Welcome to the regular Half Moon Bay City Council meeting for June 16th, 2026.

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If anyone needs assistance with interpretation services, and now someone from uh on point will provide information on how to receive these services.

I think Victor's here this evening to do that.

Good evening, madam mayor, thank you so much, honorable council members, Mr.

Chittister, Ms.

Pizano, Ms.

Rodriguez, all city staff, members of the public, Victor Hernandez, Spanish interpreter.

Seleccione interpretación, luego seleccione lo que es el idioma, que seria español, y por ultimo, usted tendrá que hacer click and done or listo.

Muchas gracias.

Thank you very much.

Can I see this Victor?

Could I have a roll call, please?

Councilmember Brownstone.

Here.

Councilmember Johnson.

Here.

Councilmember Nagengast?

Here.

Vice Mayor Penrose?

Here.

Mayor Reddick.

Here.

We have a quorum.

All rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Good evening.

The next item is approval of the agenda.

Um.

Where's the uh the Portuguese?

11A.

Uh I'm recommending that you make it a motion for approval.

Um, but saying that we're going to move 11A, which is the sister city exploration with Nazareth Portugal, up to under right after the consent agenda.

So the motion would be to move to approve the agenda with that change.

I move that we approve the agenda with the change that we move the um item 11a up to right after.

Consent and consent agenda.

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Anyone opposed?

Motion carries unanimously.

Uh the next item is proclamations and presentations.

And uh the first item under item three would be a Midcoast Community Council update.

Uh good evening, council.

I'm Scott from the Mid Coast Community Council, and thanks for having me over as always.

Um last month, the county planning department approached us with the concept to increase the rate of new permit approvals from 40 a year to 75 a year.

Um also to recoup any unused permits from that 40 and make them available immediately.

Um from 2013 on, they wanted to capture those and make them available immediately.

So the community had a lot of concerns about that increase in growth without consideration for improvements and infrastructure to support that kind of growth.

But our county supervisor was able to put that item on hold.

He was able to put it on hold.

Okay.

We're having a we're having a technical issue here with we're hearing the uh the translation.

We shouldn't be hearing that.

So I think the city uh manager is going to address that.

You can just hold on for a second.

Cool, no problem.

Yeah.

We should be good now, so you can continue.

Oh, no worries.

Do you want to test it or anything like that?

I think we're good.

Okay.

All right, thank you.

No problem.

Okay, moving on.

Um, as always, um we're continuing to engage in outreach in the community.

And uh big thanks to community, the co to Coast Side Radio for getting us an opportunity to be on the air.

It was fantastic.

Um, and we're still looking for people who are interested on the MCC.

So if you're interested, let us know.

And you can always get in contact with us through just by Googling Midcoast Community Council.

Um, another so at our next meeting, which will be held on June 24th at 7 p.m.

in the normal location, we're gonna have a presentation from the medical research corp.

Um, that's part of the San Mateo County Department of Emergency Management, and they are looking for volunteers with a medical background or or anyone in the medical field to be available to respond and be trained how to do it in emergencies such as floods or fires, etc.

Um, so if you're interested in that or any other points that have to do with the Mid Coast up there, um, you can see us in person or on Zoom.

Thank you.

Great, thank you for that.

Does anybody have any comments or questions on this item of the Midcoast Community Council report?

Either in the room or online.

There's one online speaker.

Um Sid Young would like to comment.

So you could just hang there for a sec.

Sure.

Sid.

Hi, um, no offense to Scott, but he misstated what the county uh planning department said at both their planning meeting and at the Midcoast Community Council.

Recently, because they gave out 71 units of um the 40 per year at the end of 2025 to midpen housing, they had to freeze all permits on the mid-coast all the way up to 2028.

So they, in a quandary because that didn't allow any private owners to build, they went back and were trying to do a workaround, and they thought they went back to see how many permits they'd been giving out prior to midpen taking up the big lion's share, and they determined that they weren't giving out even 30 units per year up until last November.

So they thought they could go back and use some of the prior years' allocations to allow um permits to move forward.

They're not planning to give out 75 per year, that would require going to the Coastal Commission.

And at some point they may do that, but they haven't, that's not in their plan immediately.

What they're trying to do is get a way to um not slam on the brakes of all building until 2028.

And the reason for that is because once if they don't allow any building permits until 2028, then immediately when they open the door, then all those allocations will be used up and they'll still have another log jam.

So that's what they're trying to do the work around.

So it's not a 75 unit um thing at the moment.

It's only 40 per year, but what they're trying to do is use up some of the going look back and using some of the prior years allocations that they never used.

Uh sorry, they're looking at a carryover.

Thank you, Sid.

Yes.

Am I allowed to comment?

Briefly.

Okay.

Thanks, Sid, for the background on the story.

That's good.

Thank you, Scott.

Anything else?

That's it.

I appreciate it.

Have a good evening.

Um the next item is honoring our youth parks and recreation commissioners.

And the city manager will speak briefly about that, and we're going to have a present a proclamation and have uh a photo.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Um, back in early 2025, uh, the parks and recreation commission, which consisted of five members of the community appointed by the council to support city staff and the community in um the parks and rec field and in the programs that we offer um put forth an idea to add youth members to the commission.

Uh we already have a youth member of our bike pet advisory committee, and so it was something we had done successfully elsewhere, and ultimately the council approved it, and uh since mid 2025, we've had two members of our recreation commission, so a total of seven now come from Coastside Youth, and it has been incredibly rewarding and I think helpful to all of us to have a different perspective, a different experience representation of the youth of the coastside, which is what so much of recreation is geared towards, and um, and I think part of it is two really excellent inaugural members of that commission.

And tonight we want to honor one of them, Francesca Frankie DeRosa is a senior, well, was a senior at Happen Bay High School, and I'll let her talk about what's happening to her now.

Um but uh great great student and great member of the community, uh a member of the soccer team, so may have been pressured by our city clerk who's the coach to apply.

Um, but Frankie has been really, really phenomenal on the commission.

Uh did not do this passively, did it really uh was very engaged and attended all the meetings and offered great perspectives, and uh we're excited for her future but sad to see her go and so we're grateful grateful tonight to be able to recognize her as she moves on to the next stage of her life.

Uh Frankie, do you want to share anything?

Yes, I just want to say thank you for to anyone, everyone on the committee who allowed me an open and welcome me with pull down the mic.

You can pull it down.

And welcomed me with open arms.

I thought it was a very um incredible experience, and I got so much out of it, and I it really helped me like see how much care and love goes into this community, which I'm very thankful for.

So thank you to everyone.

And I'm gonna be starting at William and Mary in Virginia in the fall.

So that's what's next for me.

But yeah, thank you so much.

Fantastic.

Your fellow commissioners only had great things to say about you.

Thank you.

For staff, one of the highlights was when Frankie came here to teach some of our staff how to better use Instagram.

So, very appropriate, right?

Yeah, that's great.

So we'd like to get Okay, moving on to item four, which is mayor's announcements of community activities and community service.

First of all, there will be a celebration of life for former mayor Al Andrevino on Friday, June 26th from 10 a.m.

to 11 a.m.

at Farmer John's Pumpkin Patch, and that is at 805 Cabrillo Highway 1 North.

I know that uh he knows a lot of folks in town and a member of the Great Half Moon Bay family and uh contributed a lot to many different organizations here.

So feel free to to join on Friday, June 26th.

Uh then I'm going to mention um the old-fashioned 4th of July, which will be Saturday, July 4th.

Um, there will be uh pancake breakfast hosted by the Halfman Bay Lions Club from 8 to 11 30.

There will be a parade from uh 12 noon on, it's usually about 90 minutes, and it will be hosted, excuse me.

It will be um featuring Jill Jacobson as the grand marshal, former head of the boys and girls club.

And then there's the IDES festival at uh IDES on Main Street from 10 to 4.

So lots happening.

It's always a great time, great, you know, Main Street America type of event.

We get a lot of people coming over the hill to join us, and it's it's really wonderful.

And uh that's all I have this evening.

So next is report out from recent closed session meetings.

I'll ask our city attorney to speak on this item.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

This evening the council met in closed session on four items.

I do want to point out uh that there's no reportable action for the items.

There is item four A, for which the council will be considering in during the regular session.

That's item 11D on the council's agenda this evening.

Thank you very much.

Item six is commission and committee updates.

It looks like we don't have any of those this evening, and then we have item seven city manager updates to council.

Looks like none of those this evening either.

Okay.

So I'll allow you to speak for three minutes.

And the first speaker is um Nancy Fontana.

Members of the council and public.

Um I'm here to ask, let's see, how would I put this?

Um I have I would like to request that we have a housing project on this evening's meeting, I know that.

But this is a general request about all housing projects that include low, very low, you know, affordable housing.

Uh during the Kelly project, I became aware a friend had told me there was a potential that after 15 years the low uh that could change from those fig the lower figures to market or something close to market.

Um and then again at the last council meeting where the project the the mayor made a statement and mentioned that 15-year um window that was there was a possibility of that.

Going forward for any housing projects, I think it's really important for the public to be aware that this is a potential.

I don't know if there's a way to analyze if it's if one project has that potential more than another, but I think that would be very helpful.

It's it would be more transparent on any project because I think it's I was shocked.

I was really surprised when my friend told me about it.

And I was at a group today at the library, and a lady who lives in housing on Main Street, and her rent has gone up to $4,000.

I don't know how long the project has been there.

I don't know the details, but uh that's what she said.

I don't know if it's true.

I just heard it today.

So I just really think it's important than any project to be aware of that, and I hope that you will consider that.

Thank you.

If I may paraphrase it, sounds like maybe she is asking for a general discussion of affordable housing, how it works, periods of affordability, that kind of thing.

Madam Mayor, I I think we'll we'll check in with with Ms.

Fontana and try to clarify that and answer some of those questions.

Okay, great, thank you.

Uh the next speaker is Harvey Warback.

Good evening, Council.

Um, for the last couple weeks, I, along with a bunch of other supporters of 555 Kelly, have been handing out literature in favor of the project, and we've been doing that mostly next to the signature gatherers who are collecting signatures to referend the ordinance that approved uh the paperwork for the project.

So I've been in a position to watch what the uh supporters of the referendum are doing, and they have every right to create a referendum.

Uh I myself was the uh recipient of a recall election.

I supported the initiative for the Main Street Bridge Preservation Act, but although they're perfectly right in uh supporting a referendum, they are not right in doing what they are doing.

What they're doing is uh violating state election laws, they are deceiving the public on what they're doing, they are uh scaring people who are supporting the project.

I've seen all that personally.

Um the petition form that they've been circulating initially for the first couple weeks, had the actual ordinance covered over, which is against state election law.

Uh they had a uh website where you supposedly could find out who the supporters, the financial supporters of the this uh referendum were, and it really went nowhere.

Um the uh petition gatherers claimed as I said uh two weeks ago that they were neutral, all they wanted to do was let the voters decide.

But the reality is that they are trying to delay the project or stop it, and I think that is uh deceiving.

Matter of fact, a lot of people came up to us who were handing out literature and saying they'd already signed the get the project on the ballot, and what they meant was that they were told that the only purpose of the referendum was to do that.

Um, there is going to be an investigation of the tactics of the signature gatherers.

I was intimidated personally by a signature gatherer who told me personally not to get involved uh with that investigation.

That's witness tampering.

So I hope you consider this when we go forward with what we're gonna do with the referendum.

Thank you.

Thank you, Harvey.

The next speaker is Joaquin Jimenez.

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

Uh, my name is Safoa Ken Jiménez, Joaquin Mugrieta and social media, and I'm here to uh remind you two.

I'll mark you date uh for vaquero days, August uh 15th and August uh 16th.

It's gonna take place here in Halfum Bay.

Uh Vaquero Days is the celebration of the heritage of the equestrian community of the coast side, as well as the equestrian community of uh the city of California.

We have several other cities uh in California that have celebrated vaqueros, uh cowboys, uh, for several several years.

Uh Hafum Bay in the early 1900s was uh they had a celebration pretty similar to what we do uh with our vaquero days, and uh we want to continue to celebrate, you know, or heritage or the equestrian community in the coast.

We are expecting a lot of horses on the day of the uh the 15th.

We do a uh trail ride from Higgins Canyon to uh Webcris to the beach uh back to Kelly in uh the music, uh live band.

We were waiting for the horses at Magdutra, and from there we're gonna go on a parade of horses uh back to Higgins to uh continue the celebration.

On Sunday, uh the 16th, uh the event will take place uh downtown on Kelly Avenue.

We're gonna have uh live music, uh wine tasting, uh, food vendors, and uh in beautiful uh dancing horses in uh cultural dances from our community.

So please mark the calendar, save the date, uh August 15th and August 16th uh for the celebration of Vaquero Days.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh the next speaker is Hale Bagner.

Uh Madam Mayor, Hal Bagner, uh Popler Street.

Um before uh my three minutes begin.

I just might ask uh if there's uh an opportunity to respond to some of the unfortunate things that were just falsely said.

Um I think you need to stick to your three minutes.

Thank you.

So first of all, uh, on behalf of uh let Half Moon Bay Voters Decide group.

Um this afternoon we turned in 1,085 signatures for verification by the county to the uh the newly uh uh titled city clerk.

Congratulations, Maggie.

Um, and um uh we've spent the last 30 days collecting these signatures, they represent roughly one in every eight voters in the city of Half Moon Bay two years ago.

We similarly collected a thousand one hundred and seventy-nine signatures at the time of the appeals against the permits.

The city uh said that those were not referendable, so we waited for this rather than pursue any litigation or anything like that to argue those things.

We simply wish for voters to have the opportunity to fully understand the pros and cons of the project.

I applaud the giving out of literature, expressing the positives of the project.

I applaud that people should going forward, pro and con, and on all aspects, bring information to the public so voters can make sound decisions.

Our meetings have been filled with a lot of emotional pleas on all sides, but there's still a lot of factual information that needs to be brought out to the public on all sides, and that's what many voters wished for.

One thing that happened during the uh during the petition gathering was there was a lot of questions of people saying, I don't want to be seen to sign this or something.

I want to assure all voters that signing such a petition is a private right, uh, that the city attorney and election workers at County have both assured me that if you signed a petition, it's nobody's business.

It's processed by the elections officials, and uh it stays there.

It's not like a ballot counting at November when observers can challenge ballots.

It's private information, it never becomes a public record.

In this country, our most important right is our right to vote.

It's enshrined in the California constitution that city council ordinances can be petitioned to be brought to the voters, and that's what we did, and that's what we're looking forward to seeing decided by a consensus of the community.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

I'm looking online to see if there's any raised hands to speak during public comment.

Don't see any.

So the next item is item nine, the consent calendar.

And um yes, public forum is closed.

We're moving on to the consent calendar.

Uh we have numerous things on there.

Um I wanted to pull 9G, and I'm happy to just move that to the end of the agenda about the COPS grant because I have some questions about that.

I personally don't wish to pull any other items.

Is there any other council member who would like to pull items off consent for later discussion?

Um seeing none, I'm going to read the consent items so that if there's someone who'd like to address something on consent, you may do so.

So the items are as follows.

Item 9a, waive reading of ordinances and resolutions.

Item 9b, accept the warrants for the month of May 2026.

Item 9C, annual renewal of public works contracts.

Item 9D, annual renewal of community development agreements.

Item 9E, Casell Inc.

Professional Services Agreement.

Item 9F, agreement with abundant grace for the fiscal year 2627 coastal cleanup program.

Item 9H, approved minutes of the June 2nd, 2026 special meeting.

Item 9i, approved minutes of the June 2nd, 2026 regular meeting.

Item 9J, authorized First Amendment to legal services agreement for permanent contract city attorney position.

And that's it.

So the um the motion to approve would be all items with the exception of 9G.

No, that we accept um that we um accept all of the items on our consent agenda with the exception of 9G.

Okay, I'm just going to okay.

So we have motion in a second, but I'm going to ask the public if there are any items you would like to address.

You can come to the podium and do that now.

Or if you're online and would like to address any of those items, you may do so at this time.

We'll give you a moment to raise your hand.

Is that for the consent calendar?

Okay.

I see nobody online, so I'm going to ask for a roll call, please.

Councilmember Brownstone.

Yes.

Councilmember Johnson.

Yes.

Councilmember Nagingast, yes.

Vice Mayor Penrose.

Yes.

Mayor Radek.

Yes.

Ocean carries.

Okay.

So we're moving on to we've moved up, as you recall, item 11A, which is sister city exploration with Nazareth Portugal.

So that's the item we're going to be addressing now.

Madam Mayor, I'll do a brief introduction and then we'll invite some uh esteemed guests to um share a presentation with us.

Um for those that don't know, sister cities uh agreements are something that came after World War II as a way to build community internationally, to bridge cultures, to support each other and to learn.

And I think a lot of people know that we have a sister city in Kariwa, Japan, that was established about 30 years ago, and we actually do student exchanges every other year.

Half Moon Bay students go there for an exchange one year, and then uh students from Japan come here every other year, and it's a very exciting um agreement and setup.

If you've been to the library lately, you'll see in the courtyard there's a beautiful new garden that represents Hap Moon Bay and Kariba, Japan, and there's gonna be a bridge and some celebrations later this year.

Well, going back to 2023, the city of Nazare, Portugal has been investigating doing something similar with us, and for those of you that don't know, Nazare is a community about an hour north of Lisbon, which I kind of equate to San Francisco, they've got their own own Golden Gate Bridge, and it's a coastal community about the size of Half Moon Bay, and they have a big big wave surfing site, the the world record for the last several years for the biggest waves in the world being surfed have all come out of Nazare, Portugal.

And things have really gotten interesting lately, and there's a big desire for a partnership between us and them, and we have some great members of our Portuguese community here who are spearheading the effort locally.

So I'd like to invite them up now to share a presentation to talk about what this could look like.

Jonathan and Fernando, come on up.

My name is Fernando Oliveira.

I am a Portuguese immigrant, and the Haf Moon Bay is the community that I am proud to call home.

As a Portuguese men living in America, the idea of building a real lasting connection between this town and Portugal, it means more to me than I can easily put in words.

Early this year, I had the privilege of meeting the mayor of Nazare.

I can tell you firsthand, they believe in this, they are ready.

They are waiting for Af Moon Bay answer.

I am proud of my son Jonathan for driving this initiative for bringing it before you tonight.

Thank you.

I want to drop that.

Good evening, Mayor Ruddick and members of the city council.

Thank you so much for having us tonight.

Thank you to my father for the wonderful introduction.

I also want to thank the Portuguese community and everyone here tonight who has been a part of this.

Your support means a great deal.

What we're bringing to you is more than a proposal.

It's really a story about who Half Moon Bay is, where we came from, and honestly, a once-in-a-generation opportunity to put this town on the world map in a way that feels completely naturally ours.

Tonight, we are proposing a sister city partnership between Half Moon Bay, California and Nazare, Portugal.

Two small coastal towns, two communities built by the sea.

Oh, that's not supposed to happen.

Two small coastal towns, two communities built by the sea, and a connection so deep, so real, we think by the end of tonight, you're going to wonder why this hasn't happened already.

So let's start with the basics.

Who are these two towns?

Half Moon Bay, you know, about 13,000 people, Pacific Ocean coast, famous for pumpkins, artichokes, and some of the most powerful surf on the planet.

Strong Portuguese roots going back generations, small farming economy, fishing, tourism, and of course, Mavericks.

Now meet Nazareth, Portugal, Atlantic Ocean Coast.

About 10,000 people, a little smaller than us, known for fishing, for folklore, for ancient seafaring traditions going back centuries.

Their economy looks remarkably similar to ours.

Fishing, agriculture, and tourism industry that is absolutely exploding right now.

And their surf, Nezedei is home to the largest waves ever surfed by a human being.

Hundred foot swells driven by an underwater canyon that funnels the entire Atlantic directly onto their coastline.

When you put these two towns side by side, the similarities aren't just interesting, they're striking.

Now, here's something a lot of people don't fully appreciate.

Even people who lived here their whole lives.

Half Moon Bay has Portuguese roots that go all the way back to the mid-1800s.

Portuguese immigrants, primarily from the Azores were among the very first European settlers in this area.

They weren't just passing through.

They built this place.

Portuguese fishermen, Portuguese farmers, they established the coastal economy that Half Moon Bay still runs on today.

And for those traditions to disappear, if you're ever attended, and those traditions didn't disappear.

If you've ever attended the Holy Ghost Festival, the Festa do Espirit Santo, that's a living, breathing expression of Portuguese culture that has survived here for over a century.

Now here's where it gets really powerful.

Nezereh shares that exact same heritage, the same deep Atlantic seafaring culture, the same fishing traditions.

What those early settlers brought to California from Portugal, it came from communities like Nazareth.

A sister city bond doesn't just create a new relationship, it reconnects a relationship that has been quietly running through the DNA of this town for 150 years.

Now let's talk about waves.

If you want one single image that captures why Hap Moon Bay and Nazare belong together, it's this.

One side, Mavericks, right here in our backyard on the Pacific.

One of the most feared big wave breaks anywhere on Earth.

In December 2024, surfer Allo Slevier wrote an estimated 76-foot wave at Mavericks, with some measurements placing it as high as 108 feet, a wave that may have just broken the world record.

On the other side of the world, Praia do Norte, in Nazare, Portugal, on the Atlantic, home of the largest waves ever officially surf.

100-foot swells powered by a massive underwater canyon.

For the last decade, Nazare has been the name in big wave surfing across the globe.

Pacific meets Atlantic.

These two breaks are already in direct connection and conversations around the world in the surf world.

We're just making it official.

And we're not stopping there.

We've connected with multiple big wave surfers from around the world, and we are actively working to secure an ambassador.

Someone who has surfed both breaks to serve as a living bridge between these two communities.

A human connection to match the one that the two oceans already made.

Big waves get the headlines, but when you dig deeper, the similarities between the two towns go much further.

Both towns are defined by small family-run farms.

Half Moon Bay is famous for pumpkins and artichokes.

Nazareth has olives, grapes, local produce.

Agriculture isn't a side note for either of us.

It is part of who we are.

Fishing has sustained both communities for generations.

And there's a detail about Nazareth that I just love.

Their fishing beach was so important to their daily life that they used oxen to pull the boats ashore.

That's how central the sea was to everything that they did.

Sound familiar?

And think about the size.

Half Moon Bay is 13,000 people.

Nazareth is 10,000 people.

These are not big cities.

These are towns where you know your neighbors, where the same families have run the same shops for decades.

Where community isn't just a word, it's something you can actually feel.

The coastal identity, the cultural traditions, the shared values around the land and the sea.

This is not a partnership of convenience.

This is a mirror.

These towns genuinely see themselves in each other.

Now let's talk about what this means economically.

Because it's not just about culture and history.

There is a real tangible opportunity here for Half Moon Bay.

Nazareth draws millions of viewers every single year through their big wave surf contest that broadcasts worldwide.

Millions of people watching, and right now, Half Moon Bay isn't officially in that conversation.

A sister city designation puts us on that global stage.

Think about what this means for visitors.

Portuguese tourists, surfers, and travels who are already going to Nesiday become a natural new audience for Half Moon Bay.

And our visitors become an audience to them, for them.

You create a pipeline in both directions across the Pacific and the Atlantic.

The media opportunities are real too.

Joint events, cultural exchanges, and the surf ambassador connection create the kind of stories that travel media and international press actually want to cover.

That's earned coverage you simply cannot buy.

A Sister City Bond also opens the door to new annual events, joint surf festivals, cultural celebrations, cross-promotional tourism campaigns between the two cities.

And at the end of the day, more visitors means more revenue for local restaurants, hotels, shops, and farms that flows directly back into the small business economy that makes Half Moon Bay what it is.

We've talked about why this partnership makes sense.

Now let's talk about what it looks like literally, physically, right here in our community.

We are proposing a permanent installation at the heart of the downtown in Half Moon Bay.

At the intersection of Main Street and Crayas Street, we want to install a traditional Portuguese calzada compass rose, a hand laid stone mosaic black basalt and white limestone spanning all four crosswalk quadrants of that intersection.

This isn't a plaque, this isn't a sign on the wall.

It's a piece of ancient Portuguese craftsmanship embedded in the ground at the center of our downtown that will be there for generations.

Every single person who walks through that intersection will walk across the symbol of where this town came from.

The stones and artisans would be arranged through our partnership negotiation with Nazareth, part of an ongoing conversation about what this sister city bomb looks like in practice.

The compass rose, the Rosa do Jvench, the Rose of the Winds is a perfect symbol.

It points in all directions.

It honors where we've been, and it points toward where we're going.

Because when we first encountered this tradition, we had to see it to believe it.

What you're looking at is one of the several calzada installations gifted to California communities through the Portuguese sister city partnerships.

This tradition has been shared multiple times across the state.

It is not a one-off gesture.

It is a recurring expression of cultural pride and connection.

Look at the craftsmanship, every single stone placed by hand.

This is not a decorative tile.

This is an art that traces its roots back to ancient Rome, refined and perfected over centuries by Portuguese artisans.

The dedication ceremonies for these installations have drawn the highest levels of Portuguese government.

That is how meaningful this tradition is to the Portuguese people.

Calzada has been gifted to California communities multiple times.

And we are proposing to bring this tradition to Half Moon Bay.

We are not speaking in abstractions.

We have already identified a location.

Right here at the intersection of Main Street and Correa Street in downtown Half Moon Bay, the compass roads would be embedded in the center of the intersection, spanning all four crosswalk quadrants.

You can see it marked on the aerial view.

Why this spot?

Because it's where people already walk.

It's where the community life happens.

It's visible, accessible, and it's at the center of everything.

And the craft itself, calzada is an ancient technique perfected over centuries using black, oh I'm sorry.

Sorry about that.

The calzada is an ancient technique perfected over centuries using black basalt and white limestone laid stone by stone by hand to create the Rosa Luzvenge, the Compass Rose.

The vision is a permanent, beautiful landmark, not just a nod to our history, a destination, something people come downtown to specifically see.

Something our residents are so proud of every single day they'll walk past by it.

The stones and artisans would be arranged as a part of our partnership negotiations with Nezedeh, and the corner of Main Street becomes something truly extraordinary.

I want to take a moment to share where this project stands because it did not start last week, and it did not start not start with a phone call.

It started last year when we met the new council general of Portugal at his home.

That conversation is what set everything in motion.

And this year, on June 8th, 2026, at Dia de Portugal celebration at San Francisco City Hall, lit up in the colors of Portugal, as you can see, those doors open wide.

The mayor of San Francisco is in full support of the Half Moon Bay Nezedez Sister Cities initiative.

The Council General in San Francisco of Portugal, the relationship began last year at his home and deepened in person at this year's Dia of Portugal celebration.

And the Secretary of State for the Economy of Portugal was there, and he also engaged and was very supportive of this project.

And the mayor of Nezedeh himself, he met with my dad, Fernando Oliveira, and our team earlier this year and committed to making this happen.

Nezedez dignitaries are not waiting to be convinced.

They are waiting for Half Moon Bay's response.

The momentum is not something we're going hoping to build.

It's already here on both the Pacific and the Atlantic sides of this partnership.

What we need now, what we are here to ask for tonight is for Half Moon Bay to answer.

So here's what we're asking for.

It's five steps, and they build on each other naturally.

First, pass a resolution supporting the sister city designation.

A formal statement that Half Moon Bay is in.

Second, establish a Half Moon Bay and Nezedez Sister City Committee.

And I want to be clear, this committee is already coming together.

We have active, committed Portuguese Americans right here on the Half Moon Bay side who are ready to serve and carry this forward.

Third, begin formal outreach to Nazedez City officials.

We've already opened that door, and the mayor of Nezedet has committed.

This step walks through the door, they're already holding it open.

Fourth, plan an inaugural exchange event and groundbreaking on Main Street, the first physical moment that makes this partnership real and visible for the entire community.

And fifth, announce a partnership and launch joint tourism initiatives.

Put Half Moon Bay on the world stage along one of the most internationally recognized small towns in Europe.

Two towns, two oceans, a shared soul.

One community shaped by the Pacific, one shaped by the Atlantic, and a bond between them that is true, that is historical, and that has been waiting.

We asked the mayor and the city council of Half Moon Bay to approve a sister city partnership with Nazida.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Great presentation.

Thank you.

I don't know if you're not sure.

So the city manager would like to weigh in here.

Yeah, so obviously great presentation.

And staff has had the chance to meet with some of these folks, and the passion is real, as you can see, the commitments real, and you know, staff are excited for the opportunity to work on this.

There's no decision tonight, but what we are looking for is a little bit of feedback and direction to continue to work with the group and work towards that first step, which is a resolution and an MOU, which is already being drafted and talked about.

And you know, one of the great things is this is very community-led.

Nobody's asking the city for money or resources.

I would say we probably want to talk about that at some point, but right now they're just looking for our willingness to be a partner in this.

Place matters.

Tradition matters.

So that's a very exciting prospect.

Absolutely.

And I'll just give some insight.

I mean, I was we were heavily involved in the sister city um in happen in uh Sal Salito with Kashkaj, and we we helped to uh procure the stones and to build that Compass Rose, um, you know, our company, our family business, Ferrong Company.

We helped engineer the project and build the foundational structure, and uh we were in direct communication with procuring donations and basically work with the city just to get approvals of where you know the this this project would be.

So that's that's what we're asking from you guys, you know, to work with us and and let us let us try to handle getting the money on our own.

Yeah, wonderful.

So I actually have several people in the audience who would like to talk about this this evening.

So I'm gonna take those public comments now, if that's okay, and then we can uh open up discussion here.

Okay, I see people online as well.

Does anyone have any more questions for me or um clarifying questions at the moment?

No, I think that can wait.

So we'll start with the public comment.

And the first speaker is Naomi Patridge.

Good evening, Mayor and Council members and city staff.

I'm here because uh Fernando broke my arm if I didn't speak.

No, not just joking, but I want to say what a great presentation.

I was on the Kadiwa sister uh committee and on the city council when that happened, and we had the same goal of sharing culture, sharing children, and sharing the city of Half Moon Bay with Katewa, along with they want to share with Portugal.

We are a mixed community here, and it's very important that all of us are represented and that we can continue to share these kind of things with other countries, and you know, get along.

I'm for always getting along with everybody, so please approve this.

It's a great project.

Thank you, Naomi.

The next speaker is Nancy Fontana.

Nancy, are you here?

Okay.

Mayor and City Council and the public.

Um I'm just here to support the project.

I think it's it's nice to have the cultures, all the cultures that are here in Half Moon Bay, representative in some way.

So and they are certainly a big portion of our community, very active.

So, and I'm having worked for a city where they had a sister city city.

I'm you know, I think two maybe.

Uh it's it's a good, it's a good program, and it's it has uh it's for a good reason to bring uh cultures and countries together.

Thank you.

Thank you, Nancy.

Uh, the next speaker is Kerry Burke.

Good evening, Madam Mayor, members of the council, everyone present.

I'm Carrie Burke, and um while I'm not Portuguese, um the local community has supported me and all my friends are Portuguese, mostly in Half Moon Bay.

I have the pleasure of being a member of the Portuguese cultural um center and ideas and have a blast volunteering and of course partaking in all the festivals and other activities that enrich in our community.

So this is a fantastic opportunity to strengthen you know our heritage, our cultural bonds, and also um with the similarities of our two communities, is really just to find even new ways and aspirations to improve and be better, and it's just uh just so you know, I just think it's a wonderful um opportunity, and um I hope we can work together and make it happen.

Thank you.

Thank you, Carrie.

The next speaker is Jason Stark.

Um, good evening.

Um thank you for having me.

Um yeah, my name's Jason Stark.

I'm uh local resident, um, sixth generation in Half Moon Bay.

I'm uh of uh Azorian descent.

I may not look like it, but um I'm also married to uh Portuguese national back there, my beautiful wife, um Juana, and uh our children out there, they're skateboarding right now.

Um, and they've got dual citizenship, and uh, you know, I like to surf big waves.

I surf Mavericks for close to over 20 years now.

Um I've surfed Nazare.

Um I'm here to support this because I'm really excited about uh, you know, as I married my wife, you know, the Portuguese community, the Portuguese um people are really good people.

Um I was I'm really excited to, you know, share that culture with our community, um, you know, and strengthen the bond there.

Uh it's a really beautiful, beautiful culture.

Um, a lot of beautiful places, see Azores, uh mainland Portugal, really, really beautiful destinations, and uh yeah, I'm excited to uh share um my wife's beautiful culture with our town and uh strengthen that bond.

Thank you, Jason.

I do have one hand raised online, Sid Young.

Hi, I think it's a really wonderful idea, though I will point out that Mavericks is in Moss Beach where I live, but we're not a city, so I think it's a good idea to have a sister city with that shares all those wonderful ideas, I mean um similarities.

Um and I had Japanese exchange students at my house for several weeks back in the 80s, and it was really a wonderful cultural experience too.

So I think that's a great thing.

Um I did have one question for the person who was at the podium, and that is why aren't there any Portuguese restaurants in um Half Moon Bay?

Because I attended the Chamarita Festival and the feast, and the food was great, but I have not seen any Portuguese um restaurants there since I moved here in 1988, so that's just a thought.

If he has an answer for me, that would be great to know.

Yeah, you can come to the PCC every Friday night.

We have Portuguese food there, and uh that's as good as it gets.

I don't know, Dad.

And this relationship no doubt will stimulate uh a Portuguese restaurant.

Um I see another speaker online, or a couple actually, Dan Hagerty.

Yes, good evening, Madam Mayor, Council.

Uh, just I'll keep it short.

I just think that this is a spectacularly wonderful idea.

Uh fully support it.

Thank you very much.

Then we have the next speaker is looks like Joy.

Joe, you've been unmuted.

Okay, I'm not hearing from Joy.

Um, okay.

Can you hear me now?

Cannot hear you, Joey.

Oh, absolutely.

Okay, maybe come back to me.

Sure, we can come.

We're going to um have some council discussion now.

So if you can take care of that fairly quickly, that'd be great.

Okay, I think I have it now.

Okay, that's better.

Go for it.

Okay.

Uh thank you, council members.

Um, I think this is an excellent idea.

I fully support.

And I am a member of the PCC, which, yes, they have excellent food on.

An awesome idea, and this is a big yes.

We need this.

We need to recognize the Portuguese contributions to this town and their traditions.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Joy.

Okay.

See no further speakers.

I'll bring it back to the council for questions or comments, discussions.

Vice Mayor.

Yes, in 2018, I was visited by the vice counsel, I think, of Portugal, who was talking about establishing a sister city relationship.

It never went anywhere, and I was very saddened because I thought of all the sister cities that we need to have, Portugal is is the most important.

Um, but we haven't given them formal recognition.

And I think this would be a start at that.

Um what they bring to our community, what they have brought to our community is um invaluable.

Um I'm very excited about the idea of this project, and uh I love the idea of the main and correa street project too.

I think that's just a wonderful idea.

So hear here.

I'll just uh touch on what you were saying about 2018 at the time.

The uh the general counsel of San Francisco, he was a surfer, and I think that there were some ideas that were kicked around, like you said, about making Nazida and Hapoom Bay sister cities, but no one really took the reins.

So uh I think it's been brewing for years, but it's finally gone to the point where it's coming to fruition.

Thank you.

Other council members.

Uh council member Blackstone.

Brownstone, sorry.

Yeah, I think it's great.

I love the idea of a compass rose installation.

I think you mentioned that there's one in Sausalito already.

Um tell me what the where the location is of that, because I'll probably um I'm heading up there anyway in a weekend.

Yeah, so if you head down um Bridgeway, so if you head down Bridgeway, which is the main road all the way downtown.

There's an old Bank of America building.

Um that's right across the street from Poggio.

It's a really famous Italian restaurant.

Um it's it's right across the street there.

There's a there's a seating area there, and um you'll see that those red awnings on that on that building right there is the old Bank of American building.

There's uh two columns there that will explain the history behind what we did there.

But uh yeah, it's it's pretty much at the very I don't know, Bridgeway, and I don't remember really.

I can I can let you know after the meeting if you'd like.

Yeah, great.

No, I'd like to have a look at um see what we're in for.

And um look forward to having dinner at the PCC and yeah, absolutely.

And a restaurant sounds good.

I spent a few weeks in Lisbon and some other spots a few years ago.

So um one thing I will say about that visit I had to Portugal.

By far some of the warmest and nicest folks throughout everywhere I went.

Um that impressed me more than almost any other place I've been on the planet, been a lot of places.

So um I think strengthening that relationship will be great.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Councilmember Nakencast.

Thank you.

Uh fantastic, all for it.

Of course, I'm gonna be the engineer.

When we come back, are we approving the actual product in the public right away?

No, that'll be a separate discussion and and process for sure that we'll need to involve our city engineer.

Yeah, that's what I was wondering if the city engineer had checked it out.

But fantastic, thank you.

For uh your follow-through in wanting, you know, to make this happen.

I think uh you're seeing some support here.

Councilmember Johnson.

I just want to say uh thanks.

I want to thank um John Polino, which is back there.

Uh his son used to work for me.

Um Tony, one of the best employees I've ever had.

And John called me and said, You need to talk to Fernando, he wants to talk to you about a project.

And so I met Fernando and then I met Jonathan and son.

And we walked downtown and we spent some time, we had some coffee and met your wife.

Thank you.

It was awesome.

Great, great time.

And then we walked through the projects, and he gave me all these ideas that he wanted to do, and he told me they were kind of up and coming, they were out there, but let's make this happen.

And we got the Japanese sister city gone done with through Jill Imping.

She contacted me.

So that project got done.

So I said, this is the time to do this right now.

Let's keep moving on this.

And the compass rose was brought to my attention, and I saw that, and I went, wow, this is like Greek artwork right there.

You know, the Portuguese have done, have done this for centuries.

Bring the history in, Nazareth's got the surfing, the mavericks, it's a perfect marriage.

It's it's tourism that's gonna be here, it's it's tourism for them, tourism for us, and the bridge between the two cultures.

This town has been Portuguese descendants for years, and this brings a piece of their home to us, and so we can all enjoy.

Um the food at PCC, I've been there a few times now, and whenever I go in there, I feel embraced.

I feel like I meet new friends every time.

I've known everybody, most of the people here are most of my uh neighbors, but when I come in to have some wine and break some bread, we've we're all one, and that's what it's all about.

And the mayor, I brought her over on Saturday, if I'm not mistaken, and she broke some bread and had some wine, and we had this beautiful stew, which is very similar to what we do this in the Swedish culture is you boil the sausage to get the oils and the flavor, and then you put the bread and you let it, and that was my dad's favorite right there.

That was a Christmas dish.

Because back then it was like peasant food, you didn't have a lot of beef, so you did what you could.

And your stew was beautiful, the bread was in there, freshly baked bread, you let it sit in there and you let it soak in all the stuff and the cabbage.

Unbelievable.

I bought a hundred and ten dollars worth of fava beans that day and gave them out to everybody.

So I want to see this project move forward.

I'm excited, Jonathan.

You did a great presentation.

Excellent, excellent.

I'm I'm excited about this.

I am behind this 100%, 1000 percent.

You know, so much of the richness and uh the enjoyment that we derive from living in Half Moon Bay, not just the ocean and the environment, but the richness of our traditions and the Portuguese traditions, the Italian traditions.

You know, for me, that's what makes our towns such a rich place and a place that I I want to belong to forever.

And so um I think it's a great idea.

I think the next step is to give direction to staff to bring back the resolution, but uh I think you have seen solid support in the council and the speakers tonight, and uh we will work on this and uh make this a go.

So thank you for a beautiful presentation.

Um, you know, in a world, in a world of conflict.

This is the kind of stuff that brings us together, and we need more of it.

So thank you for all you do.

Yeah, all right.

So I don't think we need a motion to do that.

The direction was loud and clear.

We're we're gonna keep we're gonna keep moving, so we'll we'll set up a meeting and keep it going.

Thank you.

Thank you again.

Have a good evening, everybody.

Um we are gonna move back to the uh regular agenda.

So that would be for I'm gonna save that for the end.

Yeah, um.

So the next item is item 10A, the fiscal year 26-27 recommended operating and capital budget.

Um we have seen this previously, so I don't I don't expect we need to spend a lot of time on it.

Um hopefully we can move this forward and move on to some other important things this evening.

So we'll give folks a minute to leave and then ask staff for a presentation.

Okay.

Okay, welcome.

Uh Ken.

All right.

Good evening, Madam Mayor, Council members, members of the public.

So this presentation is going to be on the fiscal year 2026-27 operating budget for next year.

Um our fiscal budget runs from July 1st to June 30th, so we're closing in on closing out this year, and looking forward to next fiscal year.

Um, this presentation, so with the budget.

Uh, our budget goes through a quite a bit of a process.

It begins all the way back in January.

Um January 29th and February 1st.

We had community listens, community listening sessions where council got to listen to the concerns and thoughts of um citizens in the city.

On March 14th, we had a council strategic planning and priority sitting workshop where council discussed through their uh priorities for this coming budget.

May 26th we compiled uh feedback and uh came up with a draft budget that we presented to the finance committee.

From there, we presented uh the full budget on June 2nd, the last council meeting, which was recorded and has much more detail uh about what's in the budget.

Um we uh didn't receive any feedback from council.

There was one additional item highlighted in the staff report that suggested, um, but other than that, most of this budget is identical to that presentation.

So we're back here tonight uh for final adoption.

So here's a summary in the highlights.

So revenues are about 24 million, which is about a decrease of about a million or five percent less.

Uh the majority of that is the loss of a major revenue stream, golf uh facility fees, and also additionally, um less one-time monies that were uh expecting this fiscal year.

For expenditures, we have a total of about 25 million, which is an increase of about 400k or about one and a half percent.

Um this is from us, the city uh contributing to our risk management fund.

So this past fiscal year, we did we decided to forego that as a deficit balancing measure, but this year we feel that we can contribute back to the risk fund.

Overall, the big highlight of this budget is that our reserves are fully funded at 12 million.

Our reserve policy is pretty um expensive, comprehensive.

Uh best practice is to have reserves at 16% of your expenditures, but our for Half Boom Bay, our reserve policy is 50% of operating expenditures.

So here's how all the numbers are laid out.

You can see reserves at $24 million, operating expenditures at $25, and capital expenditures at about $670,000.

We do have a annual deficit of about $1.5 million.

We've been dealing with and managing the deficit for a few years now.

It peaked at about a $4 million a few years back.

But now structurally it's around two.

So we're slowly but surely chipping away at that.

So even though we have a deficit of about one and a half this coming fiscal year, some things to mitigate that.

We are proposing to use prior year savings.

So the city has uh quite a bit of vacancies that we've intentionally held open as we went through uh evaluating uh the city as organizational um staffing and how the best supply services to citizens.

Our vacancy rate was about 30% for this year.

Um but somehow we still manage to keep uh providing services.

Um it's been a challenging year, but I guess the the silver lining of that is that we have a lot of salary savings coming this year.

Um gonna be gonna have we're gonna end this current year with a surplus of about two million.

So that is quite a bit of change that we can use to mitigate the deficit going into next year.

It is one time monies though, but it does help us to float us as we keep thinking more about strategic and structural changes.

Another thing we did is uh we are utilizing special revenue funds to fund our capital improvement project.

Um the general fund is only paying about 600k to capital projects, but uh we use utilizing other funds for capital projects.

Um our total CIP budget next year is 25 million.

We got there by use of grants from um special gas tax funds, things that we can only use for capital projects, but are utilizing it uh for those purposes.

And then the last point doesn't really speak to this year's deficit, but very important to mention that uh this budget cycle, the city um developed a sustainability plan that was adopted by budget uh by the council uh last meeting.

So phone balances and reserves.

Uh so we have two tables here.

The first uh higher table details out what we think we're gonna end this current fiscal year at.

We think we're gonna have a we think we're gonna end the year with about 4.2 million in unassigned fund balances.

This is directly from all of our savings that we've recurred over the year from our mostly salary savings.

Going into next year, we have a deficit of about one point half 1.5 million.

Um reserves are at 12 million, which is fully funded, and an unassigned fund balance is about two uh 2.3 million.

There are some big pinning items out there, uh still trying to uh figure out if we can renew the golf facility fees, but also another one is uh vehicle and loo fees.

These vehicle and loo fees is a section of property taxes that um the cities of San Mateo County and the state have been arguing about for the past few years on on what's uh obligated to the cities.

Um just recently the legislator uh the state uh owes us some monies, some of these monies, and the state is going to it's in the current year budget as far as making up for those back payments up to about two-thirds.

So we might see a payment of about five hundred thousand coming in.

Um this would essentially be bonus bonus funds.

Um, it's not incorporated into the budget, but once it comes in, it would fall into uh our unassigned fund balances, and what's through our normal processes would be appropriated and considered during the mid-year budget in um February and March.

There are some other items that council has to approve uh annually with the budget.

Uh one is the GAN appropriation limit.

This is a state requirement.

This is essentially saying us recognizing as a city that we can't spend more than we a particular formula for us.

It is 45 million.

We're not gonna get anywhere near spending 45 million, but it's something that um the state requires cities to acknowledge.

And the other one is the investment policy.

Uh, this is a policy that dictates how the city invests its funds.

Um, but there's no change uh since 2020.

So those are just the items for council approval.

Uh I'm happy to take questions.

Um, and the recommendation is as follows.

Uh establish the GAN appropriation limit.

Approve the city's review of the investment policy, and adopt the 2026-2027 annual operating and capital budget.

And with that, I'll take any questions.

Thank you, Ken.

Any questions from council members?

Ken, I read somewhere, and I don't know if it was this report or the last one.

Um we have like two um reserve funds, and you had like this one that you don't touch.

Can you explain that?

There's two reserve funds.

Yes, I mean bring it back.

So we have two reserve funds.

We have the general fund reserve that's at 30 percent of operating expenditures, and that is uh for catastrophic events.

Right, a big earthquake, um, things that are completely unforeseeable.

And then we have the economic uncertainty reserve.

Uh, that's at 20% of operating expenditures.

That was the most recent approved one back in 2020, and that is for uh mitigating the city through financial hardship on a short-term basis, um, whether that be uh reserve um revenues dipping um temporarily or or it may be a one-time expense or things to kind of bridge us to where we need to go.

Uh for the general fund reserve, it's about seven and a half million, and then for the economic uncertainty fund, it is about five million.

How much was it for the golf fees?

It was like six hundred thousand or like that, and then the in loo fees was seven hundred thousand?

The golf fees are about six hundred and fifty thousand, and the vehicle and loo fees.

We this the city depends on who you ask.

Um, but we is the city's position that we are the state owes us about 1.8 a year for it, we get about a million, and then we have the argue for the rest of it, has been the historical um history with that.

And on the in-LU fees, we're looking at 500,000.

Potentially, hopefully, we'll see that.

Yeah, the golf fees we need to get that on the record to see if we can get that back or work on that.

That's correct.

I have no speaker slips, but I do see a hand raised online.

Uh Sid Young.

Um excuse me, but when you're talking about the vehicle and loo fees, is that the same as the VLF fees that the county is suing the state to get back?

So you have to ask for it yourself as well, or you're waiting for the county to get the money back in your name.

City manager will address that.

Do we want to see if there's any other public comments before we respond?

I don't see any hands raised.

Okay, great.

Um, I'll just provide a little broader context for everybody.

So uh the VLF, as was noted, we call it BLF vehicle and loo fees.

It's one of the most complex financial issues I've ever seen in my 20 plus years in local government.

There was a deal done with the state and the cities and the counties um uh you know a decade or so ago to to move some money around, and um the way the formula works, um, every uh almost every other county in the state continues to get their full allotment of this.

San Mateo County is actually punished because our school, there's a connection to school districts, our school districts are doing better than other communities.

It's it's kind of a bizarre formula, and there's a few other counties that are affected by this.

It's really come to a head the last two or three years, and as the speaker said, there is an active lawsuit right now.

Um it's a coordinated lawsuit by this the county and all the cities in San Mateo County to try to get some of this money back.

But what we're really looking for is a permanent fix to this.

We don't want to have to go and argue for this every single year and um scrap for it in the budget.

They really need to get this fixed.

The formula that was developed previously worked, and as time went by, it's stopped working, and they need to correct that.

So the county is really leading this, which we appreciate.

They've got the resources to do it.

All the cities are a coalition, we're all in it together, and um there's been some positive movement as Ken shared over the last week, so we're gonna build on that and keep this moving forward.

It's an important funding source for us.

Thank you.

Uh I see no other hands raised, so I will bring it back.

Could we have the recommendation on the screen again, please?

So the motion is right there if somebody would like to make it.

I move that we establish the GAN appropriate limit for FY 2026-27.

Approve and we approve the city's review of the investment policy.

No changes for FY 26 through 27, and that we adopt the FY 2026-27 annual operating and capital budget.

Oh, second.

Could I have a roll call, please?

Councilmember Brownstone.

Yes.

Councilmember Johnson?

Yes.

Councilmember Nagengast.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Penrose?

Yes.

Mayor Raddock.

Yes.

Motion carries.

Thank you.

So we are now moving on to item 10B, which is the multifamily housing proposal on Maine and Metzger.

Good evening, Mayor and Council members.

On June 3rd, 2026, Midpen Housing submitted a notice of intent to file an SB 35 application for a project for low and very low income housing located on Maine and Metzger streets.

Tonight Midpen Housing will provide a presentation and hear feedback on the proposal.

SB 35 is a state housing law that streams line streamlines the review process in part by limiting the review to objective development standards.

In anticipation of SB 35 projects, the planning commission and the city council approve the city's objective design standards in December 2024.

However, tonight, Midpen is here to discuss its project, not the process by which the project will be reviewed.

Although it's hard to separate sometimes.

Please note that the city attorney's office will provide a presentation on the SB 35 general review process to the planning commission at its June 23rd meeting next week.

That's 7 o'clock on Tuesday here next week.

All Planning Commission meetings are recorded, and those recordings are posted on our website.

So I highly encourage anyone who wants more information about the SB 35 process to attend the planning commission meeting or watch the recording.

For now, I'd like to introduce Alison Voigt from Midpen Housing to present the proposal.

Hi.

My name is Alice Invogt.

Thank you for this opportunity this evening to share the Metzgirt Street project.

Okay, I'm gonna just make sure I know how this works really.

Okay, awesome.

Okay.

Yes, my name's Alison Vogt.

I am a project manager with Midpen Housing Corporation and one piece of the Metzger Street project team.

I'm joined here this evening by our project director, Nestreen Kawar, our senior vice president Abby Potlery, and our project associate Natalie Chu.

Our architect team, Herman Colliber Locus Architects, are also here, and we'll walk through the design a little later on in this presentation.

We are proud to build on Midpen Housing Corporation's legacy of providing 100% affordable homes in the Bay Area, including thriving communities on the coast side and in here in Half Moon Bay.

Our mission is to provide safe, affordable housing of high quality to those in need and to establish an stability and opportunity in the lives of our residents.

We are not only affordable housing developers, but by providing ongoing management and services to our residents, we are deeply invested in the communities we serve.

Our purpose for presenting to you all tonight is to introduce the project and the proposed design to the council and the public ahead of our formal entitlement submittal.

This meeting is a critical part of our community engagement, and we hope you can provide feedback on our current design iteration so we can address prior to submitting our formal entitlement application.

We also want to cover our entitlement approach.

We are using streamlined ministerial entitlement pathway under SB 35.

Now to introduce the Metzger Street project, starting first with our bedrock goals for this project.

First and foremost, our purpose is to provide much needed affordable housing for working families in Half Moon Bay and the coast.

I shared Midpen's mission on an earlier slide, and we are deeply committed to continuing that mission in Halfman Bay.

The second goal captures our approach for the development of the Metcer Street project.

We understand that affordable housing is an urgent need, and we are facing a lot of change in the affordable housing landscape.

As good stewards of public funding and to provide affordable homes efficiently, we are implementing strategies to contain costs at the outset of the project.

Finally, Midpen uh Half Moon Bay is a deeply rewarding place to continue our mission.

Last week we had a community engagement meeting at our Half Moon Village property, and we were able to check in with current residents, your neighbors and fellow community members.

We hope to provide the same health, stability, and dignity to the future residents of the Metzger Street project.

So what are we proposing?

The project will address the city's low and very low RENA requirement, providing 52 units towards a combined 285 units needed to fulfill the lower RENA requirement.

The 940 Main Street 940 Main Street is identified in the housing opportunity sites list in the city's sixth cycle housing element to address the RENA requirement based on the allowed density under the local coastal land use plan.

This represents about 18% of the lower RENA requirement.

The Metzger Street Project is a 100% affordable housing project located on the western undeveloped portion of the 940 Main Street parcel.

Our architects will cover the design in more detail, but I'll cover the basics.

We are proposing a three three-story walk-up buildings that will contain 52 units.

The units range in size from one to three bedrooms.

There will be two surface parking lots accessed from main Metzger Street.

A little bit more about our future residents at the Metzger Street project.

The project will serve individuals and families earning up to 60% area meeting income for San Mateo County.

As a requirement of our funding for the county of San Mateo, we are reserving three units for individuals and families earning up to 15% AMI.

We are also committed to providing at least 25% of our units for farm worker households, totaling 13 units.

The remainder of these project units will be provided to income qualifying individuals and families.

The families work in essential jobs that are the backbone of cities like Half Moon Bay, including restaurant workers, hospitality workers, caregivers, educators, and paraeducators.

With that introduction, I'd like to pass our presentation to our architect team who can walk through the proposed design and approach.

Hi everyone, my name is Emma Ramoy.

I'm with Herman Culliver Locust Architecture.

As the architects for nearby Half Moon Village, which was built about 10 years ago, just one block away, we know this neighborhood well.

We are approaching this new 100% affordable project with that same sensitivity to the area's coastal and agrarian character and small town feel, carrying forward the lessons we learned from our success at Half Moon Village.

The view on the screen is from Metzger Street, looking northeast at the proposed project.

Respecting the fabric of the existing neighborhood, these buildings are three-story walkups with staggered gabled roofs to reduce the massing and scale.

A simple palette of painted board and batten and lap siding features neutral earthy tones that mirror the native vegetation and weathered hues of the coastline.

Okay.

The western building houses our community room and residence services, marked by a vibrant facade reminiscent of rural barns.

The structures are clustered around three generous garden courtyards to maximize the open space.

The largest courtyard seen here features community gathering areas, seating, and a playground for resident families.

The project features 52 apartments across three walk-up buildings, offering a mix of one, two, and three bedroom apartments.

15% of these homes are fully accessible and located on the ground floor.

To keep the heart of the development pedestrian-friendly and safe, we've pushed the parking lots to the far west and east edges.

We are providing 64 on-site parking spaces, which is greater than a one-to-one ratio.

The buildings are also set back from neighbors, buffered with landscaping, and the project will include accessible sidewalk and street improvements along Metzger Street.

By ranging the structures sequentially along the narrow site, we've created an open design with north-south sight lines through the development and a residential scale street presence.

The structures are threaded together by three landscaped outdoor courtyards, which include raised vegetable planting beds and children's play structures for the residents.

Open air walkways connect the apartments and recessed terraces on the upper floors frame views of the ocean to the west and the mountains to the east.

Finally, we want to acknowledge the community outreach meeting we held on June 4th.

We fielded comments regarding the northern property line setback, the Metzger Street improvements, neighborhood parking traffic, and the building colors.

We plan to address this valuable feedback as is feasible as the design develops.

Building on the success of nearby Half Moon Village, we are committed to a project that will be a safe, beautiful, and well integrated asset to the neighborhood.

I'll just quickly cover our intentions for what we plan to include with our formal entitlement application.

So I will jump into what we plan to uh apply for.

Um we will apply with for SB 35, um, which is a ministerial streamlined process, and that is CEQA exempt.

Um we will also be applying for a coastal development permit, which is processed administratively.

Uh we will be um applying for a state density bonus to allow for a 2% density increase.

This also allows our project concessions and waivers from certain development standards.

And finally, we'll be applying for a uh tentative parcel map.

Uh this is also processed ministerially when coupled with an SB 35 application and will effectively separate the William Metzger house from the development area.

This historic home will not be included in the Metzger Street project.

Emma covered our community engagement meeting.

Uh I just want to add here that we had 98 community members attend, and it was uh great to hear the feedback that Emma shared earlier.

Um, our goal is to take the feedback from our open house and what we hear tonight and address it in our formal entitlement application.

We welcome any feedback from the council and public tonight, and we appreciate your consideration of our project and our future residents.

Finally, I'll briefly go over our development timeline.

This year we have focused on our entitlement preparation, including preparing the design we shared with you tonight with the streamlined entitlement processing.

We hope to receive our entitlement approvals by the end of the year or early next year.

2027 will be focused on submitting for building permits and securing financing.

As we described to the council in December, if we are able to secure financing next year, then we can start construction as soon as late 2027.

We anticipate construction ending in mid-2029, and there will be a focus, and there we will focus on leasing up to residents that will turn Metzger Street from a project to a community.

Thank you for your time this evening.

We are available for your questions and eager to hear your feedback.

Thank you.

Any clarifying questions from council members?

Okay, um, so the the main purpose of this item tonight is to hear from the public and allow the public and the council to uh ask questions.

Um council members will not be expressing, you know, opinions.

Um, it's basically information only this evening, so I just wanted to remind everybody about that.

So I will start with the speaker slips and I have Paul Lippert.

He's he's left the meeting.

Okay.

Um the next speaker is Carolina Carbajal.

Just a those.

Uh good evening to all.

Uh Venga and Cirlis.

So I'm here before you to let you know what a beautiful project that they've presented to us this evening.

So I would like for the community to really come together and unite the same way that the community came together like this other project for Portugal.

This is an excellent project for our community.

The same as 555 Kelly.

So Latino Community and Low-income people are also a resource for a cultural aspect.

So housing projects for our community are very important.

And it's really sad that instead of supporting these projects, there's a lot of people kind of getting together to oppose them.

We would like as a community to have more housing projects.

It's something that we need for all of our workers.

So aside from all of that, we work really hard for the community.

From teachers to housekeepers, cleaners.

Because the community needs it.

Because they're afraid.

But I just want to say this.

Before we're deported or kind of run out of the country.

I want it to be very clear that here in Hapmo Bay there's a huge need for housing.

And so we're trying to bring this to the light.

Gracias.

Thank you.

Chad Hooker.

Hi, Chad Hooker.

I'm on the architectural design review committee.

Architectural advisory we call ourselves.

And I'm not here speaking specifically about that.

But I want to say that I'm I'm excited to see what this SB 35 thing means.

I think it's uh long overdue that we figure out how to avoid endless reviews and delays and meetings that go on forever and design specs that are uh poorly defined up front and therefore almost impossible for architects to meet and so on.

I'm excited to see how this goes forward, and I think it'd be an interesting test of the SP 35 process and how it works in this town.

So in that regard, I think this is good.

But I do need to say something to the architectural team.

We worked pretty hard on the objective design standards a couple of years ago, and from the renderings I see tonight, it's like they've never been looked at, like they've never been seen at all.

There are requirements in there about offsets to walls, roof overhangs, quite a number of things, and I I really think it's important that you recognize that the council, the planning commission, and the AAC felt that there were appropriate design uh features that belong in this town, and that's why we went to the effort to make objective design standards, and I do think they need to be adhered to in this regard.

It's my hope that City Council will require that the staff that does the review of this looks carefully at the design standards and is you know, uses reasonable enforcement.

I think we've got a mechanism here to understand up front what the expectation is to design to it and to look at it and go, yeah, that meets it.

Let's build let's get people moved in, and that's what I'd like to see.

But I do think you gotta put some serious eyes on those design standards.

Thank you for your attention.

Thank you, Chad.

The next speaker is Ellie Carniglia.

Hi, my name is Ellie Carnelia.

Oh, like down, thank you.

Yes.

Uh my name is Ellie.

Uh we live on Metzger Street.

Please speak a little louder, okay?

Uh huh.

We live on Metzger Street, uh, in the middle of the street across from this project.

Um, we are not opposed to this project or affordable housing or midpen housing, which I mean we live near the Half Moon village, which is very nice.

Uh Main Street Park.

Um the problem we have is the density proposed, which is higher than anything here in town.

Um with 52 units, uh, that's likely to be around a hundred cars at least.

Um I think the issue is more that they aren't providing enough parking, and it's just the density is too great for our street, and I think we do need more affordable housing, but we can't put huge projects like that.

Um we will I mean I think we'll really feel the consequence of that with the amount of traffic and uh there's already parking issues with the main street park, and they have much more parking provided and much less density.

Um it's all on their website.

Uh Main Street Park has like 14.9 units per acre.

This one is around 35 units per acre, and uh it provides a lot less parking.

So, no, I don't have an issue with this in general or the midpen housing, but I think it is much too many units.

So thank you.

Thank you.

The next speaker is Raina Diaz.

Hello, everyone, and thank you for the opportunity to speak.

Like my neighbor in Ellie, I am not against the proposal.

I'm only really concerned about the tree storage and the density.

I think that we have a beautiful view, and with three storage is way too high, and there are from what I could see, there are not enough trees to really bring nature in be more blending with Half Home Bay.

I like what this gentleman talked about.

About the codes for the city.

And parking is not a problem.

People mentioned the housing where the park is on Main Street.

And yeah, parking is really difficult for them.

I know even at nighttime, people are coming to park their cars on Metzgar, and trying to always find every single space.

They are parked bumper to bumper.

And it's really sad.

So the one thing I will don't really want to see is a three-storage buildings and not enough trees to cover the faces, because I really love to see nature.

Like this lady's mention.

All they need housing.

So we really need low, low income housing, but also housing that is decent and is good for the town, especially if we want to go internationally.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

The next speaker is James Habby.

Could I ask Alice to put up the uh development plan again, the map?

So you can see.

Yes.

So my name's James Habey.

Um good evening, Mayor, Council members.

I represent Michael Svanovik, who lives on the corner at 950 Main Street, which is Maine and Metzger.

Find my spot.

Apologize.

Michael, I would say arguably has one of the best looking gardens in the entire Half Moon Bay area.

And I know he's extremely proud of the compliments he gets from it.

The Metzro project has 52 units.

Probably will bring up to 88 parking cars, who are going to be going up and down Metzger.

Metzger's already extremely busy with the senior center with all the events, yoga classes, the Thursday night dinners, the school that lets in and out at 8 a.m.

and 3 p.m.

every day.

They are, as others said, currently using all of that dirt path on the side of Metzger.

Our biggest contention if you look at the map is that there is a city-owned plot that goes from Poplar into the project.

There was some negotiation.

And they were not comfortable committing to using that property at all since they were not able to secure the corner lot on Highway 1 and Poplar.

By requiring that or mandating that that piece of land and access in and out of the project would eliminate about 50% of the traffic that's going to be on Metzker already.

And 88 additional cars won't be safe for the students, for the senior centers, and certainly not Michael walking up and down Main Street with a cane, trying to have a normal life.

We support the project.

But I think you have to mandate that access to Poplar.

That's critical, it's critical for fire department, it's critical for emergency services, the ambulances to get over the hill into San Mateo quickly and efficiently.

And we hope you'll consider that after the CASP review.

Please take a look at that and see if it makes sense from a safety standpoint.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Heather Birchitz Vanovic.

Did I pronounce that correctly?

Close.

Close enough.

Okay.

Hi, members of the council.

I'm here to formally express my concerns regarding the safety and well-being of our town's residents, but particularly our most vulnerable community members.

The presentation points to the safety of the residents in the new housing, which I absolutely applaud.

However, I strongly urge the council and you to prioritize safety for the residents of the local senior center and the children attending Seacrest School located directly behind it as you deliberate on this project.

If you stand in front of my father's house during the school year, during the morning, and in the afternoon, you will see the traffic that is in front of the house and on our street and the kids that cross that intersection all morning and all afternoon.

Others have mentioned the excessive traffic that the Metzger project will force onto the small, quiet, dead-end street.

It will overburden the corner of Main Street in Metzger.

I really truly fear for the seniors who do cross the street.

They don't just live in that facility, they actually leave the facility too.

I fear for those kids, and I fear for my father, who's trusting that everybody else is going to look at his cane as he crosses that street, which he does daily, multiple times a day.

Aside from safety, I would also like to ask if the heritage trees on Metzger are being taken under consideration.

The way the plans are drawn up currently, these trees will be damaged andor destroyed.

I'm not speaking of the eucalyptus, you can take that.

But I am talking about the last remaining trees from the orchard that was once attached to the 940 Main Street property.

As our Portuguese brother earlier mentioned, our agricultural roots in Hafen, they are strong, and I would hate to see these trees gone.

Let me end by saying that I'm not against the project, just that the logistics desperately need to be tweaked, like Jim said.

Look at the access to Poplar.

Give us egress to Poplar.

That's close to the freeway.

It's easier for everybody to get and out.

It's already got sidewalks.

The street is already ready for it.

And there's no kids crossing the street.

The amount of traffic on those children and the seniors aren't going to be there.

So I truly ask you to consider that, all of you.

And actually, I have one really quick question too, because I kind of after looking at this.

Who's going to maintain the greenery on the street?

Because when we walk down Happen Bay, we also know that half of the greenery that's on the street, you walk down the sidewalk, you got the little green closer to the street.

Half that greenery is taken by the residents.

They take care of it.

I know my father takes care of his side.

So a lot of it does not look great.

So I'd rather get rid of some of that greenery and just have the sidewalk.

Because unless you all are taking care of that part, that greenery, there's no reason to have that problem there.

Anyway, thank you for your time, your dedication to our town.

Thank you.

The next speaker is Evelyn D'Souza.

Good evening, Mayor and Council members, mid-peninsula and city staff.

My name is Evelyn D'Souza.

The development at 940 Main Street will be the first three-story building ever built on a residential street in Half Moon Bay.

And at that, a narrow dead-end street.

It deserved a conversation with the people who live on these streets before the plans were drawn, not after.

Plans have been circulating for at least three years.

Three years, and not one resident of Metzga or Poplar Street was proactively notified.

You've noticed that there's a lot of us in attendance tonight.

Not when the scale became clear, or that is three-story structure would cast significant shade across neighboring properties, not to mention the traffic and parking impacts.

Even when not legally required, most cities proactively reach out to residents for projects of this scale.

While we are very grateful to City Manager Matthew Chittister for committing city engineer Day La Data to a traffic mitigation study, it cannot be where the conversation ends.

To mid-peninsular housing, you have a fantastic reputation.

We welcome you and look forward to you to partnering with you openly and to you partnering with us every step of the way.

And to each of you on the council, city staff, come walk these streets with us.

See the width of the road.

See the parking already strained on an ordinary day.

See what happens at 3 30 in the afternoon with school children and seniors trying to navigate crossing Main Street.

Stand at what are two big major traffic hotspots and tell us what mitigations you plan.

I close with this question to the council and to city staff.

Tell us what that commitment looks like and when it begins.

Thank you.

The next speaker is Joaquin Jimenez.

Good evening.

For many years, I was a resident of Main Street Park.

That was when I was a young teacher in our community.

I was a resident there for many years.

Now my daughter, who just graduated from college, to become a teacher here on the coast.

It is a resident on the same location.

Or young teachers.

If you look into the what is uh to be considered to be uh low income, the poverty level in Samateo County, you're gonna see for a household you have to make less than a hundred twenty thousand dollars a year.

Young teachers making $60, $65, sixty-five thousand dollars a year.

So that is low income.

Also, or in house, uh the residents of uh uh the shelter, it's a possibility for them to go in the location like that.

So we do need housing.

I have a I uh I agree, you know, there's some consequences of parking, but every location that you we find in the coast, including half one bay, there's gonna be an issue with housing.

There's gonna be an issue with traffic.

Not this, is that being is that being questioned?

But we are talking about is about the mid-pain housing, has been providing housing for underserved community for low-income community, affordable housing.

For those of you who do not understand what affordable housing is, and I know we have a lot of residents in halfway, do not understand that that means your rent is based on the income, the yearly income, you know, that you bring to the household.

It does not mean you know you are a low-income person, it means you are, you know, you are you're paying your rent based on that.

So, no, thank you for bringing the uh this project you know uh forward.

Uh that location, it was uh one of the locations that what you just talked about, uh about a possible location uh to bring housing out to our community, and it is an opportunity, you know, or uh the reading cycle is coming along pretty quick, and uh hopefully by that by then uh this location will be built, you know, with a sport that community, and yes, you know, have more meetings, have more people come forward and support project like this because we would need them.

So thank you.

Thank you.

The next speaker is Rick Hernandez.

Good evening.

I'm Rick Hernandez.

I'm a member of the planning commission.

I helped put together the objective design standards that we're talking about here.

I also walked by all of your houses for 11 years, uh, walking my kids to Seacrest almost every day.

And um I support this project, I think it's a very important project.

Uh we have an obligation as a city to provide orderly planned development.

We want to have control of that development.

We are behind schedule to meet our housing needs for this housing cycle.

We have 480 units of housing that we need to plan for, and we are not meeting that.

If we don't meet our standards, we're gonna lose control.

If we block projects, this three-story project will turn into a five-story project, and we'll have more five-story projects through Builders Remedy.

So I think it's very important that we treat this as an opportunity to come together, and I do think you guys are a partner.

Uh I've spoken with the architecture team.

I'm impressed with the work they did in Half Moon Village.

I think there are definitely things that need to be addressed.

Uh the circulation is a problem.

Uh, the bike, we need to have bike access, we can have pedestrian access, and we need to figure out how can we improve the access on Metzger.

I'm not sure about adjoining Poplar, but you know, there's some concerns there about how do we connect us to the bike trails, how do we connect us to the sidewalks?

But overall, I think this is a very good project.

It's a very good start.

It's a great use of the space, it's not dominated by parking.

Uh, there's lots of landscaping, it's beautiful, and there are opportunities to improve it.

I also agree with Chad Hooker's points, and I've shared this with the design team.

Our objective design standards are not reflected in this project, but it's a good start.

So there are things that need to be done, and I have confidence that you guys will work with us as partners, and I really encourage you to sit down with the neighbors, because I think you can address a lot of their concerns, and I think you can invite them to look at the other projects you've done.

I think this has a tremendous opportunity to bring us together.

So thank you for being proactive.

I know it would have been nice to see the plan sooner, but we can make this a lot better.

Thank you.

Thank you, Rick.

The next speaker is Nancy Fontana.

Oops.

Can I talk?

Okay.

I wasn't really planning on speaking on this, but something tweaked my I just had to.

Um I had occasion to go to an arc one of the architectural review committee meetings by accident, but I stayed and learned a lot, and I think they're what they do is really really valuable.

And I don't understand how that wasn't incorporated.

I don't know if it's a procedural thing.

I don't know if the city should at first get them involved early on, so we're not here at a meeting tonight bringing that up.

But at any rate, I do value what they do, and I was surprised that they didn't the architects and uh applicant, I'm sorry, maybe weren't aware of it.

I'm not sure.

The other thing I'm starting to notice is, and I don't know if there's a solution, but we're getting projects.

We need housing, so we're gonna be getting these projects.

And I understand the Kelly project uh did not is for seniors, so there's no playground.

Um I believe Stone Pine has a playground, but it's for just those residents.

This project is going to have a playground for its residents.

The only park in central is Carter, which is great, but in a residential area, oh, in the places on Main Street.

I don't know that their um parks and play area is open to non-resident children.

And I'm a little concerned of the number of places we're getting that are open just exclusively for residents of a development, and there's not enough for just people that live in the residential areas.

I I think that I don't know what the solution would be, but I think it's too bad that people right across the street or people in the neighborhood that might be impacted by this, yet their kids, if they have small children, don't have a place to play.

And I think that has to be put into some of the planning stuff early on, and but uh I think it's great they're providing that, but I'm getting concerned that the the other residents are being left out, and we're getting little parks all over just for exclusive use.

And the last thing is I'm disappointed that people feel they're being minimalized.

I don't like the Moon Ridge project.

I felt right away when I heard about it.

I said, gosh, they they're being that's not right.

They should be in and part of the community.

And I think they've made they've come to meetings and and said and made their voices loud and clear, and in good great numbers.

So I think that that was a little bit of an exaggeration.

Thank you.

Uh, just one correction.

I believe the the park in the Stone Pond is actually open to the community.

That's correct.

The city council entered into an agreement with the county so that we maintain it and it's now a city park open to the public.

Okay, I wasn't aware of that, but that's good.

Thank you, Nancy.

The next speaker is Rocio Avala Garcia.

So, Madam Mayor, uh Ms.

Avila is gonna provide her comment, and after she's finished, I'll provide you with a site translation.

Hola, buenas noches, members del Concilio, personnes presentes.

But me da mucha pen and tristeza que siempre que se presenta a project of vivienda, for alguna razon no les gusta el lugar donde se area la vivienda.

The vivienda que se está viviendo aquí.

It's triste saber que las personas canon necessitan una vivienda sean las que decidan si se construy el 55 Cinco Kelly.

I want to express my support for the project, housing project here in Metzger that was presented by Midpen.

And you council members know that there's a great need in these types of places in these conditions in which many families live in.

For a reason or another, you'll say that you don't like the place.

But the one thing I wanted to bring up that I'm most concerned about is regarding the who gets the first opportunity to live live in this project.

And I'm hoping that people that actually work in Half Moon Bay somehow get that first shot because I think that's really what this all is all about is to support our community.

Thank you.

Thank you, Greg.

We're moving now to um persons with hands raised online.

Uh the first speaker is Michael Ferreira.

Good evening, Mayor Reddit Council members.

Mike Ferrara, Half Moon Bay.

I would just like to say that I was enthusiastic about what I saw on the flyer that Midpen put out, and I went to their meeting.

Looking forward with joy to be able to see a project like this in its location.

And uh I asked some questions, got some good answers.

I didn't like the red paint as a view from the highway, but that sounds like something that can be fixed.

But the I then heard SB 63-423, two laws that do nothing more than uh disrespect city government and democracy, as is the case with many of Senator Wiener's bills, and I don't quite understand how this project would work in this town, with this under those constraints.

Already we've heard some pretty reasonable comments about this project.

It didn't get done to community standards, so will staff fix that.

Uh I don't understand how the street works with SB uh 35 slash 423.

If they're gonna rebuild the street and the sidewalks, is that part of the project?

It's a public street, so I don't understand how that falls under SB 35 slash 423.

I went on the web, I see that uh prime soils.

Uh you can't use SB 35 on prime soils.

I don't think there's any more prime soils in all of Half Moon Bay than on that property.

But still in all, what's there is the makings of a good project.

Overall, I kind of like the way they separated buildings instead of making it one big block.

So that would respond to some of the people's worries about sunlight.

Uh uh the parking is not great, but it sure beats the heck out of 555 with 40 units and 80 occupancies and 18 parking places, so 65 sounds pretty good to me.

Uh, if the I don't know where all the boundaries of the street are relative to the city's right-of-way.

Uh and I don't understand how all of this can just be dumped in the planning department, or a go stamp or a no-go stamp, or I guess they don't even get a no-go stamp.

I don't even understand how that process works.

I don't understand how the council oversees its own staff on this project.

Excuse me, Mike, but your time is up.

Um, sorry.

But I think the uh the planning commission meeting next Tuesday night at seven o'clock here.

Um it's probably a good place to be to learn a lot more.

The next speaker is Sid Young.

Thank you.

Um I guess I'll piggyback a little bit on what Mike had to say, but again, Scott Wiener has put in so many different legislations that basically take cities chances away to control their own destinies.

And while I'm in favor of what Mid Penn has to do, I've I attended every single one of their meetings up in Moss Beach when they put in the Cypress Point project.

And it wasn't till really later on that they came to us and asked about post-side design review, the color scheme.

They had it barn red for the whole thing.

And finally we said, come on, you know, put in some coastal colors, blues, greens, that sort of thing.

And they I think they did change the color scheme finally.

But um, and fortunately they did put in because it's so remote up there, they did put in two parking places per unit.

But this one is like one parking place per unit.

So the problem is they don't have any way of um legislating who gets in and how many cars they have.

They'll take you on your um, you know, what's the word how much you make per year, but they don't say how how many cars you have before they let you in.

So they're not gonna be able to legislate how many people are parking cars on that property, or or if you come in and you say you don't have any cars, but you really have two.

So that's gonna be a problem for the existing neighbors.

It's gonna create street parking wars, etc.

But there's nothing that you can do about it.

Um, and then also in the um housing, um, San Mateo County um suddenly came along and said, Oh, well, now we're gonna put two, I think it was two or four homeless people, 18 farm workers up there in mid-Penn at Cypress Point, and they never mentioned it the whole time they were planning the project.

That's fine, I don't care.

You know, but they never put any seniors up there at all.

And we've all along from the very beginning, we said that would be ideal for seniors because seniors don't drive as much.

So it wouldn't create a big commute problem up and down highway one.

Um, and so I don't know.

I mean, I I see parking as an issue on every single property that you guys have been um trying to put through, especially the 555 Kelly.

And you don't have much choice because of Scott Wiener's rules.

That's all I have to say.

I think it's you know, gonna go through, you're gonna put Metzger in, and I think the neighbors do have an issue, but what are what can you do?

You have the state breathing down your necks.

Thank you, Sid.

Next speaker is James.

Hi, uh, my name is James Carnelia.

I actually live on at 632 Metzger Street, uh so right across the field.

Um I'm actually not opposed to building that lot at all.

Um, if anything, I encourage building on the lot.

The only issue that I really have with building is the units and the parking, as it's been mentioned over and over again.

I mean, it's just really simple math.

You have 52 units, and you have two people living in each unit, that's 104 cars potentially, um, and then you sprinkle in some additional people who just so happen to live in the building too, and then all of a sudden you're, you know, 120 or something like that.

And um I don't know if the midpen has actually looked at this, but our street on Metzger is actually a spillover for um a couple communities.

Uh, the senior housing, uh, they actually park up and down our block already, uh, which creates additional parking uh congestion.

Arnold Way, that uh, those townhouses over there are always struggling with parking, and they come in and they park down Metzger as well.

And then you have Seacrest, the school.

When there's big events, um, it basically blows parking out of the water down our street.

Um, so you have those those three items, and then you have the limited parking that the people are going to be having inside of these units.

Um I see there's no way but to have a parking crunch.

And um, like I said, I'm a part of the BPAC, the pedestrian, um, the bicycle pedestrian committee for the city of Halfing Bay.

And I would love for there to be less parking.

Um, but I would love these people to live in these housing and be able to get around town.

But I think we really have to be serious here.

We live in a car-dependent um city.

If they wanted to get to Safeway, it's a track, you need a car.

If they need to go to the hospital, you need a car.

Uh it's just unfortunate, and the public transportation in Halfkin Bay, it's there, but it's not great.

It's very infrequent, um, and it's very cumbersome.

So, and I would love to say that they could ride their bikes, but when you're you have uh, you know, a family of three uh loading a bike up, going through uh what main street and highway one is not many people are willing to do it.

Um so again, I think the parking is really just a big problem, and I think the fix to that is probably just to lower the units.

Um, but uh like I said before, I'm not opposed to it at all.

Um, and so thank you very much for allowing me to speak.

Thank you, James.

I can ask the next speaker is Dan Haggerty.

Uh good evening, Madam Mayor and Council.

Um I want everyone to know that I fully understand the need for affordable housing for our lower paid community members.

Um, and I'm not happy with the Sacramento laws that are unfairly taking away our local control.

Um regards to this project, I suggest a two-story project that blends better with the community and has less impact of density.

Um essentially the the sardine can living situation that would eventually evolve.

Uh I want to say that um excuse me, the the birds in our community have no interest in nesting on the roofs of these taller structures, and they will block sunlight for other trees to thrive.

I grow vegetables, so I understand the potential loss of sunlight to the surrounding neighbors.

I want all the appropriate vegetation to have a fair chance with fair and sufficient sunlight.

Um I feel the employers of the visitor-serving community should help fill the gap of worker housing needs and be spread out more thinly around the coast side community as it's truly needed and feasible.

Instead of only forcing impacts on the community members that live or use um this area, agree with Chad Hooker that the architectural elements should blend better with the town character.

And um, in my opinion, what was shown to me appears essentially cheap.

Um I think I think that um I think they can do better.

And um, you know, once something's built, um all the people that live here, include and and also visitors that come to here, come to our community for the reasons of uh escaping the metropolis of the other side and the region to to relax.

Um, so um that's all I have to say.

Thank you.

Thank you, Dan.

The next speaker is Ken Chan.

Uh good evening, Captain Bay City Council members.

My name is Ken Chan, and I'm the organizing manager with the Housing Lease Housing Leadership Council at San Mateo County.

We work with committees and their leaders to produce and observe quality affordable homes.

On behalf of HLC, I'd like to express our support for the Metzgar Street proposal by Ms.

Pent Housing, a nonprofit uh affordable housing developer with more than 55 years of experience in creating and managing quality affordable homes throughout our communities.

Your city uh continues to face a shortage of affordable homes for the very people like your teachers, your service workers, and your farm workers who make your community such a great place to live.

The Metzcar Street proposal is an opportunity to help address that challenge by creating 52 affordable homes.

Um apportable housing, it's not just about the look of a building, it's about helping the very people who make your city such a great place to live and remain and for them to remain where they work.

I appreciate all the work that's gone into this proposal and encourage the city to work collaboratively with MedPent Housing to ensure that these much needed affordable homes can be delivered to your community as quickly as possible.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Ken.

Those are the only speakers we have this evening on this item.

So I will bring it back uh to the city council.

And um I would ask the city attorney to uh just provide direction on the uh the extent of the council's ability to to comment this evening.

It's the purpose of this evening, the presentation this evening was to give the council and the public an opportunity to become familiar with the project and and receive some information about the project, it is part of the process, um, as was discussed by uh director Lako that there is a SB 35 statutory requirement for the process, and um this hearing tonight is part of that process.

So this evening the council can ask questions of the applicants and um discuss any uh things that they heard tonight and ask for clarifications that they'd like from the applicant on certain topics.

But this oh sorry, oh I'm I apologize.

Uh Mr.

Hernandez, I think you sorry, I was waiting for you to finish.

Uh our lovely attorney advised me uh that I did not clarify that I was speaking on my own behalf.

So that's all.

And thank you.

Welcome to the city.

So with uh that was an important clarification.

Um, so that's that's really the scope of this evening's um process.

Uh council members, clarifying questions.

Uh Councilmember Nagencast.

Thank you.

So, staff's gonna review this.

This is why we did the objective design standards so they could design some for staff to review.

So, sta has staff gone through any comments yet.

So, we don't we don't have a project application yet.

We have a notice of intent, um, which is a notice that they intend to submit an application.

And they they have this process so that um we can start tribal consultation.

There's there were 17 tribes that we sent letters out to um and so that we can confirm that their project actually does qualify for SB 35.

So that's what we have in front of us right now.

So what I'm trying to understand, so we're just gonna throw out a bunch of stuff.

As a council, we're just gonna throw out a bunch of things like okay.

I'll just say I don't like the red paint.

Is that a comment from council?

That would be a comment from council.

Um, I mean, you can you know, for a while, why the red paint, yes.

Because I'll go in uh, you know, if you're doing a subdivision here, um, are there full street improvements going in on Mescar?

Or, you know, there's some things to me.

I would be, but I don't know if our city engineer has looked at this, right?

Because then I start putting on my engineer has fire looked at.

I look at emergency access.

Can we have some kind of something off Highway One?

Right.

You know, I know there's discussion here off Poplar, but so I feel a little weird trying to comment on, you know, that are is it gonna come back to us again?

I'll let Director Rico answer that, but I I think again that we're at the very preliminary stages.

The complete application has not been submitted, so yeah.

So we so we don't have an application, and when we do get an application, then it will be routed to those bodies that typically we route applications to that review it for completeness, and then um in as part of that review, it's it's hard not to also look at whether or not it it meets our standards objective standards for development and design.

So we'll do a completeness review when we get a complete application, then we will look more seriously at the objective standards and designs.

Um but right now it it is a time to see what's before us and provide preliminary feedback.

Um we're working with midpen housing, who has a pretty good history of taking that feedback and working with it.

So this is the first chance.

Um it does not have to come back to council.

Um that's part of that's part of the law.

Um, even the map subdivision map.

I'm not sure about that.

So my understanding is they're gonna submit a personal map, which doesn't necessarily need to be approved by the council.

Interesting.

Okay.

So then I could I just list just some things in general that looking at a quick picture, red paint, and then I would also look at the emergency access somehow off one, in case something's on uh main, you know, if main's clogged.

Now that I know you can't have access off Highway One, not asking for that, but just I don't know.

I assume FIRE would comment on some of these things.

That's something I would look at.

I would look at full improvements on Mesker because it's gonna be utilized.

Uh yeah, fire will have a chance to provide comments as well.

Okay, and that's just my initial, you know, looking at it.

Who's next?

Vice Mayor.

Yeah, I'm wondering about the consideration for Half Moon Bay residents as um as residents of the project.

Yeah, preferences.

And through the mayor, I guess this is a question for the applicant.

Yeah, yeah, um, I think that's something that uh we're willing to explore, um, ensuring that fair housing laws are being met and then it's not in conflict with any of the requirements of our public lenders.

Um we can work closely with city staff to follow up about that preference, but it might have to be a coast side reference or a countywide preference.

I know with 555 Kelly, we have a provision where Hafo Bay residents get first priority, coastside residents, second priority, and I would like to see that sort of a system set up.

I think yes, that's something we can explore with city staff.

Okay.

Um the other thing I'd like to say is I I have to agree with Chad Hooker's um comments.

Um, not to um put down the architects renderings, but I do think a little more in and out on the buildings and not such flat size, especially when it's three stories high, it makes it look even higher and more forbidding.

A lot of windows on a blank wall.

Um, yeah, I don't like the color red either.

You said that there were how many parking spaces.

64.

So that would seem to me be plenty of parking spaces.

What did happen?

I don't know what happened with the city's discussion about access on an easement through through to Poplar Street.

I know that was part of the discussion, but I didn't I never heard what happened.

There were some early discussions about that, but that's not currently included, but we're open to continue to talk about that for sure.

Okay, good.

Because that could provide emergency access to and from the project.

Okay.

Thanks.

That's all I need.

Councilmember Johnson, can any questions or comments?

Um I like the project.

Um I noticed there was some parking changes because I remember seeing it was the parking was behind before.

It wasn't, wasn't it Leslie be changed before or did I am I looking at a different project?

Parking was in a different position before.

I don't think I ever saw any plans before these plans.

Yeah.

So I think they may have had some early plans when I was something where they were behind the buildings.

Yes, that was uh an early concept design that we considered, like more of in a feasibility stage of whether or not um we should you know pursue the purchasing the um 940 main street and what kind of project it could support.

Um but after that feasibility stage uh we moved forward with um uh Herman Colliver Locust Architects, and um we have removing or we have this design.

Which I think is uh looks a lot better.

I noticed that right away.

It's off in one corner.

Is that is that the corner by the highway one, or is that on the uh which side is the parking in there because I couldn't really see the map.

Oh um, there's a uh west and east parking.

Got it.

So the the only thing I is the red building did catch me, and everybody's bringing that up.

I know you guys want that barn thing, but we're not into the barn thing if it's not a barn.

Um and the earth tone colors are definitely would like start working with the pallets, work with Chad Hooker.

Uh we went through a lot of design kind of designing.

If somebody were to come in and say, well, if you don't build it, we will build it.

So we had some design concepts that we came up with in the beginning of the year.

Uh little tweaks that make it look different.

I work, I work in an area where I see a lot of the housing, and I'm not against midpen at all.

I'm just saying we want something that looks different than a midpen housing and San Mateo.

Um, using that example where I'm at on 20th, they all look the same.

So looking unique would be cool.

A lot of little details with Chad Hooker was always good at.

He makes and he did a lot of work with the 555 Kelly building.

If you look at the pre-what they came out with and what they finalized with, it was a lot of great tweaking, if you would, and I think the community enjoyed it at the end of the day.

Most of the people that were opposed.

I remember going to the last meeting.

They said I really like the design now.

So community input and design concepts and changing pallets and details is what I would like to see and make sure that we have people in tune on that.

Um architectural detail, the red barn I wrote, not not happy, landscaping AIMS port.

I lived in AMSport.

I remember when Amesport was there, it was one of the first communities, and that was how I got in this community, it was the most affordable I could get at that time.

Um we planted these little trees, and I got involved with that.

I was on the board there after years, but the trees became a problem.

They're a big problem right now.

And I'm in the trees, but the trees over there are cracking the sidewalks inside the courtyard.

They're having major problems.

So make sure when we do the landscaping that we're not overdoing it and we're not sitting there getting uh drainage issue problems, cracked cement, broken pavements, things like that, because Aimsport's a good example of walk through that, you'll see what happens when you go overboard.

Blocking of sun, I'm a true believer that we gotta make sure that we have daylight and we have daylight for everyone, and we're not blocking, separating buildings and things like that, so that you can get some air in there and some light.

Bicycle pathways access, parking uh pathways, which Rick brought up, I think is a great thing.

If we can have up, you know, parking for bikes too, so promote bicycle riding and pathways, just like we did at the Hyatt and a lot of the other projects, so we can get people to ride downtown.

I think riding downtown is what I do all the time.

It's quicker, it's easier.

I write from Keyho to Main Street all the time.

I can be there quicker than driving a car.

If we get more people to do that, uh we'd have less cars on the stroke.

It's not going to be easier for doctors when you go to the doctor's office or something like that.

But quick shopping works, go to the you know, wellness spa, whatever, go to nanos for Kava.

That's what I do.

So I think a lot of people can do that if you provide access and bike locks and storage facilities for the bikes.

Um street improvements for Metzger.

That's definitely on my list because that's we do have safety issues.

Um we talked about the lot on popular access.

I'm not sure if that if it's feasible if we can do something like that.

Um, but just making sure that Metzger is safe and it's we're not creating an area of hazard for people's safety.

Parking's always going to be a challenge.

We have to work with that as best that we can.

Um, but I think this project looks good, but I think it needs a little bit of half-loombay touch and a little bit of our expertise from the people that live here to look over and planning commission to go through it.

Councilmember Brownstone.

Um, just want to have a couple of questions first.

Are uh our objective design standards apply to all construction?

In other words, it's not just for private homes with this type of construction as well.

Uh we have residential design guidelines for private homes and our objective design standards apply to multifamily units.

Okay, so simple to this as well.

Okay.

So I don't know how things evolve such that.

Well, let me just ask the question.

Is is Med Pen aware of our objective design standards?

Because I feel like somehow there's this missing answer, like, were you so were you aware of that as you entered into design here?

Because I'm hearing from you know, architecture committee that things didn't look like those standards were followed.

So I don't know where the clarification is.

Do you know what I mean?

Like you say, you did take it into consideration.

So maybe there needs to be more conversation.

You know, our city attorney wants to, just to clarify, it was Chad Hooker spoke as an individual, so not the committee itself.

The comment was from an individual on the committee.

Okay.

Just wanted to clarify that.

So um, yeah, there's some, you know, there's some realities here, some dilemmas.

SB 35 does take away a lot of local control.

It's a fact.

So things don't not everything, and we'll learn more next week.

I'm really hoping that everyone who's here uh watches that planning commission meetings so we can all be on the same page of what the impact of SB 35 is.

Be that as it may, I think it um I trust that midpen housing wants to build something that works for the surrounding community.

And I think the community surroundings should certainly get together with representatives and um create its own committee to communicate more and more with the midpen and people who can keep abreast of the process.

Um, so that the project, as it moves forward, because really it's its very initial stages here, there is plenty of time for people to state their opinions and their concerns and how midpen can address them.

I mean, we had a similar situation a while back, um, even more out of our control was Coast House, right?

Our homeless transition facility.

And the county didn't have to ask our permission, they were allowed to purchase a hotel and turn it into a um homeless transition facility.

And there's a lot of concerns in the community, remember.

It's gonna be threatening, kids walking to school, a lot of concerns.

Um you know, so far that's worked out, but it was a good model, you know.

When sometimes you feel you don't have control, well, how can you have some input um that can influence decisions that get made about this project?

And that's what I'm kind of hoping we work with as a city and as a community to pursue, you know, those kind of communications, so we're not surprised by things, and that we have a steady flow of information back and forth to the community.

So um, so yeah, I'll be tuned in to next week so I get a better understanding of SB 35.

I'm sure all our council members, you know, we're gonna really want to get a good sense of what the limits are and guidelines, et cetera.

Thanks.

So I'll start with a question.

Um are there not noticing requirements for a project like this?

You know, typically with a development application, um, aren't we required to notice um all residents within like 300 feet or 300 yards around a project perimeter, notice them of a pending application and what it is and and that sort of thing.

Um no, we're we're deliberating now, so you'll have to sit down, thank you.

Um, aren't there noticing requirements for for the neighbors?

Um I don't have the application yet.

I assume that there are probably noticing requirements, um, but one way or another, we would provide a courtesy notice anyways.

So when we get an application, we will we will post a notice at a site as we typically do, and then um even on occasions when noticing is not required, we usually provide a courtesy notice.

So we would do the the radial noticing and send out the cards.

Yeah, I think that's really important in this case.

Um, so not just the posting, but the the noticing would be important.

Um as far as the objective design standards, that's the one area where we can exercise control, so we have them, they're relatively detailed.

Um, the project needs to follow the objective design standards.

And I don't see a lot of room for interpretation actually, having participated in the development of these design standards.

So that's gonna be a really important um nexus between, you know, the approval apparatus and the and the project, and something I think that the public will attend to, including you know, planning commissioners and architectural review board members who are gonna be speaking and watching this as citizens, but have that expertise uh in the development of the standards.

So I would just say that.

Um as far as working with the community, I think it behooves you.

I don't know that we can make specific requirements, but um the residents of Poplar Street and Metzger, there's not that many, you know, dwelling units on either of those streets.

It seems to me relatively easy to at least do some concerted outreach to the Poplar and and Metzger uh residents um as you move this forward and and get input um and I would I like the idea of the setbacks from Metzger I'd be very careful of not pushing it too far back up against poplar so you want to try to you know stay in the middle of that that that green area to the best that you can to minimize the the sunlight uh impacts noise impacts light impacts and that's that sort of thing um so those are basically my concerns others have already brought up like the the color palette I think I mentioned at the meeting that I didn't like the red either but something that's more you know earthy or coastal something like that.

I liked uh Rick Hernandez's comments about the the possibilities with the project as designed yes it needs more work to conform but um you know I I don't see it as an ugly or overly industrial project so I think it is a good start I think vegetation um around the building you know will help um but those are those are basically my concerns for this evening so council member thank you one more question the uh since this does not go through formal review processes how does the public ensure they're they've been heard I mean how how's it that relationship work going through one of these SB 35s do we is it through the staff or we rely on in this case mid pin to make sure they're holding all the meetings incorporating the neighbors it do for all of us right we're trying to understand how this works and ensure that the neighbors have been heard I think you mean here in the council and to make sure that the uh especially the immediate neighborhood that their concerns are addressed or at least being heard yeah um we can have a uh a public hearing with the planning commission so that would be an opportunity for for them to be heard um and that is something that I'm I'm sure is needed here.

Okay.

I thought SB35 said you couldn't do that is what I'm trying to well the planning commission isn't making the decision but they can hold a public hearing to have a so it's another opportunity for design to be heard right director like for design reviews for design reviews so they can review the design.

So yeah so for example we could have a joint planning commission AAC hearing where they where they can look at the objective design standards and comment on those it sounds like maybe that might help I mean I've been hearing concerns and this is you know again new for all of us but I want to make sure that you know we we're hearing what's being said I think the project is being accepted and it's a good project it's just maybe always the devils in the details but I just get this there.

Yeah you're right the devil's in the details and the devil's in the timing so once once we have a complete application we have a small window to get to the planning commission and the AAC and and have that design review.

Okay so it sounds like they're still going to go to a PC and AAC to meet to go over design objectives um one question so I understand that this is a ministerial project now as the community development director, I I seem to recall seeing notices of the CDD, the C D director's.

Administrative hearings, like when you're making an administrative decision, but you're having a a meeting where people can hear what you're doing, something like that.

Will you be having like your own meetings?

So meetings.

Yeah, so for um coastal development permits that um don't require um planning commission approval.

We do hold director's hearings, and those are public and they get noticed in the same way.

But for this project, um it needs to be processed administerially, so there would be no director's hearing in this case.

So um after uh a design review session with planning commission and AAC, um that that is really the last forum, yeah.

And I am also still becoming familiar with SB 35.

So um, so I'm not an expert.

I'm you know, I'm learning as I go here.

Well, and then our city attorney, Denise Bizzano, does have resources at Burke, and she's been working on that and sharing information, so yes, um, we do have resources for that, and my colleague Mary Wagner will be conducting the presentation to the planning commission on the twenty-third.

She's been assisting um staff with um housing element issues and other housing issues, and she's assisting on this project as well.

Well, I would say to the neighbors, you know, if you haven't introduced yourselves to the midpen um team working on this project, you should do so.

And uh face to face, and you know, offer to, you know, provide input and and assistance because as Robert pointed out earlier, this is a ministerial project.

There isn't a lot of control here, but you know, there is opportunity for some personal contacts and and those should be made, and there'll be more at the planning commission, more abilities to to learn, but you know, your neighbors to the project and you ought to um introduce yourselves if you didn't go to the the meeting that they had at uh the senior housing there a couple weeks ago.

That was a that was a good meeting.

Um if nobody has anything else, I I think that's the extent of what we're offering up tonight, and um I'm going to thank the midpen team for for coming down and making a presentation, and thank you to the neighbors for for coming.

Um, you know, don't hesitate to share additional information, whether the council planning commission, the CDD director, midpen, um, you know, stay active.

It does impact your your quality of life, and um there should be conversations, so thank you.

And I think we're gonna take a a short break, five to maybe seven minutes.

Yeah, yeah.

Which is consider and adopt a resolution establishing a policy on how to address disruption of remote access during public open meetings of City Council in compliance with SB 707.

And our city clerk will make this presentation.

Good evening, Mayor and Council, Maggie Rodriguez, your city clerk.

Today we are here to talk about SB 707 disruption policy.

So just a little background, this is a part of Senate Bill 707, which requires all eligible legislative bodies to offer remote public participation for city council meetings through either two-way telephonic service or two-way audiovisual platforms.

This is something that we've done for a very long time in Half Moon Bay.

So it's nothing new to us.

We use Zoom and we allow for comments to be called in or through the Zoom platform.

And pursuant to SB 707's definition, the city of Half Moon Bay is an eligible legislative body.

And SB 707 amends the Brown Act, and it requires all of these bodies to adopt on or before July 1st of this year a policy on how to address any disruptions that may happen.

We unfortunately are familiar with that sometimes here in Half Moon Bay.

So this is just addressing should that situation occur.

Some simple definitions just for anyone here tonight or wondering a disruption means a failure, outage, or other interruption to the city's telephonic or internet service that prevents members of the public from attending or participating.

And the remote access services means the two-way telephonic service and/or two-way audio visual platform.

I really like definitions.

So first and foremost, if there is a disruption during a meeting, we shall immediately upon learning of the disruption announce the disruption to the public.

And then we either adjourn or recess the open session for at least one hour to make a good faith effort to restore the access.

During that recess, if we had agendized something earlier, meeting the deadline requirements, council may meet in closed session, pursuant to government code section 54953.4.

And then if following the recess of the meeting, if the access services have not been restored within that one hour, we may reconvene the meeting if the council adopts by roll call.

Um vote a finding that we made good faith efforts to restore that service and that the public interest in continuing the meeting outweighs the public interest in the remote public access.

So we would troubleshoot the platform or teleconferencing software.

And if that were the case, we would just carry on with the meeting.

But if after one hour of good faith efforts, we were not able to restore service, then we would have to adopt by roll call the statement.

After we would adopt that by roll call, I would put that into the minutes for that meeting, and we would also note the following within that the nature and time of the disruption, whether open session was adjourned, or city council compiled into the procedures in uh pursuant to section 5.1 in the policy, the restoration efforts that were undertaken, the time the meeting was reconvened if we did, and the finding adopted pursuant to section 6.2 in the policy.

And for other policies here in Half Moon Bay, this can be reviewed and amended from time to time, but as required by the Brown Act, amendments to this policy must be approved at a properly noticed public meeting in open session and may not be approved on the consent calendar.

And that's all I have for you tonight.

The policy was within the staff report as an attachment.

Yeah, I'm a little bit.

I'm a little confused by the language in the the first slide that you had that talked about timing.

You said they had to convene for at least an hour.

Shouldn't it say for up to an hour?

I mean, does it we don't have to stop the meeting for an hour?

Correct.

It's only going to take five minutes.

Yes.

If it only takes five minutes, so it's the language there.

Okay, it needs a little work.

Yeah.

Yeah, I think that's the language in the statute.

So that's why it's mimicked in the slide.

So in other words, the council could convey they could wait longer than one hour to try to get the the connection.

No, I get it, but but if it's only going to take five minutes to fix the connection, the language is saying you have to can you have to take an hour off.

Oh, I see what you're saying.

It doesn't mean that you have to remain for one hour if it's not say that though.

I I understand what you're saying.

I understand the confusion, but again, that's I think that's the statutory language.

Yes.

And so that's why it's mimicked here.

But um I can double check while we're proceeding.

But it doesn't mean that you have to remain um outside of the session if the connection is made again.

But it says that.

I mean, I know what you're saying.

I understand, yes, yeah.

Let me just double-check the statute and see what the language actually says.

Thanks.

Um does anybody else have a question or comment, or can we go ahead and uh make a motion?

Yeah, we need to take a comment.

There's no point.

Is there anybody in the audience that would like to address this item?

Is there anybody online that would like to address this item?

Seeing none, I'll bring it back to the council.

Questions, I make a motion.

No, okay.

Um, I move that we adopt a resolution establishing a policy that will provide steps on how to address disruptions of telephonic or internet service connections during public open meetings of city council in compliance with Senate Bill 707.

Oh, do you just second?

Oh, you can second.

You could third.

All right, third.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion carries unanimously.

So we're moving on to item 11 C, which is consideration of easement agreement granting city drainage and utility easement over land owned by sewer authority mid-coastide, known as the Lanster parcel APN 048-240-040.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Uh no presentation for this tonight.

Um, but yes, um council member um uh Patrick needs to recuse on this item.

Is that correct?

I live too close.

So yeah, I think you need to like go out of the room because we're gonna you're gonna have a similar issue with the next one too.

Is it okay to sit in the audience?

So uh Patrick Johnson has uh council member Johnson has uh this is his private resident, so he has a personal interest that allows him to sit in the audience and he can participate during public comment as an individual and speak to his private personal interest in the property.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Johnson.

Um I don't have a presentation for you tonight, and actually for this item, um I'll just give a very brief update.

We're actually going to recommend that this item be pushed to a future meeting.

Um this is an item that um came about through a discussion related to the next item, and um is an opportunity for the city to look at addressing an issue along the Pullman water course or the Kehoe Watercourse, which runs just to the south of the Casa del Mar neighborhood along a parcel owned by Sewer Authority Mid-Coastside.

Um it's something we've been talking about for a while, and there's an opportunity for us to um obtain an easement to have some land to work with in order to address some drainage concerns there.

Um this item was at the SAM meeting last night, and in the form that you're seeing it today, the SAM board, which consists of two members of our council plus reps from Monterra Water and Sanitary District and Granada Community Services District.

Um, the board as a group collectively wants to see some tweaks to this and improvements to it, and so they didn't take a vote on it last night, and we'll be working with the attorney for SAM and staff from SAM to modify this and bring it back at a future time, but it's an exciting opportunity for address for us to address a uh stormwater issue that has been ongoing and um will be a real benefit to the community and to protecting the sand plant for this foreseeable future.

So uh our recommendation is to allow staff to go back and work with Sam on tweaks to these documents and bring it back at a future meeting.

Thank you.

Sounds good.

So now we're moving on to item 11D, consideration of second amendment to agreement and grant of easement between sewer authority mid-coast side and the city to extend the grant of easement for continuing the use of the SAM plant parcel APN 048-240-030.

Madam Mayor, before we start the next item, uh going back to the prior item.

Did we take public comment?

And then I I think that it'd be good for the council to formally make a motion to continue the item 11 C to a date uncertain because we don't know how long it will take for staff to okay prepare the item.

So that would be my recommendation before we move on to the next one.

All right, so is there anybody in the audience that would like to address this item?

Anyone online?

Not seeing any.

Uh I would entertain a motion to continue this item, which is 11 C.

Um, to a future date uncertain.

I move that we move.

Item 11D to a date.

No, 11 C.

11 C to a date in the future.

Uncertain.

Uncertain.

Second.

A roll call, please.

No, not a roll call.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion carries unanimously.

Okay, item 11D.

I already said what it is.

Let's just move on.

All right.

Um, so this is a related item.

Um historically uh the city owns the land where the sewer uh wastewater treatment plant is that is owned and operated by SAM, and that is allowed through an easement.

So the city owns the property in 1982.

The city granted an easement to SAM to allow the construction of the plant and use of the plant.

The original easement was for 20 years.

A few years later, some things changed and it was extended to 40 years, which meant it expired in 2022.

Unfortunately, people weren't aware that that had happened, and only recently in researching for a project on that SAM parcel, did SAM staff realize that that easement had expired.

We're still a member of the agency, obviously, operations continue as normal, but uh in order to move certain projects forward, it really is important for this to be resolved permanently.

And so last night at the SAM board meeting, the board voted unanimously, including our representatives, to um extend that easement and make it a permanent easement with a couple of caveats.

Um, so I'll just read it directly from the staff report.

Um the expiration of the agreement and grant of easement um would um be extended uh retroactively to 2022 so that it would be deemed to have never have lapsed, and it would continue until such time as one or more of the following occurs.

Either the parties mutually agree to terminate the grant of easement, the sewer authority mid-coast side is dissolved, or the sewer authority mid-coast side no longer operates a wastewater treatment plant on that parcel.

So when we talk about being dissolved, that could be that there's a new agency, which is something we've been talking about, and then it could be transferred to them.

Um but the point is this is the purpose of that parcel, it should be used this way as long as there's a need, and um, and so that's staff's recommendation that under similar terms and conditions as previous, and it's part of uh the attachment to this agreement to this item.

Um we extend this easement indefinitely under those certain conditions, and with that we can take any questions.

Uh, two of our council members, Councilmember Nagengast and the Mayor are on the SAM board and participated in that meeting last night and could add any additional details as well.

Thank you.

Do the mayor, I have nothing to add.

The mayor has nothing to add.

Absolutely nothing to add.

Uh is there anyone in the audience who would like to address this item?

Is there anybody online on Zoom who would like to address this item?

Seeing no hands raised, I'll bring it back to the council for uh a motion.

That's 11D.

Yep.

It's a long paragraph.

I um I move that we approve the second amendment to agreement and grant of the easement between sewer authority, midcoastside or joint part a joint powers authority and the city of Halfwood Bay to extend the grant of the easement for continued use of the SAM plant parcel, APN048-24030, authorizing the city manager to execute the second agreement and finding the approval of the second amendment and easement agreement exempt from review under the California Environmental Quality Act pursuant to CEQA guidelines section 1301, class one existing facilities.

Second um, can I have a roll call on this one, please?

Councilmember Brownstone.

Yes.

Councilmember Nagengast.

Yes, Vice Mayor Penrose.

Yes.

Mayor Reddick.

Yes.

Motion carries.

Okay, we're moving on to item 11e, City Council priorities for fiscal years 2026-28.

I'd like to welcome back Councilmember Johnson.

Welcome back.

All right, um, thank you for giving us a little bit of time tonight on this item.

Uh, it's important for us to continue to move forward on priorities, but I also know we're we're all eager to get through this.

So I'll make this quick.

I will share that I think this is probably the last year that we'll use this process in its current form, and that one of the things we'll want to look at and maybe need to add as a priority for this year is to later on this year kind of look at our strategic planning and our process for all of this.

Um it's you know the cities change, the communities change, the world has changed over the last seven or eight years, and it's it's probably worth another look.

But for now, this is what we have.

Um so what I've done is I took feedback from our last discussion on this at the end of April, and um try to refine the documents a little bit better to make it a little clearer for everybody, and um we've kept the organization categorization because I think it just helps us to frame some of this mentally and and it does help us to assign some of these responsibilities to departments, anyways.

Um so we're still looking at the categories of organizational health and excellence, housing, economic and community vitality, parks and rec, public health safety and emergency prep, and then transportation circulation and mobility.

Um there was a document attached to the staff report, which is similar to the document that was attached to the previous item but broken up a little differently.

That document was a very long document and included a whole bunch of projects that we're already working on, as well as a list of new opportunities, and the feedback I got was it was just too hard to read, there was just too much there.

There's still a lot here.

This is just the list of projects we are not currently working on, but over the last year and through the priority setting process have come up as opportunities.

Um this is all on one slide, it's a little harder to read.

I've also broken up the categories into separate slides if that helps.

What I'm really looking for tonight, because ultimately the goal of this is to bring back a work plan that lays out a timeline for accomplishing some of these things, is to get your feedback.

One, is there anything on this list that again I've collected over the last year and through the priority setting process that just should not be here?

Like, hey, maybe in a future year we can work on this, but it's just not important right now, especially in the context of everything else we're working on, or this just doesn't make sense and shouldn't be here, and then what are the top things you want us to be working on so that as we build the work plan we can prioritize those things?

And then the goal would be to bring back a priorities work plan in July, hopefully for approval, and then if there's any funding requests, um we can bring those forward as well.

So with that, I will point out that um through the miracle of modern technology, the sister city agreements been added to this based on the discussion today.

Um, but uh again, looking for your feedback now and um can take that back and develop a work plan going forward.

Thank you.

Does anybody mind if I go first for a change?

Okay, so I think it looks pretty good, but a couple of things have.

Can we leave for the council the list displayed?

There you go.

Thank you.

Um, so I have a couple of things that I think need to be added that I don't see.

One of them is you know developing a sponsorship program for Carter Park.

Um, you know, so it's it's important to have fees, but I think we need also to have to create you know the fundraising opportunities that'll allow us to raise some money.

So it's not on this list because it's on the second part of that attachment as something we're already working on, okay.

So um it it's in there and it's a priority already.

All right, so already underway.

Then the other thing, which I doesn't seem to be, is um I walked it again.

The um the um the portion of the coastal trail between um you know ocean colony just uh north of the Colony Club, you know, up the hill, across the bridge, and uh leading up to the you know Redondo Beach Road.

It really is a mess.

It looks to me like a hazard, you know, the tree roots and um uh I've had you know, I haven't had many complaints until this past year, and now I'm getting them fairly frequently because there are various walking groups who connect through there, and um I've had a couple of conversations with older residents in Ocean Colony who they're not wheelchair bound, but they're they're still ambulatory, but things are they need things that are in better trail in better condition to help them to continue to use it as a pedestrian.

So I I think we need to deal with it.

I believe we're responsible for it in any case, and maybe it's a matter of you know, going to the coastal conservancy for a new grant, but I I think we this needs to be on the list of priorities.

I don't think we can let it go anymore.

So I'd I'd like to, yeah.

It's a hazard.

I don't know if anybody else has experienced that.

Um you can't ride a bike on it really, and um, sure.

I was riding my bike to um Rich Carlton, and I was returning and coming back, and I see a couple with a baby in the stroller, whatever you want to.

They're literally having to take the baby out of the stroller and pick up the stroller to carry it through those routes.

And then when I saw that, I was like, how am I gonna get my daughter in a wheelchair through this?

It's it's ridiculous.

It won't work.

And that's when I brought it up to you guys, and I've said it over and over, and I want to say thank you, Mayor, for bringing this up.

This is has to be fixed.

And I think it was brought up in Bruce Russell's letter to us.

Yeah, Bruce is also a few people.

Mayor, I'm not sure your microphone.

People who want to go to the Ritz, you know, from other neighborhoods, or they want to continue on down, you know, and they can't really do it there.

You know, it's just it's become an obstacle.

And now that we've advertised the uh the coastal land use trail.

The new parking at parking at Redondo, there'll be more pedestrian bicycle access going on.

Yeah.

So are there two other people who would agree to add that up?

Yeah.

I would agree.

Thank you.

Can the list please stay up on the screen?

Thank you.

Um I don't know about taking things off of the list yet, but I do think that uh study of a health care district is critical.

I think I think coastside emergency care, lab radiology care are critical.

And to me, that's a number one priority.

Um I I would agree with that.

Um, I I have brought this up several times over the last four or five years about the life services district concept that they use in the North Coast.

Um, might be worthwhile just contacting somebody up there and asking them next time you're down this way, you know, could you come to a meeting and talk to us about you know your life services district?

Yeah, it's a taxing district, but the way they do it, and it's created in state law, um, you can use the funding generated to do almost anything.

You can do urgent care, you can do emergency services, you could buy everybody um air ambulance insurance, you know, because up there, the nearest trauma center is Santa Rosa.

So if you're living in Humboldt County, you know, you gotta be flown to Santa Rosa.

It's uh it's like a parcel tax to create the life services district.

You can get ambulances, uh you can pay for lifeguard services, lifeguard stations, like on the beaches, you know, um, your own helicopter, whatever you want to do, but you know, they're they're landlocked up there, and it's hard for them to access medical care.

So they created this in uh California law, the special life services that might be a lot easier to do than trying to create a health care district, it's another thing.

Because what we really need is urgent care lab and radiology.

Those three.

You create a board, services.

It's the life services district board, right?

And you know, they public is involved.

Well, what should we spend the money on?

What's most needed?

Um, you know.

Yeah, I think I think the public would agree to a parcel tax.

It's just one of those things, right?

It's just they want health care, they certainly want it, yeah.

Yeah, I love that idea.

So that would involve a um, you know, it'd have to be uh put on a ballot initiative, right, for a parcel tax.

We're always talking about if someone's public's really committed to something that they should, you know, should consider a parcel tax, if anything, I agree.

Public would agree to this.

County and city, right?

I was just gonna say, if we show the county with a parcel tax that we're willing to make that kind of a commitment, we can certainly get county and maybe and state support, I think, on something like that.

You know, if we're showing we're putting skin in the game.

Every household, that's um, that's what gets cooperation and attention.

So um, so I think it's a great idea.

And the more development, the more SB 35 development we get, the more evacuation gets harder, and the more we need stuff here, right?

So what this probably is gonna need um is a feasibility study.

So as part of this work plan, we'd bring back a timeline for us, you know, researching that, probably seeking county support and looking for grant funding, those types of things to have that feasibility study done, which would help inform the community, the the um the age-friendly work for uh coastide group, and ultimately the effort to create this through a ballot measure um with plenty of time to get that on the next election.

Well, I think it actually has to be the thing itself has to be created in state law, I believe.

Okay, this is one that requires legislation.

I believe so.

Um but I I already I think I already did some research, so I could certainly share what I've done.

Well, I'm sure those folks from Mendocino could help us figure out how to do that.

Yeah, I have like the bill number that created it and you know, stuff like that.

You know, just we could just talk about it initially and not put a lot of time into it, but just run it by everybody.

See, is this what is what do you think of this, something like that, you know?

And Ray Mueller's become quite the expert, remembering all the stuff of the attorney general that has to get approved for a medical facility, remember all that and make it kosher from the beginning that you know, picking the right partners and stuff.

So I think you'd be real helpful on what those MOUs would need to look like later on.

Great.

So do I have a second person interested in making that a priority?

Yeah, I think you got everyone here, but I'll second it for now, yeah.

All right.

I look at we're we're busy.

I would go on pages three and four.

You know, one and two, you know, but three and four shows what we're trying to do with uh reduced staff and I obviously I focused on public work type items.

I know the Highway One project there for the terror signal and that work that's gonna happen there.

It's gonna be a big deal for the city.

That's gonna be huge.

That's the largest, I think, probably works projects ever been uh contemplated and completed here.

If we, you know, if we keep waiting, you know, it keeps increasing in costs, and and so hopefully, and I um what cautiously optimistic this fall or winter, early winter, we might be able to advertise that.

But that's going to really keep us busy, and it's gonna affect the community, so it's gonna take a lot of uh conversations, web, you know, we kind of get an idea of what's happening with the shop project.

That's you know, not as widespread of an area, but it'll be concentrated in one area, so that's something we should pay attention to.

Um, I just want to put my usual pork chop removal on highway one in Kelly and the sidewalk from Kelly to the shopping center.

On the west side, I know.

I talked to City Engineer a little bit, he said.

Well, there's someone on the east side versus west side.

You're not gonna build it on the east side.

It has if you're gonna put a sidewalk, has to go on the west side, which is the southbound highway one.

But I always I didn't I add that one every year.

California's been so efficient.

Yeah, well, they built it bigger.

Cal Transman's so efficient with the current paving that maybe they've saved money.

Something extra.

Wishful thinking kind of optimist though, yes.

I do like the rubberized roads, yeah.

One thing I want to point out on the list under parks and recreation is the Poplar Beach Fire Pits pilot project.

So as you recall, um last year, it kind of started in 24 and then bled into 25.

Um we had an Eagle Scout build the fire pits that were tested for a few weeks on Poplar Beach.

Um we're in possession of the ones that survived.

And we now have a CDP exemption, although we are working through a few logistics with the Coastal Commission on that right now.

Um, but we have the opportunity to deploy those hopefully in the next month or so, and there's a chance to expand it slightly.

Um, it's well within my funding authority to do it, but I just want to make sure there's support for that pilot extending through this coming summer, hopefully.

You're stealing my thunder.

That's on my blue line right here.

Well, let's hear it.

Well, that's exactly what I was trying to say.

I want to see that happen.

And then I also would like to see that there's one pit on the top of the bluff tops for accessible for people in wheelchairs or families or something.

If we can do that, so nobody feels excluded.

The other one was the Johnson House property recreation because I think that's a prime location, it's really cool, it's got history.

I think we should do stuff.

I think Hillary's had some great ideas, and I think we should ask Park and Rec to expand that because it's I know it's limited in space.

No, okay.

I won't go there.

Um, and then the are we picking one or two?

Or we just or do I pick up?

Yeah, I mean, I think again, what I'm looking for is should anything come off, yeah.

And then like the discussion around the health care district, what what needs to be elevated is like top priority.

Can we call it the Chloe Hernandez fire pit program?

Chloe Standez.

Sorry, Chloe Standez.

So things that I definitely want to see is the banner program and then the wayfinding signs.

That's the yeah, and I like to add to that and say let's put off things like the streetscapes master plan right now.

Let's let's just deal with some quick fixes and and try to help businesses downtown as quickly as we can without getting you know bogged down in difficult things like um you know, streetscapes or or parking garage studies or downtown formula business chains store ordinances.

I don't think we need to be dealing with those things in the immediate future.

That's my thinking.

Well, this is a two-year thing too, right?

So, yeah, we'll build a two-year work plan, um, but certainly if if there's kind of a consensus to to focus on some quick wins.

The work on the bigger stuff will continue as it, you know, like if a grant arises that that looks like a good fit, but we can focus our energy on quick wins again, if if that's kind of the consensus of the council, and um I will share that staff met with reps from the downtown association last week.

We meet with the monthly, and they kind of prioritized what I would categorize as some quick wins as well.

There's no way I'm gonna add anything to this list.

Thanks for putting it's really comprehensive.

I'm glad to see there's a lot of the things on the other list that we're already working on.

But since I brought it up the other last meeting um as an agenda item, and you said, Oh, wait till we do this list, um, I like the the wayfinding signage, but specifically the downtown directory kiosk, you know, at MacDutra Park.

I just think that one, it's great, it'll be great.

You see it at every shopping mall.

People are used to it.

And I think um our downtown businesses will feel like we're actually really being responsive so people will know what the heck is three blocks down on Main Street, and they've been asking for it for a long time.

It's not crazy expensive, you know.

Um so I think um, yeah, if we can kind of get that agenda, it's on here, and it'd be very responsive and visual every time every day they'll see.

Yeah, this is good, right?

So it'd be nice.

Okay.

Okay.

So I think what we'll do is um, you know, we have an interesting time here.

There's an extra Tuesday this month, and we cancel our first meeting of July because of the holiday.

So we have five weeks before our next council meeting, which is a great amount of time for me to work with our staff, build out the work plan, a realistic work plan, identify, hey, if we're gonna do this, we need extra resources.

You know, the CIP is certainly an area that you know.

When when Dale our city engineer presented it previously, he shared there's formulas, you know, there's standards, and there's a certain amount of you know, rough dollars that each engineer can work on, which limits our capacity, and so as we look at the CIP and look at timing, we may have to find ways to get more CI, you know, engineering resources to move more of these projects forward or stagger them out longer.

So that'll be part of the discussion in July.

Um, and uh I think uh I have a good sense of what's important to you, and if I'm off, we'll correct it then.

All right.

Five weeks, yay.

Five weeks between meetings.

I don't know what we're gonna do.

Loving it.

Public comment.

Um is there anybody in the audience?

Oh, there is.

There's somebody in the audience who would like to talk.

I'm really excited about the fire pits.

Um Eddie Andrini's working to get them uh we'll be working to get them built out.

We just sent him the notice that we're gonna move forward, and uh it's gonna be really exciting stuff.

So hopefully if things go well, the fire pits by July 4th.

Sweet.

Anybody online?

Oh, yes, Sid Young.

Hi, I know I'm not um, you know, oops, sorry, I hear an echo.

I'm not half moving, but um I did talk to one of the sheriffs at Farm Day, and a long time ago, when I was on the fireworks committee, which was eons ago, we used to have uh employed the scouts, and I asked him if they still had that, and they do.

But I'm we don't use them here in Half Moon Bay for traffic enforcement or anything, but he said they could look into it, and I don't know.

I know you guys have to negotiate your budget every year with the sheriff, um, but you know, there's weekends when you probably could use that as a way to, you know, they're younger guys that are interested in law enforcement, and maybe they could help with traffic enforcement in the intersections where there's gridlock and stuff.

The other thing is under your housing plan, um, you didn't make this is just planting a seed, but there's a lot of people who live in Half Moon Bay, people who are parents who have volunteered year after year at the pumpkin festival and all the different um town events that raise their kids here, but now their kids can't afford houses, and everything is always low income.

So maybe you guys could consider a project with mixed affordable income, mixed income housing, some affordable, some not affordable.

I don't know.

Yeah, it's called social housing, yeah.

Is that what you call social housing?

Okay, so I call it mixed income, but that's what they call it in the city.

Um, and the last thing is if you could define a health care district, you're talking just half moon bay, right?

Not putting a parcel tax on the whole mid-coast.

Well, I mean, it's no to make it really effective, it would have to be the county and the city.

You mean the whole mid coast?

Yeah, or the whole county.

Oh, well, I I know Seaton's probably getting ready to open.

They've been working and working on things, so they might object, but I I as a senior don't want another parcel tax.

I pay hefty fees for my uh Kaiser as it is, but as I like to say, taxed enough already.

Okay, but I know you guys need it down there.

We're just gonna gather information first, yeah.

Right.

Okay, I don't see anybody else there.

Um, you feel like you have adequate direction then?

Okay.

Um, which is important.

I and I'm looking at all the lists, and do we have the infrastructure for the amount of housing we're talking about?

I mean, and there's so many things that are infrastructure.

There's the sewer and water.

I know the city's not not responsible for it, but but anything that has to do that supports the housing they're talking about.

I I just always got the impression that housing was such a focus that infrastructure maybe should have been focused on first and then the housing, maybe I'm maybe I I wasn't coming to meetings then, so I could be unaware that it will already was being done.

But I I really think if you're talking about housing so much, I'm I'm trying to look at everything to see how many things are related to infrastructure.

There's a lot there, and it's very nice to have things that make your town more pleasant, don't get me wrong.

But infrastructure is so important.

So I don't know if you can identify a separate area that infrastructure that supports housing and how you're addressing it.

Yeah, at some point, you know, we'd have to look at sewer connections based on wet weather flows, you know, and the water hookups, of course, are limited.

So, but that you know, people have to when they come for you know, bring an application forward, they got to demonstrate that they have water and sewer hookups, right?

Yeah, so you're you're under something for sure.

Okay, and you feel you're good to go on that one.

So we have to go back to item 9G, which is the citizens option for public safety grant program, and I pulled it.

This is just a quickie.

It mentions um potentially funding continuation of the ALPR you know, pilot program.

But I I discussed it with the city manager today, and it um the pilot based on the contract concludes in October.

So we're gonna be bringing an item back in September about discussing ALPR.

So I basically said we should spend anything on ALPR or move forward until the council has a chance to revisit, you know, have a discussion about it and decide whether or not we want to continue it.

So that's all.

I would agree because that's the flock cameras, right?

Yes, yes.

We need to have that discussion before we spend any more money on that.

Yeah, the way the cops program works is you have to do an annual resolution identifying what you could spend money on in order to actually do it.

And so we included it because if the council were to extend it, this would be the best funding source for it.

Yeah, but it doesn't require us to do that, and um we would come back to council for a discussion before we would ever extend the contract out further.

So this is just taking care of some administration, but I think a sensitive issue like this is it was important to elevate this so people knew we weren't just doing something.

This is just lining up the funding for a potential decision down the road, is all so yeah.

So we'll bring that back in September before the the current agreement expires, and the council and the community will have a chance to weigh in on how we want to proceed if we want to proceed.

Yeah, if so if we accept the grant as a kind of a use or lose by the end of October?

No, this this funding accumulates.

We we have a very healthy reserve of funding, but the use of it is limited to supplemental law enforcement public safety services.

So it can't supplant like we can't use it to pay for our sheriff's contract, but we can use it for additional public safety offerings, and that's how we're treating ALPRs.

There's other things that we pay for out of this that are beyond the regular sheriff's contract.

Okay, so but we do need action tonight.

So we need a motion to adopt a resolution authorizing the administrative services director to accept the state of California citizens' option for public safety grant funds for fiscal year 26-27 and the amount of a hundred thousand dollars and approve using those funds on projects, support, and equipment that meet the conditions of the grant.

So moved.

Second, and we madam mayor, just want to confirm we don't have any public comment on this item.

Yes, so um, is there anybody who wants to discuss this item in the room?

No.

Is there anybody online?

Seeing no hands raised, I'm bringing it back to the council and uh all in favor say aye.

Aye, aye, any opposed?

Motion carries, moving on to uh item 12, which is items for future discussion, possible future agenda items.

Yeah, just that one.

Um this is something I discussed with uh council member Negengast um a while back.

Um some folks from uh Frenchman's Creek were concerned about, you know, as they as you exit Frenchman's Creek where the traffic light is.

There's no sidewalk, and there's been a lot of safety concerns about people getting hit by cars.

Um they knew Paul, they came to Paul and he copied me and uh Dale.

Dale sat down with them and actually put together a pretty good plan and design for what it would take.

Um the cost would be around 30 to 35,000, including the pavement.

Um, I was really happy that Paul, our master city planner took a look at it all and said, Yeah, this is pretty dangerous.

So I would like to um and then I spoke to Dale, and you know, he wasn't sure whether we could sort of move forward on that based on all our other projects.

But then when I realized, wow, it's 30,000.

That's not so bad.

So I'd like to uh get that on our agenda.

Um they were so concerned that they were thinking of maybe paying it for it themselves.

Would be great to come back to them and say it's probably something we can take care of because it's not so hard to just pay those a little bit of sidewalk there.

Um isn't that part of the east side parallel trail project?

It would be um as part of the construction.

I think the concern is that that's several years out, that's all.

Yeah, it just seemed that would seem kind of far down the road, though.

Yeah.

So I was saying if we could maybe take a look at that first, could to make it happen quicker.

I would think you'd want to coordinate it with the overall plan.

Yeah, I think they'll look to that.

And when we bring this back for discussion, that would be part of that discussion.

Is you know what was already planned and how it happened.

Yeah.

So yeah.

Okay.

Great.

Can I get a second on that?

Sure, I'll second.

Okay, thanks.

This meeting is adjourned.

I probably should have asked for public comment, but uh see you next month.