If I can ask everyone to kind of squeeze in short, should we get our meeting started in a couple of minutes?

There's still room to squeeze in if everyone wouldn't like to squeeze against the wall or right.

Good evening, everyone, and welcome to our December 9th Council meeting here in Redwood City.

This is a fun meeting to have because it's a very celebratory meeting.

Just before we get started, I just want to let everyone know there's kind of five parts to this meeting.

Part one is we have some city business to take care of, something like certifying the election results.

That's kind of important.

Then we will be doing and recognizing our outgoing council members.

Our new council members will take their oath of office.

There's something about the outgoing mayor and then picking a new mayor and vice mayor.

There will be five times in which public comment may be taken to recognize different parts of our program this evening.

There was also going to be a little break in the middle as we rearrange the deck chairs as things change up here.

So thank you for joining us this evening.

That's the program for this evening, and hopefully things will go well.

So as we begin tonight's evening, we will be transitioning to a new city council, welcoming newly elected city council members and recognizing outgoing members.

The transition will occur after consideration of the consent calendar and matters of council interest, which is part one.

And there'll be opportunity for public comment during each segment of the council transition.

This will be my last meeting presiding as mayor, and I'll have some remarks to be made later this meeting, but it's been my pleasure and honor and privilege to serve as mayor the last two years.

We are continuing to offer in-person or 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.

The city welcomes public comment on topics within the city subject matter jurisdiction, and this can be provided in person during the meeting or by email ahead of the meeting.

At this time, we're temporarily suspending public comments by Zoom.

We want to ensure that the city can continue to conduct the city's business in a manner that allows all residents to participate.

We continue to reevaluate our public comment procedures and we'll share updates as necessary.

Our public comment procedures tonight for items on the agenda or within the city subject matter jurisdiction are as follows.

Public comment is taken in person during the meeting or in advance via email as outlined on the agenda.

Comments that were received via email by 5 o'clock PM may be read aloud, time permitting, and in any case, we'll maybe be part of the final meeting record.

In-person speakers must turn a speaker card to the city clerk at the day as to be recognized to speak.

Please be sure to indicate the agenda item number you wish to speak on.

In-person speakers will be called in the order in which speaker cards were turned in.

Lastly, if there's a high volume of public comment this evening, we may decrease the time allotted for each comment or limit the total time for public comment.

This is to ensure the city council can address agenda items in a timely manner and is allowed under the City Council's Guide to Communications and Business.

In the event this occurs, please feel free to send your full comments to the City Council at public comment at Redwood City.org so that we can see your comments and they become part of the meeting record.

I'd like to turn the meeting over to our city clerk to call the roll.

Good evening, everyone.

We'll start with Councilmember Aguirre.

Here.

Councilmember Aiken.

Here.

Councilmember Howard.

Here.

Councilmember Martinez Savallas.

Here.

Councilmember Sturkin.

Here.

Vice Mayor Espinosa Garnica.

And Mayor G.

Present.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I'd like to now invite Councilmember Aguirre to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Very good.

Councilmember Gary, thank you for leading us in the pledge.

For those that are standing, there's a couple chairs here in the front still available if you'd like to kind of come on up front.

Or you can keep standing.

So all right.

Now is the time for public comment on the consent calendar, matters of council interests and items not on the agenda.

As mentioned earlier, there'll be an opportunity to speak on the council transition items when those items are called.

Before I turn over to our city clerk, I like to ask her how many speaker cards and emails we received.

Mayor, we have two total speakers both in person.