The Redwood City Council met on June 12, 2023, at 6:00 PM in a hybrid format (in-person and virtual). The meeting included a closed session with no reportable action, the swearing-in of new commission members, a consent calendar, public comments, a public hearing on sewer service charges, a study session on the Fire Department’s Standards of Cover and Community Risk Assessment, a budget study session, and matters of council interest. The council approved the consent calendar, adopted a resolution on sewer charges, received the fire study, and adopted the FY 2023-24 budget resolution.
All right, good evening, everyone. Welcome to our June twelfth Redwood City Council meeting. I'd like to call our meeting to order. Happy June to everyone. Good evening. We're holding our meetings in a hybrid format with both in-person and virtual participation. Items will be taken in the order that they're listed on the agenda. With our hybrid meeting format, the public commit comment procedures are as follows. In-person speakers will be called first in the order in which speaker cards were turned into the city clerk. Speaker cards are located at the back table in the council chambers and must be turned into the city clerk at the dais. Okay, great. Thank you, everyone, for your patience. The council now is out of closed session and will reconvene in open session. There's no reportable action that was taken in closed session this evening. Our next items are presentations and acknowledgments. And before we go on to public comment, which is item number seven, I just want to take a moment to acknowledge that Redwood City will recognize June 19th or Juneteenth to commemorate an extraordinary moment in our nation's history and celebrates this day as a freedom day to promote and enhance the unity and the spiritual strength that brings us all together, especially our African Americans out of slavery and sustain their dignity and prosperity to the present day. This evening we have the pleasure of swearing in the newly appointed members of the Arts Commission and Transportation Advisory Committee who were selected at the last council meeting on May 22nd. The new members are Natalie Sheehan, Arts Commission, Michael Aguilar, Transportation Advisory Committee, Shannon Chi, Transportation Advisory Committee, and Jacqueline Ramos on the Transportation Advisory Committee. Thank you, Mary G. At this time, I'd last like to ask um Shannon, Natalie, and Michael to join me here at the podium. Okay, great. And then you're going to repeat um the oath after me at the same time. Okay. So it's my honor to administer to you the oath of office. If you could please raise your right hands. Against all enemies foreign and domestic. That I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation. Without any mental reservation. Or purpose of evasion. Or purpose of evasion. And that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I'm about to enter. Discharge the duties upon which I'm about to enter. Thank you and congratulations. I think there's a need signatures, Pamela. Yes. Well, as you're signing your paperwork, thank you for not only raising your right hand, but your left hand too to say I want to volunteer, serve on one of our boards and commissions, and represent our community. So thank you very much for doing this and serving on our commissions. Turning to item number seven is public comment on the consent calendar, matters of council interest, and items not on the agenda. If you join the meeting to speak on the proposed sewer charges, the city's budget or the fire department's study, there'll be an opportunity to give public comment on those items later in the meeting. If you're attending in person, please fill out a speaker card and submit to our city clerk here at the DS. If you're attending virtually, feel free to raise your hand on Zoom or press star nine if you've joined by phone. I'll now turn it over to our city clerk to facilitate public comment. Thank you, Mayor G. As mentioned, now is the time for public comment on items that are not on the agenda or on the consent calendar. I will start with the uh speakers who we have in person, and I will call two names at a time. You will have two minutes to make your public comment. There is a timer in the upper left hand corner of the podium. You'll see three lights. Um when you the green light will be on while you're speaking. When you see the yellow light come on, that means you have 30 seconds remaining, so you want to wrap up your comments, and then the red light means your time has expired.