I never know.

I'm just gonna go.

Yeah, thank you.

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Commissioner Emkin.

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Commissioner Cunha.

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Commissioner Junio?

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Commissioner Busavita?

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Chair Whitmore?

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Motion passes for no.

Great.

All right.

Our first item of business is the complete streets checklist for the Alameda Safety Project.

Good evening, Commission.

Do I need to uh control?

Okay.

Good evening, Commissioners.

Uh, my name is Josh.

Uh, I'm the civil uh senior civil engineer engineer with City of Belmont Public Work Department.

Tonight I will provide uh uh project updates on our uh Alamitic de Los Parkers corridor project and follow up followed up by a complete street checklist.

Uh the project actually started like uh more than 10 years ago, so I will first share some background information for this project.

Uh in 20 in 2014, and the a four corner uh four corner study groups was established.

Uh the member included uh City of St.

Carlos, City of Belmont, and the Secure High School District and the San Carlos.

Uh next one.

Uh the reason uh we established this study group because Alameda de Las Poggas experienced a very heavy traffic congestion during the morning and afternoon uh school periods uh due to the traffic come from or several schools along the Alameda de Las Pagas corridor, the Carmon High, the TLENA Middle School, Trust Armstrong.

Uh so uh so we establish this traffic studies, and uh the key issue we want to aim to address is safety, traffic circulation, and also the uh multimodal accessibilities.

Next.

Yeah, after almost like two years studies and uh uh with uh traffic analysis, public outreach and the coordination with partner agencies, so we get some recommended recommended alternative solutions.

So this is from the four-corner traffic studies, uh they suggest uh a traffic signal in at the Common Drive and three minute roundabouts at Air Verano Tula Vista and the Cranfield, and also new school entrance, writing right out uh school entrance for the common high and also TL Middle Schools.

Yeah, uh this is uh a timeline for the project.

As I mentioned, 2014, we established the working uh study groups, and then we've started the project traffic study, and uh almost in uh after two years, uh December uh 2015, the studies get uh finished, and uh in 2016, both city, City of San Carlos and the uh Belmont adopted this plan.

Uh in 20 uh then we uh we uh move the project move forward to the design phase.

Uh we kicked off the design project in 2021.

And in 2022, we have uh uh several rounds of like the public workshop to finalize the project design.

Yeah.

Next I will move to the project itself.

This is our most recent like the project exhibit current design.

Uh we from uh this is this segment from Roston to El V Rano segments.

We are going to uh follow like the traffic studies.

We install the traffic signal at the common drive.

We will upgrade all the sidewalk and the driveway curb ramps, make it ADA standards.

We also will install the high visibility crosswalk.

Next one.

Uh for the segment from El Verano to the Cranfield, uh we install the mini roundabouts, uh raise the medians, and uh uh we installed the we will install the sidewalk in front of TL in the middle school, and uh also the new school entrance and the uh several uh green infrastructures uh bioretention area.

Uh next I will move to the most recent project change.

First, we changed the project name from the Alameda de las Pagas Corridor Improvement Project to Alameda de las Pogas multimodal safety projects.

Uh, even we change the name, but the scope, the limit uh the project limits, the schedule, the funding strategy still the same.

But the the new name will better reflect the project emphasized on the multimodal uh needs and the safety needs, and also the better help uh reflect our effort for those grants and the state uh the grant application uh for the state and the federal grants we are working on.

Uh the the second another updates uh because uh aligned to the available grants opportunities, we decide to uh divide the project into two phases.

So first one uh phase is the first phase uh will focus on the uh traffic signal installation and the mini roundabout, uh the segment from the El Verano to the Cranfield to uh for our top priority uh improvements uh to address the safety issues and also a multimodal access accessibility requirements.

Uh the improvement like the roundabouts, uh the entrance and also the raise the media for the traffic circulation reason.

Um and also uh from the sections you are see we will provide the separate uh uh protected bike line class four bike lens along the this segment.

Next uh the phase two will just uh will be the uh from the uh Rawlsden to the L Verano to make the all the sidewalk improvements, uh uh also makes the curb ramp driveway uh ADA improvements.

Uh we will uh we will start the construction once the grant gets available.

So after the we face the project, we can deliver the project sooner.

Uh next I will uh uh talk about the complete street check checklist.

The reason we go through this complete street checklist because we are currently applying the call train ATP grant.

This is part of their requirements to meet their uh MTC complete street checklist.

Uh MTC M MTC uh they define the complete street required have to uh require complete street have to accommodate the pedestrian uh pedestrian, bicyclist uh uh rider, uh transit rider, and all the people, all age and all abilities.

Our project uh we design for all the users.

So we propose like protect bike lens or the ADA compliant uh uh curb ramp driveway sidewalk.

We also complied uh apply the traffic coming, provide new school access and the transit access.

So we think our project consists with the MTC complete street check uh policy.

Next one of the uh components for the complete street checklist is uh the project needs consistent with the adopted plans.

So our project directly implements the recommendation from five adopted regional and local plans, including the Belmont Local Roadway Safety Plan, uh Belmont Pedestrian Must Bicycle Mass Plan and the San Carlos Pedestrian Bicycle Mass Plan, and the C CAG, their bike pedestrian plan and the Belmont General Plan 2020 2035.

The other component for the complete street checklist uh is uh the complete street required to address the safety issues.

So the image shows uh the crash and accidents happen in past five years.

We have almost uh about like 15 accidents happened in past five past five years.

Uh 29% of accidents including pedestrians and uh 14% including the uh cyclist.

So the safety issue for the existing condition we list as like uh pedestrian and the bicycle side uh bicycle crash and the driver fail to yield and uh uh high speed uh vehicle has high vehicle speed and the lack of the sidewalk.

So we propose like a protect bike lane along the segment uh from the airload to the cranfield.

We installed the high visible crosswalk to provide a safer uh pedestrian crossing.

We install the traffic signal as a common drive to improve the safety and the traffic operation.

Uh and the three mini mini roundabouts can lower the the speed and the apply the traffic coming.

And also the new sidewalk in front of the TLN Middle School provides a continuous accessible walking network.

Uh the last component for the complete street uh checklist is uh transit connections.

Uh so currently uh middle glass poker serves uh several uh transit uh same trans uh routes and we have three existing bus stops at uh El Verano, Ralston Avenue, and the Belmont Libraries.

Our project uh supports uh transit access.

We improve the sidewalk and uh make the all the curb ramps or the sidewalk ADA standards and provide high visibility call crosswalk.

So we uh improve the access to the for the transit routes, uh excuse me, transit riders to the bus stops.

So um last next one.

So overall for our like uh for the MTC complete street checklist, uh we think our project uh consist consists with the MTC complete street check uh complete complete street policies.

We also uh improve the transit connections.

Uh we provide uh we close the uh we provide or we install the class four bike lens, uh protect bike lane, close the regional or bicycle, uh the gap, uh bicycle excuse me, uh bicycle gap in the regional uh bicycle network.

We also uh installed the new sidewalk and uh provide the provide multimodal access for the site for the students for the pedestrians.

So I um overall I think our project uh uh meets the MTC complete street requirement.

I uh I hope I I want the commission can uh support our project and also support our project pursue the state and the federal uh safety grants.

Um that's uh concludes my presentation and uh thank you for your time.

Any question uh Josh, thank you very much.

That was uh a lot of information.

It was very informative, but it was a lot of that was great.

Um do we have any hands raised before we uh get into the we do not we don't?

Okay.

Um Commissioner Emkin, would you like to start?

Yeah, no, I'm fine, start.

Um so I remember seeing this project a few years ago, and at that point it was uh I believe 65% complete the design.

So is this the final design?

This is we're still working on it because as I mentioned for the available, we lack off the available funding, so we have to phase the project.

We want to focus on the safety issue first for the school areas.

So we we right now we decide to we haven't bring to the console, we are going to bring to console, phase the project and uh allocate the funding to finalize the phase one.

Okay.

And then um, assuming that all the funding lines up, what's the the time frame for starting this and how long it would take to do the different phases?

Um for the delay, we if we once we get approval and again allocate the funding for the delay, it will be fine.

I think we'll finish one and a half years.

But for the construction, as I mentioned, we apply for the ATP grant and some other state and national grants.

We we haven't secured any funds for the construction yet, so that's will be on note, but we are actively applying all kinds of grants right now.

It's uh a challenge.

Uh that's the biggest challenge right now.

Um I I'd see the median is still in the design.

What are the advantages of having the median down the middle of the road?

It takes up some space from the bike lane and all of that kind of thing.

So that median down the middle, uh what's the advantage of having that in the uh first uh uh compared the last version, like two years ago, the version we already for the phase one, we already uh replaced the class two bike line to class four bike lane.

We you you see we change the parking, we use a parking space for the buffer between the bike lane and the travel way.

And uh and the second question about the median.

I think the media is necessary because it's good for the for the circulations with the raised the median, so there is no U-turn cars.

Today is I think based on the traffic studies, a lot of for example the common uh parents they drop the kids in the TLinda and they want to go back home, they just make U-turn creates additional conflicts, we'll cause the uh conf uh conjection, and so we try to make people force everyone use a roundabouts, you know, one direction, so it makes the traffic circulation more smoother.

Okay, good.

So it's to prevent people from doing things that may interfere.

For the kids, I know I last time I think uh the high school students mentioned they're less very less j walking, but we still try to force the people or the kids use the high visibility crosswalk at the roundabout, make you know, and at that those locations we probably will provide like the cost guard, so make everyone more safer to cross the street other than just you know directly jaywalk.

And there's no um issues with emergency vehicles when you have like in that one part you have the median on one side and the protected bike line, which I love.

We are working with the fire department to like get them to review our design.

Yeah.

Okay.

The concept for class four, we we just recently gets uh raised and uh uh like work with the the phase idea.

So we there's a new new updates.

Yeah.

Okay.

Um and yeah, I I looked at it thoroughly, so I remember last time we had raised issues about um the bikes having to merge into traffic to go through the traffic circles and that being somewhat difficult.

And I noticed on this design, you had you do have kind of a thing called a bike ramp where they can exit up onto the sidewalk if they need to, and if they don't feel comfortable going to the traffic circle, it looks like they can go up to the sidewalk from the bike lane and then re-enter the bike.

Yeah, we're gonna use the crosswalk and then re-enter.

So I was happy to see that.

I don't know if that was in the original design, but I noticed it this time because I was looking to see if the bikes could get through the intersection okay and not have to go through the traffic circle.

Yeah, we encourage the those people, those students with uh less like the cyclist experience, they use a local street because that's more narrow a short distance to cross, uh safer and uh more uh better side distance for the vehicle to see them to cross the street.

Yeah.

Okay, thank you.

Yeah, thank you.

Uh you answered, I mean, asked my question about the emergency vehicles.

I think that was my main one.

Having all these great uh safety additions, I was curious if that was gonna affect emergency response time, especially adjacent to three schools.

So if I'm glad you guys are already working on that.

Um and I think the renaming is great because clearly the focus is on safety.

So that was a good call.

We ch we saw the winning the award is like the project in past few years, all the other city use all these multimodal safety to emphasize uh to reflect their emphasis on this stuff.

So we try to do the same also.

No, and I think it aligns like great with what you guys are committing to.

So thank you.

Commissioner Flauter?

Um I noticed that the roundabouts have yield signs.

Is that to the traffic I live off of Chula Vista?

And one of the things I notice is there's always a bottleneck at Chula Vista and Rousein, because most of the ki most people after school are coming up to Levista and then trying to turn on Roalston.

With the stop sign, it's a little bit slower with the yield sign.

I assume the cars are gonna be moving a little bit more.

Has there been any uh research done into a potential bottleneck happening at Ralston and Chula Vista because there'll be more cars moving a little bit more?

I think uh this uh this kind of like the uh a balance because uh we want to address the safety issue also meanwhile we want to also address the congestion issue.

The the yield uh will help uh make the circulation a little bit smoother.

So as I mentioned, we will provide like uh we are potentially discussed about provide like the cost guard.

So that doing like the school peak hours, so we that's what helps kids to uh safely cross the street.

Yeah.

Okay, yeah.

That was the other question is with the yield sign, people aren't forced to stop.

Yeah.

And my worry was that the crossing the street there might be a little bit more difficult.

Yeah.

Um and then the other is for phase one.

Do you have an idea of how long that that project would take to implement?

And would those streets be closed, or how would that work?

Yeah, uh for the construction based on previous studies, it'll take if we had granted uh grants, yeah, it's worth t to take two years.

But we are recently working with some uh like the quick build ideas, and also we recently we get some training for some uh prefabric, like the modulus.

So we are working on that too with our consultants see any some uh a sooner way to to install those like the roundabouts, yeah.

Okay.

Thank you.

Uh youth commissioners, questions or comments?

All right, all my questions were answered.

Um just really grateful this is happening because I know after school gets out and like even just in the afternoon when kids start or like when people my age start doing stuff, it can be like all like choked up.

And I know there's a lot of kids like running back and we're not running back and forth, but some of the crosswalks there, especially near like the Carlmont shopping center, they're just like there's not a stop light there, there's not a walk sign there.

So when it comes to letting cars stop and like letting people pass, it can just be a bit of a hassle.

And sometimes it's always easier to just go, which makes things unsafe.

So just really happy that we're putting more stuff in.

So thank you.

Yeah, um, I'm really excited to see how this turns out because I'm starting Carlmont in a couple months, and my sister also goes there.

And I've had a lot of experience walking on the um sidewalks, and it'd be really great to see those improvements on the sidewalks because it's always really dangerous because I feel like the cars always go by really fast.

That's that's gonna be pretty great.

Yeah, especially for the phase one we are working for focus on right now.

We provide a protect bike lane.

So from the pedestrian the uh the travel way, you will have uh some parking and also for the bike lane, so a bigger buffer.

Yeah, I'm hoping it gets people to walk more too because the sidewalks, at least on the Carmont Center side, are so narrow.

And then there's like stop signs and parking signs in the middle of the sidewalk that you have to like stop and help each other pass through because you can't have more than one person go.

So I'm excited to see wider sidewalks there.

Yeah, we will make that with the project taking two years, is the plan to like try to front load any during summer breaks or the holiday season?

Yeah, that's uh that's the plan.

Yeah, but I think most recent like the challenges gets the construction funding.

We and then when when it's going on, it'll have to go on during the school year at some point.

Is construction gonna start after drop off?

And then it'll probably go throughout the entire day, right?

I mean we'll yeah, for the uh traffic uh like the construction uh staging or like construction traffic control plan, we will definitely will better coordinate for some like land closure project, maybe happen to do in the summer and there's uh some other like sidewalk or curb ramp upgrade.

We were probably doing the school school school time and the Zambia.

We would definitely provide the detour or the other route for the kids can safely walk in the around this area.

Okay.

And why are these designated as a mini roundabout and not a full size right?

Size.

Because of size first of for the uh we try to minimize the right-of-way impact.

And also, yeah, because the right-of-way impact will cause a lot of like right-of-way cost to across acquire the the the stuff uh excuse me, the right-of-way from other properties.

Okay.

So the size that we can't make it.

And all three will be the same size.

It seems like the one in this on the San Carlos border, that's a that's kind of a larger footprint of an intersection, right?

I think that's a a little bit larger, but I can give you provide you detailed numbers later.

Okay.

Yeah.

Um and then are those exits for Carlmont, the new ideas for exits for Carmont and Terra Linda, are those definitive that those are going to happen, or is that that's a proposal or they we want that to happen or uh during the traffic study, I think it we it's kind of a passed by those school districts, but uh it's also suggested by the uh recent I think the uh uh TLN uh Carmon uh excuse me, San Carlos School District, they have a walk audit for the admost project.

They suggest that this new access to yeah.

And the one for Terra Linda, would that go into a a roundabout on their campus, or would that go all the way through to Dartmouth?

Uh they would they uh in there, I think school in their school plan.

Uh I'm not sure if it adopted or not, but they did provide some new uh the the the driveway call connect the.mass entrance to this one.

But I I will double check and come get back to you later.

Yeah.

Okay.

Um and then I have a couple questions for the stoplight.

Uh will it be a uh just a green light or a protected left and right?

For the Carl Mont drive?

Yeah, yes.

Uh for the east-west um for for people coming down Carlmont and coming into Alameda.

Uh would you will will will it just be a green light, meaning that's that people would have to wait on uh a right hand turn uh for for students to walk across, or will it be a protected green so that cars will be able to pass and that's not a time for students to cross.

I I I I don't uh I I think I would check and give back to you.

Okay.

But for their location, you also see from the our exhibit, it will be curved extension.

So we provide uh uh uh a tight media curve, like curb.

So it's load the car to make a 10.

When they make a 10 is the it's to us slow their speed because it's tight curve.

Yeah, radius.

So it's help can I think it's help also improve the safety at the area.

And also the it's also the uh curb extension will shorten the crosswalk distance.

So make people easy uh cross sooner or quicker, yeah.

If it's not a protected right, if it's just a green light and students are able to or pedestrians are able to walk there, I think that it would be very difficult for for cars to find the time during that green light to turn right.

I feel like they would just be backed up.

I see.

Okay.

Um it seems like it'd be nice if we could encourage that east-west traffic before they they cross over the street, because then on the other side of the street on the Lenardi side, it's just a sidewalk and they're not crossing any street, and so that wouldn't impact any traffic at all.

Okay.

Um then the the bike lanes, are those gonna be two-way on each side, or is it one way the ideal?

All the each side.

Okay.

Yeah.

Um do you it'd be it's okay if you don't have this, but it'd be great to know what percentage of Carlmont students bike to school and then after the project see if there's an increase.

I don't know if that's if the if the Carlot has that data or or an estimate, but it'd be nice to you know be able to hang your hat on this many more kids that are riding their bike because we have these lanes or we have more protection or walking.

Um then is there any idea for public outreach on the calendar, or is there like another like what's the next step in terms of the timeline?

Uh the project already, uh we had as mentioned in 2022 we have uh several rounds of public outreach.

Yeah.

We don't recently we don't have any plan for another round of public outreach, but as I mentioned, we are exploring some like quick build quick build approach.

So probably at that time we will have some we will have another some like education or like the roundabout education or uh quick build presentation, some stuff like that.

Great.

I was thinking the national night out is coming up, and I know that there's a um there's usually a lot of stuff going on at the library, and that's you know front facing toward this project, so that would be an idea.

But um great, thank you so much.

Um anything else.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you.

Thanks for um next agenda item is the approval of the happy hydrant design.

We have a really cool one here.

Okay.

Um so this last well, it's not a new round of applications.

We're just keeping it going, but we did receive one new application since our last meeting.

And this one we received from Chloe.

Um the whole committee really enjoyed this one.

Um they like how she tied in kind of um aspects of the Belmont area with these uh native plants and animals and everything like that.

So they all very happily approved this one and suggested it for us to move along with it.

And then this highlighted yellow one is where we'll be.

It's just uh past Ralston, like right on the other side of Old County there.

So yeah, we're just um no vote, but just for you guys to approve it to move forward to mid-pen water, and then we can go forward with it.

Thank you.

Great.

And I liked how she had a little bit of history in there too.

Um I looked into it, it's kind of a sad history because it it only lasted until the 1940s because of uh Japanese internment, but really it's still lovely that she used uh some Bell Mont history in there.

Thank you, Chloe, and everybody on the committee.

Um to uh department updates.

Do we need to make a motion to approve this design?

We don't need a motion, just unless you guys have any objections, we'll just say it's good to go.

Okay, sorry, moving back to the approval.

Do we have any objections for Chloe and her beautiful design that she worked really hard on?

No, we love it.

No objections.

And I love her title.

Century in Bloom.

Yeah.

Perfect.

Okay.

Uh now moving on to Department of Dates.

Okay.

Okay.

Since we last met, we had our pride flag raising.

I think this was our biggest one that we've had so far.

We had a really big crowd there.

Um we had some local um community members bring some goodies for everyone there, so it was really good to see everyone together.

We had a few different speakers.

We had um a singer as well, so it was just a great afternoon there.

We also had our preschool graduation.

Very cute.

There's a couple different performances.

Um the graduating students are the students that will be moving on.

They got presented with their little certificates there, and then at the end, everyone got to celebrate with some shaved eyes.

Then we had our second annual pickleball tournament at the senior center.

Um, I think we had a few more participants than last year.

Uh and it was very lively competition.

Um, and they got the winners got their trophies, and they also got some centennial swag, so they were very happy with that.

Then all of our summer camps are in full swing.

We actually most of them are ending within the next two weeks, which is crazy to think about.

Um, but Camp Soar and Aquatics have been going off very well.

All of our contractor camps, um, we have soccer going on at Crystal Springs.

We have our Muggle Bees Theater Camp, just to name a few.

Um, and all of our camps were very well attended this summer.

Um, fall registration, crazy enough, is already about to open.

Um registration opens on August 3rd.

Uh the new activity guide is on our website, and we have some copies in our office, and it will be hitting Belmont residents uh mailboxes within the next few days.

Um this is where you'll find for our like uh holiday craft fair, um, some of our winter events, um, and our fall tree giveaway, and then all of our normal classes and activities.

And then some upcoming things.

Um this Saturday we have a music and open mic night at the manor.

Um, this is one of the new uh events that our volunteer uh art coordinator is doing.

Um everyone that we've had has been more and more attended.

So if you're in the area, stop by there's no sign up required.

Um our first movie in the parks of the year will be on September 18th.

We're pushing it back a little bit, so then we'll have three consecutive uh movies in a row.

More in the fall, it's just easier with the sunset and everything.

But the first one will be here at Twin Pines, and we're showing Zootopia 2, which got crazy amounts of votes.

It was the most popular by far.

Um and I think we've mentioned it before, but officially our centennial fest will be on Saturday, October 24th.

Um, our official birthday is the 29th, but that is in the middle of the week, so we're not gonna party that day, so we'll be celebrating on the 24th.

Um it might change the parade.

We're gonna have a car parade.

It may start at 1:30, two o'clock ish.

That will be hammered out a little closer to that.

Um, there'll be a parade, it will end up here.

Um, all the cars will be parked for a carp uh car show out front.

Then we will have a uh time capsule in front of City Hall, and then that will roll into the big festival here in the park.

We'll have different vendors, we'll have live music, food, different game areas and everything like that, and then the night will conclude with a drone show, which our city manager is very excited to bring everyone.

So yeah, it'll be a very fun day.

The times may change slightly, but that's the general time, and everything will be happy to hear in Twin Finds Park.

That's all I have.

Great, thank you.

I already got my activity guide.

Oh, then they're already out.

I brought mine because I'll show you.

I appreciate that we still send out paper guides, even though I know not everything is in there.

It's so nice to just page through it and I just I really enjoy it.

Yeah, sometimes they come later than when we get them, but so you may already have.

Yeah, it's great.

Layouts wonderful, everything looks good.

And I liked the uh new the Belmont Learning Center.

Yeah, that's like their official first little launch.

Um within the next few days, we'll be launching on social media and our newsletters and everything like that.

So you'll see more of that coming soon.

Yeah, looks very nice.

Belmont Community Preschool, I should call it correctly.

Yes.

It does look good.

Um do we have uh questions, comments?

Oh my god, question about the happy hydrants.

So um a couple months ago I did my own, and then like um recently, like when I was going by, it started like flaking in the corner.

I didn't know, like, is it because of the paint?

Is there any way like I don't know if it's only me, so I was just wondering, is there any way to like fix it?

Do I have to buy like um a top coat or something?

Um I mean we still have more paint in our office if you want to do any touchups.

I can reach out to Mid Pen because I'm pretty sure they're the ones that seal it afterwards.

Um, but I can reach out to them and let you know and then go from there.

Okay, thank you.

Uh I was wondering how people can get involved with the Centennial Fest, like how like for volunteering, setting up, cleaning up, like what can people do?

Glad you asked.

Um, we are welcoming any kind of volunteers.

Um you there's a volunteer spreadsheet on our website that you can fill out.

We also have a centennial email.

It's just centennial at Belmont.gov.

You can send us an email saying, you know, if you want to do something, if you just want to help in any way.

Um we are looking for volunteers for a lot of different stuff.

Um, and same with like the main event, we're looking for volunteers at that as well.

So people can email us or fill out the form, whatever is easier, and then we'll we'll find something for you guys to do for sure.

Anything else?

Um okay, let's move on to commissioner questions and comments.

Does anyone have any extra comments?

Um Commissioner Lee is not here, so I will make the announcement that the water dog run is on September 26th, I believe.

Looking at my calendar right now.

I think that's what day it is.

I think I'm gonna do it.

I think I'm gonna do it too.

I think that's good.

We should have like a commissioner key.

I've always done I've done the one mile run, but like this year I've got me surgery.

Okay, so I'm gonna read this last part.

ADA notice.

If you require assistance to participate in this meeting, please contact the city clerk at 650-595-7413 in advance.

So reasonable accommodations can be arranged.

And with that, the meeting is adjourned.