Recording in progress.

Present the flag of the United States of America.

Hi.

To uh Floor, who's um uh joining us from the Philippines.

And it's according to uh uh Mr.

Flores, it is 9 30 in the morning, so that's why she looks so fresh compared to me.

Um Rosa will move along.

Uh in Manila.

Yeah, pretty cool.

Thank you, Mayor.

Moving on.

Thank you.

There are no uh changes requested this evening.

All right, thank you.

Adam City Manager.

Thank you, Mayor.

We will now move on to the Levine Act disclosures for tonight.

Does the council have any conflicts to report tonight?

Nothing for me.

Thank you.

Moving on to announcements from staff.

There are three uh things that we would like to highlight for you all this evening.

Um three great events coming up.

Uh the first two are from the library, and the second one is from our housing division.

The first one from the library is um something that our library director worked really hard on and is really a fantastic opportunity for the city of South San Francisco that not all cities are getting to experience.

Um we are the lucky recipients of a pop-up exhibition.

Um it's a traveling expos exposition.

Um this will be here from April 24th through the 30th.

We'll be hosting the American Revolution Experience.

It includes display panels and interactive digital kiosks, telling the story of the people and places that shaped the birth of our nation.

It's a collaborative project of the American Battlefield Trust and the daughters of the American Revolution in celebration of America 250, the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

So we really hope people come and take advantage of this terrific opportunity.

Um that we were one of uh uh just a certain limited number of cities that are going to be able to experience this this year.

So I'd encourage everyone to visit.

The second item is um an additional film screening.

Um, and this is entitled The Librarians.

It's a continuation celebrating the America 250.

Um, and we would like you to join us for this in honor of National Library Week.

The film will be shown here in the City Council Chambers on Saturday, April the 25th at 1 p.m.

Librarians have been on the front lines of book banning and censorship challenges and are champions of our First Amendment rights.

Please join us celebrating this at our at this award-winning movie.

The next announcement is a very important workshop.

It is a tenant landlord workshop.

It will be held on Thursday, April the 30th, uh starting at 6 p.m.

for an hour again here in this building in this room.

And the council chambers of the Library Park and Rec building.

Project Sentinel will be presenting a workshop covering the state's Tenant Protection Act and highlighting South San Francisco's housing ordinances and programs, including the most common tenant landlord topics.

We will be having a second workshop on Wednesday, June 17th, also at 6 p.m.

But that will be in a different location.

It will be the economic advancement center.

Both workshops are free, open to the community, have light refreshments, including and not including, but we will also have simultaneous translation services and child care services.

So we would recommend early registration for either one of these workshops.

We hope everyone can join us.

And that concludes staff updates.

Okay, thank you, Ms.

Meidaven.

Thank you, Mayor.

We will now move on to presentations.

Presentation number one is a certificate honoring Layla Greenberg for earning her Girl Scout Gold Award.

So I've actually asked Councilman Coleman if he would do this presentation.

And this is significant because in all my time serving, I remember over the decades a number of uh Eagle Scouts being noticed at the um at the council level.

Um but really maybe this is the first time for Girl Scout the Gold Award.

So Mr.

Coleman.

Great.

Thank you so much.

Uh it is my honor to present a certificate of recognition to Layla Greenberg.

Uh hereby congratulating uh Ford for earning the Girl Scout Gold Award.

We recognize your dedication and commitment to Girl Scouts and pairing your passion with community needs, and I will give this to you.

Um hello, Mayor and Council.

It is really an honor to be here today in front of all of you.

Uh as mentioned previously, my name is Layla Greenberg, and I'm a Girl Scout with the Sister City Service Unit.

Um for my gold award, I focused specifically on the topic of firearm suicide and firearm suicide prevention.

And I worked alongside a team of volunteers as well as the wellness counselor and the principal over at El Camino High School to create a curriculum and presentation focusing on warning signs of suicide as well as grounding techniques to help those struggling with potential suicidal ideation.

With my team, we created this presentation as well as a set of flyers that I gave to your secretary, um, a copy for all of you.

And this presentation was presented at a full staff meeting at El Camino High School, then secondly to a group of my peers at El Camino High School again, and then a final time at the South San Francisco concert in the park to the wider community.

And this project was a very large commitment.

It was over 80 hours of work alongside my team, and it was truly inspiring to do, and again, it is an honor to be here talking about it with all of you.

And I want to thank you so much for this opportunity and for the honor.

And I I do have a gift for all of you if you don't want to.

Wow, this doesn't happen often.

Is it under $50?

I brought Girl Scout cookies for you all.

Yes.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

So Layla, we're very impressed with uh what you undertook because there's a lot of discussion in the community, a lot of it thanks to the efforts of Councilman Flores about mental health uh in general.

But um to do something um like this um to bring up the awareness is uh is so significant.

I'm I'm impressed by the efforts.

Maybe you want to ask something.

Yeah, if I could, Mr.

Mayor Leila, again, um, to echo the mayor's comments.

This is so important.

Um mental health first aid, uh we've had it here for now almost two years through um our parks and rec and library and um in several iterations.

We've trained uh the providers, mental health first aid for adults as well as for youth.

Uh this is something that I'm very passionate and heartened by.

Um I'm part of what we know as here in Samateo County as the mayor's mental health initiative uh that includes council members and mayors, and just so you know, um this may also we're extending it so that we're focusing on a training, uh, mental health uh first aid and mental health training for elected officials, uh which is the other layer.

Many times we give, give, give, and we forget also to focus on our own health mental health journey.

So I want to applaud you because this is all connected and we're all doing every bit that we can throughout our spaces that we hold.

So I want to center it around you.

Congratulations and thank you again.

Thank you so much.

Thanks, Lady.

Thank you, Mayor.

Item number two is a proclamation celebrating April 19th, 19th through the 25th as a national library week.

So I thought it would be wonderful to have a regular library user present this celebration for uh National Library Week.

And I think we'd like to do we want to invite up the director to receive.

I would love to uh bring up uh director um uh Valerie Sumner and also our library board member uh Catherine Avalos to the podium, please as I read this, and then I will meet you on at the podium.

Um as a as a lifelong educator, and I know we're all extremely, extremely proud of both of our libraries here in South San Francisco.

Libraries hold a very special place for all of us in here in South San Francisco.

Um, from toddlers to to senior citizens, we are truly honored to be recognizing uh library week um on the with this proclamation tonight.

Uh if you think back, we all have a library memory, right?

Whether it was grade school or it was kindergarten or when you were first learning to read or on a Saturday morning or perhaps evening.

Um but but or maybe it was when you first got your plastic library card, right?

Um, or a summer reading program challenge.

Many of us, I remember being in in high school and having to go through a long list of books that you had to read before you return to school the next fall, or it could be a quiet place to study, right?

Or uh check out some brand new magazines or do your research.

Uh earlier uh last week, we were kind of reminiscing on the famous uh card catalog, right?

Remember those.

Uh libraries have always been here for us.

And this proclamation says it beautifully.

It states that, quote, libraries offer the opportunity for everyone to connect with others, learn new skills, and pursue their passions no matter where they are on life's journey, end quote.

It also recognizes that, quote, libraries play a pivotal role in economic development by providing internet and technology uh access, supporting literacy skills, and offering resources and assistance for students, job seekers, entrepreneurs, and small businesses.

And perhaps most powerfully, this proclamation, it affirms that quote, libraries are essential public good and fundamental institutions and democratic societies, working to improve society, protect the right to education and literacy, and promote the free exchange of information and ideas for all.

And that is exactly what our library is.

That is uh also who our librarians are and the staff who show up to do this every single day.

So I invite everyone in South San Francisco to visit your library this week and every single week of the year and celebrate the adventures, the opportunities that are waiting, all the programming, as we've heard earlier, that is offered to that community as well.

So uh wanna present formally this proclamation to both of our uh esteemed uh colleagues in this endeavor.

Uh, like I said, library board member Avalos and our library director.

Please give them a hand picture first.

Picture first.

Thank you.

I'm I'm really touched by this.

I appreciate the wonderful words.

But I do have our library board president, Catherine Avalos, and she has a few notes of thanks to say tonight.

Thank you.

Mayor, Vice Mayor, and City Council, a big thank you to all of you and to the South San Francisco community for supporting our public library, for using the services and checking out materials, and for showing up for all of our programs and events.

So many of our residents are lifelong library users, as Eddie just said, um, particularly of this library, including myself and some of you up there.

I am so proud to be part of this organization that supports our core liberties and freedoms, and part of a community that recognizes the importance of access to information and lifelong learning.

The library board would like to extend a special thank you to Valerie and to the wonderful library staff who work hard to bring exciting creative and thoughtful programs to South City.

There are 60 events and programs on the calendar for April alone.

And we invite you every day, but especially during National Library Week to share an extra word of gratitude to the team that makes their work look so effortless.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor.

Moving on to a proclamation recognizing April as Fair Housing Month.

And for this presentation, I've asked the Vice Mayor, Martin Gallis, who actually was uh an employee of Project Sentinel for about five years, Mark.

For five years.

Yeah.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

It's uh my honor uh to uh recognize April as Fair Housing Month.

Um it's a time to reaffirm our commitment to ensure that everyone has access to safe, stable and affordable housing free from discrimination.

Fair Housing Month traces its roots to the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, a landmark law that sought to eliminate housing discrimination and promote inclusive communities.

Well, we made important progress.

We know that bears barriers still exist and the work continues.

With this proclamation, the City of South San Francisco recommits to advancing equity, expanding opportunity, and building communities where everyone is welcome and can thrive.

It's only fitting their party sentinel and organization I have the privilege of working with for the five years, uh receive this project centinal works on the front lines of fair housing, investing complaints of discrimination, educating tenants and housing providers about their rights and responsibilities.

This work helps ensures that the promise of fair housing is not just an ideal but a reality for our residents.

So I like to um already up here Lord Yes and Ronaldo Guerrero from Project Central to accept this proclamation.

Thank you very much.

Okay, um, thank you to the City of South San Francisco and to the mayor for your continued partnership and support of Project Sentinel and Fair Housing in the community.

Um, fair housing is deeply rooted in the civil rights movement, like mentioned, and the protections we rely on today exist because of that history.

While we've made progress, housing discrimination is not a thing of the past.

It continues to impact residents, especially during a time when housing challenges are front and center for so many families.

Um, now more than ever, support for fair housing is essential for creating real solutions that promote access, stability, and opportunity.

Project Sentinel is committed to work um to do this work every day, addressing housing discrimination one case at a time.

Um, to learn more about our services, we invite community members to visit housing.org.

Thank you.

Next item.

Moving on to council comments requests.

Let's start with the vice mayor.

No, let's go overseas.

Yeah, let's go overseas and um see how uh floor Nicholas is fairing.

Anything on your mind?

Yeah, thank you, Mayor.

Um, Mayor Diego Vice, um, Mayor Mark Nogales and I uh reattended with our executive team, the Peninsula Council of Lions annual public uh annual police share with firefighters awards and banquet last March 28th, and congratulations again to those who were nominated and won awards, uh Officer Slee Yoshida de Los Santos, and of course, our communications manager uh Anginet Lau.

The screening of the last film celebrating Women's History Month.

It's called Hello Girls, was quite well attended.

Thank you to the uh historical society ladies who came in full force to support.

Kudos to Valerie and the uh public library staff for making sure that the film screening was a success.

And a lot of thank you also that goes to the um to Monica, Holly Cross Cemetery friend for giving us a lot of information about the hello girls who are buried in the Bay Area.

And last April 2nd, we joined Congressman Mullen, the entire council did in formally receiving the 850,000 for the preschool at Westboro.

I would also like to request to join our meeting today in memory of Angelita Passamba, who was a longtime music director of uh Mater de la Rosa, and also uh one of the members of the National League of Cities Women in Municipal Government who tragically was killed.

She was only 38, and her name is Coral Springs, Florida Vice Mayor Nancy Bowen.

She's the first black and Haitian American woman to serve the Coral Springs, Florida City Commission.

And we will remember her as an environmental scientist, a trailblazing woman of color, whose light was suddenly curtailed by domestic violence.

We pledge to continue advocating for a world where every woman is safe.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Flora.

Next, let's hear from the vice mayor.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Um again, congratulations to all our honorees who were recognized at the 61st Annual Police Sheriff and Firefire Awards.

It was great to see everyone there and recognizing all the individuals.

And really just a thank you to our men and women uh who protect us every single day.

Um hearing the stories um how they protect us, it's it's I'm just I just I like to really say thank you.

Just those awards really are not enough, but it's good that we recognize all of them.

Um as the Councilman Nicholas mentioned, we did go and receive the big check presentation up in Westboro, up in my neighborhood, uh, for the Westboro Early Childhood Education Center for $150,000.

And it's such a huge thanks to Congressman Mullen for for doing that.

Um, you know, we're gonna be able to build a new child care center that's gonna potentially have a hundred kids in there.

And we got to see some kids uh earlier that day too to say uh just to see them play.

Uh and then um to the city manager.

Uh uh were scheduled to groundbreaking this year.

Yes, Vice Mayor.

And I think you and I've also talked about making sure that the ribbon cutting is next year.

You have been very good about explaining the topic.

Good.

I just wanted to endeavor to meet.

Just wanted to make sure we put that on record over and over again.

So thank you.

And um wanted to mention we might have, I don't know if my colleagues are received there or so some of the our residents there.

The airport actually sent out a notice.

Uh they had closed down temporarily two runways.

And I don't know if if folks are experiencing more noise because of that, but they are doing some repayments on these two runways, and it's expected to reopen not until October.

Uh, and what's making it even uh a little bit worse in terms of the traffic is that the FAA has basically said that planes like landings side by side are not allowed.

And so that's increasing traffic delays on the runway.

So um I wanted to share that information with my colleagues.

And if we can put that uh notice on our next newsletter, I would appreciate it so that folks know what's happening with the airport.

And then lastly, um, you know, at our commission's interview, um uh Annie Lowe, I think Annie's here, uh, mentioned that there is a bathroom up in Westboro.

And I wanted to thank you for mentioning that because there was some questions about you know the usage of that, and we found out that it is only open only during base one baseball is being played on it.

And so I asked staff when we start the construction with the new child care center, we can open that uh so it can be open to the public um so that there's more usage because uh I wanted to make sure that um that the bathroom can be used.

So thank you for bringing that up, and I asked staff to take a look at it.

So that's all I have, Mr.

Mayor.

Thank you, Mark.

Um Councilman Flores.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Um, I also want to uh express my uh congratulations to our police and and the Lions uh dinner that I unfortunately was not able to attend as I chair the Semit Hill Council of Cities, and that Friday we got a special tour of the new headquarters of Sam Trans and Caltrain.

Uh they're moving their uh location over to uh Millbrae, and uh it is obviously a public building that will be managing a lot of the uh day-to-day transactions of of both of those uh transit agencies, but also many of the meetings uh that the public will be attending for uh transportation related matters will be held that.

Um this will be opening up later uh this summer.

Um this past uh uh just I would say yesterday.

Um myself, council member uh Coleman, our uh city manager, police chief, and several of our uh public safety and firemen attended the vehicle license fee press conference in Redwood City.

And I want to really uh uh put a call out and also thank you all for attending, and also along with many elected officials, nonprofits, labor union, um, and other employees.

Um this event really drew out over hundreds uh of San Mateo County leaders and stakeholders, and it really uh brought us about to gather uh to appeal for an inclusion in the state budget for the INLU fees, uh vehicle license fees, revenue that is legally, and that's the key word that is legally owed uh to all the 20 cities here in San Mateo County, um, and for enactment of a permanent fix, we're calling to the state legislature uh so that this broken state payment mechanism can be fixed uh permanently and not temporarily.

Um if you want to learn more, for example, um here in South San Francisco, it's over five million dollars that we will be owed.

Um, and it will continue to balloon up if this doesn't get resolved.

Uh over a hundred and nineteen million dollars are owed to Samateo County.

So, as I was saying, if you want to learn more, you want to look up the different cities, and and really this is an emergent because it's hitting the general fund budgets of all these 20 cities in Sabateo County.

And what this translates to is many of our infrastructure maintenance, our public safety, our um uh uh paramedic units, our fire stations could severely and drastically be reduced if not shut down if uh this doesn't get resolved.

So smcfairfunding.org, smcfairfunding.org, so that you could learn more about this.

Um lastly, I wanted to make mention of a recent news article um that was published.

Why is pollution in East South City or east part of South City so bad?

And I want to be clear that this article is about my district, District 5, um, and it's about my neighbors in my neighborhood, uh, Old Town, downtown, and the areas also uh east of Highway 101.

And I wanted to briefly mention uh to those that have not read it that according to state data cited in the article, one of our census tracks on the east side or or around the east of 101, ranks number one in pollution burden in all of San Mateo County, and number three out of more than 1,700 census tracks across the entire Bay Area in CIPCO 94080, where Old Town is located, had the highest number of asthma hospitalizations of any CIP code in the county for eight out of the 10 years when it was assessed between 2013 and 2023.

Folks, these are not just numbers.

These are our family members, these are our neighbors, these are our kids.

Uh these are parents that are having conversations during morning drop-off of why their kids continue to have allergies and stay home because of asthma attacks.

And many are only now starting to connect those health issues to the air quality in this part of these neighborhoods.

What concerns me the most is that the data that we have is extremely outdated.

Uh the city is still largely relying and in other uh agencies on 2017 emissions inventory.

We also have the highest number of hazardous waste generators of any city in the county.

And our proximity to Highway 101 in Sam in San Francisco uh inner SFO International Airport adds even additional layers that we have not fully understood or examined.

There is also an equity dimension, and this is what really strikes me that I think we cannot ignore.

California's assembly bill 617, just remember assembly bill 617.

It program identifies communities that are disproportionately impacted by air pollution and provides them with resources and monitoring and reduction because when there's monitoring and there's resources, we can then determine the actual data.

Based um communities, for example, like West Oakland, uh Richmond have this designation, including Hunter's Point.

Based on state data, parts of this part of South San Francisco have also comparable pollution levels.

Yet we have no such designation on this assembly bill.

And our residents are not receiving those same resources and protections and monitoring like those cities and neighborhoods are.

So why do I bring this up and in connection to that?

Because it's been weighing heavy ever since I was two years old.

I also was diagnosed with um status asthmaticas, which is a high level of asthma, and it also is personal to me.

So I wanted to bring it in into my colleagues and and with our city managers and with concurrence from this council.

Um, Madam City Manager, if you and your team would be willing to come back to this council with some real active, not you know, further in 10-15 years, but some real active recommendations on on how we can better address air quality um in this part of town.

And then specifically, I would like us to reach out to Assembly Member Diane Papen's office to explore whether any census track in District 5 could qualify for consideration under AB 617 as a disadvantaged community.

Um I believe that our residents um in all of South San Francisco deserve clean air, and they deserve to know also that the city and this council is also fighting for them.

So I look forward to continuing this discussion further with my colleagues and our city uh manager and city team.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

That's all tonight.

Thank you.

Thank you, Eddie, for spearheading this effort.

And Mr.

Mayor, um, I would we have a perfect opportunity tonight since the council will um one of your administrative business items tonight is to address this city council's um strategic priorities through our priority through your priorities action plan.

So that would be a perfect opportunity to wreck to as you move forward with that item tonight to potentially add something related to this tonight.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Councilman Coltman.

Thank you.

Um my colleagues said it really well.

Uh, there's a couple of big events happening in the past couple of weeks.

The first being uh accepting a check uh from our Congressman Kevin Mullen uh for new preschool center at West Row Park.

Um that was a very enjoyable event, and um the second being a little less enjoyable is the VLF press conference, and I feel like this is a very, very tough issue to communicate because it is an issue that's so wonky, right?

So in the weeds, and um many residents do not understand the fiscal realities that we are facing as a county and as a city in the next few years.

Um the press conference, the VLF press conference put on by the county was a good, and they put up a website and encourage everyone to go to that website, smcfarefunding.org.

But I believe it's incumbent upon us to also message our the fiscal realities to our constituents, to our residents.

And so I'm hoping that we can.

I know we some of us whose town halls and and so on, uh, we really need to be getting out there and letting residents know.

And we also need to be telling stories about what will happen if the VLF revenue that's that is promised to us is not paid to us by Sacramento.

And we heard it at the press conference two days ago, right?

And they they used the example of Redwood City.

Redwood City could close a fire station, they could lay off dozens of workers because of this.

They could uh they could be closing city facilities for for longer hours.

They could be reducing the amount of potholes that are fixed, the amount of maintenance on their roads.

I mean, these are very, very serious cuts that that we could be facing.

And then when you look at the county, I mean, here in South City, you know, we five million dollars, and it's gonna grow, right?

Maybe to 10 or 12, as I believe in 2032.

But the county this year is facing 70 million dollars that they are not getting from Sacramento.

And the county deals a lot with with public health, right?

They they have the public health clinics that that they're constructing.

Um so our people are gonna feel it, and and we need to really message what's at stake, not just for the city of South San Francisco, but what's at stake for the entire county um to our residents and not just that, but also giving folks an action item, right?

Can we send a letter to the budget chair, right, of the assembly of the Senate?

Can we send a letter to the governor's office letting them know how you know what is at stake and also give our residents uh the power to communicate that uh to those in power?

That is all for me.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilman.

Um, we'll move ahead, Rosa.

We will now move on to public comments, and at the time we'll call Leslie Fong.

Good evening.

So my last um comment on City Council meeting.

I neglected to say that Floor Nicholas ate three point three bags of popcorn, but that was her dinner, so don't give her any slack on that, okay?

Um, secondly, I do believe that Celsi has a village to run this place.

You got Rosa, who's always here, dedicated and everything else.

You got Marie who does support the city council, city manager, you got Laura, and she is the eye-opener, and I hope she gave us new insight what we could do better because we need somebody outside our community to tell us hey, you're doing great on this, you could improve on that.

So thank you for joining us.

You got Greg, Park and Rec, and also Aaron.

I've been to all those places and I've seen them.

Um EAC, which is economic advancement center, it helps you do resume, job hunting, and mock interview.

I gone to that place when I was in need, so I really value that.

You got the Rob Roberta Taglia Center for Senior Center.

Well, they had a senior um academy there, which I was still, and you have Bruce, Lisa, and Will.

That is great.

They're very supportive.

Gene Moland Learning Center workshop and classes, which I also took for my job hunting.

Um make a space for adults and kids.

Crap.

I owe you a T snack, so I gotta be fast.

Um you got Frank and also Skyler.

I mean Sky, I'm sorry, for lawyer, and then Rich Lee.

They really helped this place rent the way it is.

Also, public work, which is an unsung hero because the fact is their maintenance operation engineering quality control plan, they're making sure that the whole South San Francisco runs smoothly, that you know everything works.

Then you got the Grand Liberty, which is Elliot and Victoria.

Victoria helped me a lot on IT.

She is stellar.

And then I forgot about Ken Anderson senior, which is um to serve, which I'm a program.

And I'm way ahead.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you, Leslie.

And maybe it's important to um to note that um the comments that were just made are um they were not paid for and they are solely um the views of the member of the public.

I don't know, I think you did pay for maybe others too.

Thank you, Leslie.

Wait, let me ask one day I missed anything because I did I miss in the department because you mentioned something already.

You did great.

Okay, okay.

Next uh comments.

Good evening, Sam.

Mayor Daligo, board members of the South San Francisco City Council and fellow citizens.

My name is Sam Kitkuti.

This week I would like to use my three minutes for public comment to serve as a warning to all the electorate of South San Francisco and beyond.

On April 1st, 2024, state of California raised minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 an hour.

This applied to all fast food chains with 60 or more locations nationwide.

Assemblyman Chris Hold Holden, a Democrat from Pasadena, authored Assembly Bill 1228 to enact this change.

As of early 2025, between 16,000 to 36,000 fast food jobs have been lost due to AB 1228.

Aside from the job losses, we the consumers have faced an increase of 14.5% if we choose to eat at one of these establishments.

How heavy was the push by the California government to buy an electric vehicle?

This was done for noble cause to save the environment.

Alas, those in California pushing electric vehicles forgot one thing.

An electric vehicle does not need gasoline.

In February of 2025, Assembly member Lori Wilson, Democrat from Sassoon City, proposed a mileage tax to offset the losses to the government coffers.

It is still a proposal.

Finally, we get to the proposed billionaires 5% special tax proposed by the union SEIU.

The SEIU proposed this tax in response to the cuts made by Governor Newsom to balance the state budget after years of fiscal mismanagement by our beloved governor.

Unions are nothing but lab dogs of the Democrat and will do their bidding.

As of March of this year, at least six billionaires have left California and will pay their annual taxes to another state.

The taxes that California does not collect will, of course, be picked up by you and me.

I propose a simple solution.

Next time you vote, vote for somebody that can see beyond the nose on their face and consider future consequences.

I am certain that many of these people proposing these things are highly educated individuals.

I have all of an AA, and even I foresaw that, for example, $20 an hour to a kid to flip a hamburger was unsustainable.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

Marjorie Reese Idaho.

Honorable Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council members, and city staff.

Hello.

I am Marjorie Ruiz Hidalgo.

I remain your senior local government affairs for PGE, representing covering Zan Mateo County and serving the hometown of San San Francisco.

I would love to talk to you tonight about our reported app.

As many of you know, we use technology to the best of our ability to keep our community safe.

We use drones, helicopters, cameras, and now we have a reported app that actually loops in members of the public.

Chief Sampson, I think you're really gonna like this one.

Here's how it works.

It is available on the Apple store or for Android.

It is PGE reported app.

You're walking on the street, you see an issue, you see a tree that maybe looks a little bit too close to a service line.

Any issue PGE related.

You can take a picture.

You submit it to the PGE reported app to the team, and PGE will follow this issue with you through to its conclusion.

So we'll tell you what our findings are.

We'll tell you if anyone else has reported the same issue in the area, and it connects you directly to the safety team.

I'd like to be clear.

This does not replace 911.

If you see a wire down, walk away.

Call 911.

If you smell gas, call 911.

But what this does do, it's just an extra added layer of safety for members of the public to use and to connect directly to their PG ⁇ E utility infrastructure.

So it is the PGE reported app.

There is also a desktop version that is available.

This is available on the Apple store for Android.

It's quite simple to use.

I hope everyone uses it.

I have passed along the information to city staff, and I hope that it begins to disseminate its way into the public.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Moving on to Cynthia Markopoulis.

I'm on the consent calendar.

This is your opportunity to speak on consent calendar.

We do that under public comment.

These are the rules city council follows, and we must all adhere to them.

Slowly and covertly, things were put into the handbook whilst no one was aware.

The August 25, 2021 City Council meeting had the handbook as agenda item six, and no one pulled it to discuss it.

It passed without discussion.

The city clerk emailed saying the action minutes were approved in 2016.

In 2016, eight city council meeting minutes were never prepared, so Krista prepared them to be approved as one motion.

Did anyone even read or did you disapprove them in the one motion as a consent calendar?

Public comments with only the names listed began in September 2022.

Since January 25, 2023, before the April review of the 2023 City Council Handbook, whose decision was it to modify the consent calendar to change it from consent calendar to quote matters under the consent calendar are considered to be routine and non-controversial, that are then voted and approved without discussion.

Some matters as this are not just routine and non-controversial.

The emergency section, the city manager appoints the fire chief to be in charge, but he lives at least one bridge away in San Rafael, is elected and serves on the Marin Water Board.

The deputy fire chief, where does he live?

We know nothing about him except well, past memory loss and silence is rewarded from the gambling ring scandal.

The city attorney was directed by this city council on September 11, 2024, a year and a half ago to contact the FPPC about conflict of interest.

The conflict of interest section has not been updated since the city attorney has not followed through with contacting the FPPC for an advice letter at last checking, flippantly saying it takes four to six months to get a reply.

Should we return to an in-legal in-house legal counsel as Mayor Adiago stated in 2008 who voted against continuing the relationship with the contracted city attorney?

Well, four to six months have passed in that last checking of the FPPC website.

The city attorney still had not contacted the FPPC for an advice letter and concerning Mayor Adiago's and Councilwoman Nicholas's financial interest in the biotech interstate industry.

This is very detrimental to the good residents of South San Francisco.

We even had to put in yet another public records request, which was just extended for this advice letter concerning conflict of interest, which is a specific section in the city council handbook.

That was a directive from the city council.

For all these reasons, the city council handbook should not be approved by the city council.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Moving on to Annie Lil.

Annie, you had public comment, and you also had under consent calendar number 10.

Is that combined or you know, I thought it's two different topics, you know.

But okay, so I think I'm gonna address this this, you know, I have two actually two different topics, one related to consent item number 10.

Um, but I'll hold the other one.

So um item number 10 again is the handbook.

I agree that I I would love to ask the council please please consider not approving that handbook, because I just sent you a document.

I actually went through all the minutes um, or actually the uh agenda from the last few meetings.

The one from February 25th, which you know clearly show that you know the the so-called last final version of the handbook, um, it clearly stated that you know a list of public comments should be included in the minutes.

So then we fast forward on to the next meeting on March 18, which was a specific special council meeting for that purpose to review the handbook, and obviously we see changes made.

But my question is still why is the handbook, the prior version, which is now being you know revised and you know, supposed to be approved and asking for approval.

Why is it showing something that is not being done in the last five years?

Especially if that the last version was March um November 2023, and is clearly stated that you know public comments, a list of public comments, not just the names of the people presenting public comments, and but we have not been seeing minutes documenting list of public comments, and that to me is definitely very, very wrong.

And and now all of a sudden, you know, when this got, you know, we pointed it out.

I spoke about it on the 25th of February.

I spoke about it on March 11th, and of course, you know, and of course, again on March 18th at the special meeting, but obviously this is not being addressed.

The only way to be addressed right here is being altered here in the current version that is to be reviewed and approved by the council.

And that is basically just taking everything out, you know, doing it the way, you know, like people who make voices, people who come up here to make um comments, none of that is being recorded.

And I I read a uh comment saying that the e-commons are being recorded, but e-commons, not everyone does e-comments.

I can do both.

I have done both, okay.

I did the last last meeting when I was out of the country, and I did an e-comment.

But there are people, residents who may not be, you know, using e-commons, and is there some sort of discrimination?

If you cannot do e-commons, they will not be recorded.

The way that people actually can go to archive and read it.

And so this is a big concern.

I mean, you you know, a group of people, you know, who actually show up at meetings, their voices are not being recorded in the minutes or in any of the written form.

So that is a huge concern.

So please do not approve it.

Thank you.

Thank you, Annie.

Don't show anyone else signed up for public comment.

We will now move on to the consent calendar.

Yes, so um uh someone mentioned that it's nice to have a new set of eyes looking at the way we do business.

And um the city manager and I had a conversation about the consent calendar, uh, because there's kind of a perfunctory reading of the consent calendar, um, and and then anyone can pull an item.

Um that latter part is still gonna happen.

Anyone can pull an item, but um it seems um a bit um unnecessary to read the entire consent calendar.

Um so we're gonna see how this works, and I appreciate the fact that um in the 30 years I've served, we've read so many consent calendars, and um and this might be a better way of uh doing business and getting to um the meat of of uh agenda.

So um with that, um does any member of the council wish to remove an item from consent?

Mr.

Mayor, if I could pull item 11, please.

Okay, item 11.

Anyone else?

Item 12 for me, please.

Um which number?

12.

12, okay.

11 and 12.

12.

Thank you.

Floor, thank you.

11 and 12 are pulled.

Uh, and that's that's all.

Okay.

So let's let's go ahead and let's do a um let's entertain a motion to approve items four through nine and um thirteen and fourteen twelve thirteen.

So moved the motion on the floor, and a second by all seconds, and roll call on the consent calendar.

Councilmember Coleman.

Yes, Councilmember Nicholas.

Aye, Mayor Adiego?

Yes, Councilmember Flores?

Yes, Vice Mayor Nogales.

Yes.

Thank you.

And Mayor, for clarification purposes.

Um you specifically did not you said items four through nine.

Did you mean items four through ten?

Oh, I I did, I did.

I'm not pulling ten.

So I just wanted to clarify.

So you might we might want to restate the motion and be clear.

Yeah, I'm sorry.

Uh I misspoke floor, so if you would make the motion, we're going to approve items four through ten.

We're gonna we're gonna pull items eleven and twelve, and that leaves um thirteen.

Thirteen and fourteen.

So you make a motion.

I'll second that.

Yes, I thank you.

So we have a motion, we have a second by the vice mayor.

Let's go ahead and roll call.

Councilmember Coleman.

Yes, Councilmember Nicholas.

Aye, Mayor Adiego, yes, Councilmember Flores.

Aye.

Vice Mayor Nogales.

Yes.

Thank you.

Okay.

Now item 11.

I I guess you you're going to um you will read number 11 now.

It might be best being we're gonna discuss it.

So lucky.

We can just read the report.

Just the report because there's change can be traumatic.

So we're doing our best.

Item 11 is a report regarding the award of a construction contract to Azul Works Incorporated of San Francisco, California for the new park at Lyndon Avenue and Pine Avenue project, project number PK 2305, in an amount not to exceed 3,295,000, authorizing a total construction budget of $3,789,250, approving the procurement of playground equipment, and authorizing the city manager to execute a purchase agreement with landscape structures incorporated of Delano, Minnesota in an amount not to exceed 152,697 and 49 cents, approving the procurement of exercise equipment and authorizing the city manager to execute a purchase agreement with Greenfield's Outdoor Fitness Incorporated of Anaheim, California, in an amount not to exceed 22,407 and eight cents, amending the consulting services agreement with MIG Incorporated of Berkeley, California in an amount not to exceed $78,402, and extending the contract period to December 31st, 2027, and approving budget amendment number 26.060.

Okay, wonderful.

And um this has uh been pulled by Councilman uh Flores because he has um been um shepherding this and and waiting and waiting, and so finally today I wanted to um uh thank uh Philip Vitali for all his efforts and um thank you thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Good evening, Mr.

Vitalia and team.

Um if you could just maybe do a one-minute I know that's that's asking a lot summary of what this is, and then I will um put in my question and my request.

Okay, so um good evening, Philip I tell you, Deputy Director for Capital Projects.

Um the new park at London and Pine is converting 616 and 700 Linden, which are two parcels in the old town neighborhood into a connected park space, so it'll um redirect Pine Avenue.

So we'll have one large park space with playground areas, fitness spaces, um lawn areas, uh event plaza, seating, and additional parking on site.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And and I just wanted to uh highlight um first of all, give you um uh congratulations to you and Jake and the entire team uh because this has been a long time coming um and it will be history making for South San Francisco and for residents of District 5 and all residents in South San Francisco, and in particular our our young uh families um and everyone who will be enjoying this.

I just wanted to highlight and underscore that if you looked up the definition of public input and feedback.

I think we have hit every single mark, um, including uh numerous times being out there out on site Saturday mornings, engaging the community in multiple languages, uh, several iterations of designs, our small business owners, our restaurant owners on Linden and throughout, and giving them numerous, I would say dozens of opportunities for feedback and taking their feedback as well, not just you know, uh grabbed it and said we'll get back to you.

But this is really an example of co-designing and co-creating spaces for years to come that will benefit and have a significant impact in uh our community, and I'm very proud to be able to uh champion this along with your help.

And of course, I don't want to jinx it because I know it's still a lot uh the real work to happen, uh, the construction phase.

Um, very excited to see that there is a final uh selection of a bid contract and moving that forward.

Um, what I wanted to ensure, and this is always you know something that we can't predict the future, but we can control as much as we can in terms of communication and factors that surround this project.

And I underscore the word communication because I think that's gonna be our big lever in terms of making the next phase of this project successful.

Um what I mean by that is in all construction projects, whether it's our brand new aquatic center or you know, remodeling Orange Park, um, there are hiccups, unfortunate.

We plan it and we try to make sure that we mitigate around it, but unfortunately, that's what life is.

It's Murphy's Law.

But at the same time, I want to emphasize and including um ensuring that uh Azul works is under the understanding, and I want to be taken on the record for this, that we really work with the community, with our business owners during the construction phase.

And what I mean by the word work is ensuring that things get sunshine and communicated in advanced.

Um things like when deliveries are happening, when street closures will happen or impact neighborhood parking um or the neighborhood routine of a morning, you know, or a Saturday morning or kids trying to get to school, that that is either communicated through flyers, uh, through various ways, not just technology ways, not just QR ways, not just text message ways, and in multiple languages, uh, so that really this uh could continue to be a successful project till the very uh moment that we do uh the final ribbon cutting.

Um they're narrow streets, um, parking is limited, right?

Like as it is on Grand Avenue and many other areas um in our town, but I want to make sure that we're committed to uh transparency and accountability.

Those are my two requests for a soul, and of course, I know you'll be working directly and the team uh to ensuring that there's a smooth uh delivery of every element and aspect of of this project.

But I want to emphasize that piece, right?

Uh, whether it's you know closing a street, like I mentioned, reroutes, et cetera.

I don't want our small businesses, our mom and pop businesses to be significantly affected, as it has unfortunately been the case in some of the housing projects around um District 5 in Old Town, right?

We never felt, of course, we believe in housing, we all want that to move forward, but unfortunately, there's a cement truck, right?

That's limiting the door dash deliveries of a particular business, and that business owner is getting hit, so his budget and economy for the year is gonna get severed.

So these are the nuanced, I don't have to sit here and go through them, but I just want to put them on record um and have your trust in the team's trust that you'll do more than your best to ensure.

Again, nothing is guaranteed, totally understand that, but I want to make sure that that this at every phase we have check-in points to ensure that communication is strong and stronger throughout the process.

Great.

Well, can I thank you, um council member, for those comments?

And I really this has been a team effort, and the community has been very engaged as you've discussed in many different ways, and we're gonna continue that through construction.

The way we've crafted this contract for construction is to really minimize disruption uh to the neighbors and merchants and to maintain access to those businesses and those residents.

You know, there's um the contractors required to submit traffic control plans, that the city has the opportunity to review and approve in advance the city, the contractor, if there is going to be impacts to traffic, that we make sure those are minimal and that we really communicate that to the community.

We need to give two weeks' notice if there's going to be any traffic impacts, and then another notice at 48 hours.

And those notices um will begin with the start of construction.

We're going to give notices to the neighbors and the businesses weeks before construction begins.

There'll be construction signage at the site that has contact information for our contractor and our um construction manager who's here, Wanda Wong, she's been engaged in this project the whole time.

So we'll be responding to the community if they have questions, and we'll continue to update the community through our website and our e-blast and um flyers out of the site to keep people aware of what's happening ahead of time.

And we've really really worked to structure this the best we can.

As you said, their stuff will come up, but we're trying to we've emphasized to the contractor that we need to have advanced notice, and we're really working to have as little impact to especially those businesses on Linden.

You know, if there is going to be any kind of traffic impacts, we've restricted that it can't occur during um high commute hours, so between uh 7 a.m.

and 9 a.m.

in the morning and four and six p.m.

And all of these plans will have to be reviewed and approved by the city before the contractor can move forward.

Great.

And not to put you or Jake on the spot, but following my colleagues' line of questioning earlier, when is our anticipated ribbon cutting projected final?

Well, we would hope to have a groundbreaking first of all, over late this month or early next month, and then assuming construction goes on schedule, um, we would be having a groundbreaking or a ribbon cutting in the early part of 2027.

Excellent.

Well, good luck to you all and and the team.

And again, also I want to uh reiterate to the community that there will be other uh public engagement uh opportunities with the public art pieces that are coming to be able to design.

This is not the last that uh public could engage also in in in putting their uh participation in this project.

We're gonna keep that community engagement going through construction.

Excellent.

Excellent.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

Thank you.

That's all, Mr.

Mayor.

Wonderful.

Any other comments or questions from any member of council on this item?

Looking forward to it.

You are okay, very good.

And Floor, any comments on this?

Uh no.

Okay.

Thank you.

No, thank you.

I'm really also very excited to see this.

Very good.

So we have um we actually have uh four separate items, but we can take them together, Skye.

Is that correct?

Yes, it's four resolutions, um, items 11A through D, they can be taken together in a single motion.

Wonderful.

So we'll turn to Councilman Flores because uh thank you.

Very proudly um move this item and make a motion to approve um item 11 and all its its sections.

Okay, we have a motion.

And so normally we have a second, I'll second.

Very good.

Um, and roll call vote.

Vice Mayor Nicolas.

Yes, Councilmember Colman?

Yes, Mayor Adiego?

Yes, Councilmember Nicholas.

Councilmember Flores.

Yes.

Thank you.

Okay.

Very good.

Item 12.

Um, the next item would you be reading?

Yes, number 12.

Number 12.

Report regarding a resolution authorizing the submittal of two grant applications to the city county association of governments of San Mateo County, C CAG, and requesting allocation of Transportation Development Act TDA, Article 3 Pedestrian and Bicycle Program funding from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, MTC and authorizing use of local matching funds.

Item 12A is a resolution.

Okay, so we'll turn now to uh councilwoman uh floor Nicholas.

Yes.

Um Johnny, uh, are you there?

Uh yes, good evening, Floor.

Yes.

So, you know, um, I don't know if everyone is aware, but you know, CCAG approves all of this grants, but it has to go through the V PAC, the CCAG V PAC, and I'm part of that.

So we are very, very fortunate, and I I really commend our team for really putting together really good grant applications.

So we have always been um approved, and uh we got the highest scores in the last two cycles, so two cycles ago.

Um we had there was it was a very contentious um approval for our project, and the last cycle, there were few applicants, and so therefore all of the applications were approved.

This cycle, a lot of people from the members are really getting um jealous in a way, or or they were thinking of more equity, and so therefore, if you have gotten a lot of grants in the last 10 years, they might kind of make you ding a little bit and add points to those who haven't gotten some.

Now, I think what I would like to tell you is that for this grant application, if we can add a little bit more about regional benefit, not just for South City.

So, you know, for the ones that you have for the Centennial Trail that goes closer to to San Bruno, uh, and then the other one that goes a little further down to COMA.

If you can find something that will also benefit San Bruno and Calma, that will add points to us.

So it will give us a better chance to get approved.

Okay, very good.

Any comment on that, Mr.

Wilson?

Oh, that sounds that's excellent.

Thank you so much.

Right.

Thank you.

Yeah, and and so that's all I want to tell you is that make sure that this is tight because everybody's looking at us, saying that we have always gotten our grant applications approved.

It's just it's important to understand the politics.

At those uh meetings and taking the temperature and uh there's probably very good guidance.

So would you like to make the motion for approval of 12?

Yes, it's my pleasure.

I I move for this uh for the submittal of the two grant applications.

Thank you, Floor.

I'll second.

And we have a second roll call.

Mayor Adiego?

Yes.

Councilmember Coleman?

Yes.

Council Member Flores?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Nogales?

Yes.

Councilmember Nicholas.

Aye.

Thank you.

Moving on to administrative business.

Item number 15 is a report regarding the city council's 2026 priorities action plan.

Good evening, Mr.

Mayor, Mr.

Vice Mayor, members of council, Richley, your assistant city manager.

Uh the item before you is your 2026 uh priorities action plan.

Um, if I could ask IT to get these uh slide deck going.

Uh while that oh here we go.

Okay.

So what you're going to see in terms of structure and the framework before you is a reminder of the framework that we've used since 2025, which is your five major focus areas, which are on the screen before you.

Within the five major focus areas are your key strategies.

These are the strategies that uh came up during the council one-on-one interviews with the facilitator and through the workshop through consensus with the council identified as a priority for the council.

Um, and then within those key strategies are activities and initiatives that we will endeavor to deliver your key strategies.

In terms of timeline, we held the council strategic priorities workshop in uh January of this year.

Uh we've received the facilitator's report the following month, and since that time, staff has developed the activities and initiatives again to deliver your key um strategies.

Uh, what is before you this evening is the draft action plan, and the outcome that staff is looking for this evening is for council to provide feedback and adopt the 2026 action plan.

Uh first uh the format that I'll have is for each of the major focus areas.

I'll show um major uh major key strategies that are carrying on for the current fiscal year because they're multi-year strategies.

Uh first under housing and supportive services from last year, uh the council asked us to encourage a balanced housing supply.

Um, first is 905 Linden.

Um that is uh ownership, and that is uh identifying and selecting an affordable developer for four sale units.

Uh second are zoning text amendments for accessory dwelling units, and that's uh to allow ADUs to be sold separately from primary dwelling units, and third is the uh pursuing the affordable housing and sustainable communities, AHSC round 10 application for 1051 mission.

Uh for the current year, um, this is infrastructure in the environment.

We didn't have any key strategies from last year that met Council consensus.

This year we do, and that is continuing to enhance bicycle infrastructure and building bicycle community and culture, and staff is working on a community-wide family-friendly event for bike month in May of 2026.

And uh for the current year, also under this uh key strategy is to continue enforcing the mooring ordinance, as you may recall.

May of 2025, we um conducted phase one of the mooring ordinance, phase two.

The wheels are in motion, and we would uh we are aiming to have this completed by the end of this fiscal year.

Uh the modern and sustainable organization key strategy, and uh, under the uh key strategy of ensuring financial sustainability.

We have the transportation demand management penalty structure, and staff is working on that uh to work with the consultants to bring a penalty structure before you soon.

Uh we have the ERP implementation, council boarded contract for that last year.

We are on target to go live in October of this year, and the utility cut and heavy vehicles fees.

Uh public work staff is conducting outreach as the council requested this month and second meeting of next month.

It will be first reading and introduction uh for the council to consider.

Uh, new for this year under the long-term fiscal sustainability plan.

Again, this was a theme uh throughout the workshop.

First, we have the staffing study to identify what resources are needed to deliver the core services to the community.

We have our park and rec master plan, which are of course our park and rec department will be leading and uh issuing an RFP to identify a consultant to assist us with that.

As a part of that, uh we'll include a facility condition assessment to understand what maintenance our existing structures need and what the cost behind uh that will be.

We'll also have an infrastructure assessment with our public works department, and finally um the uh Americans with Disabilities Act.

That's the self-evaluation and transition plan.

Um we had we issue an RFP and we are currently reviewing the responses to that RFP.

All of these are inputs to the long-term fiscal sustainability plan uh that we will um incorporate and bring it back to the council for your consideration so you understand uh beyond what we have as the current status quo in terms of the services that are being provided to the community, these are other demands on our limited resources, uh and we'll be able to qualify and quantify with that for council and the members of the community.

Uh also under the same um major focus area is supporting staff retention.

Uh that is the employee engagement survey.

Uh, the last employee engagement survey we conducted was in November of 2023, and we try to do that with regularity to assess um the sentiment of our employees, where and areas we have to improve things that we're doing well to make sure that we have a happy and healthy workforce.

Uh moving on to quality of life again, these are um carryover from last calendar year under the key strategy of supporting a sustainable retail environment.

We have the multimodal El Community Real Improvements, which our deputy city manager is leading.

Uh, that is uh additional second round of community engagement is happening this month and next.

Uh the zoning study for retail and supportive friendly regulations that is ongoing.

As you may have seen and heard, our um vacant storefronts pilot program, our launch local program looking to expand that and bring that back to council.

Uh the park development on Linden, which you just awarded contract for, uh, senior services and our women services.

That is an ongoing effort largely with our park and rec and library departments.

Uh for new for this year under quality of life, continuing to implement the child care master plan.

Um, Mr.

Vice Mayor, obviously the Westboro Preschool of principal interest, and uh the creation of a child care construction grant program.

Uh, this is something that we relatively knew to the city, but not new to the region.

Um, other cities in San Pitano County have a child care impact fee, um, and they are able to take those funds and distribute them through a notice of funding availability to child care providers in the community.

Uh, expansion of ELOP, and that's uh a program that has been regularly reported to council providing uh child care at an accessible rate at a sliding scale for community members.

Also, under quality of life, uh engaging with our labor groups on project labor agreements, and that's uh a joint effort between our um Calper Projects team, our deputy city manager.

The staff has developed options for the Building Trade Council and for the Carpenters Union to consider.

Uh new for the year, and this uh this is updating the zoning code, and that's to do two things.

One to uh for us staff to bring to council retail storefront cannabis and to allow these in commercial zoning districts, and also under the same umbrella uh community engagement and events.

Um, Mr.

Mayor, this was you know, this is one of the the high priorities for you is uh the America 250 celebration continue.

We've uh our deputy city manager brought forth the plan to council, which you've approved.

Uh, can so we will deliver that uh this coming 4th of July.

And finally, um continuing to partner in advance policies related to youths, families, and seniors, and this is about partnership and working with our nonprofits and other agencies to deliver um basic and element uh essential community services.

And I like there's one more, uh, engaging community volunteers.

And this uh this is an ongoing effort, and that's to promote, welcome, and celebrate our volunteers.

Uh with that, happy to welcome any questions, any input from council.

Thank you, Mr.

Lee.

Well, let's see uh what uh generated by my colleague.

I'll go you want to.

Sure.

Um so these are great kind of goals, and I think what we want to agenda set.

It's more of a like there's a lot here.

What's like the time frame to implement like a lot of these things?

So many of these are um multi-uh year efforts.

Yeah, uh, especially the ERP, would but I did say that that was going to be delivered by October of this year.

Yeah.

Um I'm looking at our um our reference document, and many of these, I'd say the all of these are to be completed within uh the current calendar year with one exception, uh, and that would be the park development on Linden.

Obviously, uh we just mentioned breaking ground and doing the ribbon cutting.

That's gonna be in 2027.

Um, but beyond that, I I don't see any that are multi-year efforts.

Uh probably the long-term fiscal sustainability plan, that's probably going to be at least a year.

So probably a year from now, we will have all of the inputs completed.

So the park and rec master plan, the facility assessment, uh, the ADA um self-assessment, that's going to take some time.

Um, but beyond that, that's those are probably the longest term uh major efforts.

Great, thank you.

Sure.

Um in the long-term fiscal sustainability plan, I mentioned this a bit earlier, but just ensuring that we have a VLF community outreach plan and just some some more transparency efforts, like not just you know, having our council meetings, but also like going to people where they're at and just kind of informing them about um the options and the realities that we're facing.

Um for retail environments.

Um I'd like to explore is um how we can activate our street spaces better, um outdoor dining potentially, and how we can encourage more vibrant, like a more vibrant um downtown environment for that.

And then last thing is is one thing that I hope that we can continue to work on, and I think it really does fold into many of the things that we're doing, uh many of the initiatives that we're doing is just uh more robust communications plan.

And I know I've talked to city staff about this previously, but seeing if we can get texting set up and more residents um involved in that in that list, um, as well as more community outreach town halls, pop-ups, and and etc.

Maybe using social media more, um, not just posting, but also running ads and kind of getting more people uh plugged in that way.

Um just a general communications plan.

Okay, thank you, Councilman.

Let's let's turn to uh floor, uh Nicholas.

Did you have any comments on the plans?

Yes, well, thank you for this presentation.

I know that some of this will be results here, however, there will be those that will be continuing.

But I think this is a really great start to leverage on this so that you know every year uh we don't have to like reset everything, so it will be a continuous uh it's like part of the strategic planning for the whole so even with the chains of uh council, we will continue uh moving forward to the progress.

Uh in terms of climate or or environmental sustainability, uh, you know, Eddie, when you were talking about uh the 20 uh the air quality uh study, there is one from the Bay Area Air Quality Management that has that should have been finished in 2025.

It should be published in 2026.

So I think we can also uh look at that and be part of this.

Oh it's coming out this June, I suppose.

It's mid-2026.

So maybe that will be also part of something that we can look at so we can see if the air district five air quality is improving too.

You can add to that.

Thanks.

Great.

Thank you, Councilwoman.

And uh let's go back to um Councilman uh Flores, who made quite an impassioned plea.

Thank you.

Air quality issue.

Yes, thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

And I I also see the opportunity, thank you, Rich, for this and and laying it out and color coding and all that.

Really great.

Um, I see an opportunity for us to be able to insert.

I think having uh you know chatted with our our city manager and uh thank you, Floor for mentioning those reports.

I believe that there is uh ample space for us to be able to uh get in touch with the air district, get in touch with the uh air resources board and be able to determine what latest data and reports are there.

I'd like to see this included in the major focus area infrastructure and the environment.

Um I appreciate uh the bike month that uh the vice mayor is leading and also the mooring uh ordinance implementation that the mayor has uh been working on, but I think there's space here for us to be able to um address the the air quality uh uh deficiencies in in District Five in Old Town.

Um also I wanted to make sure that we don't lose our place in line in terms of uh the community facilities district.

Uh this council, as well as our state senator worked very hard uh with our lobbyists to ensure that Senate Bill 390 uh was moved forward to remove uh the loophole that would establish and open up a CFD uh and within the space of infrastructure, I think I owe it uh to that part of town as well to ensure that we continue this conversation.

I don't want it to be forgotten.

We didn't do all that work last year for nothing.

And at the same time, um, you know, what do we get called most?

What is a council member get called most for?

Uh potholes, right?

And it's important that the infrastructure, the streets, um, um, when we're talking about um, you know, heading over to East of 101, that there needs to be a resolution eventually to to that matter.

Um I know that there's several other layers and factors on this, but I like to see it um not be forgotten.

I know that it might be a two-year or three year to your point earlier.

Um, but these two are are extremely important.

Um, I think they fit in nicely in infrastructure and the environment.

The last one that I wanted to make maybe more practical matter, and that's your what was the last the welcoming and connected community.

Um work with agencies and nonprofit partners to provide essential community service to support policies and advanced wellness and learning programs.

And I wanted to um I had a conversation with the city manager about this and really um emphasizing uh we've titled it, we've called it our promotoras program.

Um it could be called our outreach, our communication program.

I think it's essential that we continue that in some level uh to connect with our community, right?

The title says it.

We can't connect to the community if we are not communicating to the community.

I've heard it in different iterations, several different meetings that I've been that people haven't heard about this or don't know about it, or don't know about a particular event, even going back as to last year about Cultura Fest or an event with you know that the youth commission or that the library is happening.

And I think there's an opportunity there for us to engage our nonprofit partners and to be able to partner uh to create an outreach uh promotora or whatever we want to um label this second iteration of it.

But I think it's important that we continue.

As we've seen, there's a lot of outreach that needs to continue to happen as we grow, as we engage our communities, and I think this would also fit nicely into um the welcoming and connected community category as well.

Thank you.

If I may, Mr.

Mayor.

Uh, just one thing you inspired me with your talk about climate justice and the need for better air quality is that Potenza Clean Energy uh late last year, they unveiled a new round of model reach codes, and so they've already you know written these reach codes, they've been adopted by uh various cities um around San Mateo County Bay Area, uh, but they've unveiled two-way air conditioning policies that require property owners to install AC2 who are installing AC to install either heat pump or efficiency measure measures, um electric readiness um to require electric readiness when they are going through a relevant addition or alteration to their property um as well as uh flex path.

So this applies to projects completing major additions or authorization alterations uh to go through energy efficiency measures, electrification measures or solar uh PVs.

Uh and there's also a two-way AC commercial uh model reach because I hope we can uh visit that as well as as that does have an impact on air quality.

So, Mr.

Mayor, uh, if I could borrow a page from our city manager uh for the additional priorities that have been identified by individual council members.

Uh can I look to council for um concurrence just so we can modify um the existing draft plan?

I'm certainly there's gonna be concurrence, but and it and and the issue fits in nicely with some of these others, but there's still limited bandwidth when you're juggling it.

So if we're if we're uh and I am uh very concerned about the air quality, you know, I've been thinking since you you brought it up, and I did read the article.

Um, you know, we many many years ago we fought hard to create what's called the shoreline departure route, and that's so every aircraft didn't fly over the middle of town on its way to the gap in the mountains.

But guess what?

Guess where the shoreline departure is.

Right.

It's right over there.

And and they're rather low.

So uh it would be interesting to know um, you know, how much aircraft are impacting the air quality.

Um so uh I I think there's some great work to be done, but I think that uh something else has to um move to the sideline.

And I don't know if it's bees, maybe it's bees.

Um, well the mal reach codes is is they're written already, right?

And so yeah, but but we really have to understand the problem.

I mean, you're that that could solve part of it, but it's I mean, how many how many residences would be taking advantage of that over the next 10 years?

Well, it has to start somewhere, right?

No, I agree.

The climate is heating and as people are starting to make that decision on uh bringing AC to their homes.

Uh it's better to start now than to start agreed years years later down the line.

But but but initiating this, I think it's important that we really understand the problem that we have so that we can better communicate it to some of the to some of the agencies that are um able to assist us with resources, and we have to be able to advocate for ourselves and how impacting this is to our town.

So look um, so mayor, to your point, thank you for bringing that up.

Um we have as staff spent um quite uh significant amount of time as particularly as an executive team, making sure that we could deliver what has been presented tonight.

Um there were a couple of these when the when your additional comments and requests started.

I thought great, we can actually sort of wordsmith this tonight and we could um have a motion that includes very specific um recommendations for for additions or changes.

Um but I now believe that we have a list of at least seven different items.

Um we need we definitely need some of these are significant undertakings for which we actually I we do not have staff available at this time.

So what I would like to require is that um if there is anything you would like to take off, we you you could do that this evening.

Um and then I would request that we move forward in one of two possible ways.

The first way would be to um adopt it's if as presented um and to come back to you all um in a month or two um with some thoughts and suggestions and recommendations of how we might be able to accomplish additional work, um, or we could hold off on the entire thing and we could bring the whole package back to council.

I I I I wanted to to your first question about what could potentially be second priority.

I was looking at the sustainable organization, uh, the facility condition assessment, the infrastructure assessment, and the ADA transition plan.

Um I'm not saying these won't ever happen, but these certainly could be addressed next year, 2027.

I know that our the goal is to be able to have some figures and data prior to the 2028 um election cycle.

Um so I would suggest maybe these three um could I don't know how it impacts the distribution of we would not be able to deliver the long-term fiscal sustainability plan to you without those inputs.

And and that is a plan to be delivered later this year.

Is that what is um within about a year?

Um, but it takes quite a time to do some of those studies.

We also need to be building them if you do want them to move forward, we need to be building them into our budget for the next fiscal year.

So we're in our budget cycle right now.

If we delayed on some of those, um, we would have to delay the presentation of the fiscal sustainability plan too well.

Got it.

Okay.

Um I still believe that you know, like as I mentioned, I don't want to have to sit here and um uh campaign for it.

I I think this is a quality of life issue, detrimental, emergent.

Um I did get calls uh immediately after that call that article uh came out.

Um our monolingual community is heavily concerned about this, as well as many others.

Um so I would again advocate that this moves forward within the compact of of the plan.

I I absolutely agree with um Council Bar Flores.

I I want to remind my colleagues that one of the issues that we are tackling at the transportation authority is the one-on-one management, and that it's gonna be a big issue affecting our community.

And we recently just had um you recently reviewed the data, I guess, for the managed lane going south on one-on-one.

Um and depending on who you speak to, the data has been somewhat controversial.

I think to the to Councilmember Flores's point, that article also affected me because I was thinking about the managed lanes.

Yeah.

And what that would mean for that community if there's an expansion of the freeway.

How about that would impact that community?

And so I I don't think we should wait.

I think data is important to gather to see how we are affecting that community.

And I don't think we should be waiting on that when it's been years of that community impacted by the air quality.

And we don't really know specifically.

You know, we could say it might be the cars, right?

But why is that specific section affected when the 101 and we're talking about managed lanes goes to various cities, but that your community specifically is the factor.

So there's other factors obviously happening here.

So I think it's for me, it's about the totality of information.

I don't think we should be waiting.

So I I agree with Councilmember Flores that that should be on one of our agenda items.

Anyone else want to weigh in?

Floor, did you want to weigh in on this?

Well, that's why we would like to see the latest data, because that was the a very outdated data that they presented.

I understand the air quality is very important.

I have a son who was very asthmatic, and I know some other how difficult it was racing a child with asthma.

So I really am sensitive to that too.

Okay, so I I think that really we need to give direction to the to the staff, and I don't think that we should shoot from the hip this evening.

I also don't think we have to wait two months to bring this back.

Um I think we all have the capacity to in the next couple of weeks, maybe a month, to look over what we're willing.

I mean, if if I had to decide tonight, I'm sorry, councilman, it would probably be the bees and the cannabis to as a start, and and then we have to know if that's enough given what we suspect that this effort might take in staff resources.

Um I mean, the way I see is I mean, I I know B's in kind of is probably the number one on anyone's list right now, but it's it's not an item that is meant to take a lot of staff time.

No, I understand that that alone may not be enough, but something I think the point is something has to give.

We can't just load up more and expect to accomplish um all of this.

It doesn't really work.

But a robust air quality how they're I guess what would uh excuse me.

What would help me is um I don't know who your work float teams are, because I could pull from park and rack, but that's not the team that is heavily impacted, right?

So that's I need to see so that's where I'm recommending either uh adopt as is tonight, and then we would come back with further information and discussion about each of these when we've had time to talk about it as an executive team and see where we could fit things in or what we might recommend to change to manage that that workload, um, or uh wait on adopting any portion of this until we can have that conversation.

I mean, I'm I'm gonna take your guidance uh as one council person.

Uh which way would you like to go?

Would you like us to adopt tonight?

Like you to adopt tonight personally, and then when would you come back?

Yes.

I can't I need to work with my team to understand what it's gonna take from a process standpoint to study because again, there's seven different ones, they definitely have different levels of uh impact.

Um, and also I think we have such great executive team to give some thought to how some of these might be addressed.

One second, you so there are seven items you you got from the discussion tonight that were that were not covered, they were all wanting to.

Well, I don't think we're on the page where we want to cover the case.

So let me let me list those then.

Please.

So what I heard was um uh a VLF community outreach plan, um, activate street spaces, including outdoor dining, a more robust communication plan that includes um texting, model reach codes, particularly around um AC and electrical readiness, communities facility district, um, under the environmental focused area, air air quality.

There were lots of comments and and around air quality.

So think thinking about a thoughtful recommendation of what we could do under air quality.

Um, and then uh a promoter re-establishing um a promoter's program.

Okay.

So I heard seven.

Did I miss anything?

No, you're right.

There's okay.

So I mean, I I I would make this easy for for all of us, including the staff.

Uh, I think there's one that stands out, and it's air quality.

And I think the other can just um be held in advance.

I feel like the reach codes do fall into the air quality bucket.

So you institute the reach codes and and what impact are you going to have in in the next three to five years when you're you're talking about people remodeling their facilities and bringing in new air conditioning units.

I mean, is that is that um a big item?

I mean the downtown was created for a reason by Peninsula Clean Energy given to to the cities to adopt I I I get the concept, but I'm not seeing the big impact to the you know the immediate problem of uh quality of life.

Yeah, when when folks are not using as much natural gas, there is yes, I understand, but you're talking about a fraction of what's existing being made better.

Just every little bit counts.

I agree.

I think what uh we have to do is prioritization, right?

So I agree with uh Mayor Adiego.

I know I understand uh the need for reach codes, however, for reach codes also we will need to upgrade a lot of those electrical panels and yeah in our area we don't have a lot of air conditioners.

It may be, you know, I I know that some cities down the peninsula have uh adapted the full reach code, but that's because they have air conditioners over there.

How many people do have air conditioners?

I think it's just not as many here in our city.

I think they are beginning to install them.

I I'd like through the mayor, I like uh clarification.

So there's seven.

Are you saying you can only do one?

Are you saying you can do two, three, four?

Because we're eliminating one, but or talking about eliminating.

I just would like to know so for my colleagues.

I see these seven as not falling off and ever coming back to them, right?

There will be a plan that will incorporate them at some point in the future.

Um, but I would like to know which what's your bandwidth.

Are you able to handle two, three, like where so exactly as you mentioned earlier, um they affect different departments, different staff in different ways.

Um, and it also depends on what the scope of the actual activities and initiative is.

So that's where I cannot answer that question tonight.

If we can do just one or two more, it's gonna depend um on where we put can find some capacity and how we would recommend uh scoping essentially each one of these.

Um and so that's where we need some time to um have staff do their good work with their professional knowledge to bring back that information to you.

I'm not asking you to choose to choose one of these seven, um, but it would if you wanted to choose one of the seven, um it would provide a better opportunity for us to come back more quickly.

Okay, uh thank you.

And the vice mayor has the floor.

Let me suggest actually I I was gonna suggest what you are saying.

Let's adopt what we have talked about, include the air quality conversation, okay, and then come back after you've kind of studied now these six items now to see what the bandwidth is, because some of these things will be done and completed, and then you'll be able to see what bandwidth you have left with staff to tackle these issues.

So then you can come back and say, this is what we can do if you want to add another, for example, reach codes or whatever these other six.

That is my suggestion.

I think that makes good sense with one minor modification.

Okay, please.

Um, and that minor modification would be to adopt as presented, okay.

With the highest priority of these other ones um being related to air quality, and that way we can bring back specifically something about what the scope of that really is because I don't think we're prepared this evening to to wordsmith that um and so we would bring it back rather quickly um while we were continuing to discuss and come up with options for you related to the other six.

I'm good with that suggestion.

Yeah, I'm happy with that.

Thank you, Mr.

Vice Mayor, for leading on this.

I I would make that motion, and I think staff and your executive team are pretty aware that it is a priority um item for us, the air quality item.

So and a motion as as outlined by the city manager.

Mayor, before sorry, before you make the motion, we do have a public comment from Fiona.

Thank you.

If you want what they have to offer, and you want it badly enough, you'll sell your soul and the souls of everyone else just to get what you want.

Public officials who lie and deceive the public are guilty of public misconduct and a plethora of other state and federal criminal laws.

And they cannot be trusted.

California Government Code Section 36813 empowers sovereign city councils to establish protocols handbooks.

And sovereign entities are those who exercise independent power and authority, not that of a foreign nation.

That said, with regards to your priorities action plan, I'm here to speak about quality of life.

Yes, it's detrimental.

Back to the protocol's handbook.

It's detrimental in that number two in line when there is an emergency after the city manager is the fire chief.

Not long ago, the fire chief stood here.

And he said, quote that the MSV Fire Station was a temporary location until a more adequate location could be established and then actually constructed.

Did you tell that to the federal government, Mr.

Sampson, when you applied to them for millions of dollars on several applications?

No, you did not.

You lied to the federal government.

Back to the protocol's handbook.

Quality of life.

Conflict of interest.

In September 2024, Mr.

Woodruff was directed by you to send a letter to the FPPC.

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Okay, any other speakers?

No additional speakers.

So we do have a motion on the floor.

And we were looking for a second.

Oh second.

I did second.

Oh, we've got two seconds.

That's even better.

So you can sort that out, Rosa, and we'll go ahead and do a roll call.

Councilmember Flores?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Nogales?

Yes.

Councilmember Coleman?

Yes.

Councilmember Nicholas.

Aye.

Mayor Adiego.

Yes.

Thank you.

We will now move on to item number 16, which is a report regarding an ordinance amending and restarting chapter 8.70.

Property owner obligations with respect to tenants displaced from unsafe or substandard units of the South San Francisco Municipal Code and a resolution establishing relocation assistance amounts and related fees associated with tenant displacement pursuant to chapter 8.70.

Welcome, Miss Moreno.

You're working late tonight.

It's okay.

You all make it worth it being here.

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

My name is Anya Moreno, Housing Management Analyst with the Economic and Community Development Department.

The staff report before you is requesting the City Council introduce an ordinance amending and restating Chapter 8.70 of the South San Francisco Municipal Code and adopt a resolution establishing relocation assistance amounts and associated fees for tenant displacement.

City staff recently issued an updated errata sheet to the City Council reflecting revisions to the proposed ordinance.

As part of this process, staff had conversations with key stakeholders, including Project Sentinel, the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County, the San Mateo County Association of Realtors, and the California Apartment Association.

Following the outreach, staff incorporated feedback where appropriate to clarify provisions and approved implementation of the pro of the proposed ordinance, which is what you received yesterday afternoon.

The city's Anti-Displacement Community Advisory Committee, or CAC, was assembled to provide recommendations on policies and strict strategies aimed at preventing commercial and residential displacement.

The CAC served as a core source of community input, helping identify challenges facing residents and local businesses.

One of the key challenges identified was unresolved health and safety issues in older housing units, which can contribute to tenant displacement by making homes uninhabitable or prompting costly repairs that lead to rent increases or evictions.

In 2019, the city adopted Chapter 8.70 establishing requirements for property owners when tenants are displaced due to unsafe or substandard housing conditions.

This ordinance created a framework under which tenants may receive relocation assistance when they are required to vacate their homes as a result of code enforcement actions addressing such conditions.

Over the past six years, implementation of Chapter 8.70 has provided the city with valuable perspective on how these requirements have impacted tenants, property owners, and the fact and the effectiveness of enforcement efforts.

While implementation of the ordinance began in 2019, the data on the screen focuses on activity from 2024 to present.

During this period, the city has administered 11 cases assisting 18 households between the specified time frame.

The chart on the left accounts for the total display displacement cases, which are the permanent temporary and prevented cases.

And on the left on the right is the data on correspond corresponding districts to the households affected.

These cases were initiated through code enforcement actions and involved coordination between multiple city departments to address health and safety concerns and facilitate tenant relocation.

In each case, the city worked with property owners and tenants to implement the requirements of Chapter 8.70, including relocation assistance and compliance with correction notices.

While the ordinance has provided a framework for displacement procedures, the cases have high have also highlighted areas where additional clarity and expanded provisions may be needed.

Through discussions at the city's anti-displacement community advisory committee meetings, input from tenants and landlords, and lessons learned from program implementation, staff identified several key challenges, included including limited displacement triggers, delays in relocation payments, which can create financial hardship for tenants required to cover costs up front, and lack of clarity in definitions and processes.

Together, these challenges can increase the risk of housing instability and in some cases homelessness for displaced households, as well as unclear processes for landlords.

The proposed ordinance repeals and replaces chapter 8.70 to provide a clearer, more effective framework, beginning with key updates to expand definitions and displacement triggers.

For example, the proposed ordinance broadens the definition of residential housing unit to include spaces such as garages, sheds, and long-term hotel or motel stays.

This helps ensure that more vulnerable tenants living in non-traditional living conditions are also considered under the ordinance for relocation assistance.

In addition, relocation assistance will no longer be limited to code enforcement actions, but will instead be triggered by a broader range of displacement circumstances, including the usual substandard or unsafe living conditions.

The proposed ordinance clarifies situations in which relocation assistance is also not required to be provided by the landlords, such as displacement caused by natural disasters or tenant-caused conditions.

The current process has resulted in financial hardship for displaced tenants due to delays in receiving assistance.

A key improvement under this proposal.

A key improvement under this proposal is the truth is the transition from reimbursement-based assistance to immediate upfront payments.

In cases of temporary displacement, the landlord would provide the displaced tenant with temporary relocation assistance within 24 hours of the displacement event or 20 days prior to the vacation date.

The proposed ordinance also replaces the reimbursement approach with temporary relocation assistance calculated using federal per diem rates adopted by city council resolution.

Per diem assistance will be determined based on the current rates established by the U.S.

General Services Administration for South San Francisco.

These rates include lodging cost and where temporary accommodations lack cooking facilities, meals, and incidental expenses.

To prevent overpayment and temporary displacement cases, the landlord will provide assistance in weekly increments.

A maximum limit for temporary relocations will be placed where totally where total temporary assistance cannot exceed 50% of the permanent relocation assistance for a comparable unit size.

This slide represents the process for temporary displacement.

The example reflects a 10-day temporary immediate displacement due to unsafe or inhabitable conditions.

Following the tenant displacement, the city will issue a formal determination letter to the landlord, estimating the duration of the displacement and outlining landlord and tenant obligations of Chapter 8.70.

The landlord must then provide a city approved notice to the tenants with the estimated relocation period, tenants' rights and responsibilities, eligibility for temporary relocation assistance, and right to reoccupancy reoccupancy.

At the same time, the landlord must provide relocation assistance within 24 hours, which may include per DM payments, the immediate vacation fee, or comparable housing.

The landlord must promptly obtain any required permits for the repairs needed and work towards completing repairs to restore habitability.

The landlord must continue to provide assistance to the tenant household and weekly increments for the duration of the displacement if the option of relocation of payment of relocation assistant payments is chosen.

Once the landlord has completed repairs and inspections, a formal notice must be given to the tenants stating the unit is ready for return.

The permanent relocation assistance is intended to offset costs associated with displacement.

This includes costs such as temporary housing, securing new permanent housing, including upfront expenses like security deposits and first month's rent, apartment application fees replaced of damaged personal belongings and other related expenses.

Permanent relocation assistance will be calculated at four times a monthly rent for the applicable U.S.

Department of Housing and Urban Development fair market rent or whichever is greater, plus moving expenses of $500 per bedroom.

This approach ensures the displaced tenants have a realistic opportunity to secure replacement housing.

Considering high rent costs in the area, using the greater of the two metrics more accurately reflects current market conditions and helps prevent financial shortfalls, ensuring displaced tenants receive sufficient assistance to secure the housing they need.

The proposed ordinance also redefines the threshold for permanent displacing, reducing it from 90 to 30 days.

Based on stakeholder input, the revised ordinance allows landlords to submit a written request for an extension of temporary displacement.

The city may approve an extension at its discretion if the landlord demonstrates meaningful progress toward completing the work causing displacement.

Any approved extension may not exceed an additional 30 days of temporary displacement or nor more than 60 days total.

For example, a landlord who has completed necessary repairs for the tenant to return and is awaiting their final inspection with city staff.

In both temporary and permanent displacement situation, the city reserves the right to intervene and provide assistance to affected tenants if the landlord is in responsive.

The city will then seek reimbursement from the property owner if the landlord fails to pay the city.

The city can recover costs through legal action or through a lien recorded against the property.

This slide represents the process for permanent displacement.

This example reflects a displacement from an unpermitted or unsafe accessory dwelling unit where tenants cannot return to the unit.

Following the city notice, the landlord will provide a 30-day notice to the tenant household and their eligibility for a permanent relocation fee.

The fee must be provided to the tenants at least 10 days before the move out date.

Because the unit cannot be legally reoccupied, the right to return does not apply.

However, if the landlord has comparable units available, the tenant may choose to return to rent one under the same terms.

Currently, a $1,000 immediate vacation fee applies to tenants who are displaced with less than 30 days' notice.

The proposed ordinance maintains this fee but requires that it be paid to the displaced tenant within 24 hours of displacement.

This ensures tenants can cover urgent housing needs such as hotel accommodations during emergencies.

Additionally, the ordinance introduces a 250 dollar counseling payable counseling fee payable to the city by the landlord for both temporary and permanent displacements.

This fee will support case management services for tenants and the implementation of the ordinance by city staff.

Staff conducted an analysis of surrounding jurisdictions with similar ordinances related to tenant relocation assistance for displacement due to a substandard or unsafe living conditions.

The analysis is based on a two-bedroom rental unit occupied by two adults and one child under the age of 18.

The comparison focuses the comparison focuses on permanent relocation assistance.

The two bars on the left indicate the regional benchmarks with the lowest amount provided by other jurisdictions and the highest amount at 24,733.

The city's current ordinance reflects an assistance amount at 10,208 dollars.

And with the proposed ordinance calculated at $16,666.

Under the proposed under the proposed approach, the 50% cap of for temporary relocation assistance would be at $8,208.

Oh, sorry.

The proposed assistance positions the city near the middle of the spectrum, providing support for actual living costs for displaced tenants while remaining below the high highest amounts offered by other jurisdictions.

The ordinance also provides flexibility for landlords by allowing them to offer comparable housing instead of paying relocation assistance fees.

This option can help reduce financial burden on landlords while still meeting ordinance requirements and ensuring the displaced tenants are appropriately accommodated.

The landlord retains the right to submit an appeal under the proposed ordinance.

Appeals must follow a now structured timeline with a written appeal to be submitted to the Director of Economic and Community Development within 10 days of the displacement determination.

An appeal hearing shall be scheduled within 45 days of the submitted appeal.

In addition to providing a structured process for landlord appeals, the proposed ordinance ensures the tenant relocation assistance continues regardless of the appeal status.

Filing an appeal does not automatically stay the relocation assistance payments for the displaced tenants.

Tenants displaced due to uninhabitable or unsafe conditions are often required to vacate their homes immediately, resulting in significant financial strain.

Without timely assistance, households may face an increased risk of housing instability or homelessness, particularly in cases where they must secure short-term accommodation on short notice.

The proposed ordinance will help address these challenges, outlines tenants and landlord rights and responsibilities, and supports the city in administrating relocation assistance more efficiently.

Key benefits include faster and more reliable assistance through improved timelines and procedures, will defined roles and responsibilities for tenants and landlords, reduce risk of homelessness for displaced households, and alignment with the city's anti-displacement goals.

Staff recommends that the city council introduce the ordinance amending and restating chapter 8.70 of the South San Francisco Municipal Code and adopt a resolution establishing the relocation assistance amounts and fees associated with the tenant displacement.

Thank you.

Thank you, Leah.

Questions?

So many?

Go ahead.

Why don't you lead off?

Thank you for the information.

I know it's a lot, so bear with me with my questions here.

I'll start off with the easy stuff and work my way up.

Why were districts one and two unaffected?

Is that a lack of enforcement or is that genuinely fewer violations?

So during the timeline of 2024 and 2026, there were no cases that were reported to us or that we were made aware of.

As I mentioned, during the current ordinance, any relocation assistance is through code enforcement action.

So the tenant will need to report any concerns or unsafe or substandard conditions to code enforcement, and that's how it is triggered through an inspection and violation notices.

Got it.

Okay.

How will the city identify and track hotel and motel tenants who now qualify for protection?

So with the with the proposed ordinance, uh we are asking that it be tenants who are staying in the same unit for 30 days or more.

Um usually it is uh the city's responsibility to connect with uh property owners, landlords, or in this case it would be hotel uh property management or owners, and we would be able to verify the information if they are within the threshold and meeting the requirements to be able to qualify for the relocation assistance.

Um the 1,000, I I like to see it as an emergency payment.

I don't know why we're calling it a vacation fee.

Is that just technical term?

It's the immediate vacation fee, so usually it's just um they're far from taking a vacation during this term, yeah.

Vacating place, got it.

Okay.

Um is the 1,000, so is that also a GSA per DM rate, or how is the 1,000 calculated, and is that enough given South City's high housing costs?

So uh currently it is in the um in the current ordinance, it was just a set fee.

Um but is it arbitrary to just a number, or how did that 1,000 come up?

So we did do an analysis with the current ordinance, and we tried to um relate it to at least three days of a hotel stay.

Um, and in my analysis, uh at least two weeks in hotel or motel.

Uh hotel.

Uh I just kind of looked at a meeting.

Three days at a thousand.

I don't know that that's comparable.

No, I I mean it's a little higher, but it will sorry.

No, it's demonic on that.

Okay, go ahead.

Nell C Lander Economic and Community Development Director.

So what we've experienced in many of these situations is that there are multiple bedrooms in these units and often a household per bedroom.

Got it.

And so, yes, it's a flat the immediate vacation fee is a flat fee.

It's one we've used for several years now, which seems to be the correct amount when accounting for the fact that folks often need to um uh reserve more than one hotel room to accommodate the unit that is being displaced.

So in some cases, it will be more than they need for a few nights of a hotel.

In some cases, it will not be a knife, say a four-bedroom home, and you need, you know, if there were two to three people in each bedroom, you're you're going to need several hotel rooms.

The hotels and motels usually have limits on the number of occupants per hotel room.

Okay.

And talking about rates, um, who verifies the GSA per DM rate?

Is that just standard across the country or is that like per region?

How do we know that that's sufficient here?

So they are federal rates and they are updated on a yearly basis.

Um, so it is based off of the CPI or what is it?

Yeah, CPI.

Um they include cost of living just because it's higher here than elsewhere.

So GCA um is dependent on the area, so for Samato County, it has its own um consumer price index, yes.

Um just a couple of more.

Um what happens if the landlord simply ignores the 24 hour payment deadline?

What what are the actual penalties then?

Oh second, we double check on maintenance.

Towards the landlord.

Uh so as I mentioned, uh, the city does have the right to intervene um on its own uh discretion.

Um if for any reason in the only for the immediate vacation, they're not responsive.

The city will provide a three um night hotel voucher.

Um but I'm saying how do we get back to the landlord?

How do we enforce the enforcement piece?

Uh so as I mentioned, we do go uh seeking reimbursement from the landlord or property owner uh if for any reason that they do not want to respond or provide us with the reimbursement.

Uh in we've done uh we recorded liens on the property, um we provided uh invoices or notices, um, and there's increments on the on the um sorry, I'm forgetting on on the amount and the fees that um that are owed back to the city.

Got it.

Um I'll pause with this next question, but so it looks like there's a lot of city involvement in this process and staff.

So what are, and maybe you could chime in and now what are our staffing resources?

What's what staffing resources does do we do we have to monitor compliance and handle uh appeals process?

It's it seems like there could be a lot of time with this appeals process and and being able to engage on that.

A big reason for why we're proposing this appeal and replacement is it will save us time.

So right now there are a number of places in the ordinance where Ellia, who is giving this presentation, is also the one working directly with the tenants and the landlord to help substantiate all of these expenses to then get the relocation payment.

So it's very labor-intensive for the city.

It requires us to hold a ton of documents from these tenants and from the landlord, and we're trying to really streamline that and just make it on a per diem basis.

So it is a quick calculation of what the tenant is is owed once the determination is made that the ordinance applies.

And then um, and then the and and then the landlord is responsible for making the payment.

If they don't make the payment, it's the regular tools that we've we have currently, which is to send them a bill and then to escalate that to a lien, which city council has has taken action in the past to place liens on properties, and that's been pretty effective.

You know, folks need to refinance their property.

They want to take out a home equity line of credit.

Those all require the repayment of those liens, otherwise we would have to subordinate them to the other um lenders on the property.

So it's pretty it's a pretty effective tool.

Um yeah, I will say hopefully it saves us time.

That is the intention.

And may I add to that also?

Um, in addition to the fact that we believe this will help with our staff resources, you all have made some good budget decisions, and that we are um we we have pretty good staffing related to housing here in terms of the resources that you that we can provide and um afford this.

We also have in there, I believe it's a 250 dollar fee that is charged to the landlord to try and help defray a little bit of that expense.

It does not cover um all of our staff costs by any means, but there that's an additional disincentive to landlords to to get to this point.

Yeah, one last question, it's just in terms of multilingual um tenants and many are monolingual, actually.

Does this tenant letter that you attached um in the report is that in Spanish?

Is Yeah, I I did translate it in Spanish and will be provided um to landlords uh both in English and Spanish.

Okay, also when you mention a anti-displacement event, you can't give more information in the letter of what that is because anti-displacement event, people are freaking out, they just got a letter, and it just says an anti-displacement event is has has trigger this.

Is there any way that we could be a little bit more transparent on that, or is that just legal template on the on the tenant letter is what I'm referring to?

That's the notice of violation.

And then you'll see the floor.

So additionally, uh, with the notice that will be provided to the tenant um code enforcement and building officials also help us with the notice of violation, and we include it into these notices for for the tenants, um, and that way they're able to see and what's happening, right?

Because I'm freaking out, I'm getting kicked out of my place.

I need to know not just in a displacement event is kicking me out.

I need to know what it is.

Yeah, and if there's significant repairs, then they're able to see um this is the reason, and we'll be able to give them a determination of how long the displacement will be.

Thank you.

Okay, so councilman Flores has seated the floor, and you're up, Vice Mayor.

Thank you.

For the moment for the moment, I won't see the floor.

I'm gonna so if I can put my project sentinel head on for a minute since they were here and it's fair housing love.

I kind of want to just get some clarification on the rata sheet in terms of notification.

So there was there was in the staff report there's different days, about 30 days, and then there was 20 days for the temporary.

Are you now telling me based upon the what I'm reading the ratit sheet or no longer for the temporary displacement?

Removing 20 days, or you're making it 30 days.

Um it's remaining at the 30-day threshold, so from temporary to permanent, um, as soon as it hits 30 days.

Let me let me let me clarify.

It said in the staff report in the event of a temporary displacement, the landlord shall provide the displaced tenant with a temporary relocation assistance within 24 hours or 20 days prior.

Oh, so those are for instances if they know ahead of time that there's going to be uh repairs or any example, any repairs that will need to be done to the unit.

Um, and if it's not an immediate vacation or immediate displacement, um they could at least they need to at least notify the tenants with 20 days in advance.

But isn't state law say yet they prepare 30 days?

Um information of uh this is why I need clarification on this.

Let me restate it again.

Does the does the temporary displacement notification require a 30-day notice to the tenant saying that they're gonna be temporary displaced?

Because I know in the same, I guess the 20 days that's in the ordinance is the date by is one of the dates by which they have to provide the the relocation um assistance the per diem payment.

If they if they if they're told if they know in advance that a tenant's going to be temporarily relocated, they have to provide the per day per diem relocation payment 20 days in advance.

It's not this is not a 20-day notice to vacate, it's a 20-day period to provide the temper the the per diem payment for temporary relocation.

Okay, okay.

That's what I need clarified.

Thank you very much.

Okay.

And it definitely does would not override state law in terms of the the um notice to vacate requirements.

This is just to provide if they're able to pay, if they know in advance that a tenant's going to be temporarily relocated, they have to pay the per diem relocation amount 20 days in advance.

Okay, can we make sure we clarify that in the in the language?

Um then there was something here about notification.

I said if an advanced notice is not provided, then the payment by the landlord to the displaced tenant must be made within 24 hours, which we get.

After the notice to vacate is posted and mailed.

So are you saying that the landlord has to now mail and post the notice?

Because under state law, it's either one or the other.

So I just want to clarify what we're doing here.

Uh I'm nitpicking, but this is really important in terms of the tenant landlord relationships.

Vice Mayor, can you tell us which section you're looking at?

Yeah, so I I wrote it down, but I wrote down the quote.

It was in the staff report, and it said if advanced notice is not provided, says in the event of a permit, it's probably under the permit displacement section.

So the advanced note, uh read it the whole in the event of permanent displacement, if an anticipated notice is provided to the tenant, assistance must be provided no later than 10 days before the the expected vacation date.

If an advanced notice is not provided, then the payment by the landlord to the displaced tenant must be made within 24 hours after a notice to vacate is posted and mailed.

So you are saying that the landlord has to post and mail the notice.

Not every landlord does that.

Yeah.

The landlord will either just mail it or post it.

So if they only do one of it, are they in violation?

Because the way you're writing it is saying you have to do both.

So I just want to clarify is either you're telling them they have to do both, or it could be and it could be or if I may, uh Mr.

Vice Mayor.

Okay.

Uh Mike Noche, housing manager.

Uh I just one point of clarification uh with regards to taking in your question.

Yes.

So one very specific point of the ordinance is that most of this is triggered on code enforcement, so some will be immediate where someone has to move out right away.

You still have to provide a notice to the tenant.

For a code enforcement violation, that may be a red tag, which like if there was a fire in the on the pro in the property, that is an immediate vacation.

There is which you post on a door.

Correct.

And so what I believe is being described here in regards to a longer timeline or a notice by the landlord, that is triggering the landlord to be re to be involved in what is communicated to the tenant, which isn't always happen happening, right?

A lot of the violations are communicated to the owner of the property, but then the tenant may not be getting that information.

We do our best to ensure that the tenant is informed, but let's say they weren't home.

This provides some parameters that enforces the landlord to ensure that they are informing the tenant.

No, I'm not disagreeing with you.

Well, I'm I'm I'm clarifying because the landlord needs to know if they're following the rules correctly.

Are you saying they have to do both that the post it on door and they have to mail it if it's a temporary displacement because that that we would yeah?

Okay.

I'm I'm nitpicking here, but I'm telling you right now that this is the stuff that as when I would advise people, the landlords were really wanted to follow the rules.

The last thing we want to do is one start over again and then provide a new notice if this was something different.

If this was like a termination notice or something like that.

But I'm I'm just really nitpicking on this because I really wanted this to be right on this.

It is okay.

So if I'm looking at the section of the actual ordinance as drafted, yeah, it's posted and mailed, and I believe that in the draft forms that we included, we also selected posted and mailed.

Okay, so they have to do both.

And I believe that is consistent with our current ordinance.

Okay.

Um we post and mail everything, and to the extent possible, email or text as well.

Information at this is an additional notification to a tenant if we can't reach them in any other way to notify them.

But I'm just letting you know a text message is not a valid notification to the tenant.

I also just want to clear I I think the the notice and order that's being referred to is the notice in order to vacate issued by the city.

Okay.

Not that not a typical notice provided by the landlord to um to uh to the tenant under the landlord tenant law.

This is if the this is the notice an order or order from the city to vacate the premises because the code violations require it.

So our code says those those notices must be posted and mailed.

Okay, that's I just wanted to clarify make sure that the we're following.

Okay.

So let's can we talk about also comparable replacement definition?

Yes.

What are you saying it has to be matching square footage, the number of bedrooms?

Because there's that's always been a question between an argument between tenants and landlords, is what is what is comparable?

Comparable replacement actually mean.

So comparable housing um the comparable housing unit would be of the same size.

Um there is language in there that for if any reason, if the original unit was a three bedrooms and they're only provided a two-bedroom unit, um, the tenant could could either accept or say this isn't going to work for my the how household size.

Um I mean if it is an option and it provides flexibility for landlords who don't have the ability to provide all of the the assistance.

Um but the comparable housing unit would be of the same size.

Same size, so you're talking about the number of bedrooms, not so much a square footage.

Yes.

Okay.

Okay.

And I think that needs to be clearer.

Yeah, but what happens if the tenant disagrees that it's comparable?

Um if they disagree that it's a comparable housing unit, then um the landlord will need to provide the relocation assistance payments.

So this is what the when I one of my questions on that, so since he brought it up, since the astute member from from the district, district five, brought up the square footage issue.

If I'm a tenant, and then the landlord says, well, it's the same number of bedrooms, that's two bedrooms, the the tenant can say no, it's not comparable.

Yeah, in the ordinance language, um the tenant needs to accept accept it.

Yes.

Okay.

Yeah, because location can also play a part, right?

Because if the tenant is moved to a different city, which will take him farther from his work, because that is also owned by the landlord.

I I don't think so it has to be mutually acceptable.

Understood.

I guess the qu the the scenario I see is when a when a tenant is offered a comparable space, let's say within the building, but the tenant says no, that doesn't give a lot of leeway to the landlord.

Then now they're now have to pay their the fees.

And then if I'm correct, if they do accept the comparable space, the lease terms stay the same, correct?

Remain the same, correct?

And they pay the same amount of rent.

Correct.

They're not starting a new lease, it stays whatever it is.

Yes, it's the same terms and conditions as okay.

So now not starting a new lease whatsoever.

Okay.

Can I ask you a question about the 250 dollars?

Yeah.

What is it actually for?

Are you telling me that the 250 dollars is for administrative fee?

No, not necessarily.

So um most of the time we do refer uh these tenants to case management services that the city works with and that we provide um funding for.

So why am I as a landlord paying someone 250 dollars if you are going to refer to another agency to handle if I may?

Uh so that administrative fee uh is meant to include staff costs, but it does not cover staff costs.

Our our time would chew up far more than that in regards to all of the city staff that are involved in every case.

Uh so it is a minimal fee, it is meant to be extremely reasonable to the landlord, but also invoke a notice that this is costing the city, and our our time is being spent on these cases that in in most cases or area are being triggered by a cause caused by the landlord, not the tenant.

But you're tracking the case basically.

We are we are doing I you want to justify the 250 dollars that's staff's time as far.

I know it's 250 dollars, but if I'm hearing that, well, I'm paying 250, but I'm kicking it over to Project Sentinel to handle why did I just pay 250 dollars to the city to transfer the case when you're supposed to be helping the landlord and the tenant?

Yeah, I would say Project Sentinel and other services that we work with are a parallel right now.

And their services are free.

Yeah, and to correct what was stated, so this is administrative fee, a fee to the city to meant to recoup a minimal amount of costs.

Yes, we do refer that our time is still spent working with those individuals.

I would would point out, but I would say we have staff from housing, building uh legal.

If if we were to include all of the costs, that it would make it astronomical to a landlord to be quite frank.

I'd like to add to that.

So that this does not nearly cover the amount of time that our staff spends.

So if somebody is saying that we have referred them over and staff isn't spending any time, if you look at the time to draft the letters to coordinate with legal counsel, to work with the tenant, to work with the landlord, uh this in no way covers um you know double digit percentages at all of that time.

This is a council policy decision, though.

We are asking you to adopt a resolution that sets these fees, so this is one of the fees that you could set higher or lower or eliminate.

Okay.

So let me kind of wrap this up a little bit.

So there were some emails going back and forth with some stakeholders and staff was given those emails.

And I uh there was a conversation here about reimbursement if the displacement was shorter than the paid per diem payments.

The language is if displacement is shorter than the landlord has paid for per diem displacement tenant must repay the overpaid amount to the landlord within 30 days.

That's a temporary displacement, but not for the permit displacement.

Why didn't we keep that the same?

So for the permanent displacement, usually uh tenants are needing to find a more permanent relocation or permanent housing.

Um in most cases for permanent displacement, a lot of the the tenants aren't to return back to the unit, so that also it covers those costs.

Um but with the conversation with uh Sam Carr and CAA, we were able to um add the additional, which was a uh a ratish sheet that we provided to city council.

We also included language that would um give that will allow the city to give an extension to the landlord if they give a written request.

So for example, if it's a 29 temporary 29-day temporary displacement, and if for any reason they need an additional 10 or 15 days to um not cover the or not get to that permanent displacement, the city can also approve that extension of the temporary displacement so in that instance would they get additional relocation on top of that if if the ex if there's like a two-week extension?

So they would continue with the temporary displacement um fees or the schedule.

Same rate.

What about the cap?

Um, so the cap is uh still continues to be applied.

Um but for for example, like the example that I provided um with the temporary displacement, it the cap was at $8,208, and that's for like the max of the displacement.

Okay.

The last question I had was there was a talk about an escrow account being set up.

But we're not doing that, but I guess Redwood City and Foster City have done that.

Was there any reason why we didn't do something similar to that?

In terms of it is an administrative burden.

We didn't want to introduce a new component of this that was an additional element that the city had to track and monitor and enforce.

So right now, uh before we're monitoring, enforcing collecting receipts.

This is a per DM.

So all we're tracking is whether or not the payments have been made.

The escrow would be have you set up the escrow account?

The right parties have access to it.

Are they drawing upon it?

Has it been closed out?

So it's basically replacing one staff intensive activity with another, and we didn't feel like it provided any substantial benefit.

Um in this situation.

Okay.

It's not okay.

Yeah, um, just follow up on a question.

So 50% camp cap for temporary relocations.

Let's say it's 8,000 for 29 days and it has to be extended for two weeks, it's still 8,000 despite that extension.

Yes.

And so what if I don't know, it's a big family.

Um they have already met that 8,000 and they're all out of relocation assistance, they're in a hotel, and they're told you have to stay for two more weeks.

I mean, could the cap be prorated to the extension in time?

Does that make sense?

Yes, it's a policy decision for that.

It is a policy decision for you for you all.

Um, as I mentioned, the the um the fees and the established or associated fines um are through council res are approved through council resolution.

So that is something that could be um monitor moderated or fixed or changed.

So I guess how do we words mift this, right?

Is it you know 50%?

And if it's extended, that 50% still applies, but instead of the 8,000 it'd be more like 12.

Does that make sense?

Yeah, that could be doing my math correctly.

Wait, wait, wait.

I don't understand, I won't understand what you're asking.

You want to can you just say it again over time, councilman?

So uh assume uh a temporary displacement is 29 days, which is the max is around $8,000.

Right.

Let's say in those 29 days, you have a big family, they've used up that entire $8,000.

Um says, hey, we need two more weeks to finish um the renovations.

But they're at that cap, so they're not going to get any extra relocation for those two more weeks, which can be a lot of burden for for that family, correct?

If I may, through the mayor.

Uh one suggestion uh might be we could we could increase from 50% cap to say 75% in the event that the city is approving an extension, it would still be no more than the 30 or no more than 30 additional days capped at 60 total uh on temporary displacement uh definition, but any time we go above that 30 percent, we could increase up to 25% more to cover some of that as a suggestion, but of course, a council decision and policy direction.

Well, my thoughts were just keep it the same rate, like if it's gonna be 50% and you're getting an extra couple weeks, it should still be that 50%, just on top of the 8,000.

I may have been misunderstanding it, but my thought is that they're gonna potentially hit the cap already at that 30-day mark.

Uh so we would need to increase beyond that cap in order to cover additional hotel and expenses.

Yes.

Okay.

So increasing my suggestion is to increase that percentage only when the request is being made for beyond that initial 30-day.

Okay.

That that works.

And we could my suggestion was 75% would open to where you all in.

I think 75% would cover it.

And then if a permanent is triggered, it would then, and this that extra 25% is paid.

There's still 25% that is remaining, that remainder would then be paid at the time the permanent is officially triggered.

What we are sometimes seeing in certain examples is the temporary, yes, there are a lot of variables.

Uh when there when there's a permanent, it's a bit more clear, and the household's likely not moving back.

They're gonna spend the four months worth of assistance.

Two of those months are realistically gonna be for a security deposit and first month's rent on a new location.

One of those months will likely cover immediate addition in addition to the immediate 1,000 uh payment to the to the household, another month worth of expenses and just that transition time, and potentially two.

So that is some of the metrics on why we landed on on four, uh, which amounts to a similar amount of of and why that cap is very important.

Okay.

So I guess maybe if I could get direction from my colleagues on that concept.

Let's see if um Councilwoman Nicholas would like to Yeah, I commend the efforts of our housing um staff for updating the municipal code.

Uh I was just looking for something because we know that the housing cost in California is a lot higher, and and for sure that uh the amounts that had been there in the old municipal code has been quite outdated based on the national age uh HUD uh average.

Now I was just looking for what I was looking for in the staff report is that has this been vetted by stakeholders?

Did we hear from people who are really directly affected or kindly involved in this update?

So we did uh share with our anti-displacement uh CAC committee, which does include property owners and tenants um within the city.

Um as I mentioned previously, we did also share it with uh Project Sentinel who works directly with tenants who go through these displacement um situations, uh legal aid as well, um, and the California um apartment association and Samcar.

Uh so we did receive input from all of these stakeholders.

Um I think I must have missed that line.

Thank you.

I do have a couple of our questions, but I do want to get direction from my colleagues about the the cap with if the landlord wishes to extend a temporary if there is support there.

I'm turning to the man with the most experience.

Okay.

So if a temporary display says 29 days, if the landlord wants to extend that beyond 29 days, I believe a tenant should get um additional relocation assistance, assuming that they may have use it all for that 29 days.

And there's no process, well, there's an appeal process.

Could the landlord then say no in terms of providing the additional compensation?

I give them eight whatever the max cap was, and that's that they could argue that's I'm only have another two more weeks, and based upon what the the amount in terms of the hotel costs and their and their uh expenses, like the does the expenses that do they provide expenses to staff saying this is how much they use in terms of no, okay.

So we're not gonna be tracking that, okay.

To answer to answer your question about an appeal, the appeal is appealing the determination.

Right, I'm sure that's it's not the specific amount.

Yeah, I will say that what is what we have found in implementing the ordinance is that folks that are displaced understand how much the maximum is that they might receive.

So in this case it would be 8,000.

Right.

And they start to plan accordingly.

Like folks are good at planning to make sure they have stable housing.

So a lot of what we've seen is for maybe a few nights they'll stay in a hotel till they identify a family member or a friend or a new vacant unit that they hear about through a social network or um through um the schools.

Um you know, they're they're folks tend to find someplace that they can afford based on that amount of funding that is provided through this program.

So I think it is it is totally a policy call on whether or not to increase the cap from 50% up to 75% in those instances where a temporary displacement goes more than 30 days.

It is also something that staff considered when we got this feedback from our stakeholders that you know there might be situations in which that are extraordinary where the city really does want to extend that temporary cap.

For example, all of the corrective action is completed in 29 days, but we can't schedule a final inspection for three.

That's rare, but that could happen.

And so we don't want to penalize the landlord for that.

And in the amount of the temporary relocation we think is sufficient to cover those small gaps.

Yes, the tenant won't know until it's upon them.

So I understand the point about adding some additional days or percentage.

Um, but it is something that we considered and did not propose increasing the cap for that that small period of time.

It's something that we would weigh that staff would weigh as um we were making the determination whether or not to approve that extension.

And what was the feedback in terms of the stakeholders saying if that extra two weeks in terms of covering costs was what was the feedback from our stakeholders saying they would be open or like they had some.

We didn't ask them.

We didn't ask.

Is that a like is what I'm describing like really rare?

Like it's hasn't happened.

Because if it hasn't happened, then maybe we don't have to.

Well, our ordinance right now is set up that a permanent displacement starts at 90 days, so it is much later in the process.

But what we have found is permanent displacements, you almost always know by day 10.

You know, like you know when it's gonna be a permanent displacement because it is typically an unpermitted unit that the landlord has decided to take fully offline.

They're not trying to put it, you know, it was not permitted to begin with.

They say it's too costly to make it permitted, we will just remove the unit from the housing inventory.

It's a really unfortunate situation because then we're displacing a tenant and losing a housing unit, but the housing unit was substandard.

So it's not often, you know, usually it's really temporary or it's definitely permanent.

So it seems very rare.

So I think it uh raising the cap will cover those uh where situations.

Okay.

Um I do have one more question.

I'm sorry.

Well, two more questions.

Um are there instances is there ever common for temporary displacements to become permanent display displacements?

I know you kind of described it, but is there any circumstance where it's you know like when assuming a landlord is paying a tenant for temporary displacement, maybe the tenant is not looking for a new unit, but is staying at a hotel and planning to stay there for I don't know, three weeks, and then it becomes permanent.

Do they get the permanent relocation assistance on top?

Okay, I'm saying not great.

Um not on not on top.

Um the amount of money that they've received in the temporary, then they would receive the remainder.

The remainder, okay.

Correct.

All right.

Um hopefully the tenant will know as soon as possible, right?

So they could start planning.

Uh the second my last question is um so the appeal panel.

Who is on the appeal panel?

Three members of the planning commission.

Yes, so it is a subcommittee that is formed by three members of the planning commission.

Is there a reason why we chose three members of the planning commission to be on the appeals committee?

It it seemed like a so we don't have a lot of appeals panels in the city, and they are one.

There, you know, there is an appeals panel built into planning commission things, and then also they know about construction.

I mean, it is an easy concept to explain.

This is what a unit should look like.

This is you know what the features of it are.

So it's been it's worked really well for us.

We've had two appeals.

I'll I'd add that um this is in the current ordinance.

Um so I don't know the origins of the decision to um have three members of the commission uh serve as the appeal panel, but I would echo that I think it's worked well.

Um the planning commissioners um are one of the few advisory bodies, maybe the only advisory body that actually can conducts hearings, so they understand what the process is, um, how to conduct a hearing, how to take evidence, how to um how to weigh it, how to make findings.

Um if we if we um had different people, they would have to be trained to conduct that process.

Um and so with the with the planning commission, no training is necessary, they already have that experience.

So we have for the two appeals that have occurred, uh brought in an outside council to advise the appeals panel so they have their own legal counsel to assist them, but they actually understand how to conduct a hearing, and because they have that experience already, don't require additional training to do it.

So it has worked well.

I would also like to clarify that um there are two separate processes just to make sure that there's full understanding that the fact that there is an appeal process, as you've asked the question and as these folks have described, um the process where there's a petition to have the extra time under the temporary category is separate.

That would be staff administered.

Okay, yeah.

And I'm this is only a side note, but um there the city does also have to have an appeals body to heal hear appeals of building code issues.

That is also it's the same um three members of the planning commission.

So there's they're serving double duty in that regard, but but I don't know that we've had any of those yet.

But actually it turns out that there was an appellate case a few years ago where it where a city had not established that and it was uh the appellate court found that it was a problem for them.

So having one panel to hear both building code appeals and these appeals um provide some efficiency.

Okay, thank you.

That that answers my question.

Okay, uh are we close to bringing this home?

It looks like um any members of the public want to speak on this item.

No speakers, Mayor.

Okay.

All right.

Um I guess um councilman, you kind of brought that new aspect into you know going beyond the 50 percent.

So I do want to ask staff what's the easiest way to to make the motion that incorporates that amendment.

Maybe Sky, Sky would be sky answer the councilman's question.

Sky's gonna get it right.

Make sure my mic's on.

Um I would suggest that um the motion include um a revision to the ordinance as proposed to increase the cap for temporary uh relocations to 75 percent um to be with the additional 25 percent to be provided only if the city counts only if the staff approves um an extension of the temporary displacement.

Um I guess I'll pause there to say you had sort of suggested prorating it for for the number of days.

Um we if you wanted to um incorporate that, I'd just add to what I said previously that um the additional 25 percent would be prorated daily um based on the additional number of days that that the uh temporary displacement was extended by staff.

Yes, thank you, that's fair.

Is there some kind of a motion?

So moved.

That's it in the resolution.

All right.

Anybody else on board where they can make the second on that?

I thought we'd have to do that.

You're still pondering it.

That's interesting.

Second weigh in before we vote.

So I I I want to clarify this.

So you are saying up to the 29 days, you're still gonna be at the 50 percent cap.

But after we're gonna bump it up to the additional 25 percent.

If the director approves an extension of the additional an extension to the temporary displacement.

I'm sorry, who approves the extent?

The You said the director.

Director of Economic Incredible.

Okay.

So you, okay.

All right.

I will I will sorry, I that thank you to the city manager.

So while you're pausing to think about that, I just want to clarify thank you to the city manager.

This is actually in the resolution, not in the the extension provision is in the ordinance.

The 50 percent cap is in the resolution setting the fees, so the the amendment would actually be to the resolution, not to the ordinance.

Okay, okay.

All right.

I'm glad you guys heard with that.

Okay, okay.

So we have a motion in a second, and uh we'll go ahead with roll call.

Councilmember Coleman?

Yes, Vice Mayor Nogales.

Yes.

Councilmember Nicholas.

I mayor Andygo.

Yes.

Councilmember Flores.

Yes.

Did I'm sorry, we're both city manager and are both making sure that you called on um council member Nicholas.

I did.

Okay.

Yes.

Okay.

And so we will that that was a motion for both the ordinance and the resolution.

Was that your intent, Councilman?

Yes.

And it's fine to have done them both together.

We will take the um the uh amendment that was included in the motion and incorporate that into the ordinance and the resolution.

And so when it comes back for adoption, the ordinance will show the changes and we'll bring back the uh red line version of the resolution that shows the changes.

So council will not have to act on the resolution again, but you can see what what changes were made.

Okay, and we'll look forward to that.

Um that that completes the item, and thank you, ECD, for all your efforts.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Moving on to item number 17 is a report regarding the award AVIC Consulting Services Agreement to TDG Engineering Incorporated for preparation of the Vision Zero Action Plan TR2501.

Item 17A is a resolution.

Good evening, honorable members of council.

My name is Johnny Wilson.

I'm your senior engineer.

And I'm here with a presentation.

Um tonight we're taking the next step towards safer streets for South City.

Uh this is about creating a city where everyone can get where they need to go safely and building the future our community deserves.

In 2021, you set a bold vision of eliminating traffic related deaths, and tonight's action will turn that vision into a reality by uh building a city where safety comes first for pedestrians, cyclists, drivers, everyone.

We know where our challenges are, and now we have the tools to address them.

Um data shows us where to focus our resources to maximize our impact.

And the exciting part is that Vision Zero uses a proven data-driven methods to identify high risk areas before incidents and crashes happen.

So we're moving from uh reactive to proactive safety planning and targeting resources where they'll make the biggest difference.

So we um to we wanted to get someone on board to help us create an action plan.

So we created we ran a competitive request for qualifications process um where we did not consider price.

We had a diverse panel, including staff from different parts of the city, and tool design group rose to the top, and we're excited to get to work.

Uh TDG engineering, uh also known as um tool design group.

So what are we gonna do?

Um Vision Zero takes a comprehensive approach.

We're not just fixing one thing, it's not just about complete streets, it's um really about improving the entire system.

So this you might have seen earlier this uh this we wheel here, the safe road users, safe vehicles, safe speeds, safe roads, and post-crash care.

All those are really important.

And here this slide kind of gives you an idea of some of the elements we'll we'll be looking at.

Um we're gonna use data to identify where investments will have the greatest impact and build a roadmap of action.

Plus, we are going we have a very large uh community engagement component of this.

Um we are uh going to be having a transparent tracking with a public dashboard and really clear priorities.

So how are we paying for this?

Um this was a really smart investment.

We were able to compete for federal funding with your um your guidance, and we won 400,000 for South City.

That means most of this work is funded by our successful grant application, leveraging federal dollars to create a plan that's uh going to gut guide safety improvements for years to come.

Uh we have an 18-month roadmap to a comprehensive action plan.

We will gather data, engage our community, develop clear priorities, and deliver a final plan by April 2028.

There won't be a ribbon cutting, but you know, there'll be a celebration anyways.

Um tonight's vote gets us started immediately by summer.

We'll be in the field.

Next year we'll be engaging residents citywide, and this is an investment in our community's future.

Um tonight you have the opportunity to approve a plan that will make our streets safer for everyone.

This is about creating opportunities, protecting our community, and building the South City we all want to see.

And I believe with your leadership, we can get to zero deaths on our streets.

It's uh been my absolute pleasure to bring this before you tonight, and I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Let's see if we can oblige.

Yeah, questions for Mr.

Wilson.

So uh a question would come to mind um if it was approved in 21.

So uh a question would come to mind um if it was approved in 21, why has it taken so long to put this together um in in with the goal of eliminating death by 2025?

Yeah, that's a great, very tough question.

I asked myself that, and I wish I had an answer for you.

I will say that I can promise to endeavor to put all my effort towards completing this plan on time and uh getting an action plan to actually to actually implement some of these measures.

Thank you.

Appreciate that.

Um who will maintain the public facing uh data dashboard after the plan is delivered?

Is that uh a city staff or contractor?

That's a great question.

Um I thought a lot about this while we're putting together our our our RFP or RFQ.

Yeah, we don't have time to maintain and update a dashboard.

And so a lot of the dashboards that you see out there, they don't get maintained.

And you have a high injury network that's static, even though things land use changes, crashes changes, context changes in our streets, development occurs, right?

So these things need to be updated uh automatically.

And so um the answer question, like no one will be loading data into this dashboard yearly.

We um have our the this consultant has indicated they've been successful in other jurisdictions, getting um data from the traffic injury management system, the statewide system that our police department contributes, sends our crash data to, as well as getting um information about what types of crash victims show up in the emergency room.

So being able to connect those uh systems together will allow that dashboard to show up in real time.

Also, the dashboard will include things like uh uh equity um and some of those maps are kind of created at a regional level, we'll be able to kind of pull into our dashboard directly.

Now, of course, we have GIS people and programmers that need to maintain and update this system, um, but that'll be uh part of our regular operations plan.

Great, thank you.

And and that was my point.

My point is I want to make sure that we capture also under-reported incidents, and that's why I want to make sure that the dashboard also, and you you alluded to that, that it includes hospital ER data in addition to the police crash reports, uh, so that we could track that as well.

Um, the one thing that I always ask about or ask for uh in these type of reports is having an executive summary that is in plain language uh to our residents so that they understand how it applies to them and it's applicable and relatable, and if it is possible that we could also make it available uh in other languages as well, right?

Because I always say reports are only as good as the practical and and how much we're gonna be able to uh implement them.

Um otherwise they're just uh you know gonna be shelved, and and I don't want that for this report.

Thank you for your work on this.

Thank you.

Welcome, Mr.

Kim.

Good evening.

Uh Union Kim Public Works Director.

Um Councilmember Eddie, uh, you had a very good question about why has it taken so long for this plan to be implemented.

Um I just want to say that our capital improvement program over the past decade has basically um prioritized safety over operations for this basic overall goal of um saving lives and minimizing injuries.

All of our capital improvements, such as the traffic improvements and the transportation signing, striping, all the work we've done around the schools, prioritizes safety first.

This is just a plan that kind of formalizes a specific process, but we've been doing this all along in all of our capital improvements.

Thank you for the clarification.

Um bit of a comment and then um some things I hope that we can touch on through the study.

Better light than never, so I'm glad I'm glad it's happening now.

Uh, you know, we were actually many of us on the council were at Josh Becker's uh event at Antigua, and someone made a comment about how LED lights, LED LED headlights, are uh becoming very bright.

And I thought I was the only one having that issue, but it turns out everyone's having that issue where I believe the new cars that are manufactured have bright LED lights.

And there are some videos on social media that circulate every so often where you know a car across from them has bright LED lights, the headlights aren't that the the high beams aren't even on, it's just that bright, and they're obviously blinded and they make a turn during the night, and then they crash into someone.

And I just can't help help but think that part of the issue, and this is probably above our level, right?

Uh maybe maybe it's the DMV that decides this, but but the design of our cars, one is the LED lights, and and second is just how much larger that certain vehicles have gotten to where uh if it's the child walking directly in front of a truck or someone who is vertically challenged, the driver's not gonna see them.

And it's just making things so much unsafer.

So I wonder how can we address that portion of it, right?

Because we can address our fleet, but how can we address, or maybe it's maybe it's through education, right?

Or or some sort of letter we send somewhere that hopefully gets read.

I will I will say that um I'm not I I initially had your first reaction when I heard this safe vehicles thing, you know.

That's above, that's large, that's bigger than us.

What other jurisdictions like Washington, DC, what they have done is they've really leaned into doing their own fleet, and it's a start, and I think that it changes the culture.

So in DC, for instance, they have all their vehicles, they're piloting this um the speed soft the speed hardware that goes on their on their work trucks, and uh, you know, we'll let them go up to five miles an hour over the speed limit or something like that.

And that I think that it changes the culture of our staff, and uh it also affects the a large proportion of the vehicles on the road.

We have large fleets, and we have partners as well that have large fleets.

So I I think that's what I'm seeing other jurisdictions doing, and it's something that we're going to be including in our plan.

It's not just one thing.

We're gonna look at it from all the angles.

I don't know about um LED headlights, but I will say as I'm getting older, uh I have a harder time kind of seeing at night in those uh uh yeah, bright headlights are definitely a contributing factor.

Thank you for looking at me.

He's looking at me.

You should all be looking at me, I'm the one frustrated about it.

Um and then last thing is I think you know, road diets, slow streets.

I know Avalon's been kind of the test neighborhood for speed bumps, and some of the neighbors still want more speed bumps.

Um, but I'm thinking, I mean, speed bumps can't solve everything, right?

So, like what other creative ways, and I know when you go down the peninsula a bit more towards like Menlo Park and Palo Alto, do you have I mean I don't know what you call it, but they have trees kind of in the road a little bit that kind of forces cars to slow down a little bit, and so can we be a little more creative in that way?

Yeah, I I think so.

And I think the other the big part of this vision zero action plan is to not just chase crashes, it's really to look at the context of the streets and not wait for a crash to happen, right?

So it's about saying, well, this street has a lot of pedestrians, it has a lot of commercial activity, has a lot of people trying to park.

These are the contributing factors, you know.

This is a street with a speed limit kind of over this amount.

So all the streets with those qualities, you know, should have a similar kind of treatment, uh, similar sorts of treatments.

Um you know, in neighborhoods is certainly one area to look at.

Um, and neighborhood traffic circles and street design will be one of the elements that this consultant is going to be exploring.

Mr.

Kim, did you have something to share on this?

I I just want to make sure um Jay James, your question was answered adequately about the lighting.

Were you was it focused on our fleet or just in general?

Just in general, LED headlights are a curse.

There's federal standards about audio manufacturing, and some people do um change out their lights to make them brighter.

And newer cars are coming with like adaptive lights where they kind of turn off certain areas so that they don't find other people.

But it's like you said, um, bigger than us.

But people do game the system and they put in brighter lights for whatever reason.

Vice Mayor.

So I've kind of inspired by Councilman Coleman's about comment about thinking outside the box.

So in some cities that have implemented vision zero, I've been thinking about this idea for a while.

They have actually banned right turns.

Is that something that the vision zero study could potentially look into?

Yeah, absolutely.

That is uh there's a proven crash modification factor.

Hold on, hold on.

We we're conferring, and we've heard of organizations like FedEx that don't allow left turns because those are the dangerous ones.

Because those are the dangerous ones.

Are you sure you're talking about right or left?

Yeah, it's right turns, right?

No turn and right, no turn on red.

On right turns.

Oh, okay.

Well that's thank you.

Thanks.

Every stop sign Coleman is that.

Yes, I was about to ask that because that's also one of the things that's being looked at.

But that's something that the Vision Zero studies have looked into in the past.

I know I know some cities have looked at that and they've seen decreases in terms of crashes and fatalities because of that.

There are multiple federal studies in many different locations and contexts.

And um prohibiting right turns on red is a proven safety countermeasure to prevent um pedestrians in particular.

You might have noticed in my slide, uh, 30% of serious injury crashes are involving pedestrians, and uh there are less than 30% of the traffic on the streets is pedestrians, so they're taking the uh overwhelming kind of proportion of those injuries.

And uh I think the problem in particular is that drivers um are challenged myself included with having multiple kind of decisions to make at one point in time, and that's what the no right turn on red is kind of doing.

You don't have to both watch from traffic from your left and a pedestrian potentially crossing at the same time.

It it is of course, you know, we have engineers that look at the operation of the streets at the same time, so we're always looking at making sure that we have an orderly flow of traffic, but um safety is our number one.

Yeah.

Another thing that I've noticed I saw on Grand Avenue that um at the end of like the end of Grand Avenue, is that when there's the bike lane, they've actually give pedestrians and and bicyclists kind of a head start before you make a right turn.

That's something potentially you might want to take a look at, is actually giving pedestrians a little more leeway in terms of walking onto their crosswalk so that cars can actually see them.

Yeah.

That is absolutely something that we have implemented, as you and June alluded to earlier.

We've got a couple projects where we have done that.

The one thing, just there's nuances to each of these countermeasures.

For example, if you don't have accessible pedestrian push buttons, then um that tell you when it's safe to walk, then someone that has a vision impairment isn't going to receive the same kind of benefit as someone that can see that um walk symbol ahead.

So there's uh, you know, we want to make sure to upgrade our infrastructure at the same time as we're rolling out any of these changes so that everyone gets the same safety benefit.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, are we ready to go back home?

One last one because I wanted to see about the SS4A grants.

Um we had spoken about and I had mentioned to you that in some Southern California cities they have the flashing stop uh sign um at night and evenings, and you said that's a little bit more higher price range and whatnot.

I'm thinking it can the city pursue additional SSS 4A grants for construction, um, and maybe having this action plan already in place strengthens future grant applications for things such as that.

Generally correct, it it does strengthen uh applications when we have more information supporting work that will be beneficial to the community.

Okay.

That's on my wish list, so just think about that.

Great.

So back to this uh professional services agreement.

Is anybody oh do we have public comments on this item?

No public comments, Mayor.

Okay, thank you, Rosa.

Um back to the agreement.

Anybody uh I'll make the motion.

Excellent.

Motion on the floor and a second by councilman Coleman and a roll call vote coming up.

Councilmember Flores?

Yes, Councilmember Nicholas?

Hi, Mayor Adiego?

Yes, Vice Mayor Nagales?

Yes.

And Councilmember Coleman.

Yes.

We will now move on to items from council committee reports and announcements.

Are there any?

Very brief reports uh from Peninsula Clean Energy, our favorite regional board.

Uh they are uh through their Gov PV program financing solar panels and battery storage uh right across the street out of police station.

So um thank you, Peninsula Clean Energy.

Um we're looking forward to that.

Thank you, Jim.

They are indeed renaming themselves too, James.

Sorry, say it again.

They renaming they are renaming uh Peninsula Clean Energy.

Oh, yes.

Uh we should expect an agenda item uh from Peninsula Clean Energy uh soon to be named West Light.

West Light?

Yes.

Oh, okay.

Yes, and and the reason why is because uh Planta Clean Energy is of course a JPA composed of San Mateo County cities and the county, but also Los Baños, which isn't on the penis slide.

So in an effort to be inclusive and potentially add other cities from around the state and beyond, um I believe they want they they feel the need to change a name.

It's mildly controversial, but um we made a decision to do so.

And actually the name won't change unless everyone in JPA agrees.

Everyone, everyone has to agree, yeah.

One could be an obstructionist.

Wow.

Okay.

Any other uh last-minute reports or great.

So uh Rosa, I think we can moving on to closed session, Mayor.

Item number 18 is a conference with real property negotiators pursuant to government code section 54956.8 properties 1051 Mission Road, APN numbers 093-312-080 and 09-312-090.

City negotiators, Nell Sealander, Economic and Community Development Director, Megan Woolley Osdoll, Deputy City Manager, and Skye Woodworth City Attorney.

Negotiating parties is uh SSFPUC housing partners LLC and 1051 Mission Affordable LLC under negotiations price and term.

Thank you, Rosa.

Now we'll enter closed session and uh floor necklace, please join us.