The Belmont City Council met on Tuesday, September 24, 2024, at 7:00 PM (the agenda listed 6:00 PM, but the transcript indicates the public portion began at 7:00 PM) in the City Council Chambers at One Twin Pines Lane. The meeting included special presentations, consent business, a public hearing on a new memory care facility, and general business items. All votes were unanimous (5-0).
All consent items were approved by a single 5-0 vote.
The meeting adjourned to the next regular meeting on October 8, 2024.
Good evening. Welcome to the City of Belmont City Council meeting. It is uh Tuesday, September twenty fourth at seven pm. We are in the council chambers at one Twin Pines Lane in Belmont, City Hall. Um the council meetings, unless otherwise noted, are broadcast live to Belmont Residents on Comcast Cable Channel 27, streamed live via the city's website at Belmont.gov. Uh Zoom and the public may attend the meeting in the council chambers at the City Hall on the second floor. All public comments are subject to a three-minute limit, otherwise unless otherwise determined by the chair, and there is a set of instructions and uh decorum to follow for public comment. If you would like to um read about those, please check our published agenda. Well, call to order. Let's say we did that. And uh second item is a roll call. Of course. Good evening, everyone. Councilmember Pang Maganares. Present. Councilmember Hurt. Present. Councilmember McKinsey? Present. Vice Mayor Latamarlo? Here. And Mayor Maids. Present. We have a quorum. Thank you. Thank you very much. Third item tonight is a closed session, and we have none. We have no study session. A regular business item is Pledge of Allegiance. If you can rise for the Pledge of Allegiance, please. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic. All right, thank you. On now to report from closed session. We did not have closed session tonight. That is correct, Madam Mayor. Okay, great. Item seven, special presentations. We have two tonight. The first is item seven A, recognition of Indigenous People's Day, October 14th, 2024. And we do have a proclamation that I'd like to read. I'll read portions of it. Indigenous Indigenous People's Day, October 14th, 2024. Whereas since the arrival of the Spanish in 1769, indigenous peoples have endured a long and well documented history of oppression, violence, torture, displacement, enslavement, forced assimilation, religious conversion, and discrimination. And whereas the idea of Indigenous People's Day was first proposed in 1977 by a delegation of Native Nations to the United Nations sponsored International Conference on Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations in the Americas. And whereas Belmont sits on the ancestral homeland of the Rematush Aloney, and whereas the Rematosh Alone lived along the San Francisco Peninsula for thousands of years, and contemporary members of the Rematush Aloney continue to preserve their community and culture and to care for Mother Earth and its peoples. And whereas the City of Belmont is dedicated to opposing systematic systemic racism against all people, including indigenous people in this community and across the nation and endorses the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which recognizes that indigenous peoples have suffered from historic injustices as a result of their colonization and dispossession of their lands, territories, and resources, which perpetuate perpetuates socioeconomic disparities. And whereas the City of Belmont values the progress our society has accomplished through Indigenous People's Knowledge, technology, thought, science, philosophy, and artistic contributions, and recognizes the deep historic, cultural, and contemporary significance of the indigenous peoples. And whereas the City of Belmont understands that government entities, organizations, and other public institutions should change their narratives, policies, and practices to better reflect the experiences and contributions of the Native American people and to better serve present-day Indigenous communities. Now, therefore, be it resolved that I, Julia Mates, mayor of the City of Belmont, on behalf of the Belmont City Council, do hereby proclaim October 14th, 2024 as Indigenous People's Day, and urge the community to recognize the resilience of all Indigenous peoples and to value their contributions to our city. And I believe accepting the proclamation tonight is uh Jonathan Cordero, founder and executive director of the Association of Rematush Aloney.