The Redwood City Council met on June 24, 2024, beginning with a closed session at 6:00 PM (no reportable actions) and reconvening for the regular meeting. The agenda included recognitions, consent calendar approvals, public comments, a budget adoption, federal grant plan approval, park impact fee discussions, and parklet program modifications. Key decisions included adoption of the FY24-25 budget with a $400,000 contingency, rejection of a park impact fee discount, and updates to the outdoor business activity program.
Well, good evening, everyone. Thank you for joining us on a regular City Council meeting of June twenty-fourth, twenty twenty four. We are continuing to offer in-person and remote options for our city council meetings. However, due to continued disruptions during public comment at open meetings throughout our region, we've modified our public comment procedures until further notice.org so that we can see your comments and they will be part of the meeting record. Listening devices are available with staff at the front counter in the lobby. Well, he'll make that announcement when we come back from closed session. So Jessica, I'd like to turn it over to you now to call the role. No speaker cards or emailed comments at this time. Last call to the audience for any comments on the closed session item this evening. Seeing none, no public comment, Mayor. Thank you. Thank you for joining us at six o'clock. We are going to go into closed session, and we hope to be back by six fifty. So thank you for your patience. Oh, yeah. I mean, it's right now. I don't know. Oh, wait, oh yeah. So we're gonna show the video. She says hi. Hi. Yeah, because we all were muted. Keep talking for another minute. We're we'll since everyone gets here, we'll get started. Okay, thank you everyone for your patience. We are coming back out of closed session, and there's no reportal action taken during tonight's closed session. Again, thank you for your patience with us. As I mentioned earlier in my opening remarks, uh, we do have Spanish translation interpretations available this evening for item A on the city budget adoption. Listening devices are available with staff, the front counter and lobbying. I'd like to now invite our interpreter to make this announcement in Spanish. Gracias. On to section five presentations and acknowledgements. This is a fun part of our agenda. We get to celebrate great things in our community. And our first one up this evening is a proclamation recognizing Kaiser Permanente's physician physician in chief, Dr. Grace Firch. I'm going to read some whereas is and we have some presentations for you. Um what's important is that we want to recognize Dr. Grace Firch, who is completing her eight-year tenure serving as the physician in chief for Kaiser Permanente Redwood City in San Mateo after over 30 impressive years in her clinical career. I'd like to take a few minutes here to read some excerpts from her proclamation from the City Council. Whereas Dr. Grace Firch joined the Permanente Medical Group in 1992, and whereas Dr. Firch's professional interests has been the rehabilitation and the non-surgical treatment of hopefully I can say this right, musculosculoskeletal disorders. And whereas during her tenure as PIC, Dr. Firch supported her teams in achieving program leading performance in outpatient quality, inpatient quality, and inpatient care experience. She is proud of the strong culture of excellence demonstrated by the physicians and staff she has supported, always focusing first and foremost on the well-being of the patients and the communities that Kaiser serves. And whereas Dr. Grace Firch is the is a community champion and will be cherished for years to come. On behalf of the council, we have a proclamation to present to you. But before we do that, I'm going to invite Councilmember Martina Sabayos to present a proclamation of certificate certificate from Congressmember Kevin Mullen's.