Yes.

Good evening, everyone.

Thank you for joining us for closed session.

Acting City Attorney Bacta will make a closed session announcement, and then we welcome public comment on the item listed for closed session.

The acting city attorney will now make an announcement.

Thank you, Mayor.

There is one item on this evening's closed session agenda.

Item two point one is a conference with real property negotiators pursuant to government code 54956.8.

The property under negotiation is Hope Street Lots four and eight.

Assessor parcel numbers one five eight-20-069 and one five eight-20-00 four.

There are no street addresses for these lots.

The agency negotiators are Assistant City Manager Arne Andrews, Assistant City Manager Don Cameron, Community Development Director, Christian Murdoch, Economic Vitality Manager Amanda Rotella, and Real Property Program Administrator Angela La Monica.

The negotiating party is Robert Green Company, and under negotiation are lease and price terms.

Great, thank you.

Would any member of the public joining us virtually or in person like to provide comment on the closed session item listed on tonight's agenda?

I am not seeing anyone virtually or in person.

So I will close public comment and the council will now recess to the plaza conference room for closed session and return to the council chambers at the close to continue to the regular session at 6 30.

Thank you.

Councilmember Hicks.

Here.

Great.

Thanks.

So we'll move on to item three, our closed session report.

Acting City Attorney Bacta, do we have a closed session report?

Thank you, Mayor.

No final action was taken in closed session this evening.

Thank you.

So we'll move on to item four, our consent calendar.

These items will be approved by one motion unless any member of the council wishes to pull an item for individual consideration.

If an item is pulled from the consent calendar, it will be considered separately following approval of the balance of the consent calendar.

If you'd like to speak on these items or the next item, oral communications on non-agenda items in person, please submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk now.

Would any member of the council like to pull an item?

Councilmember McAllister.

I was just gonna um register a no vote on one, and I had a comment on 4.5.

Okay.

The reason I'm voting no on number one because I've always been pushing for parking downtown, it's getting very congested, and this project was a very large one, and it's not providing enough parking for the area, and therefore it's gonna put a burden on the present community, and they're already fighting for spaces, and it's also gonna affect the business districts because that's another area for people to park.

So I think that uh we need to get some we do need the affordable housing, but we don't want to put a burden and disminish the quality of life for others that are going in on 4.5.

The comment is is this is the pedestrian bridge, and this came about when I was on council before in the 2017-18.

And I've always been concerned about the cost that we have this bridge and we're putting bi-directional bike lanes on both sides of the road.

And I'm going, why are we doing that?

And at the time they said uh that was part of our program.

And then I started seeing that coming back that every time that we're there's a lot of um public input or there's some input from BPAC people and some others that we need to make everything dedicated bike lanes.

And I said, Well, where's the data to support putting all this money into bike lanes or improved uh road conditions?

And so I want to point out there's one of the questions I put into the staff report is how what's the data show how many people are using the uh shoreline bridge?

And so during this monitoring during the spring of 25 monitoring report show that during morning inbound peak period from 745 to 1045, 19 bicyclists crossed over Highway 101, and in the evening, 14 people on bicycles crossed over.

There are a lot of projects that we want to get done, but I think we need to be more prudent about the cost benefit of putting in these bike lanes when there's not a big demand for them.

And so going forward, I hope you appreciate and I will be asking for data on these bikes usage so that if you want to do other items, we'll have the money.

But I'm not against bike lanes, but we need to be somewhat uh concerned that we got 82,000 other people in town, and yet we're putting in bike lanes for less people, and just look at El Camino.

That was a lot of money put on bike lanes.

I have a store right on El Camino, and there's not there yet.

So people say they may be coming.

And that's it, thank you.

Great.

Thank you, Councilmember Show Walter.

Well, I have some comments too.

Um, my comment on 4.1 that's a multifamily housing tax exempt bond financing for um the uh uh Alta and related affordable housing project that um is going to finally go forward there.

This has been a very very difficult project to get financing for because um of the um the financing has gotten so much more um competitive over the last few years, and there's been such a rise in building costs.

So I'm really delighted to see that this final piece of the financing has fallen in place, and I want to thank um the city staff who worked on it as well as the staff from ALSA and related.

Um this project's gonna have a hundred and twenty affordable units.

It's gonna be um uh uh really a great addition to downtown.