The Belmont City Council held a regular meeting on July 14, 2026, in the city council chambers. The meeting included a closed session for a public employee performance evaluation, approval of the consent calendar, a public hearing on a citizens initiative for a community center tax measure, a detailed update on the Harbor Industrial Area (HIA) Specific Plan, and a designation of a voting delegate for the League of California Cities conference. The city also remembered longtime community volunteer Judy King.
I think so. All right. This is the City of Belmont City Council regular meeting. Uh we are in the city council chambers. And uh we are called to order now. Can we please have roll call? I'll begin with a council member McCune. We have a closed session from six o'clock PM in room three sixty. Uh this is a public employee performance evaluation. So we'll go ahead and go to closed session now. Also, All right. We are back a little bit late from our closed session. Again, this is the uh City of Belmont City Council regular meeting as well as the City of Belmont Fire Protection District regular meeting. We were already in our agenda with the closed session. That's item three. And we are now moving uh to item three uh three. We're moving to item four, Pledge of Allegiance. Please rise if you're able. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, individual with liberty and justice for all. Right, thank you. Item five, report from closed session. Mr. City Attorney. Good evening, Madam Mayor. As you indicated, we did have a uh we are in the process of having a closed session tonight. We've recessed from the closed session. We'll continue uh later, so we have no action to report at this time. Okay, thank you very much. Uh that brings us to item six on our agenda, which is special presentations. We do not have anything on that uh item this evening. Item seven, public comments on items not on the agenda. This portion of the meeting is deserved for persons wishing to address the body on any city matter not on the agenda. Uh, the period for public comment is 15 minutes with a maximum of three minutes per speaker. If you would like to make a public comment, please uh just remember that members of the public may participate in person by Zoom or by phone. Uh in-person speakers should submit a speaker slip to the Kirk clerk, which is uh over there. Virtual participants may use the raise hand feature, and phone participants may press star nine to request to speak. And they are public comments are literally are generally limited to three minutes unless otherwise determined by the chair, and written comments may also be emailed to the city clerk before the item is heard. As a reminder, uh all speakers are expected to conduct themselves with civility and courtesy. Comments should be directed to the council and focused on individu issues, not individuals' personal attacks, profanity, disruptions, or audience outbursts will not be tolerated. The mayor may rule speakers out of order if comments are unrelated to the item or disruptive to the meeting, and anyone who will fully interrupts the proceedings may be removed so we can maintain respectful and welcoming environment for all participants. Those are their protocols that we uh need to follow for all public comment at our meeting today. Madam Clerk, do we have any public speakers for item seven? Yes, presently I have one speaker for this item, and that will be Giuliano Carlini. Good to see you. Lots been happening in the past few months with projects being started and completed. But we continually seem to shoot ourselves in the foot by doing things that are not going to most effectively make it practical for all road users to take the modes that are the safest and most effective. Cars are great. I own two, I regularly use them. In particular now that I've not been able to cycle while I'm recovering.