City Council - Regular Meeting

I'd like to call this meeting to order. Today is Monday, March 23rd. For those in the public, there are three ways to submit a comment. One is emailing the city clerk. All comments received prior to 400 pm will be acknowledged and sent to all council. Those comments received after 400 p.m. will not be read at council. The second way is to fill out a speaker card located at the back of the chambers. If you wish to speak to the council at the meeting, please fill out a card and submit it up here to staff as soon as possible within the meeting.

If we can all kindly please rise for the pledge to the flag, those who can. Thank you. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, Madame Clerk. If I can have the roll call, please. Miss Dioani, present. Dr. Doss Magal present. Miss Puano present.

Miss Manalo. Mr. Sylvester. Glenn Sylvester present. At this time, I'd like to um defer to uh Madame City attorney. I see we do have one of our council members on Zoom at this time. Madame City attorney.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh the mayor, we need to address the remote participation under government Um, city clerk, uh, vice mayor, um, would you kindly please confirm you are participating remotely and state the general nature of the emergency circumstances?

I'm participating remotely pursuing Thank you, Vice Mayor. With that being said, I'll entertain a motion to approve remote participation for this regular meeting and a special meeting immediately following. So move. Second. We have a first and a second. May give you a voice vote for for all parties. Roll call vote. Yes. Voice voice vote. Vote. Voice vote. Thank you very much. All those in favor say I. I. I.

Any oppose?

Any abstensions. Motion passes. Thank you very much. The vice mayor is approved to participate remotely for both meetings. All right, moving on. We have a few presentations this evening. We'll first start off the first presentation on Senate Bill 63, Local Investment Plan, Sam Trans. Good evening. Good evening, Mayor Sylve Sylvester, members of the city council. Thanks for inviting us to present today. My name is Charles Chang. I'm a government and community affairs officer with the Sanonteo County Transit District, and I'm here to share an update. And we have a slide deck as well. Um, I'm going to give an I'm going to give information about a potential revenue measure which could be on the November ballot. and if it makes it, we're sharing information for what it could mean for the county and how you and community members can engage in the process. Thank you, Leilani. So, this is the agenda. We have information on the ballot measure as a whole and we'll really be focusing today on Samonteo County. So, first I wanted to start off by giving a brief snapshot of SAMR, who we are and who we serve. We provide bus and paratransit service here in Sonteo County. It it's an essential service for people to get to work, school, home, medical appointments, and other destinations. You can see some bullet points here about our service, but I really want to emphasize that our writers depend on us. 94% are lowincome and 80% do not drive or own a car for a variety of reasons.

So, some of the key issues, transit agencies that carry millions of people throughout the Bay Area are facing major operational deficits. These agencies are sharing with the public this reality and a few reasons for why that is, which you can see on this slide. You'll be hearing from the other transit agencies about how the ballot measure, if successful, could help them stabilize and maintain their service levels. But I really want to emphasize that today that's not the focus of the pres presentation today. We're focused on Sanonteo County. So some background on the ballot measure. There's a there's state legislation that passed last year called SB63, the Connect Bay Area Act. It may reach the November ballot via citizens initiative and there's a signature gathering effort underway now. It would require 50% plus one of total votes in five counties to pass. Sonteo, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Alamita, and Contraosta. If it makes the ballot, voters will decide if they approve a half cent sales tax for 14 years and a full cent in San Francisco only. It would provide nearly a billion dollars to transit in the Bay Area. And about 63% of the funding would go to preventing major service cuts on Cal Train, BART, MUN, AC Transit, SF Bay Ferry, and some other smaller agencies. In Sonteo County, there would also be locally administered funds for local transportation improvements. And that's really what we want to focus on today. So, what does this mean for Sonteo County? Samrans would allocate approximately $50 million annually for 14 years. There are some limitations on the funds. They have to be used for public transit in one way, shape, or

form. So, we need your input and the community's input. The purpose is to help the SAM Trans Board determine how the $50 million would be invested in Sanonteo County. So the good news is that even though the funds are limited to public transit, we have other ways of funding transportation items here in Sonteo County. We have two halfsent sales taxes that fund transportation improvements, measures A and W, which you can see on the screen. They are prescriptive. Voters have told us what to spend the money on. And measure A expires in 2033 and the Sanonteo County Transportation Authority may be asking voters to renew the sales tax most likely in 2028. There may be transportation projects that don't fit the Connect Bay Area ballot measure that could be later addressed in Measure A. I also wanted to provide context about SAM Trans. We're very fortunate in Sonteo County that our bus system is in a stronger financial position than some of the other operators that have deficits of $75 million or $300 million. But starting in fiscal year 2028, we do start to see an inflection point where expenditures are outpacing revenues. We do project an operating deficit that averages about $30 million per year over the next decade. And as I mentioned, SAM Transvides an essential service for many people. So, we have to watch this carefully. There are some cost-saving measures we're doing proactively now. And we recognize we need to protect this essential bus service for our customers. So, how is SAMR determining how to spend the money it would receive if the ballot measure qualifies and passes? We're putting together a local investment plan.

We have pre-existing strategic planning documents to help us and we have done a huge amount of outreach in the past several years to understand our writers priorities and the community's priorities. Our board has also provided guidance. We've already held and we've also already held two workshops for our stakeholder and agency advisory groups. And I wanted to thank assistant city manager Tim Nevin for participating in the agency advisory group workshops. our stakeholder work. Our stakeholder groups includes business, nonprofit, labor, special districts, and other community groups. And thank you for giving us the opportunity tonight to present to the city council and the community members watching tonight. We're conducting a public survey to gather input and at the end of the day, our board will decide the plan for this money if the ballot measure qualifies and passes. So we are doing public engagement on a short timeline. We basically have about 10 weeks for engagement and through this process we're listening and are trying to develop this local investment plan for our board to adopt. There will be a discussion at the SAMR board meeting on May 6th. We invite you to participate or tune in and there will um and the goal for board adoption is at the June meeting. We're doing this now so that residents have information on how funds would be invested in locally if the ballot measure qualifies and passes. So, taking all of our existing inputs, we've identified 10 categories for funding consideration. And here are the various categories we're surveying on the screen here. So these categories are based on SAM trans work and planning projects, the stakeholder and agency feedback and the work we're doing now. We need to hear from people and to hear from you how to prioritize these various categories. We have an online survey available in multiple languages, English, Spanish,

Chinese, and Talogue. And we're also leaving tear off surveys in paper here back in the room and around the county. They have QR codes where people can take the survey and tear off portions that can be mailed back to our office. Um, so just really want to emphasize we need your help. The survey closes April 30th and we're working to get the information out. Getting information sooner is better than later for us because it'll help shape the conversations we have. Um, we've also given your staff a toolkit for social media, press, and newsletters. And our ask is also to for you to amplify this in your social media, your city and constituent newsletters. And of course, please take the survey yourself as well. So, we know we have a short presentation tonight, so we encourage you to get in touch with us to share your thoughts. Our email address is listed on on here on the slide, local funding plan.com. And thank you again for having us tonight.

Thank you. Thank you. Uh, is it Chelsea? Yes. Thank you, Miss Chelsea. Um, we have any questions from any of the council members? Any questions? Um, not yet. If you have any questions? Yeah.

First of all, thank you for your presentation. And we know so I don't think people realize how at risk we are losing our public transportation and then because of the cost and um do you uh foresee I know we see a lot of cuts and everything. So, not to be a Debbie Downer, but to let people know what could happen if this was not supported would be obviously um what I understand, correct me if I'm wrong, bus routes cut, um uh jobs for like our uh union bus drivers, think it could be anything, right? according to for the public transportation.

So each agency is developing a plan for what would happen if the measure fails and can provide that information specific. I mean I'm thinking positive but just to let people know how important it is right to to be supportive um to let them know that we need that public transportation. You know

most are looking at service cuts uh station closures and potential other costsaving measures. Yeah, I appreciate you being here as well. So, you look like you're going on tour city council. So, so thank you very much for being here and hopefully people can do the survey and I'm sure that the um our city will help getting out the the word through the mayor. Maybe we can publicize or put whatever they decide my council. So, sounds good to me. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you all your hard work. Great.

I don't have any questions but just some comments. Thank you for providing information about the potential cuts but then also um actions that we can take um throughout these counties. Um um I think that you know just what council member DJani said there's a potential cuts right and you know daily city being a critical hub in all the um public transportation it is really critical to um save these these um these routes these services especially in the working immigrant community that we have. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Well said.

Thank you very much. Uh my comment is um I'm very happy to see that there's a collaboration between the various transit resources that we have BART Samr and others and I can see some limitations in the sense that BART only goes as far down as to Milbury but we're looking at the rest of San Mato and for them to have a voice in this as well and for better transit routes. throughout San Monteo County. So, I'm very happy to see that the collaboration is there. What they say is there's strength in numbers. So, I appreciate uh you bringing this forth before us and uh wish you the best. Thank you so much.

Thank you. I think Vice Mayor has her hand up. Thank you. Oh, Vice Mayor Oh, I see the vice mayor's hand up. Uh vice mayor,

thank you very much. Um, I would also like to chime in on and just agree with uh the mayor and council members who is uh the biggest uh obstacle would be to be able to communicate with enough voters so they understand that this is so important to vote yes for. Unfortunately, with so many different uh tax measures, um I'm sure some people are hesitant and so it would be nice um I'm sure you all are working on that to get it out to the community in various languages so that they understand um how important it is to vote yes. uh even though a half cent doesn't sound like a lot uh sometimes people hear tax and you know it is for 14 years but it would really uh do a lot for Bart and Sam trans and such. So thank you very much and I look forward to hearing more in the community and thank you for the link uh for uh your information. Thank you.

Thank you. All right. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Any other comments before we move on to the next item? Thank you very much. Thank you.

All right. The next item is the fiscal year 2025 year in review and financial forecast. Mr. Nevin. Uh Mr. Nevin, before you start, I'd like to make a a quick announcement regarding um public speaking tonight. Um at this particular time, I do have a few cards on another matter and I have a piece of paper containing 26 folks who would like to speak tonight. So, uh just as an FYI, all I have is a piece of paper. I will need the cards. uh for later on. And when that transpires, I'm going to cut off the list. Uh but please, if you want to speak tonight, please get the cards in. All right. So, that's fair warning ahead of time. Thank you so much, Mr. Nevin. You have the floor.

Thank you. Good evening, honorable mayor, vice mayor, and council members. Tonight, I will provide a brief report of the fiscal year 2025 year-end review and financial forecast. We'll start with the fiscal year 2025 year-end review. Fiscal year 2025 began July 1st, 2024 and ended June 30th, 2025. Focusing on the general fund, the approved budget deficit, including capital expenditures, was just over 5.7 million. The adjusted budget deficit after incorporating mid-year budget adjustments was almost $13.2 $2 million. At the end of the fiscal year, actual revenues came in higher than budgeted by roughly $12.3 million, and the resulting general fund surplus was almost $350,000. With a budget of over $125 million, this was close to break even. This slide looks at the same $350,000 surplus and shows the effect of utilizing one-time American Rescue Plan Act or ARPA funds. If we were not able to utilize ARPA funds last fiscal year, the general fund would have experienced a deficit of almost $2.4 million. Since measure Q, the city's halfsent sales tax measure went into effect. We have been monitoring this relatively new revenue source. For fiscal year 2025, Measure Q revenues totaled 8,919,190. This slide shows the history of general fund revenue from fiscal year 2016 through fiscal year 2025. Since fiscal year 2020, general fund revenues on average have grown 5.9% per year. This slide shows the history of general

fund expenditures from fiscal year 2016 through fiscal year 2025. Since fiscal year 2020, general fund expenditures on average have grown 7.8% per year. Secured property taxes have increased 6% per year from fiscal year 2021 through fiscal year 2025. While this forecast changes slightly quarter but quarter to quarter, the city's sales tax consultant estimates that general sales tax and measure Q sales tax revenue should increase on average 3% per year from fiscal year 2027 through fiscal year 2032. The city has also monitored short-term rental transit occupancy taxes since those also went into effect in fiscal year 2021. Revenues increased in fiscal year 2025 to $557,516. Halfway through the current fiscal year, revenues stand at $436,23. As noted in previous financial presentations, the vehicle license fee shortfall has received a lot of attention throughout the county. In fiscal year 2025, the city received 100% of the $3.8 million shortfall from fiscal year 2023. So far in the current fiscal year, the city only received 2/3 of the fiscal year 2024 VLF shortfall. Daily City joined the county of Sonteo and all other all of the other cities and towns in Sonteo County in suing the state of California for the rest of the shortfall. There is no word yet as to that lawsuit, nor do we know at this time how much the state

will pay us for the $6.5 million shortfall from fiscal year 2025. Next, we'll turn to the financial forecast. Key budgeting terms. The general fund reserve policy. The city adopted a general fund reserve policy in July 2020. The policy states that the city should maintain a minimum reserve equal to 2 months or 17% of annual operating expenditures. It also states that the city should maintain a targeted reserve equal to 3 months or 25% of annual operating expenditures. The definition for a budgeted deficit. A deficit occurs when the budgeted expenditures exceed the budgeted revenues in a given fiscal year. The city utilizes unrestricted fund balance in the general fund to offset any actual deficit if needed. And in the case of a surplus at year end, the unrestricted fund balance in the general fund would increase. For fiscal year 2026, the adopted budget deficit was almost $7.9 million. After increases to expenditures from labor union bargaining and mid-year budget adjustments, the adjusted budget deficit is almost $17.8 million. Currently, our best estimate for year end while the city is still bargaining with one last labor group staff estimates the city will end the current fiscal year with a deficit over $6.6 million. This estimate does not account for all capital project carry forwards which would increase that amount. For fiscal year 20127, the adopted budget deficit was almost $8.8 million and the adjusted budget deficit currently stands at $16.2 million. This graph shows general fund reserves in dollars and months. After closing fiscal year 2025,

general fund reserves sit at almost $63.6 million or 6.1 months of reserves. With projected deficits this fiscal year 2026 and next fiscal year 2027, reserves would decrease to the levels listed here. The next steps regarding the city's finances are to continue negotiations with ASME, update the master fee schedule next month, come back to council in May or June for fiscal year 2027 midcycle budget adjustments, and next winter present the fiscal year 2026 year-end review. Thank you. And that concludes my presentation. Thank you, Mr. Nevin. Any questions?

I have a question. Dr. Rob, please. Um, I have a few questions. Um, Mr. Nevin. Um, one is I'll just go one by one. Um, so we saw a forecast in um short-term rental. Um, what do you what do you uh forecast in terms of is it potential growth or do you feel like there will be a potential decline? Is there any forecasting on that? for this current fiscal year. Looking at it, um this is data through December. So, it's really half the year. It it it does look as though this year fiscal 26 will be a higher year than last year. Um but we we monitor it each month as that toot revenue comes in.

Um but we do believe it's going to be higher than than last year. It has seen besides the small decrease from 23 to 24 a general increase in this revenue. And then I was just kind of curious, I I know that we we passed a cannabis tax as well. Um, is that even making any type of significant contributions?

That's a great question. And when we uh during the the budget cycle, when we when we adopted the two-year budget and looked during um those budget presentations, we did I did focus a bit on cannabis, but I will continue to incorporate that in update. We are seeing revenue from cannabis businesses. The issue that we are experiencing, however, is that um we have not had three or even four businesses open at one moment in time. We've had two uh and one close and reopen. So once we have established and have, you know, three to four open, uh then we'd probably see, you know, much larger re revenue coming in from cannabis sales. Um but it but it is still there and it's still uh contributing.

Yes. And then my last question is on um you know we had that I guess I don't know if it's defined as a structural deficit um in terms of what we have um forecasted as a deficit. How comparable is that to other cities in the county? Is it pretty much similar?

It's it's uh actually very comparable. Um, interestingly, each city is so unique in terms of our mix of revenue, uh, where we receive revenue from, types of businesses that exist in our cities, uh, daily city being higher in terms of like residential population versus businesses, but it is very similar to projected budget deficits uh, across the county and for the county itself. All right. Thank you, Mr. Nevin. That's all for me, Mayor. Thank you, um, Dr. Rod. Um, Vice Mayor Pano.

Yes. Thank you, Mayor. Um, Tim, the concern I'm looking at is in in observing the reserves going down um reserves going from 6.3 then 6.1 and then five um and projection to five years or I'm sorry reserve in months. So that's 5 months and then going down in 2027 projection at 3.5. Um when we look at this and and obviously we're noticing that things are going down and and we're using monies in reserve to come to budget what are the biggest factors uh that is uh creating this deficit?

Uh thank you for that question. the the biggest uh factors I I will just talk briefly before I answer that the in terms of you mentioned the magnitude and the numbers. Um fiscal 26 uh is is currently obviously an estimate. We will conclude the year on June 30th. This is sort of our our best guess at this stage in the fiscal year of where we may end up. Um we did include some uh increases for bargaining groups that have already uh settled with the city and those are uh numbers are in the budget. Uh we're still uh in negotiations with one budget group so those numbers are not yet in the budget. Um but that is the the largest contributing factor on the expenditure side is the cost of uh salaries and benefits for city employees of that as that represents 70 70 plus% of the general fund uh budget for operating revenues. Uh I'm fairly certain at this point we will come to you uh back to the council as stated in next steps in May or June regarding fiscal year 2027 uh midcycle adjustments. That operating revenue number would hopefully increase based uh we will increase the budget for next fiscal year uh by looking at some of those line items that I talked about uh especially um sales tax growth and potentially property tax growth. But we'll we'll look at that at the at the mid cycle and hopefully that re that revenue line in fiscal 27 would increase which would help um that a bit. But it is a large deficit at this point to try to uh overcome fiscal 26. I can't predict that we're going to be anywhere close to break even like we have been I would say in fiscal 24 and fiscal 25. Um I will state one last thing there. Another contributing factor that's very large for the city is that uh next year

we'll utilize the last of but but a very small amount of American Rescue Plan Act or ARPA funds. So those will be gone after fiscal 26. We'll have no more revenue uh that we can rely upon from from ARPA. It will be it will be expended

through the mayor. Uh yes, vice mayor. Uh go ahead. Thank you. Um with regards to the funds that we're uh we and other cities are going after the state of California to see if we receive those funds, uh those funds have those have been uh historically placed into the reserves. Is that for the VLF? Um

so every every year we receive um a level of of vehicle license fee revenue from the state that is anticipated. Um if you see from this slide um the second column of data VLF expected that that's what the city receives uh in vehicle license fee revenue. So that does help contribute to our uh overall revenue in the general fund. The shortfall in that third column of data is is where there's been an issue in terms of whether the state will pay the city uh sorry the county of San Monteo and through the county of San Mo the city of Daily City that BLF shortfall those amounts on this slide are just related to the city's shortfall. The county itself has a very large uh shortfall, 120 million plus, or I can't recall the the actual number, but um we did receive twothirds of that shortfall amount. Um this fiscal year, fiscal 2026, we were expecting to receive the full 6.1 million. The state only uh provided us with four just over $4 million in that shortfall. So 2/3 of what uh the shortfall was is what the state paid us this time. Again, I mentioned the uh lawsuit that the city joined uh to try to recoup the additional 2 million owed to the city. And next year's shortfall uh 2025 shortfall is 6.5 million. We've requested that from the state the on the county on our behalf has requested that. We have not heard yet what how much will be paid of that $6.5 million shortfall. Fis fiscal 26 is currently estimated at $6.7 million and could increase uh but outy years as mentioned in a previous presentation could top 10,000 $10 million per year in the next uh four years or so.

Um and through the mayor. So that those funds it's important to note that those funds you place in into the general fund but it's not it's not part of the budgeting or factoring in when we do I just wanted to clarify.

Yes. Yes. When we when we uh start the budget cycle we do not forecast we do not budget for the shortfall amount. We do budget for what's expected the VLF expected column. So, we do budget for how much we know we're going to in general, how much we know we're going to receive from the state uh without the shortfall. We do not budget the shortfall. If we know by midyear, we will come to council and actually add it to the budget at that time. And if we don't know by that time, we will not add it because it's so it's uncertain and it's more and more uncertain today. I see. Um, thank you so much. I I appreciate the clarification and the information. Thank you so much. Thank you.

Thank you, Vice Mayor. Any other comments? Uh, Council Member DJ Giovani.

Uh, thank you through the mayor. Thank you for your detailed presentation. I really appreciate it. So, I have a quick question of something that came up I guess fairly recently. I I think I saw it on um the site who what public site was it? It was a letter that went out to all the cities just so people know for the public. It was uh Jenn versus uh it was a settlement that Genentech, correct me if I'm wrong, um it's been going on for a number of years and they reached a settlement with the county and the county sent out a letter to every entity, school districts, every single school district, every single fire district, unincorporated Broadmore, unincorporated Redwood City, our city and and and every city. So throughout and the bottom number was I think $19.1 million that is being dispersed that each of us have to owe a certain amount given that of course I'm acting for daily city I don't remember the correct number but I think it was almost 200,000 and so and then ongoing there could be more so how and then I mean I'm sorry because I was like a little throw like okay now we owe 200,000 so where do when do we have to pay that money and how where are we taking the money out cuz I know we have to pay it by law and I I think right now there was no way to fight it if I understand from speaking with numerous people in the county that um it's it's a done pretty well done deal on the settlement and the border supervisors signed off in I think 2023 but um how do we get over that it's another 200,000 and then we of course we don't know how to forecast for they're going to go for more money. Am I right

or am I off track? That is true. So the lawsuit um spans uh a few decades. So what was already what has already been finally adjudicated is the

2000 to 2005 as you mentioned the the city is a portion of what the total judgment was. uh Daily City was just just under $230,000 for that. Um the way that we will actually quote pay that is that when the county pays us um property taxes in the fall this coming fall of 2026, they will pay us our property tax minus the $230,000 um that is owed on the that is the city's portion of that judgment. Um but as you mentioned there are still other years uh and blocks I think it was I don't know the process but it was uh adjudicated in blocks of years. So um that five or six year period has been finalized and the others are we're awaiting to see what what that what comes of that and what the amounts would be for that. But our portion for a six-year period was about

2002000 something like that. So then they'll minus that because we rely on property tax. Am I correct? That's one of the biggest for our revenues. So, we're going to take a little sting, but how will that affect uh when I see the budget and we're down to 2027, three and a half um I would say months of reserves, will that how will that affect our reserves and uh budgeting,

excuse me. So for for fiscal 27 when we do not receive the $230,000 that will decrease our actual revenues by that exact amount roughly $230,000. So if we were to to subtract that amount from the reserves. Okay, that would be the effect. So the the gross dollar amount would be $230,000. The months wouldn't really change just based on 230,000. uh that probably wouldn't decrease it from five to 4.9, but it would it would be less revenue by that by that magnitude.

Yeah, you know, I know it happened and but it really takes a big hit on everyone in the whole county basically in our public school districts and everything. So, I appreciate it, Mr. Nevin, but you know, it's the law and they made a settlement and everybody has to pay. So, it's uh kind of like unexpected at these times for people. You know, cities are struggling, school districts are struggling. Um, so thank you for your question. It's not insificant at all for us. Yeah, I know. So, thank you very much. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you for clarifying that. Thank you, mayor.

Thank you, Council Member Diovani. Are there any other questions? I have a few. Uh Tim, if you will go to page five. Uh slide number five. Yeah. Any way we can get more money from Mezu?

Uh there there this is the city's we we we had the prior presentation about the the countywide measure uh for transportation. So this is the city's own halfsent sales tax. Oh, as to it has increased since 2021 when we first started seeing this revenue come in as voters approved it in November of 2020. Um, but for fiscal 25, this isn't the actual final number for the for that fiscal year uh with with uh as mentioned uh uh anticipated 3% increases per year on average for the next five years or so.

All right. Uh slide number 16. I notice on the third column capital expenditures 875 and then in 2027 is estimated at 500 uh,000. How do we save uh 375,000? It the fiscal 27 number is just the current budgeted number for capital expenditures. So we did do um the budget for 26 and budget for 27. Those are the only the capital expenditures that are general fund funded.

All right. Um it's a lot of numbers here and I actually am going to need more time to look at this if I have any questions. I'm sure I can reach out to you. But I'm deeply concerned uh in the reserves and months by it's estimated. I know you don't have a crystal ball. If you did, you would not be here. But uh 3.5 I know that we'll have to work on it. So with your last slide um ongoing steps, can you this might be a tough question. Can you estimate how much this may help us to the tune of a dollar dollar amount

in terms of the um really the only I guess help would be the the second item would be as the master fee schedule uh as council has determined that we would review that each year and give a you know a nominal kind of cola increase to those uh fees which which does help us on the revenue side. We do see um increases of course uh with economic activity. That's the real driver for how much permit revenue for example the city will receive. It's based on activity.

But the fees themselves help when we do you know increases in as opposed to what we did many years ago in terms of not looking at that every year. That's correct. Absolutely. So you uh you're keeping an eye on our master fee schedule and increasing it uh because you know I would think we would be behind if we don't continue to stay up on it. So

the the intent is to increase it annually. I I would say so that it doesn't increase too much at any one given time. And secondly, most of the fees on there that we increase with a with a 3% or 4% which is really reflects the cost of living adjustment is basically directly related to the cost of staff time for us to provide services. So if that's the case, you're you're talking about cost recovery. Exactly. Yeah. Can add a little bit more on top of that. I mean,

well, we we what we will do and we had a consultant come in and help us build that master fee schedule, look at the number of minutes and hours that staff spend on certain permitting activities or other activities that we have fees for. And we will redo that survey not every year, but every 5 to seven years so that we can if we need to increase it at a stronger level than a annual cola, we will we'll bring that to council at that point. Very um magical bridge, do we expect to get any money from that? Um well, in terms of revenue,

yeah, revenue either uh I mean, who's going to own it? I mean, do we take part in reservations like we do with uh recreation and parks uh or it's just going to be open space for anybody to go? At this point, I don't know that that's been completely determined, but at this point, it's it's um taking a portion of of Hillside Park and uh creating a magical bridge playground there. Um I would also would have to maybe talk to some other cities that have them and whether there's a revenue aspect to to that as well, but but primarily it's a it's a community benefit.

All right, that's all I have. All right. Thank you very much, Mr. Nevin. Thank you. And uh appreciate it. And I'm sure council if they have any questions, they can reach out to you and uh city manager. Thank you so much. Thanks. Thank you. All right. The next item is uh the approval of the minutes for the regular meeting of March 9th. I'll entertain a motion to accept. Motion to approve. Second. We have a first and a second. Any further discussion? No. All those in favor? I I say I I

All right. Did we miss uh I heard the vice mayor, but she's no longer up on the screen. I I did say yes. Oh, I heard you. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Just wanted to make sure uh let you know you're not forgotten. Thank you. All right. The next item uh is the approval of the agenda for tonight, March 23rd, 2026. I'll entertain a motion. Oh, there you are. So, move second. We got a first and a second. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I. I.

Any oppose? Any abstensions? Okay, the minutes have been approved. The next item on the agenda is the uh Oh, okay. Staff communication. Is there any staff communication? Yes, sir. Uh, Mr. Picotti, please.

Thank you, mayor. Good evening, mayor and council members. I want to provide a brief update on the proposed tenant anti-harassment ordinance and the work currently underway. There continues to be community interest in advancing tenant protections in Daily City and the concerns being raised are important and recognized by the city. As reflected in the council's adopted resolution, staff is proceeding with a review and evaluation process to better understand the proposed ordinance and its potential implementation in Daily City. This includes reviewing the legal framework, assessing administrative and fiscal considerations, and evaluating how the ordinance would function with the city's existing structure. Staff is also continuing stakeholder outreach and engagement, including dis discussions with tenant advocates, landlords, and representatives from real estate community, including SAM CAR, to gather input on the ordinance and its potential impacts. Currently, tenants are protected under California law, including the Tenant Protection Act of 2019, and the proposed ordinance would expand into the area of landlord conduct and harassment, which staff is continuing to evaluate. Consistent with council direction, staff will return with a progress update as a part of the midcycle budget review in the May June time frame. This will include findings and options for council's consideration. This remains an ongoing review process and staff will continue to keep the council and the public informed as this work progresses. So, thank you, sir.

All right, Mr. Picolotti, thank you so much for that report. The next item on the agenda is oral comment. Oh,

and um so I'll start off here. But we have uh a lot of cards this evening and uh I'm going to open it up. Good evening. Uh council member Mandalo. Uh for the record, uh madame city clerk madam city clerk uh for the record uh council member Malo is now present. All right. Thank you very much. All right. So um for a tremendous amount of cards have been presented for uh by the folks of uh rep uh representing or being represented um by faith and action on an issue that they wish to speak on. Given the amount of cards, I'm going to allow one minute for each comment. For all other comments, since I only have a few cards, you'll get the two minutes. So, I'll before I get to uh the main bulk, I will announce the names and I ask that you queue up so we can save time as each person comes up for comments. So, uh, we'll start off, uh, for another group, uh, of speakers and we're going to speak with the folks of Ask Me. So, I'd like to have Jessica Lee to come on up, please, and address the council. And after Jessica will be Trevor Courtourtney.

Good evening.

Hello, honorable mayor and esteemed council members. Civil service is a calling. We as members chose our careers out of a desire to serve our communities instead of making more money elsewhere. Historically, this has been a viable uh this historically this has been viable due to a social contract with our communities to take care of us so we can be best in our service to the public. We have a stable job that pays enough to make ends meet and live comfortably. But that system has begun to fail due to rising costs. And though you are not responsible for inflation, rising gas prices, tariffs, etc., we are asking you to do better by raising our pay to be able to afford to survive while working our full-time jobs. Simply renting a studio apartment in Daily City costs nearly $2,000 per month. A newly hired library assistant one roughly makes $2,675 per pay period before taxes. Adding gas, groceries, utilities, you can see how it becomes impossible to live on one's own and not fall into poverty while working a full-time job. The poverty line in San Monteo County sits at six figures. Even a library assistant three does not reach six figures until step four. We are not asking you to break the bank. We are the lowest paid employees in the city. We are simply asking for raises in line with the other bargaining units received. Thank you for your time.

reminder we have a Trevor Courtney that's coming up now and if uh Joshua Ree can uh stand by you you be next. Good evening.

Good evening council members. Good evening mayor, Mr. Picolotti. My name is Trevor Courtney. I work for the public works street department. I was born and raised in daily city right there on Seatin. I went to Our Lady of Mercy and Marjger Tobias. I've worked for the city for about two and a half years now. I just want to give a couple personal experiences of working out on the streets. You know, one time we were putting in thermo stop sign on East Moore Avenue and a woman was pushing a stroller walking her child to school and she said, "Oh, thank you so much. You know, I have trouble crossing the street in the morning time." You know, that little appreciation felt real good. You know, fills you with pride with what you're doing means something. Another time we were on Geller uh putting hot off hat hot asphalt in the seams. You know, we have the street closed off and cars are driving by honking saying, "Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thumbs up." you know, we're driving through this every day. It's a problem. We appreciate you doing it. Uh when we successfully shut down State Route 82 for the Daily City Festival, you know, with our traffic control and, you know, thousands of people are showing up having fun, smiling, appreciating what the city's putting on for them. And you know, just to see all those smiles and all those thank yous, you know, fills you with pride and want, you know, it makes it worth it. It's good to do that. So, I just feel right now in our negotiations, this would be the time for the city to show their appreciation to the public works. With that said, thank you all for listening. I appreciate the opportunity to talk. Have a good night. All right. All right. Next, we have Joshua Ree. And after Joshua, if uh Anthony Waters can be next.

Good evening, council. I'm reading for one of our library assistants who was not able to be here today. She's one of the newest members of the Daily City Public Library in Aspen Union. She just moved to Daily City so that she could fulfill her lifelong dream of working in a library. She continued, "I am also currently applying for food stamps. While I am lucky to be able to do a job I love and support myself because of it, I see prices go up every single day and some days I have to decide whether to afford to both buy groceries and run my heater at night. Like most young professionals, I'm unmarried, living on a single income, and don't receive financial support for my family. So, my wages staying proportional to the cost of living is the only thing standing between me and poverty. I hope that our esteemed council members can understand that for people like me, my coworker. This is it. This issue is of paramount importance and I as an employee of the city you run and one of your own constituents hope to see that I have city council members who care about the issues that impact my life. And so that was written by one of our library assistants who couldn't be here tonight. She said she's applying for food stamps because of the low pay for our library assistance that we're hoping the city can help raise. Thank you. Thank you. Next we have Anthony Waters. And looks like that's the last one for uh after me. Good evening, sir. Good evening, mayor, vice mayor, members of the city council. My name is Anthony Walters, union representative with American Federation of State, County, Municipal Employees, Local 829. Good evening, city council members, residents, and employees. I'm happy to report that we have made some progress since I first spoke here January 26. We have uh tenatively agreed to some

positive changes. Daily city employees need substantial cost of living adjustments. Yet, the city's current proposal for ASV members is significantly lower in percentage increases uh than those granted to other bargaining units. some modest improvements to our medical benefits could also help us reach a final tenative agreement. I'm optimistic um about reaching a mutually agreeable settlement and progress on longevity is a positive sign in this area. Uh this provision will help retention and recruitment of qualified workers. Lastly, binding arbitration is another item that I believe could be resolved uh perhaps with a pilot program. ASME has positive working relationships with our daily city human resources and we resolve issues well. Binding arbitration will provide due process rights for employees and reflects this city's this city council's commitment to workers rights. Thank you again for your public service.

Thank you. Thank you. All right. Um, next speaker will be Kima Salah Houdin representing the reach coalition.

Good evening.

Hi. I'm here. I stand in solidarity with your union. And I'm also here on Reach Coalition to speak on behalf with Faith and Action and for myself um as a former Daily City resident who was forced to leave because I could no longer afford to live here. Um, but when I was searching for an apartment, I living in Westlake for many years, dealing with mold, dealing with high water and garbage, like I pay less for water and garbage in a three-bedroom house now than I paid when I was in a two-bedroom apartment at Westlake. That the response from the customer, from their uh from the landlord was abysmal, but also the fear of speaking up for too long. like the the filth, the dirtiness, the laundry rooms. It was a mess. And I felt ashamed as a parent to have my children living like that, working as like a dog, right, to pay those rents. And then on top of that, you know, you all the fees with the streets, if you live in an apartment, you're not allowed a parking permit. That that cost adds up. And so I'm asking for you guys to help your residents. and I'm willing to do whatever it needs to take and fight along with y'all. You guys know I'm willing to do whatever it takes, but we need help. It's getting worse with gas prices and everything and the fear that's already abound from our federal government. It's too much pressure. Your citizens need assistance and help and support and fighting back with the landlords who need to have some checks and balances because we're not talking about everybody, but the ones that are out of bounds. They need to have something done. I can't tell you how many times I sent my resume and my information for some plane to rent to me and I was good until I showed up and they saw the skin color. One woman was in the car. She refused to get out the car and then when I left she called me

and she said, "Are you still coming?" I was like, "I was there. So, please help." Thank you. The next speaker will be Tahira Dean and uh good evening. Uh my name is Tahara Dean. I'm an attorney at Public Advocates. Um we are nonprofit that focus on housing, transportation, education, justice. Um, I'm here today to stand with Faith in Action as we ask you to move forward with this uh anti-harassment ordinance. Um, as was said in closed doors meetings and at the public city council meeting in December, a commitment was made to study the feasibility of the ordinance. Um, and we're here in March and we have yet to see that progress. I'm glad to hear the status update of of we're going to see um, you know, budget coming in the summertime. Uh we really need to make haste as you can hear today. Um people are you know came here for a press conference to let you all know remind you that they are in need of severe help. Um you mentioned uh AB1482 the tenant protection act. It provides basic protections for tenants against extreme rent increases. Um but it does not reference landlord harassment and it is set to expire in 2030. We need protections at the local level. Thank you. All right. Uh, the next speaker would be Sandy Prior. And if I can have after Sandy, Albania Fuentes and

Nika M. So, it's Albania Fuentes and Anika M to follow. Uh, good evening. Prior, you have the floor.

Uh, good evening, council members. Uh, Mr. Mayor. Uh, my name is Sandra. I'm a leader with faith and action. And what brings me here today is that we have a crisis in Daily City where landlords are depriving tenants of their inherent right to live with dignity. We need the city council to step up and protect tenants from unsafe housing and intimidating landlords uh by passing the anti-arrestment law. I had a longer speech, but I'm only limited to a minute, so I've had to cut it short. Um, I wish you could see that tenants living with landlord harassment, mold, roaches, uh, the lack of repairs, rodents. Um, I wish you can see that that's an injustice. Uh, the truth that the laws that exist now do not protect us. Um, we need leaders to love. Oh, is that it?

No, go ahead. Um, well, I'll just say this. Uh, we need leaders who are in love with justice and uh, humanity. We are looking to all of you to be champions of justice, to move beyond differences, to act with compassion, and to uphold the dignity we all deserve. I'm going to leave you with this quote from Martin Luther King. A right delayed is a right denied. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Choir. Okay. Alia Fuentes.

Hello. Uh my name is Ali. I am a leader with uh Faith and Action here in Daily City. I've been a resident for 13 years and I go to Skyland College. Uh I was here last time when the resolution was passed and quite honestly I'm feeling disappointed that we're still waiting to hear an update. Um now while we share joy with the resolution passing um the fight doesn't stop there. uh daily city tenants are still facing like the daily realities of landlord harassment and we need to see our council members uh move with the sense of urgency to reflect just how serious this issue is. Uh the daily city community needs to see that you see us as human beings and not just another task that you're like putting off. And so again, I'm here to ask you that you give us an update and that we see progress in protecting our daily city tenants uh from landlord harassment. Thank you.

Thank you. Right. Next up is uh Anika M. And if the following folks can be ready, MO Amina, Jenny, Jana Pay, and Kai S or Kais. Good evening. You're Ana. Yeah. Okay, please. You have four. Good evening everyone in the city council. Um, my name is Anakah. I am a student in Jefferson High School

and I want to speak out about the landlord harassment that's been going on.

Um, with the growth of amount of residents in daily city, the quality of living in these neighborhoods has diminished because of landlord harassment. The term illegal accurately reflects its meaning. Why are we still overlooking this important matter? Numerous individuals might hesitate to acknowledge such behavior, yet harassment by landlords is indeed a reality. As a teenager, my perspective might not appear as powerful as others. Yet, I strongly encourage you to hear me out, comprehend, recognize. We are forming our lifestyle. The initial step towards a more fulfilling and successful life begins in our surroundings. Ensure a brighter tomorrow. Make it happen, city council. Thank you. Okay. Um, info amina.

Hi, good evening.

Good evening. My name is MO living in uh Franciscan home uh mobile home park. In mobile home park the utility we don't pay to the PG direct PG or water supply company directly but the the management will give us the uh uh utility bill. Since the new management came in around the end of uh 2024, everybody is complaining about the higher utility bill and some some people pay more than twice or three times. Someone pay almost $1,000 a month for the utility. I want the uh fair utility bill from the from the back. Thank you very much. Okay, Jana P.

Good evening. My name is Janelle and I am with Tangul Migrante Movement or Defend Migrants Alliance Daily City. TMM is a network of organizations that focuses on supporting and defending Filipino migrants from deportation, detention, and state violence. We are here in solidarity with Faith and Action Bay Area daily city leaders to encourage the council and city staff to support their work in protecting tenants and land from landlord harassment. With worsening economic crisis, uh prices of commodities continue to increase, including the cost of rent while workers wages remain low. This, in addition to blatant attacks on migrants, puts migrant working-class families and renters in a vulnerable position in their living conditions. Migrant renters are subjected to pay hundreds to thousands of dollars to live in crowded multi-unit homes, live in buildings that aren't up to housing standards, and put up with threats of deportation by their landlord. We have seen many Filipino migrants, especially Filipino migrant women, who suffered from illness, physical ailments, and anxiety interrupted sleep from the worries of their own safety and housing security due to verbal harassment by their landlords. All migrants, regardless of their immigration status, deserve dignified housing, livelihoods, and protections from harassment by their landlord and employers. Housing free from harassment is a matter of health and safety. Passing a renter anti-harassment law is one step forward to protect those who make our community and the world go round. Defend migrants and renters and daily city. Thank you.

Thank you.

All right. I hate to do this folks, but I did say one minute. I've been a little bit lenient. If you exceed one minute, I'm going to give you one warning and then I'm going to cut off the mic. All right, so the next speaker is Kai S. Hello, my name is Kai from Tango Tango Mrante movement in Da City. I'm here to ask for the council to meet with faith in action to give us an update on their work to pro to protect daily city tenants from landlord harassment in Kango Neante. We understand that working-class migrants go abroad due to the lack of jobs. When immigrants migrate to this country, they experience harassment, insecure housing, and exploitation from their employers. I ask the council to serve the working-class immigrant families here in Daily City regardless of immigration status. defend migrant workers from harassment and pass the anti-harassment law. Thank you.

Thank you. Okay, next few speakers we have is a Tenzar Win, Ashine A, and a Ashley B. So we'll first start off with Zen Tenzar Win.

Hi, good evening council member and mayor. This crisis caused a head issue, stress and mental and emotional issue for the family and threatens our physical safety. They give us a mostly diff illegal evisions and we face to stable situation and also a difficult time to rent out the new places because of our immigration status. This will keeps happening to the other community members in daily city if the city council take doesn't take actions and for the passing the law for it. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Hello, I'm the president of the philosophy club at Skyline and I'm here to talk about landlord harassment and kind of one of the beautiful things about this city. I come from Napa Valley which is a wine destination and everywhere I hear people tell me how lucky I am to have grown up there. I love this town so much more than I do Napa. And I in my short time here have seen more culture in a small square mile than I have ever in my entire time living in Napa. What this city has is a beautiful history of migrant people living here and having wonderful families and people and my neighbors are wonderful people. But the only thing preventing me from enjoying that is landlord harassment and the fact that I can't even talk to my landlord about the mouse infestation in my house right now. The fact that my father is afraid to talk to the landlord due to past histories and due to attempts to illegally kick us out is one issue that we need to address here in this county because this county has something really beautiful and if you can't see that then you're going to lose it. Thank you.

Thank you. Ashley B.

Good evening, council. My name is Ashley Bedelli and I'm a leader with Faith and Action Bay Area here in Daily City. I have been living in Daily City over 25 years and I live in the Beayshore neighborhood. I'm here today to ask the council and city staff to meet with us to give an update on your work to protect Daily City tenants from landlord harassment. I've had my own experiences with a bad daily city landlord, such as having mold in my apartment that never got removed. Hearing my neighbors share the atrocities that they have lived through and continually experience is an injustice. You all have a responsibility to us, the people. Everyone deserves a safe, clean home. We demand a meeting with the transparent status update on this ordinance. Thank you. Okay. Um, next few speakers are Carter Po.

Hi, good evening. Hold on. Arthur, Velasca Galderon will be next and Allora CZA. Good evening, sir.

Hello. So, my name is Carter. I'm a member of the working families party on the steering committee for the Bay Area and I'm here in solidarity with the faith and action bay area daily city leaders to ask city council and staff to meet with them to give an update on the work but also make this resolution a reality. So, I know some members on the council are members of the working families party and I know some folks are running for reelection. We are paying close attention to this so we can hold electeds accountable. We fullheartedly ask you to work with Faith and Action Bay Area to make this resolution an ordinance and implement it because the neighbors in this room cannot wait. We all deserve dignity and a safe place to live. So show us that you care about human decency and work with them. Thank you.

Thank you. Calderon.

Oh, she had she's not here. Okay, next is Laura CZA and after Laura will be P will be uh Pablo Rubio and Carmen Ortega.

Uh you're Laura. Hi. Do you need the translator? Yes. All right. Um, ma'am, will you be translating? I'll be interpreting for for Great. Would you kindly state your name for the record? Sure. My name is Annabelle Garay and I'm a court- certified interpreter. Okay, great. And with that being said, uh, I'm going to allow extra amount of time for the translation purposes. Thank you so much. Okay, great. Daily City.

My name is Laa and I've been living in Daily City for 4 years. I suffered abuse from my landlord for two years. I put up with mold, roaches because I needed the room. When I asked for a receipt because I wanted to leave that place, he hit me. He pulled my hair. He threw me on the ground and he cut me. He told me he wasn't going to give me anything because My son was a slacker. I have a 14-year-old son. And he said that uh because he's black, he needed to go to work and not be going to school. So, he hit me. He mistreated me and I called the police.

I left and I suffered really badly. I was abused. And just because we're single moms doesn't mean we need to be humiliated. I went through so much at the hands of this person. I'm uniting here with them today to ask for this law to be passed for you to do something so that what happened to me doesn't happen to other people. I kept quiet just because I needed a roof over my head.

That's everything. Thank you. All right. Thank you so much.

Okay. Pablo Rubio and then we have Carmen Ortega. Is Pablo here? Can you keep going to the next person? Pablo, like can you go to the next person? I don't want you want me to go to the next person. Okay. Any particular reason why? I mean, no. Yes. Okay. I give you a a little chance to uh relax. All right. You want to go near uh later on or probably? Okay. All right. I I can accommodate you. Okay. Carmen Ortega, please.

He also had a leave. Thank you. Okay. Uh the next few folks that I have is uh Kevin O Neil C and looks like Marik Marik Abad. Mr. Kevin O. Yes. Yes sir. Welcome.

Hi. Uh my name is Kevin Owens. I'm a teacher at Thomas R. Palaceto Middle School. Um I'm also the uh on the our union's executive board and the negotiating team for Jefferson Elementary Federation of Teachers. I'm here today in solidarity with faith in action. This is a really important issue to us because the issues of landlord harassment comes into our schools and it often manifests in students um their grades dropping which I'm seeing right now with the seventh grade student as well as uh mental health and aggressive behavior can increase and this is a very very common problem that we're seeing students their families and also teachers are renters in daily city and access to safe and stable housing is a human right that we all deserve. It's common that people say they support students and teachers and families, but it's not enough to just say it. We need people who are actually going to do that. People who aren't just going to talk about it and will actually ensure that our community is safe. The way you can do this is by supporting Faith and Action and meeting with them and their coalition partners to make sure that our entire community stays safe and has access to stable housing. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Okay, Neil C. Good evening, city council and good evening neighbors. My name is Neil. I'm a member of the party for socialism and liberation and I'm uh I have been living in Daily City for 16 years. I'm here in solidarity with Faith and Action Daily City. We demand that the council and the city meet with Faith and Action leaders and our wider coalition to not only give us a more concrete update on your work towards protecting daily city tenants from harassment, but to seek to elevate this resolution to an actionable ordinance. We can't wait to have anything done about this. We've heard the testimonies at the last meeting. We don't need to deal with pest infestations, water leaks, mold, physical assault, verbal harassment, illegal evictions, and more. An extra day, an extra week, an extra month is one more too long before more and more people are pushed deeper towards poverty. Uh, real quickly, uh, I want to speak to logistics. If it's the bureaucracy and the budget and the funds and a lack of support from the state of California, then there's our problem. The fact that California as the world's fourth largest state economy cannot fulfill its citizens needs. If the city council, California, or the national government can't solve a tenant harassment crisis, the public transportation crisis, the cost of living crisis, the labor crisis, or any crisis, then we need one that will. And that system is one ran by workers, including immigrants, including women, including unionists, including oppressed nationalities like black Americans. That system is socialism. Union strong, justice for immigrants and liberation for all. CUE

Murray Abad or Mark Abad. It's Mark. Mark. Mark. Okay. Good evening. My name is Mark Abbad and I am a teacher here in Daily City and a renter and I've been living here for 7 years. I stand in solidarity with faith and action and I'm here to speak for my students who have spoken up and carry their struggles to themselves. How can we expect our students to focus in our schools when their basic human rights are being overlooked? And I want you to please serve our families and serve our students. Thank you.

Thank you, LORD. All right. I have uh next AI D and then AD M and Wendy Cruz. So, let's first start off with

AID. Good evening sir. Good evening. Good evening ladies. I'm here in uh I'm living in Delhi city for more than 10 years now. So I can afford the rent. So I was forced by my landlord to move out. and uh I'm living now in West Lake and I'm paying so much and I'm not working. So, if you can do something about that. Thank you.

Thank you.

All right, we have a day M. Uh that's Adele, Mr. Mayor. Here she is. Oh, okay. I'll be I'll be interpreting for her. All right, great. Thank you so much. Would you kindly uh state your name for the record please? Yes. Dennis Castro interpreting in Tagalog for Miss Manala. Okay. Good evening everybody. Manala leader faith action.

Good evening everybody. I am Adele Manala. I'm a leader with faith in action. So I was so I was living in a situation uh where I was harassed by the landlord and uh the landlord would come into my home at 4:00 in the morning without permission at 9:00 in the morning without permission at midnight without permission and cuss me action homeless. So I am very grateful that I was able to connect connect with faith and action. It was faith and action that helped me during that situation during that time. I don't know what I do without faith and actions help. I would probably be homeless by now. There was one time I was late. I was delayed 5 days in paying rent and the landlord would uh curse at me and harass me. That's it. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Wendy Cruz. Yes. Translator. Okay. You gave your name earlier, right? Yeah. Okay. I just want to be sure. Oh, no. Yeah, you did. Okay. Great. Got it. Thank you. My name is Wendy Cruz. Hi, good evening. My name is Wendy Cruz. Daily City.

I lived in Daily City for 20 years. And as you've heard here today and the community here behind me, I'm imploring you for you to take that second step um and to have a response where this law becomes a reality. See We hope to hear from you soon with a response and we want to work together with you. As you know, you know me, I want to work together with you and thank you so much for the opportunity. Thank you. Okay, the next uh speaker uh Abby Taylor. After Abby will be Sandrew B and Cali Kixa Liv.

Hi, Miss Taylor. Hi. Hi. Good evening.

Yes, my name is Abby Taylor. Today, I'll be reading a testimony from someone who cannot make it here today. They are a former Daily City resident who now has to live in San Jose due to the conditions of harassment that pushed them out of our community. He writes, "It all started when we moved to Westlake Apartments in Daily City in 2025. At first, we noticed damp surfaces in bedroom closets and a weird o odor which never went away. At that time, we had already signed the contract and moved in. Later on in the winter, we noticed that stuff left in these areas, specifically in closets, developed mildew. We thought at first maybe it was our fault, but it actually occurred frequently despite all our efforts. I thought initially it was because of the rain, but it wasn't. My daughter developed some skin issues, which we asked our primary care doctor about, and she mentioned the risk of moisture and mold. Afterwards, my wife was hospitalized in critical condition due to anaphylactic shock and a reaction to a mildew allergy, which she had never experienced before. Accordingly, we decided to move before the contract had ended because of the health risk. We me we also mentioned this to the services at Westlake and writing, but they never cared in the first place. So, we're asking today for a meeting so we can hear an update on the progress from the ad hoc committee and the city staff. Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, San Drew B. Hello. Um, hello council. My name is Sandre Bautista. I'm a leader with Faith in Action. I've been living in Daily City my whole life and I go to currently go to Skyland College. Um, today I come to this council again as a renter and as a resident of Daily City and I implore the council to give us an update on the anti-harassment law. Uh, if you have a plan to enforce this law, we need an answer now because harassment and unhealthy living is still prevalent in daily city. Thank you.

Thank you. Okay, Kixa leave.

Hi, my name is Kixa. I'm an organizer with the party for socialism and liberation here in support of faith and action. Socialism is a system where working people have political and economic power and are able to use that power to meet everyone's needs. If the working people of Daily City were in power, we could have safe and affordable housing for everyone. I believe that as Daily City councilors and community members, you have an obligation to work with your neighbors to solve this issue. No one should have to resort to living in a converted garage, a ratinfested apartment, or in fear of their landlords simply because they cannot afford something better. As you have seen, most of the people affected here are immigrants. That is not a coincidence. We know that this is the most vulnerable population in our country, especially right now. And despite the fact that they work hard and are a meaningful part of the community, they are not able to receive the same rights as us citizens. When we uplift this community, we uplift everyone. We can ensure that no one lives in dangerous conditions, that one job is enough to pay rent, and that people feel welcome here in Daily City. I urge this council to engage with faith and action leaders and present a concrete and swift plan to implement protection from landlord harassment. Thank you. Uh, next we uh if I can ask uh Noah Cojo Khan.

Okay, hold on a second. And then after Noah would be Luke L. Please welcome.

Hi. Uh, my name is Noah Kushikaru. I'm a student at SF State. Um, and I'm also an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Um, and just hearing all the testimonies of all the residents of Daily City tonight has been really like very scary. Um, and I don't know if you've seen any of the pictures of the kinds of conditions that people are living in, but it's just it's simply unlivable. And I it sounds like, you know, the the resolution's been passed um uh months ago and and and what people need is not like people is it's not words, right? We need we need action. People are are getting sicker and sicker by the day. You know, we've heard testimonies from from teachers across the city how this is impacting students. I'm sure it's impacting workers. um already like the price of living is so expensive and the fact that people have to pay so much for terrible conditions doesn't make any sense. Um so we really urge you to move forward with this and um yeah um update us on your progress and plan uh to move forward with faith and action. Thank you.

Thank you. Next, uh, we have Luke L and then Zachiti Espinosa. Okay. Luke L. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Uh, good evening, council members. My name is Luke Lazaro and I'm a member of the party of socialism uh, for socialism and liberation. I'm here today to ask the council and city staff to meet with face and action leaders and our coalition to provide an update on the city's work to protect daily city tenants from landlord harassment and unsafe housing conditions. Daily City may be called the gateway to the peninsula, but this is my home and I refuse to let it be overlooked. I live near SBA Elementary and the plumbing in my home and in many homes across Daily City is severely outdated. When I told my landlord about it, I was told to just avoid flushing toilet paper. No one should have to live like that. Safe, functional housing is literally the bare minimum. And I challenge all of you to spend a day without using toilet paper. Nobody is allowed. Thank Thank you.

Okay. Zoriti Espinosa. Hi everyone. Good evening. Uh my name is pronounced Sochi Sochi. Okay. Thank you. Uh

I'm here to talk about the anti-araskin law. Back in December, we passed it as a resolution and I urge every one of you to think about it deeply. And it was a good step forward, but we really need you to keep going and make sure that this passes as a law because as you've heard, everyone's tired. everyone. People have been living in unsafe, unhealthy conditions. I've also lived in unhealthy conditions. Um, it's really not good for anyone. It's to continue this sort of behavior, to be threatened, to be harassed, um, harmed. It doesn't help anyone. If you really care about your community, you would do something about it. You can't just keep holding it off. and just keep it still. We We really need to keep going.

Thank you. Thank you.

We have a few cards left. Uh next to speak, if you would come on up, is Melissa Mahia and then we have a Thana R. Melissa.

Hello. Good evening. My name is Melissa. I'm a leader here in Daily City Faith in Action. And I'm I've been living here my whole life. I grew up here and I was born here. And I'm here today because I have heard many stories and testimonies of families that are dealing with harassment. And it's so heartbreaking to hear. And as a student at SF State, I want to create a change. And I think you guys should be part of that change. and it should be one of your number one priorities to create a change here. I also want I'm also here to demand to have a meeting with you guys to have a plan to keep moving this forward and to keep going. I have dealt with harassment myself and I don't want it to keep going and to like go to other kids and it should not be affecting little kids. So, thank you so much for hearing Gazal. Thank you. Uh Dana R. And then our last speaker this evening will be Pablo Rubio. Good evening. My name is Dennapoxy. I'm a resident at Daily City. I'm here in solidarity with Faith in Action. I'm here to ask you all to uh meet with faith in action leaders as well as the wider coalition to work on a substantial landlord anti-harassment law. It's great that the res resolution was passed, but that's just the beginning. Now is a time to act on your promise to the people. Your actions moving forward regarding this matter will either increase or decrease your support. Please do the right thing and meet to draft an anti-harassment uh law to protect your constituents. Thank you.

Thank you.

All right, our last speaker will be to Pablo Rubio. I think he had to go for a health issue.

All right. Thank you. Okay, that's the last of all the cards that I have. I want to thank the community for being here this evening and uh speaking upon issues that concerned you and uh your comments have been well noted and uh thank you for spending the amount of time to be here this evening. Thank you very much. So, the next item on the agenda is the consent agenda. And uh I'll leave it up to my council members who have uh looked at the particular items and see if any of them would like to bifurcate or uh go into more detail on one specific item. Council member Diovani had mentioned to me earlier that item number nine should be pulled.

Are there any other items? Okay. Hearing none and seeing none, I'll entertain a motion to uh accept the consent agenda with the exception of item number nine. Motion to approve consent agenda with the exception of item number nine. We have a motion. Is there a second? Second. Second. We have a first and second. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I. Any oppose? Any abstensions? Motion passes. And uh who? Oh, Miss Brown, you will speak on item number nine. Welcome. Thank you.

Good evening, mayor and members of the city council. I'm glad you did that. Tonight I'm here um and it is recommended that the city council adopt a resolution to accept and appropriate additional funds of $55,391 from the Sonteo County Aging and Disability Services to the Senior and Active Adult Services Fund. The active adults and senior services unit was offered nutritional services incentive program, NIST funds, in the amount of $8,614 to serve 1,60 additional meals and additional county general funds in the amount of $46,777 to serve an additional 6,419 meals from Sanonteo County Aging and Disability Services totaling an additional 7,00 479 meals served. This grant would be in addition to a grant of 2,298,680 for the congregate nutrition program provided by the county and previously accepted and appropriated by the city council resolution 25-106. This is a reimbursement grant from the city of Delhi grant with the city of Delhi city incurring cost for purchases in the congregate nutrition program with the county paying invoices on an ongoing basis. Staff is available to provide any additional information desired by the mayor or council members.

Thank you, Miss Brown. Uh council member DJ Ovani, you requested that this item be pulled. Do you have any questions for Mr. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. First of all, thank you u Denise for everything that you guys do there. My question is are we get are you getting enough money? Have do you see a decrease in the amount of money? I know you guys try to get grants because it's such a great program and you're feeding so many people and and the is the increase also the number of people and um is my second point. Are you seeing that then there's a need and does it match the dollar amount?

So the the senior lunch program is highly subsidized by the city of Delhi city but the what the Sono County aging and disability services um department provides to us these are funds outside of the the basic funds that we receive. Um, and one of the reasons we do receive extra funding is because of the due diligence of the staff that provide the program. Not just hands-on with Opel and her team, but also what Jennifer Durr, the recreation services manager, does in order to reconcile all the reports and get them to the county in a timely manner. So, um, what we do gets gets us a little bit more back than other entities. So,

yeah. Well, that's a lot to be proud of because uh I do think it um there, you know, we have seniors that go to different, you know, different cities every once in a while, but the I'm going to say that we're proud that that you go above and beyond. So, I just wanted to highlight that and appreciate your time, the report, and everyone under you or that works with you as a team because I know you all are a team. So I appreciate that and that that's program is stellar. So thank you mayor mayor. Thank you. So the people at home know. Thank you.

Thank you. Council member Diovani. Any other questions? Council member uh Diovani. Would you uh be happy to make the motion to approve this item? Thank you, Mayor. Yes. Like to make a motion to um adopt item number on the consent agenda item number nine. Thank you very much. Is there a second? Second. Oh, I think I heard Dr. Rod first. Okay, let me look at my screen and see who chimed up. I'm just kidding. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, so we have a first and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none and seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. I.

Any oppose? Any abstension? Motion passes. Thank you, Mr. Brown. Okay. Uh that was a consent. Moving on to item number 12, adoption of an ordinance adding chapter 15.09 to the daily city municipal code establishing construction hours on private property. And Mr. Lunkous. Good evening.

Good evening, honorable mayor, members of the city council. I'm going to actually be giving the next uh three presentations despite the names that are listed. Um we're aware that you have a meeting after this meeting. So, we're going to um keep our presentations on these items fairly concise. This is a request by the city of Daily City to essentially amend the city's uh municipal code to include construction errors on private property. As all of us are aware, construction can sometimes become a noisy thing, especially when it's conducted, you know, outside. The city receives complaints about this. Um, not that often, but we do receive them. And oftent times the result is to point to the city's general noise regulations which essentially prohibit any noise between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. But uh we've found that that uh we need to have a little bit more of a regulatory role in construction noise. This has been done through the use of conditions of approval in the past. Um the city for a long time relied on public works uh standard permit guidelines, but those only pertain to work in the public rideway. And so we're sort of in a situation where we need to have a uniform regulation of construction hours that we can tell people this is essentially the law. So to come up with our proposed construction hours, uh we thought it would be a good idea to survey all of the cities in the county as well as uh the large cities in the Bay Area, the city of San Francisco, the city of San Jose were included for this reason. We went into the next county, PaloAlto, Mountain View. Um the survey that we conducted is included as an attachment to your staff report. And the big takeaway here is that uh regulating construction hours and imposing fines etc for violating those construction hours is not something that's uncommon in cities. It's actually very common. Daily city is one of the only large

larger cities in the Bay Area that does not have such regulations. This is just the list of the surveys and we can review any of these if you'd like. So essentially uh using the information provided in the survey, the city staff developed an ordinance that established construction hours uh outdoor construction hours uh for as follows. On weekdays between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. on Saturdays between 9:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. And then construction would be prohibited on Sundays and federal holidays unless uh an exception is granted. So, one of the things that we're wanting to point out is that the construction hours would only pertain to work that's being conducted outside. So, people uh who are remodeling their bathroom or their kitchen or anything like that, that's inside work that would be not that would not be regulated by this ordinance.

Also, um interior retail renovations um including you know large tenant improvements and for example in the shopping centers not regulated by this ordinance. The thought being that that the noise for that is not, you know, it's kind of contained inside and not really causing a problem to the public. So, that's not in the that that is not being regulated. Some of the other uh provisions included in the ordinance are limiting material deliveries, allowing staging 1 hour before, that's a sort of like warming up equipment on site before work begins. We thought there should be an allowance for that. um requiring some signs so that the public's aware that there is a noise regulation in place as well as the allowance of the building official or there need to allow some exceptions because there are some times when um we do need to for example allow pouring foundations. Sometimes Sunday is the only time it can happen or a holiday is the only time it can happen. That that comes up quite a bit and we do need to have some allowances for that. The enforcement is essentially um going to be done through the building division and code enforcement. We've tried to come up with an enforcement uh mechanism that's got some teeth in it. Um we didn't think that coming up with a low dollar amount fine was going to matter to anybody. So we proposed that there would be warning notices and and most importantly here is inspection holds if necessary. and we hope we never get to that with anybody, but we do have the ability through this ordinance to do that if we if we should need to do that. Um, yeah, so the violations are treated as a public nuisance, etc. This proposal is exempt from SQA and the this item did not go to the planning commission. This is not an amendment to the zoning ordinance, so we're coming straight to the city council with it. We do recommend the city council adopt it. We're of course available to answer any questions you have.

Thank you, Mr. Longhousen. Uh, we, uh, do have a question and, uh, I'll start off with, uh, council member Manalo, please. Thank you so much for your presentation and thank you, mayor. Um, you know, the question I have is, um, I think you said there is a process or a stop order that happens. Um, what is that mechanism like? What are the exact like steps? Like is it a phone call that happens to your particular department? Is it a phone call that happens to our police department? Like what is that outlined?

Right. So basically members of the public can contact any city department and if it comes to the attention of the building official, the building official would I mean we we're not in the business of shutting down construction. that's a last resort. Uh and so what we would do is have a conversation with the violator, let them know, hey, you're operating outside of the hours that are of permissible construction. We've received a public complaint about it. The city staff is not going to be driving around looking for noise violations. This is a complaint-based uh sort of a regulation, but if somebody does complain, we'll have a conversation with the uh the job superintendent, the the general contractor, whoever's in charge, let them know that we received that complaint and that if it continues that we will it will result in a delay of inspections. And that's a very important thing because one thing contractors hate is delayed inspections. Mhm.

Um but if it comes to that and the likelihood that it comes to that it's going to be very low, but we do have that enforcement ability. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Manalo. Anyone else? Dr. Raj, please. Um I'm just curious how was it decided for the 8 a.m. 8:00 p.m. Um were there any other options considered? Well, we essentially took a look at the survey. Okay. Oh, the survey. Yeah. So, the planning division staff Sam Fielding took a survey of other cities and we took a look at all of the hours and uh yeah, it's kind of a mix. Some allow earlier, some allow later. And

we should say the city council can set whatever hours you'd like to see in this ordinance. The staff's bringing this to you as a uh something that we need to regulate. And if you think 7:00's better than 8:00, of course, we can make 7:00 be the hour. It's just that we need to have a uniform set of regulations. We tell people so that everybody's subject to the same thing. We don't have this company subject to certain hours and this company subject to something else and some some people don't have regulations at all. We can't have that. We have to have everybody subject to the same law. So if yeah if you and if you feel the need to digest this and this isn't some burning topic we can of course come back with it but that is what we just threw out there in terms of the hours.

That's it for me. Thank you Dr. Rod. Council member Malaw. Thank you mayor. And I think um on the heels of what Dr. Rod was asking, I think if we're looking at um timewise for those that are doing construction, like what is the most like uh I think the most ample light whether it is in whatever season

I think that's a way we can look at um what the breath of 7 to 7 or you know you know so then We're looking at the opportunity for those doing construction. So, I think looking at where the most daylight is obviously um within the morning until the evening, I think that's a way we could look at it. It's not not a bad idea. Yeah, the cities we surveyed didn't do that, but dawn to dusk makes sense, too. It makes perfect sense to me. It

Thank you, Mr. Lousen. I I'm just grinning up here because I already made notes and and uh the rest rest of my colleagues fell right into it and they basically came up with the suggestions that I was going to come up with. My concern was you have daylight savings. Sure. And if the whole idea, I'm sure, is to cut down on noise, but I'm wondering in daylight savings, then you have the propensity where construction sites may utilize a lot of light

and that may shine into uh folks home uh at nighttime. And looking at your ordin uh the other samples up there, no one and council member Manalo said it, it nowhere does it addresses the change of the seasons in reference to light. You know, if even if it means when it's brighter longer but darker in the morning, then maybe we can adjust the hours that they can start earlier. But I I think that would be too much uh work uh for code enforcement because from what I gather from you, we would not be actively looking to uh basically find the folks, but we should have something on the books than nothing at all. So I I I can see the thoughtfulness that went uh went went into this. when you talk about shopping malls and they're working inside or someone's working on their bathrooms at home. Uh you you folks put a lot of thought into it. I really like your survey, but uh I would recommend uh uh considering the daylight hours as um a top priority because that changes during the year. True.

So you the chair? Yes, I'm open. Vice Mayor's got her hand up. Okay. Right. Okay. Question. That's my thought. But other than that, Mr. Longousen, very, very good. Uh, Vice Mayor, please. Thank you very much. Um, I I not if I noted correctly, it was indicated Monday to Friday 8 to 8 with Saturday 9 to 8. And this is only outside. What I didn't notice was anything on a Sunday. Um, there uh do we not have Sundays? Some of these other cities do have Sunday, but I don't see that for daily. Oh, construction prohibited. Why would that be on Sunday?

Again, we're cities do h It showed on your list that some cities did have Sunday. Sure. Again, we were just throwing it out there. Some cities don't allow a Sunday. And I think part of our rationale was we took a look at what our conditions of approval have been in the past also. But again, this is open for discussion. It's whatever the city council feels is appropriate in Daily City,

right? The only reason I would say I mean some people may only have a Sunday if they're doing the work themselves. Not everybody could afford to say hire someone. So, if they're doing it themselves in their home, um I I would think um I don't know what what do the other council members think? I just think that as long as it's daylight hours, why shouldn't they be able to do work on their home on a Sunday? That's just my thought. Thank you. Well, thank you, Vice Mayor. What uh Council Member Diran, did you have something you wanted to ask? Well, she she still does she still have a question? Yeah, she she was done.

Okay. Um the only thing I I think alluding to council member Manalo and the vice mayor and uh Mike uh can you go back to that slide showing the hours? Yes. And again just to reiterate this is only for outside work. Council member outside work. Okay. Right. Sorry. Uh keep going right there. Yeah. So something like uh weekdays and Saturdays, that's good. With the exception of daylight savings time, 6:00 p p.m. Just during daylight savings time. It's a thought. I'm just thinking out loud here. That's all. Sure.

Just during daylight savings. All all days as listed with the exception of daylight savings time will the time will be 6 pm. We can we can make we can make an adjustment for daylight savings time. We can also do dawn to dusk. It's a little trickier. We'd have to use whatever the weather service reports to be the sunrise and sunset of the particular day. Well, if I was a developer, that confused me on the dust. That's when the sun goes down. Right. Right. Right. That's Yeah, that's when the sun comes up. Well, uh, the sun the sun ever come up at 6:00 a.m. I'm not exactly sure,

you know. So, it's just a thought. What do you folks think? Anything cuz I'm just concerned about the lights. You know, they say you can go to 8:00 p.m. at night and the construction site outside has these blaring lights. Uh, well, they can do it until 8:00 p.m. That's my only thought. And with the lights probably comes deliveries, probably comes uh what's the lights there so they can see. It all depends on the type of work they're doing. I don't know. It's just my thought. Mike, I think I'm understanding your issue more clearly. It's that if we set the time where they're work allowing work in the dark that construction lighting could cause an impact to residents.

Well, that's my thought. I see. Okay. Do you want Do you want me to um tricky? What? Do you want me Maybe I tell you what, I'll meet you halfway. Instead of eight, I'll go to seven. No, you can. What if it's light at 8? It's what? Light? Yeah. If it's light at 8, you're fine. Just as long as you're done by 8. But uh during uh nondaylight savings, I think it gets dark at 6. Yep. F Like sometimes five or five o'clock. And during daylight savings means it gets dark at 8:30. So you know the 8 is good but what about when it gets dark

right? And a lot of our contractors it should be said or work up in San Francisco we do share that sort of the contract community contractor community and as you can see the first agency essentially has yeah no they're kind of you know pretty you know loosey goosey. So yeah so it's kind of a interesting thing. We could do this if the council would like uh could adopt the first reading and then at the second reading we could come back with a more refined version that considers okay daylight savings time or something like that. Yeah, that sounds good. That's good. Mr. Lunken, you're the expert on this one. It's kind of Yeah, absolutely.

It's really what it's a community standard sort of thing. Uh, city manager has a Oh, uh, vice mayor. Oh, thank you, mayor. Um, I I would also request that we, uh, have a little discussion if it's if but I think a Sunday uh, as long as it's during daylight hours, a Sunday would uh, would also be something good for people to have that option. Now, are we we're talking homes and uh I just want to double check, not just homes. It could be other construction as well. Is that correct?

Yes. Everything. Uh in fact, we were going to exclude single family homes, but then what we did is we made it outside work only. So, people who are remodeling anything inside their home, this ordinance doesn't apply to them at all. So, next door neighbor calls and says, "Hey, they're remodeling in their kitchen on a Sunday." This ordinance does not apply to that. I'm sorry. I still think Sunday is necessary. Thank you. Just my opinion. I I'm having trouble uh understanding. So, Vice Mayor, you said you would like to include Sundays for work or exclude.

I would like to I would like to include Sunday, treat it as a weekend. So, as they would a Saturday. I'd like to see that there. I just think that since since it it's not as much uh large construction, but if we're including homes, then that would be I think important to have that option. A homeowner, they may be doing their own work, but not to be able to do it on a Sunday. That's more my concern.

Okay. Well, so what I'm hearing, Sundays, even though it is not permitted with the exception if you're working on your home, single family home. Is that what I'm hearing? You want to allow that someone to work on their home. Is that what I'm hearing? Yes. Although I'm looking at city and county of San Francisco, uh, it's seven days a week. City of South

San Francisco City also, right? also allows s uh Saturday and Sunday and holidays but to asking that no level the the noise level not exceed not 90 dB. Is that what it show? And then a s city of San Mo that's different right it's city of San Mo is saying Sunday and city observed holiday so it would be 12 to 4. Oh I see. Right. Yeah. And so I'm going down the line and right I I'm seeing a lot of Sure. the larger cities. Yes. Yes. And we're we're considered a larger city. Sure. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Let's look at this these ones here.

Thank you, Vice Mayor. Council member Malo. Uh yeah. No, I definitely see the rationale on, you know, um individual homeowners that may be doing work on their homes themselves. Um but then I then I also look at if we are doing it on Sundays um if it's a proximity to worship centers then I'm like then the noise you know that noise could interfere with services. So I I don't know how that plays a role in that. So yeah, we're in a

good point. uh council member uh any further because uh council member Diovani as it was just a thought like I I mean I think we there should be um what the vice mayor said allowing like homeowners to be able to do maybe some of their work and they can't do it during the week because right they work um a Monday to Friday job right but then maybe we have to look at something where if the home is by I don't know I'm not trying to complicate things but within 500 ft of a place of worship. We can do that.

Yeah. I feel like that it's going to I mean there's a sermon and then there's like construction or I don't you know you can put whatever you want in there. Yeah. Council member Diovani.

Yeah. Yeah, I could see where there's going to be like a compromise, but I like the fact that there's no Sunday because of the majority of people, everybody works different shifts, right? And then if people are working on their own home outside, usually they have to get permits and the majority of the people I would think to be a contractor and then when you report something, you can't really report it on a s a Sunday to to stop whatever construction thing is going on. So on that side of it, if it's people might just say, "Hey, I'm gonna just do it on a Sunday and I'll get it done and then they'll forget that they can report me on a Monday." So I don't know. There's all kinds of thought patterns and I see where um the respect of the of the neighbor comes in hand with for noise and not doing it on holidays. Um I think that's what we already have. I think that I I like that not doing it on the Sundays and holidays. I think it's respectful of the the neighbors on the um on that realm for the noise because if not, we're going to get a lot of noise complaints and um that's that's what I think. That's just my two cents, Mr. Mayor.

The noise complaints we have received are about work beginning too early in the day, right? and and that and we haven't received any about Sunday, but that may be because construction usually by merchant builders, people who are building homes, usually don't work on Sunday, but they they probably do from time to time. It depends on, you know, meeting deadlines. It probably happens, but we haven't received We don't. Yeah, they usually don't. Yeah, contractors don't. We haven't received any complaints about Sunday work. Thank you for the I think it's a good compromise.

All right. Well, I think there are two trains of thoughts here and uh let's bear in mind that the whole idea why this is before us because it's uh it's it's adoption of some sort of ordinance to where we had none at all before in the past. All the ideas that I've heard tonight is uh definitely outstanding. Uh but I think it should be considered and we can come to a consensus and uh Mr. Lunk House and you've even explained it to us. Hey, it's whatever you folks want, but I've heard some good things up here this evening and I think uh are we in a hurry to adopt this? No, we're not.

Uh would you kindly consider taking some of these ideas and maybe come back to us? Is that possible? It's absolutely possible. What do you think council for staff? Yeah. So the issue was um never on a sun I mean Sunday I'm thinking of the song never on a Sunday and uh but uh what has been said on council uh considering the ideas about uh daylights uh nighttime work was there anything else that you would like uh Mr. Lunken to come back on

yes Dr. Uh I guess the if I might be wrong but if you can um please let me know. I think was one of the um the pattern was uh prohibited on Sundays and holidays. Was that correct? That's right. Except for the residential, right? If you're working inside your on your house. Oh, you're saying outside? Yeah. Yeah. The ordinance only applies to work being done outside. Okay. Gotcha. Yeah. It only pertains to work on private property, I might add. working the public right ofway is a whole different thing. Okay. So,

yeah. And then looking at the the hours, it just seems like the the like the the pattern or kind of like the reoccurring theme that I see is that a lot of the cities start at 7 a.m. Mhm. Besides South San Francisco. So, I think that's, you know, I know we're we're playing with the idea of like daylight savings time, but just looking at a lot of the um what's the regular pattern or the frequency, it looks like 7 a.m. is a good start time. And I feel like a lot of them end at 700 p.m.

Mhm. because I'm what I'm trying to look at is like comparable to um our population, but then I'm trying also trying to consider like we have a different microclimate here. Sure. The climate and and and the city council can adopt something and if it's not working, we can always come back, you know, right, three years from now and make amendments. So, yeah, good point. So, this is a good conversation because it gives us a flavor for maybe what you're all looking for. And it sounds like maybe a little more lenient than what we were if we considered the vice mayor's input. I mean, right, Sundays,

which is totally fine. We just we just threw something out. Of course, it's your decision to make. Sam, I just wanted to mention one one thing that brought up is like quality of life issues like having one day Sunday for quiet and peace in the community in the neighborhood is I think one one thing that that when you might want to consider but uh yeah I was just I think that's one of the reasons

like cities will typically not allow construction on Sundays so that at least one day during the week construction outside for their house Well, I'm sure we can come to a compromise. And hearing that from you, Mr. Felding, I would say, "Okay, well, we'll let you work on a Sunday, but one Sunday every month." I mean, there's so many things that we can do, but they You can't really get in the weeds with this. Well, one other thing, last thing that just keep in mind, there's also that built in the ordinance is that exception where That's right. the applicants come and talk to the building official. Oh, sorry. Yeah. Vice Mayor can't hear you.

Sorry about that. Yeah. Uh Sam Fielding with planning. Uh one one thing to keep in mind also is that the the there's a built-in exception there where um people that are doing construction can come to uh speak with the building official and um and request a special uh exception for to do construction you like say on a Sunday if they have to do it on a Sunday or uh outside those hours if they need be. So there there there isn't it it there is that option always always there. Sounds good. That's true. All right. Thank you. All right. Vice Mayor, you still have your hand up. Did you want to add?

No, I I I'd be happy to to you know pipe in or if it's helpful. I I'm as a homeowner myself uh and as a homeowner that we do a lot of whatever we need to do, painting or gardening or uh you know fixing this or that. Uh to have to worry that some neighbor is going to turn somebody in because you know I I like the idea of perhaps time. So, a Sunday, maybe you say start at 10:00 and finish by 6 or something. But, I mean, some people they work Saturdays or they work during the week and they're doing the work themselves. And so, to take away a day,

uh, it doesn't seem feasible to me. I mean, it just somebody's somebody's going to use that. And I just think that as a homeowner, we're talking about homeowner. When I was reading through some of these, one of them said, "No, what is that piling when you're banging into the ground?" Well, that wouldn't be a home. That that would be huge construction, right? That would be apartment buildings or whatever it is you build. So, perhaps we keep homeowners separate from uh true construction. Would that be something we could do? So, what I'm hearing is the Sunday exception might only be homeowners.

Yeah. To take away the opportunity to improve your your home or your residence. I I just I you know, I I'd like to see everybody pull their weeds and keep their front of their house clean. So, Right. Right. Anyway, thank you for your time. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. built a backyard structure myself on a Sunday. So, I mean, I understand the comment. It's hard to track who's a homeowner. Great. All right. Well, Mr. Lunk Housing, why don't we do that? Would you kindly um uh come back to us with more additional information based upon the uh comments received?

Yes. and uh we can always uh uh modify them or agree with them and so we can get this passed because we have nothing. Okay. Any thoughts? Oh, okay. Council member Nala, go ahead. I do I have one more thought. Um um in regards to I think can we get an analysis on um major construction and whether or not during that time do they do use Sundays as a time for them to work.

Um I I think we need to factor that in. Um in the development world um every day counts. Um and when there's rainy days that's that can delay things. But I think we need to put that into account um when we look at whether it is large housing developments or commercial uh development that as business owners that's going to be um time is money. So I have to I think we have to look at those factors. Yeah.

You know what we can do is we'll talk to our two major projects under construction. one of which the ordinance would not apply, which is the 99 Southgate West at uh Westlake Mall. There's an apartment building under construction. So, this only applies to projects that haven't received a building permit yet. The KB Homes project in the Bayore, right? This ordinance would only apply to any building permits that haven't been issued um yet, which is quite a few. So, we we we'll talk to them and find out. That's a that's a good idea. We certainly can do that. Um, we're going to suggest maybe April 27th for the continuence date if that's something that works. Yes. Okay. Good.

Yes. Is that agreeable? Sounds good to me. Come back. Sounds good. Thank you. Thank you. All right, Mr. Lunkous. Thank you so much. Thank you. You're welcome. Do they Rose, do they need to vote on the continuence or No, we're just going to come back for another reintroduction of the ordinance. Sounds good. Thank you. Okay. All right. The next item is item number 13. Zone change Z C 02-26-1700. Amendments to the city of Daily City's municipal code. Mr. Lunk House, you going to do this one, too? Yes. Okay. Thank you.

Thank you, mayor, members of the city council. This item did go to the planning commission. The planning commission recommended its approval. Um, in this is a set of uh changes to the city's zoning ordinance. Uh, some are housing related, some are items that we've uh sort of dealt with before. Um, and one is related to front yard paving. I believe a a couple of council members were on council when the front yard paving regulations were adopted. Maybe you, mayor, and council member Manalo.

Yeah. So, um, you probably remember all the work that went into coming up with the frame paving regulations. The, um, not to get out of order, but, uh, yeah, there was a citizens advisory committee and a lot of thought that went into it. Yeah. So, but anyway, this is a set of, uh, regulatory changes in the city's zoning ordinance and, um, I'll just sort of explain them verbally. I think that's probably the easiest thing to do. Um, the first is a height definition. Uh, and this is all included in your staff report, the exact language. Uhhuh.

Yeah. When the city adopted the CMU zoning regulations, we inadvertently removed the regular height definition for all of the buildings in the city. So, we need to put that back in the zoning ordinance. Oh, yeah. So, that's something we need to do. But the upside of having to do that is that we've come up with a uh regulation that has uh some clarity to it. It's essentially the old regulation but removes some of the uh additional um jargon if you will that was in the in the old regulation. And let me see if we have that here. I know for sure we have a graphic on it. Oh yeah.

Right. So if we look at the bottom uh drawing, essentially what the city does is it regulates the building heights based on the average of the and I'm sorry I don't have a pointer. Um maybe maybe we take a look at we take a look at the the uh the height of every building and of course all the buildings in Daily City are all on sloping lots and aren't a perfect square sitting on flat land. But we take this measurement on all four sides. And every building doesn't just have four sides. So it gets kind of complicated. And we we take that height and we we average it so that some buildings are taller on one side and shorter on the other. But they all have to average, for example, in the single family zoning district 30 ft. in the non-residential zoning districts. As you may recall, when the city adopted its housing element, we adopted not only our housing element, but implementation measures right off the bat, and we allowed a very essentially very tall buildings. Um there's there's uh we I think on Mission Street, we allowed 10 or 12 story buildings. So, you know, if the market ever produces something like that, um and it's probably going to be in a you know, a long time coming, we're not going to have a height regulation issue there. But for single family houses, that's essentially, you know, what we what we did. So we reintroduced the language for the uh definition of building height. And we can go over any of these that you'd like. So um the next two use permit approvals and design review approvals were essentially uh are proposed changes to the expir or the expiration of permits that are unused and by unused the zone the zoning ordinance says if you haven't received a building permit and um of

course one of the things we're working on is getting people their building permits faster. Uh but it it's not as a matter of fact it's not usually related to that that it takes longer than a year. Uh developers have to line up construction financing and permanent financing and those things just take a long time to do. And so this is why the city council has oftent times seen uh requests for time extensions. Um we've had uh design review committee meetings just to grant a time extension. And now the developers have become keen to the fact that they can request upon their initial approval uh time extensions be granted. And you've seen that u come before you. And usually the city council is very generous with that and allows it.

But what we wanted to do was uh come up with a a regulatory scheme where we would allow for a longer uh start time. And what we've come up with is that we would allow three years. Well, this went to this the planning commission and they had a little bit of a different idea, which is totally fine. We had no issue with that. And of course, this is one of the things that the city council can decide what they'd like, but the initial staff idea was three years with a 2-year time extension. Um, and when the item went to the planning commission, the planning commission thought it should just be five years with no time extension. So, um, again, this is something and this is on design review and use permits. This is uh whatever you can pick the time it could be 10 years if you'd like or two years. So that's uh the second and third items. Uh the fourth is that we're proposing the removal of the requirement for a use permit for condominium maps. And the reason for this is that when we adopted our housing element, um we actually have an implementation measure to essentially reduce some of the discretionary review that's associated with constructing buildings. We're actually obligated uh to the state of California to do this. will always need to approve a subdivision map for a condominium. But what what we don't want to do is have a use permit where there's um additional discretion because the use permit process or not process but that additional entitlement is very discretionary in nature without any sort of objective standards which is kind of hard to do for a use permit. We're sort of in a you know into a territory where we have a discretionary review and a lot of this development is supposed to be non-discretionary. So, um, while a developer may propose a condominium map, that'll come to planning commission and city council, we're proposing that the use permit requirement that currently exists be

removed from the zoning ordinance. And that's the fourth bullet. And then the fifth bullet is the front yard landscaping. And this is something that we deal with on a u pretty much a daily basis. um not so much the issue of uh people who don't want to comply with it, but front yard paving permits are given out almost daily. And what a lot of people have said is why do I need to provide a landscape triangle? So currently the zoning regulations require that 25% of your front yard remain in landscaping. And this drawing shows sort of a typical like you know West Lake house or St. Francis uh neighborhood uh front yard where the uh 25% landscaping is provided the uh when when this went to the city council back in 2017. The city council decided that um and this is based on uh the staff presentation that the landscape triangle would be required. The problem is that we didn't actually include that in the zoning ordinance. So now we're getting a lot of push back from the public that's saying where does that have why do I have to do a landscape triangle and where does it say it in the zoning ordinance that I have to do a landscape triangle and the reason for the landscape triangle is because people park

in this area here and what we've had problems with in the past and part of the reason that we came up with our our front yard paving regulations is people were paving their entire front yard and aesthetically um this was leading to problems There was a lot of and and part of why this came to the city council as a topic, a lot of community complaints about all the front yard being paved. You you know, you drive up some of the streets and yeah, every every every inch of the front yards paved. So, um, one of the problems that we were also having is that people would back out over the city sidewalk and over the city curb. Oh.

And we had an instance where a car was hit also when somebody was backing out. And so the the idea here and this is many years ago but the idea here with the with the triangle is to direct the car to the driveway. So this is because people park on this, right? So the whole objective here was uh just to refresh your memories was to provide additional parking opportunities. So uh that was the rationale for it. People want to know where it says they have to do a landscape triangle and that's why we're proposing a zoning. It's a very simple amendment to the zoning ordinance. Landscape triangle required. if they don't want to do a landscape triangle, they are allowed to uh basically plunk a tree in the middle of it. And a there's another option for that, but most people do this. And I I would say, what do you think? 95%. Yeah. So, um and we're also uh requesting a clarification that sideyards not be paved. We've had um a recent situation where somebody wanted to not only did they complain about having to do the landscape triangle, they also wanted to pave their sideyard. This is all private property. Wow. And we don't want on corner lots especially uh when you look at that house to have all of it concrete and there's no this was supposed to be a you know provision of additional parking not uh pave it cuz we like concrete or don't like to cut the lawn. I mean there's a lot of reasons gophers and so um we're proposing a change to not allow to clarify that paving is not allowed in the sideyard. So, those are essentially the changes that are included in this uh zoning ordinance amendment.

Is that it, Mr. Lunk? That's it. All right. Any questions? I just have one one quick question. So, um with this proposal, does that mean like a lot of these things will get grandfathered in? So, like let's just say that like a current house has their whole everything is all paved. They're good. They're okay for now. So, okay. Right. We we use goo Google Street View has historical images uh and we use that to determine, you know, who's grandfathered because that's a great question and it comes it actually comes up a lot, you know. Yeah. I'm okay.

All right. Uh before I start, uh uh vice mayor, anything from you? There you go.

No. Um well, it it's it's it is a very interesting uh and thank you thank you for asking. Uh Michael, thank you for the presentation. it um we we we probably have all noticed the changes in driveways in the last 20 30 years in the city of Daily City. Um, and I totally understand where I mean if you as I've dri I know uh many of you if you drive up let's say a major road like hillside for instance early or very late you've got at least uh even cars parked sideways uh double cars as many cars as they can place um uh onto their property. And so, um I understand the the predicament. Now, I just want to double check with that landscape triangle. Are we trying to make sure it's in writing or it isn't in writing? And you're trying to make sure it's there.

We're we're trying to make sure it is in writing because there's nothing in the zoning ordinance that says you have to do a landscape triangle. And how long have we been telling people they should do a triangle? We haven't. No, we for nine years. Oh. So, so, so for nine years you've been letting people know. And how did it start nine years ago?

Well, nine years ago, the city council adopted the zoning change to allow front yard paving. And at that time we presented to the city council that we would there was essentially two and I don't think the other drawings here but there's essentially two possibilities. Yep.

There was one where you could plant a tree in the middle of your yard. You could pave the rest of it but you'd have to plant something where parking's not allowed. And I if if you'd like I can explain the whole rationale when when you're going to park on your front yard. It triggers um different requirements uh from the city. Um the city's department of water and wastewater resources, for example, if you're going to drive over a water meter, it needs to be traffic rated

and replacing that um can be just a little more costly. And so, uh that's something that's for example required if you're going to park on your front your paved front yard. So, there's a regulatory difference in that way. And so when it came to the city council, going back to the answering your question, uh, vice mayor, when it came to the city council, what, nine years ago, um, all of this was sort of flushed out. But the problem is is that we didn't put that a landscape triangle was required. Uh, we put the 25% landscaping had to be retained, but there's nothing even though all the presentations included the landscape triangle, there was nothing that actually said it. So now the public's, you know, become and you can't blame them. They're becoming, you know, increasingly like, you know, where does it say that? And so now what we're we're proposing that the ordinance be changed to say that. And

and just real quick, so what what I'm hearing is the triangle serves two purposes. One, it protects a meter or whatever that is, whatever might be there. Um, and the other thing is I'm seeing it says storm water runoff, right? And then also to to so that people don't park like in that photo potentially. They could park three vehicles if you didn't but they could still park on top of the grass though. It's illegal technically. Technically you're not supposed to park on lawn in Daily City.

Oh, interesting. Okay. So that that triangle you I mean no worries that triangle uh would keep a keep let's say the people who live in that house in the photo you keep three cars off maybe they only parked two. Is that kind of what you're trying to do? Uh we're not not really trying to accommodate any particular number of cars. Um, the whole objective of the triangle, and this graphic shows it the best, is to direct a car that's backing up off the property and into the street, direct it to the driveway curb cut. See the yellow arrow sort of? Yes.

Yeah. We don't want people rolling over this the uh curb almost, you know, almost hitting another car. Like I said, that happened once. Um, so that's it. And and it also there's a secondary benefit of um yeah, the storm storm water runoff also goes into the landscape triangle. So, okay. Thank you. Thank you for that clarification. Makes makes sense. Thank you so much, Mayor. Um, thank you, uh, Vice Mayor, Council Member DJ.

All right. Thank you, Mayor. So, you're right. Back in that you and then you had that citizens advisory because I remember it wasn't on the council, but I remember that Lily Louie was one of those on there along with other ones. And then you said about the pavers, right? That was a big thing. And then actually some of the places look really beautiful but but the fact that it wasn't on the books for you and then it started growing. I see the issue because you had to have it I remember the pavers because you were talking about the storm water and how it had to be drainage. So um that's something that's pretty mandatory. Right. Right.

Yeah. Which I thought and it look made it look like decent as well. you you had that space where people were able to put again the flowers or whatever they wanted to put, but yet they they they couldn't do the sideyard or the the angle and didn't couldn't park in the which I thought that was a good idea. So now back in 2017, we completely missed the sideyard topic. So it's just been something that yeah, you know, we kind of we've been inconsistent and it's an enforcement. Some people have been allowed to do it, some people haven't. It's just been all over the place and we can't have that. we need to treat every you know every member of the public needs to receive the same set of regulations. So

you really did I remember that during the whole the the citizen advisory and all that. It was it was pretty intense because people had different but you did come up with something that was very comparable and um yeah thank you and for all of this as well because we we need to like support and let people know it is on the books. you need to let them know and if it's not on the books, they they can uh pretty well do what they want. But thank you. I appreciate it. Um I'm in support.

Thank you. Uh Council Member Diovani, uh Mr. Lousen, couple of questions pertaining to items number three and four. What was the requirements for access for after it's been uh entitled? Oh yeah. And before work is done. What was out? H how much time did we allow as a city prior?

It's been one year. It's it's in the cities uh these two section. It's the second and third items in in 1744 and 45 it actually specifies one year. Okay. Um how many permits in a normal project is required? Uh you know based upon your experience. Oh how many different like types of city permits? Uh yeah. Oh, with say within the project. I mean, if it's if we're talking about mechanical and electrical, I mean, there's a sewer connection run about. Oh, probably between 10 and 15. I'm just 10 to 15. Yeah. Are any of those permits run concurrently?

They they can all run concurrently. They can all run concurrently. So, it has been the practice of the city to allow one year. And what happens after one year if the uh project is um still in the works or has not been started? Well, the city staff tries to alert uh developers that their year is coming up. Mhm. Sometimes that hasn't happened um just because we didn't notice or you know and we've been fairly liberal with allowing them to

um apply even though they might be a little you know couple months after the expiration and the city council's been very generous in granting those. So am I hopefully answering your question. Yeah, you are. I I I mean uh and it's my understanding that uh you folks recommending instead of one year, let's make it three years. That's right.

With the uh possibility of obtaining an extension and I guess to obtain an extension for just cause and adequate reasons, whether it could be the financial climate, whether it, you know, it could be a host of different things. So after 3 years and if an extension is requested, how long would we give the extension for? The initial staff concept was two more years. That's what Okay. Right. That's what I thought. In reality, the city council can give as many years as they would like. Um Okay.

Although this would be in code, I suppose. But what's been happening lately is that we've uh with the one-year thing is the city council has been giving the one-year and then giving automatic ex right that that's the right word extensions right at the initial approval. Right. So so the recommendation was to go five years with no extensions. Is that correct?

The planning commission's recommendation to the city council was five years no extensions. Well, uh quite frankly, I don't agree with that because, uh I think 5 years is too long to encumber a piece of property and nothing happens. having the capability of what your uh planning uh divisions uh what they suggested was three years and then if there is a request to come back before council and we've and we as council can say another two years

and for some reason it's still not completed they can come back to council we can give another two years why cut it off at five and say that's the end all be all so uh to my colleagues weeks. I I think uh we should modify that and go with the recommendation of planning which is three years with additional extensions as required to be approved by council uh with and I'm sure they show just cause why agree thought. Okay.

All right. I don't see uh anybody raising their hand. All right. So that's all I have at this particular time. So with that being said, uh I I apologize. I didn't do this on item number 12, but I am going to do it on item number 13. At this time, I would like to open the public hearing on this matter. Do we have any cards on this matter? No, we don't have any card. I'll uh entertain a motion to close the public hearing at this time. So move. Second. We have first and second. All those in favor say I. I. I.

Any oppose? Okay. So, uh, I would entertain have someone entertain a motion for a change to item number two to go back to the re regular recommendation of planning for the extension of uh, the initial permit to be three years and uh, additional extensions will be um approved by council as needed providing that just cause is shown. change those instead of knock out the five years.

To be clear, did you want that to apply to the uh second and third items or only the second item? You mentioned only number two, use permits and design review. Well, design review, wouldn't that be also part of the permit process for the whole project? Yes. So, both. Uh I Yeah, I first said items number three and four, but I meant number two, right? Okay, council member, I can see that. Look, go ahead. No. Um, you're you're saying that instead of five years to remain it at three. Um, planning is recommending five years with no extensions. Oh, I see. I see.

That's it. But if we do that, then the pro the property is encumbered for five years and come uh four years and 10 months, then they decide, well, we're not going to do the project. and it's been encumbered. I think having three years will kind of give the impetus, hey, we really not need to start moving, right? And if it doesn't happen because of external circumstances, then uh we can give a an extension as council has always done and and and sometimes that if that's your motion. Yeah. Who made the motion first? I was just recommending somebody.

I thought you made it already. Oh, okay. All right. Okay. Thank Thank you, Council Member Manalo. Yes. Okay. I I'd like to make that motion and member Manalo is a second. Okay. Any further discussion or questions, concerns? Nope. Uh so on the motion, so we have a motion by for the city attorney to read by title only with the suggested changes. Does that sound correct, madam city attorney? Okay. You have four. Oh, we need a motion. Oh, we have to take a vote. All those in favor uh say I. I. I.

Any oppose? Any abstensions? The motion passes. Madam city attorney. Thank you, Mr. Mayor and members of the city council. This is uh with with the amended changes. A motion for title only, an ordinance of the city council of the city of Dalia City, amending chapter 17 of the municipal code regarding zoning ordinance updates. And uh council member may introduce an ordinance.

Uh thank you, madame city attorney, and I'll be more than happy to introduce the ordinance. Thank you. All right, moving on. Item number 14, zone change ZZ04-24-16507. Adoption of commercial cannabis non retail combining district and amendments to the zoning map. Mr. Lunkausen.

Yes. So, um this item's uh been before the city council, honorable mayor, members of the city council. Uh the last time you saw this was back in I believe September. The initial idea uh that uh well, we can kind of get into the background section here. Um I think all of you are familiar with the city's regulation of retail cannabis. Essentially we have uh 12 eligibility zones throughout the city of which 230 properties qualify. The uh concept uh going back a little ways was to expand this to additional properties. And so the city staff took a look at doing that. I'll kind of summarize all this very briefly for you because I think you're familiar with the background. The city staff took a look at doing that. Um, and I believe back in September came with a proposal. Let's look here. It was September uh to essentially uh expand the uh commercial cannabis overlay zones to particular Miss Street and Geneva Avenue properties. And here's a graphic that shows those properties. So, this is the Mission Street uh between I believe Crocker and Templeton, both sides of the street. anything zone C1 would receive the CC overlay. So, the initial idea was to allow retail at these locations as well as in the city's Beayshore neighborhood. And uh this is um I think that's Allen Bashore Boulevard. And then uh this other was between Calgary and Castillo, so only the north side of Geneva Avenue. And these two would have been one um uh additional eligibility zone. So Mission Street and then Beayshore would have been two combined additional retail. But the um I think at the September meeting, the city council gave staff a directive to come back with a non retail aspect to regulating this. I think the city council may have received some public testimony and

decided to go that way. And so that's why we're back tonight um bringing this uh essentially it's the um commercial cannabis NR. It's the non retail um allowance. Uh so it's essentially the same exact ordinance you saw previously except now it's just non- retail which is defined as essentially um distribution activities um you know light manufacturing could occur. Um and what we mean by that is that you know infused products probably things of this nature could occur in our uh in in on the properties that we've uh put up on the overhead for you. And that's essentially what uh encompasses this zone change in in a nutshell. And again, this was at the city council's direction uh back in September, so bringing it to you tonight for consideration. Thank you, Mr. Lousen. Any um questions or comments? Wow. All right, then I'll make one. I'd like to thank um I remember this and I was definitely opposed and I'd like to thank my um colleagues here on council who basically uh educated me because I didn't know all the part particular aspects especially uh Dr. Rod when you know I just thought it's a people just go in and buy cannabis but we're talking about non- retail and as you said Mr. the long house and it was distribution. So uh due to my education uh uh I mean I do want to respect what the voters want and Proposition 64 is what they voted for.

So I really don't want to be a cog in the wheel here, but I just wanted to make that comment that I thank my colleagues for helping me come along on this. So it's very much appreciated. All right. Are there any other comments? Uh, council member Djiovani, I just have a a quick question. What is meant by when when when you say light manufacturing? It's essentially infusing products with cannabis.

Oh. And then are is the probability of people doing it in their homes or like with a commercial kitchen like we at one time we had people could have, you know, startup businesses inside of their homes with a a commercial kitchen. I remember that. Well, this particular ordinance does not address any properties in the R1 zoning district where single family homes exist. This is only the properties we've shown in the C1 zone and on along Oh, along Mission Street and along Yeah. those particular areas. So, that gives them the ability more more or less. Right. That's right.

And then the other things are that they can um probabilities are are quite extensive. Right. Right. Right. They just wouldn't be able to sell the infused products there. That would be not allowed, just to be clear. Oh, I get it. Right out of there, right on retail. So, when they do the the delivery, how do how does That's what I've always wondered. Where is it that are all the ones that we have now, they're able to do the delivery? It's retail. Um, I think so. And Yeah. Yeah. They all have that ability, right? Right. Okay. And then so this doesn't change that part, right? This doesn't change anything after that.

Okay. Thank you, Michael. Thank you, Mr. Von Lockhousen. Thank you, council member DJ. Dr. Rob,

uh, I just want to say thank you to everybody that has put this effort in. Um, thank you, mayor, for the No, I I don't want to take the accolades, but I think it was just been an effort that we've we've been talking about since um cannabis um tax opportunities have came by and and I think there's a flexibility of of how this works in our city and I'm appreciative that we have a specific uh approach and um methodology of of including different forms of cannabis manufacturing and making it being safe for the communities especially in these um communities that are um you know are seen as areas because of like um I don't know like uh we're areas of like high liquor stores and and different places and like I just hope that when we do the manufacturing it's it's it's on the down low and you know where we don't have to put signs up and you know and where the business and manufacturing can just be can be occurring and it could be in a very inconspicuous way.

Yeah. Thank you. Thank you Dr. Rod. Uh, okay. I don't see any other hands up. Council member DJ Vice Mayor. Yeah, she's gone. No, I don't have anything. I'm listening. Council member Djiovani. I just had a question also. So in the in the areas when um we were talking about the you know the again with the probabilities so it would include Geneva and the beayshore and then it's these particular all the properties in the red hash mark

right so those areas correct and then specifically yes okay basically anything zone C1 on in in these areas. See the green? Those are prohibitive areas. They're those are too close to either a school or a park or something. So, yeah. So, under that um where they were doing the 600 I think it was 600 ft. Correct.

Then does that include uh things like that jumpy you know the the hillside apartments or whatever they're called the hillside apartments um where VMR is that restaurant. They have a jumpy house where children go. Is that considered a part of like a It's not a child care, but it's a place where they the children go. Is that included in that? That would not have been included in this included. Not that doesn't affect the properties we're talking about tonight. That's too far away. That's down because the 600 feet is like going across the street. Yeah, that's down by War Memorial because there's several different things like that. Okay. Thank you. Okay, then. Uh, Council Member uh Manalo,

thank you. Thank you for the map. I think it's very helpful for you to uh highlight exactly I I remember and recall um when we had a discussion on this and that it was important for us to be more expansive than um in the realm of opportunities uh for business owners and that we were looking at um the production of cannabis infused whether it was candles, soaps or whatnot. And um I think now that it is in front of us um you know we I think it's important that we move forward with this um there was a lot of work that has been done. Um I I know the it's called Peekaboo Factory. um that I think what you're mentioning um council member Diovani and that I believe is all the way on the other side is the neighborhood I live in

and so it's pretty far away. It's far away. Yeah. Thank you very much. Okay. Uh thank you, Council Member Manalo. Uh with that being said, I'd like to open this matter to the public. and ask if we have any public or cards. Seeing none, uh obtain a motion to close the uh public hearing on this matter. So move. Motion by Dr. Roz, a second. Second. Second by council member Manalo. Okay. It's uh now I'll entertain a motion to accept the zone change. uh ZC04-24-16507.

I'd like to make the motion for city attorney to read my title. Very appropriate. Dr. Razia, a second. Second. Second by council member Manalo. All those in favor say I. I. I. I. Oh. Any oppose? One. One over here. No, no. I'm I'm saying I too. I So okay. And uh so we have and you have one one oppose. All right. So it's 4 to one. Any abstensions? Motion passes. I'll read by title only. Thank you very much.

Sure. This is an ordinance of the city council of the city of Daily City regarding zone change ZC4-24-16507 the adoption of the current commercial cannabis non- retail district and uh council may introduce the ordinance. Thank you mayor. I'd like to have the honor to introduce the ordinance. Thank you very much. Thank you Mr. Longhousen. Thank you.

All right. Moving ahead. Appointments for boards commission membership committee appointments. Anyone? All right. Next item is council committee reports. I have one uh mosquito vector control. Um pretty much everything is the same. We met on the 11th of March. But one one part really uh was important to me and that is since we invested in Cal Class over a two-year period, the district in interest has made $540,290.

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Right now, the current interest rate being paid by Cal Class is 4.86%. and a member uh a member of the board of of the mosquito vector was traveling and she observed a pond of water in the city of South San Francisco. She reported it to the mosquito vector control district and you know mosquitoes thrived in damp areas and sure enough mosquito vector went out to a place in South San Francisco. It's it it was a development that was going on. You know the Safeway that they're building down here.

So they found a pond and yes it had mosquitoes. Wow. So please be very aware of mosquitoes.

That's all I have. Anyone else? Council member Manalo. I'd like to make a comment on that. I want to say thank you so much um for your service on there and I think I just want to give you a little note. I know that the mosquito um board provides those magnets, right? There's magnets that say if there are mosquitoes or you know like to contact um you know who to contact. So, so I'll tell you that my son Ethan, he he sees mosquitoes and he literally grabbed the magnet said, "Mommy, you got to call."

And so, you have someone that is. Um, I just had to share that with you because I know you sit on there and I'm like, there is a a resident that definitely knows that that the mosquito board is around. Thank you so much. Yeah. Thank you. Okay. Okay. Any other committee reports? I do for BOSA. Oh, yeah. Yes.

Um and so on March 19th, the BOSA board held its regular scheduled meeting in the Berling Gang Community Center. Um there was a report on the board policy committee um which uh talked about the SFPUC's 10-year capital improvement program for the water enterprise and HCH HCHE system as well as accomplishments achieved in development of the strategy 2050 and 2025 and some prelim preliminary work plan for fiscal year 20 26 and 2027. 7. Also, the SFPU's report happened. Allison Castama provided a water supply conditions report. Based on the March 16 data, total system storage is above historical average at 89.6% due to some carryover storage as well as rain and snow in the early year um and part of the water year. Our state reservoirs are currently above historical averages for this time of year and as of March 12th, the state drought monitor is showing some dry conditions in the northern part of the state. He tetchi precipitation is slightly under historical median, but the current year total precipitation for upount and the Bay Area are above the 12 month median despite the dry conditions in March. Um the upcountry snow pack is under the median which is consistent with the trend seen in 2025. Um and yes we will we also received the budget status report also received the file investment report and we also received the file bond search charge collection

account balance and payment report as of December 20 31st 2025. Um we also um had a roll call vote on the board adoption with a concurring nomination of John Hwed Alamment meet county water district at the California water insurance fund sewiff board of association water agencies joint powers insurance authority. Um we had a discussion on work plan as well as the operating budget. Um and there was also a discussion on strategy 2050 and there are first year accomplishments um for the affordability program update and also an update on the Bay Delta plan and FIRK process. Our next board meeting is May 21, 2026. Thank you.

Thank you, uh, Council Member Manalo. Anyone else? Okay, moving ahead to city council reports. Anyone who's going to go first? Uh, vice mayor.

Thank you. Um, I attended the Daily City Koma Chamber of Commerce, uh, scholarship meeting. uh at Rene's Fine Dining. It was a good meeting. Uh and uh we talked about scholarships for the students. So, we're excited about that. Um we all and we raised our hand. We attended the St. Patrick's Day Daily City Public Library Associates uh lunchon which was highly successful. It was lovely and the food was delicious and everybody I think had a good time. Uh I I was there with uh let's see here the mayor attended with his lovely wife uh Pam Council member Pam Djabani was there and council member um just Manalo as well as Tom Galotti and uh Tim Nevin and I know we have a few other people there Ali Lonnie. Um but uh if I missed anybody, I apologize. And that was a lovely event. Uh I we had an ad hoc finance committee um meeting with the mayor and staff. Um uh a beautiful sign uh swearing in the mayor was there. Council member Jess Manalo for Christina Luna who uh was sworn in as a library um trust trustee and Jesseline the young lady who was re uh reworn in her her name I'm sorry

Angela Powell. Angela, she was uh there as well and uh was really nice to see a full board. Um we had we had a wonderful history guilds uh celebration. I know others will want to talk about it, but it was quite lovely in the uh posters and the photos and the art. Uh one in particular was the Kalen uh Brian with Kalen realy who's did the uh painting. I thought that was quite lovely. Um, Skyline College had a breakfast uh early breakfast. Uh, Council Member Rod was there as well as uh Council Member Jessalo, myself, uh, many uh, board of uh, not board of directors but directors from the city, including uh, including uh, Tom Picolotti and Josh and I'm sorry I don't have the list of people. I'm going to start taking down names. Um, but anyway, that was wonderful and we were all proud to be at the women's city women's event at city hall. Um, and I'm sure others would like to talk about that, but seeing who was honored, um, it was a beautiful event. I'd like to send off kudos to Natalie and her team who put together a beautiful celebration uh from the little gifts to the food to uh to the decorations and most importantly congratulations to all the women young and older who uh were honored that evening. I think that's it. Thank you.

Thank you, Vice Mayor. Any other ones?

Okay. You want to go? Okay. Thank you. Go ahead. Yeah. I'll just make it short. Council member Djiovani.

Thank you, Mayor. And the vice mayor covered a lot of it already and just want to say that the anniversary and when they showed the six minute film it was 1961 and uh it was only 9 minutes but hopefully we can do more of that because that it would be nice to see the 100redyear film again the one that was done prior u maybe the um when we get to the 120 maybe that'll be good and then the women's I can't that commission um you know kudos to uh council member Manalo and the the mayor and and Dr. Rod and and vice mayor. I think we're all there because we were all supporting and the awardees welld deserved and stellar and um it was it was very meaningful I thought and um congresswoman whose supervisor now Jackie Spear spoke Adrien Tessier and uh well welld deserved and the commissioners did an excellent job other picks so kudos to the commissioners as well so and I'll save the rest for next time due to the uh late hour because I believe we have a closed session after. Thank you.

Thank you. Um Council Member Diovani, Council Member Manalo, please.

Thank you so much. Um I wanted to add an addition uh to our city council reports. I did attend the CCAG meeting um on March 12 and on that agenda we did uh talk about um several items. Uh it was also the review and approval of resolution 2612 authorizing the CKG executive director uh for an agreement with Calrans for clean California community cleanup an appointment pathway grant program. Also we had an election of a CKAG chairperson and CG vice person. Um and with that we also um reviewed the legislative update um which we recommended approval of the CCAG legislative policies and positions. there were some policies that um they wanted more information on and so with that um I think um they're the staff is going to come back with some research um before uh bringing that legislation to the state. Um also um our next meeting will be next uh April April the 3rd Thursday. Yeah. So that was for the I forgot that was for the city uh council reports. Um but I also wanted to say for our or that's the council committee reports. Um

I also wanted to say I just wanted to say thank you to the workers that came out today. Yes.

Um from ASME. Um I I think it's um important when we see our workers speaking their experiences and their voices. I also wanted to acknowledge the residents in the audience um that housing is a human right. Uh safe and decent housing is something that everyone deserves. and that our children, families, and seniors should not live in places with mice, bugs, or a threat to their health. Um, I also wanted to um say that it's been a very busy busy two weeks. As vice mayor noted, I want to acknowledge her. I know she was on the committee for the 115th birthday. Um so I want to say thank you for your work on that. It was such a lovely event here um in celebration and to see you know as someone who grew up in Daily City it was really wonderful to see also um the parades in the past

um but also seeing um all of the community members celebrating here at city hall. Um DCPLA's St. Patrick's Day is always so wonderful and um to raise funds for our libraries with community was is always great. Um also want to say thank you to our city manager for um ushering in the Irish flag raising. Um, and during that week, we did did learn some things about the assistant city manager that his birthday is on St. Patrick's Day. And so, also, I had the opportunity to tour the Chinese hospital on Gellert Boulevard and meet with some of um the women doctors there. It's actually um majority women physicians which was really wonderful to see.

Um and also the claw and order. I did say claw and order and what that is was the uh crab feed with the chamber of commerce. um also attended the SMC AAPI Alliance um which honored um the SAO labor uh council um with Julie Lind um and also attended bugs like what is bugs? Bugs is build up green spaces. It was the Sato Childhood Climate Summit. Um, and really focusing on the importance of building healthy playgrounds and play areas uh for our children in the county. Um, ensuring that when we do build these playgrounds, we're making sure that it also is climate resilient. Um, for example, if it's made of plastic, but it's very hot day, then it can burn children or making sure we're using recycled materials. Um, just infusing that within um our our spaces that we're building. Um I did mention we're doing magical bridge and also mentioned at this uh summit that we are uh pushing for uh child care for 42 infant and toddlers um and that um we need the support to push um this through. Um, also thank you vice mayor for mentioning the library um I mean the yeah the library board of trustees and the oathtaking of Christina Luna and

Angela Larta also um attended youth point celebration and you may ask what is youth point? Well, actually the Daily City Youth Health Center rebranded and so and is now called Youth Point. Um and then uh also the president's skyline breakfast. It was such a gorgeous day. Really gorgeous day. And I'm really grateful to have the honor to sit on the president's council with Vice Mayor Pano and council member Rod Das Magbal. I want to say thank you to both the city manager for um sponsoring um a table and also to director Costco um from the water in supporting these youth at Skyline who is really our future. Um I already talked about Bosa and so thank you so much mayor. Um, oh, and last but not least, I I wanted to say thank you, mayor, for supporting our women's event that happened. Um, I want to acknowledge Natalie for the wonderful work well done. Um also uh thank you to the wife of Supervisor David Canipa who provided um commendations for the awardees as well and a proclamation for the women's commission. Um it just gives me really great joy to see the commission in action. um and to center all the amazing women in our community that was highlighted who give um so much of their time and energy to make our community

what it is today. Um and so seeing uh the youth all the way to those that um we know who contribute greatly to Daily City was so special to highlight them and literally to give them their flowers. So, thank you. Okay. Thank you, uh, Council Member Manalo. Anyone else?

Mine just really quick. Um, I I just also want to thank out thank the folks that, um, brought many of the the residents here today, um, Faith and Action and their whole coalition. Um, I know it's a late night for them to come out with all their families. Um, but I'm looking forward to working with our staff. And I just want to thank um our city manager and um city attorney for um making um helping these these next steps um and hopefully we can um manifest this into something substantial. Thank you.

Thank you, Dr. Rod. Anyone else? just just in unison. I think we all appreciate our workers as well because they worked all day and they came out and they they came out as well in a group with a group of ask me and of course faith and action represents many many people in our community and it was nice to see the coalitions supporting one another because I think that's what it takes. It takes building community and they certainly are community. Thank you Dr. Roden. Mhm. Mayor, I have one last question. Okay. Yeah.

Thank you. Um I think on the cusp of uh many organizations uh faith and action and um you know the working families and as well as um the organizations such as Gabriela in in unison around um really fighting for making sure that you know there is uh less harass harassment to them as as uh living in them their homes. Um what brought to my attention was when we brought the pavers in again and mayor we were here when they did that. And so I'm thinking maybe we create um a task force um to address um some of uh you know the concerns um and I know that there's an ad hoc committee but maybe what can be done is you know creating a task force because I know um many times we have done that um with a short-term rental ordinance. We've done it through the pavers um and really to engage um our community um to be able to work through and and and do this uh uh potentially an ordinance for the community. So, that is just a suggestion that I'd like to bring forth. Thank you. You said an ordinance for the community pertaining to what? I'm sorry. I I heard pavers and etc. Oh,

I said that in the same way that there were we used there was a ordinance for pavers in the same way there was a ordinance for also short-term rentals. And what I'm saying is maybe the next step is to create a task force so that there's you know community input on I think all stakeholders. Yeah.

Okay. I'm I'm a little lost here to be honest. For community input in what particular area? Oh, I'm talking about the the ordinance that the residents have brought forth. Um, I think that that's inappropriate at this time because uh the residents I while I do appreciate them being here uh um if further information was uh needed uh we would uh ask that this matter be agendaized. But tonight that matter was not agendaized. So, we basically cannot take any action.

Oh. Oh, I'm not saying yes or no. I'm saying I'm proposing it and and it's just in the as you know. Yeah. Well, I have to defer to the city attorney uh if that's within council members purview to propose the creation of a task force to create an ordinance to which I believe was already in the works and being worked on. Yeah.

So, I I don't I mean, if we know if there's the next steps, then it'll be helpful. I was just trying to see how things could move through with working with community and all stakeholders that care about this. Thank you. Mr. Picolotti, would you kindly read the paragraph on the statement that you provided earlier regarding what the next steps were for the record? That'll be helpful. Mayor, I I probably missed that because I can in later through the chair. That'll be helpful. Please, Mr. Picotti. Matter of fact,

for a matter of record, since Council Member Manalo uh wasn't here, would you kindly read the report that you provided? Reread the report? Yes. The entire report? Yes. Okay. Um, let me start over. Good evening, mayor and council members. Was vice mayor also there? Yes, the vice mayor was online.

Believe she was on. Um, okay. So, I'll review this again. I'll provide a a brief update on the proposed tenant anti-harassment ordinance and the work currently underway. There continues to be community interest in advancing tenant protections in Daily City and the concerns being raised are important and recognized by the city. As reflected in the council's adopted resolution, staff is proceeding with the review and evaluation process to better understand the proposed ordinance and its potential implementation in Daily City. This includes reviewing the legal framework, assessing administrative and fiscal considerations, and evaluating how the ordinance would function within the city's existing structure. Staff is also continuing stakeholder outreach and engagement, including discussions with tenant advocates, landlords, and representatives from the real estate community, including SAMCAR, to gather input on the ordinance and its potential impacts. Currently, tenants are protected under the California law, including the Tenant Protection Act of 2019, and the proposed ordinance would expand into the area of landlord conduct and harassment, which staff is continuing to evaluate. Consistent with council direction, staff will return with a progress update as part of the midcycle budget review in the May June time frame. This will include findings and op options for council to consider. This remains an ongoing review process and staff will continue to keep the council and the public informed as this work progresses.

Did I was I any better the second time around? I'm sorry. I'm I'm trying to listen to both sides. Uh, council member Maui. Yeah, I mean that's I mean it seems like that's already happening. I'm saying when I say a task force with all stakeholders, that's what I mean what he repeated, right? With all stakeholders. So I think we're on the same page. Thank you. Thank you.

All right. Um, I'll be the last one to make a comment. Um, as uh, council member Manalo alluded, it's been a very busy two weeks, but I'm going to indicate I'm going to talk only about three items. uh first two I will combine uh regarding the uh daily cities 115th birthday celebration

and concurrently after that the state of the cities as I made mention uh during um my state of the cities I want to reiterate that over 115 years it's the folks and the council and the people of daily city who's come before me along with the collaboration that had made this city what it is today. In regards to state of the cities, I'd like to thank the entire staff of Daily City. I'd like to thank Mr. Picolotti and his staff and Leilani for the tremendous work that you did to make it a success. I'm very proud of you all. I'm very proud to be a part of this city and it is you folks, the staff, the entire staff of Daily City that makes us look good. And lastly and foremost to thank my council colleagues for your ideas and wisdom. I only had the honor of delivering state of the cities, but as you know, state of the cities contains information that transpired in the year before me. So, uh, under Dr. Rod's leadership, the former mayor, and to have that opportunity and with the vision of what's to come in 2026, I'm very indebted and appreciative. The next thing is the Women's History Month. It was our first as um council member Manalo was the was the impetus to getting the women's commission started and with the constant support of staff especially uh Natalie it was a great uh celebration and um I I I'm trying to sound very somber and

whatnot but then I always try to add a little humor but I was given a strict script to follow regarding women's history. And I I I followed that script, but I wanted to interject something. I guess I'll do it now. When I was thinking about women's history, I was thinking about the song from James Brown. Tom Picolotti. Do you know what that song is? This is a woman's world.

Tom, you are very good. No, actually, it's a man's world. Okay. But if you listen to the lyrics, what it says is, you know, man created the train to carry a heavy load. Man created that light bulb to take us out of the dark. But everything that man has done, it wouldn't be nothing without a woman or a girl. So that's my tribute to Women's History uh uh month. It's very much appreciated and that's my comment. All right, we'll move on.

Mayor, before you move on, I I just want to say you did a wonderful job with the state of the city address. Um, and I know you're trying to keep it at a certain amount of time. Um but you definitely um for not practicing like you said you seen it for the first time. Thank you. Um it was well done and um you you put a lot of jokes in there and it made it made made it go by uh really fast and I know that um the audience really appreciate it and those watching um as well as we did. So congratulations on a wonderful state of

Thank you so much. Um, oh, here we are. All right. Uh, next to the last item, that would be staff reports. I think I gave it twice. Thank you, Mr. Picotti. All right. uh Germans and apparently uh uh due to the dynamic and fluid changes we do have two uh um adjournments. So I'd like to first start off with Dr. Rod for uh his adjournment, please.

Um yes, I would like to um do this obituary in honor of um one of my good friends. Um her grandma or Lola passed away. Her name is uh Louisia Kunoy Kakal whose beloved aunt, mother and grandmother uh passed away on February 24th, 2026 at the age of 99 in Bakur Cavete, Philippines due to complications with pneumonia. Born on August 19, 1926 in Ormok City Lee, Philippines, she lived a life filled with joy, laughter, and love. Affectionately called mamang or anting lucing, Louisia was known for her elegant style, love of ballroom dancing, obsession with Doritos, impeccably wrapped veggie lubias, and formidable skills in majong. Louisia immigrated to Daily City, California in the 1970s, taking Sam's Trans Bart and Muni everywhere. Her most frequent route was along Mission Street on the 14 to run errands in Excelsier, attend mass at St. Patrick's Church, then board the Lucky Board tour bus in the Soma and work in downtown San Francisco's garment factories. Louisia eventually retired at 58 to become a full-time Lola, raising many of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and almost senotinarian. Centinarian Mang Louisa is defined by her stubborn independence, sense of humor, resilient nature, and love unlike any other, leaving a lasting impact on those who knew her. Mang Louisa is deeply missed by Elizabeth, Rebecca, Merlin, Robert, Darlene, Maloo, um, Teresa, Verma, Nikki, Maya, and many more grandchildren and great-grandchildren throughout the United States and the Philippines. She is preceded in death by the love of her life Selso Zorya. Her parents Isaac

Kunoi and Figarion Siksta Enriquez, her siblings, Julio, Ricardo and Loose, and her children Eduardo, Lauren, and Mirina. Um so this goes out to um Verma Sapanta and Harvey and and the rest of the family. May her may her uh life rest in peace. Thank you, Dr. Rod. Uh, Council Member Manalo.

Thank you, Mayor. Um, about a month ago, um, there was, uh, really a great tragedy with a fatal avalanche near Lake Tahoe. And as we talk about Women's History Month, there were um, six friends. All were described as super moms um, who went on a trip there. uh and unfortunately um passed away because of a avalanche. Um and uh one of them was named Carolyn Secar uh 45 of San Francisco. Um she was a heartbeat of our community, making it brighter and more joyful and always taking care of the little things to make it better. She was authentic and unashedly unfiltered. Everyone who knew her felt the genuine joy and enthusiasm she carried. She was always the first to help. Whether it was picking up a neighbor's package or dropping everything the moment someone needed her. She had such tremendous energy and she was the happiest channeling it into the adventures, into the mountains on foot, on skis or on a bike by her side. Caroline spent her final days doing what she loved best with the people who love her the most in her favorite place. Her best qualities are now part of her children who they are and they'll carry her spirit with them for the rest of their lives. She was with her partner, her children, and her puppy. and then on one last

adventure with her sister and close friends who she now rests with. All right. Thank you. Um, Council Member Manalo, do we have any others? Seeing none, if we can kindly please pause for a brief moment of silence, please. Thank you. Um, stay healthy, stay safe. This meeting is now adjourned. A reminder to our um