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Comment Agenda Submitted Time Name: Meeting Date: Comments: Type Item To the Honorable Members of the Council of the City of San Diego, On behalf of the Institute for Civil Civic Engagement (a partnership between the University of San Diego and San Diego’s City, Mesa and Miramar Colleges) and the San Diego Non-Violence Coalition composed of over representatives from over thirty academic, community, business, governmental and non-profit organizations representing a diverse and inclusive portion of the San Diego community, I write you in support of your passages of the Election Heroes Day proclamation introduced by Council President Campbell. San Diego’s election City Council heroes – our poll workers, postal workers, Registrar of Voter staff and City Clerk staff—working under unprecedented conditions including 1/26/2021 10:08 Carl Luna 1/26/2021 33 Comment great personal risk, insured that our most cherished democratic institution of free and fair elections could proceed last November with integrity, security, accuracy and legitimacy. Now, more than ever in living memory, is the time for all good citizens and residents of good will to come together to reaffirm our faith in our democratic institutions and processes. This proclamation is a most fitting way to honor our local Election Heroes and to reaffirm our community support, trust and faith in our democratic process. Sincerely, Carl Luna, Director, Institute for Civil Civic Engagement Item 100 Authorization of Execution and Funding of Option Years in the Consultant Services Contracts Between the City of San Diego and Platinum Advisors, LLC and Squire Patton Boggs (US), LLP to provide State and Federal Legislative and Executive Branch Consulting Services and Representation for Tuesdays , January 26th Agenda Propose to expend yet another $840,000 with a consulting firm which has loopholed or gamed the system to get a finding that they are so special that they need not follow the Council's policies on fair and equal employment. How can the Council have confidence that this firm is advocating for our best interests if the consultants are not demonstrating a commitment to the basic rules of our society? What other Council policies are they not committed to? City Council 1/20/2021 17:59 John Stump 1/26/2021 100 The staff report states: Comment "Equal Opportunity Contracting Information (if applicable): This agreement is subject to the City’s Equal Employment Opportunity Outreach Program (San Diego Ordinance No. 18173, Municipal Code Sections 22.2701 through 22.2708) and Non-Discrimination in Contracting Ordinance (San Diego Municipal Code Sections 22.3501 through 22.3517). This action is exempt from EOC review per the 8/7/2019 memo from the Purchasing & Contracting Director regarding “Request for Mayoral and/or City Council Action – Actions Exempt from Equal Opportunity Contracting Program Review”." I recommend that you ask them to report their workforce or not contract with them Hello,

My name is Grace Betterton and I am a High School student and resident of San Diego, CA. I am commenting today to demand that Operation Shelter-to-Home continues past February 1st. We are in the middle of an unprecedented pandemic. It is very dangerous to both our unsheltered neighbors and everyone in San Diego to close down Operation Shelter-to-Home so soon. I demand that the SDHC continue Operation Shelter-to-Home past February 1st.

San Diego just returned to the worst tier, purple, and COVID-19 infection rates nationwide are expected to get even worse with City Council Thanksgiving and the coming winter holidays. As part of the purple tier, indoor operations at restaurants, gyms, places of worship, and 1/24/2021 22:04 Grace Betterton 1/26/2021 333 Comment movie theatres are prohibited. With these restrictions, SDCC will not be able to host any events, so why close the convention center if it is not going to be used? This space should not host events during a global pandemic!

In order to protect ALL San Diegans, we should be doing our best to continue protecting our most vulnerable community members and providing them with the maximum level of support at least until the pandemic is over and many of these restrictions are released. In 2021 we need to focus on being compassionate to others and supporting our community, and this is a great example of that.

Regards, Grace Betterton Hello, requesting the Council to extend Operation Shelter to Home at the San Diego Convention Center through 31 March 2021. It would City Council behoove us all to increase the number of persons in the County to become vaccinated through both doses. With health services 1/25/2021 17:31 Kuni Stearns 1/26/2021 333 Comment centralized, it is also more cost effective to execute the vaccinations at one location. Additionally, February is our wettest month, transitions would be more manageable without inclement weather. This resident supports Item 333. Thank you for your consideration. Hello San Diego City Council.

My name is DeForrest Hancock and I am a concerned San Diego born senior resident; who believes America's Finest City should have the best practices and lead the Nation in housing the homeless. Unfortunately our city is far from it; and with regards to the matter, needs to City Council extend the Operation Shelter-to-Home at the SDCC beyond February 1st. 1/25/2021 21:44 DeForrest Hancock 1/26/2021 333 Comment We are seeing colder weather these days, exposing the unsheathed to elements which can advance COVID-19, the flu and other illnesses. The SDCC Operation Shelter-to-Home is an essential safety measure that protects ALL San Diego citizens. I ask that you please vote to keep it in operation until the health crisis is over or adequate housing is available. Thank you! Council President Campbell and fellow councilmembers, Operation Shelter to Home continues to be the best model for serving our homeless community and I encourage you to continue its operation at least until such time we can the the majority of its population fully vaccinated. City Council 1/26/2021 9:55 John Brady 1/26/2021 333 Comment Gratefully, John Brady Voices of Dignity Advocates Housing Please keep the convention center open to house the homeless. 1/26/2021 9:57 Matthew Kearney 1/26/2021 Authority 333 Comment City Council We will worsen a major public health emergency by closing the current shelter. There are more capital projects opening in the year and 1/26/2021 10:03 Jana Zawadzki 1/26/2021 333 Comment these individuals should be linked to these housing projects, not returned to the streets. By passing an ordinance with no END DATE for tenants to move out and no requirement that they pay any rent or apply for assistance you City Council 1/22/2021 11:40 Judy Bohlen 1/26/2021 500 essentially are putting landlords out of business! What are you thinking????? Don’t you think there is enough hardship right now without Comment creating so much more? Who’s helping the landlords????? Continuing the moratorium on rental evictions will continue to damage beyond repair landlords who also need to pay mortgages and for many, this is their income source. 50% of rentals in CA are with landlords who own 4 units or less. 25% of those rentals are single family homes. By continuing to place a moratorium rental evictions Government is forcing Landlords to provide their product for FREE! Are you giving your services for free and not collecting a salary? What other industry in CA is being forced to provide a product for free. Yes, City Council 1/22/2021 11:53 Jan KUGLER 1/26/2021 500 rentals are free when you prevent a landlord from evicting a tenant who does not pay their rent. How do you expect landlords to pay their Comment mortgages? You are taking away, for many, their source of income. Landlords cannot continue being forced to provide a free product. This eviction moratorium cannot continue for a year or longer. This is not sustainable. How are your decisions to force landlords to provide free products constitutional? Let each landlord work with their tenants to come up with a solution based on individual circumstances. You have no right to force landlords to provide their product for FREE! Property managers and landlords are 100% opposed to a blanket moratorium on evictions. The proposal as I understand it is completely City Council one sided in favor of tenants. Allowing a tenant weeks to provide documentation of hardship after the rent is due is ridiculous. Vote NO on 1/22/2021 12:27 Craig Everett 1/26/2021 500 Comment this ordinance or change it to make it a fair process for all, not just tenants. If you to pass a reasonable, fair ordinance, you will be gravely injuring one group in favor of another. City Council Please do not force landlords to keep people that are not paying their rent. If you want to help people give them aide to pay the rent. WE 1/22/2021 12:41 Cassandra L Mills 1/26/2021 500 Comment are not getting free groceries why is rent not important when this is an essential job. We have to be paid. What is the city doing for hard working rental owners who have chosen to invest in property instead of stocks. We are the ones paying City Council taxes to pay your wages and support this city. We are not all large corporations. You are bankrupting common hard working citizens. This 1/22/2021 12:53 Jim Veskerna 1/26/2021 500 Comment will just drive up future rents and make it even harder to find units in San Diego. If you are holding up evictions, the give the owner money to pay the mortgage and property taxes. The new Eviction Moratorium is once again biased towards tenants. We are a family operation and our apartment building is well cared for City Council AND WE TAKE GOOD CARE OF OUR TENANTS, but only if rents come in and allow us to pay for upkeep and the mortgage. You are 1/22/2021 12:56 Marc Ausman 1/26/2021 500 Comment effectively asking private citizens to provide rental assistance to tenants - that is the govt job not mine! Instead, you should provide direct rental assistance and not ask me to do that. I understand the dilemma of the renters and evictions. What is not being taken into account is the landlord that has been without rent for at least a year. Not bog corporate-owned apartments. The issue is if this is an everyday person that invested in real estate as part of their portfolio for a retirement you are stealing this from them. Perhaps they too have a mortgage note that they are having trouble paying because they are now paying more than one mortgage note. Most everyday small-time landlords do not have enough in savings to make City Council 1/22/2021 14:00 Charlene Thorman 1/26/2021 500 mortgage payments for a year and now maybe more. At the end of the day if the landlord cannot pay and they cannot evict it makes it Comment difficult to even sell to try and cut your losses. SO now you have foreclosures for the landlords and renters with evictions that will be difficult to find the next rental. Coupled with a landlord losing the investment to the bank at no fault of their own. What if that was their retirement now that is gone too? A smarter approach would be to work with the renters and landlords together with a lessor rent that makes sense to cover expenses and a rental brochure to the tenant this alleviates the stress on both sides of the issue. Hi, as a small landlord I’m all for trying to help tenants, but as landlords we’ve shouldered a lot more of this burden than other groups have. We continue to pay for trash, utilities, cleaning etc. and most notably we were required to pay 100% of the tax bill in April and December. A few questions to consider:

Has the city thought about rebating some of that tax payment? I consider this the rent we have to pay the city for our land. At this point he city collects 100% of its rent while there isn’t much we can do. City Council 1/22/2021 14:16 Leland Weisband 1/26/2021 500 Comment Also some (very few) tenants have been gaming the system, what can we to do about them?

During the midst of the pandemic the City decided to mandate that buildings with 16+ units have updated fire systems installed, adding more costs to landlords. Not only that they decided to saddle us with permitting fees as well.

As a group that has handled a large portion of this burden I just hope you’ll keep our concerns in mind as well. The proposed eviction moratorium is unfair in that it assumes that tenants are the only innocent victims of the pandemic. Many landlords City Council are also innocent victims. They rely on their income from rentals (a form of self-employment) just as much as tenants rely on their income 1/22/2021 14:35 Gwen M 1/26/2021 500 Comment (including employment and self-employment.) It is wrong ignore the potential harm this moratorium would inflict on landlords. This pandemic has been horrible for everyone. Please do not misuse your power to make it worse for any particular group of people. PLEASE consider the financial impart of small landlords if you extend the eviction moratorium with NO financial support. Everyone agrees that tenants should not be left on the street and protections are needed. But along with protections for tenants, landlords should be protected as well. The state or the city should provide rental payments directly to landlords for tenants that are unable to pay. Otherwise small time landlords like myself will continue to have difficultly paying our bills and keeping up our property.

In addition, rules should be established to stop some tenants from taking advantage of the situation. If tenants are unable or unwilling to provide documentation of how they have been affected by COVID, an eviction should be allowed to commence. This will stop unscrupulous tenants from gaming the system. City Council 1/22/2021 15:09 Beth Sauer 1/26/2021 500 Comment Landlords will never be able to collect back owed rent. How will they locate tenants once they move out? If a tenant can't pay their rent today, how will they pay past due rent going back a year or more? That will be an impossible situation and landlords will end up bearing the full brunt of the financial loss. It is not right!!

Please do the right thing to help EVERYONE, not just tenants. Do not assume that because you are a landlord, you are rich and have plenty of money. Nothing could be farther from the truth for landlords like myself.

Thank you for your consideration. Commercial Eviction Moratorium • I am asking for the council to reduce the amount of time allowed for notification of the property owner and the provision of documentation consistent with the previous ordinance adopted by the Council last year (notification on or before commercial rent is due and provision of documentation within 7 days of that notification) City Council 1/22/2021 15:12 Robert T Merkin 1/26/2021 500 • I am asking that they include a requirement that a signed affidavit of hardship be provided by the tenant seeking this protection to the Comment property owner (similar to what’s required for loans, unemployment, grants, etc.) • I am asking that a minimum rent of 25% be paid, consistent with state law for residential tenants seeking protection, to help commercial property owners offset their costs for loans, taxes, security, cleaning and maintenance, which seems fair given these businesses can all likely qualify for federal stimulus money (PPP) and some form of state and local financial relief I am begging you to reconsider implementing a commercial moratorium on evictions. The Governor continues to lock down the businesses, even though this has not helped reduce the number of cases. In fact, it appears that forcing families to congregate inside may be increasing exposure and also encouraging those who are young and healthy to seek socialization elsewhere. Businesses are closing permanently because there is just no financial support available to tenants or their Landlords. To date, there has not been any relief provided to commercial property owners by federal, state or local government to offset the cost consequences of these kinds of moratoriums and that this ordinance simply shifts the burden from one business to another. It is absolutely a matter of fairness to provide these modest changes and the council really should focus on economic relief to property owners, rather than this new, onerous burden that places the economic cost unfairly on our shoulders. The domino effect of the business closures is just beginning! It has been almost one full year with continuous unnecessary lockdowns by our Governor and savings are wiped City Council 1/22/2021 16:03 Kerrie Lichter Ozarski 1/26/2021 500 out for most people. Comment

As a property owner and property manager for commercial tenants I can attest to the desperation these business owners are facing and Landlords are running out of reserves. There will soon be a much higher vacancy rate and with the lockdown continuing, people will begin to fight back and stop rolling over. There will be no money to pay for your property taxes and sales tax revenue will drastically diminish. The City of San Diego is going to fall on desperate times, even more so that already exists if we do not start seeing support from our government.

This is killing our beautiful City and we must start to see support from you or the mass exodus of businesses out of California will continue.

My name is Sam Mazzeo and I am a tenant in the city of San Diego. I am urging you to extend the eviction moratorium until 60 days after the state of emergency has been lifted, at least. Our communities have a right to a roof over their heads. The city has a responsibility to ensure that tenants stay housed and protected, especially during a pandemic. We strongly urge you to extend the eviction moratorium until at least 60 days after the state of emergency has been lifted. City Council 1/22/2021 16:33 Sam Mazzeo 1/26/2021 500 Comment Many of our community members who lost their jobs in March 2020 have not been able to fully recover from it. Many of them are still struggling to pay rent. No family should carry the fear of losing their home because of their inability to pay rent. Extending the eviction moratorium will ensure that San Diego tenants remain housed.

Hundreds of San Diego families are at risk of losing their homes during a public health crisis. We need to keep families housed! RE: COMMERCIAL EVICTION MORATORIUM • Please reduce the amount of time allowed for notification of the property owner and the provision of documentation consistent with the previous ordinance adopted by the Council last year (notification on or before commercial rent is due and provision of documentation within 7 days of that notification) • Please include a requirement that a signed affidavit of hardship be provided by the tenant seeking this protection to the property owner (similar to what’s required for loans, unemployment, grants, etc.) City Council 1/22/2021 16:55 William Dolan 1/26/2021 500 • Please require that a minimum rent of 25% be paid, consistent with state law for residential tenants seeking protection, to help Comment commercial property owners offset their costs for loans, taxes, security, cleaning and maintenance, which seems fair given these businesses can all likely qualify for federal stimulus money (PPP) and some form of state and local financial relief * To date there has not been any relief provided to commercial property owners from any governmental agency to offset the cost consequences of these kinds of moratoriums. This ordinance simply shifts the burden from one business to the other. This is only the fair thing to do. * The council should really focus on economic relief to property owners, rather than shift the entire burden onto them. I am strongly against this continuation of the rent moratorium. I am a small property owner who has suffered from non-payment of rent by my tenants. I have nowhere to turn to get relief yet I must still pay all of my bills, mortgage payment, and property taxes. I understand City Council the concern for tenants, however, you must provide relief directly to the tenants so they can pay their rent instead of stealing rent money 1/23/2021 13:43 Paul Ruchlewicz 1/26/2021 500 Comment from me. Tenants are abusing this COVID situation and not paying any rent even when they can afford to do so. Further, I cannot proceed with a justifiable eviction at this time so I have lost control of the property that I own yet I am still responsible for all liabilities. I am in a grossly unfair predicament. Please do not make it worse. I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance.

City Council With too many renters living paycheck-to-paycheck, a broken-down car, a sick child, or missed days at work can put someone at imminent 1/24/2021 11:22 Nicole Oga 1/26/2021 500 Comment risk of losing their home. At a time when our collective health depends on people’s ability to stay at home, it has never been clearer that housing is healthcare. Without the moratorium extension, we will likely see even more people become homeless or be forced to double or triple up with other families. Overcrowding of households, sleeping in congregate shelters and living outside under the elements all lead to increased infections.

Lives are at risk. You must act now to protect San Diego residents. I urge the City Council to vote YES on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance.

City Council With too many renters living paycheck-to-paycheck, a broken-down car, a sick child, or missed days at work can put someone at imminent 1/24/2021 12:28 Vianney Ruvalcaba 1/26/2021 500 Comment risk of losing their home. At a time when our collective health depends on people’s ability to stay at home, it has never been clearer that housing is healthcare. Without the moratorium extension, we will likely see even more people become homeless or be forced to double or triple up with other families. Overcrowding of households, sleeping in congregate shelters and living outside under the elements all lead to increased infections.

Lives are at risk. You must act now to protect San Diego residents. I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance. The economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic threatens to City Council 1/24/2021 13:24 jean-huy 1/26/2021 500 significantly exacerbate housing instability and homelessness in San Diego. The City Council must take action to ensure people already Comment struggling to make ends meet are not displaced during the pandemic. I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance. With too many renters living paycheck-to-paycheck, a broken- down car, a sick child, or missed days at work can put someone at imminent risk of losing their home. At a time when our collective health City Council 1/24/2021 13:25 Shay Miller 1/26/2021 500 depends on people’s ability to stay at home, it has never been clearer that housing is healthcare. Without the moratorium extension, we Comment will likely see even more people become homeless or be forced to double or triple up with other families. Overcrowding of households, sleeping in congregate shelters and living outside under the elements all lead to increased infections. I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance. With too many renters living paycheck-to-paycheck, a broken- down car, a sick child, or missed days at work can put someone at imminent risk of losing their home. At a time when our collective health City Council 1/24/2021 13:26 Remy Bautista 1/26/2021 500 depends on people’s ability to stay at home, it has never been clearer that housing is healthcare. Without the moratorium extension, we Comment will likely see even more people become homeless or be forced to double or triple up with other families. Overcrowding of households, sleeping in congregate shelters and living outside under the elements all lead to increased infections. I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance. The economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic threatens to City Council 1/24/2021 13:26 Alura Virginia 1/26/2021 500 significantly exacerbate housing instability and homelessness in San Diego. The City Council must take action to ensure people already Comment struggling to make ends meet are not displaced during the pandemic. I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance. The economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic threatens to City Council 1/24/2021 13:27 Jordan Gorumba 1/26/2021 500 significantly exacerbate housing instability and homelessness in San Diego. The City Council must take action to ensure people already Comment struggling to make ends meet are not displaced during the pandemic. City Council This is a no-brainer - we are still in lockdown with record numbers of Covid deaths occuring and maxed out hospitals. Extend the 1/24/2021 15:43 Margaret Applebee 1/26/2021 500 Comment moratorium. I urge the City Council to vote YES on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance.

City Council With too many renters living paycheck-to-paycheck, a broken-down car, a sick child, or missed days at work can put someone at imminent 1/24/2021 16:43 Jamie Churchill 1/26/2021 500 Comment risk of losing their home. At a time when our collective health depends on people’s ability to stay at home, it has never been clearer that housing is healthcare. Without the moratorium extension, we will likely see even more people become homeless or be forced to double or triple up with other families. Overcrowding of households, sleeping in congregate shelters and living outside under the elements all lead to increased infections.

Lives are at risk. You must act now to protect San Diego residents. I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance.

City Council With too many renters living paycheck-to-paycheck, a broken-down car, a sick child, or missed days at work can put someone at imminent 1/24/2021 18:10 Aurian Saleh 1/26/2021 500 Comment risk of losing their home. At a time when our collective health depends on people’s ability to stay at home, it has never been clearer that housing is healthcare. Without the moratorium extension, we will likely see even more people become homeless or be forced to double or triple up with other families. Overcrowding of households, sleeping in congregate shelters, and living outside under the elements all lead to increased infections.

Please act quickly and efficiently. I am writing to urge City Council to vote yes on the eviction moratorium extension. The federal government failed the people when they City Council 1/24/2021 18:54 Czeska Cabuhat 1/26/2021 500 voted not to provide crucial stimulus checks directly to the people. Instead, they bailed out large corporations and left people hungry, Comment unhoused, and dead. It is your duty to protect people over the pockets of real estate developers. Thank you. My name is Czeska Cabuhat from District 3. I am calling to urge Stephen Whiteburn and City Council to vote yes on the eviction City Council moratorium extension. The federal government failed the people when they voted not to provide crucial stimulus checks directly to the 1/24/2021 18:56 Czeska Cabuhat 1/26/2021 500 Comment people. Instead, they bailed out large corporations and left people hungry, unhoused, and dead. It is your duty to protect us, the people, and communities. It is NOT your duty to line the pockets of real estate developers. Thank you. Hi my name is Andy Zhao, and I am a PhD student at UC San Diego and a resident of district one. I am the Local Legislative Liaison for UC San Diego and represent our Graduate and Professional students around the city. I strongly urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance to continue to support San Diegans during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to extending the moratorium, we should continue to provide rent relief, tenant counseling, and legal services to those most in need. City Council 1/24/2021 20:02 Andrew Zhao 1/26/2021 500 While San Diego is setting record high numbers of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths, it is crucial that San Diegans are able to Comment stay safe at home. I appreciate the City's effort to house people at the Convention Center and in newly acquired hotels, but I hope they also vote yes on the eviction moratorium to saves lives during the pandemic. Our collective health depends on people’s ability to stay at home. Without the moratorium extension, more people will become homeless or be forced to stay with other families if they are lucky. Regardless, overcrowding of households, sleeping in packed shelters, and living outside constantly exposed to the virus would all lead to increased infections. I urge you to extend the eviction moratorium.

I'm a homeowner and not personally affected by this, but I know that putting more people out on the streets while the pandemic still rages would be a public health disaster, as well as an immoral dereliction of the City's duty. City Council 1/24/2021 20:13 Susan Duerksen 1/26/2021 500 The pandemic has cost many people their livelihoods, and significantly reduced the incomes of many more. The need for the eviction Comment moratorium has not diminished.

Vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance.

Thank you. Study housing is an essential social determinant of health. We are in the middle of a pandemic and the stress of housing stability and eviction, let alone the actual physical displacement, reduces the health of our community and weakens us against covid-19. Further, neighbors and nearby family members are crucial sources of care especially for those who do not have the financial resources to hire City Council people to provide them aid. Displacement destroys care networks. Landlord should not be able to exploit this crisis in order to push people 1/24/2021 21:35 Lilly Irani 1/26/2021 500 Comment out and raise rents in hopes of richer San diegans moving in.

Extend the eviction moratorium. Take vigorous action to create large scales of affordable, cost stabilized housing beyond that. California's housing market nightmares have gone on for too many decades and it is time for a new approach. The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting all San Diegans. As a Rental Housing Provider, I do not want to see anyone displaced, but the focus should be on relief, not an eviction moratorium. Financial assistance is a much more powerful tool to help than eviction moratoriums. In fact, strict eviction moratoriums could cause more housing instability, while it is proven that financial relief works to foster housing stability for both the residents and housing providers. We encourage city leaders to move quickly to deploy rental assistance and adjust the program to allow housing providers to apply on behalf of residents. Please amend the income requirement to at or below 80% AMI to assist more renters. We ask that you consider the needs of property owners during this difficult time and include a requirement that residents pay at least 25% of monthly rent, like AB 3088. This approach will also help lower outstanding consumer debt for renters in the long-term easing recovery for all. Many of us want to assist our renters if we can, but the proposed ordinance does not encourage communication and cooperation. Almost all residents will know whether they can pay rent on or before the due date. Early notification gives time for property owners to plan and City Council 1/25/2021 7:44 Teresa Stein 1/26/2021 500 make payment arrangements. Proof of hardship should be provided within 7 days of notification of inability to pay. Housing providers are Comment willing to accept many forms of income documentation and the abovementioned timelines will encourage dialogue between both parties. There should be an end date for the proposed moratorium. As we saw in 2020, it is quite simple for the City Council to extend eviction protections. With vaccines coming online and more stimulus in the future, the Council should enact a moratorium for only 90 days, then review and extend if need be. Housing providers must track many laws. It is far easier to comply with a statewide standard than to navigate different local laws and their specifics. Any local ordinance should defer to any state eviction law that is extended or passed. We all want to make sure San Diegans can remain healthy and housed, but without a continued focus on fiscal relief and balanced regulation, property owners will likely find themselves making very tough decisions soon. Thank you for considering our suggestions and for your continued work to protect all San Diegans.

Please do not leave an eviction moratorium open ended! We currently are working with tenants , but leaving a moratorium open ended City Council 1/25/2021 8:16 Terri Turner 1/26/2021 500 would give tenants zero incentive to either seek out help from the many programs assisting, and zero incentive to pay.Landlord continue to Comment have bills and bank payments due. Please reconsider. I had a tenant die last month from an overdose. It was a terrible event, and cost me roughly $3,00 in lost rent. Now you are going to City Council 1/25/2021 8:29 Steve Mims 1/26/2021 500 vote on allowing my other tenants to just stop paying their rent. This looks like an unconstitutional 5th Amendment "taking" of private Comment property to me. This Pandemic has brought out the worst in government. I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance. Our collective health and safety as a community requires us to City Council 1/25/2021 9:30 Stacey Uy 1/26/2021 500 have a safe place to live indoors. If this moratorium is not extended, San Diego residents will suffer. It is only one of many steps this City Comment Council should feel called to do to protect our communities. This moratorium is out of line with the reality of housing situations. City Council As an apartment owner, I have dealt with my tenants in a way to maintain their homes and my mortgage. 1/25/2021 9:31 Bette LEE Molloy 1/26/2021 500 Comment eviction has not been an issue if the tenants are making an effort. Your decision does not help the small apartment owners. As a local housing provider and I am emphathic to all those who have been affected by Covid. while I understand the need to protect those that need hep I am unclear as to why the City would have a 60 day extension beyond what the state is doing. what is the Scientific rationale and what does the city know that the State of California does not? our industry has taken the brunt of the constantly evolving City Council 1/25/2021 9:43 dan feder 1/26/2021 500 laws, our staff is essential and we are doing our best to help our residents, our margins are not large and yet the constant eveloving laws Comment that are not rationally balanced seem to be very one sided. there is a bigger picture here and again please provide the scientifc logic that the City of San Diego knows more than the State of California to justify this? this is a fair request, where is the data for this decision?

I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance.

City Council With too many renters living paycheck-to-paycheck, a broken-down car, a sick child, or missed days at work can put someone at imminent 1/25/2021 9:49 Melissa Artobello 1/26/2021 500 Comment risk of losing their home. At a time when our collective health depends on people’s ability to stay at home, it has never been clearer that housing is healthcare. Without the moratorium extension, we will likely see even more people become homeless or be forced to double or triple up with other families. Overcrowding of households, sleeping in congregate shelters and living outside under the elements all lead to increased infections.

Lives are at risk. You must act now to protect San Diego residents. We are a ‘mom & pop’ small apartment complex, comprising 10 units. We are providing housing for low-medium income tenants. We need our income. We be have expenses. Please reconsider this measure because taking away any control over our small complex would ruin us. City Council 1/25/2021 9:51 M Swagemakers 1/26/2021 500 Owners of supermarket/grocery store properties are thriving. Food prices rise. Fuel prices rise. Utilities rise. These are essential services Comment as well. To limit our small business is discrimination. M. S. I am writing in support of NAIOP's request for changes to the commercial eviction moratoriums to ease the burden on property owners. Property owners are an integral part of the commercial business economy and play a vital role in providing safe, clean and secure places for tenants to run their businesses and provide jobs. It's a symbiotic relationship, yet to date no specific federal, state or local relief has City Council been provided to property owners. Instead they have been asked to shoulder the burden of the eviction moratoriums which simply shift 1/25/2021 10:19 Erica Kerrin 1/26/2021 500 Comment the burden to another business. Many property owners are smaller and privately held without the ability of larger corporations to shoulder such a burden without support. Along with providing relief to tenants, the council should consider relief for property owners so that ALL businesses are treated fairly and ALL parties can work toward their shared goals of getting employees safely back to work and the economy back on track. On behalf of PATH (People Assisting The Homeless), I want to thank the City Council and Mayor Gloria for your continued leadership during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. I am writing to reaffirm our partnership as we continue our collective work to protect the City’s most vulnerable residents. To that point, I urge you and the Council to support the proposal to extend the City’s moratorium on evictions.

PATH has partnered with the City of San Diego for nearly eight years now in the fight to end homelessness, and we have made important inroads that are being threatened by the prospect of a new wave of homelessness. The lack of an extension to the State’s eviction moratorium could cause many of the nearly two million Californians living on the edge of homelessness to end up on the street, just as the pandemic has reached new highs of both deaths and infections.

City Council We appreciate the City putting forward this common sense proposal and a realistic timeframe, so that San Diegans do not have to 1/25/2021 10:28 Zach Schlagel 1/26/2021 500 Comment continually worry about the prospect of eviction. We also understand the dilemma that an extended eviction moratorium could pose to landlords. To that end, we have been asking our Federal representatives to provide robust emergency rental assistance, ensuring there are limited roadblocks to protecting our most vulnerable residents from being evicted during these challenging times. Please know that PATH stands with you in these efforts and will utilize our status as the State’s largest homeless service provider to lobby for the necessary resources to confront the challenges posed by this pandemic.

It is our collective hope that this pandemic and its resultant impact comes to a quick conclusion, but, in the interim, we must do all we can to protect the gains we are making in the homelessness crisis by supporting those who live on or near the edge of homelessness. PATH stands with you in support of extending this moratorium on evictions and urges the Council to pass it with the utmost urgency.

Affordable Housing Advocates is a Qualified Legal Services Project supported in part by the State Bar. We provide free legal services to extremely low income tenants, regardless of their immigration status. We write in strong support of adoption of the Emergency and Temporary Ordinances to protect residential tenants from eviction for 60 days following this state of emergency resulting from COVID-19. Although the CDC will extend eviction protections nationwide through March 31, and the State may extend AB 3088, local protections which protect the public health and welfare is warranted.

We ask the Council to consider altering the definition of "financial impacts" and allowing them to be established by declaration alone. Poor tenants may work as part of a crew, be paid in cash and from a variety of employers, making it difficult to provide documentation of Catherine A. Rodman, income loss. And tenants who pay grossly disproportionate amounts of their full income for rent will be unable to pay full rent even if the City Council 1/25/2021 10:30 Director & 1/26/2021 500 reduction of hours is less than 30 percent defined in the Ordinances. Comment Supervising Attorney The City may mirror the language of the CDC Order or AB 3088 which require loss of income, increased out-of-pocket or other expenses or circumstances related to the COVID-19 pandemic, not offset by public assistance.

In addition, should AB 3088 not be extended, the City may and should protect tenants against evictions for cause including remodeling, the landlord wishing to relocate to the unit, termination of a lease for term, or notice given by the tenant, which cannot be honored because of the pandemic.

Thank you for the actions you are taking to protect tenants and the public during these extraordinary times. This is an absolute abuse of power by those City officials seeking to pose a no end date eviction moratorium. As elected officials, your City Council 1/25/2021 10:46 Vicky Taylor 1/26/2021 500 responsibility is to focus on relief, and not punish those attempting to provide housing to everyone by implementing a no end date eviction Comment moratorium. This is an absolute abuse of power by those City officials seeking to pose a no end date eviction moratorium. As elected officials, your City Council 1/25/2021 10:47 Alexander Taylor 1/26/2021 500 responsibility is to focus on relief, and not punish those attempting to provide housing to everyone by implementing a no end date eviction Comment moratorium. This is an absolute abuse of power by those City officials seeking to pose a no end date eviction moratorium. As elected officials, your City Council 1/25/2021 10:48 Michael Taylor 1/26/2021 500 responsibility is to focus on relief, and not punish those attempting to provide housing to everyone by implementing a no end date eviction Comment moratorium. This is an absolute abuse of power by those City officials seeking to pose a no end date eviction moratorium. As elected officials, your City Council 1/25/2021 10:48 Madeline Taylor 1/26/2021 500 responsibility is to focus on relief, and not punish those attempting to provide housing to everyone by implementing a no end date eviction Comment moratorium. Dear City Council Members,

I am an independent landlord that owns a couple of properties in San Diego. I, personally, manage these properties. My tenants have claimed financial distress due to COVID and have not paid their full rent since April 1 2020. I have contacted my mortgage company for forebearance assistance. The bank is willing to wave the late fees and negative credit reporting, but I still have to pay the interest every month on the loan and a balloon payment at the end of COVID- which I would be unable to manage financially. Thus, I have continued to pay the mortgages on these properties each month. I rely on the income from these properties- part of which I use to pay for treatments for my terminally ill daughter. Unfortunately, I do not qualify for other forms of government or financial aid. Continual extensions of the eviction moratoriums without some sort of assistance for the independent landlords, such as myself, will force City Council us to have to sell our rental properties or let the properties go into foreclosure. This will reduce the pool of available rental properties, 1/25/2021 11:03 Lisa Lafferty 1/26/2021 500 Comment increase rental rates and exacerbate the rental crisis that San Diego is already facing. Additionally, at the present time, tenants are merely required to fill out a form and check a box stating financial distress due to COVID. It is not clear what landlords may request from their tenants in terms of documentation to support the tenant's claims of COVID based financial distress. Thus, tenants are abusing the eviction moratoriums and leaving independent landlords with significant financial losses, which now require collection through small claims court. Small claims court filings also burden the landlords with significant legal fees, filing fees, court fees, etc. Honorable council members, I understand the need to protect tenants during this difficult time. However, shifting the financial burden of tenants and the COVID crisis to the independent landlords is not an appropriate solution. Please consider provisions to assist landlords who are also in financial crisis. Sincere thanks for your consideration. Kind regards, Lisa Lafferty I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance.

City Council The economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic threatens to significantly exacerbate housing instability and homelessness in San Diego. 1/25/2021 11:08 Tehya Widmann 1/26/2021 500 Comment The City Council must take action to ensure people already struggling to make ends meet are not displaced during the pandemic.

Lives are at risk. You must act now to protect San Diego residents or live with the inevitable deaths on your conscience. I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance. City Council We already had a housing and homelessness crisis before the pandemic and it has only gotten worse. Stopping evictions saves lives. 1/25/2021 11:09 Michael Barr 1/26/2021 500 Comment This is why I support the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance as a critical first step to support San Diegans during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to extending the moratorium we must cancel rent, provide rent relief, tenant counseling and legal services. I have an independent property owner owner since 1975. The city and state continue to make it difficult to do business. Please do not City Council 1/25/2021 11:19 Nancy Parker 1/26/2021 500 extend the moratorium on rents. My expenses continue even if I do not receive rent. Do you want me to continue to pay Rental Business Comment taxes, Property taxes, etc.? Do you plan on assistance for property owners and renters? I am a retiree with 2 rental properties in SanDiego, CA. I depend on steady rent payments to supplement my social security income. I City Council 1/25/2021 11:27 Maureen Gottino 1/26/2021 500 don’t agree with most aspects of this legislation. It would impose a hardship on my monthly finances. Please re-consider for those of us Comment needing our rental income to support our finances. Thank you. I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance.

City Council With too many renters living paycheck-to-paycheck, a broken-down car, a sick child, or missed days at work can put someone at imminent 1/25/2021 11:44 Lisa Saldias 1/26/2021 500 Comment risk of losing their home. At a time when our collective health depends on people’s ability to stay at home, it has never been clearer that housing is healthcare. Without the moratorium extension, we will likely see even more people become homeless or be forced to double or triple up with other families. Overcrowding of households, sleeping in congregate shelters and living outside under the elements all lead to increased infections.

Lives are at risk. You must act now to protect San Diego residents. City Council I can't be the bailout, I need help too. If we are protecting the renters we must also protect the landlords. Lenders are not as forgiving with 1/25/2021 11:55 Sean Stafford 1/26/2021 500 Comment the mortgage payments. We need to focus the effort on rental assistance to help the both parties move forward. The very least the city can do to mitigate this ongoing crisis is to enact a moratorium on evictions. This moratorium is a matter of life and City Council death: if it passes, it can prevent vulnerable tenants from becoming Unhoused - which, during a global pandemic is a death sentence. An 1/25/2021 12:10 Kiernan McCloskey 1/26/2021 500 Comment enormous wave of evictions is looming, and to keep as many people housed as possible, the city must go further than this moratorium to cancel rent and mortgage debts for everyone. It is completely unfair to ask property owners to bear the cost of COVID lockdowns and to relieve tenants from paying their rent. Property owners have mortgages and taxes and expenses that they are getting no relief from so why should renters get off for free. It is not City Council 1/25/2021 12:45 Steven Rauber 1/26/2021 500 equitable or fair. If people truly can’t pay their rent then there should be a program where the property owner gets relief for their expenses Comment or the get reimbursed by the government for the rent. You can not ask one group to unfairly bear the burden of this economic injustice!!!!! City Council It is impossible for a Landlord to provide rental housing without collecting rents. The government must provide renters with the money 1/25/2021 13:23 Magdy S Eskandar 1/26/2021 500 Comment they need to avoid eviction. Assisting those affected by the current virus pandemic is appropriate. City Council I suggest giving them a cash payment (perhaps in exchange for some work the city needs done) and allowing them to use the money in 1/25/2021 13:54 William David Snell 1/26/2021 500 Comment the way the recipient deems best. Help those who need help, give them a chance to keep their self respect by earning the money and then get out of the way. Dear Council - Regarding your eviction moratorium, please weigh my situation into consideration. I moved to gain work 10 years ago. I rented out my house with the hope/expectation of returning but am still renting in Seattle for now. I believe in reasonable access to housing. I rent my house out at 40% below market rates in a period of low supply. This rate is below my costs of keeping the house, largely as a result of rising property taxes. Last March I found myself unemployed as a result of Covid dynamics. I am on unemployment insurance. I believe in pulling together as a team, if everyone helps, we can kick this virus and get back to normal from a position of greater strength. So when my tenants renewed their lease, I shared the financial situation and let them know in spite of it, I would not increase their rent. Both were both employed and in spite of my efforts, I am frustruatingly still unemployed, I'm keen to reverse this situation and improve my financial security. Keeping rent below market and cost deepens my financial insecurity. The possibility of not being able to meet the mortgage payment obligations of my house marches me towards ruin. Your eviction moratorium penalizes team players. If your interest is housing security, I have two recommendations: City Council 1) City of San Diego pay the rent of the Covid-financially-impacted directly to their landlords if tenants are unable 1/25/2021 14:09 Beth Collins Klein 1/26/2021 500 Comment 2) City of San Diego guarantee the financial obligations of properties where tenants are impacted; specifically, 1) mortgages to the respective banks and 2) its own property taxes Without this layer of security, the eviction moratorium provides 1) short term housing security to tenants 2) incentive for landlords to lease to low risk (high income and high security) tenants 3) incentive to banks and opportunities to repossess properties at current high values and resell 4) ensuing long term housing insecurity to lower income tenants I'd like to think my contribution will help us all somehow in the long run. After renewing their lease, my tenants asked me to pay for a $700 tree trimming job because they were tired of collecting its leaves. Please know that the proposed eviction moratorium carries a stronger sting. I've been the beneficiary of reasonable rents so I know I am not alone in my approach. Please consider ALL of your landlords and tenants (and I am currently a tenant) in your impactful policy making. Blessings, Beth Collins Klein I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance.

City Council 1/25/2021 14:09 Kevin Mahoney 1/26/2021 500 With too many renters living paycheck-to-paycheck, a broken-down car, a sick child, or missed days at work can put someone at imminent Comment risk of losing their home. At a time when our collective health depends on people’s ability to stay at home, it has never been clearer that housing is healthcare. Without the moratorium extension, we will likely see even more people become homeless or be forced to double or triple up with other families. Overcrowding of households, sleeping in congregate shelters and living outside under the elements all lead to increased infections.

Lives are at risk. You must act now to protect San Diego residents. I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance.

City Council With too many renters living paycheck-to-paycheck, a broken-down car, a sick child, or missed days at work can put someone at imminent 1/25/2021 14:10 Elisse Miller 1/26/2021 500 Comment risk of losing their home. At a time when our collective health depends on people’s ability to stay at home, it has never been clearer that housing is healthcare. Without the moratorium extension, we will likely see even more people become homeless or be forced to double or triple up with other families. Overcrowding of households, sleeping in congregate shelters and living outside under the elements all lead to increased infections.

Lives are at risk. You must act now to protect San Diego residents. I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance.

City Council With too many renters living paycheck-to-paycheck, a broken-down car, a sick child, or missed days at work can put someone at imminent 1/25/2021 15:06 David Tran 1/26/2021 500 Comment risk of losing their home. At a time when our collective health depends on people’s ability to stay at home, it has never been clearer that housing is healthcare. Without the moratorium extension, we will likely see even more people become homeless or be forced to double or triple up with other families. Overcrowding of households, sleeping in congregate shelters and living outside under the elements all lead to increased infections.

Lives are at risk. You must act now to protect San Diego residents. I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance.

City Council With too many renters living paycheck-to-paycheck, a broken-down car, a sick child, or missed days at work can put someone at imminent 1/25/2021 15:14 Kandi Custodio-Tan 1/26/2021 500 Comment risk of losing their home. At a time when our collective health depends on people’s ability to stay at home, it has never been clearer that housing is healthcare. Without the moratorium extension, we will likely see even more people become homeless or be forced to double or triple up with other families. Overcrowding of households, sleeping in congregate shelters and living outside under the elements all lead to increased infections.

Lives are at risk. You must act now to protect San Diego residents. I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance.

City Council With too many renters living paycheck-to-paycheck, a broken-down car, a sick child, or missed days at work can put someone at imminent 1/25/2021 15:22 Julia 1/26/2021 500 Comment risk of losing their home. At a time when our collective health depends on people’s ability to stay at home, it has never been clearer that housing is healthcare. Without the moratorium extension, we will likely see even more people become homeless or be forced to double or triple up with other families. Overcrowding of households, sleeping in congregate shelters and living outside under the elements all lead to increased infections.

Lives are at risk. You must act now to protect San Diego residents. City Council must vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance.

COVID-19 will continue to have devastating health AND economic impacts on San Diegans, especially low-income communities suffering from prolonged job loss/underemployment, food insecurity, and now housing instability. City Council 1/25/2021 15:22 Lauren Manalo 1/26/2021 500 Comment Housing is crucial to keeping our communities safe, healthy, and alive. City Council must take action to prevent displacement and homelessness during this pandemic.

This is only the first step. We must also provide rental assistance, and ultimately rent forgiveness for San Diegans unable to pay due to COVID financial hardship. The eviction moratorium needs to be extended indefinitely, until the end of the pandemic.

City Council There needs to be a city wide rental assistance program, or better yet, rent forgiveness. 1/25/2021 15:30 Niall Presnall 1/26/2021 500 Comment You'll find this money easy to accumulate and distribute by taking funds away from the over funded police departments and raising taxes on the rich. I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance. The economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic threatens to significantly exacerbate housing instability and homelessness in San Diego. The City Council must take action to ensure people already struggling to make ends meet are not displaced during the pandemic. With too many renters living paycheck-to-paycheck, a broken-down City Council car, a sick child, or missed days at work can put someone at imminent risk of losing their home. At a time when our collective health 1/25/2021 16:31 Phuong 1/26/2021 500 Comment depends on people’s ability to stay at home, it has never been clearer that housing is healthcare. Without the moratorium extension, we will likely see even more people become homeless or be forced to double or triple up with other families. Overcrowding of households, sleeping in congregate shelters and living outside under the elements all lead to increased infections. Lives are at risk. You must act now to protect San Diego residents. Dear Council Members,

My husband and I are retired and live off the income that our small apartment building brings in. We are born and raised in San Diego and have worked extremely hard for many years to get to this place in our lives. Extending the eviction moratorium is discriminatory, unfair, and quite possibly illegal. You as a council are responsible to protect and help ALL CITIZENS of San Diego, not just the ones that are rental tenants. By allowing any tenant to simply stop paying their rent indefinitely whenever they feel impacted by COVID is KILLING the small landlord! Where is the aid for the landlord that can’t pay their bills as a result? Passing an ordinance that only benefits certain people and penalizes others is NOT RIGHT. City Council 1/25/2021 16:40 Anabel Sardo 1/26/2021 500 The focus should be on a rental relief plan, not an eviction moratorium. If you wish to help ALL the citizens, require that tenants submit to Comment the city for Financial Assistance, and then if approved, send the subsidized payment directly to the landlord. That is the ONLY WAY you can be fair and impartial.

Additionally, please encourage courts and judges to accept eviction notices for other cases, including those for non-payment, and truly review all evidence. The city is making is ridiculously easy for tenants to play the system, knowing they can't be evicted. It doesn't matter if it's actually because of COVID... no judge will accept an eviction in San Diego. Attorneys have been told not to bother filing them.

Please help our small private landlords! We desperately need your support as well! Thank you!

• We oppose extending an evicting moratorium in the City of San Diego • This will directly impact property owners who are providing a safe, clean and secure space for jobs • Each property owner has a reliable, contractual relationship with its tenants City Council 1/25/2021 18:00 Natalie Dahl 1/26/2021 500 • To date, there hasn’t been relief provided to commercial property owners by federal, state or local government to offset the cost Comment consequences of these kinds of moratoriums and that this ordinance simply shifts the burden from one business to another • We would like to see the Council focus on economic relief to property owners and tenants, rather than this new, onerous burden that places the economic cost unfairly on property owners shoulders I would like the City Council to please vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance.

City Council With too many renters living paycheck-to-paycheck, a broken-down car, a sick child, or missed days at work can put someone at imminent 1/25/2021 20:25 Ryan Hughes 1/26/2021 500 Comment risk of losing their home. At a time when our collective health depends on people’s ability to stay at home, it has never been clearer that housing is healthcare. Without the moratorium extension, we will likely see even more people become homeless or be forced to double or triple up with other families. Overcrowding of households, sleeping in congregate shelters and living outside under the elements all lead to increased infections.

Lives are at risk. You must act now to protect San Diego residents. I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance.

City Council With too many renters living paycheck-to-paycheck, a broken-down car, a sick child, or missed days at work can put someone at imminent 1/25/2021 20:51 Joely Thomas 1/26/2021 500 Comment risk of losing their home. At a time when our collective health depends on people’s ability to stay at home, it has never been clearer that housing is healthcare. Without the moratorium extension, we will likely see even more people become homeless or be forced to double or triple up with other families. Overcrowding of households, sleeping in congregate shelters and living outside under the elements all lead to increased infections.

Lives are at risk. You must act now to protect San Diego residents. I sincerely urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance. The economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic threatens to significantly exacerbate housing instability and homelessness in San Diego. The City Council must take action to ensure people already struggling to make ends meet are not displaced during the pandemic. With too many renters living paycheck-to-paycheck, a City Council broken-down car, a sick child, or missed days at work can put someone at imminent risk of losing their home. At a time when our 1/25/2021 20:52 Katy Lillig 1/26/2021 500 Comment collective health depends on people’s ability to stay at home, it has never been clearer that housing is healthcare. Without the moratorium extension, we will likely see even more people become homeless or be forced to double or triple up with other families. Overcrowding of households, sleeping in congregate shelters and living outside under the elements all lead to increased infections. Lives are at risk. Please act now to protect San Diego residents. I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance.

City Council With too many renters living paycheck-to-paycheck, a broken-down car, a sick child, or missed days at work can put someone at imminent 1/25/2021 20:54 Joanna 1/26/2021 500 Comment risk of losing their home. At a time when our collective health depends on people’s ability to stay at home, it has never been clearer that housing is healthcare. Without the moratorium extension, we will likely see even more people become homeless or be forced to double or triple up with other families. Overcrowding of households, sleeping in congregate shelters and living outside under the elements all lead to increased infections.

Lives are at risk. You must act now to protect San Diego residents. I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance.

City Council With too many renters living paycheck-to-paycheck, a broken-down car, a sick child, or missed days at work can put someone at imminent 1/25/2021 21:00 Sandra Oliva 1/26/2021 500 Comment risk of losing their home. At a time when our collective health depends on people’s ability to stay at home, it has never been clearer that housing is healthcare. Without the moratorium extension, we will likely see even more people become homeless or be forced to double or triple up with other families. Overcrowding of households, sleeping in congregate shelters and living outside under the elements all lead to increased infections.

Lives are at risk. You must act now to protect San Diego residents. City Council In these times of social and economic uncertainty, I strongly urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance. 1/25/2021 21:02 Sophie Wasserman 1/26/2021 500 Comment To our San Diego City Council members, please vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance.

The economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic threatens to significantly exacerbate housing instability and homelessness in San Diego. The City Council must take action to ensure people already struggling to make ends meet are not displaced during the pandemic. People City Council should not have to rely on Gofundmes and mutual aid to get by. It is the government's job to make sure that people are taken care of in 1/25/2021 21:23 Shivani Das 1/26/2021 500 Comment these trying times. Without the moratorium extension, we will likely see even more people become homeless or be forced to double or triple up with other families. Overcrowding of households, sleeping in congregate shelters and living outside under the elements all lead to increased infections.

Lives are at risk. You must act now to protect San Diego residents. I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance.

City Council With too many renters living paycheck-to-paycheck, a broken-down car, a sick child, or missed days at work can put someone at imminent 1/25/2021 22:38 Michael McDonald 1/26/2021 500 Comment risk of losing their home. At a time when our collective health depends on people’s ability to stay at home, it has never been clearer that housing is healthcare. Without the moratorium extension, we will likely see even more people become homeless or be forced to double or triple up with other families. Overcrowding of households, sleeping in congregate shelters and living outside under the elements all lead to increased infections.

Lives are at risk. You must act now to protect San Diego residents. Re summary, item 6: Please clarify “ no requirement that tenants.. pay any portion of rent.” I am renting my Sea Colony Point Loma condo to an abusive tenant City Council who gets a substantial part of her $6,000/mo income from SSDI but has not paid any rent since September, 2020 blaming, without any 1/25/2021 22:52 Zwanny Erickson 1/26/2021 500 Comment proof, COVID-19. She has refused to comply with any tenant COVID-19 requirements: 7 day notice of failure to pay full rent, documenting income and expenses, etc. Such a tenant should be subject to full range of pre-COVID actions available to a landlord to deal with abusive tenants. I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance. The economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic threatens to significantly exacerbate housing instability and homelessness in San Diego. The City Council must take action to ensure people already struggling to make ends meet are not displaced during the pandemic. With too many renters living paycheck-to-paycheck, a broken-down car, a sick child, or missed days at work can put someone at imminent City Council 1/25/2021 23:29 Alexandra Metz 1/26/2021 500 risk of losing their home. At a time when our collective health depends on people’s ability to stay at home, it has never been clearer that Comment housing is healthcare. Without the moratorium extension, we will likely see even more people become homeless or be forced to double or triple up with other families. Overcrowding of households, sleeping in congregate shelters and living outside under the elements all lead to increased infections. Lives are at risk. You must act now to protect San Diego residents. I am urging the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance. Displacing residents at a time when vaccination for COVID- 19 is not yet readily available to the population as a whole as well as knowing that vaccination only prevents illness, not infection, is a City Council 1/25/2021 23:37 Khue Vi Tran 1/26/2021 500 wholly irresponsible and reprehensible act. Additionally, to displace residents now clearly ignores that only some members of this Comment community have been fortunate enough to not lose their source of income during a tumultuous and dangerous time. To expel people during this time places our communities in danger and threatens the trust of the people in their own community. I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance. The economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic threatens to significantly exacerbate housing instability and homelessness in San Diego. The City Council must take action to ensure people already struggling to make ends meet are not displaced during the pandemic. With too many renters living paycheck-to-paycheck, a broken-down City Council car, a sick child, or missed days at work can put someone at imminent risk of losing their home. At a time when our collective health 1/25/2021 23:48 Asiya Hussein 1/26/2021 500 Comment depends on people’s ability to stay at home, it has never been clearer that housing is healthcare. Without the moratorium extension, we will likely see even more people become homeless or be forced to double or triple up with other families. Overcrowding of households, sleeping in congregate shelters and living outside under the elements all lead to increased infections. Lives are at risk. You must act now to protect San Diego residents. City Council Extend the eviction moratorium. How will kicking people out help us end this pandemic? It won’t. And it’s not these peoples fault. EXTEND 1/26/2021 5:39 Halle Rivero 1/26/2021 500 Comment THE MORATORIUM. I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance.

City Council With too many renters living paycheck-to-paycheck, a broken-down car, a sick child, or missed days at work can put someone at imminent 1/26/2021 6:07 Faith Martin 1/26/2021 500 Comment risk of losing their home. At a time when our collective health depends on people’s ability to stay at home, it has never been clearer that housing is healthcare. Without the moratorium extension, we will likely see even more people become homeless or be forced to double or triple up with other families. Overcrowding of households, sleeping in congregate shelters and living outside under the elements all lead to increased infections.

We must protect our community! I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance.

City Council With too many renters living paycheck-to-paycheck, a broken-down car, a sick child, or missed days at work can put someone at imminent 1/26/2021 7:51 Annika Nabors 1/26/2021 500 Comment risk of losing their home. At a time when our collective health depends on people’s ability to stay at home, it has never been clearer that housing is healthcare. Without the moratorium extension, we will likely see even more people become homeless or be forced to double or triple up with other families. Overcrowding of households, sleeping in congregate shelters and living outside under the elements all lead to increased infections.

Lives are at risk. You must act now to protect San Diego residents. I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance.

City Council With too many renters living paycheck-to-paycheck, a broken-down car, a sick child, or missed days at work can put someone at imminent 1/26/2021 7:55 Kelly Frolich 1/26/2021 500 Comment risk of losing their home. At a time when our collective health depends on people’s ability to stay at home, it has never been clearer that housing is healthcare. Without the moratorium extension, we will likely see even more people become homeless or be forced to double or triple up with other families. Overcrowding of households, sleeping in congregate shelters and living outside under the elements all lead to increased infections.

Lives are at risk. You must act now to protect San Diego residents. I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance.

City Council With too many renters living paycheck-to-paycheck, a broken-down car, a sick child, or missed days at work can put someone at imminent 1/26/2021 8:13 Sneha 1/26/2021 500 Comment risk of losing their home. At a time when our collective health depends on people’s ability to stay at home, it has never been clearer that housing is healthcare. Without the moratorium extension, we will likely see even more people become homeless or be forced to double or triple up with other families. Overcrowding of households, sleeping in congregate shelters and living outside under the elements all lead to increased infections.

Lives are at risk. You must act now to protect San Diego residents. I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance.

City Council 1/26/2021 8:24 Allison Manch 1/26/2021 500 With too many renters living paycheck-to-paycheck, a broken-down car, a sick child, or missed days at work can put someone at imminent Comment risk of losing their home. At a time when our collective health depends on people’s ability to stay at home, it has never been clearer that housing is healthcare. Without the moratorium extension, we will likely see even more people become homeless or be forced to double or triple up with other families. Overcrowding of households, sleeping in congregate shelters and living outside under the elements all lead to increased infections.

Lives are at risk. You must act now to protect San Diego residents. I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance. The economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic threatens to significantly exacerbate housing instability and homelessness in San Diego. The City Council must take action to ensure people already struggling to make ends meet are not displaced during the pandemic.

With too many renters living paycheck-to-paycheck, a broken-down car, a sick child, or missed days at work can put someone at imminent City Council 1/26/2021 8:26 Tama Becker-Varano 1/26/2021 500 risk of losing their home. At a time when our collective health depends on people’s ability to stay at home, it has never been clearer that Comment housing is healthcare. Without the moratorium extension, we will likely see even more people become homeless or be forced to double or triple up with other families. Overcrowding of households, sleeping in congregate shelters, and living outside under the elements all lead to increased infections.

Lives are at risk. You must act now to protect San Diego residents. I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance.

The City Council must take action to ensure people already struggling to make ends meet are not displaced during the pandemic. City Council 1/26/2021 9:06 Cheryl A Stigall 1/26/2021 500 At a time when our collective health depends on people’s ability to stay at home, it has never been clearer that housing is healthcare. Comment Without the moratorium extension, we will likely see even more people become homeless or be forced to double or triple up with other families.

Lives are at risk. You must act now to protect San Diego residents. On behalf of The San Diego LGBT Community Center, we urge the City Council to approve the much needed Residential and Commercial Eviction Moratorium. As a housing service provider, we believe that housing is a human right and more than ever, a public health issue. While the City is recording record high positive COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths, it is critical that San Diegans are able to stay City Council 1/26/2021 9:10 Rebekah Hook-Held 1/26/2021 500 in their homes. Comment Without the extension of the current eviction moratorium, thousands of San Diego families will be at risk of losing their housing and health as early as February 1st. Today, we ask that you keep San Diegans in their homes, prevent an increase in our unhoused population, and help our economy begin to recover. Thank You. I urge the City Council to vote yes on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance.

City Council With too many renters living paycheck-to-paycheck, a broken-down car, a sick child, or missed days at work can put someone at imminent 1/26/2021 10:17 Alejandra Lucero 1/26/2021 500 Comment risk of losing their home. At a time when our collective health depends on people’s ability to stay at home, it has never been clearer that housing is healthcare. Without the moratorium extension, we will likely see even more people become homeless or be forced to double or triple up with other families. Overcrowding of households, sleeping in congregate shelters and living outside under the elements all lead to increased infections.

Lives are at risk. You must act now to protect San Diego residents. My name's Michelle from District 9 and I'm urging city council to vote YES on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance. This pandemic and the lack of the necessary economic support from the government has left us struggling to survive. Too many renters live paycheck to City Council paycheck, barely able to make ends meet, many of them risking their lives working essential jobs at this time. 1/26/2021 10:27 Michelle 1/26/2021 500 Comment By extending the Eviction Moratorium, the City Council can protect its constituents and ensure they are not displaced in the middle of this crisis. Please act NOW and vote YES on the Eviction Moratorium Ordinance. Please don't approve the new Eviction Moratorium. I have tenants that abuse these types of eviction moratoriums. They are working and not experiencing true hardships but not paying rent because they know they can't be evicted. At a minimum, there should be City Council 1/26/2021 10:31 Aaron Flores 1/26/2021 500 requirements that they apply for rental assistance or pay a portion of their rent if they can. If they fail to make a documented effort and Comment don't show acceptance to get on a reasonable partial payment plan than they should be evicted. Where is the protection for landlords. We are suffering too. Buenas tardes soy Residente del Distrito 9 promotora de EHC. La vivienda es un derecho humano y un problema de Salud Pública. Durante este tiempo cuando la Ciudad está registrando un alto número de casos positivos de COVID-19 hospitalizaciones y muertes es fundamental que los habitantes de San Diego puedan permanecer en sus hogares.Ya teníamos crisis de vivienda y personas sin hogar City Council 1/26/2021 11:16 Esperanza González 1/26/2021 500 antes de la Pandemia y se a empeorado más. Detener los desalojos salva vidas, Es por eso que apoyamos la Ordenanza de Moratoria de Comment desalojos como un primer paso crítico para apoyar a los habitantes de San Diego Devén extender la Moratoria y cancelar el alquiler brindar alivio del alquiler y asesoría para inquilinos y Servicios Legales es por eso que insistimos al Ayuntamiento a Votar SI a la Ordenanza Moratoria de Desalojos muchas gracias Housing is a human right and a public health issue. During this time when the City is recording high numbers of positive COVID-19 cases, City Council 1/26/2021 11:44 Belen Hernandez 1/26/2021 500 hospitalizations, and deaths, it is critical that San Diegans are able to stay in their homes. On behalf of Mid-City CAN, I urge you to please Comment vote to extend the moratorium today and give your support to cancelling rent, providing rent relief, tenant counseling and legal services. My name is Danielle and I live in District 1. I believe that San Diego residents should have a roof over their head during the pandemic. This is why I support extending the eviction moratorium by: -Preventing tenants from being evicted due to financial hardship caused by the COVID-19 pandemic City Council 1/26/2021 11:55 Danielle B 1/26/2021 500 -Projecting residential & commercial residents by extending the moratorium until 60 AFTER the city lifts the state of emergency due to the Comment COVID-19.

Thank you. Hello, my name is Sara and I am a community organizer with PANA. Many of our community members who lost their jobs in March 2020 City Council have not been able to fully recover from it. Many of them are still struggling to pay rent and make ends meet. No family should carry the 1/26/2021 11:58 Sara Alagha 1/26/2021 500 Comment fear of losing their home because of their inability to pay rent. Extending the eviction moratorium will ensure that San Diego tenants remain housed during this public health crisis. Thank you. Hi my name is Rahmo Abdi I'm a community Organizer with PANA, Many of our community members who lost their jobs in March 2020 have not been able to fully recover from it. Many of them are still struggling to pay rent. No family should carry the fear of losing their City Council 1/26/2021 12:47 Rahmo 1/26/2021 500 home because of their inability to pay rent. Extending the eviction moratorium will ensure that San Diego tenants remain housed. Comment thank you Rahmo As a RUN leader I’m asking you to please pass 502, extension of the eviction moratorium, this will truly make the difference in people City Council 1/26/2021 7:56 Joyce e Roberts 1/26/2021 502 having a home compared to being out on the street. Jobs are still being loss and some people’s business have closed now for good. Comment Children need a safe place to live in order to do their school work. People are hurting and need to know someone cares. Thank you City Council With unemployment continuing to soar, we need to extend the eviction moratorium so that we do not exacerbate the current homeless 1/26/2021 10:01 Jana Zawadzki 1/26/2021 502 Comment emergency in the city. We also need to incentivize landlords to work out payment plans with their tenants. I believe that all citizens have a right to feel safe, and have a roof over their heads. Especially in these troubled times, with the virus Non-Agenda 1/25/2021 2:35 Mariam Mishidze 1/26/2021 spreading and infecting the vulnerable daily, shelters like these would provide the help homeless people need. Shutting it down would only Comment increase the number of infected and dead. Homeless people have the right to be protected. When you are redoing the railroad tracks, will you be putting in the former cross-overs for cars? Behind J.C. Penney's & fourth ave., like Non-Agenda it was before. Because NOW we have to go from Main St. all the way to 5th ave. to cross the tracks. There should be a way to cross over 1/25/2021 9:16 emily Combs 1/26/2021 Comment and not have to go five blocks, out of our way, to do that. A waste of time, money, & gas. Thank you Please consider my suggestion. My Name is Ernie Casco resident senior pilot at Torrey Pines Gliderport In Concern of Gliderports Operational Problems,

I took it upon myself to re-write the Dockweiler recreational waiver to protect San Diego City Liabilities, Our public recreational freedoms, and a fair Tandem/instruction business using current existing laws. The beauty of the waiver is that it unifies all existing users, yet allows the Tandem/instruction to operate under known existing laws, such as scuba diving, kayaking, and surfing clubs operating locally

In support of California Recreational Statutes Law. We are asking Todd Gloria and the City Council to approve the waiver, give you Joe LaCava the go-ahead to form the Gliderpport advisory board, and implement the waiver. Non-Agenda 1/26/2021 10:32 Ernie L Casco 1/26/2021 1.) The waiver stops the commercialization and privatization of our public park. That is unacceptable and illegal. Comment 2.) Allows tandem/instruction to operate under established laws, yet Isolates any operational leaseholder problems, from normal public recreation use. 3.) Puts the power back to the City Council with a permanent Gliderport oversight advisory board. making better-informed decisions, protecting our parks and public freedom.

Finally, it would end the Gliderport dispute, which is completely legal, with immediate, responsible relief for those under a threat of violence and personal loss.

A pdf Waiver/Draft copy has been sent to Joe Lacava our La Jolla Representative. It's ready for approval, let's end the dispute Thank You so much Good Morning Mayor and City Council members,

My name is Chris Acolt, and I am an 11th grader at Hoover High School, and I live in the Community of City Heights in District 9. As part of my community involvement, I am involved with a leadership group called ACT, which stands for Advocates for Change Today. We work together to prevent and address issues of substance abuse amongst youth in our community. Our collective history of community work in City Heights started in the mid 2000’s under the Latino Youth Council. We are now known as Advocates for Change Today (or ACT). On behalf of my fellow ACT members, I wanted to welcome our new Mayor and new City Council members. I want to present to you a brief list of New Year's Resolutions on behalf of ACT members, in hopes that this year kicks off better than 2020. 1. Since Covid-19 pandemic continues to affect our communities, and youth have been facing mounting issues affecting their mental health and well being. We would like to see more resources allocated to support mental health services for youth and families as well.

2. Since the stress of having to stay at home is causing youth to cope in different ways, many youth are turning to using substances such as vapes, alcohol, and other drugs to cope. We would like support for awareness campaigns and support for youth who want to quit using Non-Agenda 1/26/2021 10:38 Chris Acolt 1/26/2021 substances to quit vaping, smoking, and using other subtances. We have been working on an awareness and youth engagement campaign Comment called Escape the Vape, that raises awareness about the dangers and impacts of vaping, as well as support youth who want to quit vaping (or smoking).

3. Although we know that a vaping van was passed on the state level for flavored tobacco products in stores like the ones in our communities, we still think that we can always do more to hold our local stores to standards to reduce to access of tobacco products amongst youth. If we think about it, most adult who smoke or vape now, started before they were 18. So we think as a City, we can do more to prevent youth from getting hooked to tobacco products.

These are only some of the new year’s resolutions that we could fit during public comment, but we would be more than happy to provide you with more information. Thank you for taking the important leadership roles that you have taken. It’s not easy, especially during these times. But we recognize the amount of work that you have ahead of you. We can help engage other youth in City Heights to help address and prevent the issues of substance that youth face on a daily basis. Thank you! My name is Lillian Burkhart and I am a resident of San Diego. I respectfully ask you to direct the Stormwater Department to address the Non-Agenda $1.4 billion funding shortfall we currently face, and in particular, by supporting a 2022 ballot initiative. As a surfer, swimmer, and ocean 1/26/2021 10:47 Lillian Burkhart 1/28/2021 Comment lifeguard, I believe that our communities have a right to clean, safe water. The City must adequately invest in stormwater management that protects the public from pollution, flooding, and property damage. Members of the City Council, and especially Councilmember Joe LaCava,

The Torrey Pines Gliderport is a multi-million dollar property owned by the City of San Diego.

It has been run by a private business under a free lease to a former San Diego police officer since 1998. That free lease was a 5 year lease with an option to extend for ONE additional 5 year term. That means that the free lease of our public land expired in 2008. That was over 12 years ago, and yet that free lease has continued to this day.

There have been a series of accidents, abuses, and deaths at that Gliderport under the current leaseholder. The most egregious abuse has been the control of access to that Gliderport through a private club.

That private club can expel anyone they want for any reason they want. That’s what private clubs can do. In my case, they expelled me Non-Agenda 1/26/2021 10:53 Bob Kuczewski 1/26/2021 because I testified in a court of law in a case where one of their instructors had injured a young woman under their care and training. I Comment have not been able to fly at that Gliderport ever since my testimony in that law suit back in 2014.

This is a new year and a significantly different Council. But you will inherit the same corrupt City Government that came before you unless you step up to the plate and make a difference. Yes, when you ask about the Gliderport, some faceless bureaucrat will give you some fake excuse about why you can’t do anything. That’s when you’ll know why we have elections for leaders and why we have term limits.

Sherri Lightner spent 8 years without a spine while listening to those faceless bureaucrats. During her entire term the abuses and deaths continued on our public land. Barbara Bry spent 4 years also without a spine and also listening to those same faceless bureaucrats. During her entire term the abuses and deaths continued on our public land.

Joe LaCava, as our new District 1 representative it is time for you to step up to the plate. The waiver mentioned by Mr. Casco is the first start. Let’s get this done.

*These comments, shaded in yellow, were submitted after the start of the meeting at 9am, and were added online and distributed to the Councilmembers after the conclusion of the meeting.