:51If you guys can do this is possible And I hope to see you guys soon as I get better. I MISS You guys. Thank you.

03:14:01Thank you. And then Robin, your final speaker if you can please unmute. I understand you also have a video to show. >> Hello. Yes. It's the same video so we don't need to show that.

03:14:13Okay. I will just continue on. So the logic of the progress of managing it is has stalled since JUNE when the city committed to having Rangers on the beach and cones and tape around the pups.

03:14:30The city is now asking for Noah to step in as the enforcement arm. However, we've been reaching out in the cities and reaching out to Noah for years now. We know that Noah's staff is very limited and they are not going to come to our rescue.

03:14:43So it's time for the city to step up and implement the plan that they suggested back in JUNE. With rangers on the beach interacting with the public.

03:14:54Cones and tape around nursing moms, pups and even adult sea lions to establish a presence at a viewing distance boundary. And we need the lifeguards to step up and participate.

03:15:07As you saw on the video that lifeguards are undermining the Rangers enforcement and direction of crowd control. We're asking the city to step up now and implement their plan.

03:15:19Thank you. Thank you. That does conclude the agenda Public comment for this meeting. >> Thank you. City Clerk Please be advised that the regularly scheduled 2 P.M. Council session this afternoon will not be convened and so I'll be adjourning for the day.

03:15:37But before I do I ask my colleagues to join me in thanking the city Clerk and the city Clerk staff for the work they do each and every day.

03:15:49With that we will now adjourn Council to the next regularly scheduled council meeting on Monday, OCTOBER 26th, 2026 OCTOBER 26th, 2026 at 10 A.M.

03:16:00And again there will not be a council meeting this afternoon.