Recording in progress city council, thank you, Ms.

McClores.

Um, for Wednesday, March 11th to order, and we'll begin with a roll call.

Councilmember Coleman.

Here.

Councilmember Flores.

Present.

Councilmember Nicholas Present.

Vice Mayor Nogales.

Here.

Mayor Adiego.

Here.

And tonight I would like to um ask our deputy city clerk, Jasmine Miranda, to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Hi, Pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

And to the Republic for which it stands.

One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you, Ms.

Miranda.

Next item.

We'll move along to agenda review.

There are no recommended changes to the agenda.

We'll move along to Levine Act disclosures.

Does the council have any reporting?

Reporting.

And we can move along to announcements from staff.

Mayor, this evening we have two announcements.

It highlights former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan and her lifetime support for and the advocacy of the U.S.

Constitution and demand democratic values.

She was a trailblazing American.

She had was a powerful voice for civil rights and constitutional principles, particularly notably during the 1974 Watergate impeachment hearing.

So that's another part of history that we don't want to lose sight of.

She broke racial and gender barriers and inspired future generations by expanding voting rights.

So we would like to welcome people this Saturday, March the 14th at 3 p.m.

In particular, because we are also excited to welcome Councilmember Nicholas.

She's going to prove a special introduction, including the story of her own path to local politics.

So I think that's going to be a great event here in this room, the city council chambers, again Saturday at 3.

I also would like to uh formally welcome our uh new finance director.

Uh Christy Donnelly has joined us and has started her term.

She sent out a release a while ago.

Um and she is particularly qualified to help provide key leadership as we continue on our path to longer term fiscal sustainability.

She brings over a decade of she's bringing decades of experience and over a decade of experience in local government, including most recently as the management services director in the city of Lompoke, where she actually had increasingly um responsible increasing responsibility over a number of years.

She also has her master's degree in accounting and is currently a candidate for the Certified Public Finance Officer, a key designation in the world of government finance officers.

So I'd like to specially welcome Ms.

Donnelly.

You could come and say hello.

I haven't met you yet.

Hi, so good to meet you all.

Thank you for having me, both to tonight and to this great city of South San Francisco.

I am excited to be here.

I am um working with some fantastic leadership in the city manager, the executive staff, and then some really superb staff that I have met over the last three weeks in working working here.

I'm excited to get get to work.

We've got a lot to do, and I've got some big shoes to fill, um, but I have no doubt that we are gonna do an excellent job.

Okay, good luck to you, Director Donald.

And those were the announcements.

That concludes the announcements.

Wonderful.

Next.

We can move along to council comments and requests.

Let's see.

Let's go to the left side here.

Would you like to start?

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

I wanted to start off by um actually providing good news.

Um the city, every city in San Mateo County is a member of the City Counties Association of Government, which is a 20 member um uh uh agency that uh advocates uh for multiple um projects and initiatives, um, working with each of the city staffs, including transportation, climate resilience, and other stuff.

And I wanted to provide the good news uh to my colleagues that um within their uh uh federal request that they're moving forward for San Mateo County.

There is one that is uh impacting or I I should I should say benefiting um uh and including South San Francisco, and as part of their um federal and state budget request, they are requesting 1.5 million dollars for the South San Francisco Grand Avenue downtown integrated green stormwater infrastructure street project.

And this is significant because I can assure you that there are many requests that come before uh them in terms of what to fund and what to request.

And also we have to be very strategic, not to overlap or uh cut our chances to be able to have these uh projects funded.

So uh this is this is a 1.5, like I said, uh project that will advance the planning and the environmental review for a transformational climate resilient transportation corridor uh that will uh definitely benefit South San Francisco, um, the Grand Avenue, the downtown area uh in in this part, and it will be along Grand Avenue between Spruce Avenue and Airport Boulevard.

This project will develop initial studies, stakeholder engagement, and environmental documentation and early engineering to 35% of the design so that we could continue moving forward um to envisioning a more even more beautiful downtown than what we have right now, including um improvements, approximately 22,000 uh square feet of permeable pavement, 40,000 square feet of uh biome retention planters, etc.

But of course, we couldn't do this with uh without the help and support of staff.

So I want to thank um in particular our public works team uh for being able to uh provide the support um and align all the the talking points along that.

In addition, they're also forwarding at our state level to Sacramento.

They're also requesting additional funds that also will be able to support um other projects, um, including the one watershed uh planning effort that will also be forwarded uh to um uh the state, our state uh delegation um for request.

And again, this is all comes, you know, we all sit in different regional bodies representing South San Francisco, and it's a matter of speaking up, it's a matter of advocating, but also again, kudos to staff for uh preparing us and giving us the talking points to be able to uh apply when we need to for grants and opportunities such as this that will enhance the infrastructure here in uh South San Francisco.

In addition, I wanted to make note that our Congressman Kevin Mullen, um he uh currently has uh a yearly uh contest, and that is the art contest.

Um, for those of us that have had the opportunity to visit uh the United States Capitol, and as you go through the different buildings, there is a long hallway as you take the little tram from each one of the the Senate and the House of Representatives, and within that, there is a wall of art from each of the congressional districts, and each Congress um uh member of Congress is able to feature um an individual, a youth um that is able to provide their art.

So it's really neat.

So I'm calling on all uh our youth and and uh aspiring artists and artists to submit that entry.

It's a really great thing when you see uh your congressional district represented on that art wall, which all um members of Congress walk through on their daily uh route.

So I wanted to put those uh announcements out uh for the community now.

That's all I have.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilman.

Um Mr.

Coleman.

Sure.

Um weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend um the PAL St.

Paddy's Day fundraiser, which was always a lovely event here in South City held at the conference center.

Um this past weekend, I finally got a chance to uh play for the first time pickleball, and now I understand what all the hype is about.

I'm very happy that we're going to have uh six new picobal courts coming to Orange Park.

Uh I also want to talk about um a great event that'll be happening this Friday.

Our state senator Josh Becker is holding a community coffee right here in South City at the Antigua Coffee Shop.

And it will be this Friday from 9 30 to 10 30 a.m.

So I hope to see you there at Antigua.

Um and then last thing I want to talk about is um Penenza Clean Energy, of which I sit on that uh board directors is requesting that we submit letters of support for three bills.

Um the first is AB2111, uh, which is by our assembly member Diane Pappen, which would modernize transmission planning and improved California's transmission planning framework.

Uh there's also AB 1761, which would improve transparency and how the power charge indifference adjustment is calculated.

And the last one is SB 1138, which would lower resource adequacy adequacy costs.

So it can be a little wonky, but I will afford this email to city staff and and hope that uh we can send uh layers of support for the bills that make sense for us.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you for the update and for monitoring all of that.

Um next, uh Council Warren.

Thank you.

Uh thank you, Mayor.

Umops, where was it?

Sorry.

Congratulations.

It's in order also to the Parks and Recreation Department and um and the youth baseball um South City baseball because you know, um, it brought back a lot of memories last Saturday when I saw those young kids playing baseball because I was a baseball mom for a long time.

And um the vice mayor did a great job throwing the first pitch, which was expected.

And also thank you to the South San Francisco Police Officers Association for like uh Councilmember Um Coleman said, it was a very successful uh cabbage uh, you know uh where am I?

Corn defense cabbage fundraiser.

And I would just like to invite people, in addition to the Inquisitor, we discovered another one that in the intersectionality of American 250 and uh women's uh history month this March.

We are going to also um screen a movie or a documentary for Hello Girls and Hello Girls is about uh 223 American women recruited by the US Army Signal Corps to serve as bilingual telephone operators in France during World War One.

And they they replaced untrained med male operators to ensure reliable fast communication for allied forces.

You know, how if it's a heavy job, it takes a woman to do that.

So we and you know, unfortunately, this uh women were um, although they took the army oath and wore uniforms, they were denied veteran status until 60 years later.

So I think it will also be very interesting interesting to see you know women who have contributed to being America 250 years of uh our freedom here.

And also uh, you know, I would like to call on the seniors.

There are two scholarships that I think uh they should be aware of.

We have the South San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Scholarships, and so if they would like to apply for that, they should go on uh yeah on the website for South San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Scholarship, and the deadline is March 28th.

Another one that is really worth looking at is the Calwater Scholarship.

They are usually awarding thousands of dollars for scholarships.

So I hope to see our young people um availing of this opportunities.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilwoman, Mr.

Vice Mayor.

Thank you, Ms.

Mayor.

I also want to echo um how great the St.

Patrick's Day Pat Sullivan Um luncheon was uh was.

It was so many people there, and it's just grown over the years.

Uh if you haven't got gone, you really need to go.

It is a sight to see, and uh thank you to uh everyone involved in that.

Uh as mentioned, I uh uh the I was uh the relief pitcher for the mayor for the youth baseball uh celebration.

Uh we're calling it their first strike of the season, so uh so you know why it's strike zone, that's what we're calling it.

Uh, but it was great, and the number of uh of uh participants have grown over the years.

Um and I I think that's thanks to our new amazing ball field, uh, because now everyone can play all year round, and it has been an attraction uh for a lot of um our teams to come out and play and have tournaments.

Um so just it's such a great day.

Um love going to that event.

Um lastly, I want to adjourn in memory uh in memory of former Colma council member Diana Colvin.

Um Diana passed away on March 1st after a long battle with cancer.

And for those who knew her, she was an amazing uh person and um council member for the town of Colma.

Um I served with her uh on various regional boards.

Um she was also very uh she worked for um a Cal Palace.

Um so she was very active in the community, and it was such a loss uh when she had to step down, and it's such a loss for our community when she passed away.

So we can do adorable memory.

Uh I would appreciate that, Mr.

Mayor.

Yeah.

Thank you for remembering remark.

And um I have a um an item.

Um uh this is um uh uh women's history month, March, and and we haven't forgotten it.

Um I have a mayoral proclamation, which is a little different from the standard, and I'd like to present it to there's a member of the South San Francisco Unified School Board of Trustees in the audience, so I'm asking uh Amy Lamb to join me at the podium to receive the proclamation.

I know you want thank you.

Shall we read?

You're gonna read this right now.

I'm going to read it and present it, and then you have uh comments, all the comments you'd like.

Oh, uh excellent.

Okay.

So um, you know, in thinking of uh women's history month and and knowing Amy Lamb for most of her adult life, I believe, uh recognizing um uh she's a career woman, um she's a mom raising two wonderful children.

Um she's the wife of of the vice mayor, and then recently she became a member of the South San Francisco because she didn't have enough going, she had to uh put more out there for the community and joined the school board.

So she is really the epitome of the modern American woman who really puts all of us men to shame in so many ways.

So I'll read this proclamation, and then there's one more thing I need to add before we uh present this.

There is more.

Um whereas American women of every race, class, and ethnic background have made historic contributions to the growth and strength of our nation in countless recorded and unrecorded ways, and have been celebrated annually in the United States since 1987.

Whereas American women have played and continue to play critical economic, cultural, and social roles in every sphere of the life of the nation by constituting a significant portion of the labor force working inside and outside of the home, and whereas Women's History Month in 2026 has a theme of leading the change, women shaping a sustainable future, which recognizes women who are rebuilding systems across environmental, economic, and social sectors to create a more equitable and sustainable future for all.

And whereas American women were particularly important in the establishment of early charitable, philanthropic and cultural institutions in our nation, as well as education, public safety, and the military.

Whereas American women have served as early leaders in the forefront of every major progressive social change movement, as well as leading the way in volunteerism.

Whereas American women have been trailblazers not only in securing their own rights of suffrage and equal opportunity, but also in the abolitionist movement, the emancipation movement, the industrial labor movement, the civil rights movement, and other movements, especially the peace movement, which creates a more fair and just society for all.

Oh, okay.

So that that well, I do not expect any of that.

But um thank you.

This is a uh this is really an honor, I think.

Um yeah, and thank you for this pro this proclamation.

I I think it just sums up yeah, all the things that you know, you know, women um being trailblazers in all the different areas of life and being on, you know, perhaps not recognized as much as they should be.

I I think it just sums up all the things that you know, you know, women um being trailblazers in all the different areas of life and being you know, perhaps not recognized as much as they should be, but um uh so I I I did prepare some remarks, um, so I hope you all will humor me and uh letting me speak.

Um so uh Mayor Adiego, um, Vice Mayor Nogales, uh, Council members uh Nicholas, uh Flores and Coleman, uh to City Manager uh Laura Seinman, uh Assistant City Manager Lee, our city leaders, and fellow South San Francisco residents.

Uh Mayor Adiego, uh thank you uh for uh inviting me here to speak and uh for for these this amazing honor.

I I actually didn't I thought this was um you know a sort of the traditional receiving uh a recognition uh from for women's history month.

Um I didn't expect to get women of the year, so thank you for that.

Um so I I did come here um to uh reflect on Women's History Month, which honors our the achievements, leadership and enduring contributions of women past and present, and envisions a world of full equality for both men and women.

Uh to introduce myself again, uh, I am my name is Amy Lamb.

I am a trustee on the South San Francisco Unified School District, where I have served for a little over a year.

Um I have the honor of serving this year as board clerk along with my fellow trustees, President Pat Murray, Vice President Dr.

Chalin Shea, uh Trustee Amanda Anthony and Trustee Mina Richardson, and our amazing superintendent, Dr.

Shantera Moore.

We are proud to be a school board comprised of all women in a school district led by a women's superintendent of color and many, many strong, effective women leaders in education, all united and the purpose of providing an equitable, high quality public education for each and every child.

So I will come back and speak more about our school district in a moment.

Um but first, uh Mayor Adiego, um, I was gonna say you you certainly made an interesting choice in choosing me to speak on this occasion.

Um, as you uh mentioned um in the proclamation, um, you know, Vice Mayor Nagales and I have been married for over 17 years.

Uh we've been raising our two young children, Aidan and Josephine in Westboro.

Uh when we got married, um, Mark was an aide to then Congresswoman Jackie Spear, who's now our San Mateo County supervisor, Jackie Spear.

Uh, you know, a true inspiration, uh a real exemplary model of strong female leadership who continues to make a positive impact in our community to this day.

Uh Mark and I both share a deep belief in public service and its potential to transform lives for the better.

I proudly supported Mark when he ran for city council and stood by his side when he took the oath of office.

And perhaps like other spouses of elected officials, I considered myself as someone who was comfortable behind the scenes supporting our community.

And I I really didn't think that life as an elected official was for me.

But then over a year ago, um, our wonderful Westboro trustee Dana Luhan, who's another great woman leader in our community, um, was stepping down after nine years on the school board.

Uh the seat was open, there weren't any takers, including myself.

Uh it took a few long talks with people like my husband and and trustee Murray and many other trustees and some soul searching before I filed to run at the last minute.

And one year later, here I am.

Uh I feel truly grateful for the opportunity to serve the South State community and help make this a more special place for our children and fellow neighbors.

Uh and I would like to take another moment to honor the women in my family, uh, being that is Women's History Month, um, and just talk a little bit about you know how the different generations, you know, the opportunities have changed and how education has shaped our lives.

Uh, first with my late grand my late grandmother, uh Jung Ying, she grew up during the early 1920s.

And due to her gender and circumstances, she was denied the opportunity to go to school.

She raised her children and grandchildren in Hong Kong and the United States, but her experiences impacted her self-worth in a negative way, really, and internalized the belief that girls couldn't achieve as much as boys could.

And then one generation later, my mother Sandy immigrated here from Macau to the United States uh with a middle school education.

She worked during the day and attended night school here in the United States uh to earn her high school diploma, which allowed her to find greater employment and to support our family until she retired.

So my parents uh thankfully they believed uh very much in the value of education and encouraged me and my older siblings, Pansy and Fred to go to college.

And today, my sister Pansy is a mechanical engineer in San Francisco, and I'm a graphic designer uh working still there at the exploratorium.

So let me come back to our public schools in South San Francisco Unified School District where our kids are part of the community of over 7600 students from pre-K to high school and adult ed.

Um at South San Francisco Unified Equity is our North Star.

Every day we ask ourselves what does it mean to work towards achieving full equality through education?

What does it take to ensure that all our graduates grow into lifelong learners who can navigate their futures with purpose, thrive, and impact their communities for the better?

How do we build more equitable systems and dismantle barriers so that each and every child can achieve their full potential no matter their circumstances?

This is a journey that I'm grateful to be a part of alongside our board and district leaders, but it's a journey that we can't do alone.

We need everyone's voices to speak up for a more compassionate and selfless world with opportunities available for all, and especially women who are historically underrepresented in leadership.

We need to believe that what we say has value, that we should step up and speak up.

If not for ourselves, then for those who cannot speak for themselves.

If we do, then maybe, just maybe, we can get that much closer to closer to achieving the vision of full equality that is called for in women's history month.

Thank you.

Wonderful.

Thank you.

You write this material, right?

Sometimes, often.

That's fine.

No, no, I wanted to.

Yeah, well, we'll take a look at the question.

You shouldn't preempt a husband.

Okay, yeah.

I was like, what are you doing here?

I was here to give a public comment.

That's why it was in the office.

Thank you, Marie.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Wonderful.

That's yours.

That's fine.

That's fine.

That's going on up in the wall.

Okay.

All right.

Thank you.

It was all about keeping it from you.

I don't know.

So with that, we can um move along in our agenda.

We'll move along to public comments.

We have a total of four speakers.

Our first speaker is Annie.

Good evening.

Um I have a questions, you know, um, the last meeting, and I I know there were some review of the manual of the city.

And um, I had some questions on the section regarding the minutes.

Previously, I misunderstood whatever that was posted at last agenda, was the going to be revised version, but then when I looked at it again, I realized, and also based on the discussion during that meeting, I realized the um information shown on the agenda was the current version before the review.

And then only the red line is really something that is being proposed to be changed.

So I'm reading on page 46 under minutes, is stated there, the city clerk shall ensure the preparation of action minutes of each city council meeting, which include the motions made, actions taken, and a list of public comments made.

So my question is, because I think we had a lot of, you know, I made several comments in the past about our city, you know, council meetings minutes, only showing the name of the individuals who come forward to speak during public comments, never the topics.

And I reached out to the city clerk previously, probably about a year ago about this, and I think her response to me was it was approved by the council years ago that you know action minutes only includes the name of the speaker, and she cited some government code, and I couldn't look it up anywhere that kind of like um actually match what she was saying.

But now reading the minutes or the um handbook, I realize it should be a list of public comments made.

It's not a list of the public comments persons' names.

So my question for the council is for the last five years, we really had no records of the list of public comments made in any of the minutes.

So I'm asking the council, is there something that you could do to reinstate all of those lists of comments made during the past five years that have been omitted by the city clerk?

And um, and something that that needs to be done here to make sure that we will have our full records going forward, especially when the electronic version is not guaranteed to be continue or to be, you know, uh kept going forward.

And the minutes are the only official records for our city.

So I asked the council to please consider looking at that and see what you could do to really meet what the current handbook actually says.

It's a list of public comments made, not a list of public comments presenters' names.

So thank you very much.

Okay, thank you, Ms.

Lowe.

I think that um it's something we certainly can explore.

And we I think we uh have a tentative schedule for the handbook, and we landed on a date that we can share with the public who is here.

We have we're having a special meeting regarding the kiss uh council handbook.

And it is March the 18th.

Okay, very good.

So um, please join us at that meeting.

Next uh speaker.

Our next speaker is Cynthia.

At the last meeting, there was discussion of limiting public comment.

However, when Councilman Datzman and Mullen were on the city council as well as Mayor Adiago, the public comment was five minutes.

The e-comments are never read into the record for the public to hear, but are included in the e-packets of the city council.

Also, destroying the public record in the form of videos, San Francisco Superior Court uses the unlimited acorn cloud storage method, as do other jurisdictions using other cloud storage methods.

And there is no reason to destroy our archival history for whatever reasons you're entertaining.

Frankly, I have 35 years of court reporting notes and transcripts stored for the preservation of the official court record myself.

When we kept hearing the MSB was just an old department store, we reviewed the clerk's detailed minutes and videos for its true history dating back to there being no arterial stoplights on Arroyo to its being a USE department store, and later the value giant, and to its complete remodel by architect Goodwin B.

Steinberg Associates, to the Measure P ballot measure passed by the voters to assess their property five cents per 100 100 for 20 years to acquire 33 Arroyo, the MSB.

So if it's space, there are several means and methods to preserve it.

If it is another reason, as we have seen with denials and redactions of the public record requests, that is even a more egregious and serious issue.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ms.

Markopoulos.

Next speaker, Sam Kakuti Mayor Adiago, members of the South San Francisco Cisco City Council, fellow citizens, my name is Sam Ketkuti.

During the meeting of January 28th of this year, Vice Mayor Nigales asked for a minute of silence for Alex Pretty.

It struck me as odd and hypocritical since V Vice Mayor Nigales or any council member has never asked for a minute of silence for Lakin Riley, Kate Steinley, Molly Tibbetts, Rachel Moran, Sarah Root, and several others who were killed by illegal aliens.

The state with the most deportations by far is Texas.

While there have been several demonstrations, some of which turned violent in Texas, they pale in comparison to what recently happened in Minneapolis and LA.

In Minneapolis, protesters, or should I say bandits damaged hotels where they thought ICE agents were.

These same hooligans destroyed law enforcement vehicles and attacked federal officers.

What is the difference between Texas and Minnesota?

Why Minnesota's run by a lawless government headed by Tim Waltz.

At the same meaning, both council member members' floors and Coleman read off lists of those who have died in ICE custody.

If you are in this country illegally, it is better to self-deport.

There is no country in the world where a foreigner who entered the country illegally is welcome.

Last month, my wife and I were in Mexico on vacation.

After we had gone through Mexican customs, we were both given a slip of paper that reflected our date of departure.

Had we stayed longer, I am certain the Mexican police would come looking for us.

In some countries, you must have a return ticket out of the country, or else you will not be admitted into the country once such country as Costa Rica.

Councilwoman Flores, when you were mayor, you said that the South San Francisco Police Department would not cooperate with ICE.

In December of 2025, Marvin Fernando Morales Ortiz, a 23-year-old citizen of El Salvador, was arrested in Fairfax County, Virginia.

Although Weiss had an active detainer on him, the Sheriff's Office of Fairfax County decided to release him.

Less than 24 hours later, Morales Ortiz shot and killed a man in Western Virginia.

Is it your desire that South San Francisco be the next Fairfax County, Virginia?

Finally, I would like to say that I was under the impression all elected officials must take an oath where the safety and needs of U.S.

citizens are priority.

By putting the needs of legal aliens like Governor Newsom just did by allocating 35 million for their needs over the needs of American citizens and needs seems to be break that oath.

Likewise, the politician, be the federal, state, or local, who does not comply with federal agencies like ICE to protect the legal aliens, also seems to break that oath.

Thank you.

Okay, Sam.

Next speaker is Leslie Fong.

Hi, good evening.

I want to share my experience of this past Sunday, Harley.

So it was depiction of what Indian culture was all about.

And for those that you did not attend, you missed a spectacular performance.

The person who was in charge of this.

Do you know what that means?

H-O-L-I.

Hey out, love in.

What a brilliant concept.

I was so enthralled, and I enjoyed it so much that I thought they should be zero to praise.

And also I made a commitment that I will speak on the city council to make sure that everybody knows.

However, what disappointed me was that I didn't see any council person, city official, park or this is not a critique.

Only my observation.

I'm the only one of four Chinese culture that attended that session.

You guys missed an event that you should member for the rest of your life, and the kids put so much effort that I think they should be recognized and also one of the officials should show up to acknowledge them.

Because you talk about diversity, and you know I love you guys.

I praise you from end to end.

But you disappoint me on this time.

Because to me, it was a family fair, even though it's on a Sunday, I think someone you could attend, at least one.

So I'd like to give you a challenge to go to an event that is not your culture or your gender, whatever that might be, to experiment a culture that uh diverse in South City.

Because the fact is, you guys keep praising cultural diversity, but yet I hope it's not lip service.

Because the fact is present means.

Thank you.

Uh Leslie, I'm sorry you were disappointed, and I'm not going to make a public statement, but I will share with you privately why I was not there.

No, I know that.

I think it's unfair to just cast an aspersion on the entire council when you don't know the specifics of what different people are up against.

And I will share with you because I'm a little offended at the tone.

Thank you.

Okay, no problem.

More speakers.

Uh last speaker would be Fionola.

Good evening, council.

Members of the public have informed me that the elected clerk of the city has failed to perform her job.

Members of the public coming in here, making public comments, have informed me that that is a violation of this city's handbook.

Members of the public play a very important role in terms of what they bring to the forefront.

As concerns and grievances that the city clerk has failed to capture.

That is a serious offense.

To each and every member of the public, whether they come into this room or not, whether they watch or not.

It is a serious offense to all of you at your age now in the past and in the future.

Whether you have children now or not, whether you will or won't in the future.

Members of the public have informed us.

So as not to destroy the most valuable record that we have, which is the members of the public coming to this podium and delivering the grievances of their authority and their knowledge and their experience out there, not what you say, not what you present as a facade, which the records of the public prove.

Each one of you should be in favor of preserving every word for the future.

And be thankful to members of the public who have brought this into the public domain to be captured and preserved as it should be.

Thank you.

Thank you.

That concludes our public comments.

Okay, thank you, Jasmine.

Move on to our consent calendar.

Consent calendar item number one is a motion to approve the minutes of January 24th, 2026, and February 25th, 2026.

Item number two is a report regarding a resolution authorizing application for and receipt of state pro-housing and sending program funds.

Item number two A is the resolution.

Okay.

I actually it's more of a comment.

It's item one.

Item one.

Yeah.

It's it's about the January 24th.

Uh, if you read the minutes, it actually included the summary of our um retreat.

And I really appreciate I wanted to say thank you to the staff and or a coordinator because they I think it really summed up what we're trying to achieve this year.

And I think it's a uh use the word roadmap, it's a roadmap for us for in terms of success.

And I think it captured everything that we want to do this year, and I think we're gonna have a very successful year.

So I really really appreciate that.

I just wanted to say that.

Very good.

I do have a comment for item number two.

Sure.

Uh so resolution authorizing application for and receipt of the state for housing incentive program funds, which I believe were um able to receive up to around nearly 900,000 from the state, and this is because our council has adopted a variety of policies that um allow us to create more affordable homes in South San Francisco, and because of that good behavior uh that that we are doing that many other cities do not, uh, we are able to access additional funds from the state.

So this is very important because we want to um continue to strive for more affordable homes throughout our city.

I also want to just give a a little shout out.

So there's another bill in the legislature right now, FB 1216, which would actually um create another designation program to recognize and reward cities and counties that demonstrate measurable successes in building new affordable homes, and this would be another program that would allow us to get more funds from the state.

So I hope that staff can keep an eye out for FB 1216, and assuming it passes, maybe we can apply for those funds as well.

Thank you.

That's all.

Okay, with with that, would you like to move uh approval of the consent calendar?

So moved.

Second.

And second by uh uh councilwoman Nicholas and a roll call.

Mayor Adiego, yes, Vice Mayor Nogales.

Yes, Councilmember Nicholas.

Hi, Councilmember Flores.

Yes, Councilmember Coleman.

Yes.

Yeah.

Okay.

Move along to administrative business.

Item number three is a report regarding awarding a minor construction contract for centennial trail access improvements and improving and approving budget amendment number 26.052.

Item number three is the resolution.

Good evening, Mr.

Wilson.

Good evening, Mark and honorable members of council.

My name is Johnny Wilson.

I'm your senior engineer with the public works department.

And I'm here to talk about uh this minor construction project.

Um really more of a maintenance project on uh Centennial Trail around First Street.

So what is this project?

It it delivers several small pedestrian and bicycle access connections to the Centennial Trail around near First Street.

Um really what we're trying to do is formalize some existing informal access points using asphalt paths, um, limited concrete sidewalk and ADA compliant features.

The goal is to improve safety, accessibility, and continuity between these neighborhoods, um, the local streets really in the trail.

Um also I want to just note these are localized improvements, um, really designed to be built efficiently with minimal disruption to the surrounding area.

Um, and and why we're doing this.

So, over time, repeated pedestrian and bicycle use has created these desire paths through the landscape areas, and these paths they just tell us where people are already traveling, um, typically along the most direct and intuitive routes.

And residents rely on the Centennial Trail to reach everyday destinations like shopping, um, the wonderful library and public recilities here, the fitness facilities and transit, of course, along El Camino.

Um, and formalizing these connections helps improve safety, ADA accessibility, and reduces uh ongoing maintenance and erosion issues.

And I also wanted to say that these can connections, they're part of our long-term vision outlined in the centennial trail master plan.

But this is really more uh about maintenance and just uh uh stop gap measures while we implement that long-term plan.

Now, what you see in these images here is just an existing desire path created by repeated use, and uh some agencies might try to discourage this movement by putting up a fence or something like that, but this project really wants to formalize it with a defined access point.

And then here's another uh image kind of showing the connection near the dog park and the um the the sculpture affectionately known as Rusty, and this shows an existing connection that is not accessible to all of our community members.

So we were gonna remove the stairs and build a ramp, basically um, and an accompanying handrail.

And I skipped I had a lot more pictures, but those are kind of the highlights.

Um construction projects are competitively bid and cost is generally the primary determining factor, as you know.

And this project was delivered using uh a process we don't use very frequently.

It's the informal public works bidding process, um, and this is compliant with city policy and state law.

But as you can see, um we had a lot of competition.

Is that due to the nature of the bidding process?

You said informal, I don't know.

Yeah, I I think it might it might be because it's easier for them to create the documents.

It also might be because um there's some other development kind of within this area, so contractors were aware of it.

It's hard to really say.

Um, but yeah, my my hunch would be that um they don't have to put out and buy a big bond in order to bid on these lower cost ones.

As you can see, we had a really big spread, but um eye drill engineering seemed to beat the rest of the peck.

So here's my construction budget with contingency.

I'm requesting a total construction contract authority of 170,000.

We're we can get this done right away.

We anticipated they can be delivered this summer.

Um, but we want to also give our contractor flexibility, which we do in exchange for the more competitive pricing.

And uh once I get some construction start dates uh from the contractor, I'll be sure to share it with you all as well as the neighbors that are kind of at these existing kind of terminuses.

Just to follow up, I or just to finish out, I wanted to say thank you and just say that this project is really about responding to how people are already using the centennial way trail and making those movements more safer, accessible, and intentional to really all of the all of our community members, not just uh the ones that can go up and down stairs.

And thank you for your time.

I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have.

Well, let's see.

Uh we have any questions for our senior engineer?

Mr.

Mayor.

Uh John, I really appreciate this presentation.

As the construction's being done with these access points, are they closing it so there's no entrance to get in?

And like I just want to understand and turn like especially with the path on second street where now you're gonna build a ramp.

Yeah, that's a great question.

So while they've got to bring in some excavators and dump trucks, and they'll have to close down the the areas while they're working on them.

They're not gonna do them all at once, so we'll make sure we we have access at the existing location of these stairs.

Yeah, that will have to be totally closed down, but it's not a lot of work.

We'll be in and out of there quickly.

Okay.

That's good.

That's actually kind of the main point is how how quick you can get in and out.

It sounds like it won't take very long.

And then I I want to kind of go back to something that I was thinking about.

Um so the original contract had to do with with in and out.

And this is kind of an expansion of the improvement long Centennial Trail.

Can you provide an update what's happening with In and Out?

Uh I think we've been waiting a long time on movement in and out.

And so if you can provide some updates to the council, I think that we would really appreciate that.

Yeah, no, thank you so much, Mark.

I um realize that that maybe people we we can't necessarily see what's behind the veil on the developer side, right?

But what we do know is that they're in for permits, they're working with our building department right now, and we anticipate if we had a crystal ball that they're gonna start in early April based on our discussions with our project team.

Now, that's that's the restaurant, right?

That's not the necessarily the traffic signal.

Yeah.

And so that that part is a little more murky.

I would say what I can tell you right now is um that In and Out will be responsible for a portion of the traffic signal design and construction, and we are negotiating the details of a reimbursement agreement currently within and with the city between the city and in and out.

I can tell you the the reimbursement agreement agreement is in their court, and they are reviewing the framework and the mechanics of working with through the Caltrans process.

As you know, El Camino Real is uh Caltrans state right away, so they there's permitting requirements for doing anything, any traffic signal devices there.

Um but the good news is we've had meetings with Caltrans and everyone is working together for this new traffic signal, so um, we're doing our part.

No, I understand the traffic signal, it's gonna take some time, but actually moving dirt.

You're saying April.

Yes.

I mean, we've I think we're a little frustrated because we've heard them say we're you know we're gonna move, but remind me if there's no penalty for delays in this.

Is there?

Is there something in the contract that says if if they're not following, if it's if they're saying April, does is there something that triggers?

I yeah, I'm gonna ask my uh Annell to answer that question.

Thank you.

Um C Lander Economic and Community Development Director.

So you may recall that council actually approved the reimbursement agreement um shortly after the planning commission um approved the entitlements for the project.

There are timelines associated with delivering the signal, but it is tied to the construction and delivery of the restaurant.

They've been diligently going through the building permit and demo permit process, but that it can be a lengthy process on a complex project.

So they're simply going through the permitting process at this point.

Tell me why is the demo permit process so difficult?

Are we actually holding they want to demolish and we're holding it up?

No, I don't believe it is us holding it up.

Well what's so difficult about the demo process.

I can get back to you on the specifics of this demo permit, but I know that they've been in and out has been working diligently with our team and vice versa to get this going, but um it it can be a lengthy process.

So I'm happy to share with council exactly the timeline on that.

Are you giving them cover?

I mean I have to ask you just point blank.

It can be a lengthy process.

Why would it be a lengthy process to do the demo?

I can't answer that without going back and looking at what actually happened.

I just wanted to clarify that the reimbursement agreement was approved.

And so the council is a good idea.

And um I'd like to request that we could agendize it and then we could all discuss it.

Thank you.

I was I did want to um jump in just on the Brown Act piece of this that says this is not on the agenda.

Um there it is permissible to have limited discussion about it, and if council would like to um uh direct that uh an update be agendized for a future meeting, that's fine, but I did want to make sure that we stayed in the right.

Okay, this component of our project I want to mention it is connected to the original project was the centennial trail connection at first, which is a component of the traffic signal project.

So they they're related to directly.

Any any other questions on this topic?

Yeah.

Uh the staff report says you know, you use the informal beating process.

So can you explain to me what's the difference between the informal beating process and the formal beating process?

Less paperwork, if I could summarize it.

Just a lot less paperwork.

And it's just because of the amount, is it?

Yeah.

It's I imagine the threshold is set because the amount and the risk to the owner is lower.

Um the contract itself is a very short form.

It's only uh uh I think it's under six pages where normal contract is very very long.

Um the j the conditions, um, the contract specifications, there's no liquidated damages, um, there's no bonding requirements.

So just really a lightweight.

And the and the idea is to be able to quickly use contract forces for stuff that the city, you know, for our own forces, we can't we can't do this as a you know above our project dollar amount that allows for that informal and if so approximately what is it?

I think that the um the total constru estimate construction value of 160,000.

So we're kind of right there.

I believe that's an amount.

You picked the right number.

Well, thank you.

Very good.

Yeah.

Just to and just to add on to that, there's a there's a um provisions within the public contract code that have an alternate bidding process for smaller dollar value projects.

The city council has adopted an ordinance to opt into the ability to use that process for those for those amounts.

I think the dollar value is now a little bit higher because the state has adjusted it um and maybe closer to 200,000 at this point, but the idea is is um to uh to allow for a more informal process for smaller dollar value projects to to um still get the benefits of competitive bidding, but to allow for a faster process that will get the project done more quickly.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you for the question.

Anyone else?

So pleasure on this item.

Well, this is um or report, or do we uh we need the resolution awarded?

Mayor, if I may note that we do have a public comment on this item.

Thank you for reigning me in.

Thank you.

Good evening again, council.

Mr.

Williams Wilson, pardon me.

Mr.

Wilson's presentation was interesting.

160,000 taxpayer dollars.

Right, Mr.

Adiego.

Correct.

Members of the public traffic impact fees.

No small amount of money.

Um clarify that.

Okay.

Let's get a clarification on that because the vice mayor just whispered in my ear.

The funds might be traffic impact fees.

Is that correct?

So it's not tax taxpayer dollars.

Well, uh well it's not general fund dollars, which are the sacrosanct ones that we're trying to protect.

So go ahead.

That's okay.

Because the mayor.

Pardon me.

You made us think, so that's good.

I'm sorry?

You made us think.

Good.

Thank you.

The main the purpose of my point is.

Government code, ADA ramps, ADA crosswalks that bump right up into sidewalks.

So I don't know who runs the operation around here that thinks that's okay.

Because if you're gonna spend 160,000, I don't care where it came from.

I don't care how whose pocket it's coming from.

If you're going to throw the money, toss it in the toilet, and flush, that's not right, is it, Mr.

Adiego?

Who's in charge of these projects?

My concern is who's running the operation around here.

And who pays the price?

You want to walk up here, Mr.

Wilson, and say you're gonna make things better for people, accessibility, people with mobility issues, and so on and so forth.

Do you really want us to believe that?

When all we have to do is look one more time at the information members of the public have brought to this forum, photographs of ADA crosswalks into curbs.

Who is in charge of these projects around here?

Do not spend one more dollar until you know that we are getting what we are paying for.

It is wrong.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Any other public comments on this item?

No more comments.

Okay, so back to the closure of counsel on the uh awarding of this minor contract.

Would we get a motion?

I move.

Would you?

Thank you.

I'll second and a second and uh roll.

Councilmember Flores.

Yes.

Councilmember Nicholas?

Aye.

Councilmember Coleman?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Nogales?

Yes.

Mayor Adiego.

Yes.

Thank you.

Move along to our next item.

Item number four.

Planning for the City of South San Francisco celebration of the United States of the United States semi-quincentennial.

America 250.

Oh, welcome, Megan.

Thank you, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Council members.

My name is Megan Woolley Osdall, Deputy City Manager.

And this evening I am presenting on a plan for the city's celebration of the United States semi-quincentennial, also more easily known as America 250.

So tonight staff is requesting the council's direction on the our proposed America 250 work plan, uh guidance on level of effort by staff and budget for the celebration.

To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, staff has put together a work plan for a year-long community-wide celebration.

Throughout the year, we will be mindful to incorporate and highlight a diversity of celebrations so that the city is consciously celebrating all American cultures.

So in considering the options and costs, staff recommends planning a parade around City Hall with a community picnic on Grand Avenue, budgeting $15,000 for commemorative, commemorative branded giveaways for the community.

Budgeting $15,000 for commemorative commemorative branded giveaways for the community.

For signage, painting the sign painting signhill letters, red, white, and blue, placing posters in the big belly trash cans, which are located citywide, and installing a banner, bunting, and uplighting at City Hall.

We also recommend incorporating messaging into citywide communications and incorporating as mentioned celebrations into existing departmental programs.

The total anticipated cost for staff's recommendation is $72,000.

To fund the celebration, the city could use projected savings in the city manager office's salary budget.

But this will of course depend on the final estimated cost.

So as a reminder, we're looking for council's guidance on the celebration work plan, level of effort and cost.

And staff is available to answer questions.

Thank you.

Okay, um before before we hear questions, um, I just wanted to share with my colleagues that um we've had some uh initial conversations with different uh members of the public.

One of the items that's not on here, which I think would be nice, especially for the downtown area, would to incorporate the same uh 250 logo on some of the um light standards, the light poles downtown.

Like at Memorial Day, we usually put up American flags, and maybe we could have an American flag and then one of these posters.

Um and I've uh been talking to different service organizations and individuals that are are um uh drawn to this concept, and I think there's uh a great possibility that we would receive um funds of uh large and small amounts to accomplish that.

The idea being if you uh if you buy a banner, uh Councilman Coleman, um then that's your souvenir when it's over, we'll take it down and and give it to you.

And you know, that's really something to remember.

I I vividly remember the uh bicentennial on Grand Avenue.

I think I have a couple of mementos buried someplace in my home.

Um but but it's it was it was a moment in time.

And uh they don't come around.

Um I'm fortunate that I uh get two of them, right?

The 200 and the 250, and that'll probably be it.

So I think it's worth noting.

I I don't see much activity in this county, and I would really like South San Francisco as Mark Nagales always mentions.

We want to be first, and I want to be real colorful and really bold, and I wanted to thank I I I know this is gonna be a little controversial, and I need your feedback.

Um, but uh Megan Woolley Osdall came up with the idea of uh red, white, and blue on Sign Hill, and I I just think it's spectacular because uh it it screams to the rest of the peninsula.

Um so I'd like to hear from you on anything.

Do you have a preference?

Do you like the the staff preference on the parade within City Hall?

I I think that that's the right thing to do.

Um moving people in a parade, moving people in a parade from the Civic Center to Orange Park requires a lot of shutdown of streets and in impacts a lot of homeowners that would uh not be um really fair.

I agree.

I think moving the parade down to Orange Park causes more problems than we really want to do.

And I think with when Mayor Flores did his signature event, it was kind of a model in terms of having the community come down to the downtown area, and we had you know two thousand people show up, and it was such a great event.

I think that double the four thousand forty five hundred, excuse me, forty five hundred people.

Um that's something that really I think can be a model for what we're trying to do in uh in South City in terms of this event.

And as you're saying, if we're the only game in town, you know, it might bring more people, so I actually like the red, white, and blue on Sun Hill, yeah.

Okay, all right.

There is established one in Redwood City, but then you know, in the neck of the woods.

Yes.

We and I think like you said, um Vice Mayor Nigales, I think moving it, you know, to having from Orange Memorial Park to City Hall, I think that's too much.

It's a too big of uh space to so I think around is it will it be along Grand Avenue that we plan to have this, the whole thing like for the cultura?

Uh I think is that is that the plan?

Please wait.

Well, I we we we started the parade halfway through.

Spruce, I think.

Uh no.

Um, what's the other street?

Um walnut and it on maple walnut up to maybe.

It was just half a block.

Yeah, I I think that that's perfect, yeah.

So I'll offer a different perspective.

So I believe the the celebrations at City Hall and on Grand Avenue are great, but if the new pools are completed by the time of the celebration, it might be nice to do a big pool party.

I don't think that's done by then.

It won't be.

Well, I don't know.

I I mean I'm seeing the shaking of heads, okay.

So maybe not the great unknown.

Yeah, it might be it might be up in the air.

But um, you know, if there's if it might not meet, you know, a July 4th ribbon cutting, then I think the downtown might be the best choice there.

One of the considerations is it takes quite a bit of planning to actually to map out things, make sure we have it to be a safe parade route, all that all those types of components.

Um we do uh there is not enough confidence in the current construction schedule to be able to do that level of planning that's needed prior to July.

Okay, that's fine.

Um so I I actually really love the idea of painting the the Signed Hill letters, and I will this be the first time it's been done legally in South San Francisco.

Because if folks don't know, you know sometimes the letters get painted black and orange when the giants win or something like that.

Um or when South City has a bell, it's painted blue.

Um but I think it would be great to involve uh the community, right?

Maybe you can go up and and we can do a hike and paint the letters.

Democrats could do the blue.

And there would be nobody to do the red.

No.

Yeah, but I think it'll be a fun way to include the community.

Um I think the inclusion of sponsors is a great idea because it looks like a big price, but there are um there are probably people who would love to help support the celebration, but there are definitely quite a few uh corporations uh in our city who would probably be happy to support this as well.

And ideally the the cost would be a lot less than 72.

But if we have a large amount of sponsors, maybe we can do more, right?

And and I'd be very open to doing that as well.

All right, thank you.

Uh I'll just offer a kind of third perspective.

We often tell youth or I wouldn't say youth, those individuals that get up there not to do that, right?

Not to vandalize our letters.

And that's the message that everyone says when they say, why don't you change the sign?

It's not the industrial city anymore, or you should be something different.

And we're all in a kind of a concerted effort saying, well, you know, it's it's legally it's it's a sign that's been there, I believe, over a hundred years.

I think in 27 or 28, it will be a hundred years.

I I just want to like the optics of like we're painting it.

I know in November for the big game, it it had cow letter painting up there, they lost.

Um it hurt me.

Um, but at the same time, I think what message are we giving folks?

Because then they'll come back, right?

I mean uh it's it's kind of a slippery slope there.

Um Greg, I saw you.

Where are you?

Um wanted to um ask, because I know it takes uh you mentioned this last year to me when I asked you how much is it gonna uh cost to unpaint it?

So is this 4K inclusive of the painting and then the repainting back to white?

Uh yes, and actually I have some news for you that could save you some money.

Um so Genentech has pledged they every year they do a give back week in South City where they have hundreds of volunteers and they do volunteer projects.

They've committed to doing this project.

Painting up there?

Yes.

Okay, if the if the council so desires, however, their volunteer week is the first week in June.

So it'd have to wait till that time if that works for the council, but it's up to you.

Otherwise, we would expend the yeah.

Well, the other thing I was gonna say it should be professionally done.

The last three weekends I have been uh doing hiking up to Sine Hill on in the mornings, uh not this past weekend.

I was under the weather, I had a cold the the entire week, including Saturday and Sunday.

Um I would recommend that professionals do it, right?

Because in some way capacity, your teams know how to be efficient and expedite.

I do like the design, maybe the aspect of of which letters and the design could be incorporated through community input.

Um the other thing I wanted to check in is prior Memorial Day celebrations, we used to gather at the firehouse and have a little mini parade over to Orange Park.

Um if we want to incorporate and have a captive audience to enjoy the picnic celebration, maybe we could do it that way, the parade, so that then the crowd then stays at Orange Park and takes part of the picnic celebration, because it feels a little disconnected if we have a parade in downtown and then you tell people, okay, trek across town and have your picnic over there.

It in a way it's if we want to can keep the groups and say, Okay, now it's open, Orange Park is open for the picnic celebration.

And then the other thing is are we just saying bring your own, I would imagine bring your own food, or are we providing picnic essentials or hot dogs or food and beverage.

So let's get um Miss Um Willie Osall to clarify um the the idea of the parade and the civic center.

That's right.

Uh for the the in the staff recommendation, the recommendation is that the parade would occur around City Hall, and then we would close Grand Avenue and the picnic would be on Grand Avenue.

No, that's right.

That was an option.

You're correct, that was an option.

Um, but in looking at the number of barricades needed, um getting a bit technical, but um the normally we would borrow the county barricades, but due to the date, those won't be available, so it just lessens the number of barricades that are and it was going to impact over nearly 400 homes, which um yeah.

So then even it begs even more the question what's the food options there.

Yeah, we are anticipating providing food.

So the budget does include hot dogs, buns, condiments, chips, fruit, popsicles, cotton candy, and popcorn.

In the street, and then people decide where to eat wherever.

That's right.

Okay.

That's that's a better idea.

I just didn't feel that's separating the groups.

I also hope that we're supporting the businesses on ground, right?

And encouraging them to put tables outside and have special deals, you know.

Absolutely.

We we've talked about um being in touch with the businesses well in advance and encouraging them to be a part of the celebration and and promoting them as a part of the celebration.

And and just one thing, you know, I noticed like I went to this this past weekend.

I went to Chinatown for their lunar new year festival, and what I noticed is all the street vendors, they don't sell food.

They're they're all different sorts of companies and nonprofits, and the reason is because they expect you to eat at the restaurants of Chinatown.

And so that's what I did, right?

And it was very busy, and so this could be a really big boon to a lot of our downtown businesses.

Um of course we don't have to say like no food at all, right?

But we do want to encourage um our folks to to eat there.

Yeah.

Um there sounds like there's a consensus to do the red, white, and blue.

And um I do appreciate that because I think that's going to um really um scream the celebration to everybody in town.

And there's an opportunity to use the electronic billboard because we get so much free play on that.

Um so we're going to wave the flag uh as uh as uh much as we can um to celebrate what it means to be an American in this time where democracy is um uh being challenged in so many ways.

And that was really the point of why I wanted to to um uh make this our celebration uh because of all that's happening um to undermine some of the original underpinnings of what it means to be an American and a democracy.

So thank you.

Um do we need much more?

May we uh we don't need anything formal, but I would like to just take a moment to make sure that we've heard correctly that uh about the general consensus from council and what I'm hearing is that the staff recommendation um is um i there is general consensus to move forward with that with the one addition that we will be working more closely with you to understand how the possibility of a sponsorship program um could be worked out.

Okay.

Is that correct?

Okay.

I believe so.

All right.

Can we add also faith organizations, you know, in addition to service organizations for the invitation and parade.

Very good.

Thank you.

I appreciate uh appreciate the comments.

And uh so with that next item, items from council, committee reports, and announcements.

Anyone okay?

We're we're gonna do that.

Do you want the sister cities committee report?

What's that?

The sister cities committee report.

Yes.

So, you know, I came across a sister cities international opportunity for youth to be part of the youth leadership summit in Washington DC this uh summer.

And I encouraged our youth commissioners and y the youth that I knew around the city.

And uh, you know, some of them applied and some didn't, but then among those who applied among the many applicants that they received, we got two from South City, uh Yun Lee from our youth commission and also Francis Renette uh Renares from St.

Augustine.

So congratulations to those young people who will be in the leadership uh meeting of the sister cities in Washington, DC.

They will be trained to be ambassadors.

And in other sister city news, um, the Benavides brothers who have long been associated with our sister city in Jalisco, Atloto Nico de Alto, um, have uh made arrangements for a um a soccer match between um I think 18 young people uh from Atloto Nilco will arrive here.

Um they've been having major fundraising in their hometown, and there's a lot of excitement around that um in Mexico.

And they will arrive in April.

I think the game is set for April the 28th.

April 25th is the game at South San Francisco High School, and so you know they are inviting everyone to cheer for our youth, both at the Danilco and South San Francisco.

There's there's a there's a local South San Francisco Soccer Club that um is actually uh coached by another Benavides brother, Victor.

So um uh thank God for them because they're really keeping that um connection alive.

So we're looking forward to being hosts to our friends from the South.

Any other comments?

Okay, so we'll go on to the next and final items.

Closed session.

Item number five is conference with rural property negotiators, properties 1051 Mission Road, City Negotiators Nell Sealander, Economic and Community Development Director, Megan Willie Olstall, Deputy City Manager, and Sky Woodrough, City Attorney, negotiating parties, South San Francisco PUC Housing Partners, LLC, and 1051 Mission Affordable LLC under negotiations, price and terms.

Item number six conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation, initiation of litigation pursuant to government code section 54956.9, one potential case.

Okay, we'll enter a closed session.