Several public commenters at the Rules Committee meeting urged the panel to support a city resolution backing state legislation that would make polluters pay for cleanup costs, and raised related concerns about water policy and legal services for immigrants.

Andrea Vega, introduced in the record as an organizer with "Fruit and Waterwatch," told the committee she supported agenda item 8 and urged committee members to back a state-level "superfund" approach that would require oil and other polluters to pay for environmental damage. "This would benefit California, especially after the recent fires in Los Angeles, and it would bring equity by making polluters pay for the harm they have caused," Vega said (public comment at 153.17'208.14 in the transcript).

Other speakers linked environmental policy to local water resilience. A speaker identified in the record as Yolanda Marsh said she lives in the Valley and opposed the Delta tunnel, urging investment in local stormwater capture as a climate adaptation priority. Marsh also raised concerns about increased fear in immigrant communities and requested more funding for legal services for immigrants, saying her community has been "attacked" and needs additional support.

Jenna Henry, recorded as speaking from District 10, also urged the committee to vote in favor of the resolution supporting the polluters'pay approach and noted other California cities had passed similar resolutions. Daniel Tam, identified in the record as a dean at Holy Nativity Episcopal Church and affiliated with local faith networks, also supported the item and described it as an economic-justice measure that would require polluters to compensate families and taxpayers for damages.

Other public comments included concerns about the enforcement of short-term rental licensing (a speaker identified as Nicolás Cabello asked the committee to support enforcement and referenced "SV 346"), procedural concerns about charter-committee appointments and Brown Act compliance raised by a speaker who said he had filed a Brown Act complaint with the city attorney, and brief general requests about allowing more extended public testimony at council meetings.

The transcript records these public remarks during the agenda'call and public comment portions of the meeting. Several of the items requested by public speakers were later on the committee's consent calendar (including the resolution described as item 8); the transcript indicates that the consent agenda was adopted by the committee later in the meeting.