The Redwood City Council held a regular hybrid meeting on October 27, 2025, starting at 6:00 PM. The meeting included a closed session for public employee appointment and later for existing litigation, with no reportable action. The council received presentations from CORA, the Port of Redwood City, the Redwood City Improvement Association, and SamTrans on the Grand Boulevard Initiative, conducted a public hearing on a proposed 100% affordable senior housing development at 705 Veterans Boulevard, and held a study session on stormwater master planning. All consent calendar items were approved unanimously.
All right. Good evening, everybody. Thank you for joining our regular city council meeting of October twenty-seventh, twenty twenty-five. It is past six o'clock, so we're gonna go ahead and get started. We're holding meetings in a hybrid format with both in-person and virtual participation available. The city welcomes public comment on topics within the city's subject matter jurisdiction, and members of the public may provide comments as follows. Excuse me, speaker cards are located at the back table in the council chambers and must be turned in to the city clerk at the dais. Please be sure to indicate the agenda number which you wish to speak on. Attendees who have joined us by Zoom will be called to speak after the in-person comments have been given. Detailed instructions for public comment will be provided on the screen when the time for public comment begins. 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 each public comment. In the event that this occurs, please feel free to send your full comments to the City Council at Council at Rewood City.org. Written comments are not read aloud, but will be made part of the final meeting record. And I will now turn it over to our city clerk to call the roll. Councilmember G. Present. Councilmember Howard. Here, Councilmember Padilla. Here. With that, we'll now go on to the pledge of allegiance. Councilmember G. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. You would rise and join me in saluting the flag of our country. We will move on to item four. Item four is a procedural item for the purpose of identifying and confirming any council members who wish to participate in a meeting remotely and have not already provided a remote location listed on the agenda. This item does not pertain to public comments from the public, and we have no council members exercising this tonight. So we will move on to our next item. We'll now convene to our closed session regarding public employee appointment as identified on the agenda. Before we convene closed session, I'd like to ask the city clerk if there are any public comments on the closed session item. We'll now adjourn to closed session, which should take us hopefully less than an hour. But following the conclusion of closed session, the council will return to the dais and reconvene open session. We appreciate patience. Thanks, everybody. We're going to be a couple of people. Okay. Okay. Good evening, everybody. We're going to go ahead and get started. Thank you so much for your patience while we reconvene from close session. We're we're going to begin our meeting tonight with item six, which is our presentations and acknowledgments, beginning with six A, a proclamation recognizing domestic violence awareness month. This is our proclamation for October 2025, declaring October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month, a national observance dedicated to raising awareness and educating the public about domestic violence. And we brought an incredible organization to highlight Cora, which is the only and probably the only service DV services provider here in San Mateo County, serving people in their most critical moments of need. And leading with programs like the Domestic Violence Emergency Response Team or Divert, your truly leading the way for the county to help transform lives. And so this month, there are various efforts to support survivors on our victims and advocate for an end to abuse. And I'll read a few whereas from the proclamation, whereas more than one in three women, one in four men, and one in two transgender individuals experience some form of physical or sexual violence and or stalking by their intimate partner in their lifetime. On behalf of the City Council, I'd like to extend appreciation to CORA for their important work, supporting victims of domestic abuse, and invite CEO Karen Ferguson to the podium to accept the proclamation and share a few words. Welcome, Karen. Thank you very much. Thank you, City Council members, and thank you to all who are here today.