The San Leandro City Council met on June 16, 2025, at 7:00 PM in City Hall Council Chambers. Mayor Gonzalez presided. Roll call: Present – Aguilar Jr., Azevedo, González III, Bowen, Viveros-Walton, Boldt; Absent – Simon. The meeting included a consent calendar, a public hearing on the biennial budget, and several action items including the adoption of a by-district election ordinance, a fourth cannabis dispensary permit, and salary schedule amendments. Public comments addressed housing production, federal investigation of a councilmember, library funding, and budget process.
Note on date discrepancy: The source materials (agenda, minutes, transcript) consistently indicate the meeting occurred on June 16, 2025. The instruction for this summary specified June 26, 2025. The content above reflects the actual meeting events.
Okay, it's 7 o'clock, and I'm calling the meeting to order. This is San Leto City Council. Today is Monday, June 16th. Like I said, it's 7 p.m. Vice Mayor, would you like to lead us in a pledge of allegiance? Stan if you're able to. Madam Clerk, would you please take the roll? Thank you, Mayor. Councilmember Aguilar. Present. Councilmember Azevito. Councilmember Bolt. Present. Councilmember Simon is absent. Councilmember Faveros Walton. Present. Vice Mayor Bowen. Mayor Gonzalez. So Council, today we've got the appointment and swinging in of a new youth member to the police uh community police review board under item 10A. I'd like to move this up to Section 4 recognitions in the interest of time. Looking down, Council Rule to see if there are any exceptions. Seeing none, we will make that adjustment to our agenda. The City of St. Leandro conducts orderly meetings to fulfill its mandate. Discriminatory statements or conduct that would potentially violate the Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 and or the California uh California Fair Employment and Housing Act. California Penal Code Sections 403 or 415 are per se disruptive to meeting and will not be tolerated. Please see the City Council handbook and city council meeting rules of decorum for more information. And Madam Clerk, your announcement, please. Thank you, Mayor. If you would like to make a public comment during the meeting, you can do so in person or via Zoom. If you are present at the meeting, please complete a speaker card and submit it to the city clerk before the item is presented. If you wish to participate in public comment via Zoom, you can use the raise your hand tool when the item is called. During the public comment session, speakers will be invited to speak and will have a set time to share their comments. A countdown timer will appear for their convenience, and when the time is up, the microphone will be muted. All raised hands outside of public comment will be lowered to avoid confusion. Once public comment is opened, hands may be raised. There will be a 30-minute window for public comments, which will take place under item 7, public comments, as per the published agenda. After this time is up, the council will proceed with the rest of the meeting's agenda. If you have not had the opportunity to speak during the initial 30-minute period, there will be another chance to do so after item 12, City Council reports. Thank you. So for our third item on the agenda, the report on closed session action taken. There was no closed session today. So we will move on to item 10A, which was moved into this section on recognitions. And Madam Clerk, I believe you've got a very brief statement to make here. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Tonight we have a motion before you to appoint Casey Guo as ex-officio youth member to the community police review board. Okay, so I'll entertain a motion on this item. So I've got council member Vivetos Walton. So moved.