The Half Moon Bay City Council held a regular meeting on December 5, 2024, at the Ted Adcock Community Center. The meeting included a proclamation for outgoing Congresswoman Anna Eshoo, public comments, discussion of objective design standards, legislative advocacy updates, financial reports, and approvals for Measure D allocations, a parking lot lease, Measure R implementation, and a city manager contract amendment. The meeting was hybrid with in-person and Zoom participation.
For your service to the community. It's been the honor of my lifetime to represent San Mateo in Congress, Amateo County and Congress for 32 years. And I'm so proud that for my final term, our congressional district included the entire coastside for the very first time. So it is a bittersweet time for me. It's time for me to go off and smell the roses. Since Half Moon Bay was once again included in my congressional district two years ago, I've made supporting our farm worker community a priority, including securing $3 million for the Stone Pine Cover Manufacturing Manufactured Housing Community and 1.8 million dollars for the affordable housing development at the 555 Kelly Avenue. So as I conclude my congressional service, I I want to share the following thought with you. Others are very pleased. But what I want to share with you is the is the following. So I say to each one of you and to everyone that's in the chamber and maybe listening into this evening's meeting. And I said, Mom, why don't we go out for a ride? She said, Well, I said, uh would you like to go out and um uh and if so, where would you like to go? And she said, I'd like to go to Half Moon Bay. Uh she loved it. And shortly after that, God called her. So Half Moon Bay is um uh is in the center of the heart of my family and certainly mine. So uh I thank you for your partnership. I couldn't have asked for better partners. I've seen the council really stand tall um uh to bring about the changes with the tragedy that took place in Half Moon Bay. Uh and I'm exceedingly proud of you. Uh more than anything else, I'm grateful to you and for you, and uh thank you for giving me this uh time this evening. I'll come over and visit, you'll see me. I'm coming home to stay home at the end of the year, and um uh hopefully I'll bring my little baby granddaughter with me so I can show her off to all of you. So thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. No, thank you, Anna. You're an incredibly uh great resource. Uh you've worked so hard for the coast side and everything you've done, starting with Moonridge, uh the money for 880 Stone Pine, 550 Kelly. You really care about the coast side and we really appreciate that. So I I'm grateful to have you in Congress, and I'm gonna miss you very much. Thank you. Oh, you're very kind, you're very kind, and I hope you have uh really uh marvelous holidays and uh get some good rest too. Everyone needs a little bit of a break. Anna, thank you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You have uh you have been here, you know. You have been here, your your presence is warm, your presence is true, and it you do everything you can to be real and to be honest and to be faithful to what you believe in. So you're an uh a real model for me. Thank you. Um beautiful words. I'd like to just add to that, Anna. Uh for me, you are a model public servant, that you you understand the sacred trust, you know, in the job, you show up, you work hard, you do your homework. Um, you're thoughtful and and good hearted. I mean, just a model public servant for me. And I'll I agree with Harvey, you know, we will miss you uh very much and really do hope that you'll you'll come and visit and um stay active, you know, on some level. Um absolutely, absolutely I will. I love uh the community uh uh immensely. Uh and you know, in in uh our district is a very beautiful congressional district. The coast side is uh is a place that people come from all over the world to see. It's a you really see the hand of God in the in the uh in the shaping of all of it.