The Redwood City Council held a regular hybrid meeting on April 13, 2026, at 2:00 PM. The meeting covered the SamTrans Connect Bay Area local investment plan, public comments on 5G towers and youth programs, a consent calendar including fire engine purchases, a public hearing to initiate study of Stanford Medicine’s proposed cancer center, and the annual military equipment use report with a proposed five-year Axon technology contract. All council members were present, with three recusing themselves from the Stanford item.
Thanks, everyone for being here for tonight's council meeting. Okay, yeah. All right, everyone. I think we have our audio back online. Good evening. We're gonna go ahead and get started. Thank you for joining our regular city council meeting of April thirteenth, twenty twenty six. We hold meetings in a hybrid format with both in-person and virtual participation. The city welcomes public comment on topics within these cities subject matter jurisdiction. And members of the public may provide comments as follows. Speaker cards are located at the back table in the council chambers and must be turned in to the city clerk here at the day's. 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 is a high volume of public comment this evening, we may decrease the total time allotted for each comment or limit the total time for public comment. In the event this occurs, please feel free to send your full comments to the city council at council at redwood city dot 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 rule. Good evening, and thank you everyone again for your patience. We'll start with Councilmember Chu. Here. Councilmember G present. Councilmember Howard. Here. Councilmember Padilla. Present. Councilmember Sturkin. Here. Vice Mayor Aiken. Here. Mayor Martinez Sabayos. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. With that, we'll move on to the next item. And we have all members of the council participating in person, so we'll move on to the pledge. And Councilmember G, could you lead us, please? You all rise and join me in saluting the flag of our country. And with that, we will move on to item five presentations and acknowledgments for our presentation item this evening. Sam Trans will be giving an update on the Connect Bay Area Local Investment Plan. And I'd like to welcome Sam Trans government and community affairs director, Jessica Epstein to the podium to give the presentation. So uh as you said, tonight I am doing a presentation on the Connect Bay Area Act. Uh my name is Jessica Epstein. I am the director of government and community affairs at Sam Trans. So basically I'm sharing information on a potential revenue measure that's working its way towards the November ballot as a citizens initiative. If it makes it if it becomes successful, uh, we're sharing what information on what that would mean for the community, uh for transit and uh for Sam Trans itself. So here's the the agenda. Um the measure uh sorry uh so there's information in here on the measure as a whole, uh, but just wanted to emphasize the real focus of tonight is San Mateo County, not the rest of the measure. So a little bit of history and you know, snapshot of Sam Trans who we are. Uh we provide bus and paratransit service throughout the county. It's an essential service getting people to work to school, to jobs and appointments and other destinations. So you can see some of the bullet points on our service.