The Redwood City Council met on Monday, May 12, 2025, at 6:00 PM. The meeting covered approval of consent calendar items (with one item pulled for discussion), public testimony on multiple issues, a detailed discussion and vote on upgrading police tasers, adoption of updated fire hazard severity zone maps, and a study session on water, sewer, and stormwater utility master planning. No formal action was taken on the study session.
Good evening, everybody. The city welcomes public comment on topics within the city subject matter jurisdiction. And members of the public may provide comments in person during the meeting or by email to public comment at redwood city.org as outlined on the agenda. In-person speakers must turn in a speaker card to the city clerk at the dais to be recognized to speak. Please be sure to indicate the agenda item number which you wish to address. And in-person speakers will be called in the order in which their speaker cards were turned in. Comments that were received via email after agenda publication through 5 p.m. today may be read aloud, time permitting, and in any case will be made part of the final meeting record. I will now turn it over to our city clerk to call the roll. Good evening. Councilmember Chu. Here. Councilmember G. Present. Councilmember Howard. Here. Councilmember Padilla. Present. Councilmember Sturkin. Here. Vice Mayor Aiken. Here. And Mayor Martinez Sabayos. Here. Thank you. Thank you. And we'll move on to the Pledge of Allegiance. Councilmember Jeek. Thank you. You would rise and join me in a saluting the flag of our country. Thank you, Councilmember G. Next is presentations and acknowledgments, which we do not have any tonight. So we'll move on to public comment on the consent calendar, matters of council interest and items that are not on tonight's agenda. We will now take public comment on the consent calendar, matters of council interest and items that aren't listed on tonight's agenda. And I'll turn it over to the city clerk to facilitate public comment. Thank you, Mayor. At this time we have seven in-person speakers and a total of 11 emailed comments. So totaling 18. Last call to the audience for any additional in-person speakers this evening on the consent calendar, matters of council interest, and items that are not on the agenda. Okay, we will begin with our in-person speakers. I'll call two at a time. There is a timer on the top of the podium. The yellow blinking light is the 30-second warning, and the red light with the beep means your time is up. You'll get two minutes to speak, and the timer will begin when you start speaking. Our first speaker is Ingrid Falk. And Ingrid will be followed by Ann Cano. Welcome. Okay. And do I need to speak from here or do I stand up email? Thank you.