Okay.

Sorry for the delay.

Restart.

So we still are having some technical difficulties that will impact folks who are participating remotely on Zoom.

You can watch our meeting on the internet and on PC TV.

However, you won't be able to participate.

You'll be able to hear us, but you won't be able to participate during public comments in public forum.

So apologies.

Okay.

So I think we can start here.

Can we take a roll call, please?

Councilmember Johnson.

Here.

Councilmember Nagengast.

Yes.

Councilmember Penrose?

Here.

Vice Mayor Ruddick?

Here.

Mayor Brownstone.

Here.

We have a quorum.

Thank you.

Before I start, I just wanted to also point out that you may notice.

We have a new member of our city council staff.

Her name is Denise Spazano.

She's with our new law firm.

And we're lucky and delighted to have her here for our first council meeting.

So thank you and welcome, Denise.

Okay.

If you can all now join me for our Pledge of Allegiance, stand up, please, and take the Pledge of Allegiance.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um I get a motion to approve the agenda.

So moved.

Second.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

We need to do a roll call.

Yeah, we need to do a roll on.

We'll do another roll call, sorry.

Let's have another roll call.

Councilmember Johnson.

Here.

We're doing a roll call, Councilmember Nagengast, and now we're at Councilmember Nagengast for approval of the agenda.

Councilmember Nagengast.

Yes.

Councilmember Penrose?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Reddick?

Yes.

Mayor Brownstone.

Yes.

Motion carries.

Great.

So we're gonna um just to let you know, we will how things look this evening.

We're going to have a very brief presentation that we do every year called the State of the City Presentation.

And it's always a presentation by the mayor.

That being me.

And we pre-recorded this, so we'll have a video.

And then I'll just make a couple of remarks, and then we will begin our process to select a new mayor and vice mayor for the coming year.

So will we will we be able to see this video in the room?

Okay, great.

So I'll have to see myself again on video.

Okay.

Great.

All right, so um let's start our state of the city uh address.

Thanks.

Good evening.

I'm Half Moon Bay Mayor Robert Brownstone.

And thank you for taking a moment with me to reflect on what we've accomplished this year and on where we're headed as a community.

Tonight, I'm proud to share the 2025 State of the City report.

This year showed what we can achieve together.

Staying focused, supporting each other, and investing wisely in programs that ensure Half Moon Bay remains a welcoming and thriving community.

I'm standing here now in John L.

Carter Park, which has recently been transformed through a multi-year renovation.

This summer we celebrated its grand reopening, unveiling a revitalized space for arts, culture, events, and everyday family enjoyment.

Carter Park is now once again a hub of creativity, connection, and community pride.

Throughout 2025, CAF for long-term financial planning has supported projects like Carter Park.

Despite the economic challenges faced not just by us but many cities in this county, our financial outlook has now stabilized.

Voters overwhelmingly supported a key sales tax measure, hotel revenues have improved, and we have managed our budget responsibly.

We've protected and increased reserves, and we have kept the delivery of essential services strong.

The renovation of Carter Park succeeded because of thoughtful budgeting, generous donors, and state grant support from assemblyman Mark Berman.

Another milestone this year was the completion of Stone Pine Cove, one of our fastest and efficiently delivered housing projects in nearly 20 years.

This affordable housing development provides long overdue stability for our farm worker community, an essential part of our local culture and economy.

We also continue the collaborative development process for the proposed 100% affordable housing project at 555 Kelly Avenue.

This transformative project enables Half Moon Bay to use our public land for public good, creating homes where farm workers can age in place with the dignity that they have earned through decades of service to our community.

Through honest dialogue and shared goals, we are working toward a solution that will benefit the entire community.

Every department in City Hall is contribute to our successes in 2025.

The city's manager's office has supported dozens of community events that strengthen partnership and help bring people together.

Downtown, we advanced a commercial vitality ordinance to support reinvestment and long-term economic health while preserving our small town charm.

The Public Works Department completed the Carter Park Project, fully electrified the Ted Adcock Community Center, supported major events, and initiated critical repairs to the coastal trail north of Poplar Beach.

Our community development team launched the Cloud Hermit Application.

This application makes permitting easier and more transparent, and the team secured major grant funding to support our local coastal program plan.

Our success is rooted in strong partnerships.

The Coastside Chamber of Commerce and the Half Moon Bay Public Library continue to support our economy, support our families, and enrich community life.

So now let's just take a moment and hear Crystal and Julie as they highlight and share some of their accomplishments over the past year.

Hey there, Coastide.

It's Crystal Lynn, the Chief Executive Optimist of the Coastside Chamber of Commerce.

We've had so many fun things happen this year, and some of those include we applied for and received the Busy California Official Welcome Center designation, furthering our tourism reach and collaborations with Busy California to help our tourist economy.

We've conducted the area's largest, most comprehensive visitor study.

The results are going to be published by the end of the year to help our local businesses understand our visitors to help market to them better.

We've facilitated bringing on a strategic planning firm for destination marketing efforts to make sure that the marketing we put out there is attracting the visitors that we really want for this area.

We've supported multiple international domestic and local travel influencers and media to help promote our area to a wider audience in collaboration with the San Francisco Peninsula and Visit California.

We participated in the advisory council for San Mateo County's five-year tourism strategic plan to make sure that the coastside is on everybody's minds.

We spent over 700 hours this year in meetings specifically advocating for business with our local government.

We spent another 500 hours organizing and participating in community events that support business economic stimulus and fundraising for our local nonprofits.

We had over 1,063 visitors as of October 1st come into our visitor center on Main Street and ask us for information about the area where we could promote our local businesses.

And we also interacted with 632 residents as of October 1st in our center as well, helping them connect with local businesses to live their daily life the best possible way.

And we also interacted with 86 businesses utilizing our classroom or the meeting room or the tech studio or just coming and asking for advice and support in all of the projects that they're working on to enrich the coastside.

It's been an amazing year, and we are excited for everything that is coming to fruition, and we look forward to 2026 and the year ahead.

Thank you so much to everybody who made that possible.

Thank you so much to the City of Halfman Bay for your support.

See you next year!

Hi, I'm Julie Smith.

I'm the community library manager for the Half Moon Bay Library.

San Mateo County Libraries continues to lead with innovation and inclusivity.

This year we unveiled our new five-year strategic plan, guided by our vision of community where everyone grows and thrives.

Our powerful services help patrons open many more opportunities for discovery, creativity, and inquiry.

We continue to expand our services outside the walls of the library and have attended over 300 outreach events and met with over 10,000 residents.

We regularly visit food distribution sites, community meals, schools, and our community partners providing books and programs to bring the resources of the library directly to the community.

We've celebrated community events like the Summers and Music Festival, Escotero Art and Fun Festival, Halfman Bay Pride, Make It Main Street, and National Night Out.

We also visited local schools for Art and Science Day, Bike Brodeals, and provided story times at local preschools.

In our fiscal year 2024-2025, 192,617 people visited the Halfland Bay Library, and 217,522 items were circulated.

We've provided 1,167 programs and reached over 22,282 people.

And our 70 volunteers contributed 2,433 hours supporting our community.

Our lunch program continues to be successful year-round as we serve free healthy meals and snacks to kids and adults after school.

Through the financial generosity of the Friends of the Halfman B Library, we distributed 7,351 adult meals and 2,433 youth meals to the community.

Our work ensuring that our residents have what they need to thrive is always a priority.

The Makerspace continues to be an engaging community resource.

The makerspace is open 40 hours per week, offering open sewing, 3D printing, laser cutting, robotics, virtual reality, and many art programs.

In October, our longtime beloved manager Annie Malley retired after 18 years in Halfland Bay.

Staff will miss her greatly, but we wish her all the best in her next chapter.

Our accomplishments would not be possible without the dedicated support of city staff, volunteers, friends of the library, community partners, and our phenomenal team of library staff.

Thank you for your support, and we hope to see you at the library.

Thank you once again, Crystal and Julie for sharing the accomplishments of both the chamber and the library.

And a big thank you to my fellow council members for all their leadership, commitment, and strong partnership in 2025.

Special thanks also go out to Senator Josh Becker, Assemblyman Mark Berman, and Supervisor Ray Mueller for their continued and effective support of Half Moon Bay and the coast side.

Please also join me in thanking all our dedicated city staff.

And for all that you do to serve our community and keep this city safe and moving forward.

Is this when new people who I meet ask me where I live, I'm always incredibly proud to say that I live in Half Moon Bay.

I'm very grateful too and appreciate all my neighbors and all our community members.

Together, we build a more resilient and more connected Half Moon Bay.

Thank you.

Okay.

But one of the things I was thinking about, it's interesting being a council member in each role that we have.

And I'm sure this happens to my fellow council members now and then.

People so often ask me, like they say, boy, I don't know how you do that.

City Council stuff.

And I couldn't do that.

I'll say, well, you know, what do you mean?

What's uh what do you find challenging?

And they said, well, you know, you just have to, you know, when you sit there and you have to listen to people or they're not happy, or they're criticizing things going on in the city, and man, I don't know how you take it.

And I say, well, actually, I kind of like it.

I said, um, I like when people come and express their opinions, and maybe they are upset about some things, or maybe they're excited about certain things.

Um, and it takes courage to come to a meeting and get in front of a podium and speak publicly.

So um I admire that people do that.

And um, you know, sometimes people might be a little ticked off or get a little angry, but you know, I think about being in their shoes and you know what's going on in their lives and what's going well and what's not.

And whatever it is, I'm happy that they come forward and speak because that's how we learn, and that's how we learn what's going on in the community, and we want to invite that as much as possible, and we want to give people time to speak.

And you know, I like when I get emails, and again, people might be upset about something, and um it's great being able to say, hey, you know, I can find someone on staff who can help you with that.

And I always say, let me know if you haven't heard from someone by the end of the week, you know, and I'll follow up.

And um we have very uh responsive staff.

People do hear from them.

And um, you know, that doesn't happen in a real big city, you know what I mean, but in a small town it does.

You get actual personal people getting back to you.

People could come to City Hall and talk to somebody.

So um so that's always really been my answer to everyone that, yeah, I really like it.

And I like hearing how budgets work.

You know, we never have anybody show up at the budget meeting, one of most important meetings.

I like to know make sure that I like I always love the sewer presentations, because boy, we don't want any sewer spills in the city.

And we there's been a few on the coast.

And um, you know, whatever's going on, you know, seeing things work, helping during storms, you know, showing up.

And you know, this is a city where neighbors show up for each other.

And our CERT community is probably one of the most active cert practices I've ever seen anywhere.

And people in every single neighborhood know there's people looking after them and people who they can go to in an emergency.

So um so that's all part of our city council work and um it's uh it's been a blessing to serve for this past year, and I've learned a lot and um looking forward to 2026 and passing some of the leadership um over to some really highly qualified people.

So you're lucky we have some very experienced people here who will continue the journey.

So thank you everybody, and it's really been a pleasure to serve.

Thank you.

Well, now moving on to a wonderful ritual where we Mr.

Mayor, yes, I think w we have somebody here to share something.

Um Supervisor Mueller, would you like to come to the podium?

Well, thank you.

Um first off, uh Mayor Brownstone.

Let me just say out loud what everyone was thinking watching that video, and that was what a cool jacket.

That is you look that is such a cool jacket.

And the video uh was really great.

Uh seriously, well job well done.

A tremendous accomplishments this year.

And one of the things I really wanted to talk to you about uh and to congratulate you on, you touched on.

Uh you are just such uh a wonderful example of what it means in local government to be in flappably calm and to be inviting to people uh in even mannered, even even when you don't agree, you have this uh piece about you that encourages debate and it lets people know that they can come, and even if they if you don't agree with them and they don't agree with you, there's a place for them here to share that.

And that's a wonderful piece uh that's in local government, it's a wonderplace of democracy, and it's a wonder, it's really in these times to be so valued and treasured, and you do it in a way which is so incredibly empathetic.

Uh I just really, it's a lesson for all of us to learn from.

I have a commendation, a certificate appreciation from the Board of Supervisors commending you on your year as mayor.

And there's one last piece I want to talk about too, and that's that the kindness with which you treat your staff, your professional staff here at the city.

They value and treasure your your relationship with you.

And I know that's something that people don't see, but it's something also to be commented on because it moves the city forward in such an important way.

So it's my pleasure to present this to you on behalf of the board of supervisors of the county of San Mateo.

And uh one last note uh I always take a little bit of liberty, Vice Mayor Reddick, looking forward to working with you next year.

Thank you all.

Oh, I see.

Um, Mr.

Mayor, if we don't have any more public comments in the chamber here, then I would suggest we take public comment in the remote location next.

Councilmember Nagingas, is there any public comment in the remote location?

No, there is not.

Thank you.

Yeah, guys, go ahead.

Yeah, I would I would like to say something.

Robert, it has been a pleasure.

Um, not just working with you, but getting to know you.

Um it's been a year full of difficult decisions that we had to make as a group that wasn't, I don't think I'll make up it.

Always easy, they weren't always easy.

They they were often controversial, but your grace and your your solid practical presence here has made working on the council a pleasure and made it very easy for me.

So I want to thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Penrose.

Appreciate it.

I'd like to add something.

I this is my first year, and Robert, you got to know me.

Um you reached out to me, not breaking the Brown Act, but just things you want to know what direction and what I was thinking.

You got to know me, and and I appreciate that.

And we worked together on the budget, and it worked out well.

We were on the same page.

We were trying to save money, and that's what we were trying to do, and we did the best we could at that time, and working with you's been a pleasure too, because I feel comfortable with you, and it's easy, you're easy to talk to, and in you, you know, one way doesn't work that we try to, you know, we work together, and I felt that.

And so I just want to say thank you for that because it was a pleasure working with you this year.

Thank you, Patrick.

Appreciate the kind words.

Mayor Brownstone uh Paul would like to say something, Councilmember Nagengast.

Whenever you're ready, Paul.

And it worked out well.

Thank you.

It's been uh a learning experience for myself just being a first year on the council, but also to uh work with you.

Um I know we don't we didn't always uh settle on something right away, but I as was pointed out earlier, you do have the ability to listen, and I appreciate that uh skill, to listen and hear folks out, and it's been again a great learning experience for me this year, and I look forward to whatever I know that you have one more year on this current uh council but working with you and then whatever your future is gonna hold.

Thanks again, Robert.

I appreciate working with you.

Thank you, Paul.

Appreciate that.

Thank you, Robert, for managing as mayor in a in a tough year.

And as everybody's already pointed out, you did it with with calm and and grace and openness.

And when it comes down to it, it's it's people that's really important to you.

And you're very thoughtful in your decision making and letting everybody know how you've arrived at your decision, but in that there's always a compassion and support and positive feelings about people, and I'll never forget that.

Uh, we've had our differences and we kind of work it out like cats, New Yorker cats.

But we get through it, and uh we have a good time, and I've always enjoy our phone conversations and enjoy mingling with you at events.

You do show up at events and let people know you're supportive of the cause, and I think that's great.

So I really appreciate um your term as mayor.

I'm grateful for it and look forward to more good times.

Likewise, and thank you, Debbie, for the kind words, appreciate all that.

Okay.

All righty.

Well, we are now moving on to a key segment of our reorganization.

Um, that's involving the selection of the mayor and vice mayor.

And um we are gonna have our city clerk um take us through the process.

All right.

At this time, the city clerk's office declares the office of the mayor and the vice mayor to be vacant per California government code section three six eight zero one.

The mayor and vice mayor of general law cities are selected by a majority vote of the city council.

They will serve a one-year term ending at the city council reorganization meeting next year.

I will be opening the public comment period for the appointment of the v the mayor and the vice mayor, and then I will accept nominations for the office of the mayor, and when that position is filled, the new mayor will accept um nominations for the vice mayor.

So I will briefly go over the process that we will be following.

Following public comment, I will ask if there is any council discussion or if any council member wishes to make a motion nominating a candidate for mayor.

Each nomination will require a motion and each motion requires a second.

And then in accordance with Rosenberg's rules of parliamentary procedure, there can be up to three nominations motions pending.

Once all motions have been made, I will ask if there is any further council discussion, and then the council will vote.

The first vote will be on the last nomination motion made.

If that motion is approved, there will be no further votes.

If it is not approved, the council will vote on the immediately preceding nomination motion.

If that motion fails, the council will vote on the first nomination motion.

The votes will be conducted by roll call.

I will call for votes in alphabetical order by last name.

If the council wishes to change these voting procedures, it may do so through a motion to object to the decision of the chair made before nominations begin.

Before we proceed with public comment, are there any questions from the city council?

I have a question.

So last year when I did this, I didn't know about the history and who's who's up.

You know, I can I kind of know, but I think it would be good for it to be broadcasted again, like traditionally, I think that's how I was told.

Um just to see who's who's in line and who's second in line for right now in the rotation, if you would.

And that's where I kind of jumped in last year, and I was like, whoa, I didn't know all this.

So I think it'd be good for the general public to know that before we move forward.

Okay.

So historically, the vice mayor would become the mayor, and the next in line is a rotation on who has served, and at this time, pen vice mayor or council member penrose would be the vice mayor historically.

And then there is no adopted protocol for the order of newly elected council members.

Many other cities have different practices and policies that they have adopted.

We currently have we do not have one.

Umateo, for instance, they draw straws.

I don't know if that has to be decided tonight for the rotation of the future.

I don't think it wasn't agendized, first of all.

Um, but we could just do the mayor and vice mayor tonight, and then at a future meeting, discuss any future protocol if you would like to bring that forward.

Any other questions?

Okay, I would now like to open public comment on item five selection of mayor and vice mayor for 2026.

Do we have any public comment?

Are there any public comments at the remote location?

Councilmember Nagangast.

No, there is not.

Okay, thank you.

And you don't have any questions either.

No, I do not.

Okay, thank you, Councilmember Nagengast.

Are there any nominations for the office of mayor at this time?

I don't mind starting.

It is my honor to nominate Vice Mayor Ruddock to be mayor.

I'll second.

Okay, I will do a roll call at this time.

Oh, are there any other nominations?

Sorry.

There are no other nominations at this time.

I will do a roll call.

Councilmember Brownstone.

Yes.

Councilmember Johnson.

Yes.

Councilmember Nagengast.

Yes.

Councilmember Penrose.

Yes.

Councilmember Redick.

Yes.

Motion carries.

And thank you.

And I would like to nominate Councilmember Deborah Penrose as vice mayor.

Second.

Are there any other nominations?

I don't hear any.

Okay, I'll do a roll call.

Councilmember Brownstone.

Yes.

Council Member Johnson.

Yes.

Councilmember Nagginast?

Yes.

Councilmember Penrose?

Yes.

Mayor Reddick.

Yes.

Motion carries.

I won't take a break.

I want to make your remarks, sir.

I'll just make a quick remark to say thank you.

I really appreciate the confidence of my fellow council members.

I have enjoyed our time together.

And I think that we've made some great strides on some important issues.

I intend to replicate to the extent I can the wonderful style that former mayor Brownstone has brought to these meetings.

You know, calm, thoughtful deliberation, looking for consensus, allowing people to have their say, and inviting participation.

That's really important to me.

With everything that's going on in Washington, DC, and even in Sacramento, our local community is the place where we have real power and real influence and the ability to make things change for the better.

So you know increasing our participation in this process is something that's very important to me.

And so uh I hope to have a good year and willing to hear from you on any topic and comments, criticism, or whatever.

But um, I'm your mayor.

Thank you very much.

Okay, we're gonna take a 10-minute break for refreshments and mingling, and the food is in the back.

Thank you to our city clerk.

Thank you for your patience.

I will call upon your patients probably more this evening.

So the next item.

But we don't have any of those tonight.

The Mid Coast Community Council update will happen at a future meeting.

And item eight is Mayor's announcements of community activities and community service.

And I'll just mention that um Night of Lights continues this Friday at uh six PM.

They're going to be showing the movie Elf at the uh Cuneu Market parking lot.

I think it's six o'clock.

Am I right about that?

Yeah.

So come on down again.

Your patients.

I double call upon your patients probably more this evening.

Um, Councilmember Naggas.

Could you make it yourself?

Item seven, which is proclamations and presentations.

But um we don't have any of those tonight.

The Mid Coast Community Council update.

Oh my god, it recorded me.

This happened before.

Oops.

Councilmember Nightingast, if you're watching the screen, could you turn that off in the background?

They're gonna be showing the movie Elf at the Cunha Market parking lot.

I think it's six o'clock.

I'm glad people are watching.

I don't know if you can hear anything.

Councilmember Naggin gas.

If you can hear me, can you mute the stream in the background.

But we have plenty of Midcount community council on the I've lost the connection.

I gotta record there it's muted.

Well we don't want two sets of remarks tonight.

Two announcements of Elf I don't think you can hear us.

You can hear us Paul?

Yes you can hear us.

Okay great.

I can't get if you can hear me can you mute the stream in the back Councilmember Nagangaster are you just watching on Zoom?

Or do you still have us up on PCT or on the Granicus feed.

He's gone he's gone.

Apologies a little more technical difficulties here.

I'm just waiting to hear back from him if I don't hear back from him I just recommend we go back to what we were doing.

Does that work?

Yeah.

You want on the call or what do you want to do?

Text him too if he's on does it show participants I I hope this works.

We can hear you yes we can hear you and there's no echo no no background noise nothing else right no this is perfect thank you.

Thank you for your patience with me.

So you've you've heard about the movie Elf the other thing six o'clock at Cunya store parking lot um so the other thing I wanted to mention is the uh beach um what is it the uh beach break film festival which is uh december twenty eighth through the thirtieth and you can buy tickets to see several great films scheduled for this year at um beach entertainment beach beach beach breaking the coast signal yes beach break beachbreakentertainment dot com at the coastal rep theater that's all I'm gonna say right now.

So let's move on to um uh report out from recent closed session meetings, which is item nine.

Thank you, madam mayor.

There's no reportable action from the last closed session, which was on December 6th.

Thank you.

And as you probably remember from a couple of hours ago, this is Denise Bazzano, our new city attorney.

Welcome, Denise.

Okay.

Um item 10 is city manager updates to council.

Uh I just have one update, and it's very much in spirit with what you just shared.

Um we're really excited tonight to share uh a new city staffer.

Uh why don't you come up to the podium?

Her name is Mari Jose Alvarez, and she is our brand new uh communications program manager.

We are very excited to have her here.

We've been without this role for several months, and um she comes to us, she'll give a little introduction, but she has a really extensive background in marketing and communications, and she fits has fit in really well with the team over the last two weeks, and we're exceeded excited to see what she can do for us.

So with that, Mario Jose, why don't you introduce yourself?

Thank you so much.

Um good evening to our community, mayor and council members.

My name is Maria José Alvarado Luna, Marijose Alvarado for short, and I'm honored to join the CDS Communications Program Manager.

I bring 16 years of experience in communications and marketing, including work at Stanford University, nonprofits, and cultural organizations.

I am bilingual and bicultural.

I lived and worked in Mexico City before moving to the US in 2016.

Coming from an immigrant background, I feel a deep connection to our diverse community, and I'm excited to find new ways to engage residents and make city communications clear and accessible.

I also want to take the council and staff for their dedication.

I feel fortunate to join this team, and I look forward to contribute to this important work.

Thank you very much.

Welcome.

Okay.

So we're going to move on to item 11, which is public forum.

And uh the first speaker is uh RJ Jennings.

Oh, we could talk about the translation process.

Why don't we do that?

Is that here someplace?

Is there a script?

Okay.

Could you come up and go through the process, everybody?

Thank you.

Great.

Thank you.

Also for those that are watching uh online, uh we are providing simultaneous interpretations through the feature of interpretation.

You can check that in the uh down part of of your the bar of your computer or your tablet, you can check the work.

Pardon.

I don't think we have any access via Zoom tonight, correct?

People, we're back on Zoom.

Great.

Okay.

So on public forum, you're going to have a three minutes to speak on any item that's not on our regular agenda.

Um, you can also address items that are on the consent agenda.

Uh and the first speaker I have is RJ Jennings.

Good evening, uh, Ms.

Mayor, Ms.

Vice Mayor.

Special thank you to former Mayor Brownstone for your leadership over this past year.

Um, you know, always uh good feeling to to be in community when we're here together.

A little bit higher.

All right.

Um, what I'd like to just speak about briefly, I know we're but you know, we're way behind, is my continued support for Five High Five Kelly.

And I just want to remind us all how this mass killing that we had uh in Hapmo Bay pulled us together in support of that our hearts were behind the community that was affected, and I also want to remind us of what we learned about our farm workers and some of the conditions that they lived in, which was a blemish on all of us.

Um we poured out in mass to support the community, and to me that was beautiful.

It was a great example to share with my family and my son, and to be proud of our community and how we showed up.

We showed up with our hearts with uh supporting whatever was needed, and I think it really rallied us together, especially as we've entered this new uh realm of uh protecting our immigrant community.

Um with 555 Kelly, I think it's an opportunity for us to continue to show our support, our love, our commitment to our diverse community, that as they age that that we are taking care of our own, that uh we are truly working together to make that happen, and I think that this feeling of how do we just put our heads together and make it happen, that um that it's a long time coming, that our history as a nation, you know, has been on the other side of that stream, and I feel like in Half Moon Bay, we have this opportunity to make a difference.

So let's make this happen and appreciate the time.

Thank you, Larce.

The next speaker is Joaquin Jimenez, to be followed by Anita Emrees.

Good evening, honorable mayor, congratulations.

Um Vice Mayor, uh Council members, uh city staff, uh, members of the public.

My name is Sahua King Jimenez.

And uh today before the meeting, I was actually getting ready to light up some fires, but uh I don't think is the time.

I wanna congratulate no uh Mayor, Vice Mayor, uh Brownstone.

You have been a role model for me.

That worked in the way you work, the way you listen, the way you strategize.

It's something that always paid attention and I'll still do.

In our conversations that we had, we were able to understand each other, and for what you said, I found solutions.

From what I said, you found solutions, and that's a collaboration.

It is a collaboration that you need, as council members, to make sure that your city staff do the work.

You make the decisions, but the ones are doing the real work is city staff.

It is true.

When the the shooting happened, everybody and their mama showed up.

Months later, everybody forgot about it.

It was just a hype of what happened in Half Wong Bay that we had uh seven over farm workers killed.

Everybody showed up.

Some of us stayed.

Otherwise, there are nowhere to be seen.

Five fifty-five Kelly divided our community.

It continues to divide that community.

But you forgot.

You forgot what your job is.

The farm workers are struggling.

The farmers are struggling.

And you have to make decisions.

But with the one of the decisions you have to make is you have to let your city staff do the work.

They're the ones that do the research.

They're the ones that present to you, present to us.

We have a lot of work to do.

But right now we need 555 Kelly.

We need to build more housing.

And don't forget that.

Thank you.

Thank you, Joaquin.

Anita Reese.

Followed by Patty Ramirez.

Hello, Anita Reese.

Um I'm here to share with you some updates about our Unhoused on the Coast outreach work, which is a program of the Pacifica Resource Center, and primarily funded by the San Mateo County Center on Homelessness.

We provide outreach and engagement and case management services to unhoused folks on San Mateo County Coast from Pacifica through Pescadero 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 p.m.

and Saturday, Sunday, and holidays from 9 to 5.

And they respond to outreach requests within three hours during those times.

If you see someone living outside in a vehicle or a place not meant for habitation, please call us at 650 452 6279 or email us at UC Outreach at PAC Resource Center.org.

As of today, there are 39 individuals who are unhoused in five encampments.

And of those three active encampments, two are part of the encampment resolution fund encampments, which is a partnership between the city of Half Moon Bay and the County.

Folks who are in those Earth encampments have access to additional resources, additional housing opportunities, and still housing, especially affordable housing continues to be scarce.

So even though they have more access, it's still very challenging to get folks into housing.

Starts here in Pacifica, it's at our office.

So if you'd like to be a volunteer enumerator, uh the county has shared a link to sign up for a training, generally they're in January, and our outreach specialists will be on hand in Half Moon Bay to go out and count with other volunteers.

And after the count, we'll also be surveying folks just to get some additional information about the nature of folks who are uh additional details about folks who are unhoused in the county.

And then the county provides a one-day homeless count report, usually released in May or June, and that info that's gathered along with our regular homeless outreach work helps the county to plan their response, which sometimes includes additional resources for specific areas.

So I hope that some of you will join us in the early morning hours of Thursday, January 29th.

And I also just want to thank you all for continuing to be partners in the ongoing work to help unhoused folks return to housing.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Anita.

Patty Ramirez.

Felicidades también Robert.

Thank you.

Congratulations to the mayor, new mayor and the vice mayor, and to Robert for all the support that you have provided to our community.

I came here just to congratulate the new mayor and vice mayor, and also Mr.

Robert for all the things that you have provided and sold in our community on behalf of our community.

But listening that you are talking about 555 Kelly, I joined to that plea with the community for that in support of that.

The next speaker is Rocío Avala.

Followed by Carolina Carvajal.

Seguimos alzando la voz con el compromiso de apoyar y promover politicas y solutions que permiten ofrecer un lugar digno seguro y estable a las personas y familias que más necesitan un lugar.

El comité el comité está in processor reclutar nuevos membros y nos gustaría reunirnos con la nueva alcaldesa in algún momento para escuchar sus planes.

Good evening to all the members of the council, mayor and all the present are here.

In the same way, the same manner, I extend a welcome to our new mayor, Debbie Rodock and Vice Mayor, Debbie.

And the community has uh has a great hope that in this city the it will be advancing the creation of accessible housing here in the city of Hammond Bay and in the unincorporated areas from the county of San Mateo for people of low income for the farm workers and essential workers, especially 555 Kelly Kelly Road.

We keep on raising our voice with the commitment to support and provide policies and solutions that allow the opportunity for a dignified housing, secure and stable to this people and families that need housing.

The committee is in the process of recruiting new members and we would like to meet with our new mayor in some time in the future to hear your plans.

We appreciate well I appreciate your attention and I want you to express our desire that you have a great Christmas celebration.

I want to appreciate first of all our ex mayor.

I know that our community many times we have many discrepancies.

But we want you to know that if you support us, we will always be supporting you.

Somos una pequeña masa que genera mundos.

We are a small mass that generates worlds.

We generate and we build communities.

So I want you to know that if you need uh and want our support, we are here for you.

For favor, no esperemos a que suceda otra tragedia para que nuestra comunidad sea tomada inquieta in this moment.

Please uh don't wait another tragedy to happen in order to know and seek our community or help.

No queremos que pase algo malo para que todos digan in this moment que si somos importantes.

We don't want something bad to happen or hearing that yes, you are important for us.

We are leaving overcrowded, the rents are very high, but we keep on working.

I always said we don't want free housing.

So only uh houses that we can afford.

Una vivienda digna nada más.

Uh housing that are dignified for us.

Is this necessitately if you want our support, we are here for you too.

Muchas gracias por su tempo.

Thank you for your time.

Gracias, Carolina.

Do we have any speakers online?

I don't see any hands raised.

Do we have any speakers, Councilmember Nagangast at your remote location?

No, we do not.

Thank you.

It seems we had quite a few people earlier in the evening, but I don't see anybody on now.

So um that will be it for public forum then.

So I'm just officially closed.

Robert says to close public forum.

There we are.

It's closed.

We're moving on to the consent calendar.

Would someone like to read the items and make a motion?

Yeah, I'd be happy to.

Oh, actually, I have to remember we were pulling item um 12E.

Um, which is approve certain paths city council regular and special meeting minutes, and we'll deal with that after we deal with the rest of the consent agenda.

Okay.

So I move that we adopt the following items on the consent calendar.

Item 12a, waive readings of resolutions and ordinances.

Item 12b, approve the minutes of the December 2nd, 2025 special meeting.

Approve the minutes of the December 6, 2025 special meeting.

Item 12F, approve the 2026 calendar of City Council meetings.

Item 12H, adopt an ordinance number 2025-02, adding chapter 7.65, commercial vitality to the Half Moon Bay Municipal Code, the second reading.

And that's actually recommending that we waive the second reading and adopt the ordinance this evening.

Accept warrants for the month of November 2025.

Item 12J.

Um accept the AB sixteen hundred report on development impact fees for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 2025.

Item 12K, approve the agreement with Infinity Technologies for Inf for Information Technology Services.

I just remembered that somebody told me during the break that they wanted to uh make a comment on um 12 L.

So I'm gonna pull 12 L as well as 12 E.

Okay.

Okay.

So just skip that one.

Yep.

Um item 12 M.

Um.

To submit a letter in opposition to the draft proposed program for the 11th National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program before the January 2020, January 23rd, 2026 deadline.

And that's it.

Should we get a second?

Second.

Uh roll call, please.

Councilmember Brownstone?

Yes.

Councilmember Johnson?

Yes.

Councilmember Nagengast?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Penrose?

Yes.

Mayor Reddick.

Yes.

Motion carries.

So is the plan to take the pulled items right away now?

So we would definitely want to do the um 12.

Is it E?

And take the roll call.

And then the person that you spoke to actually pulled their speaker card and does not want to speak on that item.

So we could just take that one after that.

Alright.

Sorry about that.

Okay.

I have a question.

Why are we just me learning?

Can we can we have the mic?

Sorry.

To the mayor.

I have a question on the ones that we're pulling.

They're so old.

My question is why is it now?

I mean 2025.

I was looking at stuff that was a 2018 and stuff like that.

Is there an answer for that?

Is it okay to address mayor?

Sure.

All right.

So at this time, the clerk consultant Christine Boland and I have been going through our historical records, and we have found that there are many unadopted minutes, which means they were never brought forward and they were never adopted to the official record for the city.

And minutes are the official record of the city, so it's really important that we have those as our record.

And unfortunately, for a reason unbeknownst to us, there are a large amount of minutes that were never adopted.

So behind the scenes, I'm working closely with Christine to try to get us up to date.

And it's unfortunate and there is no real explanation, but we're trying to write the record now.

And that's why you're finding minutes from 2018 that were never brought forward.

It's really unfortunate.

Um, but we're just trying to catch up at this point.

So on that, that and then I would probably recuse on that because I wasn't here.

Is that correct?

You could recuse all of those minutes.

The videos are on the website, so you would be able to watch the videos and confirm that the minutes are accurate if you wanted.

If you wanted to abstain for the reason being that you were not here, that is also an option, but again, the videos are there, so you can always go back and compare if you would like to.

Um yes, so uh council member Nagengast and Councilmember Johnson um will need to either recuse or abstain from this item.

And I would also say voting yes doesn't mean that you were there, right?

It just means you're approving it to be adopted into the official record.

It's not saying those are your minutes that you were here for.

This is just saying yes, let's adopt that into the official record so that that is part of the city's official record.

Typically, in such situations we've uh abstained.

That's kind of the history here.

But could we have a motion and a second on that item?

So I move item twelve E.

Sorry.

So this is just on item 12E to confirm, correct?

Yes, yes, thank you.

So I'd like to make a motion that we approve certain past city council regular and special meeting minutes.

I'll second.

Roll call, please.

Councilmember Brownstone.

Yes.

Councilmember Johnson.

I'm uh abstaining.

Councilmember Nagengast?

Abstain.

Vice Mayor Penrose.

Yes.

Mayor Reddick.

Yes.

Motion carries.

Thank you.

And then we'll vote on item 12.

Is it L?

Uh L.

Um I'll make the motion.

I move that we approve one year agreement with HDL companies for business license and transient occupancy tax administration.

Second.

Roll call, please.

Councilmember Brownstone.

Yes.

Councilmember Johnson?

Yes.

Councilmember Nagengast.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Penrose?

Yes.

Mayor Reddick.

Yes.

Motion carries.

Thank you.

All right.

Moving on to item 13, which is ordinance and public hearings.

We don't have any this evening.

Moving on to item 14, resolutions and staff reports.

Item 14A is setting the 2026 residential dwelling unit allocation pursuant to Half Moon Bay Municipal Code, Chapter 17.06, Measure D.

And we have a staff report this evening.

Good evening, Mayor and Council members.

Tonight I'll be presenting to you on the Measure D allocation authorization for 2026.

I will first take us through some background on Measure D, especially for those who may not be as familiar with it.

Then I will walk us through the process for determining the number of allocations staff is recommending to be authorized for 2026.

Following that, I will remind you of the considerations that the council should consider prior to making their final determination and then update you on some updates to the application process.

Measure D is the city's growth management system.

This was a voter-approved initiative that is now within our code and our local coastal land use plan.

It's a measure that requires all new residential units in Half Moon Bay to first receive a Measure D allocation prior to moving forward with other permitting.5% of population growth as well.

And there are some exemptions associated with measure D, which is a one-to-one replacement and density bonus units in accordance with state law.

Typically, during any year with Measure D, it first starting at the start of the year, we have the application period, which is the initial application period.

During this time, the applic any application can be submitted between January 1st and January 31st.

At that time, if there are remaining allocations, we can expand the application period for that area, but typically we receive more applications than allocations that are available, so the cutoff is January 31st.

The next step in the process is the if there's more applications than allocations applied for, we bring that forward to our planning commission to ratify a scoring that is within the application.

There's a scoring table that we'll talk about later tonight.

And that table and the scoring from that is approved by our planning commission, and then we award the allocations from there.

If there's remaining allocations in our downtown area, some of those can be transferred to applicants outside of downtown, and that typically will occur after September 1st.

And then the reason that we're here tonight at the end of each year, the council has to authorize the number of allocations that will be available during the upcoming year.

To calculate the number of allocations that are being recommended for authorization, staff and the code determines that you shall use the most recent census figures.

So first we collect that data, we calculate the persons per household from there, and then that persons per household number is used to be multiplied with the number of new units that were issued building permits during that year, and then that is added to last year's estimated population, and then we use that new population to calculate the 1% or the 1.5% of population growth and how many allocations that would be.

So this year, following this methodology, 1% would be 47 units, so 47 allocations available, and this would be split between 24 units for the downtown area and 23 outside of downtown.

That additional 0.5% that could be made available to the downtown area would be an additional 23 units.

So we would be looking at 70 total units available or allocations available.

And then as you can see here is just a table to further break down how those allocations will be available.

The code calls out some considerations that need to be made.

These are highlighted throughout the staff report.

So I'm going to walk us through these varying considerations and some key points regarding them.

And the second is the number of residential dwelling units allocated in the preceding year, but not necessarily issued building permits.

This first column is going to be the number of allocations issued.

So if we're using 2024 as an example, you can see 47 allocations were issued in 2024.

Up to date, 22 of those per those allocations from 2024 have been issued a building permit, and then 20 of them remain valid or in process, so they might be going through their coastal development permits or building permits still, and then five of those have been expired.

So you can look through the years using that information and see how many have been used, remain available, remain active from those years and have been expired.

The third consideration is the number of future residential dwelling units awarded with a development phasing agreement.

So this year there is a phasing agreement that will be in place and as well as 2027, that was approved at the last council meeting.

This means 17 dwelling units allocated from the outside of downtown area will be set aside for this phasing agreement for a total of 34 units over the next two years, so 17 each year.

So you can see here similarly but simple simplified graphic from before.

So that'll leave six remaining allocations available in the outside of downtown area, as 17 of them will be set aside for 2026.

Until September.

Right.

And then there might be opportunities to transfer some.

Yeah, in September, if there are remaining downtown base allocations, there can be an opportunity for council at council's discretion to allow for transfers of any of the remaining downtown base allocations to applicants outside of downtown in accordance with criteria that's established in a previous resolution.

The fourth condition to consider is uh the code requires a fiscal analysis to be done on an annual basis associated with the number of new units and that the impact of that development on the general fund services.

So here you can see this year's fiscal analysis did calculate a deficit of around $95,000.

It's important to note that this fiscal analysis is pretty uh bare bones in terms of what it is considering.

So it's only considering general fund revenue and expenditures.

It's not considering specific revenue sources that are often designed to offset development, such as development impact fees.

It's also not considering sales tax or transient occupancy tax as a result of the new population or people or services that'll come from that new population.

So it is very it is just focused on these general fund aspects.

For 2026, uh this is so we've gone through all the conditions, so now I'm gonna provide you with an update on some of the updates that staff is making uh partially on the planning commission's recommendation, but also from staff's perspective of how we can continue to improve this process for our residents, uh at least administratively.

So this year uh we've incorporated additional details into the application uh in our notes column of the scoring table in that's part of the application.

Uh, we just tried to add some pretty minor changes, but just tried to provide more information where we could that might happen help an applicant that may be struggling to understand what a specific criteria is about or how it's being scored.

Uh we are also going to have a Spanish application available this year.

Uh, so that may help some of our applicants to better understand what each criteria is, uh, and then we're also making some updates to the city's Measure D webpage.

This will include FAQs to give more of that basic understanding for those that might have some general questions, and then also the web page will include a handbook that will provide some more details and guidance on the application process and scoring as well.

Tonight, staff is recommending that the council approve uh 70 allocations for the 2026 Measure D year.

This would be 47 units for the downtown area split between the base and the bonus, and 23 allocations for outside of downtown.

Uh just a quick briefing on that next steps, as we discussed at the start of this presentation, the application period will be opening.

Apologies, I have a typo, it's January 1st, 2026.

And then the ratification of that scoring process, should it occur, it does typically occur, will be in late March or early April.

And then if there are remaining base allocations, we would bring a transfer recommendation forward to council after September 1st.

Thank you.

Thank you for the thorough report.

Um, I'm gonna start.

Clarifying questions from council members.

Council Member Johnson.

I don't think it's clarifying, but I love the graphs that you were showing on this.

Is that going to be incorporated for on the website and when you do for general public?

We certainly could incorporate it.

Uh it wasn't yet in our plan.

Just to make sure we I understand the correct uh graphs you're referring to.

Is it the breakdown of the allocations table?

It's a quick chart to look at.

I thought it was good.

Well I think we can definitely keep that in mind and try to incorporate that.

It's not it's not I don't it's not complicated, but it's just like it's a system, and Debbie, you helped design this whole thing, but it's I think it's I've always get people kind of confused about it.

I'm gonna have some remarks about that.

Councilmember Nagengast, do you have any questions or comments?

Yeah, no, I do not.

Okay.

So I'll go then.

Um here's my first move as mayor.

Um I'm requesting that we schedule a Measure D workshop.

I'd like it to be a joint planning commission city council meeting and open to the public and um have PC TV there.

I think there's a lot of misunderstanding in the community about what measure D is, what the process is, how things are scored, and I think uh now would be a good time uh early in the year to uh instruct people about it.

And we have new planning commissioners, I think, who would who need to uh get up to speed about it and um councilmember Johnson said he'd like to learn more.

Yeah, so I I think it would be uh a good idea.

I see that the the planning commission won't really um begin reviewing until March or April time frame.

So if we could do some sort of a workshop prior to that, I think it would be helpful for everybody, and talk about what is measure D, what does it say, and then what's the current regime for um applying and and scoring and what does the council do and what does staff do?

So just kind of a thorough presentation on how the whole thing works.

So I think would be just including in that a discussion on the mapping.

Yeah, your microphone, please.

Why is what do we mean by uh downtown?

What do we mean by outside of downtown?

Why do the maps look the way they do?

Good point, yeah.

Mayor Ruddick, uh Councilmember Nagengast has his hand.

Yeah, I just saw that.

Councilmember Nagencast.

Yeah, thank you.

And I think that that would be good to explain what downtown is and outside of downtown.

Thank you, Vice Mayor Penrose.

I didn't know if those maps were gonna change or not, right?

I think there's been discussion whether that happens, but also would this also discuss or just uh throw it out there, not maybe no formal action necessary, but talk about whether there can be carryovers or whether ADUs get uh full or no or partial measure D's.

Well, I know that staff is starting to wrap their mind around what improvements can be made there to help people.

Um in years where we have phasing agreements that might eat up a chunk.

How do we get more people into the process?

So um my thinking first was that we just understand you know what we have, but certainly, you know, people are free, like planning commissioners to say, you know, this would be helpful if we did this, or even council members.

Here's how we might you know take another look at the scoring, you know, because times change and um new needs emerge, um, new balancing needs to be done, that kind of a thing.

So we could certainly, you know, start that conversation there.

Um, Madam Mayor, if I would uh kind of in line with what Councilmember Nagengast was asking.

I just want to make sure we're clear, so it seems like there's some just level setting, everybody getting a better understanding of the current state, and then we can talk about administrative changes that can be made, both the ones that were adopted into our housing element that's now with HCD, as well as other administrative changes that we could talk about to improve the process.

Is that correct?

Yeah, I think so.

And then, you know, staff will have you know some time to continue to you know flesh out their thinking on some of these HCD issues where we're gonna be looking at the ADUs again.

Right.

Um so yeah, all of the above, but primarily an educational piece uh to um educate the public and you know, new planning commissioners and refresh council members' understanding of it.

We see it, you know, twice a year, but you know it's it's not uh it's not a simple thing, you know, it's kind of complex, and new people are moving in all the time or want to move in, you know, and they need a single family home and an ADU to pencil it out.

So I think we haven't done this that I can recall, and I just think it would be a useful, you know, educational um moment for the public.

So um so is there is there support for holding the workshop?

Absolutely, okay.

Um so I don't think we have to include that in the motion to approve the uh the allocations for this current year, but we've directed staff basically to put something together and figure out what timing works best and so um who would like to make a motion on 14A?

Madam Mayor, we should take public comment.

Oh, yes, public comment.

I don't see anybody uh on Zoom.

Is there anybody in the room who would like to address this item?

I don't have any speaker slips.

No cards.

Okay.

We should also check with uh councilmember Nagengast.

Yes, I see him shaking it.

I mean, uh nodding its head.

Um council member Nagengast.

Yes, and there's nobody in the room here that uh has any public comment.

And was there anybody under the age of 18 with you at any time tonight?

That's one of the questions I was supposed to ask, but okay.

We don't have to ask that question because he's participating under the traditional teleconferencing rules of the Brown Act.

It's only when you use the new post-COVID rules to teleconference.

Like if you're sick or something like that.

Right, the just cause or emergency circumstance.

Okay, thank you.

Which um brings up something that's uh might another thing that might be useful for council members and and planning commissioners too, is any changes to the Brown Act that are becoming law, you know, this year, and just have a refresher for for everybody that uh the city attorney's office could do, maybe at some point soon.

Yeah, that's not part of this item, but we actually were having a discussion about new SB 707 requirements, and that will come to the council after the first of the year.

Okay, great.

So a motion is uh welcome at this time.

Yeah, uh move we adopt a resolution setting the 2026 residential dwelling unit allocation and administrative system pursuant to Half Moon Bay Municipal Code, chapter 17.06 for 70 residential dwelling units, 47 units for the downtown, 24 base units, and 23 bonus units, and 23 units outside of the downtown.

Second, is there a second?

I'll second.

Roll call, please.

Councilmember Brownstone, yes.

Councilmember Johnson?

Yes, Councilmember Nagengast.

Yes, Vice Mayor Penrose, yes, Mayor Radek.

Yes, motion carries.

Thank you to staff for the detailed report and the additional supplemental information that you provided to the council today.

Appreciate that research.

Um moving on to item fourteen B, Authorized Transportation Fund for clean air TFCA funding agreement and additional local match funding for the east side parallel trail Segment four project.

Good evening, Mayor, members of the council, members of the public.

And I've got a quick presentation for you tonight.

This is our latest uh grant agreement.

This is with C CAG from their transportation fund for clean air, and it's for our Eastide Parallel Trail Segment 4 project.

It's been a little while since we've talked about this project.

I think everybody hoped it would have been completed by now.

Um this is the last 1400 feet of trail between the northern limits of town at Murata Road, where the existing San Mateo County Trail ends into a field of nothing and would extend south to the existing Naomi Patridge Trail close to Roosevelt Boulevard.

This portion of trail crosses two sensitive habitat areas and um requires a bridge over Roosevelt water course.

Um as like many of you, I drive past this portion of the road of the highway every day to and from work, and I regularly see folks using the trail and being forced out onto the highway at this point.

Um I mean it's extremely frustrating that it's taken this long to get through this process with Caltrans, but we're we're getting close and we're we're hoping to um be done in the very new future.

Um we started designing this project in earnest in 2021, but um it really dates back to our first grant agreement, which we received from uh San Mateo County TA back in 2018.

Um so it's been a long it's been a long process.

Um CEQA was a challenge for this project because of impacts to sensitive habitat area.

Uh we got our um ISMND and coastal development permit approval in 2023, but then had to work on mitigation measures um through 2024, which included uh finding suitable location to uh restore sensitive habitat that's lost as a result of this project.

So um fortunately that work was completed in 2024.

We got our stream bed agreement with um California Department of Fish and Wildlife and that leaves us to our last hurdle, which we've been working on through about the last 18 months, which is permitting through the Caltrans office of specially funded projects.

So this is not a normal uh encroachment permit process with Caltrans.

Uh the OSFP works out of a separate office in Sacramento.

They review all structural um projects within the highway system that Caltrans is looking at that are not what they would call non-complex projects.

So unfortunately though uh and this is specific to the 40-foot bridge that's proposed over Roosevelt water course.

Um so unfortunately they put this 40-foot pedestrian bridge through the same process they would put uh say the bay bridge through in terms of the the rigorous kind of review and assessment of the project.

Um over the last six months of review, the um the the largest cause for delay or I should say the extended um review schedule was uh the requirement for an independent third-party review.

So um our design team actually had to go out and hire an additional, an additional structural engineer, had to go out and hire an additional structural engineer to do additional independent design work and structural calculations and compare that to our current design and then and then reconcile those.

Um that work's all been completed.

It's it's been resubmitted to um to the Caltrans office in Sacramento and it's under review.

We're hoping for positive feedback from them.

Um hopefully just after the holidays.

Um we currently have three separate grants for this project that we've been utilizing for design work.

Uh two from the TA's office and and uh grant from uh it was a combination grant from MTC and CCAG, and then the CDA has contributed uh $35,000 to this project and we've been able to leverage those other grants to help kind of flesh out the rest of the fund.

Today looking at our expenses and our cost estimate for improvements we're actually under budget where we think we would be we have about a million a little over a million dollars left in unused funds for this project and our last estimate came in around eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars so we we actually do have funding at this point but given where we're at in the process we don't have permit approval yet concerns about extended delays and cost overruns we'd rather you know be proactive about that rather than get to a point where we're we're advertising the project and it ends up you know costing 50% more or something like that.

We'd we'd like to have that money secured in advance so that when we do get those permits we could get it out to bid and hit the ground running and get this thing built.

And that's where the uh CCAG came in so CGAC has the transportation fund for clean air and this fund is kind of focused on projects that are going to reduce um vehicle trips and reduce emissions it comes from uh annual vehicle registration fees it's like a four dollar fee which goes on top of your vehicle registration not a whole lot of money they have about 1.2 million dollars allocated over the next three years for this fund and this is for projects like uh building EV charging stations uh transit improvement projects uh shuttle projects or or bike infrastructure and bike trail projects so around 400 thousand dollars a year basically for the next three years um call for projects came out in July uh we met with CCAC staff kind of talked about this project presenting kind of where we're at and they were actually really excited about kind of where we're at in this project because um the e side parallel trail segment for kind of completes this this this critical gap in the trail system we get a lot more credit from this from this the way this fund calculates kind of the benefit versus the cost of improvements and so they were very supportive of us moving forward the application for this um and we learned last month that uh we were gonna be awarded this 200,000 dollar grant to help bolster our funds for the project and that's it that's uh leaves us to our recommendation tonight um to approve the grant agreement and allocate the additional uh 2000 dollar funds needed to support it thank you for really digging in and understanding the project and all the pieces and where it's at that's that's uh good work thank you for that um any clarifying questions or comments from council members I see that uh councilmember Nagengast has his hand raised uh Paul yes uh that thank you Dale for the report and uh hopefully um and Caltrans does really realize we're not driving trucks or traffic over this bridge right this is clearly a pedestrian bicycle bridge but my my question is when you uh showed that table of funding do we or have we figured out who's gonna administer the construction contract is that something we would have funds perhaps available to have I don't know if Alta or any of those other consultants so maybe you haven't even thought about it yet you know just have you know provide uh the uh during construction yeah so so the the cost you see here the construction cost estimate is conservative based on the estimate we got from our engineer which is based on kind of other projects they're working on and prices they're seeing but they're also not here on the coast side, so we know there's going to be additional costs associated with that.

It also doesn't include some of those soft costs we will we are expecting during construction, like uh materials testing, geo geotechnical and biological monitoring, which are going to be required so um there are some anticipated soft costs.

We do believe that we have budget there.

These funds would help to support any additional consultant service we might need, whether that's um construction support or other consultants to help just administer construction.

Um I haven't gotten I haven't gotten any further into into that yet with the team.

We're kind of focused on getting through this approval process.

And have you thought about when you anticipating, you know, you have that shop project going on.

So I didn't know if you're kind of figuring out when you might advertise this, assuming you get the bridge approved soon from Caltrans as part of that encroachment permit when you might advertise this.

So our hope would be to advertise in the spring of 2026.

Um the improvements associated with this, there's enough area on this side of the highway that's not currently in use or not impacted by the shop project.

Um, and also just the scope of this project is fairly small.

It doesn't require huge footprint of equipment or materials.

The biggest logistical item is going to be um delivery of the bridge, which we anticipate is going to be a prefabricated bridge.

And and the timing associated with delivering that to and installing it on the site.

Um, outside of that, the trail is kind of designed and most of the improvements are well off of the edge of the existing pavement where um where Caltrans is working.

Um that being said, they are planning as part of the shop project resurfacing of uh the existing trail.

Uh both I believe both the Diomi Patridge Trail and the Counties Trail to the north are um are going to have actually I take that back.

Just the Nyomi Patridge Trail is gonna they're gonna do a light grinding overlay as part of the shop project for that trail segment.

So there will be some coordination when that work occurs, but it's gonna be a really brief window that they're in there doing that work.

It's really only gonna be probably a week's worth of work, so it should be easy enough to coordinate.

Okay, good.

And the last question just is there is the bridge then the cities to maintain, and is there other, you know, when an encroachment permit is granted by Caltrans, is that whole area now the cities required to maintain, which I include the vegetation, or is it just the bridge and the trail itself, and then Caltrans maintains vegetation?

So, as part of this project, we had to update our maintenance agreement with Caltrans for this quarter, and the city does and will take responsibility for maintenance of the landscape area, the trail, and and the new bridge.

Oh, okay.

I mean, that's duly noted.

I think we need to be aware of that when we do these projects, especially when they're in other, you know, other jurisdictions maybe used to take care of them, but that's something now we have to uh it's our burden now.

So yeah, thank you, Dale.

I think the maintenance of these trails and the bike trails is something that we definitely need to take in consideration, considering the menitis property all the way down to where the bridge was done, and I did a walkthrough down there and the trail leading out to the safe way.

It's we're we're putting all this great money in.

I'm in favor of this project.

I'm in favor of anything that's bike and walking that, but when you don't feel safe to walk from A to B, and it looks like crap, and there's shopping carts and home homeless people living in there, and they don't give a crap about our city.

I got a problem with that.

And I've done that, I've walked it this last weekend, and we're not putting money back into the original trails that I was supportive as a planning commissioner, and I was so proud of it when we did it.

I didn't even know what a kiosk was.

What is a kiosk?

I thought it was like what I'm gonna buy a soda over here.

It was informational kiosk that talks about the environment, and they got spray paint on them, they got ink all over it.

So I'm in favor of this.

I'm just kind of a little disappointed of what we've done in the past and then how it's gone downhill.

I wouldn't even allow anybody's kid to walk down that walkway right now.

It's so scary.

So, as this I would like to see moving forward in the next year, I'd like to have something in place that we're keeping our trails clean, safe, and usable for biking and writing, because that's what we say we offer here in the city.

I'd like it to be safe.

So, with that said, I'd like to uh if if we're closed on discussion, I would uh like to make a motion for this.

Go for it, yeah.

Oh, public hearing, sorry.

Madam Mayor, we need to take public comments.

Nobody online.

No forms.

Nobody in the room with you, Paul who would like to speak.

No, no, there's nobody here.

Okay, then I think we can entertain a motion.

Um, so I'm gonna give it a stab here.

Make a motion to authorize transportation fund for clean air TFCA funding agreement and additional local match funding for the east side parallel trail segment for project.

Uh staff recommends adopt a resolution one, authorize the city manager execute fiscal year 2025-26 T TFCA funding agreement with the City County Association of Government C tag for the East Side Peril Trail Segment 4 project in the amount of 200,000 authorizing the transfer of 20,000 in match fundings from the general fund to capital improvement projects number 0619 and three, authorizing city manager to take any other actions necessary to give the effect to this resolution to comply with the grant requirements.

I'll second okay, roll call, please.

Councilmember Brownstone.

Yes, Councilmember Johnson?

Yes, Councilmember Nagengast.

Yes, Vice Mayor Penrose?

Yes, Mayor Radick.

Motion carries.

Thanks for the good staff work on that.

Okay.

And we're moving on to item 14C, which is adopt proposed classification and compensation changes.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

I will uh be taking this item.

Uh, but we do have our interim admin services director, Kenneth Stiles here as well, if we have any questions.

In the interest of time, I'm gonna assume people have read the staff report, and I'll just provide a very condensed um update.

And we just have a single slide so that it's visual what's happening here.

Um, so just by way of brief background, um, new positions, whether it's a classification or an authorized position in our budget, are the purview of the city council staffing those positions and managing those positions fall under my responsibility, but um in our current environment where we're still working through our structural deficit and uh looking at doing some restructuring of the city organization.

Um, we're really in close communication with you on all of these decisions, and uh, we have our ad hoc committee that we're working with as well.

Um tonight we are bringing forward two classification changes that we think are crucial to uh move forward now, and I'll explain a little bit on each one of them the individual situations there.

Uh the first is um, as as you know, we've been without our uh communications director, city clerk um position, which is a department head position over that department um since April of this year.

Um we've had uh the blessing of having some really competent staff step up, including our assistant city clerk uh Maggie here, and uh we've been able to bring in a really great consultant who's very experienced in this and a native of Half Moon Bay, which brings some really great context, and it's been very successful, but um our ability to do some of this work is limited by time, and so we are gonna have to shift gears here.

So, what I'm recommending here is reclassify or creating a new classification that's a standalone city clerk position, so it is not the department head, it is not the communications director, it's not everything that was in that position, but it's a standalone city clerk position that will uh I would propose I will initially fill on an interim basis, and that will give us the opportunity and the flexibility to look at the structure of that department in the context of the city organization and the potential for eliminating that as a standalone department and reporting through the city manager's office, and that's something we'll be dealing with next year.

Um, but we need that classification to even consider that.

By doing this reclassification.

We there's a net savings of 48,000 per year.

The table that's in front of you and that's in the staff report represents the highest step, so the highest salary that this position would make, including benefits.

So it looks like a really absorbent salary, but it also includes benefits, which are a significant portion of the cost for staff, and this represents the highest amount that would be paid throughout a person's tenure in that position.

So the result of this recommended change is uh a savings of almost $50,000 per year.

And again, we would fill it on an interim basis first and then have discussions about structure before going out for the permanent recruitment sometime next year.

The second position that we're looking at is we traditionally contract with a consultant called Forleaf.

They provide a variety of services in the planning and building world to us.

And one of those key positions is the chief building official who has a great deal of responsibility for inspecting projects, reviewing plans, making sure that um what is proposed to be built is safe and in accordance with our regulations, and then as it's being built, those inspections happen to make sure they're done correctly.

Um we've gotten great service from Four Leaf over the last several years.

We have a really great um experienced person in that role, but we also anticipate um he's already retired from his full-time career, he does this as a part-time job.

That that won't last forever, and so we need to be sure that we're positioned to continue to provide these services, and we think it's important for us to create an in-house position to do this work.

Um, it's not something we plan to fill immediately, but it positions us to make a decision quickly when the time comes, it's right, and uh it would be a new FTE added to our FTE account um within the city.

It would only be filled with a corresponding reduction in the contract for four-leaf as we remove those services from what they're doing and move them in-house, and so the result of all of those changes we estimate to be about a $12,000 a year savings.

So, not a huge savings, but we do think that if we find the right person in-house, uh there are great benefits.

Uh, right now we only have that uh CBO here one or two days a week.

It's very limited hours, and um by doing it in-house, we could have somebody here full-time uh that could be able to respond to requests as people come in, more flexible on scheduling those inspections, and um more context within the team and working with the team.

So uh we definitely think there's a financial benefit and a logistic benefit to that change as well.

Uh both of these positions fall into our division division manager level classification.

They they actually fall in the same strata.

Uh again, what you see in front of you includes benefits, so it looks higher than just what the salary would be.

And um, of course, I would keep council apprised of as we move forward with recruitments and filling the positions if they're approved.

And with that, I'm happy to take any questions.

Questions for the city manager?

Yeah, just can you explain what the builder building official does?

Yeah, the building official.

I'll I'll actually just pull it right from the staff report so I don't miss anything.

Um, they uh ensure construction with this within the city follows California building codes, local rules and regulations, and safety standards through plan checks.

So that's looking at the plans that are being submitted for construction before permits are approved, uh, the actual permitting process, and then physical inspection of both our projects and private projects as they go through the construction project, and ultimately a project does not complete until that chief building official signs off and gives them their certificate of completion, and the building official will also be um the first person that uh an applicant sees when they come to City Hall to talk about permits when when do they it depends on the type of permit that they're looking for, um, but often they would be you know the face of the city working with contractors and developers as they move forward with projects.

The other thing that this role will do is it it provides another level of leadership within that divis the department to help our director manage staff and spread some of that load so that she can also focus on other duties as well.

Thank you.

Councilmember Negengast thanks and uh Vice Mayor Penrose I I'm hopeful too that the the ability to have an in-house building official might help with permitting as far as we sometimes we call them over the counter permits but some just uh hopefully could expedite you know the process and just for sure have somebody literally here that could talk you know if the contractor had questions my other uh I don't know if it's a question or a statement but four leaf is still available to do more detailed uh engineering reviews so a lot of times we'll have a project come in that you might have and correct me if I'm wrong Matthew but if we had a uh a structural engineer might have to put together uh submit some plans for the city to review and a lot of times those still might be reviewed by four leaf and or and I don't know how much uh inspection they may still do with the city correct um thank you for all those points yeah uh if you note in that table the on under the third line there where it says reduction in four leaf contract costs we don't eliminate the four leaf contract we just greatly reduce the level of services we need from them and there are circumstances where they can bring additional expertise that we don't have backup you know the in-house person is gonna have to go on vacation they can get sick um and so four leaf would remain an important partner in in serving the public it would this change would eventually just bring more of it into city hall and to council member Nagengast point expedite some things that right now have to be sent out and we do hear frustrations from people you know we have a community we know that wants to be served here by people here and and that will resolve some of those concerns we've heard as well I was one of those served and my wife told me don't tell Matthew what happened and it wasn't pleasant okay and I'll be honest with you my wife doesn't talk bad it will for the the representative for leaf was just ridiculous.

So I'm looking forward to in-house I'm looking forward to Rob giving it a shot and I'm excited with Maggie being what she's doing right now too so I'm in I'm in favor of this right here big time.

Give it a shot let's see how it goes it just I'm just one person that you know had a bad experience you can't blame everything but I've heard other people say it wasn't a very pleasant experience and I can tell you Trucky was is not a pleasant experience so a lot of cities are not a pleasant experience I'm dealing with I was dealing here and trucky and I was getting the same kind of thing and I'm like is this how we all are so I'd like to see a change I'd like to see a pleasant experience where uh I will call you at nine I will be there at nine and if you're not there I'm gonna text you and if you're not there text and phone call then I have to move on you know so the resident can plan their day the inspector can plan their day but they have good good service councilmember Brownstone do you have a comment right?

Okay.

I think it makes sense on both you know levels city clerk and the building official and I think the we'll see benefits to customer service actually in both departments that way and some savings, but I think right now we could benefit for some enhanced customer service in that function of uh the building department.

So I'm all for it.

Can I one more comment?

Sure.

If since we and uh council member um, I appreciate what you brought up because if we let's say Rob gets into an a pickle, he has four leaf to to talk to.

We're not like dumping them, we're not leaving them behind.

Whoever is selected for these positions will have the resources that resource, yes.

And to be clear, we will be recruiting for both these positions.

So there's we'll see how that lands in the future.

A thoughtful policy decision, I think.

Would someone like to make a motion?

I don't see anybody online.

Is there anybody in your um room there, Paul, who would like to comment on this?

No, there is not.

Okay.

Is there anybody in the room?

I don't have any speaker slips.

Okay.

Um resolutions authorizing changes to certain job classifications and salary schedules as follows.

One, create a new classification titled City Clerk, two, reclassify the communications director city clerk position to city clerk.

Three and three, create a new full-time equivalent position in the community development department, and a new classification titled chief building official.

Second, I'll second.

Roll call, please.

Councilmember Brownstone.

Yes.

Councilmember Johnson.

Yes.

Councilmember Nagengast.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Penrose.

Yes.

Mayor Raddock.

Motion carries.

Okay.

Item 14D, Third Amendment to Employment Contract for the City Manager.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

I will be presenting this item.

Good evening, Madam Mayor, Vice Mayor, and members of the council.

Uh Denise Bazano, your interim city attorney.

Um, so just a little bit of background.

Uh, the city, the current city manager and the city entered into the employment agreement on August 20th, 2022 for the services of city manager.

Um, for those in the audience, I'm sure the council is aware.

Uh, the employment agreement for the city manager sets forth the terms and conditions of employment for the position of the city manager.

Um, it also sets forth the duties and authority of the position, the compensation and benefits that the position receives, and the terms of separation and other miscellaneous provisions.

The agreement has been amended twice since uh since its effective date, uh, the first time on November 7, 2023, to revise the base salary and administrative leave provision, and the second time on December 3rd, 2024, to extend the end date of the term to May 19, 2026, and revise the performance evaluation provisions and adjust the base salary of the position.

So tonight we're here to talk about amendment number three to the employment agreement.

The city council met in closed session on December 6, 2025, and uh conducted the annual performance evaluation of the city manager at that closed session.

Uh the council gave direction to negotiate terms of uh the amendment number three.

The terms uh that are in amendment number three that's before you tonight, include uh removing the end date of May 19th, 2026 from the term of the agreement, so there's no and specific end date.

The second revision was basically to provide a third option for the council to terminate the agreement without cause and without an obligation to pay severance by providing the city manager with at least six months written notice.

So that would provide the council with essentially three ways to uh effect a separation from the city manager, it would be to terminate with with cause, which would not provide any severance to the city manager to separate without cause, pay a severance of six months, and the third option, which is incorporated into this amendment number three, is to separate without cause with six months notice and no severance pay.

There are also other minor uh conforming edits that are also part of this amendment number three, including a removal of subsection six or section six subsection F, which removes the prior language about the city manager returning to the assistant city manager position.

That language is no longer effective because of the specific dates that were in the original agreement.

So we're recommending removal of that subsection.

So I also wanted to note for the record that given that there are no changes to the salary compensation or benefits that are proposed in this amendment number three, there's no oral report required pursuant to government code section 54953 subsection C3.

So with that, there's uh the proposed amendment number three in the package.

There's also a red line document that shows the exact changes that are being proposed with this amendment number three so that the public can see the changes.

Um the city manager has reviewed amendment number three and has agreed to the terms.

This concludes my report.

I'm available for questions.

Thank you.

I thought the provision of a red line was was a great idea.

Really appreciate that.

Yeah, I'm sure the public could too.

Um, any questions or comments from council members?

Um, is there anyone who would like to address this item online?

Raise your hand.

Seeing none.

Um Council Member Nagengast, is there anyone there who would like to address this item?

Uh no, there is not.

Thank you very much.

Uh would you make a motion, someone?

Sure.

Um I move that we approve amendment number three to the August 2022 city manager employment agreement with Matthew Chittister to amend sections two and six of the agreement to eliminate the expiration date of the term of the agreement, revise the terms and conditions related to the separation provision and other related changes.

Second.

I'll second that.

Any further discussion?

Roll call, please.

Councilmember Brownstone.

Yes.

Councilmember Johnson?

Yes.

Councilmember Nagingast.

Yes, Vice Mayor Penrose.

Yes.

Mayor Raddock.

Yes.

Motion carries.

Thank you.

Um moving on to item 15.

Uh, do we have any commission or committee updates?

I just have a brief update.

We held the final recreation commission meeting of the year last week.

We have this thing where we have to combine November and December each year because they fall during holiday weeks.

Um, we had a great meeting.

Uh, the focus of the meeting was really to just talk about all the successes and accomplishments of the commission last year.

Our recreation supervisor Eddie Bealey provided uh presentation on that, and and our minds were kind of blown at how much happened over the last year when it comes to recreation.

And you know, it was anything from new programs that we created to you know the the line dancing is by far the most successful class we've ever had.

It is incredible.

We're gonna have to build a new facility just for this this class and it'll pay for itself.

Exactly.

Um, you know, we have a new yoga class that sprung up at Carter Park after construction finished, and our staff, instead of just going in there and putting the hammer down, just met with them and said, Hey, let's have you be part of our program.

And now it's an official rec program that people can sign up for.

Um, one of the great successes is there's an organization here in Hafen Bay called Hope Services, and they work with the developmentally disabled adults.

And they like to do activities and different things, and um over the last couple of years, they started attending Zumba classes, and they just love it.

And unfortunately, the cost started to get in the way, and and Eddie, being really thoughtful, worked with the instructor to create a different fee structure for certain people to be able to participate.

That you know, they have a very fixed budget that these folks live off of, and and it's allowed participation in that program to a really high extent.

And it's this beautiful integration of of people with you know special needs and people that don't have those needs all together, exercising and socializing.

And now we're working with other instructors to offer similar opportunities.

So just really nice innovative things.

Obviously, Carter Park opening is a huge um accomplishment.

Um, you know, the the summer's end, the list went on and on, and it was really a nice night.

And then we talked about how we're gonna move forward next year with setting new goals and and new standards.

So very effective meeting, and um it's been so great to have youth membership.

Their perspective has been really incredible.

Um, and we're really glad that they were added as voting members because it really involves their participation in the meetings.

So great year for them, and our next meeting will be at the end of January, and uh we encourage people to join and participate and talk about what's important to them when it comes to recreation.

That's the fun stuff.

We need to do more fun stuff for sure.

Yeah, that's great.

I love hearing that.

Um any items for future discussion or possible agenda items.

Yeah, I have one.

Um from our last meeting, there are a lot of folks who are wondering about the midpen Yep property project.

So I don't know if we would really combine that with a joint meeting, because I want to keep maybe the measure D stuff separate, but it kept getting merged in.

So I just feel you know, folks don't know what's going on with that project, and we are trying to get more transparent about upcoming things, and people are making a lot of assumptions and the usual.

It is a very unique project.

So it'd be great to have Mid Pen come in and do a presentation on that at some point.

What do you think?

I think we let's hear from our community development director, um, because the status of the project may affect the timing.

No, I I I think Midpen would likely be happy to come in and do a presentation.

I just wanted to note that because this is a streamline permit under SB 35, SB 423 in the coastal zone.

Um, they are not required to do any public meetings.

Um, they're so great to work with, I'm sure they'll come in.

I I just want to set our expectations.

Thank you.

Great, thank you.

Yeah, I'd be in favor of it.

I second that.

I have uh something that share, we're gonna have to probably think about talking about if that counts.

Uh airport noise San Francisco meetings that I go to is very interesting.

They had a special meeting last meeting, and it had to do with drone deliveries.

So that's something we have to talk about at some point because our airport is pretty much going to be very desirable, and we have to figure out airspace from San Francisco, San Mateo to here for, and it was just to open your mind up.

Delivery packages, drones, and then it's going to expose itself to Archer.

I I know that's one manufacturer because one of my customers is an engineer there, and just think of a a drone the size of a car to ship people four people, four to five people, thousand-pound payload, no cargo, you can't have suitcases.

It's just get people from A to B.

And then the platforms they're calling them, they're not helipads, but they have a different name for it, and they're they're not cheap.

It has a special kind of a platform they have to land on.

So these are the discussions that they're having is where they're gonna build these platforms, where's the airspace going to be?

And we need to start thinking this is five years out, that's how quick it's going.

There's billions of dollars going into this project.

People are just dumping money into the stock market on this.

This is their new wave.

Dubai is already doing it, and it's already being tested, and so we have to start thinking as a city airspace on drones and people drones, and that will be coming around the corner.

So we just got the first wind of it, and I've already seen the drone.

I've actually been invited because of my customer to go fly a simulator.

It's coming fast.

So that's the airspace is the issue that we have to talk about.

And as I get more information about it, we have to start thinking about this because that's gonna affect you know our city.

Interesting.

Okay.

So that's a proposal from council member Johnson for a future item.

Is there any other support from a council member?

That was just the I will have more information.

That was just the first last, it was like two weeks ago, and I just think we should think about this.

We and that's what they were warning us.

We need to start thinking about okay.

So to confirm you're not requesting a future.

No, not yet.

I get more information.

Thank you.

An FYI.

Yes.

Yeah.

anybody else?

Any city council reports?

I think that qualifies as a city council report from your relationship to the airport round table and the airport land use committee, too, I think, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

So I will just give a report from our CCAG meeting last Thursday.

During their legislative report.

It looks like assemblymember Papen is going to introduce a bill at the beginning of the year to deal with e-bikes.

And apparently there might be other bills related as well.

And so the CKEG legislative committee will be uh reviewing those bills and getting the bill numbers and text out to us so that we can you know follow and weigh in on what's going on.

And then you may have seen the um the email from the um League of Cities.

There's going to be a workshop on Jan 20, um, couple hour workshop, Zoom workshop on e-bikes, comparing what some jurisdictions are doing, what are the regulations say now, what are desired changes to the law that'll affect e-bikes.

So you might want to look at your email and uh register for that.

Yeah, and Josh Becker is apparently going to be doing something in January.

Okay.

You mean like a like a meeting, a community meeting or something?

Some sort of a community meeting on it.

I reached out to Ray Mueller uh text and brought up your points and because I agree with you guys about that, but I wanted because it's you were the driving force on it and you were also Debbie.

But I what I the reason why I brought it to his attention was I was looking for Jackie Spears' contact, which I know personally, I talked to her, but I don't have her cell phone, so I didn't I wanted to do it the right way.

And the reason why is because on the PCE meetings, they're giving out e-bikes.

And the council member for Burlingame, I think her name is Debbie also, or Donna, I'm not sure.

Uh and Jackie Spear, you could tell there was dialogue safety.

My God, people are dying.

We need there it needs to be regulations.

So Jackie's a big supporter of there needs to be regulations.

So I wanted to try to get her involved, which would get you connection higher up as you were requesting.

I think Jackie's a very good source for that.

And I reached out to Matthew and brought that to his attention because she would be a good starting point to know who to talk to, but it looks like we're already getting there real quick.

Because I agree there needs to be some kind of safety involved here.

These bikes are coming in faster.

The kids are right, even in San Mateo.

When I go to work now, I'm seeing exactly what you guys are talking about.

They're going to Sarah High School, that's where my work is, and there's zipping right by and no helmets and on the cell phone while they're riding.

So there has to be some rules there for sure.

And um, I think um council had some input during our one-on-one uh this afternoon as well.

Uh you're familiar with what's going on in foster city, they're discussing it, and I think your your firm generated a uh a white paper report on the e-bikes.

Yes, so this isn't uh, you know, an agenda item, and so we're focusing on council reports.

So just briefly, I want to say that yes, we I've communicated with the city manager, sent him some documents earlier this today about this topic, and I know what where we are looking at it.

Um, and thank you for keeping us on the agenda item.

Really appreciate that.

Um, I just want to say before adjournment that um we need to get the list out of uh council committee assignments.

Um, send that to to everybody, and I would ask you to look at potential assignments you would like to have or to keep and let me know about that before the the January 26th meeting, you know, sometime in the next couple weeks if you can take care of that.

And um other than that, I think we can adjourn the meeting.

Meeting adjourned.

Thank you, everybody.