So let's go ahead and uh go ahead and we'll go ahead and call this regular meeting of the South San Francisco City Council for December the 10th to order and we'll begin with in progress.

Roll call.

Council Member Coleman.

Here.

Councilmember Flores.

Present.

Council Member Nicholas.

Present.

Vice Mayor Nagales.

Mayor Adiego.

Here.

And the next item is the Pledge of Allegiance.

And I've asked the um councilman to the far left, and that's physically, I mean, the far left, to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

And Madam City Manager, is there any change to our agenda?

We have no change to the agenda.

It stands as is, okay.

Wonderful.

Mayor, moving on to Levine Act Disclosures.

Do the council have any uh conflicts to report tonight?

It appears not.

Thank you.

Moving on to announcements from staff.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council members, staff, community.

I'm Marie Patea from City Hall.

And this is our last regular council meeting for 2025.

And just want to remind everyone about our city offices.

It will be closed for the holidays.

Wednesday, December 24th, and then reopen on Monday, January 5th.

The library will remain open except for half day on the 24th, 31st, all day on the 25th, and on January 1st.

And of course, public safety and water quality will be open and running.

So thank you and happy holidays, everyone.

Thank you, Marie.

And again, thank you for last night.

Next we have presentations, but before we begin with number one, we're actually gonna uh preempt that.

Um the individual in the hall.

No, okay.

So we're not going to preempt that.

And why don't you make the announcement for presentation number one?

Sure.

Moving on to item number one is a fiscal year 2025-26 action plan update.

Good evening, Mayor Adiego, Vice Mayor Nogales, members of Council Richley, your assistant city manager.

Uh this evening I have a brief update for the council on your uh fiscal year 2526 action plan.

So just as a recap, uh the chart before you shows the major focus areas from the action plan and their related strategies.

And this evening I'll be providing an update on um items that we have uh more information from staff and those that we're not going to cover this evening.

They are in progress and on time.

So the first major focus area.

Oh, looks like we're not seeing things on the screen.

So that's what he's signaling, yeah.

So if IT could get the uh screens working for the council, that would be appreciated.

Uh in the meantime, I'm gonna focus on the first major focus area, which is housing and supportive services.

Uh the initiative that we're covering this evening is 905 London.

So 905 London, uh, that's a part of the balanced housing supply key strategy, and the initiative is for staff to issue an RFP for 905 London for a for sale develop affordable developer.

So the update from staff is that an RFQ, a request for uh quotes was issued uh in October of this year, and responses were due in late November.

Uh more information will be coming from our economic and community development staff, but that is the update for this item.

Also, under the uh the same uh key strategy is a zoning text amendment to allow accessory dwelling units to be sold separately from primary dwelling units, and the update is that the housing standing committee they met uh just last month and they did recommend that they plan in commission consider the zoning text amendment.

So more to come on that.

Under the quality of life major focus area, this map should look familiar, is the current design for the park development on Linden.

And this is under the key strategy of support, excuse me, support sustainable retail.

And the update is that 90% construction documents are being reviewed right now, and bidding documents, bidding will occur next year.

Public outreach for the public art element for this project will be considered later this evening.

This next item is again under the same key strategy of support sustainable retail under the initiative of expansion of senior services.

I'm not going to read all of these, but I just wanted to highlight some of them.

There's additional senior classes for HULA, for standing and floor functional weight training, for quilting.

I do want to highlight that Kaiser has stepped up and provided a $25,000 grant to support the congregate nutrition program.

And I'll be mentioning them again later in the presentation.

My particular favorite is the Anything Goes Music Group.

And I believe Vice Mayor Nogales had volunteered to pay a personal visit to lead them in a stirring rendition of Dahil Sayo.

Is that right, Vice Mayor?

I'm sorry.

You heard it here first.

Mike will be singing.

Yes.

The next major focus area is to complete a zoning study for retail supportive friendly regulations, particularly El Comuna Real.

ECD staff applied for an urban land institute technical assistance panel, which is a ULI TAP.

And the update is as of right now, they're working with ULI to establish a timeframe for the TAP mid next year.

Also within the same key strategy is to implement a vacant storefronts pilot program, otherwise known as launch local.

Just as a recap, the council approved the program in March of this year, and later in the year, just a few months ago, they approved the sublease with six bicycles.

And the update is that staff is working on returning to council for future program expansion, which would include potentially to work with private property owners and more retail sites for the program portfolio.

Moving on to the complete visioning study and community engagement for future multimodal improvements to El Cam New Real.

This is being led by our deputy city manager Megan Willie Alsdall.

And the update is that first in mid-2025, they kicked off the El Camino Real Mobility Plan to create a multimodal transportation plan for the El Camino Real Corridor.

That was followed by conducted outreach and engagement in the fall.

And staff consultants, they're going to pair community input with data analysis and city policies to create a draft concept design options for the council to consider.

So more to come in early next year, they're going to begin another round of community engagement.

They're going to gather and input the draft designs.

Moving on to the modern and sustainable organization, major focus area.

And first is one of my favorites is the enterprise resource planning or ERP system.

So the council may recall the awarded contract in July of this year, and we are on target and on budget for the October 2026 Go Live.

For the enforcement of business license requirements, first the city manager's office and economic and community development staff conducted outreach to mobile food trucks.

That was a council interest, and business license compliance letters have been issued to short-term rentals and business license renewals, will be going out in December for the upcoming year.

The last major focus area we're going to cover is the welcome, welcoming and community connected community under engaging community volunteers.

First, the Westboro Childcare Expansion, the design development continues, and bidding for construction will occur next year.

And the last item I have, I mentioned I would uh bring the button again is to pursue grants to support community events.

I want to highlight the um the partnership and uh really just a great community partner with Kaiser, who is again stepping up with a $10,000 dollar grant for the night market, which will occur on February 20th of 2026.

And with that, I welcome uh any questions from council.

Okay, let's see if we can generate some for you.

All right.

Anyone have a follow-up question on this very comprehensive report?

No one.

Wow.

Um, could you go back to the um slide on the business license tax?

Yes.

So I'm aware of um some property owners that are in this particular business to sh uh rentals, and uh did not get the um notice or or were aware that there's a fee, I think of uh a handsome sum of $50 uh due and payable.

Um how do we how do we um get into the community a little deeper so that we are sending information to individuals that should be carrying a business license?

I'm gonna ask our interim finance director Drew Corpett to uh provide a little bit more detail for the council on this program.

Drew, are you able to get a good evening, Mayor?

Uh members of the city council, Drew Corbett, interim finance director.

Um so uh a big part of the the impetus for going with HDL to uh help us with the business license was because of the tools they have at their disposal to ensure equitable compliance to the business license uh ordinance.

Um, you know, when when staff runs it, we're heavily reliant on uh self-reporting, right?

And when we utilize HDL, they have tools that allow for them to uh get information about businesses, whether they're remitting taxes, um, you know, to the state that uh that allow them to identify folks that would be uh that need to get a business license.

So with specifically with respect to the rentals, um, staff sent out a letter last year to uh to property owners based on some work we did internally uh using the GIS system to identify property owners that that were not listed on the address to identify them as potentially renting out.

That's only a very small subset of folks who are subject to the business license tax.

So um HDL will be doing the heavy lifting going forward, starting at the beginning of the year to do the audits to find the uh the property owners that are renting out to make sure that they are paying the appropriate uh tax.

So the contract has been in place for for that yes, issue and and others.

They they do other audit work for us.

Yes, that's part of the contract, yes.

Okay, all right.

Thank you, Mr.

Corbett.

Thank you.

Okay.

Um next item, Madam Clerk.

Council comments, request.

Um, so I'd like to um preempt everyone and remember a couple of people from the community that we've lost, two people that I uh knew very well.

So um, first of all, uh there's a gentleman who passed away just yesterday, and normally he would have been at that event.

Uh his name is David Venturini, and um David was first hired in South San Francisco in 1985, and he worked for the library department initially, but then he went on to become a supervisor with the parks department.

Uh he spent 25 years working for the city, retired um in 2010, but that wasn't the end of his involvement.

Uh he's a lifelong resident, and you couldn't go to anything related to parks and activities out there without him having him at the desk where he would greet people and sign you up for the work that the volunteers would do.

Uh, he was always there.

He was of a good spirit, very committed to the beautification uh committee.

And um I'm sorry he's gone so soon.

And then there's a woman uh by the name of Louise Mafey, and um she was born Louise Regalia, spent her entire life in South San Francisco.

Uh she was born on August the 11th of 1924.

So if you quickly do the math, you realize that yes, she got over that mark.

She was 101 years old.

Um, she married a gentleman by the name of Pete Buffet, and they owned together owned uh and operated Mafei's uh men's wear on the 200 block of Grand Oven, who I believe, in one of the storefronts that the city now owns and is working with.

And um at that time there were actually, and Mr.

Coleman, I this is old history, but you fun to note that in those days when you went shopping, you didn't go to the internet, you actually went into a store.

And and there were people to greet you and help you find out the very best so you had a spectacular look.

And there were three major stores, but Mafei's menswear was the one that the um former mayor would go to because uh he likes he likes fine clothing.

Um it was a spectacular shop.

I couldn't afford it, but it was spectacular.

Um, she was known for um just a very classy woman, known for her posh dinner parties up there on Orange Avenue.

She was a member of the Green Hills Country Club, a golfer for 50 years, and she kept herself in excellent shape.

When they sold the shop, Pete retired.

She went to work for a lighting company, a retailer in San Bruno, and spent a number of years there, worked there until 87.

So the beautiful thing is her final day did come peacefully at 101 years old, and her daughter was with her and held her hand.

And it doesn't get any better than that.

So uh with that, um, oh, wonderful.

Let's uh let's go ahead and uh roll back a little bit.

We have a um another presentation.

Um, and this one I'll let um Councilwoman Nicholas take over because she uh did the sleuthing work to find out this important event.

Yes, it is truly a very fortunate uh event that we have in our presence a living legend who has reached an incredible milestone.

Uh last Sunday during the 1030 Mass at Old Souls, everybody saying happy birthday to Yvonne.

Yvonne was born in Belgium on December 7th, 1925, and immigrated to the US after the World War II with her husband, bought her home on Circle Court in 1945, where she raised her two children, and it's still there where she currently resides.

She's a proud grandmother of four grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, with one more on the way.

She volunteered extensively with a women's club, including fashion shows and community events.

She's known for her creativity and craftsmanship.

She sewed, um, she sold many matching dresses for herself, her daughter, and then later on, her granddaughter.

She was very active at Allsules Church, where she supported the religious faith formation, sang in the choir.

I sang with Yvonne for a few years, uh, volunteered in Old Soul School, where she helped in the cafeteria and taught French for many years.

Worked in the for the phone company early in her career and retired from Guy F.

Atkinson in the early 90s, worked at the Orange Park Memorial Park uh pool teaching water aerobics, and retired in 2016.

She loves the city street and road maintenance work that we have been doing.

Her lifelong spirit of service has been passed down for her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, and one personal note, she said she remembered the young Mark A Diego, our current mayor.

Working at Safeway.

So, Yvonne.

Would you mind coming to the podium, please?

We have a certificate for you for you're celebrating your 100th birthday.

Thank you for your community spirit and dedication to your growing family.

You are an inspiration to our community.

Yvonne, happy birthday.

Thank you so much.

I know.

I know.

Yay.

I'll take a photo.

She'll take a picture of us.

Okay.

Would you like to join us, Christina?

And Amanda?

Thanks very much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

This is this is really kind of embarrassing, I guess.

And I'm so thankful, so thankful to the city.

And like this, it's 1944.

I moved here.

I've been in the same house, same neighborhood, Circle Court, which I think it's the best thing ever did in my life.

And uh I have the same quite a few same neighborhood.

My neighborhood, my neighborhood hasn't changed much outside of too many cars.

It's our curse.

And uh, I still, you know, see the neighbors.

I mean, they're not known for years with me.

So thank you.

Thank you, thank you so much for this.

Mrs.

Anderson, before you get away, Mrs.

Anderson.

Um I am of 70 years old, and um, do you have any secrets of how you made it to 100?

Just wake up smiley.

And be good to each other.

That's my neighbors.

I mean, I've known them for years.

The kids, the grandkids, and it did you go down the street.

Everybody knows you, it hasn't changed much on Circle Court.

And then that's just about it, and help each other.

I was very active at All Souls Church.

I was back active at the school.

I was active at the pool.

And uh, just be happy.

Thank you.

Okay.

Happy birthday.

I'll try to incorporate those things into my life.

It may be too late, but I'll try.

Thank you.

Thank you, everybody.

I'll go back.

And uh who would like to lead off with um a council comment?

My counselor comments.

So thank you to uh the South San Francisco Police Department, especially to Officer Kathleen Walsh for the very well-received presentation at the scam uh stopper seminar championed by Vice Mayor Negales.

It was a very somber transgender day of remembrance held here at the LPR by San Mateo County, where Vice Mayor Negales and I welcomed the guest.

Kudos to our parks and recreation staff for making sure they had a great event.

The historical society held their annual banquet at the Basque that our city manager Sharon Reynolds and Vice Mayor Negales also attended.

Santa comes to town was again a hit.

The Parks and Rec staff, especially Brian Noche and his team did a fabulous job.

And special thank you to Bill Benavidez for his annual participation.

He just needs to bulk up a little bit for next year.

It seems like his he had the GLP one drug this year.

Congratulations is in order for our new mayor and vice mayor the marks.

And of course, a million thank you to our retiring city manager.

You made history, and I am honored to play a small part in making it happen.

She didn't we accomplish what we uh we set out to do.

I love you from the bottom of my heart.

And uh in memory of uh of the following, I would like to join our meeting today.

Michael Edward Ransom, he was a beloved husband, brother, son, friend, and a man of deep faith, passed away peacefully on October 31st at the age of 62.

He was born on April 14, 1963, and lived a life of devotion to God, to his family, and to the communities he served.

A US Army veteran from Desert Storm, Michael carried the values of discipline, respect, and dedication into every aspect of his life.

He was a civil engineer and managed successfully construction projects with integrity and kindness, contributing to major infrastructure like the San Francisco Muni Railway System, and recently the construction of our new South San Francisco Police Department.

Our Capital Projects team here in South San Francisco worked with Michael almost every day for five years.

Lived with grace and purpose.

Michael's legacy is one of faith, kindness, and quiet strength.

I also would like to join it in memory of Philomer Ancheta, a wife and mother who will be sorely missed by her family and friends, and Mr.

Rustico Tensuan, who also lived a long and fruitful life.

He passed away at 100 in the presence of his children and grandchildren on Thanksgiving Day.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Flora.

Um who would like to go next?

Um, sure.

Um I'll go.

I was gone for most of the last month, but um I do want to extend uh my congratulations and my and my thanks to our city manager Sharon Reynolds, who will be retiring and for your many years of service.

I'd like to thank the mayor for his uh one year service as mayor, and uh we're entering a golden age of DeMarc's.

Rule of Mark, once again, and and um looking forward to next year.

Um next, I want to um adjourn, ask that we adjourn this meeting in memory of Wendy Tam, who is a district two resident um who passed last month at the age of 25.

Um, sorry.

She was a good friend of mine in high school.

And those who know Wendy.

Someone who lights up every room with her smile, humor, and energy.

She's thoughtful, genuine, and endlessly caring, with a way of making everyone around her feel comfortable, seen and loved.

Wherever she went, Wendy brought spontaneity, curiosity, and warmth, reminding all of us to live fully and love deeply.

In 2018, she graduated from South City Eye.

And in 2022, Wendy graduated from the University of California, San Diego.

At the peak of her life, she had completed a summer internship at Genentech and was stepping into a full-time role at Prince Water Cooper's.

She was incredibly driven, diligent, well spoken, and well loved.

And she was always always surrounded by friends or family.

She loved to explore the world, and 2023 traveled to Italy with her family and to Korea with her closest friends.

Two years ago, Wendy was diagnosed with mucus ovarian cancer.

Which is a rare and poorly understood subtype.

That represents only three percent of ovarian cancers.

And despite receiving attentive care at Stanford Sutter Health and integrative support, Wendy ran out of treatment options.

Before she passed, Wendy shared that her wish was to leave a lasting impact on this disease.

So utter young women would have hope and more options.

And to honor her wish, her family established the Wendy Tam MOC research Fund dedicated to advancing research and awareness for his underfunded disease.

I've shared the I have donated, I've shared the link on my social media for those who want to donate as well.

That fund is all has already raised over $100,000.

And I hope that it can continue to raise more.

That's all.

Thank you.

Okay, Councilman, um, thank you for sharing that um painful message, and my condolences to you as our friend.

Thank you, Ms.

Mayor.

Um, first of all, I wanted to thank staff uh for putting together a wonderful re-org.

Um, I also wanted to thank our mayor, Mayor Adiego.

Uh I know your leadership is gonna take us to new heights.

I really appreciate all the great you've done work, and I also want to thank um our previous mayor, Mayor uh Flores for his great year.

Thank you for your leadership, and I look forward to working with all my colleagues.

Um I already said all my thank yous and love to Sharon.

And if you need help put planting that tree, probably not me.

I don't think you need me to do.

But um I also wanted to mention, you know, as uh Councilman Nicholas mentioned, uh, myself, the mayor, uh, and councilman Nicholas.

We attended the historical society's ugly Christmas celebration along with City Manager Sherry Reynolds.

I think we were robbed in terms of the ugly sweater, uh, I think especially Flora and her husband, uh Nino, because they were actually a tandem in terms of their ugly sweater.

So next year, Flora, next year.

Um, I also attended the 52nd annual Thanksgiving fun run.

Over a thousand participants either walked, ran.

Um, it was probably the largest crowd we've had.

So thank you to the PD, uh, members of the CERT, our all our volunteers uh for putting that together.

It's such a great event.

Uh, seeing the community come out and just having a great time.

I want to thank Greg for letting me use the gator as always to ride around and making sure everyone was okay.

Um also thank you to Councilmember Nicholas for attending uh my Scamstoppers event.

Uh, we have about 40 people to attend, and it's very interesting to kind of hear kind of these stories.

Um, because you think if you're ever in that situation, you would know what to do.

Um, and I held this event because um my parents almost got scammed.

And I think I thought it was important uh that we provide information to our community about the scams that are happening out there.

Uh it's so uh the the feedback I got is that they wanted more of these events, so I planned to continue to do these events in the near future and expand on that.

Um, you know, because there was a shutdown, we couldn't really bring everyone in.

Um, but the PD was fantastic.

Uh thank you to uh the Kathleen Walsh for providing all that uh important information.

Um I'm looking at Rich.

When we do this again next year, we expand this to other agencies.

Cause I I can tell you the people that came up with it is that we want more information.

We want more um agencies to participate.

And then lastly, I attended the uh the Santa Comes to Town.

It's always a great event, and thank you for everyone for participating.

And then lastly, I just want to wish everyone a happy holidays.

That's all I have, Mr.

Mayor.

Thank you, Mark.

And uh now our most recent former mayor.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Proud uh to be here under your new leadership and thank you and wishing all the best to you and our new vice mayor as well.

Um I will tell you that these last uh four weeks, I would say, um, we're very busy.

The last four weeks of my mayoral year, it seemed like everything just piled up, and everyone wanted to um host a meeting or or be part of an event.

I I want to start off by uh thanking staff for the numerous events that were put together.

Um, some that my uh colleagues had to cover because I was at an other events or conferences, uh, including the Ruby Bridges Walk to School, uh in partnership with the school district.

Uh thank you to the city manager's team.

Um I was with our city manager, our council council member uh Nicholas as well, a bright and early celebrating very rung bunctious, excited kids, uh, our youth that were um honoring uh the tribute of of what Ruby Bridges is and how it started here in South San Francisco.

So I want to thank and acknowledge um all the city staff that that made this happen.

Our public safety teams that always look out for our youth as we do the grandiose walk, our state senator Josh Becker for being here early and being able to put together.

During that time, around that time, I was also uh attending the National League of Cities Conference, representing great resources.

Um sometimes you it's kind of hit or miss if if it is worth not I'll tell you this one was really worth it, not only because we are very much being noticed, South San Francisco in the national spotlight of many other cities, including uh watching what we're doing here, um the way that we're orchestrating economic and community development with our economic advancement center, but also was able to uh learn, and I will be sharing with the mayor uh numerous organizations that are coming together at a national level already to celebrate the 250th anniversary that are providing resources, both even at the grant level and financial, so that we don't have to uh bear the entire cost of these type of celebrations, and also bringing in volunteers.

So great resources that I was able to uh look up and bring forth for our city.

Um Santa comes to town.

I want to really uh thank uh Brian, Aaron, Angela, Greg, the entire PR staff, our also um Bill Benavides, um our fire chief, our public safety, our PD, our firefighters who drove us and brought us on the fire trucks as it is the annual tradition here, but most important to the community for showing support, our city manager and the city manager team for making it all wonderful with Carrollers and and you all delivered a vision that really excited the community and continues to excite not just our community but also our businesses, and thank uh the chamber of commerce for engaging in a business small business corridor bingo.

I saw folks up and down Grand Avenue with their bingo card sheet going to every restaurant that participated.

It really felt like community.

It really felt like a cool Christmas holiday vibe.

And I again um thank you to the to the park and rec team for uplifting and being able to um uh deliver this for our residents.

I want to thank Marie and the uh city managers team for hosting.

I did a few uh really cool uh kind of ask the year wrapped up for me uh tours of City Hall uh for the Girl Scouts.

Um that was phenomenal.

We did that on a Sunday, yes, even on a Sunday I was here.

Um, and also for the Boys and Girls Club.

We had over 15 of our youth.

Um, and I want to thank all the department heads who uh came in and inspired the next generation.

We had a lot of them asking how do they become uh police explorers already and engage on that.

So thank you, Marie and everyone that helped with that.

Uh this past week, believe it or not, even up to uh Monday, I attended uh San Mateo County Childcare Blueprint, and I was very excited uh to see our parts and rec staff.

I want to thank uh uh Angela again, Greg for being at the table.

In fact, we were called out by several others that South San Francisco not only brings their elected officials but also their city staff.

So thank you for engaging in this very important work.

We're being looked at at different models for our child care impact fees for our child care master plan.

There's a lot of cities that haven't even understood what that is the importance of child care is, and we're not only doing it in uh in a policy way, but also delivering for our residents through um future physical projects, including the Westboro uh future uh child care facility.

So thank you for that.

That same afternoon, I was able to represent our city with our police chief as well as our police captains, uh Supervisor Jackie Spear and Supervisor Ray Mueller put together the human trafficking event.

As many of you all know, this the San Francisco Bay Area is poised to be a very uh central hub of events coming up next year, with the Super Bowl as well as the FIFA World Cup and airports.

Um, we live right airports, but also hotels are a designation for a lot of the unfortunate events that happened with human trafficking.

As this event was being put together with uh the U.S.

attorney's Office and FBI and several federal agencies here in our own city.

Just uh last week, we were confronted with a horrible um event of a of a victim.

Uh that was um, you know, thank you to our police team for being able to identify and and track that down.

And but here it's real.

Just because we don't see it doesn't mean it's not happening.

So I want to thank the supervisors for highlighting this, our our new sheriff county sheriff as well, uh, to be able to bring light and bring this into discussion.

So there's will be additional resources.

I know that our police team uh will be um putting together kind of a refresher for our hotel managers and hoteliers coming up uh for the spring and into Super Bowl and all those major events happening.

So looking forward to being able to support and deliver that as well.

That evening, not only was I up and down the the peninsula there, but I also received a very special invitation uh from the United States uh uh consulate of El Salvador in San Francisco.

Uh, the vice president of El Salvador was in town and um uh actually uh wanted to meet with me and and we got an opportunity to partake.

He met with uh Mayor uh Daniel Lurie earlier in the morning and was in Burlingame also, and then we decided also to meet briefly.

He wants to come back and get a full tour of the biotech sector.

Very interested um in what uh El Salvador is doing, very interested in um already uh the sisterhood that we have through our sister cities uh partnership.

He's looking into something that could uh benefit both uh uh South San Francisco.

Um so he's uh uh very excited about what's happening here in the Bay Area and more to come on that.

Um lastly, Mr.

Mayor, I would like to adjourn the meet uh this meeting in memory of I think um our colleague and friend from San Bruno, Mayor Rico Medina, his mother passed away uh this week.

Uh, she had uh been um dealing with a um a profound illness, so our heart goes out to the Medina family.

Um may her memory continue to be a blessing uh for all of those that that knew her and of course to our uh mayor, elected mayor of San Bruno, Rico Medina.

That's all, Mr.

May.

Thank you, Councilman.

Um I have one item that I wanted to share with um the public and my colleagues.

Um I was uh grateful that um Councilman Coleman took a vacation because in his absence, he asked if I could attend an event, uh group that he's been active with uh in the past.

And this event was um it's actually a national group, it's a nonprofit, and they had determined that they wanted to um meet in South San Francisco at the conference center, and it's a group called Heal Palestine.

And um, when I walked into the hall, I knew it was going to be well attended because I had to park way at the back of uh of the that old hotel, whatever the name is there.

Um, and there were 600 people in attendance at this dinner.

Um, and there was um uh, you know, some fundraising up front, and then the program consisted of um educating us all on um you know what has happened in Palestine.

Um there were some young people there that were fortunate enough to be able to come to America to get the type of medical care um to help heal their wounds, and they um they came to the stage, and these are these are young people.

I mean, I remember the one little girl who was nine and she was dressed for the evening and she had flowers in her hair, and and as she came up the ramp, we could see that she had a crutch and she was missing a foot.

And um, and and yet she was smiling and happy to be there, and the faces in the crowd were a little different.

Um, there was a lot of pain in that hall.

Um it was palpable.

Um, there was a young man who um only spoke Arabic, and um when he came up the um to the stage, I was told that um he had uh he was a double amputee, had lost both of his legs, and his left hand was missing three fingers, and and a bomb had been dropped on a schoolyard where he was um hanging out with his friends.

Um he spoke in Arabic, and I can't understand a word of Arabic, but the passion, the passion that came out of him, just filled the room, and people cheered for him.

Um, and then there was a translation, and it was almost poetic the way he spoke.

Um you need to know that 63 young people have been allowed to come to America for this kind of care.

There is a list of over 5,000 children that need help.

And our country no longer lets them come here.

They won't get visas to America anymore.

So disappointing.

And the good thing is that they indicated that many countries in Europe are proud to hear the Italians and the Germans and the French are stepping up and taking those children for care.

An opportunity for us to do a little good.

I'm not going to get into all the politics of it, but we really missed an opportunity there to help those young people.

And at the end they asked for pledges.

And I was kind of blown away because I've not sat in a hall where the pledges began at $50,000, and hands were raised.

And then they moved down to things that are a little more affordable for some of us.

And within about 15 minutes, they had raised over half a million dollars.

And I can only imagine what they ultimately raised because there were many people that were taking the envelopes for lesser amounts.

There's a lot of power in that room, and there's a there's something good coming out of this horrible uh situation that is going to create a more uh a stronger, more unifying and resilient Palestinian community, and and I have to celebrate that.

So I just um Councilman, thank you for taking vacation and and turning me on to that because it was inspirational.

And I want the council to know that I got up there, nobody knows who the vice mayor is from South San Francisco.

But as soon as I mentioned South San Francisco, people were cheering.

And then when I mentioned that in 2024, we had been one of the few cities on the peninsula or in the Bay Area to pass a ceasefire resolution, the thunderous applause kind of blew me away.

And I knew it wasn't for me, it was for South San Francisco, and we all share in that.

So again, thank you to you all.

It was a bright moment for South City with the people that are so deserving.

So that's my report.

Next item.

Thank you, Mayor.

We will now move on to public comments, and this is an opportunity for members of the public to speak on items not on the agenda or an items under consent calendar, and we'll start with Sam Tacuti.

Mayor Adiago, members of South San Francisco City Council, and fellow citizens, my name is Sam Kitkuy.

During the meeting of October 22nd of this year, I laid out my futile attempt at finding this special meeting on October 4th of this year at 357 Oyster Point Boulevard.

I was honest in my recollection of the events of October 4th of this year, right up to the point where I parked to whom I talked.

After I had given my recollection at the night's public comment, I stepped away from the podium.

Shortly afterwards, our esteemed city manager, Sharon Reynolds, decided that it was her place to call me a liar by stating that there had been many attendees from the public at the special meeting of October 4th this year, and they had no problem finding 357 Oyster Point Boulevard.

Her comment was immediately contradicted by then Vice May Vice Mayor Mark Adiago when he stated that aside from members of the city council and other city officials, there was nobody from the public meeting of the from the public at the meeting.

It is sad to think that a decorative 45-year employee will best be remembered for two things.

The first being her attempt to besmirch my character and indirectly call me a liar.

The second, of course, will be that she herself is going to be going out as a liar.

Councilman Flores and the rest of the city council, except for Mayor Adiago, where did your concern for the dignity and respect for all residents of South San Francisco go when the city manager blatantly lied and attempted to make me a liar?

I hope that all of you were there at the special meeting of October 4th.

The four of you, like me or Adiago, knew that Sharon Reynolds was lying.

Yet the four of you hung me out to dry.

I see that all the flowery words by former mayor flores were only meant for a few residents of South San Francisco.

I wonder who.

Shame on you all.

On the 18th of January of this year, um at Mayor Flores' Cafecito at Antico Cafe in downtown South San Francisco, Sharon Reynolds approached myself and two others.

She spoke about various topics of interest to us and inquired about our concerns.

She diligently wrote down our concerns, and speaking for myself, I was very pleased.

As a matter of fact, at the next city council meeting during public comments, I praised both Sharon Reynolds and then Mayor Eddie Flores for the public outro outreach of this event.

What a difference the mere nine months make from having praise for Sharon Randallson, Councilman Flores to utter contempt for them on October 22nd.

Sam.

We we received your message.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

Moving on to Corey David.

Here we are again, approaching the end of another year, yet with so much unfinished business to address.

While requested, we still don't know who is responsible for allowing the municipal services building to fall into tens of millions of dollars in disrepair in just two short years.

Although mandated by the Brown Act, we don't know the details of any closed session activities for sales of city properties.

The residents need to know our interests have been prioritized and not exposed to conflicts of interest.

We have made numerous public record requests to determine just how taxpayer revenue has been spent.

We have received just a handful of the 75 credit card receipts for 2023, not all years requested.

We've been met with perpetual extensions that might be interpreted as an outright refusal to disclose public information.

This includes tens of thousands of dollars in city credit card charges from anything from a $57 bottle of bourbon, food and snack services, $800 crab dinners, to extended travels and associated accommodations.

Our residents bankrolling the promotion of political careers.

While the requested materials we have received include receipts, the city has declined to answer the important question, what associated city business justified the expenditures?

While we have an extremely competent elected city clerk's office, for some unknown reason, the city has seen fit to enlist services of the contracted city attorney in addressing these PRRs, likely at great expense.

Do we need his expertise on Canadian provincial law to satisfy the requests?

We have to ask what are his concerns?

As we look forward to a new year, we were to expect another year of catering to special interests while ignoring the needs of existing residents, recklessly spending money we don't have, and then turning to the residents for a bailout with a parcel tax, the continued governance of our city with little or no public input, empty promises sprinkled with a dose of deception, lack of transparency.

I'm sorry I missed the reorganization gathering, but as many residents possess zero optimism about the direction our city is taking.

How can we bring ourselves to celebrate?

People come and go, but as they say, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Thank you, Mr.

David.

Um, before we move on, I just wanted to um ask Claire.

Um, you know, I've been hearing this for a very long time, that there have been records requested, and we're talking about reviewing and doing some redaction to credit card charges.

I served on a state agency, BCDC, that ended up with um records requests that weren't filed in time, and the state of California needed to cut a check for half a million dollars.

So there are some serious ramifications to not providing records in a timely manner, and I need an update from your office on that.

In the very near future.

Yeah, we can we can certainly follow up with that.

Um, just you know, as a broader picture, the city attorney's office does work with the city clerk's office to review records that are being disclosed.

I understand that, but the pace seems to be abnormally slow.

So fill me in on why we've moved so slowly.

Next uh public speaker.

Sydney Markoulos.

Good evening.

I've added a few things since I've been sitting here listening.

First of all, Mayor Coleman, I'm very excuse me, Councilman Coleman.

I'm very sorry to learn about Wendy Tam.

And Mayor Adiago, um, as far as the Gaza event you attended, there's another very good organization called Mecca, Middle East Children's Alliance, and they're in Berkeley.

And they're very active in sending aid over to Palestine.

I became familiar with them when American activist Rachel Corey was murdered by uh Israeli um operated caterpillar bulldozer when she was trying to stop them from bulldozing a physician's home in Palestine in Gaza.

So those were not the comments I wanted to make, but also about the PRRs.

I'm gonna say one thing about that.

There are so many because when we ask uh council or staff for information, we get no response.

So we're required, or we feel we have to put in a PRR to learn what's going on.

That's why there are so many, and there are a lot of extensions.

I know the clerk's office is working very hard, but when the city attorney has to micromanage an elected city clerk's office, that's wrong because we're paying for them as a contracted city attorney and for them to look over public records.

That's the purview of the clerks.

That's not what I wanted to say.

This is what I wanted to say.

Congratulations, Mayor Adiago, on your rotation as mayor on behalf of the South San Francisco Citizens Coalition.

We look forward to working with you as you serve our city with honesty, transparency, and dedication.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ms.

Marcopoulos.

Any other speakers?

No additional speakers, Mayor.

Okay.

All right.

So we can uh move into the bulk of the agenda.

Absolutely.

Moving on to consent calendar.

Item number two is a motion to approve the minutes of the meetings of November 12th and November 13, 2025.

Item number three is a motion to accept the construction improvements of the Grand Avenue and Airport Boulevard Street Scrape Improvements Project Number ST 1801, bid number 2657 as complete in accordance with plans and specifications.

Item number four is a motion to accept the construction improvements of the oyster point phase two C improvement project, project numbers PF 2204, PF 2205, and PF 2206 as complete in accordance with plans and specifications.

Total construction cost 4,570,144.55 cents.

Item number five is a report regarding a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute the second amendment to the consulting services agreement with ELS Architecture and Urban Design of Berkeley, California for design and construction services of the Orange Memorial Park Aquatic Center Project PK 2310 in an amount not to exceed 642,285 dollars, and extend the contract period and date to December 31st, 2026.

Item 5A is a resolution.

Item six is a report regarding a resolution authorizing the closure of 72 capital improvement plan projects and approving related budget amendment number 26.038.

Item 6A is a resolution.

Item seven is a report regarding a resolution awarding a construction contract to JDB and Sons Construction Incorporated of San Francisco, California for sanitary sewer spot repair and rehabilitation project number SS 2502, bid number 2707 in an amount not to exceed 1,397,850.

Item 7A is the resolution.

Item eight is a report regarding a resolution awarding a services agreement to the United Storm Water Incorporated of City of Industry California for the trash capture devices project phase two in an amount not to exceed 178,650 dollars.

Item 8A is a resolution.

Item 9 is a report regarding a resolution authorizing acceptance of a 150,000 dollar grant award and execution of a grant agreement with the California Office of Traffic Safety for the fiscal year 2025-26 pedestrian and bicycle safety program and approval of associated budget amendment number 26.040.

Item 9A is a resolution.

Item 10 is a report regarding a resolution awarding a construction contract to Spectrum Engineering Incorporated of Gilbert, California for the curb ramps and street intersection improvements project in an amount not to exceed 412,907.54 cents.

Item 10A is a resolution.

Item 11 is a report regarding a resolution making findings and adopting the initial study mitigated negative declaration in accordance with the California Public Resources Code and the California Environmental Quality Act.

Item 11A is a resolution.

Item 12 is a report recommending the city council adopt a resolution approving an updated memorandum of understanding between the city of South San Francisco and the County of San Mateo that utilizes justice assistance grant funding for the city's crisis response clinician for fiscal year 2025-26.

Item 12A is a resolution.

Item 13 is a report regarding a resolution authorizing the acceptance of $10,000 from the Carnegie Foundation to support and enhance library services at the Grand Avenue Library and approving budget amendment number 26.037.

Item 13A is a resolution.

Item 14 is report regarding a resolution authorizing the submittal of an application for Cal Recycle Beverage Container Recycling Funds allocated in the state of California's fiscal year 2025-26 budget in the amount of $16,446 to support beverage container recycling programs in South San Francisco and authorizing the fiscal year 2025-26 revenue budget adjustment pursuant to budget amendment number 26.041.

Item 14A is a resolution.

Item 15 is a report regarding a resolution approving a public art agreement with J.

Muscas in the amount of $168,000 to design, fabricate, and install three mosaic art components at the new park at Linden Avenue and Pine Avenue.

Item 15A is a resolution.

Item 16 is a report regarding a resolution approving budget amendment number 26.36 appropriating 25,294,527.52 cents in proceeds for the sale of DNA Way, Point San Bruno Boulevard, and a portion of Cabot Road to Genentec.

Item 16A is a resolution.

Item 17 is a report regarding a resolution approving amendment number four to the city's wage and salary schedule for fiscal year 2025-26 to establish a salary range for the new classification of plant operations supervisor and incorporate the local minimum wage update for January 2026.

Item 17A is a resolution.

Item 18 is a report regarding a resolution approving amendments to the lease agreements between rest investments and the city of South San Francisco.

Item 18A is a resolution.

Okay.

So here's the good news, Rosa.

This is the last consent calendar for the year.

You can rest your voice.

And let's see if uh my colleagues, yes.

I would like to pull item 15, please.

Okay, item 15.

3 and 7 for me.

3 and 7.

Anyone else?

I'm gonna pull number 8 just because I I am anyway.

I'll pull it number eight.

So we'll start with item three.

Do you want the city clerk to read it again?

Uh I just have a question.

Hi, Matt.

Great.

Yeah, yeah.

Thank you.

So the issue regarding the PGE manholes that were paved over, will be covered by the contractor's warranty bond for one year.

What happens if we haven't gotten the response from PGE as we all know?

Sometimes it takes 18 months for them to respond.

So what would happen?

Is uh Jeff on the line?

Yeah.

Good evening.

City Council members.

Uh Jeffrey Child, Senior Engineer.

No, that's a great question, Councilmember uh Nicholas.

Um we've been working with PGE for over a year to get a response.

Um, so we're we're we're we are working diligently um to get those um items resolved as quick as possible.

Um we're hoping the um the the resolution will come within the next six months.

Um obviously you're you're right.

Um dealing with outside agencies, we're kind of um we're uh we're under their um the the resolution is kind of kind of out of our hands at this point, and based on how much the uh contract is completed with the project uh and under guidance of the uh the city attorney's office, it was best to just uh at this point to uh accept the project and to uh get the word started.

And so if it doesn't get responded to, we will be on the hook to uh pay for whatever needs to be done because the PGNE manhole has been paved over.

Um the PGE manholes are for their own operational access to their facilities, so the negative impact is on them and their operations if they don't continue to respond.

But then if they need it, they will have to dig, right?

Yes, and then who pays for that?

They're required to dig and access it.

Um if they don't restore it in kind, we'll have to come after them.

Um but technically it requires an encroachment permit.

This is something that should have been done a long time ago, along along with the project itself.

So we'd have to work that out, but it's their own operational hindrance.

Is there something else that uh we can do by law?

So in the consideration for accepting the project and the PGE uh repair obligations.

Um our view is that is best for the city to treat them kind of in parallel because of obligations under state law to release retention and find projects complete once the work has been been done, essentially so no work is going on.

Um, and so we have communicated to the contractor and they've provided us with um countersign correspondences to acknowledge that this is their responsibility, and while the PGE delays is on the PGE's part for the delays, they are they remain responsible in the city will hold them responsible in the event that um you know should the repairs happen the P and PGE.

I think procedurally PGE will um maybe invoice the city or ask payment from the city, but we will tender that over to the contractor and that is the plan.

But but if the warrant is just one year, can they make it more than one year?

Well, the warranty, the bond is um there for the city to call on the bond, but if they're you know the bond does not there's no longer a fact, the city doesn't it's we're made it clear that the city doesn't let go of that um claim over the contractor to be responsible, so they will continue to be held responsible.

The contractor, the contractor, yes, beyond the warranty.

Correct, because we've we've they acknowledge that this is um, you know, it's attributed to their project, and we've made that clear to them.

They have um written correspondence back to us acknowledging that, so um, you know, our consideration is that that is the better approach for the city in this aspect.

So let's be clear, um Director Kim.

Um those manholes are only to access PGE facilities.

There's there's nothing that we have down there that we need correct to get to, okay.

I want to thank you for that escaped me.

I want to thank you for digging into that a little bit.

And yet again, PGE at your service, uh, Mr.

uh through the through the Mayor.

Just wanted to also call out on this item.

Thank you for pulling it out.

I did want to um just point out to the attachment project photos uh and the location of the work that has been done in in this area.

Um this as you can see from the uh previous and current pictures there.

I don't know if they can bring them up.

Um it it has transformed this this intersection significantly.

I think it was this council actually maybe five years ago that we actually approved this work with the Matsumoto plaza there and the new uh bike lane.

This has revitalized not only for uh cyclists but really for pedestrians walking and crossing and using Caltrain.

I see a lot of uh individuals, uh young families, young uh employees that are living in in the new uh residential units there that travel and use Caltrain, and they feel a lot safer.

They feel a lot safer with the improvement um uh not only for parking and cycling, so like I said, uh, but as you can see through all of not just uh the road but also the pavement as well.

So I want to just to highlight that as a as an effort as a well-delivered project for our residents in that area and our commuting um employees also that are partaking in that space.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you.

Um the next item was item seven.

So, so you're kind of on a subterranean kick.

Is that what we're doing?

All right, item seven.

So um, I'm just very interested in the sanitary seaware spot repair ongoing program.

Um do we also keep a schedule like you know the street pavement uh because right now we're doing the Winston Sarah neighborhood.

Is that the worst?

Or what about the other parts?

Are they also problematic?

No, thank you again.

Uh good evening uh city council members.

This is Jeffrey Chow again, C Engineer.

Our ongoing sanitary sewer rehab program is following the uh surface sale program.

So we're trying to repair all the uh the defects in the sewer mains before we uh surface sale in the summer.

So that's kind of our how our schedule is kind of uh being impacted right now.

So, so this project that for item seven will repair all the defects on the roads, and then during the summer next year we'll come back with the surface sale uh project to resurface the roads.

So we're doing it, I understand because that's the one that's being done pretty soon.

But the other parts, like for example, I know that's the Sarah Highlands area.

They had a lot of issues there.

So is it going to be done in co in this in conjunction with the street pavement there or so Matt Ruble, your principal engineer?

Uh about I think it was one year ago, council approved a budget to perform a CCTV inspection of all of our sewer mains around the city.

Uh, we're still in progress of doing that right now.

We did prioritize cammering this section of town on the west in advance of our known pavement projects with the goal of by zone prior to our paving work, uh, identifying the needed repairs and making those spot repairs in advance.

Um, unfortunately, which is no surprise, the amount of repairs is gonna exceed our available budget.

So we're now trying to work through what is our approach to uh allocating those dollars, but that is the plan.

We'll have a systematic view of our entire network.

We'll know we're grading the defects in order to by worst to best and um trying to handle them in a systematic way that pairs up with our other construction activities.

Yeah, because I know that that's Winston Sarah uh neighborhood is not the only old neighborhood every year, everything almost everyone is breaking down to this point.

So, thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, councilwoman.

Um, the next item um I pulled number eight, and um again, is public works, and it's a rather modest amount of money, 178,650.

But it's the spirit of this project that I wanted to share with the public.

Um there's a mandate, and we continue to do these things to protect San Francisco Bay.

So just give us a little readers.

I just um that's a reference to an old book that used to um uh anyway.

Just give us a brief version of what this is about and the benefit.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, so the city is under obligations to uh be at 100% trash capture compliance uh in our city by January of next year, and so right now we are at 99.1%, so we have done many years have taken to get to this point.

Um, it's through a collective effort with the county where surveys are done of our streets and our storm drain system and identified areas that have developed trash.

And so based on a map, we go out and we have to place devices to ensure that that trash and debris does not make its way into our waterways and eventually into the bay.

And so this is kind of a culmination of that approach, and uh we're pretty excited to be at 100%.

That'll not be the end of the story.

Kind of the goalposts will kind of always keep moving as we try to do better by the environment, and we have to do constant monitoring in case new trash areas were to appear.

We need to address those and to make sure that our current system is operating effectively.

But uh, this is a really big milestone to get to 100% for our city.

So thank you.

Yeah, wonderful to hear.

Thank you.

And then the final item um was item uh 15.

Yes, I I just wanted an opportunity to for staff to present this beautiful mosaic.

I don't think everyone has seen it, and so I wanted to make sure the public had the opportunity to kind of see this mosaic.

Aaron.

Okay, good evening, Mayor Adiego, Vice Mayor Nogales and Council members.

I'm Aaron O'Brien, a business program manager with the parks and recreation department.

Um we're pleased to have the opportunity to present to you the culmination of several months of work, including meetings and outreach, um, outreach events that bring three wonderful art elements to the new park at Linden Avenue and Pine Avenue.

Um first, I'd like to take the time to recognize Ann Birchold, our public art consultant who guided this project with city staff and is joining us via Zoom and will be presenting along with me this evening.

Um we also have Jay Muzak, the recommended artist joining via Zoom in case you have any questions about his art.

Our city staff team, we have Philip Baitali, Deputy Director of Capital Projects, who's leading the new parks project, as well as parks and recreation director, great Greg Midiotti, Deputy Director of Parks and Recreation, Angela Duldalau, and Cultural Arts Specialist Urcy Santos, all involved and joining us this evening.

Finally, projects like this would not be possible without the volunteerism and expertise from our cultural arts commission, particularly members of the public arts subcommittee, Alexa Alexia Huerta, Hazel Fernandez, Peter Foley, Brian Palomino, and they are supported by the entire Cultural Arts Commission, including two that are joining us this evening, Commissioner Pomposo and Commissioner Ramos.

The city has been fortunate to grow art opportunities in South San Francisco thanks to the public art requirement for developers adopted into the city's ordinance in 2020, bringing a new art installations and dedicated art funding to South San Francisco.

This coincides with the with well with the city's adoption of the public art master plan in 2023, which includes guidance on industry best practices for art selection, and which staff has referred to many times as we continue to develop our opportunities in the city for art.

The public art item being presented to the city council tonight due to the amount of the contract being 168,000 reaching uh threshold requiring city council approval according to the city's purchasing procedures.

Um so now I'll kind of walk you through the project a little bit.

So this is the new park at Linden and Pine Avenue.

Um we really think it represents South San Francisco South San Francisco's ongoing investment in accessible and inclusive spaces that brings people together.

Um located at Linden Avenue in Pine Avenue.

This park will showcase the corner of Old Town neighborhood welcoming uh a welcoming hub for all of the community.

Um we've done a series of community involvement from the very beginning.

As you can see on this slide, we have variety of community outreach beginning all the way in um April of 2024, and through this process, as it relates to art, um, we were really able to hone in on three major art opportunities, which we have identified as um that we heard from the community identified as interactive art murals and entry or identity art.

Um through these three identified um focus areas, the city staff were able to work with a design team, and we have incorporated these three elements.

So if you see the orange one there, those are columns at a plaza at the plaza area of the park.

So there are four vertical freestanding columns, kind of setting a backdrop to this gathering space.

Number two there, just below it is a mosaic inlays, so they're embedded directly into the poured concrete of the plaza.

And then number three is a playground mosaic sculpture.

So it's really an interactive piece, it's intended to be an interactive piece that invites tactile exploration and encourages imagination and play right in the playground area.

The artist selection process, this kind of breaks it down for you.

So in we did a request for qualifications that opened in June of 2025 and closed in July of 2025, where we were we received 34 submissions.

The public arts subcommittee met and received information on 15 qualified artists recommended for evaluation, or they reviewed through a scoring rubric.

They named the top five artists that were eligible to advance the short list.

Four of the top five shortlist listed artists submitted proposals in a timely manner.

Those four artists were Alexandra Proba, Clay Crutcher, and Eileen Barr, Jay Muzex, and Wow House Studio.

All four artists presented their concepts that they did receive a thousand dollar stipend for to the public art subcommittee.

The concepts were then reviewed at a pop-up, were revealed at a pop-up event that took place on October 4th at the site for the new park at Linden and Pine Avenue.

Coinciding with that pop-up event, a community poll opened on October 4th and was remained open online through October 24th.

I'm gonna pass it over to Ann now.

Great.

Thank you, Erin, and hello everybody.

Um, before we walk through the results, I want to briefly highlight the criteria we used to evaluate each artist and ensure that the selection process was clear, consistent, and aligned with the goals of the Linden and Pine project.

So we heavily weighted artistic excellence and originality.

So looking for artists whose work stands out, is conceptually strong, visually compelling, and distinct to this project.

Relevant experience was important.

Artists must demonstrate experience executing public art at a similar scale to this project.

Technical capability that the artist is ability to deliver the project safely on time and within budget was um a high priority.

Community engagement was very heavily weighted.

Make sure that the artist reflects this plan, understands the history of the project, the community, and the local context, professionalism, and collaboration, and then local and regional connection.

While not a determining factor, this acknowledges that the artist understands the Southern California community and specifically this area and has done some you know relevant work to really understand the community.

Go to the next slide.

And to the next slide.

So this slide summarizes how the selection panel ranked each artist based on the weighted score.

So this was our artist selection committee.

So as you see, first choice was four points, second choice three points, uh, third choice two points, and fourth choice one point.

So Jay received the strongest points with 15 points.

Uh, there's a strong consensus across the panel.

He consistently received kind of top rankings, and he was the clear lead with the artist selection committee with Alexander Proba coming in second.

So the key takeaway is uh Jay emerged as a preferred artist, and these uh rankings reflected both artistic strength and alignment with the project criteria.

You can go to the next slide.

So this is the event that Aaron referenced.

This was held on October 4th.

It was an in-person community event at the future site of New Park at Linden and Pine.

All four artists were invited to attend, present their concepts, engage directly with the residents.

It was a lovely event, great, you know, interaction between the artists who had the ability to really speak to their projects with the community.

Materials were provided both in English and Spanish with a bilingual staff on site to support translation.

We offered iPads at the event for people to complete the poll on the spot, and we handed out flyers with QR codes so that people could pass those out to family and also go home and think about and look at the concepts.

So we had great strong attendance.

Many of the attendees expressed appreciation for being included early in the process and for having direct access to speak with the artists.

So as Aaron also mentioned, we also ensured there was multiple ways for the community to learn about the concepts and participate.

Community poll promoted the event on the city's website and across social media.

That was open for three weeks and closed on October 24th.

So there was a lot of great opportunity for the community to participate.

So with this poll, this is a community poll results.

So the poll asked participants basically to select their preferred concept.

Once again, Jay emerged as the lead with 48% of the community vote, so which was great because he aligned very much with the arts advisory group.

WOW House came in second with the community poll with Alexander Proba in third, and Colette in fourth.

So the results help validate the direction by the Arts and Culture Committee, and supported by the community.

Go to the next slide.

So before interpreting all the results, it's important to understand who participated, and this helps us assess representation.

So who participated in the community poll?

Residents were strongly represented at 76%.

Nearly a quarter of the respondents worked in the community, 23.4%.

Meaningful number of youth voices participated.

Park users represented almost half of the respondents.

And then local shoppers and restaurant goers represented almost half of the percent there.

So overall, the poll captured responses from a broad cross-section of the community with strong representation from residents, park users, and people who regularly spend time in the area.

So in terms of kind of age breakdown, the age demographic was ages 25 to 40, made up the largest bulk of the group with 48%, ages 45 to 64 at 26%, and ages 65 and above at 11%.

Younger voices are present though in smaller numbers, but overall the age distribution reflects a broad and balanced range of community members who participated.

You can go to the next slide.

So with that, Jay emerged as the lead artist, the clear chop choice, both by the arts advisory committee and the community.

I would like to speak a little bit about Jay and Toot His Horn, but then I'm gonna let Jay speak to his concept and abstract vision around his design, which we're gonna share with you.

So Jay creates very energetic mosaics and vibrant murals.

He's known for color, texture, a sense of movement.

A defining aspect of his work is his community-centered process, engaging people of all ages and abilities to contribute in meaningful ways.

His artwork is often rooted in cultural diversity, humanitarian themes in the natural world, making his installations both visually compelling and emotionally resonant.

So his relevance to Linden Pine, his practice prioritizes site-specific storytelling.

He ensures each artwork reflects the history, the identity, and the cultural fabric of its location.

And for a note, neighborhood park intended as a gathering space.

His focus is on empowerment, connection, and collective celebration.

So his background in teaching, mentoring, and community building supports the city's desire for authentic engagement throughout his process.

So his experience is enormous.

He's done large scale mosaic murals in civic and public, for civic and public clients.

And as we mentioned, he was received overall strong points on all of the criteria that we considered and feel very strongly with this recommendation.

You can go to the next slide.

So I'd love to invite Jay to talk through his design process and kind of you know, maybe what went a little bit into the creation of these concepts.

Alright, good evening.

Thank you, Ann.

Can everybody hear me okay?

Alright, thank you so much.

And thanks to Aaron and the public art team and everyone for staying late in this long meeting and hearing us out.

So I'm very thankful and honored to be chosen by both the community and the public art subcommittee.

I'm very, very excited for this project to manifest next year.

And as you can see, the design rendering, just a little to preface how we design public art.

You know, we have to design it in a way that people can see it before it happens.

And so what you see on screen is obviously a digital rendering.

There's little nuances to how mosaics are going to be made with different materials that is definitely not communicated in a flat screen, like Ann spoke to the texture and movement that's going to be really a part of these pieces.

But really, the most important part for me is that community engagement piece.

Visually, what you see, obviously, is going to be an oil cloth inspired pattern in the inlay, and then what was sort of initially inspired by serape blankets, kind of covering um quilting these pillars of the community.

And initially that concept was something I landed on because I thought, you know, well, when people go to a park and you lay a blanket down, you know, on the ground to have your picnic or whatnot, it's something that's very warm and comforting.

Um, it's something that softens uh the built environment and adds an uh an organic texture, but also um colors that won't go out of style and won't go out of bloom for generations to come.

Um I'm not sure, and do we have another slide for the other?

We do.

You can go to the next one, I think, Jay.

Okay.

It's a little bit about the detail.

You can advance.

There you go.

Yeah, so the details there.

Um, you can see you know, again, what an on-screen rendering and the actual mosaic is going to be like that's a little piece of a wall that I've done previously here in Texas that's kind of reminiscent of the colors that would be in this design.

Um, obviously inspired by the Serape Blanca, but not necessarily beholden to it.

Um, I actually had a really good conversation with um Councilmember Flores last week about how this design could possibly evolve a bit to be even more inclusive to the to just meets the eye.

Um, but again, I do feel like that whatever design color and uh motifs are landed on, it is really that community coming together to create a thing that is gonna be lasting for everyone.

That's just gonna be a real celebration of all the communities there in the city.

So I think yeah, the next lay is the inlay, and then the final slide is the um park piece.

The place sculpture, yes.

And I'm also very excited about this.

I'm um newer into sculpture in my practice, but um feral cement sculpting is something that's uh very very robust material that you could create a structure that's gonna be really solid, climbable for kids to climb, families to sit on.

Um the scale, I'm not sure if it's really listed there.

I can't quite see it as small, but this is gonna be you know a four by eight um creature that's inspired, sort of a fantastical creature inspired by the alabrije folklore of uh Mexico, and blending a coyote and a lizard, but also that's something that can be interpreted in a lot of different ways.

Um, some people might see a dragon, some people might see this or that.

Um, they might see their you know, their own animal in it in some way, and then covered on this on this creature are gonna be lots of patterns um that could be reminiscent of all of those different cultures of Central and South American, um, of Asian.

I know that you know when I've visited um you see a lot beyond the demographics that are on paper sometimes of a census or something and you know you're you see Filipino and Korean and Vietnamese businesses and families and the people that came to that meet and greet at the community engagement at the park site was really um integral to me understanding the community more and even going to the library and and getting my swag the supported local that's keeping me warm here in our mild Texas winter but um you know so those patterns again this is uh a one side of a of a digital mock-up that can sort of evolve as these conversations carry on um but generally speaking those three sites like Ann mentioned are sort of uh are already um the main focus points of the artwork and how those designs are um somewhat slightly adjusted to best fit the community that's that's what I'm here for you know I'm here to be at your service and to make it something that everybody in the community can enjoy respect and love and have a hand in making.

Yeah I think the last slide Jay just one more just talk just briefly just about your um community collaboration and how you integrate the community as m you're moving forward through your process.

Totally yes so the columns um are planning to do the square glass what we call digital impressionism or or pixelated style really it's using these little three quarter inch um pool tiles of lots of different colors we use those because they're great for the outdoors they're gonna be um you know soft to the touch there's no sharp edges or cutting and as you can see in the pictures there um kids adults anybody of all ages you don't have to have any experience or even call yourself an artist to come and help create parts of this piece one square foot could be a paper template that you're viewing and sort of matching the colors and sitting alongside other members of the community that can do the same and as this thing assembles kind of like a big quilt um it'll be uh reminiscent of the designs rendered but it'll also have these nice little iridescent um glitches and little touches that make it unique um and then we also have the custom ceramic tile making workshops that can further uh include details of people pushing patterns or etching names in or creating shapes that are gonna be even further uh unique to the area and to the space and um those can be um basically laid into the pixelated um quilt pattern along the columns so you know from afar you'll see the colorful pattern and up close you'll get all these uh more of the details um so that those are two ways that I've used uh over the last about eight years of as I've been doing these mosaic projects that have been super successful people have a great time um again it's a very you know no experience required low entry point for people to have a hand in their built environment and I really do feel that that will help empower the community to just really take pride in this new park and to call it their own.

Great thank you so much Jay Aaron I'll hand it back to you to kind of wrap up great thank you Ann and Jay appreciate it and so just again to wrap up so at the November 25th regular cultural arts commission meeting um the commission approved um artist J Musax and his proposed three mosaic art components for the new park at Linden and Pine there was that vote was seven um eyes zero nays and two absent um if approved this evening by the council the next steps are outlined here again your regular notifying artists contract signing um an important one that we touched upon too is that city staff would work with the artists to refine designs and then that community workshop piece um fabrication installation and then culminating in the new park at Linden Avenue and Pine opening and Pine Avenue Grand Opening so with that happy to take any questions council may have.

Aaron thank you for the report and and a big thank you to the vice mayor for pulling this item and and getting to share it with our community.

Um, the the last comment about the mosaic and the community involvement in creating the mosaic is brilliant because nothing, nothing creates, you know, there's nothing like community ownership of that artwork and and you know the commitment to keeping it wonderful.

Thank you, Mark.

No, uh, thank you.

Uh, first of all, thank you to the our cultural arts commissioners and staff and to Jay.

This is phenomenal, amazing.

I'm jealous that Councilmember Flores gets this uh mosaic in his district, it's so beautiful, and I am so representation of the community and the fact that the community gets to build this mosaic.

That is something uh just blows my mind, and I just wanted to say thank you for choosing South City uh for sharing your art with our community, and I can't wait to see this.

And I I encourage my colleagues, we all go and do the mosaic together and create something together.

So I look forward to that.

Very good.

Councilman.

I want to thank you, Aaron, and I want to thank the Park and Rec team, and I want to thank the Cultural Arts Commission.

This is such a great job.

Um, I know that Jay, you're the right person for this for many reasons.

Not just your um expertise and um and talent, but because of your heart.

Um, so I'm very excited and looking forward to that.

Um, San Carlos does a lot of murals and they engage a lot of the community.

I think they're gonna be very jealous of what we're doing here in many aspects is something uh very representative.

Uh, thank you to staff for coordinating uh the Zoom calls and all the the details with Jay.

Jay, thank you for your time.

Look forward to uh working with you this coming year and the entire community.

This is not just a district five.

I want all residents to partake and and come and put their little grain of sand here in something beautiful that we're all gonna create uh for years to come.

Thank you again, Aaron.

Wonderful presentation.

Thank you.

So I I do have one question when can we expect this workshop to happen?

Because I would love to attend.

We will definitely keep uh the council and the community apprised as that.

So that's all worked out in the timeline that will be part of the contract, but we will make sure that everyone is apprised.

Um, again, we want everyone as many people as possible to be involved with that.

Um, we agree um with that workshop.

So we'll make sure you guys are all aware of that that those dates for that.

And without being too redundant, I just wanted to again extend my thanks uh to all of you for making this possible and what a lovely community uh centered art piece that we can have with everyone participating, and especially when you look at the community as they're in the downtown.

I think um the art piece here really uh pays a lot of respect to the cultural diversity uh that we have there.

Okay, okay.

With that, um, and again, thank you, Mark.

Uh with that, we have a consent calendar items two through eighteen, and do we have a motion?

So moved.

All second, okay.

A motion and a second and roll call, Rosa.

Councilmember Nicholas.

Aye, Mayor Adiego.

Aye, Vice Mayor Nogales.

Yes, Councilmember Coleman?

Yes.

And Council Member Flores.

Aye.

Thank you.

Okay.

Now moving on to administrative business item number 19 is a report regarding a resolution approving budget amendment number 26.042, appropriating 235 dollars in the low and moderate income housing fund, fund 241 for the city's emergency rental assistant program.

Item 19A is a resolution.

Welcome, Ms.

Morale.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Council members.

My name is Elia Moreno, management analyst in the housing division.

This evening I will be presenting an update on the city's emergency rental assistance program and requesting approval of budget amendment 26.042.

This action would appropriate 235,000 dollars from the low and moderate income housing fund to continue supporting the city's emergency rental assistance program, specifically 192,700 allocated for rental assistance and 42,300 for program administration.

The emergency rental assistance assistance program was established in 2020 to address an urgent and growing need, preventing displacement and homelessness among low-income residents in South San Francisco during times of crisis.

The program provides one-time financial assistance to households experiencing financial hardship and struggling to maintain housing stability.

Under current guidelines, applicants must demonstrate both a qualifying cause for inability to pay and a sustainable plan beyond one-time assistance.

Support can be used towards past due rent, utilities, or security deposit.

Eligible households must also earn at or below 80% of the area median income and are eligible to receive up to $4,500 in assistance.

A critical component of the program's success has been the partnership with the agency that administers it.

Recognized as the county's core service agency, the YMCA Community Resource Center of South San Francisco serves as a primary support system for many local households facing crisis, including financial hardship.

Since inception, the city's emergency rental assistance program has been administered by the YMCA.

Each applicant is assigned a case manager who supports them throughout the entire process.

Case managers review applications, gather documentation, provide translation as needed, engage landlords, assist in developing financial plans, and connecting families to additional support such as food programs or other needed resources.

To sustain this work, the recommended YMCA administration fee is 18% or $42,300.

This amount represents 4% of the YMCA's operating budget, which covers employees employee wages and benefits, general administrative expenses, and essential program supplies, including diapers, pantry food, and other basic needs items that are provided to residents in crisis when applying for rental assistance.

Administrative and operating expenses have continued to increase along with the need for the program.

The YMCA may commonly incur additional unanticipated administrative costs when specialized case management is needed for residents.

One example is the need for language support.

The YMCA must outsource interpretation services for Cantonese, Mandarin, Burmese, Turkish, and other languages at an average cost of approximately 250 dollars per day.

Since the start of the program, the city has allocated $1,025,000 in rental assistance, supporting 323 households and 905 individuals, including 362 children under the age of 18.

The average rental assistance request amount per household has been $3,087.09 cents.

The average household size is 2.8.

This slide shows the racial and ethnic distribution of the 323 households served.

Among applicants, 60.4 identified 60.4% identified as Latinx, 16.4% as white, 9.9% as African American, and the remaining percentages represent other racial and ethnic groups.

Here we see the applicants by city council district broken down by year.

The blue bar represents total applicants from the beginning of the program to today, so 2020 to 2025, while the orange bar reflects applicants from 2020, gray represents 2021, yellow corresponds to 2022, light blue represents 2023, green represents 2024, and dark blue shows data for 2025.

Participation is geographically broad, with District 5 representing the highest share of applicants at 46.4%.

To better understand the longer term impact of the program, follow-up calls were conducted with recent recipients.

YMCA attempted to contact 23 households who received assistance between November 2024 and April 2025, receiving responses from 17 of them.

They were asked, are you still housed in the same home?

Are you still housed in South San Francisco?

And are you still facing housing insecurity?

Among the 17 that responded, 15 remained housed in South San Francisco.

Two households reported that they were unhoused, and five reported that they are currently still experiencing housing insecurity.

Those who became unhoused share that the rental assistance successfully prevented immediate immediate eviction, but they were unable to maintain their financial plan afterward.

YMCA helped them secure additional resources and shelter options.

The follow-up calls and applications show that many households experience housing instability often due to income loss and high living costs.

A desk review showed that most applicants fall within vulnerable groups, including seniors, individuals with disabilities, and single parent families.

Additionally, 75% of the households reported a loss of income within the household due to issues such as a job loss, the departure of a rent-sharing roommate, divorce, and other major household changes.

This number does not represent applicants who experienced sudden emergencies or one-time unexpected expenses like medical events or vehicle repairs.

In reviewing applications, we gain not only demographic and racial or ethnic data, but also a clear understanding of the lived experiences of residents.

One example reads this client's partner has been suffering with a serious health issue affecting their lungs.

In 2022, their medical condition became more serious, preventing him from working when he was the sole income provider.

With five children under the age of 18 and both parents working part-time, the family fell behind on rent.

The client withdrew from her retirement fund to avoid eviction.

The client's mother who lives in with who lives with them receives social security income but cannot contribute because she is undergoing cancer-related medical treatment and relies on her income for medical expenses.

These are the types of circumstances that reveal how essential the program can be when low-income residents are facing challenges far beyond their control.

Staff recommends council approve the allocation of 235,000 from the city's low and moderate income housing fund or fund 241.

Fund 241 is also known as the housing successor fund as it consists of housing set-aside funds from the former redevelopment agency and does not impact the city's general fund.

State regulations allow up to $500,000 to be allocated for homelessness prevention, including emergency rental assistance using former RDA funds.

The most recent housing successor agency annual report identifies an excess surplus of 234,191 dollars that must be encumbered or expended by June 30th, 2026.

Committing these funds ensures compliance with state regulations.

Additionally, according to a study from the Stanford Community Law Clinic, Samato County experienced a 60% increase in evictions between 2019 and 2025.

Additional data indicates that 88% who receives emergency rental assistance are able to avoid eviction.

Commitment of these funds to support the emergency rental assistance program will align with the city's anti-displacement goals and strengthen ongoing homelessness prevention.

Thank you.

Let's go ahead and let um the vice mayor.

He started us down this road so many years ago.

So it was his vision that got us started, and he wants to lead off.

My third baby in a lot of sense.

Who would have thought before Councilmember of Flores and Coleman came on?

The three of us were in the middle, actually just a couple of weeks before COVID started.

And you know, we've always heard stories about people just on the brink of being evicted.

And at the time I was working for Project Sentinel and I was, you know, providing some assistance with those who are just trying to get by with financial assistance and rental assistance that popped in my head.

Why can't we do something just to prive them a little bit of help so they're not choosing between their rent, their food, or their medicine?

We started this, it was supposed to be a pilot program.

We're only supposed to do for maybe like six months.

And I think we're only gonna fund like maybe $50,000 of the program.

And then COVID happened.

But we were ready because we had this program and we pumped money into this program, and you can see how many households this is saved from eviction.

So uh I'm just so proud of the work that we did, and it's kind of kind of grown over the years.

Do you know how many cities are doing something similar like this?

Are we the only city that can?

I think when COVID hit, there was there was some like interim financial assistance.

I think the county was doing it, you know, but I don't know how many cities have continued this kind of program.

Um I'm not aware of how many jurisdictions around the area are um are already with the program.

I do know a lot of cities surrounding are implementing more and more recently.

We were reached out um by a neighboring city that asked us, you know, for a program guidelines as an example.

Um, I think Brian might have a not Brian.

I'm sorry, I have sorry.

My brother does for the city.

Sorry.

I get that a lot of vice mayor.

I'll uh start by introducing myself, Mike Noche, I'm housing manager.

Um I do resemble my brother who also works for the city.

Never thought we'd be in the same jurisdiction, but here we are.

Um there are other jurisdictions that are continuing to offer similar uh rental assistance programs.

I don't believe every single jurisdiction is uh able to do this.

Um most jurisdictions, uh my previous uh jurisdiction that I work for for the city of Hafney Bay.

Uh, we did offer a similar program and similarly worked with the uh local uh nonprofit core agency uh to uh provide that assistance, which was Coast Side Hope on the uh coast side, and then uh during my time with the city of Menlo Park, we partnered with Samaritan House to offer uh similar programs.

So there are there are other programs out there, and we'd be happy to report back on exactly how many throughout the county, and great examples.

I'm glad to hear that other cities are contacting us because we seem to be the blueprint.

Um so I had a question about tracking data.

Did when we I guess when the YMCA, did they contact them after the fact because we were doing this like report?

Because I I'm I'm just I guess what I'm asking is are they consistently following up with clients?

Yeah, I mean, we could have YMCA, we do have our representatives from YMCA.

They could kind of go into a little more of the detail and what a case manager, um, like the whole process and like the follow-up.

Um, but I am aware that YMCA does do follow-up calls um to them, asking them the questions that I present to you all this evening.

Great.

Thanks, Lita.

Of course.

Um hi, thank you so much for having uh me and allow me to speak on some of those details.

Um, yes, we do.

So we do the six-month follow-up calls uh regardless for any and all that have gotten approved with financial assistance prior to when we started with the city of South San Francisco, so it was already a practice that our case managers were used to.

Um, in those follow-up calls, we also take the opportunity to ask families if they need other resources, do they need financial assistance again?

And if they do, then we'll connect them with that.

If they don't need financial assistance, we'll connect them to our ongoing food distribution stipers and the other things can that can support the sustainability piece.

Great.

And then the I think I might have asked this question before, but we only allow one-time payment participation in this program.

Is there a reason why we only do a one-time?

Is there some sort of set some rule regarding the funding or I.

Because if we have, I guess my question is if we have leftover funds, and as the report says, there are still families in need who are basically teetering on eviction.

I'm trying to understand here the limitations that we can provide assistance.

Uh Nell Sealander, Economic and Community Development Director.

We can uh the program guidelines are at the city's discretion.

Um, so this funding does need to be used for emergency rental assistance.

It cannot be used for ongoing rental assistance akin to section eight, right?

That that that's an ongoing practice as opposed to resolving an emergency situation.

Technically speaking, a South City resident could use our dollars twice, up to a maximum of 4,500.

So, and that has occurred.

It's certainly happened during the pandemic where folks used a little bit and then came back later.

So YMCA is tracking sort of the lifetime total for each resident of our funds.

They also have access to seasons of sharing funds and the county funds.

So there are other funds that can be layered on top of South San Francisco's funds if the city council was interested in changing our program guidelines to allow for a second or third um tranche of that of funds to be used maybe over a certain number of years.

That that's absolutely something we could explore.

Originally we set it as a maximum because we have such scarce resources.

Okay.

And maybe that's a conversation we could have to see how we can stretch our dollars more in terms of helping our residents.

So probably changing the cap, which is just way about it.

That's probably right.

Yeah.

Based on what funding we do have.

Oh, that's all I have, Mr.

Mayor.

Thank you very much.

That's great.

Any other I do have a question.

Uh could you remind me what fund 241 is?

Uh so fund 241 is the former redevelopment agency or our housing successor uh funds or fund 241.

Um, it is specifically to be used for low to moderate income.

Um, and as I mentioned before, um we are there's uh state regulation that we do need to use up to 500,000 dollars um in homelessness permission.

Great, thank you.

So, Ms.

Moreno, what other uses though uh for that besides assisting families that are having emergencies?

What else can the funds be used for in regards to housing?

Recently for fund 241, we used uh we used it as a pre-development loan for the Rotary Gardens, which is going to be located at 500 uh Linden or 522 London, also recognized as the previous Liberty Bank.

Um we gave them one million one million sixty-seven thousand dollars.

Um, and like I said, it does specify to low moderate, um, since it is gonna be a fully affordable um project, it it fell under the okay.

All right, thank you.

Anyone else?

Yeah.

Uh Elita, can you uh remind us how do we support uh the recipients uh so that they won't go through do we uh refer them to like economic mobility uh, yes, that's actually programs.

Yes, thank you for that question.

That's actually one of the um most important pieces, I think, in my opinion, of the program is being able to provide that case management piece.

So we connect folks to a variety of different um providers depending on their specific need or situation or hardship.

So that could be to the economic advancement center for job train or the renaissance center, um, if they have their own small business.

Um, one of the really phenomenal uh newer things in the last year or so has been the legal aid society of San Mateo County has office hours at our office every week, every Thursday afternoon.

And so that has been phenomenal because we've been able to connect folks directly, do warm handoffs literally in our same building with um the attorneys there for those that are um facing uh immediate more immediate eviction and don't have as much um space or time um compared to just being a a day late to their rent or only for one month.

So other programs um include food assistance and the other diapers, again, like I mentioned, and other more sustainable resources that we can provide to them.

Do you think there's any other uh resources that we don't have here right now that uh we may be able to leverage some?

One of the biggest hurdles that I've heard from families is the the need for child care.

Um, and that's one of the things that's preventing some of those single parents being able to you know connect with job training and get a job, but then they're limited with child not having enough child care.

So I would say that's one of the biggest um limitations for families.

So if there's any sort of support, maybe to help financially cover some of those costs, I think that would be of a great benefit.

Well, thank you.

Maybe we should kind of connect them and see how we can help them in that way so that they can be productive uh and so they don't have to go through this cycle.

Yeah, thank you so much.

I just uh wanted to uh bring forth not necessarily for you, thank you.

Um this was also a recommendation from the anti-displacement um citizens advisory committee that just wrapped up.

In fact, even before we told them that we were doing this, they were saying why doesn't the city and we told them we were doing this, they were very appreciative and supportive of continuing this as a resource to um avoid this uh displacement.

Uh, thank you.

Thank you.

I'm I'm fully supportive.

Okay, so we need a resolution to approve this budget amendment to um apply some more funds.

Um, and I'm gonna ask um the vice mayor if he would like to make that motion.

I would be honored to make that motion.

Okay, motion on the floor.

Second.

Yeah, second, but just by a little bit, James.

Uh by uh, I'll be faster next time.

Vice Mayor Nagales.

Yes, Councilmember Coleman?

Yes, Mayor Diego?

Yes, Councilmember Nicholas.

Aye, and Councilmember Flores.

Yes.

Is a report regarding ESEX portfolio LP's request to amend the affordable housing agreement for the 543 unit housing development project located at seven South Linden Avenue.

Item 20A is a resolution modifying the low-income rent calculation and changing a portion of the low-income units to moderate income units.

Item 20B is a resolution reducing the total number of affordable units and modifying the income levels to include only very low income units.

Good evening, Ms.

Sealander.

Good evening, Nelsie Lander, Economic and Community Development Director.

Um, I'm here this evening to provide a brief presentation on Essex's request to amend the affordable housing agreement for their 543 unit multifamily project that's under construction now at 7 South Linden.

So this more than 500 unit multifamily building was approved by the planning commission in March of 2023.

Their conditions of approval require the execution of an affordable housing agreement, which we refer to as an AHA, and I'll try to say the whole thing out for those following along at home.

Um and the affordable housing agreement, because of when this project was when they made their first entitlement application and when it was approved, must be in compliance with South San Francisco Municipal Code Chapter 20.380, which is our inclusionary housing regulation, um, which as you may recall was adopted in 2018 and went into effect about a year later for for these residential projects.

So according to the conditions of approval, Essex began communicating with the city about that affordable housing agreement, and we finally got that document executed in March of 2025, and shortly thereafter they pulled their grading permit, and then in May their building permit to actually begin construction of that housing development.

In September, Essex made a formal request to amend the affordable housing agreement.

And so I'll go into that request now.

Oh, sorry, wanted to put this in here since we're talking about an affordable housing agreement.

Here is a reminder of what area median incomes are in San Mateo County.

And I've highlighted in this red box sort of the levels we'll be talking about.

Um included in these tables um hopefully the right numbers to properly um explain the request, but um for reference, a very and this project includes studios, one bedrooms, and two bedrooms.

So I've circled up to about a family of four, although technically a two-bedroom can accommodate typically um two per bedroom plus one, so a five-person household.

Um, but I think we would expect to see, you know, folks in the two to three-person size household in most of these units, given many of them are studios and ones, and and so a very low-income household at that level is making, you know, around or under $80,000 a year, and then up to $200,000 a year if they're moderate income.

All right, so in green is what our affordable housing agreement that's been executed requires.

It requires 15% of the total units in the project, 81 units, to be restricted for low and very low income households.

So our municipal code specifies that of that 15%, one third are for very low income households, and those are rents that are calculated based on 50% of the area median income with eligibility up to that 50% threshold as well.

Our affordable housing, our sorry, our inclusionary ordinance then goes on to say the next two-thirds of those affordable units are for low income households, with the rents calculated at 60% of the area median income and eligible, so those households making up to 80% of the area median income are eligible.

So that's on purpose.

That is so that the unit is priced quite below the maximum income so that it truly is affordable to a wider swath of our community.

Assumed that the 54 low income units, the rents would be calculated at 80% of the area median income, not the 60%.

And so they've come back to request this affordable housing agreement to account for that cost to the project of the lower priced units.

And they've presented two options for council's consideration.

So the first option would be to take those 81 units and divvy them up over three income categories now rather than two.

So we keep our 27 very low income units.

Then there are 27 low income units with rents calculated at 70% of the area median income, again, with that eligibility up to 80%.

So it's just price a little bit higher than what our ordinance requires.

And then they've added a third category, which would be 27 moderate income units.

And so those rents are calculated at 110% of the area median income with eligibility up to 120.

And that would be consistent with how moderate income units are priced for for sale units, because that is contemplated in our inclusionary ordinance for for sale projects.

This is rental, of course.

And then SIX has presented a second option, which reduces the total number of affordable units from 81 to 54, or so now we would be at 10% of the total number of units in the project, but making them all very low.

So we get 54 very low income units with rents at 50% of the area median income.

Okay, so this is what that means, because those are just a bunch of obscure percentages.

So here are the rents.

Okay, so in the white column, you have the developer's rent assumptions.

So this is what they assumed in their underwriting.

The affordable housing agreement is in green.

So to evaluate this request, we engaged one of our on call consultants to verify all of the numbers and sort of the the project value assumptions and the impact of the project's value, and give us some financial analysis.

And so we engaged economic and planning systems, who we've used from time to time over many years, and and they evaluated that they they sort of they validated Essex's assumptions and and said that the loss in annual revenue is about half a million dollars a year between how they assumed the rents were calculated versus what was in the affordable housing agreement.

Option one, where it's divvied into three income categories presents a much better financial position.

It's actually it generates about $650,000 more, so it's better than their assumed rents.

Option two represents a small reduction in annual revenue from the developers' sorry, assumed rents are about 160,000 less in annual revenue.

But overall, and this was um EPS's sort of sort of final conclusion is that the units required by the affordable housing agreement represents just a 2.2% reduction in the value of the project.

So calculating them at 60 the low-income units at 60% AMI versus 80% AMI.

So she'll hop up here after B and can explain a bit more about their reason for their this request.

Is she gonna help us with the um can you go back to the slide before?

Um the 2.2 is an interesting small number, but um what is the value of the project?

She it is it it is in the letter that they have submitted, and she can speak to this, but I believe it's about $300 million project overall.

Is that $330 million project overall?

Um I also wanted to present this in the context of our regional housing needs allocation.

Um, since this while the city is not required to build these units, we are required to make space for these units and to make sure that the creation of these units is possible.

Um, and so we I did want to present a couple actuals, which are in green.

This is what we've actually completed, building permits issued.

Um the yellow are estimates.

Obviously, the 2025 numbers are quite firm since those building permits have been issued, but it doesn't account for anything that comes in before the end of the year.

And then 2026 includes Rotary Gardens project, which they feel very confident, is a prime contender for tax credits in January and will hopefully break ground in late 26.

2027 includes the PUC site, both the market rate and the affordable component, and then the second rotary gardens building in 2028.

We didn't forecast 29 and 30, it just felt too distant and the economy too uncertain.

Um, but as you'll see here, um, we still have a long way to go in meeting our arena at all of the lower income levels, though we will definitely meet it at the market rate level, which is what happened in the last arena cycle and is very, very consistent with what happens throughout the region.

Um, the city's investments really go into the very low income category and the extremely low income category, which aren't even they're they're just embedded within very low.

So the city's approach to meeting RENA is really to invest in three ways or to encourage development in three ways with the city funding and incentivizing a 100% affordable projects, which are really intended to provide extremely and very low-income housing, some low, but really very low and below.

Um market rate uh rental properties with inclusionary units are filling that low and very low, and then for sale market rate with inclusionary is really capturing that moderate and low income.

We also get to count ADUs as non-deed restricted, but presumed affordable, and so we pick up actually a fair number of ADUs in the moderate income category and the low income category, and our ADU production is pretty great.

It's more than we anticipated in our housing element, and so that is helping us a lot in the moderate income category.

I do have a question through the mayor.

Yes, please.

So in the memo in the materials that we that we looked at, it said that the market rate rent is actually below the middle income rents right now.

So the market, it is common for moderate income rental units.

So deed restricted moderate income rental units to actually be priced just below the market rate unit.

So there are two ways we price moderate income rental units.

It's 110% of the area median income, or no more than 90% of the market rate rent.

So in a number of our projects in the downtown, if you think of Pinefino or 150 150 200 airport, they have some moderate income units.

Those were negotiated before our inclusionary ordinance went into effect.

And usually the pricing is actually set at 90% of the market rate because we want it down below the market rate, but actually that 110% is at or above the market rate in some in some instances.

So that's why the moderate income units, when the city is purposefully trying to create those units, we're really trying to create those in the for sale category because then those are a huge benefit.

They're priced very competitively, and there are a lot of moderate income households that are purchase ready.

They're ready to buy a home and they want to stay here, and they just need one that's priced a good bit below market rate.

So I guess in the context of this here, right.

So like let's assume we go through with option one that was presented.

What would the rents be?

Would it be it would be 90% AMI?

Is that what you're saying?

Or 90% of that.

So when we when we do this math, and when we think about the affordable housing agreement, and when EPS did their analysis, we're always thinking of the maximum they can charge under our regulatory agreement, not what is feasible in the market right now.

So if the units were online today and they needed to be reduced slightly to be below that 90% threshold, that's how we would price the unit in that moment.

But when we're comparing this in sort of this static format, where this is the agreement they're bound by for 50 years, we're talking about what is the regulatory rent, because our rent dynamics could change here, and the moderate units may at some point be much more valuable to us than they are today.

It's just that right now they're very similar to market rent.

Understood, thank you.

So we're ready.

Oh, sorry.

I have just the last slide, which is this is a discretionary council action.

It's outlined in our city's inclusionary housing regulations.

I've cited the code right here, and council may consider adopting either of the two resolutions that are prepared for you tonight, or take no action.

Taking no action would leave the affordable housing agreement as executed.

Um item 20A implements option one, so that would have the very low, low, and moderate income units, and then item 20b implements option two, which is the overall reduction in units, but keeping them all at the very low income level.

And with that, I'll invite um Lauren Krause with Essex to come up and share a bit with you.

Good evening, Miss Krause.

Good evening.

Uh congratulations, Mayor Adiego, on your um new position, or I guess um position again.

As mayor.

Uh I'd like to say hi to uh Vice Mayor Nagales and Council Members Coleman, Flores, and Nicholas.

My name's Lauren Krauss.

I am the vice president of development at Essex Property Trust.

Thanks for considering our request this evening to amend our affordable housing agreement for the Seven South London project.

I appreciate the time that each of you have spent with me to hear more about our request and to see the progress on our site.

I'd also like to thank and express my appreciation to city staff and particularly Nell Sealander for working with us throughout the approval process as a whole and also over the last few months with this specific request.

Just as a bit of background, Essex is based in San Mateo.

We own approximately 63,000 units up and down the west coast.

We believe in South City and have invested significant capital in its growth and resilience.

Since 2021, we've purchased entitled and are now under construction on the 543 unit project at 7 South London.

Our total investment in this project is over 300 million dollars.

Additionally, earlier this year, we invested an additional 45 million dollars in Tramel Crows Airport Boulevard project.

Without our investment, that 480 unit project might likely not have been started.

These combined projects represent a total investment in South City of over 350 million dollars, which will create 1,023 new housing units.

I'd like to reiterate, reiterate that due to challenging market conditions, Essex has not started a new construction project from 2020 to 2025.

After almost five years, we decided to move forward on a single project at the end of 2024, and it was 7 South London.

And it was because of our confidence in South City and all the great work that you're doing here.

One challenge that we've continued to face with the project is finding a capital partner.

The annual loss in affordable rental revenue that Nell outlined and the corresponding impact on property value has made the goal of finding a capital partner challenging, and it is a significant uh impediment for us finding a capital partner.

In order to minimize this, the impact on this project, we respectfully ask for your consideration for a modification, one of the two options before you tonight.

We're trying to both provide more impactful affordable housing and simultaneously improve the project's financials.

Based on guided guidance and feedback from our meetings, and despite resulting in a higher financial loss, we believe that option two is the most compelling option before you tonight.

We think that doubling the number of very low-income units is meaningful to the community.

As you saw in the arena numbers, very low-income units are have one of the greatest needs in the city.

They're often the most challenging to finance.

The residents who stay in the two-bedroom units are often will stay there for a long time.

There's not as much kind of transience with the very low income units.

They're rooted in the community.

We own in our portfolio about 4,000 low-income units in our 65,000.

And we've validated this with our folks that the units at the lower at the very low-income rent range are occupied more frequently have much lower vacancies.

So while we're asking for an overall reduction in the total percentage of BMR units under this option, we think that the impact will be significant to the city.

In closing, we respectfully ask for your consideration to modify the affordable housing agreement so we can balance the project's financials and attract a capital partner while simultaneously providing more very low income units to the city.

We hope you value our continued uh support and investment in your city, and I thank you for your consideration on this request tonight.

Okay, thank you.

Lauren.

Any questions from the council?

Guidance?

I can go first this slide.

Please.

Um, Lauren, so I'll just probably just ask the question.

I think everyone's thinking why should we grant you this exception?

Because if we do this for you, what's gonna happen the developers are watching this meeting?

Oh, I see they made an exception for Essex.

Maybe we can ask for the same thing.

Now we've set a precedent for other developers to come in.

So why should we do this?

Sure.

Yeah, um, you have the power as city council to just hear this one request singularly.

We're not asking the council or city staff to revisit the inclusionary ordinance as written.

Um these are unprecedented financial times.

The housing starts across the Bay Area have um not recovered since COVID.

Um, so I think that one way of thinking of it as not a precedent-setting move is because when markets return, there will not be a reason for developers to be making this request.

Okay.

You can potentially reinvest that in other projects, um, which I'm assuming.

Would those potentially be looking at in South San Francisco for future projects as well?

Um before I answer that question, just just one point of clarification.

Option two is worse than option one.

If option one is more interesting to the council, we would you know, we would we would welcome that as well.

Um, but option two is is worse for us than option one.

Um to your to your question, um, absolutely.

So the importance of us finding a capital partner means that we have more ability to reinvest in cities just like South City.

We're actively looking at new projects all the time.

We've underwritten more investments in South City, which is how we decided to invest in Tramel Crow's airport boulevard project.

So by finding a capital partner and being able to use that money in other projects, that means that we'll be able to have more development starts.

Okay.

I'll leave it at that because I'll pop probably more questions, but I want to make sure my colleagues jump in.

Sure.

Any questions?

Just a comment.

I think most of the people in our area needs the very low, um, and and that is the current need from my point of view.

Because that's the reason why we need the rental assistance is because people can't afford so.

Okay, anyone on this?

All right, I do I do have a couple questions.

Um is there any guarantee that this increased revenue would be reinvested in the South San Francisco community?

I I can't guarantee that.

Um we we look at we look at projects um all across the Bay Area, but we're very bullish on South City, which is why we reinvested in the Tramil Crow project, and we are actively looking at projects in South City right now.

Yeah, we are a good council pro housing, we want to do good for our community.

Yeah.

Does granting any of these amendments, is does that affect the completion of the project in any way?

Because you've already broken ground, you've you've gone to financing, correct?

Well, no, we we are financing it ourselves, which is because we cannot find a capital partner.

Um go but to directly answer your question, it we are going to complete the project.

We're excited about the investment.

We think it's a great location.

We're excited to help have the Lyndonville corridor come to life and see the awesome park and and public art that we just heard about earlier today.

So we will complete the project regardless of your decision today.

We're here in the spirit of partnership, um, asking for this modification.

Right, because I I you know asked around, and there have been um some decreases, some temporary decreases in the uh inclusionary requirements in other cities.

And I believe Redwood City did so and East Palo Alto did so, but the reason why they did so was because their projects could not find the financing.

They could not break ground.

And so this is a difference that I'm looking at here.

You know, why should we grant it to you when you when you've broken ground and and you are financing it yourselves, and we would appreciate that investment?

But I think we need some for for me, I think we need some sort of guarantee that you know there will be future investment in South San Francisco in our community beyond you know the the project here.

And that's kind of where we're um i i is uneasy with me right now.

Um so and this is a maybe a question to now is 80 percent AMI qualification with 60 percent AMI rents.

Is that norm?

Is that the norm in South San Francisco?

It is what's required by our inclusionary ordinance.

This is the first project that has broken ground that fully implements our inclusionary ordinance.

So, yes, we absolutely have other affordable housing agreements out there that calculate low-income rents in this manner, with it set at 60% pricing for 80% eligibility, um, but this is the first project that fully implements the ordinance, so has the full 15%, with two-thirds of that at the low income and one third at the very low.

Every other project beforehand had been some negotiated agreement or no affordable units, um, so I think that is like the one defining characteristic of this project is that it is our first by the book.

It went through, right?

It didn't come to city council, it went new general plan, new zoning code, straight to planning commission, very straightforward entitlement, complied fully with our inclusionary ordinance.

There were certainly opportunities through that entitlement process to have this conversation or through the affordable housing agreement, like period when we were negotiating it to ask for the waiver then prior to breaking ground.

Um, and but this is when we're here now.

So it you know, those those changes could have been made.

Council could have taken those actions at any at any point in that process.

Those are my questions for now.

Okay, great.

Councilman.

Now, um, where would this?

I know you kind of were looking at at the RENA numbers, where would this um option one or option two put us in terms of our very low?

Um, I know you kind of briefed over that.

Can you revisit that, please?

I don't know if IT can put the presentation back up.

It might be helpful.

Um, in the staff report and presentation, there's uh very low income row.

Oh, thank you.

And maybe I can preface this because I think every year when we get Tony up here giving us the update, vice mayor and myself are always asking, hey, are we gonna ever do the very low and the low?

Right, and are we is that just um very aspirational, or or is there gonna be ever an opportunity where we could play around with numbers that will give us credit for those?

Yeah, so I will say that almost all of our fully affordable units from now on through every arena cycle will be almost exclusively very low income.

Um so that's really where you pick up the very low income units.

The estimates that are in here right now, the 71 very low income units includes the 27 that Essex is building right now.

So your total by income where it says 302, if council selected option two, that would go up to 329.

What about the and then the low income would go down by 27 units, right?

So now we would only be providing 201 low-income units, gotcha.

Yeah, I see it.

Okay.

Thank you.

So I think my question is for Ms.

Krause.

Um, and it plays off of what Councilman Coleman was was asking you.

Maybe maybe I'll be a little more direct and blunt.

Um, when were you aware of this um problem that you had and and you gave up your power when you started the project?

Because if you hadn't started the project, as other cities have done in these difficult times, it would be a compelling argument.

But what happened communication wise?

Um we wanted to still start the project after we saw kind of the lost revenue because we've been very worried about tariffs and inflation, and we were more worried about that risk than risking um this kind of lost revenue.

So we had a very lost revenue was acceptable, the project still works.

Correct.

Yeah, and I mean we are still.

Do we have any public comments?

Well, there you go.

I guess I anticipated correctly.

Um I guess the the question is what's the most pressing need right now for us, right?

And I'm looking at God, I can't.

You know, it's hard for me to, especially this first project.

Um I look at these income limits.

Now we've had people come to us numerous times who've said we have applied for the affordable housing, like to get on the forum of housing list, and that even the not very low, but the low, yeah, which I guess is a 70%, we'll just say the 70% area meaning income, is still very high for them, that it's very difficult for them to even afford that rent.

I'm not in the I really don't want to do 110% because we've done so many above market rate.

Well, for me, I my focus is always been on low and very low.

I keep going back to residents who can come out and say, well, I can't afford the 70% area meaning income, even though it's considered low.

So to me, increasing the very low might have more a significant impact for the residences of San Francisco right now, because we're increasing it by 54 units.

But they wouldn't qualify.

I mean the qualification threshold's lower.

So if you're at 80% AMI and you're saying we're gonna help them with more 50% AMI unit, you just wouldn't work because they wouldn't qualify for the 50%.

You're talking about two different income groups.

And what would help that because if that 70% rent, yeah, the 70% AMI rent is too much for someone who qualifies that 80%, then the 60% rent would help them.

And that's the that's the problem with with affordable housing right now is you know if you're charging 80% AMI rents for 80% AMI households, they're all rent burdened by definition, because they're all paying 30% of their income on rent.

And the way you help them is you say, look, we're you qualify 80, we're gonna you're we're gonna charge you 60 percent AI rents.

I get what you're saying.

And and you're right, is I think where I'm just having a hard time.

You know, we're also gonna charge someone who can afford the 110% uh rent, and I I'm not really interested in doing that.

I'm interested in providing rent that's more affordable.

I don't really care.

Well, I shouldn't say really care.

But my focus has been on trying to provide for very low and low, and I understand what you're saying.

But if we do option one, that means we're also providing 27 units for for those who can potentially afford up to four to three hundred dollars of rent and is that what our focus should be on right now and I don't think it should because our numbers said there we're gonna we're gonna hit our what is it I what is it our our above moderate rate is that what we're not a really market rate our market rate rate so to me the focus should always be on how we can provide very low and low but in the situation of option one I don't really want to build more water rate units.

That's kind of that's kind of where I'm coming from well I think you're misinterpreting them that I'm making the case for option one.

I I'm with not making the case for option one okay just just to be clear that's right I'm I just I'm just saying for myself you know yeah and and what option um are you on in your mind right now right now uh where where I am I I don't think either option should be granted okay and and just for more context I know there's that there's a need for a capital partner right and interest rates are high right now but there are models that exist such as in Montgomery County where that where that capital partner is the county or could be in our case it could be the city and we might not be in the position to offer that now but that is one way where they have allowed for these sorts of projects to to pencil out to break ground and instead of lowering the affordability of what's built actually raise it and so um what what is in front of us right now I'm I'm not easy uh I I feel uneasy with with the options and um I would not be comfortable moving forward I I think some of the the two questions that were very critical was your question and your question and also about reinvesting here in South San Francisco.

If there is any flexibility within that I think that that could be a moving piece for me.

Ultimately you know we want to make sure that we support Lindenville as this is probably one of the first projects off of Lindenville and continue to support that right um but with the these numbers these if you granted this and there was the savings for the developer those numbers are not gonna generate another project unless it makes sense I mean it's look um Lauren we had a couple of sessions one at the site and one in City Hall and on both occasions um you led me to believe that there had been like a an uh email exchange where maybe there was some misinformation I've asked you for that you've not provided anything like that I received um uh a call from uh your political or your consultant and uh kind of absolving the staff that uh we did nothing wrong and I was already on that page and and so I I just have to tell you I'm going to disappoint you but your argument is less than compelling for me so the direction you would like uh well I I I think um I'm not interested in either option.

In the present time I I think our need is mostly for very low uh so uh what I'm saying is that in the future yes what you were saying before is that you know that will work but then what about the people who are in need of the very low housing um so you you like option two well you know we have we have our option to I mean it means the part yes that's a legitimate position.

I'm I'm just um yeah I don't like how we got here tonight.

No, I agree.

Well, true.

I mean I'm not I'm really upset that we have to bake this.

Or we have to make a decision if we have to, because you're the first project, and now you're coming back and saying now we need an exception to this, right?

You know, quite on go ahead.

I don't know if the need is really there because if it was that kind of a make or break situation, the need was that great, you would not have started the project.

Yeah, that's the question.

I think what we're what we're trying to do is also double the amount of very low income units for the families that need that.

Some of us definitely that's the choice.

Yeah, I mean, and I like the idea, and I totally believe uh Lauren is correct.

When uh people get a unit like that, they're gonna hold on to it, yeah.

And they're gonna invest in their own community.

And that's better than the churn in the market rate that is you know, people come to South City and don't even know where they are and they're on their way someplace else, right?

So that's that's real positive for the community.

Yeah, I mean that's kind of where I'm leaning on to is that the more very low, the fact that people can't stay and it doesn't turn like you're saying.

I mean, that's we get hit all the time, not hit all the time.

We get criticized for when we build these developments.

Oh, where's where's the affordability, right?

And we say we we are building affordability, but then we have people who come to us and say, Well, I can't, even though the the AMI, when they look at it, they're like I can't really afford this.

I'm like, okay.

So to me, it's like building more very low, I think is what I'm focused on right now.

I mean, when you look at the percentages, right?

And and it's really is numbers, right?

It's all numbers, sure.

Is either you want 81 BMR units at various levels and or or do you want 54 to very low?

But the very low, we have 50% AMI qualified, and you're paying 50 percent AMI rents, right?

Every single one of them will be rent burdened.

That's just how it's gonna be.

And on the other hand, you're like you will have less very low, but you're gonna have 54 low-income units where they won't necessarily be rent burdened.

And so, I mean, it is a policy question, like what like what do we want, but I'm telling you, you know, personally, myself, I would prefer um none of the options because I think we we like we need both, right?

We need very low and we need low.

And I I think with uh neither of the options, we are getting both very low as well as low, and I am okay with that.

So I I think we need to hear definitively by um by counseling flores.

I I uh sorry, I would stay with uh 15% affordable, um, current AHA.

Okay, then we um with that, oh and I'm I'm um on that page too.

I don't I don't want to um invite the change at this point in the conversation, the development.

Um so with that we um we don't need to make an action.

Yeah, okay.

So um we've heard you and uh and I guess it was closer than I thought it would be.

I don't know about you, but um that um completes item 20.

So we'll move on to next item.

Items from council committee reports and announcements.

Item number 21 is council discussion on city selection committee, vacant positions and alternate if needed.

Okay, so we have uh a big event on Friday, December the nineteenth, which I'm planning on attending because it could very well be my last one.

Okay, yeah.

Well, you know, I've been to a lot of those, so I've uh enjoyed too much food over the years.

Um we've got the three positions.

Um do you want to give me any direction on on how I should vote for the uh Bay Area Air Quality Management District member?

So I'm just chair over there, Mr.

Mayor.

If I may just to give you context, um there wasn't any additional um submissions other than the current roster, including myself as chair and the current vice chair, um Mayor uh Van Katesh from San Carlos as vice chair.

So um everyone else has submitted their letter of interest and will be published in the upcoming agenda packet for that meeting date.

Okay, so that makes it very easy for me.

Thank you.

Uh any other items um at the end of this meeting from uh from the council?

Uh if if I may, uh the California identification system.

What does that committee do?

Thank you.

And I knew you were gonna pull it up and I have it right here for you.

Um, first I've heard of it, I'm sorry.

So California has several committees related to identification systems, primarily focused on criminal justice data and law enforcement tech.

Um they are related with the attorney general's office.

Um is called the criminal record database, Corey, and another one is the automated fingerprint identification system, uh Cal ID.

So it is essentially local regional levels of governing uh over providing oversight for the system, and these committees uh meet not too much but providing um additional and discussion of broader issues, police data, bias, all working with law enforcement and justice stakeholders.

Uh the current one is um uh mayor um uh Glenn Sylvester from Daily City, um as his previous um experience in law enforcement.

Yeah, I was gonna say he's a former officer, so it makes a lot of sense that he's there.

All right, thank you.

I was about to say, were you looking for a nomination on the floor or something?

I was just curious because you know we see C CAG and everything all the time, but Cal ID is a little niche.

Copy that.

Okay, with that um uh no other items, we um are adjourned.

And uh yes, we do have this excep