The Half Moon Bay City Council held a regular meeting on Tuesday, August 18, 2026, at the Ted Adcock Community Center. The meeting began at 7:00 PM and included presentations, public comments, consent calendar approval, and action on several major items, including the introduction of an ordinance to implement the 6th Cycle Housing Element rezonings, approval of labor agreements, and amendments to council rules. The meeting also featured a presentation from the Mobile Crisis Response Team and updates from the City Manager.
The council approved the consent calendar unanimously (4-0). Items included:
Welcome to the regular meeting of the Half Moon Bay City Council for Tuesday, August 18th, 2026. As a reminder, if you are joining this meeting via Zoom, you can still make public comment. During any public comment portions, attendees may use the raise your hand feature and will be called upon and unmuted when it is your turn to speak. If joining by phone, you star nine to raise your hand. Oopsie daisies. We also have Spanish interpretation services available in person and via Zoom. On point will now provide information on how to receive those services if you are in need of them. Do we have uh Victor Nicholas here? Hello. Good afternoon. Thank you, Madam Mayor, for an honorable city council uh for and the staff for giving me the opportunity to address the public. Uh members of public, las instructions para participat in la reunion de hoy se pueden encontrar in el orden del día que ya está publicado. Los miembros del public se les proportionar interpretation in vivo de todo esta reunionen espanol, ando de interpretation in vivo por Zoom, ya sea con una computadora or una portátil, a click in the icono del globo terráqueo, es decir, in el mundo y selection el idioma espanol. See usted sta usando un telefono intelligente or una tableta, busca el menu de three puntos in la part de la barra, selection interpretation, luego selection el idioma spaniol, ando aga click in donde dice done o listo. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Thank you so much, Nicholas. Um, could I have a roll call, please? Councilmember Brownstone? Here. Councilmember Johnson. Here. Councilmember Nagangast? Mayor Reddick. Here. We have a quorum. Thank you. I'll rise for Pledge of Allegiance. Wow, that was a hearty pledge of allegiance. Good group. Thanks for that. Okay, so the next item of business is to approve the agenda. Would anyone like to make a motion and a second? So moved. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed. Motion carries. So the next order of business is going to be um item 3A, which is the mobile crisis response team presentation. Good evening. Hi, good evening. Thank you for having me present. I'm going to provide a very brief overview and I have a packed agenda. So this evening I can talk about the Crisis Call Center. We're a 24-7 call center. We're staffed by triage clinicians. We receive calls from the community from individuals who are seeking service for themselves, family members, uh, school counselors, community members, teachers, everybody. What happens, I just like to make you aware is you talk to our triage clinician, we gather information, and we then deploy mobile crisis response team. I'm on I'm in uniform, so we're the people, the purple people, meaning we come out in uniform, we're very identifiable. A counselor and a peer recovery coach come on scene.