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So we'll go for the two.
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So the November eighteenth, twenty twenty five City Council meeting.
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As a reminder, we have Spanish interpretation services available.
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On point language solutions.
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In the back left corner.
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If anyone needs assistance.
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Uh is the Victor here tonight or someone else who can?
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We'll now provide some information in Spanish on how to receive interpret interpretation services.
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If you are in need of them.
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Let me just turn the switch on.
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Tenemos los audífonos para que proveerles a los que necesiten aquí in a lugar, y si no, por medio de la internet onde estén mirando in la part in la barra de abajo, apparece un globo.
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Um, if we can now take a roll call, please.
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Councilmember Johnson.
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Councilmember Nagengast.
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Councilmember Penrose?
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If you all would now please join me in standing for the Pledge of Allegiance, thank you.
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Can um we have an approval of the agenda motion, please.
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All those in favor say aye.
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We will now move on to proclamations and presentations.
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And I'm very pleased to say we have a very special proclamation to make this evening.
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And thank you for joining us tonight, Lenny.
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So just a few words about Lenny before I get on to the proclamation.
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Lenny Roberts has been a leading force in California environmental protection for more than seven decades, beginning with her childhood success in convincing Governor Earl Warren to then Governor Earl Warren to protect Hendi Wood State Park in Mendocino County.
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And for those of you who might not remember, Earl Warren actually then later became Supreme Court Justice.
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And she got a letter back from him as well.
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As a Green Footh Hills volunteer legislative advocate for nearly 50 years, Lenny has championed the preservation of open space, natural resources, farmland, and public access, especially here on the San Mateo County coast side, earning a reputation for integrity, persistence, and coalition building.
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She played a pivotal role in creating and expanding the Mid Peninsula Regional Open Space District, helping protect over 70,000 acres, including Russian Ridge, Parisima Creek Redwoods, and Bear Creek Redwoods.
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Lenny helped secure landmark environmental protections, such as Proposition 20, the California Coastal Act, San Mateo County's local coastal program, and the 1986 Cult Coastal Protection Initiative, ensuring long-term coastal stewardship.
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Her leadership saved iconic places like Double Slide, Montara Mountain, McNey Ranch, and Pillar Point Marsh.
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And her national impact includes co-founding the Yosemite Fund.
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Now a major conservancy supporting restoration and education in Yosemite National Park.
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On September 4th, 2025, Midpen honored Lenny's legacy by dedicating the future loop trail at Miramontes Ridge Open Space Preserve as the Lenny Roberts Trail.
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This new trail will stand as a lasting testament to her vision, passion, and decades of leadership that have now protected the region's natural beauty for generations to come.
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Now therefore, be it proclaimed that I, Mayor Robert Brownstone, along with my fellow council members of the city of Half Moon Bay, do hereby honor and recognize Lenny Roberts for a lifetime of extraordinary achievement that have forever protected, preserved, and enriched the natural landscapes and communities of our region.
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Please join me in a standing ovation for Lenny Roberts.
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Should I read the proclamation?
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I'm going to bring over this proclamation to Lenny.
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And then is Lenny going to say a few words?
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And we have some photos, some comments from council as well.
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Okay, let me deliver this first.
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I just thank you so much, Mayor Brownstone and Council members, um, and city staff.
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Uh for those of you who don't know about Green Foothills, um, we've been around since 1962.
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Um, and we work to protect local nature and farmland to ensure a healthy environment for everyone.
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We do this through advocacy, education and grassroots action focused on San Mateo County, Santa Clara County, and San Benito County.
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We've also worked over many years in support of housing for farm workers, as well as affordable housing that's located in downtown areas and along transportation corridors.
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Some of my Green Foot Health colleagues are here, our esteemed executive director, Julie Hutchinson, Alice Kaufman, policy and advocacy director, and Jenny Green, marketing director, who's getting pictures of all of this.
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Um I just I think some people here might be interested in what might have happened to the coast.
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Back in the 1960s, San Mateo County leaders and Half Moon Bay leaders um had grandiose plans for sprawling coastal development.
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Um the county's master plan projected that by 1990 there would be a hundred thousand people living in the Half Moon Bay area, and another hundred thousand on the south coast.
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Had these plans come to fruition along the eastern foothills of Half Moon Bay, we would have a six-lane freeway that was the Caltrans had planned to construct from San Francisco all the way down to Monterey.
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Highway one would become a six-lane pre-way.
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Edgewood Road, which now terminates at Canyada Road and the San Francisco Peninsula watershed, was slated to be extended up over Skyline and joined Highway One just below the historic Johnston House, just south of Half Moon Bay.
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And a coastside satellite county government center was going to be located at that intersection to provide services to this huge population on the coast.
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So what happened to those original plans was due to persistence and grit as well as a lot of luck and help from friends and allies because what you see today is far different.
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Green Foothills and our environmental allies on the coast had to rebuff the paper overs many times.
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In 1978, 1979, and 1982, we challenged approvals for development of the 868-acre Johnston Ranch, which is formerly was called Casanelli Ranch, which surrounds the Johnston House.
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In 1996, we went on the offensive and qualified the first ever countywide citizens initiative, Measure A for the ballot, which was approved by the voters by a 63% yes vote.
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Next year is the 40th anniversary of Measure A.
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So I want to give a special shout out to Peninsula Open Space Trust, which has acquired large areas of land outside the urban boundary of Half Moon Bay, as well as the Wave Crest area, all of which were planned for development by large landowners.
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So as a result, much of the prime agricultural land that which we all depend upon for local fresh produce is permanently protected.
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I just like to end with a quote from Jane Goodall, who's a huge heroine of mine, who famously said, you cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you.
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What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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Yeah, I just want to say that it has taken a lot of people to accomplish everything that Green Foothills has done and everything that you have personally done.
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But if Lenny hadn't been there, a lot of it may not have happened.
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You you had the grit.
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You had the perseverance, you had the intelligence, and you did the hard work, and God bless you.
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I am so grateful to be living in a place that you have made so wonderful.
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I would just echo that and uh for everyone listening and hopefully maybe reading in the newspaper soon.
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Um, the community that we love, the coastside that we love, you know, the continuation of the farmland, the open spaces, the scenic views, when we're only, you know, a dozen miles away from the peninsula in Silicon Valley.
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Um, you can thank Lenny Roberts, you know, for this.
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And I've lived here 36 years.
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I met her soon after moving here, and I can't think of anyone who has shaped my thinking about environmental protection, about governing, about collaborating with others, and I know you've influenced many, many, many people and generations to come.
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So your contribution is enormous and unmatched, and count me very grateful, and my community grateful.
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I remember uh 20 some odd years ago when I was uh uh public works director, and your name first came up as who's this Lenny Roberts and who's you know, we're many times as uh somebody that like we like to build things as public work directors, but we want to build them right, and that's when I first started uh coming across your name, your interests in making sure holding us accountable to make sure we did do something right.
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I concur with already been said about you.
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You've been amazing to me over the years.
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You're many times many things like a fine wine.
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You get better as you've aged, and I thank you, and I know the coast.
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Thank you for all the work you've been doing.
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Lenny, I've I've heard about you for many years, and I've been on the planning commission for 14 years, and I've been involved with this the city personally, and now on, you know, with the council.
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Um like I said, like everybody else has said here now.
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Uh we drive by, but we don't know why.
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That property is not built, and that field is green, and that preserved area is there, and that's what people always talk about when they I love Half Home Bay.
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So you you've created and you preserve the love in Half Home Bay because your vision was there and very clear, and because of you back in the day and staying focused on this, we are now enjoying it, and the new people coming in don't know who you are, but the people around that have been here for a while do know who you are.
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I've known your name.
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I've never I think I maybe met you a long time ago, but this they need to know that you are the one that preserved what we why we why we live here and why we love Halfham Bay.
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You have done that, and I want to say thank you, and I think everybody else should say thank you too, is what we're doing right now.
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I'll just add real quickly.
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Um, Lenny, I first met you when I was first running for city council and um was seeking the endorsement of Green Footh Hills and spent some time with you.
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And I think the greatest um blessing that you bestow on this region is you stand up for people who don't often have a voice, people who are invisible.
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And they may have concerns, but they really don't have a voice.
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So thank you for giving voice to folks who may not have agency in a voice.
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And frankly, thank you for defending Mother Nature herself.
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Appreciate it, Lenna.
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Well, it's hard to follow that.
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So, um, any particular upcoming events that I can't think of off the top of my head, okay, mostly coming up in December.
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Um, we don't have a report out from recent closed session this evening.
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Um updates to council.
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Mayor, we have one planned update for tonight, and Todd Seely will help us understand why we've got some additional folks in the room tonight.
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I drew the lucky straw, following up that lovely presentation.
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Um, Mayor Brownstone, Vice Mayor Ruddick, Council members.
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It's an honor to be here with you tonight.
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My name is Todd Seely, and I'm the interim public works Director, and I'm here to talk to you this evening about cert, uh, one of the council members sitting up on the dais actually is wearing his cert vest tonight.
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So he is highly visible and ready to ready to go.
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Excuse me, I'm just gonna turn it on.
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So we're here to talk about the coastside CERT fall 2025 basic training.
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Um the training took place between the 29th of October and the 15th of November.
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Uh we the course finished and graduated on Saturday, November 15th.
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Uh there were 37 graduates from this course, including Councilmember Johnson, Leslie Lako, who is the community development director, and myself.
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Uh 99 CERTs trained this year, including 30 through the Spanish speaking cohort, which is very important to this community.
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Uh Coastide CERT currently has 542 trained CERTs, 179 ham radio operators, and that's across 32 neighborhoods from Montara to Tinnitus Creek.
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Um it's also important to point out that many other current city leaders and staff have attended the program at one point or another, including Mayor Brownstone, Vice Mayor Ruddick, Councilmember Penrose, City Manager, City Manager Chittister, uh Jalisa Costa, Joe Butcher, and Matt Nichols, and I believe Councilmember Nagingast is enrolled for the CERT training in the spring.
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So we are gonna have even more uh smiling faces when we're done with all that.
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Um go back real quick, just to give you guys an idea kind of what the training entailed.
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Uh the first training was about surviving local hazards, uh fire in the tunnel, tsunami, flooding, down power lines, earthquake, wildfire evacuations, a subject we'll be touching on later, and extended power outages.
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I'm all realistic possibilities for us here on the coast side.
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Um something that we take seriously in our preparations as city staff, making sure that we're ready to deal with all of this stuff.
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Um the second class was involved a disaster preparedness, uh, cert organization and intro to radio communications.
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I had to dust off my old call sign from a previous job.
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Uh we also, after that, we went into the third class uh disaster medical operations triage, and another class on disaster medical operations, along with fire safety and utility controls and a little bit of light search and rescue.
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Fire safety and utility control is particularly important for the homeowners in town in the event of a disaster, knowing how to turn off the main switch on your on your fuse box, how to turn off your water, and how to turn off your gas.
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If there's no first responders available to come help you out, it's helpful to know how to do these things yourself.
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Uh the fourth class was disaster psychology mental health, terrorism, and stop the bleed.
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And finally, on Saturday, we did a little bit of hands-on skills training and then a full-on disaster simulation training.
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It was quite uh entertaining uh and fun to participate in.
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We did all this at Fire Station 40, except for the first session, which was over Zoom, but a great facility down there that and a great resource that we have out here on the coastide.
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Um, there's a few pictures from the final training exercise where the cadets were lined up in uh in in the fire station itself, doing a little bit of field work in the second.
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And this is an extensive list of the class graduates from this course.
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Um, I'm not gonna read through all of those.
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I know we have a long night tonight, but it is important to point out that of those 37 graduates, five of them were actually high schoolers.
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So five of them were from Half Moon Bay High, go Cougars, and it was nice to be able to see them in their training and feeling like they're being part of the community even at uh that younger age.
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Um, I would be remiss if I didn't take this opportunity to recognize some of the coastside cert leadership team.
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Um I have pretty good relationships with some of these people that I've developed in my professional capacity, but going through the program gave me a much better look at what these folks are actually doing for the community, and it is truly a value add to to what we have going out here on the coast side.
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I mean, we really are an island.
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There's one way in, one way into the east, and there's one way out of here going north, and that's really it.
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So, in the event of an emergency, this training that these wonderful folks over here put on is super beneficial to the community.
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Um, I'd like to recognize Cynthia Cheryl.
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She is the program coordinator.
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Retired fire chief Dave Cosgrave.
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He's the program manager and lead instructor.
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Jennifer Goshhorn is the Frenchman's Creek Neighborhood co-lead.
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No, April Larson and Matt Linton, unfortunately, and Scott Pine is unfortunately not able to make it tonight, but they were also vital parts of this training.
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And finally, Rebecca Simmons, who is the All Says Lorraine co-lead.
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Again, I just wanted to take this opportunity to express my gratitude for these folks over here for putting this course on.
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It truly is an amazing thing for this community.
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Obviously, in my role, should there be an emergency, I would be assigned somewhere else, and I wouldn't be able to help out in the neighborhoods.
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But it is it is very comforting knowing that there's this many folks that can be deployed on short notice out in the neighborhoods to take care of stuff and to make sure that they're helping the city, supplementing our work that we're trying to do and not causing any further harm.
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So thank you all, and thank you guys for coming out tonight.
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And if anyone would like to is interested in registering for the spring course, WW Cosite Cert.com.
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And we'll probably talk a little bit comment.
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I uh Todd, there was that one.
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Thank you for that, and thank you for all the cert people that you guys were wonderful.
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Cynthia, it was awesome, and the whole team was great.
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I'm gonna brush up on my radio stuff, but uh I gotta get Dave's getting me radios.
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I paid him for it, and he's ordering me some radios.
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Um, but that was one thing I the only thing I didn't get that I really being a pilot, I'm good with radios because you're talking to the tower, that's not the issue.
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It was just how it's formulated, and that's something that I want to work on a little bit.
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But there is going to be a training, and I remember right, Dave, you can correct me, but there's what they call it the uh something the shakeout, and they normally do it in October, but we do it in September, the third week of September, if my memory sets me right, right?
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On a Saturday, something like that.
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Okay, so my memory's good.
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So that was something that I think is great, and that's where the honing in of the skills will become better because this is basically I think it was 25 hours or 24 hours of training, and people are getting they're getting the you know the function and and the and what's the what's going on, but they're not a hundred percent.
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So I think the training when we do the shakeout when we actually apply it again will be a great training, and then also for the people here on the council and people at home, they do have, I'm not mistaken on the website.
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You can do recertification, so you can actually brush up your skills.
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Now, when they talked about it, and David brought this up many times, Cynthia also, you need to be be prepared for three days or three weeks, because we are, as Todd said, in an island.
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When this does happen, the roads will close.
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Just saying it could, uh, and we're gonna be stuck in one area, and we won't have any help for a certain period of time, and we don't know.
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So being certified or at least educated on how to to prep your house, take care of your family, and take care of your neighbors is a big thing, and that's what CERT is.
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And radioing in to our sheriff's station is all part of that process.
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Then it goes to where Dave works now locally, where it's one of the meetings that I go to and and in uh off of Whipple there.
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Uh all the data that we gather from our little town goes to where the big hub over there for DEM.
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And so that's the whole process, the big pictures there.
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The other thing that we got that I thought was kind of cool, and it was on Sunday, uh, signs of opioid overdose.
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And the a gal came in uh that gave us boxes of this stuff.
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It's called Narcan, which I had no clue about, but it was kind of cool because she's showing us if you saw something like this, you are now, you know, able to submit this product up the you know in the nose, wait a couple minutes, might have to do two.
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Uh that was to me, it was kind of interesting, but that was another little bonus that I thought was kind of cool.
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I had no clue that was gonna be there.
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So, all in all, I want to say every minute that I was there, every day that I went, I was looking forward to it, and I learned a lot.
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And I think everybody in this city should consider sending one family member there to learn.
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Um, so as people from the public who are watching this later or listening, um, if you go on to Half Home Base CERT website, you can see who's in your neighborhood.
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I mean, we cover 32 neighborhoods.
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I didn't know there are that many neighborhoods in Half Home Base.
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We're not talking five districts, we're talking neighborhood by neighborhood, blocks by blocks, and there's neighborhood leaders.
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And in an emergency, as we know just even from flooding, high winds, you know, power can go out.
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And the folks who will have the most reliable communications, are those folks, 179 people, which is a lot, spread across the city with these portable ham radios.
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And the ham radios will still work because we have a huge antenna on top of a mountain here that's um powered with emergency power as well.
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And in an emergency, whether it's light outside or dark, there will be cert people in your neighborhood.
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And if someone is hurt or injured or needs help, it's that person with the walkie-talkie who can direct you to where a staging ground is, where an ambulance or a helicopter can come, and they'll be able to go into houses if there's an earthquake and see if everyone's okay, walk the neighborhoods.
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So it's an incredible resource that we've developed, not overnight but over years having so many people.
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So, yeah, take a minute, find out who's in your neighborhood, um, and become part of the um, you know, great if you can sign up for training, but get to know your cert folks so he can uh also give you guidance.
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So just wanted to add that.
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Um, so next we have public forum.
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I saw that uh, well, two speakers, two people already gave who gave us cards for our 7 30 session.
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So they'll be waiting till then.
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That's Amber Stowe and Sarah Sullivan.
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But I have three folks in the room, and then one.
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And just as a reminder, the way uh public forum works is to bring up any topic that's not on the agenda.
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So you'll public will have time to comment on the agenda items when we get to those later.
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But anything else on your mind, that's public forum time.
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And we ask that people take um that you'll have three minutes, you'll hear two tones, one at the two-minute and thirty-second mark, meaning about 30 seconds left, and then a final tone, meaning your time is up.
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We ask that people not applaud after speakers speak, because it makes it more comfortable for folks, especially if they're speaking for the first time, um, to take the stress out, and we want people, um, as many people participating as possible.
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So, how about um our first speaker who will actually speak from the dais is uh council member uh Penrose?
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I'm speaking tonight to apologize for comments made at a council meeting a few weeks back.
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I spoke about what appeared to me to be an empty storefront on Main Street, the law office of Robin Dunlap.
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My statements were based solely on my own opinion.
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It seems that Miss Dunlap felt my remarks to be malicious and feared for her safety.
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I certainly never meant any harm to Ms.
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Dunlap or to her business, and I apologize for causing her concern.
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Furthermore, I welcome Ms.
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Dunlat's input on matters concerning our downtown and the proposed vitality ordinance.
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Thank you, Councilmember Penrose.
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Our next speaker is Joaquin Jimenez, to be followed by Joe Farrell.
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Uh good evening, uh honorable Mayor, uh Vice Mayor, Council members, uh City Staff, members of the public.
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It was just an honor uh to be here.
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You know, present uh when uh Lenny uh received that recognition for the work that she's done.
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No, Lenny Roberts is an amazing person.
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I met her uh a few years back, um, after meeting her here at a city during this after a city council meeting.
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Uh there was uh uh we were presenting about the development of a tombs beach.
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And after that, it was uh for me finding out about the work that she's done, you know, about how she protected the coast from becoming an overgrown community, protected the coast from having the six-lane uh freeway from San Risiko to Monterey.
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That was just um amazing.
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I've had the opportunity to be with her uh during several uh I guess uh events.
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Uh when the tunnel uh on Devil's Light was named, uh when it was open, uh, doing other events, uh celebrations uh with midpen and green uh green foothills.
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And the more you know I know about Lenny, you know, the more interesting, you know, uh it becomes for me to learn more about the coast and to protect the coast to protect our heritage, you know, especially about farming and ranching.
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You know, Lenny a few years back, uh she's been very instrumental uh on the work that we are trying to do about our mission, you know, with the organization Rancho San Benito.
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And a few years back, you know, she shared with me a vision, you know, that she has uh, and I'm not gonna share with you the vision.
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It's uh it's right here.
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But I know my uh my plan is to get the vision done.
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You know, something that she shared with me uh very dearly, and I keep that with me.
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And a lot of the work that I do, you know, I keep that vision, and everything comes to be about you know farming in our community.
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Uh conversations that we had about the uh the outdoor kitchen that the Johnson House used to have, you know, back in uh in the 1850s, eighteen sixties, eighteen seventies.
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You know, a lot of history.
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She's uh I love history, and she's a historian and I love the work she's done, and I have great great uh admiration for her work and uh for everything she's done for our community.
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Thank you, Joaquin.
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Our next speaker is Joe Farrell, to be followed by Sid Young, who's online.
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Good evening, Mayor, Council members.
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I'm I'm Joe Farrell and lived at 2805 Alamine Avenue in Miramar for more than 30 years.
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I've been told that fixing Pullman Ditch is a priority number one for council members.
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If that is the case, we're asking that Pullman Ditch be an agenda item on the city council meetings until the flooding, dumping and polluted wastewater under private property is eliminated and the bypass completed.
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That said, I'm speaking tonight to set the record straight about how we got to the Pullman Ditch flooding crisis you saw happen again Monday morning, November 17th.
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For decades, the city allowed two things to happen that directly created the flooding we are dealing with today.
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First, in the early 1990s, and then again in 2008, Caltrance redirected Highway 1 stormwater into the Pullman Ditch without obtaining easements from private properties being used as the outfall.
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Before that work, the water was split.
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It split its path and ran across farmland that is now the Stolotsky subdivision and the Pullman Ditch.
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After 2008, construction by Caltrans, tightened the bend and concentrated all that flow into Pullman Ditch.
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The ditch began cutting downward and sideways.
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Every storm since then has carved it deeper and sent more water onto our homes that can't absorb it.
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The residents and water engineers told the city council this would happen in 2008.
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The city approved that work anyway.
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Second, during the same period, the city approved multiple new homes to be built close to the ditch, including several that were built below the grade of the street and below the top of the bank.
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That is a direct conflict with local coastal program policy 7-55.
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These approvals place residents directly in harm's way, and the damage we see today is the result of that.
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On top of this, Rocket Farms continue sending wastewater to the same plant without a valid non-domestic discharge permit, and their ponds remained unverified.
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The October sample from the Pullman Ditch showed elevated nitrogen and phosphorus, even though the sample was not the first flush.
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That tells us that water is moving through the ditch during storms is polluted, and that pollution is entering the ocean and our neighborhood.
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The water board has been investigating this since July, and the city has a legal responsibility under the basin plan and the municipal stormwater permit to make sure that polluted water does not leave that site.
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All of this adds up to one simple fact.
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The city created this problem through past approvals and non-action.
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It falls on the city to fix it now.
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Residents can't wait another storm season.
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You've got to move forward with the bypass and take immediate steps to reduce the flow in Pullman Ditch before someone is seriously harmed.
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If the city delays again, more homes will flood, more land will erode, and more polluted water will reach the ocean.
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This is not simply enough attention.
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There's not enough attention and work directed by the city on this issue.
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Our next speaker online is Sid Young.
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Hi, just want to make sure you hear me.
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Today I went to the Board of Supervisors meeting virtually via Zoom, and I was appalled to hear that they uh Dave Cannipo was entertaining giving um uh I think it was $30,000 for a study to see if they could consolidate the fire um groups in San Mateo County under local 2400.
43:26
Now, I don't know how many of you remember the signs that were on the coast side keep Cal Fire, but I was one of the 10 people that were gathering signatures to um make sure that we were able to keep our uh local um coastside fire protection district um with our contract with Calfire, and um now it looks like they are trying to get another turf war going between the unions.
43:54
So I just want to let everybody know that we have saved so much money by having Cal Fire, we paid for the whole entire El Granado Fire Station without having to put out a bond, and now we're planning to get the uh the new Mons Beach fire station also without having to pay you know saddle the citizens with a bond.
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So if anybody approaches the city council members to try to get the old union back, uh please tell them we're happy with Calfire.
44:30
I certainly am, and um I don't want to see that turf wear start up again, but um they go all the way.
44:38
Um, LAFCO when they had their municipal services review, asked them to extend their sphere of influence all the way up to the devil's slide because they do a lot of cliff rescue.
44:48
I don't think that other union does any kind of cliff rescues on the coast.
44:53
So they were saying, Oh, we'll do more training and this and that.
44:57
I don't buy it for a minute.
44:58
So thank you very much.
45:00
Just be aware, and I think everybody on the coast side's pretty happy with Calfire.
45:05
Thank you very much.
45:09
That concludes our public forum.
45:14
Public forum is now closed.
45:16
Thank you very much.
45:18
We'll now move on to our consent calendar.
45:21
Um, did anyone on council have an item to um remove here now?
45:35
Moving things along, how about if I make the motion?
45:29
On the consent calendar, items eight A Wave Reading of Resolutions and Ordinances.
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Item eight B approve the minutes of the November Fourth, twenty twenty-five special meeting.
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Item AC approve the minutes of the November fourth.
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Approve mitigation monitoring reporting program for the six cycle housing element.
46:29
Well, no, take a roll call on all those items there.
46:32
Councilmember Johnson.
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Councilmember Nagengast?
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Councilmember Penrose?
46:38
Vice Mayor Ruddick.
46:52
Nope, nope, nope, nope.
46:56
Gotta adjourn this session.
46:58
Any commission committee updates?
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Any future discussion items?
47:04
Any city council reports.
47:08
Okay, we've adjourned this part of our evening.
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We'll take a five-minute break.
47:13
Um, so we can let our planning commissioners uh get uh settled, and then we will continue into the afternoon session.