El Cajon City Council
Participation
Time and Location
2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month, at 3:00 PM.
Council Chamber
200 Civic Center Way
El Cajon, CA 92020
Watch Online
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ElCajonCouncilMeetings Please note, digital comments on YouTube are not monitored.
Public Comments
Members of the public may address the City Council on any item listed on the agenda, or on matters which are not listed on the agenda but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the City Council, Housing Authority and Successor Agency to the El Cajon Redevelopment Agency.
Speaker cards or requests to speak via ElCajon.gov/RemoteParticipation must be submitted to the City Clerk prior to the item being called. No late comment cards will be accepted. Please note that comments for Closed Session items will be heard during the general public comment portion of the agenda.
Public comments are typically limited to three (3) minutes per person, per agenda item, unless the presiding officer changes that time.
Per the Brown Act, the City Council cannot take formal action on items raised during public comments; however, Council may offer a brief response or direct staff to place the item on a future agenda for consideration.
In-Person Comments
Please complete a speaker card with the agenda item number you wish to speak about, or indicate if it is a general public comment, and return it to the Deputy City Clerk. When it’s your turn, the City Clerk will call your name and invite you to the podium.
Contact information on speaker cards is optional. Any information provided on a speaker card is considered a ‘public record’, and may be distributed or released to the public and/or media.
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Remote Comments
If you wish to participate remotely you must preregister at ElCajon.gov/RemoteParticipation. Once you are registered you will receive instructions on how to join the meeting, via Microsoft Teams.
Once in the meeting, your microphone will be muted until it is your turn to speak on an item. When the City Clerk calls your name you will hear that your microphone has been unmuted by the moderator. Your time will begin once you start speaking. During your allotted time, you can mute or unmute your microphone by pressing *6. Once your turn to speak is over your microphone will again be muted by the moderator. If you register to speak on multiple agenda items, this process will repeat for each item you have registered for.
Written Comments
Comments must be emailed to the City Clerk at [email protected] or mailed to the City Clerk at 200 Civic Center Way, El Cajon, CA 92020 and received by 4:00 pm the day prior to the City Council meeting for prompt distribution. Written public comments will be provided to the City Council in advance of the meeting for review and will be recorded in the public record.
Listening Devices and other Accommodations
The City of El Cajon encourages the participation of disabled individuals to be in total compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you require public documents in an accessible format, the City will make reasonable efforts to accommodate your request. This material is also to be made available in Spanish or Arabic upon request. If you are a non-English speaking resident or a citizen with speech or hearing impairments, and wish to comment at the Public Hearing or require any other form of assistance or auxiliary aids in order to participate at Public Hearings, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (619) 441-1763, as far in advance of the meeting as possible.
Members of the public who wish to translate or receive interpretation provided by another member of the public can do so as long as there is no disruption to the meeting. The City will arrange a space for interpreters at the meeting location, upon written request to the City Clerk at least 24 (twenty-four) hours before the meeting.
Rules of Decorum:
While the city council is in session, (1) any person or councilmember who actually disrupts a council meeting by acting in a disorderly, noisy, sustained, manner, (2) any person whose conduct actually disrupts the due course of the council meeting while addressing the city council or any councilmember thereof, or (3) any member of the public in attendance who actually disrupts the meeting by failing, on demand of the presiding officer, to comply with any warning or order of the presiding officer made in accord with the authority of this chapter, is subject to arrest for violating the California Penal Code or this code. See El Cajon Municipal Code §
2.12.140 - § 2.12.160 for additional information.
Technology Disruption Policy:
In the event the City Council Chamber loses electrical power or suffers an internet connection outage that is not corrected within one (1) hour, the City Council may adopt a finding by roll call vote that it has made good faith efforts to restore service in accordance with its policy and that public interest in continuing the meeting outweighs the public interest in remote public access. If such a finding is adopted, the Council will continue the meeting. If the Council chooses to adjourn the meeting and continue at a future time, any items noticed as public hearings will be continued to the next regularly scheduled meeting of the City Council. Any other items on the agenda that the Council has not taken action on will be placed on a future agenda.
CITY COUNCIL
HOUSING AUTHORITY AND
SUCCESSOR AGENCY TO THE EL CAJON
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
Council Chamber
200 Civic Center Way
El Cajon, CA 92020
Joint Special Meeting
Agenda
SEPTEMBER 15, 2026, 3:00 p.m.
Bill Wells, Mayor Graham Mitchell, City Manager
Michelle Metschel, Deputy Mayor Vince DiMaggio, Assistant City Manager Steve Goble, Councilmember Marisol Thorn, Deputy City Manager Gary Kendrick, Councilmember Jennifer Lyon, City Attorney Phil Ortiz, Councilmember Angela Cortez, City Clerk
CALL TO ORDER: Mayor Bill Wells
ROLL CALL: City Clerk Angela Cortez
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG AND MOMENT OF SILENCE
PUBLIC COMMENT:
This portion of the agenda provides an opportunity for members of the public to address the City Council on items that are listed on the special meeting agenda.
PUBLIC HEARING:
1. Public Hearing to Consider Proposed Assessment; Canvassing of Ballots; and Consideration to Approve Resolution of Formation to Establish a Downtown El Cajon Community Benefit District (CBD) and Levy the Assessments Therewith RECOMMENDATION:
That the City Council:
Hold the public hearing to consider all objections or protests, if any, and call for final submission of any ballots ;
1. Close the public hearing;2.
Direct the City Clerk to open and canvass the ballots; 3.
Receive and file the ballot results; and4.
If no majority protest exists, adopt the next Resolution, in order, to approve the formation of the Downtown El Cajon Community Benefit District and levy the assessments therewith.
5. ADJOURNMENT: The Joint Special Meeting of the El Cajon City Council/El Cajon Housing Authority/Successor Agency to the El Cajon Redevelopment Agency held this 15th day of September 2026, is adjourned.