So unfortunately, Councilmember Pen Rose is not able to attend anyway.

Councilmember does notify us that she will be in remote for just call us into this issue.

So the attorney have their neighbor.

And we provide a form of the board attendance in person, and the number of time is the audio and the video technology.

In addition, council members may only use just college provisions two times per year, given that there are four council members here in person tonight, and that this is only the first time in 2025 that council members and has attended the vote in the first call.

Council members are also going to attend the locally.

Yes.

Here may have council.

So I agree.

So the first time is uh to the suppliations and presentations and the presentation.

Mr.

Mayor was uh obviously was uh discussion the last meeting where we were talking about the gateway project, and we have a group of uh leader representatives that are working on a lot of issues for the two people who are downtown, and I think they're a teacher to talk about the number of happy talking about.

Thank you so much.

And that's the is representing the NATO association.

Thank you so much.

So it is time to present on the work that we've had for putting in the last four or five months.

Um we want to say thank you to council member Patrick who brought us all together.

So how this group came to be in the representative.

Um we represent is the four main organizations that do work of any kind on the main street of separate um individual events.

So we've got our wonderful happening unification committee who is represented by Cameron Palmer, the coastal chamber of our is represented by myself, Mr.

Lynn, the downtown association, which is represented by Colleen and Betsy, and the city, which is represented by Council Member Patrick Lowe Johnson.

Our mission is to bring together these organizations in a way that they've not been brought together in quite a long time, if ever.

We all have played a different part on helping Main Street be an economic place for both residents and tourists, but we've always stayed in our separate silos.

And thanks to the help of Councilman Patrick, we were able to come together and turn that into one giant silo.

Currently, there are eight areas that we have been focusing our work.

So the first and foremost is a blight ordinance.

And this is working, all of these projects are working with the city, and we are here to help with the pieces that the city could use some advice on or some help with the manpower so that staff does not have to spend time that they can use better elsewhere.

So we've got the light ordinance, street sweeping, sidewalk cleaning, compact parking stalls for some parts of Main Street, wayfinding signage, street cold banners, map kiosks, and the street trees and flowers.

Together we think all of these projects will make downtown vibrant as it works towards the street skates master plan.

Here is just a small snapshot of what we have been working on in each of these eight categories.

I do want to recognize that this is only a small sliver of the poodles and poodles of papers that we got back at home base.

So thanks to the city, there is a draft flight ordinance that is being worked on right now, and we look forward to that coming forward to council so that the city can look at properties like the old coastside publishers building and the 7-Eleven dumpster area that seem to be prone to lots of garbage collection or just really bad wear and tear due to neglected buildings, and help to clean those up.

Currently, downtown is starting to suffer from what is called broken window syndrome, which is where once a window is broken, then more windows become broken because it slowly becomes more and more than normal.

It was a study I believe in 1954 about case.

So we are trying to help avoid the broken windows and wall light spread.

The next is the street sweeping.

So we're not exactly sure what the difference is over the last couple of years, but the leaks and the debris on the streets has gotten way out of hand.

And unfortunately makes the street look quite dismal at its height.

We have been working with the city to identify the problem, and some of that relates to cars being parked on the sides of the road, where the street sweepers come by, where the street sweepers are going, and so on.

So we have been working with city staff to identify those issues, and then we are hopeful that an ordinance will come forward to do what other cities have been known to do, which is put signs up that street sweeping is happening at a certain time, and that cars can't be parked there, just to ensure that the streets are first get to them.

Along with the street sweeping, also the sidewalks have been suffering.

We have been working with the city to identify what some of the major issues are.

The biggest one being recruiting trees.

We have not identified what a solution may look like because people love the trees and obviously topping them all down is not going to be a way forward.

But unfortunately, they made quite the mess and actually tends to look like a thumb on the street, which is not what we are trying to look like to our tourists and residents.

So we are working with the city to identify possible solutions and possible solutions like eco-friendly power washing.

So we do understand that you can't just get out there with a regular little pressure washer, but there are California and City organizes that need to be adhered by.

So we are very grateful to Moz for helping us figure out that, and once we know what the cost is, we would do some kind of easy to see how we can make that happen.

And then a fun idea is that once we start getting these things handled, we are going to be asking the individual shop owners to maintain the front of their shops, and we are going to create an award that we hope to give out at future city council meetings for shops that are looking forward to restaurants or businesses that are looking particularly awesome and we can celebrate how we do it for it.

Next up is the compact parking salt.

So one thing that came up quite often during the streetscapes masters plan, is that the parking on Main Street is a difficult connector.

And when it gets brought up to make it parallel, people get very upset.

So one thing that came up this year in the city's priority session meeting was the idea of some of the tighter main street blocks to mark them as compact so that at least certain areas are safer for people to go through to hopefully stop as many blender vendors as we see from people pulling out and trying to get around a ranch truck that is slipping out very far.

So we are working with the city to create, to research and create an ordinance for turning those into compact stalls, and then we don't lose any parking, we just shift it.

And then working with the city on some parking signs to let people know about the parking on other parts of the streets.

And the next step which came up at our last meeting was the wayfinding sign.

And so we have been working together to create some ideas that we can then bring to the city and the different groups, agriculture advisory committee, planning committee, and the community to start the conversation on what people want to see from the signs, both in design and style.

After much research and discussion, the brand for downtown and for signage, not only would make it easier for future signage to be made without having to start from scratch, but they're also will make it easier for people to identify way-finding signage versus parking signage and so on, based on their design, and it will all be a cohesive if there's two record designers on the commission, so the Lord knows we want to make sure it was.

Or getting us ready to help me have part of it.

Next, the project that we have been spending the most amount of time on is the tree pole banners.

Because that is a project that, due to its smaller scope and hopeful, smaller budget, would be easy to get off the ground and implement but create a nice visual visual start to the unification of Main Street signage.

So, unfortunately, well, hopefully people in the back, they kind of see there's lots of check marks there.

And thank you to city staff for everything that they have done to help figure out the types of things that we need.

And we're really excited about the reactivation of the activation of the big black holes at the end of the main street.

So hopefully in the near future, you will see beautiful bands on the main street, up and downwards on the light holes.

And then the last piece of the way finding is the map chaos.

So it's important to help our visitors in special orient themselves with downtown, especially as downtown is eventually going to start sprawling past Main Street in a large in a larger way.

So Magduja Park has been identified as a wonderful place to put a map.

And J.

Tomas, he was able to show me some ideal spots that would work really well.

And thank you to Mary Anna Stark, who ran up and down the street with me one day, standing in corners pretending to be a map so that we can visualize what that would be like.

So all the things that we have been researching should fall in line with that very well.

And we will work really hard to streamline hardware so that it is easy to source, hopefully, doesn't need too much customization and all matches and easy to replace or match as we things become available.

And last but not certainly not least is the street trees and flowers.

So over time, and with different shops having different lots for the fronts of their stores, the pots in front of different areas and on the corners have become quite an array of foliage.

Some is green, some is brown, and some is not necessarily native to our area, ignored as well in our weather.

So we want to thank Janice Moody who has helped start this process in doing some free uh plantings in front of areas with her beautiful succulents.

We look forward to working with the city staff to help create some kind of a policy and look and feel uh for the plans that could go on Main Street and be unified and beautiful, get allowed the shops to have their individuality.

And also big thank you to the Half Moon Bay Vication Committee who do the cops that came from the polls.

Due to funding being what it is, they have started getting sponsors for those.

So thank you to all those sponsors who support individual potted flowers, but they maintain those and they have been doing a wonderful job.

And that concludes the presentation.

So I like organs can stop the broken syndrome syndrome complex.

Well, use creation, and we use the quality, and more and more people will be the answer for the more companies with them.

So you can stop the process to be out of the presentation.

Thank you, guys.

And let's see all the details we've got for the reason.

We've got some great ideas and staff or something.

We've already seen things happen.

Staff's already got the pathway going out of town to the right with the button sign in.

And so we have the right aid building now that the trash will be in closure for the month that's cleaned up to try and get the uh the building is closed.

Maybe we can locate that somewhere else.

So that when they're in the building, it's not stuff all over the place.

So all the things that we can talk about is that we're saying, and we're getting ideas in the key coming in.

So this is the project, and I can't do that.

I just want to say that it's not just about to find or creating our technology.

When we do those sites, it shows that we care.

And I think people want to feel curious for these sorts of projects helped by everybody.

Thank you.

Um, what's the next item?

I just want to make a uh for those who are here for public forum and for the comments.

Uh one form is um, if you want, it's not kind of agenda, so you're lines on the agenda.

I'm sorry on the agenda, we'll have an opportunity to comment on the comments as well.

Anything else, in the world that you want to tell them, you can bring up the public forums, just ask that you put our card first and pass it over to the end of the sign up for the forum, and just all that we're here and signed on the same way.

Um again, sorry for the delay today.

We have some technical things.

Um, and uh, I think that's great.

So let's move on to item number four.

I mean, uh, just layers and now since we have activities and we service don't forget this Thursday afternoon, and then I think this right.

So we uh, we have to use there, and there's a glass one, presentation, that's fine.

Use it for all kinds of great stuff.

So uh, sounds hard to three, I think.

Okay, um that's all I got.

Um, now for this session, I thought we could have another question.

I think we have the session is easy to discuss uh, public point valuation of uh city manager and uh city attorney.

Um, the council sort of process, and then we should go back to the um next one is our city manager, city manager of the system.

Uh we have two reports tonight.

Uh the first one I'd like to welcome uh Mary Recover, who's the executive assistant and the city's office, who will be introduced to me at recent intern, but we have a mentor.

So here we have been there.

Um, my name is Mary Weber.

I have the executive assistant of the city manager.

And for the purpose of this update, I have the opportunity to use the supervised that are at the shop.

She is our city managers on the state term.

Larry joined us on to play six for two months.

She's a capital native, and she currently attends UCLA.

She's pursuing studies and technical engineering.

We plans to continue on to a lot of degree.

We're in her internship, Lara contributed in several projects in the city manager's office.

And we have greatly appreciated our energy identification.

At this time, I'll like invite Laura, please join us virtually.

So she can share a few words about our experience, please work with us.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mary.

Hi, you'll hear me, Mr.

Check.

Yes.

Okay, perfect.

Hi, yeah, just a very mentioned of Black Pasha.

I'm a junior at UCLA.

Which is the resident assistant.

But yeah, I wanted to share a bit about my experience as an city of the day and the office.

I had such a great experience.

Coming into it, I had a lot of walling experience.

I used to implicate for company's health and my government relationships department.

So I had all these council members before another cities and the state level, like a national level, but I never received what happened to my city.

And I also went with the organizing and government and university, but that is so different to coming into the city's office and seeing how many movement parts there are that means the city run.

Really getting to sit down and talk to the different staff members and seeing all those amazing experience to learn for the city clerk does, or sitting over here does, and to do projects for the City Journey, which was such amazing experiences and all the way into the local field.

My main part is for a research project for Catherine.

It was about the game of the side of the road, and you know, finding past examples where these have been allowed by the California post-production.

And through that project, I learned some very much about how any decisions affects cities like ours and universities and all of the research and resources that we develop into looking at that.

I also worked with Matthew and City Clerk's team to help stand in the sort of records, especially if we keep their resolutions and all the things, which is really interesting to see um what laws you're reading at the time or work with that.

And you know, tracking our street programmers, which we just mentioned in the past presentation, um, to see how we can improve our own programming in the city and looking at others, how they take their application to the programs for that to that other organization to also use those.

My PT take away from this internship were the importance of the government.

I got the chance to go out on that whole night out with Matthew to talk to the system today and really see how impactful we're getting to talk to a city official and uh hear their experiences in the city, how it's interesting to be able to really understand how she runs.

Um, another takeaway, or something like that, which is five.

So, I'm just saying, especially with all the new parts, like working with the calculator, and I should have a little system.

So we have to uh adapt as we go.

And I mean, this experience is really motivated for me to go for those into the legal fields when we're gonna get back to the working in the city because I really enjoyed this experience.

Thank you.

That's all I have.

Thank you so much for our first of all her things about the speech and speaking on the house.

Um, we might do um, and so that she uh, so we would see uh, you appreciate my sessions.

Thank you so much.

Generally, it's opportunity to show that recruiting how I forgot everyone.

So really also.

Um, uh, we have one brief update.

So, yeah, I've seen already.

A couple weeks ago, finally completed the construction of the staircase at Server's Beach.

Um, the computer was done about a couple weeks ago, and they opened it up.

Uh, people have been using it, so I just wanted to uh provide that quick update, the uh server and the surface beach uh standard collection project on the harbor district is still ongoing, and I believe they haven't done a month on that project going on with uh on the positive note on access and resort, and I think uh personally similar to experience it.

Um, we see maybe uh see um uh art site going up soon, so um uh just wanted to provide that quickly.

Any questions?

Um great thanks so much.

So I think we're um, so I might have already got on my license, and then are people online?

We have two members of the public.

I would like to make a public comment on this time.

Um we do have one.

Yes, so that's what um doesn't uh be visible.

She is visible on anyone who's on the students, and so it just does it for that.

But she is useful too.

Okay, I think um we'll start with three people plus one.

It's two people plus, we can have a second.

So um, we have three people and then the first council member, so are you ready?

Oh yeah.

Okay, so I will start with you.

And then the timer on the way it works by the way for folks who are not familiar with the three and a timer, and there's two tones of here, one tone, after two and a half minutes, we have 30 seconds left, and then a five minutes and uh actually, um, five seconds pretty much.

So strongly for the concern, that's not what I think about it.

Thank you.

I was thinking tonight as a citizen of Paco Bay.

And speaking out as an elected official, and it's an angry and frightened human being.

Donald Trump, that doesn't check, is going to destroy everything that we hold in the year that needs to have the states.

He has already shown unequivocally that he has no respect for the rule of law.

That he is going to jail the folks that you vote into office, but he will never allow that to be asked, or public officials that may have the potential, but the question is agenda.

And what will the consequences of your disobedience be?

He will federalize the national cars.

You start freaking the power of your elected government.

He will call in the armed forces.

He is saying, being quiet, shut up.

Or if you define me, I will ask her from you.

Let'm sitting down and make it head.

I know that my friends will use some of the words that I'm using to try to basically screen, but we do not have the luxury of missing our words and push the footing around.

This is no longer a context between Democrats and Republicans.

It is not a struggle between progressives and conservatives.

What we have now is a battle between what is lawful and what is criminal, between what is sane and what is crazy.

Between what is good and what is evil.

When democracy dies, be careful which side you work on.

If it's the wrong side, you and your children and your parents and your neighbors will lose your power.

And be in dire peril of losing your freedom and your life.

Speak up now.

This is the time to protest.

It is critical that every elected official who forgot to uphold the Constitution of the United States and of California, show that they are willing to defend them.

If you live in the United States, please speak up.

All of our voices need to be heard.

Please protest against what you feel is wrong or dangerous.

Do not allow evil to triumph because you were afraid to speak.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I forgot speech.

So one of the best practices on the council member and council is to actually ask people not to laws.

The reason is it can be similar to you sometimes to look at this come up to the polygon.

And you know, by not employing people, you want to listen to the to come up with you and won't have to worry about either presenting the view that's not publicly.

So that's why I ask people to please respect that and so they're in the system.

So you're not on this person.

Yes, next.

Thank you.

I hope you can hear me.

I would just like to feed back momentarily on what?

Council member Ted Russ had to say, and that is that the chief of our nation has uh complicit uh backers in Congress, and they can control the first screen, so every um other government, but they're allowing free reign to do things like pull out the Kennedy Rose Garden, build big ballrooms, have a great big parades in Washington military parades in Washington, and deploy the ICE troops in our cities.

So, you know, it's really important to vote.

Anybody that set out the last election now see that they probably should have gone to the ballot.

But anyway, what I really wanted to talk about was our um ongoing um issue that I brought up at the last meeting when I attended in person, and that's the explosions, the very loud explosions up and down the coast.

I'm hoping this time maybe Captain Chichon is there, but I can't really tell.

But some of the questions that I have for him is why are the calls about loud explosions or if you will, illegal fireworks, not showing up on the coast side dispatch lots for the sheriff's department.

Also, did possibly sheriff corpus order um the coastide deputies to stand down or not respond, or are the deputies deciding on their own to not go investigate that?

Boom complaints?

And my third question is: can the department deploy um gunshot detectors?

Like they have an easy callowato or the ALPR's, automatic license plate readers try to catch these dog logs.

It went on this for the kid as well, and I saw quite a bit of chatter on Zoom about it.

I mean, sorry, the uh next door about it, but I didn't, some people even mentioned that the dispatchers that answered the phone when they called were surprised.

They said nobody ever calls about this, but that's this isn't true.

So I don't know if he's there to answer that question, but that seems to be my question, and certainly it would be great if they could um catch these people because they're scaring pets, they're scaring older people like myself, and they're certainly frightening people with PTSD like our batteries.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Well, I have good news.

Uh, this is today.

And uh I know this is an issue for a few people including a few other people who are looking to find so.

You wouldn't mind if you don't have to do some updating.

Would it make sense to let the other speakers go first and then you might go to answer all the questions?

And then you want to do that too.

Well, I should have been sure when I need to be on this, sorry.

All right, great.

We mean me.

Actually, I'm sure I'm a cowski, but it's a shared um computer.

And I'm speaking on another topic, but I also want to acknowledge council member Penrose's comments just earlier.

I fully agree.

We all need to be willing to speak out, and we need to do somehow.

As Timothy Snagger, a scholar on authoritarian authoritarianism says, we must speak out, we must protest while we still can.

And I believe that, and I believe it's time for all of us.

I also believe that one of our duties is to protect those of longness who are most vulnerable.

Can that be I bring you the topic that I wanted to speak to for just another moment tonight?

And that is that last week.

I had the privilege of attending the exhibit honoring the farm work community.

Several city representatives were attendees as well.

And we saw the studio portraits of farm workers who are photographed holding the products of their own labor, such as beautiful vegetables and flowers.

This is a celebration of farm workers and what they have contributed to the entire coastide community.

So tonight I am urging the city of Hadlin Bay to further acknowledge and celebrate the work of farm workers in our community by moving forward without delay towards completing, beginning and completing the farm worker housing at 555 Kelly.

I urge you to do so.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Any more folks on the book?

I have no problems.

Okay, so I'll uh move on to the folks who are in the room, and come forward to the movement.

And um make their voices heard.

So on this uh topic of fireworks and explosions, uh, my Alice and I'll say, yeah, thank you.

That's my entire attention of work.

Um, council.

Um I even challenge the account town.

So there's multiple forms.

The extraction, I've sleep.

In the middle of the night, which is at 10 p.m.

for a lot of our children, and I know a lot of you are parents, and probably the experiences also.

But when you're asleep, your child's sleep, your animals in the house, the piece that you meet at night, is so violently sometimes because if you are close to these people around your windows, if your windows open, so it's the other dead suite, but it's happened to me multiple times on the target part.

So I think we're going from ocean colony and provide your standard quality up to Moscow.

This is the behavior that affects the health of a wide variety of your community, that you shouldn't hear that.

There's really no excuse not to address this.

Um I am sorry that it is comfortable, but it is a sad, sad stage that people just don't care about other people's well-being, they're calling the side of happiness.

So that's all please, think about your neighbor.

Half to your neighbor over the fence.

It might just be his next door neighbor who's a single father.

He's worked in two jobs.

He's got three kids in trying to raise.

He doesn't know where his 12-year-old kids at 10 o'clock at night.

He may be at work, he may have no child care at night.

So there are people that aren't supporting their neighbors.

There are people that are not supporting their community members.

I didn't live in this town during COVID.

I was very fortunate to be in an Iron Man up in the sideline where I did not have to have the influx of my community on top of me or not on top of me.

All of our neighborhood were all very friendly.

We all still walking in walk together.

But what I felt in this town is I don't think that attitude, and I've been near and then I'm having a day for decades.

I am pregnant with the peninsula.

And I never felt so sad about two communities that communities, I don't know how many communities are here that just are not connecting.

And a parade is wonderful and five us and crazy are the best ever.

But there needs to be a neighbor's engagement to neighbor to neighbor connection to these.

So we can all just have some action.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Alice.

All right, speakers and stuff.

Can you hear me?

I'm just here to talk about the position, you know, um, I don't do a lot of stuff.

But is it coming in on control?

There's, I mean, I can hear it in my house.

I know people that have little or like you know, they can see the smoke from your children.

So we know that we remember that.

We don't know where they're coming from.

I did have an opportunity to talk to uh over here.

He actually has some proving ideas.

Hopefully he's gonna be discussing them in the near future here, but I just thought it was important that if it's not agenda is that maybe we get it on the agenda so it's something we can talk about for you.

Okay, now I would like to reinvite Council Chichov to the podium.

And I yeah, I think we've um heard all our speakers who are here talking about that topic.

He's just talking about the explosion people.

Oh, and those particular code enforcements, got it.

Jimmy.

Sorry.

Sorry, Kevin.

Yeah, I didn't realize that.

Hi, I'm Jimmy Benjamin.

I know you can hear me.

Um, 400 Pillar Citos Avenue.

Um, I'm honored to introduce my wife, Zoya.

She never comes to city council meetings.

People don't think I'm married.

But we've been married for 35 years, and this is how she asked me to spend our 35th anniversary, which is today.

Because Jimmy, can you speak a little more closer to the mic?

Seriously.

There you go.

Yes.

Okay.

Now I hope you can hear me.

So we have been, like so many other members of the community, uh, racked by the noise of the fireworks before, but especially since the 4th of July, almost every night, multiple fireworks.

Um I am uh particularly disturbed that on one occasion when my wife uh called the police department, it seemed that they hadn't gotten that many complaints.

In fact, they seemed surprised.

Um another of my neighbors called and uh they I was grateful that a deputy did go to a location where apparently uh the caller thought that they're had located the fireworks, but the deputy's response was, well, I'll just ask them to tone it down.

Um now I don't need to explain to you that uh your municipal code section 914 and 923 explicitly make this a violation of the law.

So I'm not asking for a policy change or to think about something.

I'm asking you to ask our deputy to enforce our municipal code because this is a big deal.

I live next to Sam.

I'm used to a certain level of noise.

I hear trucks coming in at four o'clock in the morning.

They shouldn't, but they do.

Um during the construction process, while they're raising the electrical systems, I hear the jackhammers all day.

They're great neighbors, I put up with that.

But this lawlessness is just absurd, and it's dangerous.

It creates a threat of fire risk from those things.

If people don't respond, it creates a threat of vigilante responses.

And that's the part that bothers me the most.

The idea of escalating violence within a community that has no reason for which there is no excuse for this provocation.

So I'm asking from the bottom of my heart that you help us resolve this problem as a sign of what we can do to resolve our differences as we move forward together.

Thank you.

Thank you, Jimmy.

Anyone else here put in a card on an explosives?

I don't think so.

I want to be sure this time.

Okay, great.

Captain Cheetah, welcome.

Good evening.

You'll forgive me.

I didn't prepare anything as per se.

I wasn't sure exactly what to expect.

But so uh a few of the to address the first points that were made.

I missed part of the first question, so I apologize for that.

Um, but I caught something to the effect of calls weren't showing up on something.

If it is looking at the transparency portal, it's because that only reports cases when they're taken.

Generally, a case is not taken unless something has been identified, somebody's been arrested or something to that effect.

Most time fireworks cases are not drawn.

It's tracked in our CAD system, which goes to the next point, which is um in terms of people reporting, so in forgive me if I don't turn around to everybody who cared enough to show up.

Thank you very much for showing up.

Um please call.

The I hate to bring this up, but does everybody remember Kitty Genovese in New York?

I may be dating myself in this.

But it was a woman who was attacked.

They contact, I think 30 people who saw it and nobody called.

Everybody thinks somebody else is going to call, please call.

And I'll tell you why in just a second, because it allows us not only to address the problem, but to look for patterns and to identify the root of the problem.

So even if, you know, you don't think it's worth calling 911?

Absolutely.

Um, you can always call 726 8286.

That goes straight through to dispatch.

All those calls are logged.

If you have an idea, which I'll just bring up right now, please.

We're we're actively looking for solutions, very open to hearing any input, any ideas.

You can call.

Uh the main business line is 726 82 88.

If I'm not there, they can take a message.

If the office isn't open, you can leave a voicemail.

But saying that, when I pull up the numbers, between July 4th to now, we'd only received 40 fireworks complaints in Half Moon Bay.

Now, that isn't to say that there could have been some that were miscoded, but that tells me there's probably a lot of people who don't want to be a problem.

I don't want to be the thorn.

Please be the thorn.

I'm asking you, please be the thorn.

Um, moving on, sorry.

Uh about the shot spotter, this has come up.

Uh, the only city in the county that has a shot spotter is East Palo Alto, they've had good success for it with it.

However, uh it does require installed infrastructure, and it does take years to fine-tune from speaking to East Palo Alto, they've had it since 2012, and only in the last few years has it been accurate.

I remember in the early days, because we used to share a radio channel with East Palo Alto, every time there was construction, every time there was a car backfiring, every time there was any number of things, it would go off.

And it took years to develop that.

I mean, that's something I could absolutely get that information and forward it to you how much the cost is, how much the run-up time was not a problem, but it's not gonna fix the immediate problem.

Uh, we have been doing targeted patrols.

Unfortunately, as some have observed, the problem is unless you're within about a block, most of the time when people are setting off fireworks, they're not standing around to see who shows up, which makes it very difficult.

One of the ideas that's come up, and people heading, I don't know, south on Alsace, and then the deputies can go and intercept them.

As opposed to now, by the time a deputy gets to the sound of an explosion, the people are probably long gone.

Now, that being said, and the reason I want to float that is because I understand a lot of people have very reasonable concerns about drones, the use of drone technology, especially in non-tactile situations, and it's something like this.

So I would very much like to hear input from the people, as I'm sure everybody else would.

This is really a discussion.

A lot of people wouldn't feel comfortable with that, and I understand it, but it's probably an idea to be thrown out there.

I've already talked with our drone unit, and we could probably do a pilot at minimal if any cost to see how it works out if this is something the public is comfortable with.

Um, unfortunately, this year we weren't able to do a buyback.

We weren't authorized for it.

However, given the turnout tonight, uh, I could present this to our executive team and see if we can get the funding for a fireworks buyback.

The last time we did one was year before last, and I think that we bought back over 50 pounds of explosives, so that may make a difference.

I will seek those funds and see what we can do there.

Um, if you don't mind, I'd like to talk to you about your experience after this.

Um there's always the option also of looking at some of the uh municipal codes and expanding them.

The county currently has a county ordinance which can hold the homeowner accountable for people setting off fireworks from their house.

Uh, it also can hold parents accountable for their children, depending on the situation.

That's very much a political decision, but it is one that could possibly benefit.

I understand what people are saying, and like I said, please.

We want your ideas, we want your suggestion.

We need your eyes and ears telling us where to look.

When I pulled up this data and I got got those 40 calls, I found that about 65% of those took place between Friday and Saturday nights between 9 and midnight.

That's a pretty narrow window, so we can look for things.

Uh, in addition to that, what I found is also Friday tended to be more downtown.

Saturday tended to be west of Highway One.

Again, this is narrowing areas that we can look and try and catch people and get those fireworks off the street and get people a decent nice sleep.

I think that's.

Did I any other questions that I missed?

I mean, I I think we've heard some concerns about the response when deputies do get the calls and making sure that they're actively enforcing and not just trying to keep the peace.

And I do intend to follow up on that because that's something that I thought was absolutely clear, and I want to make sure that there's no mistaking it, that while at the same time we are human, we recognize that there may be times when leniency is in order.

Um, those times should be articulable based on the circumstances then and should be defensible.

And it should not be the default, it shouldn't be an excuse to be lazy.

And Mr.

Mayor, if I if if I could, um our annual report from the sheriff's office will be coming up, I think uh next month.

Is that right?

And so we could take the opportunity to bring additional data forward and some you know some of the data that he's gone through and and show some of the graphics.

Obviously, tonight was more responding to the community, but we could be a little more engaged in this conversation at that meeting if if you'd like.

Um and I'll I'll check again with you over the next couple weeks.

One last question, under our municipal codes that were brought up, i is there a financial penalty associated.

Yes, uh, one thousand dollar, one thousand dollar fine.

Yes.

Great, because that might be a great response, thousand dollar fine.

People somehow I'm sure that'll show up in people's own social contact media that wow, so and so got a thousand dollar ticket, and that could do just a couple of those could uh go a long way.

Um preventative.

So thank you.

Thank you, Cam for coming up and giving us your good ideas and for um encouraging people to um yeah, please report these and because it looks like there are some patterns here that we can focus in on anything else?

Captain Chicho, I wanna I appreciate you coming down.

I know you got grilled just now because you didn't know this was coming up, but I want to thank Zoya for calling me or texting me over the weekend and Sid Young and the people that came here prior to this that brought it forward.

And so what's happening here is our community's joining together together and Zoya's reaching out.

Sid's they met at one point, now they're talking, and it's going on next door.

We got Jimmy involved now.

We got Captain Chichoff here is involved.

I think we can get this.

I'll put out $300 reward if we can find that person that's doing it or kids doing it.

Whatever we got to do, and what one of the one of the ladies that came up here, reach out to your neighbors, get to know your neighbors, because that's how we're gonna find this person.

Now you're also telling me, and I agree with you where you're saying there's they're going off, because they are going off in our location, and then they then you hear it downtown, so you're narrowing it down.

So if we work together, I think we can do this.

And I appreciate the input that we're getting.

This is the beginning of trying to solve this, and I think we're gonna be able to do this.

No, I agree, and that's one of the beautiful things about Happen Bay.

It's uh yeah, it's big enough to have everything you need, and small enough where people can still talk.

Yep.

I appreciate everybody coming down and talking.

This is what we need right now.

Get it going.

My pleasure.

But but when we say half moon bay, are we talking the coastside or just half moon bay?

Right now I'm just talking about Half Moon Bay specifically.

Right.

Coastwide, we uh coast wide, coast side, we had about 68 complaints, so the lion share really wasn't half moon bay.

Um there was a spattering uh across El Granada, strangely, well I shouldn't say strangely because the just the landscape in Al Granada is gonna make it echoey and difficult to tell where they're very spread out.

Uh, same thing on Midcoast, but Half Moon Bay actually does have very visible hot spots.

All right, thank you.

And I didn't know if do you're the sheriff.

Do you coordinate with yourself with for the coastside and half moon bay?

Yes, I I try and talk to myself as much as possible.

Um, thank you.

Any more from Kevin?

Okay, thanks again.

Really appreciate you coming over tonight.

Thank you.

Mayor Bronson, we do have one more online speaker.

I don't know if you want to take them now or later.

Sure, since can't say we're doing that.

Yeah, okay.

Emily Boltz.

Yes, hi.

Um, I just for clarification.

Um, when we did make the call, um, we were trying to explain that it wasn't fireworks.

We were hearing this boom, and I'm in Kenyatta Co.

And quite a few of us hear it as well.

And it is so loud that it's I'm concerned as to who is, you know, it's not just fireworks, it's actually like a bomb sound going off.

So I just wanted to clarify that.

Thank you.

Thank you for clarifying that, Emily.

Thank you.

Okay, our next speaker.

Uh, we're gonna invite Crystal from Coast Side Chamber back up again.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Crystalin, CoSide Chamber here to share some fun news.

Last year, uh the city helped fund the coastside's first comprehensive visitor study, and this past weekend, the boots on the beach portion of our visitor study finished, and we just had some really cool stats.

I was talking with Matthew before the weekend, and we just thought you would find this really fun and get you jazzed up for the stats that will be coming.

Um, so super cool is that.

Guess how many surveys we got?

It's on the screen.

But 1,345 individuals, um, filled out our survey.

We had 342 surveys from Poplar Beach, 276 surveys from Kelly State Beach, downtown had 214, the harbor 262, and Fitzgerald Marine Reserve 251.

These surveys were conducted by seven lovely locals.

Laureen, Scott, Rosalinda, Brittany, Catherine, Emma, and Alicia, together.

They did 35 four-hour shifts, which was a grand total of 140 hours over the course of six weekends talking to our visitors and getting their information.

We were able, um, through the support that you provided, we were able to pay them just over 3,500 for their efforts, and so we were able to circulate that money back into the community, which was pretty cool.

Some noticeable trends um that we have already seen pop up is that um a lot of our anecdotal evidence is now being realized in real data.

Day trippers are dominant.

Um the data showed that a vast majority of visitors are considered day trippers, so they are here for roughly three to five hours.

Um the top three areas were primarily Bay Area, however, the fourth was out of state, which was a nice surprise.

We did find that people going to the beaches in the marine reserve were more likely to just stay on the beach or in the reserve.

However, the respondents in downtown and at the harbor had a high percentage rate of being overnight stays and saying that they were exploring other regions of our area.

So these are just little tidbits, and we will have a full study at the end of the year, but another fun tidbit um that will be coming is spending data.

January to June 2025, visa credit cards have been fifty seven point five million dollars in local spending, with twenty-eight point nine of that million dollars coming from San Francisco Oakland Berkeley area.

So stats like these are gonna help us market to the right people and make sure that the visitors we have are the visitors that we want staying here overnight in the middle of the week, not creating more problems.

Thank you, Chris.

Look forward to hearing more survey results later.

Our next speaker is uh Harvey Warback.

Uh I want to start by thanking uh Councilman Penrose and advocating exactly for what she said.

If you don't speak up when the situation is dire, you're complicit in what's gonna happen.

So that's just where I'm coming from.

Um, but on a much happier note, uh, if you haven't seen 880 Stone Pine, I encourage you to go and see what a community that cares about farm workers can do.

It's a wonderful looking place, it's very um upbeat.

Uh, it's waiting for people to actually move in.

Um, there were a few cars I saw for people who were beginning to get there.

Um, it's amazing how quickly if you can build something if you really care about uh getting it done.

And the wonderful thing about that project is that there's gonna be equity involved for the farm workers who do move in, and after ten years, they'll have a real stake in in their community, and that's w encouraging people to uh be proud of what they're doing.

Um so uh that that's an example of how quickly you can do things, and that brings me back to what Joanne Rukowski said.

I don't know what the holdup is on Cinco Cinco Cinco Kelly, but it's very clear to me that something has to be done, and I urge the council to do whatever they can to expedite that we can get this uh re uh retired farm worker or senior farm worker housing built, because that's another expression of the community involvement in caring for our farm worker heritage.

Uh the last point I want to make is that the biggest uh audience I've ever seen at the council meeting was when we were discussing the possibility during Trump's first term of declaring Half Moon Bay a sanctuary city.

I understand that if we do that, it's more symbolic than anything, but symbols are important, and if we want to tell our immigrant community that we care about them and we want to protect them, I would urge the council to consider declaring Half Moon Bay a sanctuary city that welcomes immigrants.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Harry.

Our next speaker is Joaquin Jimenez.

Good evening, uh honorable mayor, uh, council members, city staff, members of the public.

Housing, you know, communities who are struggling with housing.

Um repeating what uh uh Joanne mentioned in uh Harvey about you need to take a visit, you need to visit uh Stone Pine, Stone Pine Cove.

I spoke with some of the residents at the at the site, and they're very happy.

So that's something that we have been needing, you know.

If you know about the arena cycle, we need to uh have for Benis to build 480 units in uh in six years.

Are we uh gonna be able to do it?

We also have uh 555 Kelly.

There's still some questions about 555 Kelly.

You know, and who is that gonna be built for?

Are they gonna be paying rent?

What is the benefit to the city?

Parking.

Any place where you build anything new, you always have a problem with parking no matter what it is.

It's also gonna be parking.

There's always gonna be your problem with parking.

Halfumbay or heritage or farming heritage halfhood is struggling some of our local farmers they have to approve visas from people from other countries to come to work at the farms the farming industry halfhood is a million dollar industry.

And it's been affected with what's going on housing is one of the issues housing of fix or farming yeship they call um from one of my uh students her father was a farm worker here in half more worked in the nurseries for many many years they had to move out to Oregon because they could not afford the rents he passed and one of his last requests before he passed was you know take me back to Alphay now we used to have a lot of farm workers we have an aging group of farm workers in their 70s still harvesting go check out the field right now the Brussels sprouts go visit the fields see who's harvesting your Brussels sprouts we have people in their 70s still working and we should talk about far about parking on the 555 Kelly that was not right or community or farm workers the community general needs housing and we have to provide that we're talking about making half of beautiful how about the people that are struggling are we gonna forget about them it doesn't work like that.

Let's let's not forget about the people that have put food on the table for many many years decades that have been ignored.

We need housing thank you again anyone else online.

No online speakers okay our final speaker is um Anita Reese from the Pacific Resource Center.

Hello um Anita Reese I am here to talk about our unhoused on the coast outreach work which is a program of the Pacifica Resource Center it's funded primarily by the County of San Mateo Center on homelessness.

We provide outreach and engagement and case management services to unhoused folks on the San Mateo County coast from Pacifica through Pascadero with the goal of helping them return to housing outreach staff is available seven days a week Monday through Friday 9 a.m to 10 pm and Saturday Sunday and holidays nine to five and we'll respond to requests for service generally within three hours during those out the during those times if you see someone living outside or in a vehicle please call us our number 650452 6279 or you can email UC outreach at pack resource center dot org any time of the day um as of today I wanted to share that there are seven encampments um with 17 people in them and 33 additional unhoused folks in Half Moon Bay specifically of the seven encampments three are active with uh current living situations in one of those encampments so that's generally how we consider active versus inactive um we are still paying attention to the other four encampments in case people come back um and I just wanted to mention that the three active encampments are actually part of a county's encampment resolution funding project which runs through June of 2027 um we we're nearly a year into that project and have been able to help two folks return to housing and 19 enter into shelter.

This is between December 2024 and July of 2025.

And I just want to thank city staff and the council for partnering with the county and PRC as at with PRC as the service provider um to help unhouse folks in Half Moon Bay return to housing.

And also trying some new interventions including incentives for folks in motor homes to abandon instead of sell their vehicles to other folks who might then be living in them, which we hope to try soon.

And I do plan to attend city council meetings at least once a month.

So if there's anything specific you want to learn or hear from, I'm happy to share specific information.

Thank you.

Thank you, Anita.

Did council have any questions before you guys no?

Okay.

And thank you for the great work that you're doing and tracking um progress.

Appreciate that.

That ends officially our public forum public forum is now closed.

We'll now move on to our consent item there's only a few items anyone have anything to pull there's just three items.

Someone like to make a motion.

I move that we approve the consent calendar item 8A which is waived reading of resolutions and ordinances.

Item um 8b approved minutes of August 19th 2025 special meeting and 8C approved minutes of August 19th 2025 regular meeting.

Second all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Anybody opposed motion carried thank you.

I have a quick question for um the city attorney when an councilmember is participating remotely are we required to have roll call votes as opposed to um yes we are thank you.

So thank you.

Vice Mayor well let's redo that one let's have a roll call vote on the consent calendar please.

Councilmember Johnson?

Yes.

Councilmember Nagengast?

Yes.

Councilmember Penrose yes and I'd like to apologize to the rest of council for making you all do this by roll call vote.

No problem.

Vice Mayor Radick yes and mayor brownstone yes motion carries thank you okay well let's see we have no ordinances in public hearings this evening no resolutions and staff reports.

So we'll move on to item 10a planning commission appointment do we need a staff report I think so.

I'm happy to just give a brief staff report um so um as many people know uh one of the important ways that the city functions is uh through our planning commission they work with our community development staff and the community on reviewing and evaluating um development proposals and um changes within our city and those are volunteers from our community and they're appointed by our city council it's it's a tough job I know uh council member Nagengast spent some time on our planning commission in the past Johnson I was looking right at you and uh it's it's a very important role in our community and from time to time normally appointments take place after an election um each council member has the opportunity to recommend an appointment that then has to be um voted on by the rest of the council members on occasion we have a vacancy due to a change and in this case we have uh a planning commissioner that recently resigned and um so we opened up the opportunity for folks to apply for this opportunity um and we actually was on our last agenda uh but the the mayor whose appointment this is um asked for a little more time and we got a few more um applications and there's been time to consider it and tonight mr mayor will make uh a recommendation for who he would like to appoint to the planning commission and then the council will vote to confirm that or make a change so thank you great um well you know my um when I thought about the criteria who I was looking for.

What really mattered to me most was bringing on someone actually who has had Planning commission experience or something really similar and um in fact, I even went back to a couple of folks um who had direct experience who didn't even apply, but just to see if they might be interested, because I felt like that was probably one of the most important factors.

And then how um if there was such an individual, how they looked at issues, were they willing to have balance around, you know, we live in a community like that weighs keeping the community character intact very heavily.

Um we also are in a community where some people have different opinions.

Some want a lot more development, some want no development, and sometimes trying to balance those interests.

Um is a difficult responsibility for um planning commissioners, and also looking for someone who could be um innovative and building consensus, you know, sometimes coming up with that third solution that can bring people together.

Because sometimes we have to handle disputes within a community, right?

Um, in terms of people wanting to build something, neighbors wanting it, not wanting it.

So really having that disposition to listen and hear and be able to balance different interests, so luckily, there was a candidate who applied, who um on paper um met the that criteria exactly, and then I um spoke with them for a while, and I think the person is uh in the room, uh Christopher here.

Yeah, there you are.

Thank you, Christopher.

Um thanks for coming tonight.

Um let me tell you a little bit about Christopher James Del Nagro, um, Christopher uh moved here a few years ago from uh Millbrae.

In Millbrae, he uh was a planning commissioner for a few years, uh pretty recently, before moving here, and before serving on the planning commission, he was a park and recreation commissioner for the city of Milbrae, two times he was the chair.

He actually did that for eight years.

He was on the bike and pedestrian advisory commission for four years.

So definitely the profile of someone not just interested in being uh having commit um serving the public interest, but not just in interest, but actually doing it.

In addition, I'm sure, to their his full-time job.

Um his full-time uh job is um well, actually, I'll let him tell.

Well, he's he's uh PhD in uh molecular biology and immunology, and um that's part of his full-time job, which I'm sure keeps him very busy.

So um we spoke and um I felt that yeah, he was uh had a very even disposition in terms of looking at issues.

I asked him if he had some um familiarity with some number of the key issues going on in Half Wombay, he was very familiar with them.

Um of course decided to do a little background check because we know people in Milbrae, and um vice mayor, also knew folks in Millbrae, and we sought some um information about how he was perceived there, and we got some terrific references, and I'll quote one of them from a former mayor and uh council member in Millbrae whose opinion I know I personally valued highly, as well as the vice mayor.

She said, I highly recommend Chris, he's smart and very reasonable, he listens well, and he makes informed decisions.

No hidden agendas.

He just really cares about the community.

And she said, I really miss him.

I wish he was still in Miller.

So we're lucky enough to um have him here in Halfham Bay.

So that's as the individual who I'm putting forth this evening.

Comments.

Um there were some good applications, but I but I think you made a good nomination, a sound nomination.

Very experienced, and of course, with great references.

So happy to support you.

Sorry.

Christopher was uh when it first came up, I was I read your everything, and I was like, wow, this guy's done this and all the credentials that you have with all the other parking wreck and the bike, and it's gonna be a good overlap with everything, but there's a lot of coastal things you can have to learn here that's gonna make it a little tricky, and the measure D is gonna be a little tricky.

Um, so there are things you're gonna have to learn quick on that stuff.

I mean, Jimmy Benjamin was just here, he's the expert on that.

Tim Pond is somewhere in here, he's sitting over there.

He's really good at that stuff on the Measure D stuff.

So I mean, I I think you're gonna be a good fit, but there's a lot of things you can have to learn from the community also um to get up and running.

So it's a lot to learn, but I think you're ready for it.

And I've met you a few a few times walking the streets, and I'm glad you're willing to participate and want to, and I I want to make sure I think it's fantastic.

We do get a pool to choose from.

You know, we're fortunate to have uh a lot of interested and passionate people that do want to contribute.

So I I support your um who you wanted to appoint.

Councilmember Penrose.

Yes, I don't know, Chris at all, but um I would back uh the mayor in his choice tonight.

Okay.

So I uh move that we appoint, I just want to check to see if there's any public comment on this item.

Public comment.

We have no paper comments and no one online either.

Thank you for checking that.

Well, I guess I'll make a motion that we um appoint Christopher James Telnagro as our new uh planning commissioner.

Can I have a roll call?

Can I have a second?

Is there a second first?

Sorry, I'll second.

Capitol call, please.

Yes.

Councilmember Johnson?

Yes.

Councilmember Naggincast?

Yes.

Councilmember Penrose?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Reddick?

Yes, Mayor Brownstone.

Yes.

Motion carries.

Whoops, congratulations, Christopher.

Yeah, come on.

Great.

Thank you very much.

I appreciate the opportunity to serve the public here in Hap Moon Bay.

Um, I originally came here with family, uh, my wife here, Deanna, two of our kids.

We do have five children, two that are in the uh school district locally at the high school.

Um, very grateful um for what I've learned from the community.

I absolutely understand how much I have to learn.

Um, some ways I don't know how much I need to learn.

Um, sure a lot of the public that I'll talk to will actually help me uh get through some of the very specific elements to Happa Bay and of course the county coastal commission as well.

Um please reach out to me if you want to talk and get to know me a little bit better.

Um also in my ear a little bit.

I'm here to listen.

Thank you, Christopher.

Mr.

Mayor, if I could also just acknowledge what a great pool of candidates we had.

Um, I think that's a really good sign that the community's engaged and and wants to participate.

So one of the things I want to do is work with our team to find other ways to take advantage of the great talent we have in our community and the desire to support the work that we do.

So hopefully those that applied but weren't selected this time around will continue to be interested and work with us on in other ways to serve the city.

Thank you, Matthew.

Our next item on our agenda is item 10B.

Regarding the Opportunity Center of the coast side.

And I think we're going to have a update on the Opportunity Center from Karen Tucker.

Thanks, Karen.

Can you hear me okay?

Okay.

Good evening, Mr.

Mayor, Council, and Community.

I'm Karen Decker, Economic and Community Vitality Manager.

I'm here to provide a status update on the Opportunity Center.

I realize the hour is not early, and there are several items after mine.

So I'm actually going to make an attempt to consolidate some of my comments.

But I also want to do the item justice, and there's more detail in the staff report.

So the opportunity center is a first of its kind service center for job seekers and for small businesses and for entrepreneurs.

For those of you who may not have had a chance to stop by, it's located in the 600 block of Main Street across from Bank of America.

And tonight I'm so pleased to be joined by leadership from all the Opportunity Center providers that operate at that site.

In addition to leadership, I recognize several direct service staff as well as some clients.

So thank you so much for spending your time and contributing to this conversation.

We're going to focus on some of the key successes given that an evaluation was just released last month.

The evaluation, which you'll refer me, you'll hear me refer to throughout the presentation, was a collaboration between the city of South San Francisco, San Mateo County, and the City of San if of Half Moon Bay, because all three of us have economic centers within our jurisdictions.

And these are new economic advancement centers.

And so we were aware that we didn't know what we didn't know.

And so funding and evaluation seem to be a good idea in order to gauge processes and progress, um, gauge the effectiveness of the services, and also have data to look at ongoing sustainable funding opportunities.

That evaluation was conducted by a third party called Head and Heart Advisory, and it was funded through a generous grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

Okay.

So just doing some quick stage setting, why ramp up these services?

What's the long game?

Uh we know we have to make choices about where to invest our resources and economic advancement strategies that are part of the opportunity center, pay multiple dividends, which you see on this slide.

Um I won't go through the bullets.

I think you can read faster than I can talk.

Um I will say they're self-explanatory, but community protective factors, the second to the last one.

Uh, let me just provide some quick context to what that refers to.

That means when residents are participating in the labor market, there's reduced financial stress, there's enhanced social cohesion, there's civic participation, there's community stabilization.

Um, and these investments contribute ultimately to the city, the city's bottom line.

When you ask voters what's important to them, they say the economy.

Opportunity center services are about activation and creating local jobs and supporting small business and looking at our local assets like ag tech.

Jobs generate taxes, taxes mean improved services to the community, a reduction in public benefits, and research shows that these interventions spur benefits.

Some progress to date.

So a lot has been done in a relatively short period of time.

The duration for the evaluation was 15 months.

And I have to say this was a complex project.

There were federal requirements in terms of who was to be served.

These were ARPA funds.

And another backdrop was kind of the local experience and expectations that was happening during most of this work, which the majority I would say happened in 2023.

And at that time, we had a lot of community challenges.

A few years prior, we had the sudden closure of Bay City Flowers, about 200 farm workers were without work.

Of course, the pandemic and the wildfires happened in 2020, which inspired this funding source.

Then we had unprecedented storms.

We saw the Oak Avenue neighborhood underwater.

Of course, these atmospheric rivers affected a lot of seasonal work, and so farm workers couldn't till the land because they were so flooded.

And then, of course, we had the mass casualty incident at two farms.

Given all of that, there was a this is the backdrop in which we were creating these services, and these are just some of the key accomplishments that occurred.

Identifying the space.

This meant that our chamber of commerce relocated to more the central heritage main part of Main Street.

We launched a new business incubator, which was a separate recovery initiative recommendation.

I honestly thought that would launch a little bit later, but opportunity knocked, and we had a chance to fund something innovative that we hadn't tried before.

This meant executing service provider agreements with all of the nonprofits who I'll introduce in a moment.

And then, of course, the site evaluation is what I was referring to that was funded by CZI.

So who's at the Opportunity Center?

I can't talk about the Opportunity Center without talking about the service providers because they're really the secret sauce.

We have Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center who provides critical support to small businesses and entrepreneurs.

We have job train focused on career advancement and workforce development.

We have Coast Side Venture Studio, the incubator's name, which is operated by American Energy Society.

It's designed to spur regional innovation and jobs in new industries.

We have our chamber who we heard from earlier, and I know you're familiar with their services, but in addition to what the chamber has typically provided, they relocated to the 600 block of Maine and is squarely in the opportunity center, and they provide the day-to-day operations and facilities management, which has been referred to as a best practice from the South San Francisco Economic Center, which has struggled with that function.

These types of services, job train and renaissance and co-side venture studio did not exist in our community before these funds were available.

We have really amazing safety net services, many of who you know through our own grant making program.

However, they don't specialize in the gaps that these nonprofits have come forward to fill.

Okay, so this is really the heart of the presentation.

You'll hear from each executive, one slide each, and I'd like to bring Sharon Miller, the CEO of Renaissance up to the podium to share a few words with us.

And Sharon, don't worry about introducing the next speaker.

I can do that for you when you're done.

Okay.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Karen, and thank you, Mayor Brownstone, City Council members, and all the staff at Moon Bay.

I'm Sharon Miller.

I'm the CEO of Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center.

I am joined by my extraordinary co-workers.

And Renaissance has been providing small business training services for 40 years.

We're just honored to now be delivering those services in Half Moon Bay.

To date at the OCC, we've served 171 entrepreneurial residents of Half Moon Bay with small business training and support services that include assistance and finance, marketing, operations management, and industry industry-specific training in the food and child care sectors.

You know, people have great ideas to start businesses, but no one is born knowing accounting.

You know, we come in and we really fill that training gap.

We provided consulting services to 51 clients, built through three new websites, helped a client secure $50,000 loan, and provided four child care businesses with grants of 1,000 to help them start and grow their businesses.

When clients come to us, they get training, they develop critical foundational business skills, they have access to resources, and they have a network of support that they engage with their other entrepreneurs.

There's our photo of our graduating class.

It includes among others on help Contreras of Moonside Bakery and Maria Acevado of Bay Area Orchids, who you will meet shortly this evening.

We supported 41 businesses to date.

That included 29 in existing businesses that we helped stabilize and grow their operations.

We helped 12 businesses to launch, and that meant going from the idea phase into launching and operating their businesses through the first year.

Some of these businesses include Foggy Clothing, owned by Half Moon Bay resident Carlos Alcantar Acosta, who is also here tonight, and you'll hear from shortly.

Cooking Up Dreams, a catering company owned by Tila Zola, who is now working to open a Hawaiian-inspired restaurant and Coastside Bakery.

Solomon and Carmela Silva, the owners began working at Coastside Bakery in 2010.

They came to the Renaissance operated San Mateo Small Business Development Center in 2023.

We were able to help them to prepare to purchase the bakery.

And then the OC staff, OCC, excuse me, staff continued to work with Solomon and Carmela, updating their accounting systems, their operations, their business technology.

And to date, they've retained six jobs and created three new jobs.

So I know you know small businesses are the social fabric of a community.

They're the places where residents can shop, eat, and gather.

They enable the owners to build financial independence for themselves and their families, create jobs for local residents, and create assets for future generations.

We are here, we are happy to answer any questions that you may have.

And thank you so much for all your support.

We look forward to continuing to support the small business community in Half Moon Bed.

So thank you.

Thank you, Sharon.

Next, I'd like to invite Barry Hathaway, CEO of Job Train.

Way up with the microphone.

Good evening, Mayor, Councilmember, staff.

Thanks for the opportunity to give you a little update on this big project that we've been working on.

Um I want to start and hopefully have you remember one thing from me today, and that's thank you for taking a chance on this model.

This is not a usual state of business for programs like Cowards.

And we've come together with this very particular model of bringing a series of resources together that can lift up the potential for economic mobility for members of the communities we served.

By your supporting us, you've given us a chance to prove that it actually works, and that is what we've done here.

We've proven that it works, and with the third-party evaluation that's just been completed, we have all the evidence we need to show that this model we've put together of place-based, culturally competent, multiple provider collaboration to put our communities onto the path of economic mobility is working.

Job Train has enrolled.

I'm going to throw some numbers at you here, so bear with me.

Job Train has enrolled 284 residents in the program since we started and delivered almost 1,200 services.

So far, well, of those 284 residents, this is kind of important because we're a job training program and the job placement program.

You would expect that all 284 of those people came to look for a job.

But that's not the case because we don't turn anybody away.

We provide services to the people who walk in our door.

So of that 284 people, a hundred and seventeen actually engaged in job search activities.

Some are getting ready for that engagement, but 117 actually engaged.

And of that 117, 77 are placed in jobs.

And that is 66% of the clients.

Now remember, we don't have any control over the talents and the skills and the competencies that residents bring to us.

Unlike our career training programs, where we're training people for these jobs.

In this model, in the career center, the OCC model, we're preparing people with the skills they have to get a job as quickly as possible.

So a 66% job placement rate is really best in class and outstanding.

We're also building great relationships with employers.

It takes time.

But in the data that we have right now, Rocket Farms has hired six of our graduates or of our students or clients.

Safeway's hired five, Ritz Carlton has hired four, and a whole slew of employers are hiring one and two of these folks, and we're just continuing to build this momentum.

You'll notice on the slide here, this is a picture of two of Job Train's students in our medical assistant career training program.

I think that's particularly meaningful because of two reasons.

One, four clients of our OCC from here did enroll in our medical assistant programs over on the Bayside.

And of those four who've enrolled, two have completed the training, and they're both working as medical assistants now.

One is a couple of days away from completing her training, and we'll get her going on to the job search right away.

And the fourth had to drop out of the class, but she's now on a waiting list to re-enroll.

So the second reason is we want to bring medical assistant training here to this community.

And these are great jobs with lots of upward mobility.

Healthcare is always going to need workers, so this is a really important picture because it demonstrates some critical things for this community.

So we have really truly only just begun.

We have a lot of ideas and a lot of ways we can continue to build on this model, but the fact of the matter is we now can say with absolute confidence ourselves and from outside perspective that this model works, and it's it's a new model, so stay with us.

We'll continue to build this out for this city as well.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Barry.

Um, next we have Eric Vettel, president and founder of American Energy Society, here to speak about Co-Site Venture Studio, our incubator.

Thank you, Karen.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Thank you, members of council.

Um, you know, I'm gonna actually echo what Barry said.

In the world of venture, there's a phrase proof of concept.

I think we did it.

Proof of concept.

I think we did it.

I'm really, really pleased.

Um, there's so much about this venture studio to celebrate in one giant worriel, start with the good news.

In just our first year, we outperform most venture studios and many venture capital firms with a 60% success rate, including Grid Rap, a utility grid enhancing company, which won a prestigious California Energy Commission award, or Secured Carbon, a virtual marketplace to trade tax credits, which established its headquarters in Half Moon Bay, or Flox Robotics, a startup out of Sweden which just raised a $5 million Series A round and is in the process of hiring locally.

In just one year, we earn the admiration and envy of many notable organizations, including but not limited to the Tomcat Center at Stanford University and Skydeck at UC Berkeley, which directs some of their top startups to us.

These sort of successes rarely happen to anyone that works with startups.

I recently told my board about some of these same successes, and they are pleased.

But I have one board member who always responds to good news with a simple question.

He asks me, What is the one thing that keeps you awake at night?

I'll share the same answer I gave to that board member with you.

I worry about the lights at the OCC and its venture studio.

I'm worrying about them getting turned off.

If the lights get turned off, I lie awake at night wondering when do I notify the startups in our next cohort that there is no venture studio?

There's some that have already committed and are literally packing up their homes and getting ready to move to the Half Moon Bay right now.

Mudrat, a new company that can turn mushroom mycelium into building materials, or happy dinosaur, which has signed an agreement with Nickelodeon to expand its offerings or emergent technology, which has new broadband technology that can improve and enhance Wi-Fi and rural agricultural regions.

Vice Mayor Ruddick, your interest in grid and network security on the coast side is has been instrumental to our successes.

Councilmember Johnson, you we haven't actually formally met until just now, but your encouragement and interest in startups in Sweden has inspired a great relationship between their embassy and our coastside.

And Mr.

Mayor, I promise you we're gonna find a startup that works in fire wildfire mitigation.

I want to thank the city council for helping us develop as businesses here on the coastside, create jobs on the coastside, find new revenue for the coastside.

Also, wanna thank the city staff too.

Been working with you has been tremendous.

We have a proven formula for success, proof of concept two, and we've showed that, and we'll continue to show that in cohort two, as long as the lights stay on.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Eric.

Thank you, Eric.

Um, Eric actually flew in from Germany uh about two hours ago, and it's been a really great sport in being here.

And I'd also like to welcome Crystalin Geet, CEO of our chamber.

Crystal and Coastide Chamber.

Here's a quick snapshot of the chamber's role in the opportunity center of the coastide.

When we were in our old building, we estimated that we interacted with roughly 150 people over the course of an entire year.

Today, thanks to the new location inside the opportunity center, we're averaging about 150 people every single month.

These are visitors coming to explore the coastside, residents looking for community information, many new to our area, and businesses seeking chamber specific services.

Well, the chamber had originally hoped to focus more on helping with provider support support program development and marketing.

Our main role at the OCC has evolved into facilities management and coordinating the different community spaces of the classroom, meeting room, and tech studio.

That responsibility has been critical to ensuring the building runs as smoothly as we can, and the center remains a welcoming hub for clients.

Thank you.

Great.

Thank you, Crystalin.

In terms of what's on the horizon, um, this was a grant that we always knew would sunset at the end of September.

Um this was a city and county contract.

And so at the end of next month, um, the contracts with the providers that you just heard from uh will sunset along with the city and county agreement.

Um rent is prepaid, and so the lease between the city and the Half Moon Bay partners ends at the beginning of next year, technically January 14th.

Um, ever since the evaluation was um was conceived and all the providers were aware of these realities around these dates and this funding source, uh, we've been working diligently together to try to identify sustainable funding streams, which is quite a challenge.

Uh the city of Half Moon Bay partnered with the city of South San Francisco and requested an earmark from Senator Adam Schiff.

Senator Schiff is on the agricultural committee and the small business and entrepreneurship committee, so we thought that a fitting choice.

Uh, we heard from his staff that the request is making its way through the committee process and they seem to find it promising.

Uh there's also a a request submitted to the Sabrato Family Foundation that's being stewarded by job train and renaissance.

There was a proposal submitted to San Mateo County Supervisor Ray Mueller for District Three from the City of Half Moon Bay.

And also Coast Side Venture Studio was able to secure an investment and is in the process of identifying a necessary match.

Also, ideally the providers in the opportunity center will remain in the opportunity center, providing valuable services to the community.

If there's a scenario where that can't happen because of a funding shortfall, there is also an option to if the providers are able to provide program service revenue to find alternate locations, potentially co-locating at um other service sites where they there may be synergy in programming.

So the city will try to broker those conversations as there's interest in availability if we can't all remain under one roof with this kind of one-stop shop service model.

That concludes my presentation.

Happy to take clarifying questions from council.

Um I had a couple.

Right.

So the chamber shares in that cost, the chamber makes a monthly payment.

Um, the lion's share is the city, and that is already paid with ARPA funds through, let's say this calendar year, technically we would have to move out by January 14th.

But that covers the lease for all four organizations.

Uh that covers um the space and keeping the lights on.

And keeping the lights on.

Okay.

So lights on for everyone who's there now through the end of December, correct?

Right.

Okay.

However, there isn't funding for their actual program services, right?

So each one of those organizations is seeking funding.

Yes.

And um so we don't really have a breakdown of what kind of funding is being sought and for how long, you know, ten thousand dollars cover two months, three, you know, we don't have any of that information.

We just know that they've all applied to different groups like Sobrato and uh other folks.

So, right.

We know what the funding requests were and how they're itemized and submitted those to those respective parties.

Okay, thank you.

Yeah, please.

Thank you.

Uh as I learn more about what is housed at the OCC, it's very informative.

Um, I'm trying to distinguish between there's three of them in the county.

Yeah.

So is each ones totally separate or their similarities, or is it a kind of a combination of all the above?

Sure.

So all three are considered economic advancement centers.

The first one was born out of South San Francisco in 2021.

And at that time, County and Half Moon Bay leadership toured that facility and were very inspired by the results they were seeing and wanted to invest in what they considered resource deserts.

So the County Board of Supervisors decided to allocate two and a half million dollars each to North Fair Oaks and to the Coastide.

And so the North Fair Oaks launched next, I would say in the end of 2023.

And then at the beginning of 2024, I think in January, the chamber moved in, and then we had our ribbon cutting in April.

So the Opportunity Center has the shortest runway, if you will, in terms of how long we've been open.

Those centers have commonality in terms of their mission, and job train and renaissance are housed out of all three.

What makes the coast side unique is the addition of an incubator in the chamber of commerce.

Thank you.

And then I'm trying to understand a little bit more the lease.

You know, when you say the lights on, that's the utilities.

So are utilities paid too.

I didn't know normally leases just cover the building itself.

I mean, I know there's probably what water sewer and electrical.

I don't know if there's gas or not.

So I always, you know, if the utilities are included as part of the lease or no?

Uh the utilities are not included in part of the lease, but there's thinking around um covering those utility costs without dipping into the general fund.

Okay.

I just kind of curious because if this ends September 30th, are we concerned that this is September 2nd?

I mean, are we worried 20, you know, 28 days or we're not concerned?

We think we can figure something out.

I respond to that.

I'm happy to respond to that question.

Yeah, you know, it the timing is short.

Um, we we had um some things in the works that we hoped to come through.

Um, and and just recently in the last month and a little over a month, um, they didn't come to fruition.

And so, as you can see, there's a lot of activity trying to pursue ongoing funding.

Um, each of the providers is looking at ways that they might be able to continue um providing services, and and you know, by having that prepaid rent for the facility, that hopefully creates that foundation and and allows us to focus more on funding and or the operations and and services in the short term.

And as Karen said, we're looking at some of the funding that we received from the county and and how it's been used to see if we can't utilize some of that to, as Karen said, keep the lights on.

Um, our hope is that some of these funding sources come through and give us a little more runway to continue to look for a more sustainable way to fund this.

And we're not we're not the only ones in this boat.

Uh you know, all three centers are in this boat.

The I would say the the North Fair Oaks one is a little different because it's county operated.

Um, North Fair Oaks, for those that don't know, is an unincorporated community adjacent to Redwood City, and so they receive their municipal services directly from the county, and so there's a little different relationship there, and the county actually purchased a building there to provide these services.

Um, and so they're in a little different position, but overall we're all looking at ways to sustainably fund these going forward, and that's you know, that's always a challenge when you when you're entrepreneurial and you you try new things and you take risks, is new programs don't usually come with new ongoing funding sources.

Um, and our hope was that through this proof of concept that the environment would be in such a position that we could find that ongoing funding.

I think changes politically at the federal and state levels have created some challenges for us.

Um, but again, we've heard the proof of concept is there, so we're gonna keep shopping that as long as we can to try to keep these services in the community.

Cause I worry are are all three of them competing against each other for funding.

Not really.

Um Karen can probably speak more to that.

No, I wouldn't say that at all.

We have different electeds, we have um completely different demographics, we have different industries and sectors.

Uh so far it's been very collaborative.

I would say the evaluation is a manifestation of that collaboration.

So I haven't sensed any level of competitiveness.

And quickly back to the utilities.

If we were to remain whole through the end of this calendar year, the utilities I'm I've calculated are around eight or nine thousand dollars.

So it's not an insurmountable amount, and um I foresee some cost saving potentially in some other areas.

I think CSFA would have a slight surplus that could cover that.

Um I know South San Francisco uses affordable housing funds to fund some of their operation, and the justification is that they're mitigating homelessness by creating economic upward mobility.

So there are different ways to look at it.

And and I did you have another question or just an extension of your question.

Part of the reason we ensured that this item was on the agenda tonight, is that if some of these opportunities were to come through and we had the opportunity to extend some contracts, and and just to be completely transparent, if there was a need for some sort of local match by the city, it gives us the opportunity to come back on the 16th and talk about that.

Um as your city manager, I will say, sadly, there is no way that the city of Half Moon Bay can afford to provide these services to the community.

It's an expensive endeavor.

I think it's a crucial endeavor.

Um the services have really been helpful to some of our most vulnerable um residents, but it's also been I think really helpful to our businesses, which, as you've heard, and as we know, you know, Happen Bay is built on small businesses.

That is a real core part of our economy, and all of the services here, I think really build those small businesses.

So we think we've got some crucial services that again, there's there's no way that the city can support this through our general fund as a whole, but there may be some asks on the 16th to help fill some of the gaps.

We don't know what those will look like yet, but we wanted to give ourselves that opportunity by making this presentation tonight, making sure we're informed so that if there is an ask, or if we just have found some funding and need to renew and extend contracts, we have a window to do that before the end of September.

And is there anything that has come up in Half Moon Bay that maybe can supplement or collaborate with?

And I I just think of College San Mateo and I know that they that there's some redundancy there or not, or maybe there's something, you know, work together.

Yeah, the College of San Mateo is a great partner, and before their brick and mortar was ready, they were actually operating and did a soft launch out of the opportunity center.

So the providers out of the OCC and CSM just organically have this really lovely pipeline.

Um I was just talking to one of the providers earlier today, and there was a conversation with CSM about potentially using their classroom space because Renaissance in particular offers a lot of classes as opposed to one-on-one counseling sessions.

So yeah, I definitely think there's some potential resources that we could leverage at the local level because of the really great partnerships that have built in a short amount of time.

Thank you.

Um which community used home um housing funds?

Did you say South San Francisco?

South San Francisco.

Maybe we'll check in to see if that's something that may or may not hit our parameters.

Uh Councilmember Penrose would like to speak.

Councilmember Penrose, please.

Yes.

Um Karen, uh I was unclear.

The innovator um the incubator, excuse me, incubator section.

Are they working to provide incubating businesses in Half Moon Bay, or are they helping anybody in Half Moon Bay who wants to start a business?

Yeah, that's a great question.

So the goal is to identify startups.

They could be local, they could be international, that are in line with co-side values and assets.

So we have certain verticals we're looking for.

It's not just an incubator where any idea is welcome.

Um it's specifically looking for startups that are looking for solutions to a changing climate.

So that could be in agriculture, that could be in food, that could be in water, but there has to be that relevance and uh a local benefit to the community.

Um Eric, do you want to add anything?

Well while he's coming up, I I can also say that you know, to your question, obviously the the services are here to provide provide support to local startups and help them build.

But as we've heard from Eric, and I'm sure we'll hear more, it also is an opportunity to bring businesses to Half Moon Bay to bring new industries, and that's really been the big impact, I think so far.

Can you hear me?

That's what we target.

I mean, it's an interesting KPI, is it not to have if we hit one, if we hit one company that's a force multiplier effect that has an impact on the entire community?

That's what we're aiming for.

It's it's not easy.

Startups getting a startup off the ground.

What is it, eight, ten percent uh make it 90% failure rate typically in the first year?

What we're trying to do is focus on startups not only that just anything that can succeed, but ones that really affect the coast side, like Karen was saying ag tech, water tech, built environment, things that matter, bring them here, create jobs, tax revenues.

I mean, this is an enormous force multiplying effect.

If we can hit one, and then and again, I keep repeating.

I love your line, proof of concept.

I mean, what we did in that first year, that doesn't happen.

That doesn't happen.

Thank you.

I think that doesn't quite answer my question.

Now, my question is: are you looking to have startups that are located in Half Moon Bay?

Yes.

Or are you just talking about having a general effect on the things that matter here in Half Moon Bay?

We're trying to create new businesses that operate out of Half Moon Bay and give back to Half Moon Bay.

For for Half Moon Bay.

I would go so far also, Eric, correct me if I'm wrong that there's preference, there's local preference, but if there's talent beyond local that could benefit the coast side, they're eligible.

Is that fair?

Yes, that is.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Thank you for the question, thank you.

Um public comments.

And we have one online speaker as well.

Okay.

Why don't we start with the online speaker?

Okay, Sid Young.

Hi, this has been very informative.

Um I'm sorry you're running out of your funding, but um like a homeowner or a um family might look at their budget and see where they could cut.

Is it a possibility to cut out one of the programs or two of the programs and keep the other?

I'm interested in the incubator because I know in the past Half Moon Bay had Adwala, they had um GoPro, all those businesses started here and are gone.

But um, you know, I would like to see an incubator stay.

The job train is it didn't look like the numbers were all that great compared to the other two on the peninsula over in uh Menlo Park or South City, but um if it's a possibility of cutting out one or two that aren't carrying their weight, is that something you've looked at, and um I I just I really think that the incubator idea is the best idea of the three.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh we'll now move to our speakers who are in the room.

Um first speakers are Maria Asadiro and Juan Aguirres, Bay Area orchids, um, Manuela Gilles.

Good evening.

It's my wife, uh Maria Acevedo and myself, Manuela Guillermo, Manuela Guias.

We've recited here in Half Moon Bay for 25 years.

Uh, yes, in the announcement, October of the in uh October of 2020 we started a small business.

Which is called Bay Area Orchids, so we cultivate orchids.

So we're located at 125011 on Cemetery Road.

And for now it's a family owned business operated by ourselves and our children.

Yes.

And when we started with this business, it was very difficult because we started out in the pandemic.

We asked the banks for a loan, but they said this is a bad time for it to be asking for a loan.

So we operated the business for about three years, lack of really understanding, not in cultivating orchids per se, but really knowing the business side of it.

So two years ago we came across Renaissance.

Yes, the imitation, because we got the invitation, and so we really kind of learned, you know, how to operate the business and tell you the truth, it hasn't been easy.

It was like Renaissance has provided with training, and what we've done is we put it in action and it's been great.

I know that some businesses could start small, but with the help of Renaissance, I think it would facilitate them all.

And I would say support Renaissance.

And to tell you the truth, there's a lot of Latino small business owners.

But sometimes because we don't know, we wrote don't really give it a try.

I think there wouldn't be any excuse with all the training and support that they provide.

And that's all, thank you very much.

Thank you both.

Our next speaker is um Carlos Alcantar from Foggy Clothing Company.

And I'm also the owner of Foggy Clothing.

September 6th, I'll be opening um the doors to my first brick and mortar at 30 Avenue Portola, El Granada.

And I wouldn't be standing here today without the incredible support of the Renaissance Center, and the coastside team as well.

When I first started this journey, I knew I had a passion, but I didn't have all the tools or knowledge to take my ideas and turn them into a real business.

Renaissance came the became the foundation for me.

They walked me through the essentials, getting my business license and permits, making sure I understand or I understood what I needed to operate, what I needed to operate legally and professionally.

Those early steps may sound simple, but as a new entrepreneur, they be they can be overwhelming and having Renaissance there to guide me made me made all the difference.

From there, the classes gave me so much more than just information.

They gave me the confidence learning about business planning, marketing, and financial management.

They helped me build the structure for foggy clothing.

I wasn't just learning theory, I was able to apply what I learned directly to my brand.

The one-on-one consultations with consultants was a game changer.

Having someone sit down with me, listening to my specific challenges and other tailored advice helped me move forward at times when I might have otherwise felt stuck.

Those meetings gave me direction and reminded me that I wasn't on this journey alone.

With their guidance, I was able to launch my website, a huge step in bringing foggy clothing to more people.

My storefront in El Granada when started, was started as an idea that has turned into a brand that will have a home in the community, and that's a dream I've had for years.

Renaissance didn't stop me.

Renaissance didn't stop there.

They have also been right beside me as I prepare for my grand opening, helping me plan, organize, and making sure I had access to resources.

So this event can be a true celebration of community.

And on top of that, with their support, I was able to receive a grant from Ontario Credit Union, which has provided vital financial help as I said my story and get ready to welcome customers.

I can honestly say without the Renaissance Center and the Cosite team, I wouldn't be I wouldn't gotten this far quickly.

They've been a steady hand in a process that can feel overwhelming at times, and more importantly, they've shown me that there is a network of people invested in seeing small businesses like mine succeed.

This journey has just been about starting.

This journey hasn't been just about starting a business, it's about building a stronger connection to the community I love.

I'm from Halfham Bay.

Now I'm planting roots in El Granada with foggy clothing.

Thanks to Renaissance, I'm doing doing it with the tools support and confidence, not just to open my doors, but to grow and sustain my business for years to come.

To the entire Renaissance Coastside team to Montara Credit Union and to everyone who has been part of this journey journey.

Thank you.

And I'm excited for what's ahead, and I can't wait to welcome everyone to my foggy clothing.

Thank you, Carlos, for coming this evening.

Appreciate it.

Our next speaker is Joaquin Jimenez.

Good evening.

Umor, uh, council members, uh, city staff, members of the public.

Think about economic mobility.

Opportunities and all the coastside is about economic mobility, opportunity.

You know, community we're struggling with uh pay no rents.

If you see the services that we provide, you know, the numbers that you see coming through the office monthly, it's a lot of people, a lot of services through job train.

Job train offers upskill trainings.

The last uh during the last year, we've given over 30 laptops to community members after taking a course in basic computer skills.

We have offer CPR training, per se training again.

It's about economic mobility.

In collaboration, uh with the Renaissance Center.

Many of the people that are taking these courses can actually open up a new business, child care businesses.

We just recently completed a pesticide applic applicator training.

Or residents that took that course can become uh certified, business are applicators anywhere in California.

So this is uh it's about economic mobility.

The concept of the OCC, what you said of the coast side is about economic mobility, giving our community a better chance to have a better income.

We do uh info tables three days a week.

Tuesdays, you'll find us at Moonridge, Wednesdays, you'll find us at the library, Thursdays.

You can find us in the Safeway, New Leaf, or I mean Familiar Shopping Center.

We cover the whole coast from Ontario to Pescadero.

You will find our flyers even here at the community center on the wall, downtown Halfum Bay or local businesses, about what the events that we offer in our community.

It's an opportunity that uh COSAR has been needing for many years.

I don't know if you remember uh 2019.

When Bay City uh nursery, you know, no closed their doors.

250 people became unemployed.

Many of those people, Maria and her husband, Manuel Acevedo, they were workers of the nursery.

Economic mobility given the opportunity to open up a new business, staying farming, and many older farm workers actually move to other jobs.

Hospitality jobs.

We offer the training.

Remember, economic mobility.

It is a main concept.

Thank you.

Thank you, Akin.

Is there anyone else online?

Okay.

So we'll close public comments.

So next steps for council.

We have receive the update.

Um, these organizations are waiting to see if they'll get funding, right, Matthew?

Yeah, I think um really uh it's back with staff and and the organizations we partner with with those who see and working with the county and others to see if there's ongoing funding opportunities and uh my hope.

The best news could be that we return on the 16th with with good news and and extension of contracts, and um we'll keep you posted and keep the community posted about um that and the ongoing future of those who seeing the services that have been provided.

Thank you.

Okay, um, thanks, Karen.

We're gonna take a uh yeah, we'll reconvene here at a quarter of, okay, quarter to 10.

Okay.

Our next item on our agenda is um item 10c.

Measure D transfers.

We have a quick staff report.

Great.

Uh good evening, Mayor Brownstone and Council members.

Uh yeah, I'll be quickly taking you through uh the measure D process.

I'll first give a bit of background on measure D.

Uh discuss the transfer process for measure D, and provide some recommendations related to a decision tonight.

So Measure D is the city's growth management system.

Its purpose is to manage the rate and quality of development in the city on an annual basis.

It's uh accommodates up to one point five percent of population growth that's split between the downtown and outside of downtown.

Uh, within the downtown, uh five.5 percent is initially provided, and then council each year uh can approve an additional 0.5%, and historically that has been the case uh as it was for this year.

There's very few exemptions under Measure D.

Uh, these only consist of replacements on a one-to-one base basis and density bonus law.

The transfer process has only been done a couple of times in the history of Measure D.

Uh, most recently in 2019 and 2021, there was a transfer.

Uh it is at the discretion of city council whether or not to approve transfers, how many transfers to approve, and what criteria to use for transfers.

Uh, in 2019, the council did adopt a resolution providing guidance on criteria, criteria to consider for uh transfers, given that the code is pretty minimal in what it provides in terms of the actual process.

Um, however, it is clear that transfers can only occur after September 1st, and only remaining downtown base allocations, which is that initial 0.5% uh of the allocations for the downtown are eligible to be transferred.

At the March 25th planning commission meeting, uh stat the planning commission provided a recommendation for city council to approve uh transfers, any available transfers, as well as some more specific recommendations that we'll get into.

This just helps break down uh a bit more about how allocations are broken down.

So for 2025, there was the 1.5% made up 67 allocations that was broken down between the downtown and the outside of downtown.

The 22 available allocations for downtown were approved at that planning commission meeting in March.

And downtown, there was only three allocations that have been issued so far.

So of the base allocations, there are 20 remaining that would be available for transfer.

In 2019, when City Council adopted the resolution for procedures, there was five criteria provided.

Among these criteria, staff has found that those being recommended tonight do meet those criteria, which is there are no known pending applications remaining downtown.

All single family residences being recommended include an affordable component, such as an ADU.

All projects recommended include some sort of affordable housing that is more broad than our typical term for affordable housing, but that expands to an ADU, multifamily units, duplexes, etc.

And then council may provide any additional applicable criteria that aligns with city standards that they might like to provide direction on, but staff has put together a recommendation for you, as I'm sure you saw in the staff report for this evening.

There was one additional criteria that I should mention.

It does in that resolution, it mentions that all applicants should fill out any development permits in advance of transfers.

However, given the number of transfers and to actually put together the materials for those development permits can be quite costly for an applicant, so given that they might not actually get a transfer staff, did not require that of the applicants.

However, we did send out an app form for all applicants to fill out and request if they were serious about being considered for a transfer for a measure deallocation.

Among that, we did receive a response from 13 or sorry, 14 applicants out of 16 that were previously deferred.

At the March 25th planning commission meeting, we the planning commission ratified the scoring for all of the outside of downtown allocations.

There was initially 47 total allocations that came in, 22 of those were issued as a result of the scoring of that meeting.

The table here on the right, you can see breaks down how these allocations are in the type of units that they included.

We're recommending that council consider prioritizing the transfers based on the scoring that was ratified by the planning commission in March, which is the scoring based off of the initial application checklist for those applicants that were deferred.

This is because the scoring actually, when looking at it, it encompasses any other criteria that typically council might consider for transfers.

Previously, in 2019 and 2021, there was a focus on transfers for units within the town center, ADU only applications, and then as well as Planning Commission's recommendation they provided, which among providing a recommendation to applicants who have been deferred multiple times.

They also recommended that two applicants get uh top priority uh for transfers.

Uh this was due to uh one applicant only received a portion of the allocations they provided for.

They uh which is 940 Main Street, as it was found that they were not since they need to acquire more allocations, it was less uh pertinent that they had their allocations immediately, and they could use some of those allocations to distribute it more equitably for other applicants to be able to move forward, uh as well as an additional applicant 490 Pine, who was just below the line, they also recommended uh be strongly considered.

This table shows uh the 20 applicants recommended for transfers of the 21 that requested to be considered for transfer.

So to reiterate, uh staff is uh recommending that the city council approve uh transferring the 20 remaining downtown base allocations to applicants outside of downtown uh in accordance with the scoring from the initial checklist.

The next steps if council accepts the recomm tonight's recommendation.

Um if not, we would come back as directed by city council or if directed by city council with other criteria, but if accepted, uh then the next time staff would likely be here to discuss measure D would be at the December 2nd city council meeting uh where staff will discuss next year's allocations uh for city council to approve, as well as some potential uh administrative changes potentially to the scoring or the application, but relatively minor in nature, uh, and then the next application period for any applicants deferred or new applicants would be for in January 2026.

Thank you for the great staff report, really appreciate that.

Clarifying questions from council.

I have one question, thank you.

Um measure D, right?

So speaking of slide.

Yeah, I am hopefully I am.

Um are we proposing to transfer the same way with using the same criteria that was established in 2019?

2019 just provided the criteria for uh in that resolution.

I can't recall the exact way that transfers were awarded that year or how many were available.

It has varied um from year to year based on council's direction in 2021.

The direction that was provided was uh focusing on uh applicants that had deed restricted affordable units were in the town center or were ADU ADUs only.

Um so we're this scoring does encapsulate that from the 2021 hearing, um, but I don't recall the exact criteria for 2019 other than the resolution.

Okay, thanks.

Deborah, did you have any clarifying questions?

No, I'm fine.

Thanks.

Great.

There we have two public comments.

Um anyone online public comments?

Not at this time.

Okay, uh first speaker is uh Tim Pond.

I'd like to thank the council for uh considering these transfers tonight.

A couple things I like to point out.

The downtown map is ridiculous.

It goes down Main Street, takes a dog leg, goes around Metzger Avenue, comes back on this street down that street.

So one of my applicants has a home that wants to put it in ADU that's about two blocks from all the restaurants down here, and it's not included in downtown.

I just think that it's something to point out.

And measure D was actually thought of like 25 years ago when there was a problem with single family homes being built one after another in subdivisions with no forethought of JDUs or accessory dwelling units to provide for the changing demographic that we're looking at today.

If we want incubators and people to come to town to work here, we have to provide housing.

There is a housing crisis.

This is a chance to take a little shot at it by providing a few more units.

But it does make a dent in it.

They have a big lot.

It could easily put a second unit on it.

Um the backyard is not used, but since they couldn't get the walking distance to downtown points, it wasn't considered.

Now, actually a lot of people can't walk or bike, and I don't think this was even thought of that that's discriminating against people that are, you know, somehow unable to walk to shops.

I mean, this is nice to think of all of us walking to shops, but elderly people and other people can't walk.

So, in a large way, that point system discriminates.

They also constitute total infill development, very low infrastructure costs, and um also I had two clients just decline their measure D's, and they went into the vapor this year.

So you guys lost two potential housing units because it took quite a while for them to get issued, and by the time they were issued, the economy kind of didn't look so good.

One of them's guys' mother's uh caretakers got deported to Venezuela, so their whole situation changed, so they're just not building them.

So when they expire, they go away.

So these two would uh be appreciated to have two more issued in their place just to keep that housing stock going.

And thank you very much for listening and again for considering the transfer.

Thank you, Tim.

Next speaker is Kevin Grennan.

Good evening.

Good evening.

I guess I'm a little confused because currently I'm I'm on this list to be approved.

The written and labored over this history of my family at Half Moon Bay for weeks, and I don't know that I should be taking your time up if I'm on this list already.

I don't know if you're voting on this tonight, or if you really want to hear this history.

It's not that interesting, but um, you know, it was just my problem with the whole criteria was that it was all it was all very objective, which of course it has to be.

It nowhere I ought to allow you to give your story about how long you've lived here, why you want to build an ADU, what contribution have you been to Half Moon Bay while you've been here, what have your kids done while they've been here, and that's what this represents.

But again, it's a long it's been a long night, and do you really need to hear this?

Do you want to hear this?

Um I I kind of feel like I should let you on to the business of deciding whether or not you're gonna accept those 20 names that a coe is provided tonight, and uh we'll see where that goes.

So you call me to that.

Well, you only have three minutes altogether.

So I think I've used most of it.

All right, well, thanks though for um coming up.

Thanks, Kevin.

Uh I think that concludes public comment.

Nothing online, right?

Okay.

Thoughts, opinions.

You ready?

You ready?

Yeah.

Curiosity.

Um, Pillar CEDO's two nineteen is uh a J-DU, which I talked to Tim Pond over the weekend.

Thank you for clarifying that because I didn't know I didn't know the never had that at the planning commission level.

That's on this list, and it's uh no request for transfer consideration.

Can you explain that?

Yeah, so two applicants did not request or fill out the form and and multiple reminders were sent out.

Um so they they were one of the applicants that did not uh choose to request for transfer.

Um I won't speak for them, but I believe there was intention behind that from what I heard.

Um, and the other applicant that didn't request for transfer actually had applied uh twice.

Um they paid the fee both times, but they received it for one of their applications.

So I believe they didn't need to likely move forward with the second one.

They have a little story poll things on the house.

I noticed that on one of the Pillar CETO's house.

So I was just wondering.

They had like the story polls showing the where the structure was going to be.

I'm not sure if that's the same I uh the same site.

I they wouldn't have a development application that would be requiring that for this specific property uh that was initially applying for the Measure D.

Uh additionally, the uh the J-Do is a junior accessory dwelling unit that would likely be fully within existing space, so they wouldn't need to do uh to story polls, so it's likely a different development project in the same area.

I'm just gonna check with uh Deborah, did you have any uh comments at this point?

I'm good, thank you.

Okay.

Yeah, I'm gonna make a motion to uh approve.

Um I would like us at some point to consider um the possibility of rolling over, you know, people who don't use them.

They can be rolled over and added for new people who need to build ADUs.

I just think it makes sense to just not let them expire.

Um, but I think that's a discussion we need to have.

There's probably all kinds of consequences of that, but in any case, I'd like to move that we adopt a resolution approving a transfer of the 20 remaining downtown base measure D allocations to be used for new dwelling units proposed outside of the downtown area, prioritized according to the scoring within the Measure D application checklist and is shown within exhibit A to the resolution.

I'll second.

Okay.

Roll call, please.

Councilmember Johnson.

Yes.

Councilmember Nagingas?

Yes.

Councilmember Penrose?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Redick?

Yes.

Mayor Brownstone.

Yes.

Motion carries.

Thank you.

Next item up on the agenda is uh item 10 D, amendment to the Toleme contract contract for software to support the rental registration and rent stabilization programs.

Do we have a staff report on this?

Great.

No, yes, yes, good evening, council.

Uh mayor, Mayor, community.

My name is Irma Costa, Economic and community vitality Division.

Um, and I am here to present an item on an amendment to the city's um contract with Ptolemy, a vendor that um provides the rental registration and rent stabilization programs, um, a database platform.

So I'll just provide a little brief background.

So the rent registry and rent stabilization programs were a product of a direction from council from a November 7, 2023 council meeting, where we held a study session on tenant protections.

And during this time in the summer of 2024, the programs were launched.

And at that time, the city contracted with Ptolemy, a vendor that specializes in housing management to collect to provide the data collection aspect of the programs.

And the software is a web-based platform that provides services for landlords and staff.

On the landlord side, it provides landlords the database to complete their registration of their rental units, complete fee payments, and on the staff side, it provides the ability to manage the day-to-day administrative aspects of the programs.

So during the initial implementation of the programs, we have spent around $38,430 on the programs.

During the last council meeting that I was here in May 6, 2025, council was presented with three options in regards to the future of the programs.

And ultimately, council selected option three, which includes the which is the retention of both of the programs with some modifications.

And council also directed staff to come back in six months with an update on the programs and the performance as well as the fiscal impacts of the programs.

So the current contract with Ptolemy actually ended in June 2025, which is why I am here today to request that amendment to the contract so that it'll take us all the way until December, and possibly with the extension of the programs.

So during that same sorry, during that same council meeting, council and as well as the community expressed some concerns in regards to the privacy, the privacy policy, and the data management of the software.

So staff actually conducted research around vendors similar to Ptolemy and those of other organizations, I mean jurisdictions that have similar programs, and we worked with the city's IT and legal teams on those findings, and ultimately we concluded that Ptolemy provides a sufficient safeguards around the data that we are collecting for the programs.

So some of the fiscal impact implications of moving forward with that amendment.

So Ptolemy actually prepared an amendment which can be found in the packet as attachment A.

And they proposed an amendment till February 2026 with the option to extend that contract until June 30th, 2026.

So the cost associated with that is either around $17,000 till February or $25,000 if extended all the way through June 30th, 2026.

So in conclusion, staff recommend the extent approve the extension of the amendment, with the idea that in December, when we come back and um discuss the future of the programs, we have that option to extend it until um June 2026.

And that is all I have.

So if anyone has any questions, I'm happy to answer those.

I just had one quick question.

Um on the issue of the uh ensuring privacy of the data and stuff that that include conversation or consultation with Evelyn DeSaus, I think, right?

It did.

Um, as as many of you know, we have a member of our community, Evelyn D'Souza, who um is, I mean, this is what she does.

She works for uh she's worked for large tech companies in data privacy and security.

Um she's generously offered in the past to look at practices of potential vendors.

This was no exception, and she um came to the same conclusion that our team did, which was um she made some recommendations of how they could improve, but overall they had acceptable practices and our agreement protects the data.

Um, you know, we hear concerns about um the 23andme impact where their data got sold.

In that case, when you use 23andMe, you don't own the data, they do.

In this case, this is our data, it retained we retain it no matter what happens with this company.

Um, and so between that and the fact that um they've got the right practices in place and the right security measures in place, uh we're we're confident that we're getting the the best quality security.

Great.

I'm glad we had that resource in town, and that she um uh she uh gave us good advice on that.

Thanks.

Other clarifying questions.

Thank you.

Uh when we mentioned coming back at six months, was it six months from May, June, or July?

So the way staff interpreted it was within six months of the second year of implementation, um, because implementation of the program, and please correct me if I'm wrong, happens during the summer.

And so what we were looking for was six more months of data and experience for the council to be able to consider and evaluate.

So that we we plan to bring something back either in December or January to talk about the future of the program.

It won't really change much as far as the work we're doing.

Um we've implemented the second year of the programs, we're now in outreach and enforcement um for those that remain, and that's where we'll be when we get to December or January.

Um, and so the workload won't likely change between now and then much.

The only reason I ask is if we do it before December 31st, you know, depending on what happens, you know, there's four grand to go from uh January first to February 28th, and then eight grand to go from March 1st to June 30th.

So depending when we do, I know December's tough with scheduling, you know, with the holidays, but uh if it was February then, if we extend it to February, then you know I'm trying to get to is there a date certain we can kind of know we're coming back.

We can work on that.

Um and Irma again, please correct me if I'm wrong.

Part of the reason that first piece isn't December 31st, it's it's in February, is when we come back in December or January.

If the council were to decide to end these programs, we will want to be able to work with them to unwind some things and secure the data and and do some of that work.

And so we we do need a little bit of um additional time to continue to work with Ptolemy in the unwinding of the programs, whereas if we choose to extend it at least one more year by having the contract in place till the end of the fiscal year, that allows us time to look at a longer term contract or explore other vendors if we want to keep the program going.

So I'm just thinking out loud.

I I'd rather not go ahead and say, well, we're gonna extend it to June.

Just do it at the time if we're gonna have this.

I I really want us to commit to something in January, then if that's what we want to do.

You know, if we wanted to have the six months, and then if we agree to proceed forward, we can extend it to June 30th.

I just didn't want to, because then is there I'm I'm worried we wouldn't get to it.

You know, you know.

We get uh caught up in other priorities, and I want to make sure we address this.

So let's uh, and if we have to unwind, if we make sure we have enough time to unwind.

Yeah.

I and staff is actually on the same page as you on this.

I think the way it's presented, um the the extension all the way through June is an option, and obviously we wouldn't exercise that option were we to decide to why unwind the programs uh when we come back later this year, early next year.

So um the the contract is written so that it's all taken care of in one action, but to actually go from the February date to the end of June, it would take staff executing that extension, which again obviously we wouldn't do if the council directed otherwise again or males.

Give it back to you if that's yeah, yeah.

That's spot on.

Okay.

Thanks.

Um, I was just wondering whether there was some language that might be removed to be a little more protective of local folks, and one of the sections says with other users, when you share your personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and maybe publicly distributed outside with your consent.

We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose, but with your consent, it's kind of clumsy wording, but it seems to me that it would be a little more protective if we would take that out.

The other one I'm concerned about is if the company is involved in a merger acquisition or asset sale, your personal data may be transferred.

We will provide notice before your personal data is transferred and become subject to a different privacy policy.

Um I don't think that's very protective of folks, and if we could make an exception um in the template language for Half Moon Bay, um I think that would be good.

Yeah, um I can definitely um present that information to them, and I will say um all of the data that we do collect is completely confidential, um, and we don't share that with um like tenets or other landlords.

Um it is just for city use um and for that data collection aspect.

Yeah, so I'm just saying maybe to further reflect that that we look at their template language and take out things that are a little loosey goosey about transferring information and stuff like that.

Yeah, thank you.

I think that's I think that's fair, and I think the spirit of that is if they were to merge or sell and we continued as a customer, so maybe we need to clarify that as well.

I think that would be good.

Yeah, yeah, just tag on to that.

You know, when you say with consent, maybe maybe more precise, like you'll have an option to opt out or opt-in because that's what you see a lot in those privacy.

Um that puts the burden sort of on like the landlord.

I think we wanna try to get language.

They have to offer you an opportunity, right?

You will clearly um offer the opportunity whether or not a landlord consents to sharing any of the information based on those two situations, right?

And and it sounds like and I agree, let's put the burden on on us and Ptolemy that it's not well.

If you don't respond, we're gonna use it.

It's if we don't hear from you, we will not share it.

It's it requires that express written consent that's you know, requires to share it, it requires a step by the property owner, not you know, like silence is compliance.

So just be cognizant of template language that doesn't really reflect our you know desire to protect privacy.

So one more qu question.

Then when we analyze it after six months, we'll get into much more detail about costs and what's impact to staff and you know the various things that talk about earlier.

So we don't tonight's just really just get making sure we make it through to that.

All right.

I have a question.

When you guys analyze this um at the end when we do this process, which I think is the important process.

Will it take in factor like enforcement and all the little glues and screws?

Everything?

Yeah, we'll bring back a comprehensive assessment and information about the costs and impacts of the program on city operations and what we project that to be in the future and the impacts we've heard from residents and in the community as well.

The landowners too, the people that are that's that that would be encompassed in the residents of community.

Yeah.

Um I'm also keeping um track of um housing stock that has been left out of like taken out of the market, um, since that's something that was asked as well.

Um so there's a couple data things that I'm keeping track of.

Um Deborah, did you have any um clarifying questions?

Nothing clarifying, no.

Okay, and then do we have any comments online?

We do have one public comment, Sid Young.

Yeah, let's take we're gonna take public comment.

Go ahead, Sid.

I just haven't really understood this whole program.

I understand it was because you had no idea how many rentals you had in your inventory in Half Moon Bay, but um there was nothing listed tonight that showed the efficacy of this program so far, and when you discussed it back, I think it was in May, at least they had some data points showing that the program was in the red, and um one of the council members said they wanted to hear uh specific uh objections and stuff.

My friend who sold all three of her halfman bay units went to bed already, so I would just like to say that I don't know why you didn't show any particular information tonight.

Is this software company that you've hired to do this in Boston?

I think that was my understanding, but um you know the tenant protection act of 19 uh 2019 AB 1482 protects tenants, so is this creating housing or is it making landlords sell their properties like my friend did all three of them in Half Moon Bay because you guys decided to tax put this tax on property owners?

Uh that's my concern, and you didn't show any of that detail tonight.

Thank you.

Thank you.

No more comments, nothing.

Okay, great.

Um, okay, council conversations.

Uh, Deborah, you had something to um I'll start with you.

No, yeah.

All I wanted to say was um, yeah, let's extend the contract by all means.

In fact, I'd like to make a motion that we do extend the contract.

Okay, you're in the motion.

Okay, go ahead, Deborah.

Go ahead, Deborah.

Make a make the motion.

Yeah, I'm looking for the um, yeah.

I move that we where are we that we adopt a resolution authorizing the city manager to approve an amendment to the Ptolemy contract through February 2026 for 16,666 dollars and sixty-seven cents with an option to extend through June 2026 for a total of 25,000?

Second.

Can we have a roll call, please?

Councilmember Johnson.

Yes, council member Nagengast.

Yes, Councilmember Penrose.

Yes, Vice Mayor Ruddick, yes, Mayor Brownstone.

Yes.

Motion carries, thank you.

Thank you.

Next item up, item 10.

Regarding fiscal year 2025 26 pavement maintenance projects.

Good evening, council members.

Mayor Brownstone, members of the public.

Daily Da Associate Engineer.

Today I'm going to be talking about everyone's favorite subject pavement.

I will try and be brief.

I know it's late.

Thank you.

So earlier this year, the city received our most recent assessment of our conditions of our roadways, and we use that to shape this year's paving project.

We try to do an annual paving project every year.

This one was helpful because we had such recent data from this study that looked at pavement conditions last year or last December, I should say.

I'm gonna give a quick summary of kind of the results of that assessment as well as kind of describing our project this year and provide a little insight into what we have planned for next year.

Before I get into that, I want to just introduce the concept of pavement condition index.

So this is how we rate the condition of our streets.

It's a nationally adopted standard.

It came out of the Army Corps of Engineers in the 70s.

It's helpful for quantifying the conditions of our roads.

Um want to point out is that it's it's typical to compare this to like getting grades in school where you think uh, you know, an A plus is 100.

Um with road work, it's actually a little bit of an adjustment to that.

Um so we have what we call an optimal road condition, which we're targeting, and and in Half Moon Bay, that's that would be a PCI of 85.

So you'd consider an A or an A plus is an 85.

So in public works, we have a little bit of a sliding curve with with grading here.

Um so the so we don't do this assessment ourselves.

We have a partnership with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.

Um, every three years they hire a consultant to come and assess the city streets.

Uh, this excludes the highways through Halfman Bay.

This is just local streets, it also excludes private streets.

Um, they drive each street, they look at the pavement condition, they they they mark deficiencies, um, they give that street an average, and then they they give us a total average for all of Half Moon Bay.

Um, so this assessment was done in December of 2024.

Uh we got results in April of this year.

Um, so our current PCI as of December was uh 64, which is down from 68 in 2020.

Um, so typically you can expect about a two-point drop per year without doing improvements in your roadways, and that that varies depending on weather and just every every road condition.

Obviously, we're putting money into our roads and doing pavement projects and pavement work as part of other projects.

That's why you see kind of over the last five years.

We we see a four-point drop as opposed to a temper 10 point drop if we weren't doing anything.

Um, by comparison, the Bay Area average for PCI right now is uh 67.

So we're kind of in the middle of the pack, a little bit on the low side of the middle of the pack.

Um in San Mateo County.

I think the average is closer to 70.

So um a little bit a little bit higher, higher uh higher bar, I guess.

Um the assessment also, so the assessment goes through and looks at all of our streets and also develops a plan for projects to improve our PCI, and and they look at different types of road treatment and and quantify those numbers to get us back up to that target 85 optimal PCI.

Um, so if we had all the money in the world to spend on pavement, um we can tackle what they refer to as our backlog, which is just kind of those all those projects that we would need to get up to 85, and that's and by their estimates, the consultants' estimates, it's around 10 million dollars.

Uh, you see a little asterisk there.

That's because that's a very uh optimistic number.

Uh they're looking at pavement work kind of on its own, and this is a Bay Area average.

Our costs are notably higher on the coast here.

We don't have a pavement plant here, it's over in Redwood City, so there's larger transportation costs.

Uh, this also doesn't factor in things like striping or traffic control or stormwater management, all these other little things that are gonna add and accumulate to the cost of the project.

That's also work if we were gonna do that work this year.

As I mentioned, because the PCI drops every year, um, if if this is stretched out over five years, which is what the what the plan calls for, those costs will also grow because we're continually fighting our our degrading PCI as um as part of that effort.

So over a five-year period, that 10 million grows to 15 million.

Um, this is covered in the assessment report.

Um the last piece of the assessment report is they develop this plan and they develop different scenarios for how we can fix our streets, and they look at a fixed dollar amount to be applied for for each scenario.

So there's a scenario based on our average that we've been spending on roads, a scenario based on what it would take to maintain our current PCI, and then a scenario to increase our PCI five points over the next five years.

And then they pick out individual roads for different treatments in order to achieve those goals.

Um, now when they do this, um they they do it in a way that optimizes the the total score.

It's it's it's a it's a numbers game.

And unfortunately, what that means is that you know, a lot of people who look at their street and say my streets in bad condition, um, those streets are gonna be less likely to be on the list of recommended streets for treatment.

Um, there's three categories of treatment.

We have we have maintenance at the top, which is for streets in the best condition, there's rehabilitation, which is kind of streets at the at the midpoint, and then there's reconstruction, which is kind of the streets like beyond the point of no return in a way.

And I and I don't mean that to say that we don't we don't care about those streets, but you you don't see streets with reconstruction within the recommendations from AMS, the consultant who did the assessment uh because um the cost of reconstruction the the cost for each stage goes up exponentially over um just because of the additional work, and so um with reconstruction of one street, you're you're gonna spend a lot more money than you would to do maintenance, maintenance on streets that are in in better condition.

Um so what is what do these treatments look like?

So maintenance typically is referring to cracks healing, slurry and slurry sealing of of streets.

Uh, this one thing that's not shown here is we'll we'll do digouts.

If there's portions of if the street is generally in good condition, but there's a couple of patches where there's been some settlement over, say a utility trench or a monument.

Well, you dig that out and compact it, restore it back, and then finish your slurry seal.

So you're getting close to a brand new street.

Um, this is the best way to spend money on street maintenance, but there are other restrictions to it.

There's um right now where we're at in the season, we're getting closer into the winter season where uh slurry seal is not gonna be as effective here if if the if the ground gets because you're you're looking at um a thinner pavement layer when the ground is colder, it's a little bit cooler out, you don't get as good of application with it.

Um, so although there is a lot of uh slurry seal and crack sealing called out in the study over the next two years, we've actually decided to push all the slurry seal to next year's project.

This year's project, we are gonna pursue a strictly rehabilitation project, and this is a little bit more intensive for for pavement work.

Um this is, you know, there's there's a milling component, which typically includes removal of kind of the weaker top of the asphalt, and then and then a new overlay of asphalt going over the top of it with varying thickness recommendations.

At the end of a uh of an overlay like this, you end up with this with roughly a brand new street because you have the ability to control kind of the profile and and fill out all this all the all the low spots as part of that work.

Um, but it is more expensive.

So slurry seal right now we're looking at where we're looking at our cost roughly around two dollars a square foot for slurry seal uh by comparison, our our cold planning and overlay is around five dollars a square foot.

So uh with this year's project that we have planned for right now, and we uh included drawings and as an attachment, or I think it's our 90% set.

Um it's focused on our leader park, um, it's roughly 200,000 square feet of paved area over eight streets.

Uh, these are all streets that were recognized in the AMS study in the in the first two years of kind of recommended improvements.

Um we selected these streets because it's a it's a high density neighborhood.

It has a lot of traffic, uh a lot of people getting to the beach, uh, a lot of school traffic as well, and gives an ab it gives us an ability to cluster the work around a smaller kind of tighter area, which given the season and where we're at, it'll help us to mobilize the project faster, reduce the construction schedule, and just um ensure that we get it done in a timely manner.

Um this year's project is going to be funded through two primary sources.

There's uh Senate Bill 1 or SB1, which is our state funded gas tax.

Uh, we get an annual allocation this year.

Last year's allocation was $635,000.

Um, and then we also get funds through the San Mateo County Measure AW, another kind of repeating annual fund around $740.

So currently we have a million dollars kind of allocated for this project with an estimated cost of construction around 965.

Um obviously 100 1.4 million is is a bit more.

So those additional funds that that wouldn't go to this, these funds go in both of these pots are strictly for for road projects or street projects.

Uh, what we don't use from this year can go to other projects.

Um they can go to cost overruns from projects like what we uh we use some of these funds on Poplar Street.

Um we use it for some of our own staff doing like uh cold patch repairs since we don't have the we can't do hot mix asphalt within our staff, uh we don't have the equipment for it.

Um it can also be used as matching funds for for grant applications on street projects such as Highway One North, which um you'll be hearing about in a couple weeks.

Um and the funds we don't use roll over into next years, and we have an account that kind of accrues with with those unused funds.

Um next year's project I mentioned is going to be primarily a maintenance project.

So that's fundamentally digouts, crack sealing, and slurry seal.

Um by pushing this work off to next year, we have more time.

Well, for one, we're focused on doing this work kind of um in mid-summer of next year when the weather's gonna be a little bit warmer.

Um this also gives us time to to plan this out a little bit better.

So this is this is a kind of a working draft of the streets we have allocated.

Um this is based on that $2 a square foot, which factors in an assumption for things like digouts, um, which we don't know really what the extent of digouts are at this point.

That's a major contribution to the overall cost.

One of the benefits of giving us the time to work through this through next year is that we uh can also coordinate with our local utility companies, some of which have been cooperative and helping to help fund some of the repair work.

If it's if if there's a district, uh utility district where there's been significant settlement over one of their utilities, we can reach out to them and and try to get some cost recovery from them.

So that helps us to plan this project a little bit more efficiently.

Um as we further expand next year's project, and um we'll we're optimistic that the estimated cost is gonna go down as as we kind of flesh it out and we'll be able to expand and add additional streets.

Um just for comparison, what it would take to do a reconstruction project.

Um so obviously Belleville is a highly neglected street.

Um we haven't done, I've heard people say we haven't done pavement work on Belleville in 2020 years or something.

Um but um this is what a million dollar project would look like.

It's it's it would be one project to reconstruct Belleville, uh, which currently has a PCI of 19.

Um now that would bump the PCI at Belleville up to 100, but if we move forward with just one project like this, we would still see a net drop in our own PCI by not doing other work.

So the the the whole program is set focused on on the numbers, and that doesn't mean we can't move forward with other projects or or address you know streets that really need that that really need that, but um we we start with kind of our focus on the PCI.

I just have to say though that Belleville has been in that condition for for years.

Something's got to be done there, it's just not acceptable to continue that way.

I don't know what we do about it, but it needs to be done.

Just it's been years, literally maybe a decade.

I hear you.

Um so we've we have limited funds for this program.

Um we're at the staff level, we're trying to do things that we can to stretch our funds out and be um be smart about the work that we're doing.

Um obviously there's not a whole lot of grant opportunities around pavement management, um, but they do come up.

There was actually one recently that was sponsored by Cal Recycle for using rubberized slurry seal, I think it was, and um we didn't we weren't doing enough work to qualify for that, and it wasn't it wasn't the right um grant for either of these two projects.

But we're kind of we're we're exploring those options and continuing to see what we can find.

Um, another thing that's been a huge help for us is um our GIS program that we implemented last year.

Uh, we can leverage that and uh we could actually pull layers from our assessment study as well as um our pavement projects and incorporate that into our GIS.

That helps us a lot if we're gonna coordinate with private development.

Um the worst thing you can see is a brand new paved street getting a fresh trench cut through it from some utility lateral.

Um, and in fact, um even with this year's project, I was going through and assessing it and found there's there's at least one private development project that's not in construction yet, it's still in permitting, but we would expect they're gonna have building permits, you know, in three months, probably right after we finish this project this year.

And and if they're first one of the first things they're gonna want to do is cut new trenches.

Fortunately, where that project is located, we can um it's it's right at the end of one of the streets where we're planning to do work on, and uh and it's also close to our um second second avenue hatch connection project, which we're gonna be moving forward with next year.

So we can pull some scope out of this year's paving project.

It's like a hundred feet of paving and add that to that project next year to avoid a situation where we we pave a street and then somebody's looking to cut utilities into it.

Um the little another option that we have, which we haven't uh historically done in Half Moon Bay, is put in place an encroachment moratorium, and what that means is once we finish a stretch of street, we say, okay, this is under moratorium now, no more encroachment permits for a year or for two years.

Um this year's project is actually a good candidate for that, uh, based on projects that are in and building permit stages are in construction today.

Um, it's something that we wanted to present to council for your input.

Um, and yeah, uh that's all I have.

So um tonight's resolution is actually to um allow us to move forward with um putting this year finishing plans for this year's project, which we're doing in-house and and putting it out for bid, uh, which we'd hope to do at the end of the week.

Um, but I'm here to answer questions and happy to hear any other feedback.

Thank you.

I just want to thank you for a very thorough, comprehensive report.

Um, you got through a lot of material.

I think it really helps the public hopefully understand more how you're the whole decision making process around paving.

Because everyone sees their own streets, you know, like, well, yeah, you haven't done this one in 10 years.

But each decision then pulls potential funding from preventative action, you know, because something has been let go for a long time.

So it's kind of it's tough.

I mean, I don't envy trying to make those decisions, but it really helps um the community understand uh where the balancing act is and um and the different levels of mediation that can happen uh for roads and why, and then of course what happens when someone all of a sudden starts cutting right into it.

So um I really appreciate that.

Just curious, we don't have any comments.

Uh Mayor, I do have one comment for the just the record in terms of um an issue that we often consider as proximity to council members' residences um to ensure there's no conflicts of interest, and this question did come up.

Um, and so I just wanted to confirm that uh there is an exception under the conflict of interest rules for maintenance projects.

Um so uh I we did not do an in-depth evaluation of where the projects are with respect to council members' residences, uh, because the whole project falls under the exception uh for maintenance work.

Thank you.

But um I thought I heard you say that only the projects next year were maintenance, that the ones in the coming year were not maintenance.

I think the term maintenance is being used differently here.

So um the Well I'm happy to clarify it's the the idea in the conflict of interest rules is that you're not building a new project, you're repairing or maintaining something that's existing.

Which by the way, they stopped short of my house.

There is their own ballads, and I see the little white dash.

I have a spray paint can.

I was not gonna do that, but I I saw that.

But um I it it's the most bang for your buck is what you're trying to do, and you're trying to save the streets you have.

But I agree the streets that that are in drastic need of reconstruction.

We have to figure out a way to start addressing them.

We can't just totally ignore them.

And I'm I don't know the answer to that yet because we we know, but maybe some years you can do part of it now, and then you know, we incremental.

And sometimes maybe folks would help.

Uh you know, Belvo's an interesting street.

I remember that one 20 years ago on some of the, you know, trying to establish flow lines, trying to, you know, with the drainage out there and and paving, but I think you know, you try to keep the streets you have intact, and then the ones that have already gone, you gotta figure out, you know, I I think incremental if you do that.

And then you also asked if you wanted input about moratorium.

You're asking for that tonight.

Um if you have any, that would be great, but if not, that's fine too.

Um so this year's project, you're gonna you're gonna see it at least two more times.

Um once this goes out to bid, assuming um it moves forward tonight, it'll it'll it'll go out to bed.

So we'll there'll be one additional time to kind of look at this year's project um to award a contract.

Um, and then when that project is completed, uh we will also have a notice of completion.

So either of those would also be um app times to further discuss uh potential moratorium.

And if um if you have input on additional information that you'd like or to put um put a draft together of what that would look like, I'd be happy to we'd be happy to work on that.

Okay.

Uh, just one thought.

So I see that Wave Avenue is on there for next year, and um Maz and I received uh an email from uh a resident on on WAVE about um speeding on on WAVE.

And um they've also this person and some of their neighbors had talked previously about getting some, you know, traffic columning.

Maybe if we're paving the street, you know, maybe they might pay themselves for, you know, some I guess they're not speed bumps anymore.

They're like speed tables.

Yeah.

Maybe they would, you know, pitch in and and pay for those at the same time that you're doing their street, you know.

Yeah, I mean, it's always helpful to mobilize, kind of if you're already doing work in an area.

So that would be that would be a great idea if that's something that lines up with work next year.

I think we have one public comment.

Sorry, not public comment.

Uh Councilmember Penrose would like to speak.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Um can you clarify something for me?

I'm a little bit confused.

We are choosing streets based on our ability to get a higher PCI.

That's one of the criterion we're using, right?

That's correct.

And by using that criterion, criteria, are we not taking care of streets like Belleville?

You know, how do we how do we get a decent PCI?

And we, you know, I'm all for having a good PCI.

I guess that's important.

I don't know exactly why it's important, but um it is an indicator of how we're taking care of our streets.

Uh can you talk about that a little bit, Maz, and just just let me know what what your thinking is on it.

Sure.

Absolutely.

So PCI is important.

I know it's um it's a ranking system, it's something that it it basically establishes uh protocols and and a rating that's that's uniform.

Um those PCIs also utilized towards additional grant funding.

So if you have a really low PCI, it does impact your ability to get um your gas tech funds as well as other uh uh funding sources for this type of work.

So that I think that is important.

I think the component we gotta we have to consider is long term, we need to do our pavement maintenance uh maintenance and rehabilitation work, but also look at potentially focusing on some reconstruction as well because we do have a backlog of streets that are beyond any uh, you know, uh cold mill mill and fill and slurry work.

So I think long term you're really looking at it from twofold.

You do want to you do want you don't want your PCI to drop too low where you're concerned with losing funds, that would be a very awful situation, uh, but you also don't want to neglect streets that need um significant um uh funding uh investment.

And so uh how we balance that, I think that's an important component as we move forward with this program um and and into next year's planning for our capital program.

I think we're gonna look at doing some additional um rehabilitation work and reconstruction work.

One of the things that we were considering internally was to take a closer look at Belleville specifically, because it's been on the list for so long, as well as the fact that it's it's one of the worst streets in our in our um in our assets.

Um so we can look at the drainage concerns and do some in-house design and at least get ourselves prepped.

We have a cost estimate, we know approximately how long it's gonna how much it's gonna take to do that street.

Um so that gives us a starting point.

So as we come forward next year and we program our uh capital projects, um, this will be one of the the streets that we would be listing.

And I think we're gonna look at doing uh combination.

Um because what Dale mentioned, if we focus it's uh it's really it's unfortunate the way the system scoring works, but this is the way that it works.

If you work on this street for a million dollars, it's it actually you're still gonna get a lower PCI than you would by doing the other streets, and it's it's it's unfortunate, but that's just the way this the system is set up.

Um, and so the best approach is take care of your rehab, make sure those the streets that are in better condition, don't become as bad as these other streets, but also find a uh find a funding opportunity and a program to really take care of the reconstruction as well.

What about a complete streets grant like Poplar but for Belleville?

We can certainly look at those as well.

I mean, there's a there's active transportation program uh funding that'll be available, I think, in the next year or two.

Um, and so there's all there's always gonna be opportunities for that.

We can certainly look at that with but the reason why Poplar was highly uh rated and ranked for uh grant opportunities was its nature of being a more of a collector street.

The issue that Belleville, this example of Bellville will have is that it's a local residential roadway.

It just makes it more, it doesn't mean that it's impossible.

It just doesn't rank as high as some of the other ones.

I was being facetious largely.

Yeah.

Sorry, uh the engineer took it literally.

Thanks, Moz.

We uh uh we have one public comment.

Okay, let's go on to public comment.

Okay, Sid, go ahead.

Thank you.

Um the older I get, the more I get depressed when I hear that you're raiding streets by some kind of details and numbers, but I have a friend who's even older than me, and her son Cameron Palmer contributes a whole lot to this community, and I would just hate to think that she's living on that street year after year on Bellevue, Belleville, without any hopes of it ever being paved to a decent condition.

So maybe think of a community and who contributes around here, not just about the stats and numbers and how you can get your ratings up.

I mean, you're pouring all kinds of money into other programs that aren't paying off.

So why not pour a little money towards Bellevue?

Thank you.

I hope she doesn't outlive it.

Thank you.

I think uh I think the Belleville thing is something we should put on the priority at some point and have a plan.

So I don't want to go into that because it's late tonight, but that's been going on for years down here.

It has been and I've been I've been here for 20 years.

I've been hearing it with Bellow coming up here.

So I think that needs to go to priorities at some point.

And then I wanted to say thank you, Dale, for Friday, because you walked me through all this and all the questions like Penrose had.

You gave me that, you gave me the insight.

So it was very and he already knows this.

Paul already knows this stuff, so I thought it was really good.

So I want to say thank you for that.

Uh I did bring up that frontage road, our street is just beat up, but there's no cold patching.

Can we do something temporary?

Because as you leave there and you're gonna exit to one, then you're hitting three potholes.

But we're gonna be doing that construction there.

Frontage Road is going to be redone.

The highway one, that's gonna be starting at some point, I'm assuming.

Well, I'll just point out uh frontage road.

For those that don't know, it's it borders the Castle Del Mar neighborhood adjacent to Highway One.

It's actually within Caltrans right-of-way and they're the ones that maintain that road.

Um, but I believe uh, as you mentioned, that's part of the SHA project.

Is that correct?

The multi-asset project does have um are the class ones throughout the um FM Bay uh jurisdictional boundaries as well as the frontage road.

Um that that's all gonna be repaved as part of that project.

There's gonna be pre-construction meeting happening sometime this month, and I'll be back with more information as far as the schedule and and impacts for that project.

Um, but yes, that'll be covered as part of that scope.

I'd like to make a motion that we adopt a resolution authorizing the city manager or his designee to advertise the fiscal year 2526 pavement management project for construction.

Second roll call, please.

Councilmember Johnson?

Yes, Councilmember Nagingas.

Councilmember Penrose, yes, nice Mayor Radic.

Yes, Mayor Brownstone, yes, motion carries.

Thank you, everybody.

Um, we're on to item 10 F asset disposition policy.

Got a staff report on that.

Or should we just jump to a motion?

I think we can provide a pretty abbreviated staff report just so that the context is out there.

All right.

So yeah, just to be very brief.

We have a municipal code that does outline our our limits as to what can be disposed of by city or city manager and staff versus what we bring to you the council.

All items, even if it's under a thousand dollars, still has to be brought to you, just as a matter of disclosure.

Um as well as obviously if it is over a thousand dollars, and then we at that point get your direction on that.

Um unfortunately the municipal code is very brief and abbreviated and doesn't provide a lot of guidelines and outline as to how staff should proceed um with different types of assets, whether it be land, whether it be computers, um, you know, furniture, you name it.

And so the policy that we bring forth to you tonight really provides that framework and and gives staff um some guidelines so that the proceeding in line with how most cities and jurisdictions are you know should be handling disposition of assets.

Um and just kind of in uh really just unifies it to make sure that we're doing the right thing for the public as well as the city.

Um, yeah, that's pretty much it.

Um I will jump to uh what other cities are doing.

Um generally speaking, our limits are a bit on the low side um for city manager um uh authority.

Um and so we did want to bring up that a lot of cities do have a slightly higher limit at around a ten thousand dollar limit for general disposition, um, with some cities and jurisdictions having special limits for uh specific types of assets, and we're not we're not looking for making any changes.

That would actually require a change to the ordinance code.

So we just want to put that out there for future discussion if we want to explore that down the road.

It was just something we noticed as we were developing that it is you know, it's just a little bit on the lower side, but that's all.

What are we gonna do with that old truck that you guys got rid of?

It's a good question.

We'll we'll figure that out.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think it has value and you could probably make some money off it.

No, I see it's got it has to have a little miles.

It's got a little bit of rust.

Yeah, like we're referring to the the rec department ranger that will be replaced by the van soon.

Um in talking with um Todd Seeley, our public work superintendent who has managed fleets other places.

The the probably the best case scenario is to use an auction house.

Although we've also talked about maybe first seeing if there's any interest locally here.

You know, it might it's it's a functional truck, it's just not really good for city staff.

So this policy would help guide some of those decisions um down the road.

I'm sorry, no action required.

Um the the action required tonight would just be to adopt the policy.

Yep.

I move that we adopt the policy.

Second roll call.

Councilmember Johnson.

Yes.

Councilmember Nagengast?

Yes.

Councilmember Penrose?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Reddick?

Yes.

Mayor Brownstone?

Yes.

Motion carries.

Thanks, everyone.

Um, any commission committee, any commission committee updates?

I'll just mention that the recreation commission met last week.

Uh it was our first meeting in several months.

We've had challenges getting uh a quorum, uh, but we had uh a pretty full house last week and really good conversations on Carter Park and its future, and then on their priorities um for um you know the commission and the work that the rec does.

So uh good productive meeting, and our next meeting is on September 24th.

Great, thank you.

Any I made through the city manager, so mentioned that we have a our bicycle pedestrian advisory committee coming up on Thursday.

Anybody's interested the Thursday of this week at the South Dave Room, we'll be talking about a few items.

Um e-bike safety will be one of them.

Uh great, thanks.

Um any um future discussion agenda items?

No, any city council reports?

No.

This meeting is adjourned.

Thank you, everybody.