The Half Moon Bay City Council held a special session on October 16, 2025, focused exclusively on updates to the senior farm worker housing proposal at 555 Kelly Avenue by Mercy Housing. The meeting included a presentation from Mercy Housing, clarifying questions from council members, extensive public testimony, and council deliberation on next steps. The session aimed to address community concerns and refine project details before moving forward with formal agreements.
Welcome everybody to the October 16th special session of the City Council. This evening we'll be receiving a presentation where council and the public can provide feedback on updates to the senior farm worker housing proposal at 555 Kelly Avenue for Mercy Housing, which we're made in response to project input from the public city council and direct staff on next steps. So this meeting is a little bit different, special session. So comments today will all be on just 5-5 Kelly. In other words, normally we open a meeting, public forum. People can speak on any other topic of interest that are not agendized. But tonight's special session, there's not that kind of public forum. So what you'll see this even what we'll have this evening is a presentation from Mercy Housing. And then City Council members will have an opportunity to ask clarifying questions about what they've heard from the presentation. After clarifying questions, then we have public comment, both from people who are in the room and are attending virtually. And I'll try and go back and forth between people who are virtual and in the room. Staff is going to one of our council members is attending remotely, and staff will explain that. Thank you, Mayor, and Council. Yes, that's correct. Vice Mayor Ruddick is not able to attend tonight due to illness. And the Vice Mayor notified us that she'll be attending remotely for just cause due to this issue. Um I've confirmed that she may do so under the Just Cause provisions of the Brown Act. Um that's AB 2302, provided that a quorum of the council attends in person, which you are, and that the vice mayor attends via audio and visual technology, and we have just confirmed fortunately that uh that the audio and visual is working. Um in addition, council members uh may only use just cause provisions two times a year per per year, um, given that uh this is the first time that vice mayor has used um uh the just cause uh provisions to attend remotely. Uh Vice Mayor Reddock may attend um remotely for this meeting. Um I do want to just do some confirming things. Um Vice Mayor Ruddick, can you please let us know if there's anyone 18 years of age or older in the room with you and your relationship with them? There is not. No one is in the room with me at all. Oh, let's make sure she can. I think she's trying to respond to the question and we're having an audio issue. Yeah, I've turned off mute. Yeah, we can hear you, B. Are you? You're not on mute, right? No. Okay. So you can hear us, but we can't hear you yet. I can hear the question. Can you hear me now? Yeah, not yet. I have my audio all the way up. You should be able to hear me. Yeah. Debbie, can you try speaking again? Can you hear me now? Um it's very faint, so we'll still work on that because we'll need to fix this for the other people. Yeah. So we in the corner are plugged into the audio through Zoom, and we can hear uh Vice Mayor's response. And she says she there's nobody in the room with her. So we can hear her. She can hear you just fine. It's just that it's not coming over the system here. Thank you. And is the volume you're hearing good?