City Council - Regular Meeting

This is the same movie that has been showing on the Disney Channel, a liveaction film of the play. This is the 10th anniversary of the play of Hamilton. Screenings are at 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Seating is on a first come basis. The library has screening rights to Hamilton for several months, so we are able to schedule additional screenings as needed. The movie is 160 minutes. I want to give a big shout out to the South San Francisco Friends of the Library for their generous support of programs such as these. Thank you and happy America 250.

Valerie, thank you. Thank you for um uh kind of leading off what I hope is going to be a series of of events celebrating the 250th and uh what better way than something that's u modern and current and hopefully will fill the hall. Um is anybody interested in going? You might want to put in an RSVP with Valerie now. 10:30. Valerie.

Good evening, Mr. Mayor, Mr. Vice Mayor, members of the council. Richley, your assistant city manager. I have three announcements uh this evening. The first is that on Monday, January 19th, the city offices will be closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, except for of course our police, fire, and water quality who always work 247. Uh the second is uh our youth in government program. Uh the program began over 40 years ago and it was 1981 was the first year. Uh this was a collaboration with former council member, mayor, assembly member Gene Mullen, also South Silver School High School uh educator and former mayor and council member Robera Sirielia. Uh past participants include uh former um not former current council member Coleman, uh Congressman Kevin Mullen, and myself. Uh the city is currently accepting applications from juniors and seniors who attend high schools in South San Francisco. Uh it provides program participants with an opportunity to learn how local government is managed and operates uh directly from those who manage it. Uh participants will be paired with leaders from all departments and have the chance to shadow their counterparts, tour city facilities, and participate in a mock city council meeting right here in these chambers. So the application period open today, and they will be accepted through Wednesday, January 28th. And those who are interested can apply on the city's website at ssfca.gov. My third and final um announcement this evening is the city council strategic planning workshop which is scheduled for Saturday, January 25th, January 24th, excuse me. Uh it'll be located at one tower place. So the map uh overhead uh satellite image is on the left with the location and the red um indicator there and the street view that you see on the right side that is the view from airport boulevard. So you can see the two towers

there. uh one tower place being on the left side of that. We will have directions uh to the location on the city's website again at ssfca.gov. We'll begin the day at 8:30 with a little breakfast, start the meeting at 9:00 and we should be wrapped up by 1:30 and uh happy to uh answer any questions from council. Any

questions for Mr. Lee? Okay, thank you Rich. And um yeah, we're hoping a different venue kind of changes the uh the energy maybe. And um uh just so the public knows, the original development agreement for these buildings included um uh the city being able to utilize uh the facility free of charge uh four times a year. So we're taking full advantage of that this year. And um so is that's the end of announcements from staff. We can move along to the next item. Madam clerk, I believe we have one more from Mayor Nest. Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Lucero.

Good evening, mayor, vice mayor, uh city council members, Ernesto Lucero, economic development manager. Uh tonight, we're excited to announce the 2026 uh South San Francisco Lunar New Year night market. And this will take place on Friday, February 20th, downtown. Uh it'll be along the 300 block of uh Maple Avenue between Grand and Miller Avenues. Uh last year the city um held this night market in the Breezeway in the economic advancement center. Uh we had some uh great attendance, nearly 1,000 attendees last year. Uh moving it on Maple Street. We're hoping to to double the size of the vendors, bring in more uh South San Francisco uh businesses, some nonprofits, um as well as uh a lot of food vendors that celebrate the Lunar New Year. So, should be um a great evening with uh line dance performance and um a lot of great uh food for the for the community. Uh so, this will be between uh 3 and 9:00 p.m. And you can find more information on the city's website or um anybody can click the QR code link as well.

And thank you for the announcement on this so people can spread the word. Thank you. Thank you, Ernesto. That completes the announcements. Okay. Yes, it is, mayor. Moving on to presentations. Item number one is a presentation from Sonat County Health on social determinance of health. Sharing understanding across public health and cities.

You were looking for backup. Is it just you? I was looking for backup. Um, uh, Vice Mayor Ruben Abberta is going to be joining from East Palo Alto. So, I think I was thinking he might be at one of our so hopefully he makes it. Yeah. Is it is there opportunity to switch agenda items or do we need to go with this one? Um if you want to go a lot later how much later would be a lot later you think I don't Yeah, I mean we we we have one item that we'll power through and then we'll come back to you. Okay. So I'll we'll [snorts] move on to council comments requests.

Well, I just wanted to um if I could um maybe take the lead on this. the the city of South San Francisco um lost two spectacular retirees uh recently and um so I'd like to um tonight close this meeting in memory of both of them. Sylvia Sakuro Portillo was with the um um human resources department uh for about 27 years starting in 1991. and um she um she passed away um in December right at the time of our our last meeting. So that's why we're a little late in remembering her um and it was a a case of cancer. Um Sylvia only made it to 60 years old and um so she is missed by many people who are still with the city. And then um a gentleman by the name of uh Edward John Parazzi who um was born in 48 and he passed away just a week ago and he was an army veteran in Vietnam and then uh became an employee uh with the city of South San Francisco in public works uh maintenance where he served um 37 years ending up as a lead public works maintenance worker. Um he is um uh you know back in those days um it really was we talk about the city being a family. Well it really was families because Mr. Parazzi's wife was part of the Bour family and the Bour family um the connection now to um South San Francisco is through Marie Patea that many of you know and this was Marie Patea's godfather who recently passed away and just by chance tonight she is in Roseville at a service for him. So, uh, we, um, wanted to make mention of Edward John Parazz's passing and we'll

close the meeting in memory of him also. And now, and mayor, I join you in that um, commemoration of memory of uh, Edwazi whose wife uh, Zupi was a longtime teacher aid at all souls. The Pirasi family was also a longtime member of community. Okay. Thank you, Flor. floor. Did you want to did you have anything else that you wanted to share and council comments?

Like you I just have um a request to uh I joined the meeting in memory of many people um Raal Yuan Ivan Hilista who 43-year-old mother who died of uh breast cancer. Uh Simono Maria who's one of the founders of the FilipinoAmerican National Historical Society. Cynthia Leewa Groueda and Joar Banana a Filipino businessman and engineer in the high-tech industry credited for developing the first 10 megab internet and he is credited to be uh the one who made it possible for us to now have the GUI accelerators for personal computers. That's it for me, Mayor.

Okay. Thank you, Flora. Um James, would you like to go next?

Sure. Um, happy new year everyone. Uh, I'll just be brief. Um, welcome to our new city manager. Um, I want to extend I mean it's beginning of the year so not many things have happened but extend a big congratulations to Supervisor Noelia Cororso who just uh got sworn in as president of the board of supervisors and also a big congratulations to our council member here Eddie Flores who got appointed to the county charter review committee and he'll be tasked with reviewing the county charter and making very important changes potentially uh to that. Um, this past week I also had the opportunity to um speak on uh a panel put on by the California Teachers Association uh about the effect of medical cuts uh on our schools and our community. And something that I learned um on that panel is um mental health cuts are effectively also cuts to our school districts as a lot of our schools are able to get reimbursements for uh special education, mental health care, their school nurses, uh behavioral health um from uh medical and when they are receiving those cuts, they're still required to provide those services, which means that they're cutting from other areas. And so our schools um you know because of federal cuts will will be suffering from that and that what our CTA is really looking for is increased uh collaboration between our our school district, our city, county and state um to make sure that we have enough funding uh one for healthcare of course but also for our schools. And so I hope um that we can continue that conversation in in South San Francisco. Um, and lastly, I want to just give a big congratulations to Kosina Milonga, which is an Argentinian um, empanada restaurant in South City. It is a real hidden gem in South City. They have incredible incredible empanadas and they were recently featured as I think a top uh 100

restaurants in the the peninsula. So, big congrats to them. Um, I saw them on my social media and I went there to have lunch today and I hope many others uh can have lunch there as well. Thank you. And James, share where they're located because I don't know where they are. Cosina Milonga is located in uh the best district in the city which is district 4 [laughter] and it's right next to not known for its culinary fair though [laughter] and it's right next to Binkabytes. So it's in Brentwood uh near Smart and Final, but a little little hidden. So it's a real hidden gem. Okay. Thank you, James. Um Councilman Flores.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. um wanted to uh set us go back quickly to 2025. um at the end of the holiday week when everyone's kind of wrapping up um we were able to do a a thank you holiday celebration uh with Elonilio Sato County to many of the families that are served um by our own promotas program by also the the YMCA and together with job train the economic advancement center our staff from ECD as well as many of the toys from um our um fire union 1507 we were able to do a a great mini celebration for many of the families that are actually uh residents also of district 5. So, I want to appreciate that. We also had a great celebration at Mela's Hall to be able to celebrate um the pada which is a a Mexican traditional uh religious connection to um the nativity and the birth of Jesus. And we were again uh overwhelmed with over 500 individuals were there together at Mel's Hall. uh families eating tamales, eating uh ponche, which is a traditional Mexican drink. And um it was great being able to celebrate in community. Um and again, thank you because this is all in due to the many donations that many residents including many here and of course the great love because it is a labor of love that our our firemen put together, firefighters put together um every December. Um many of the families were able to receive toys and gifts. So, I wanted to put a um give a a special thank you and and give a shout out to everyone on that. Um I will be joining I was uh recently invited by Kaiser South San Francisco this coming Monday. It's MLK Jr. Day of Service uh South San Francisco Kaiser I guess um the Northern California Kaiser has selected Spruce School uh to do a service project. So, we will be

beautifying S uh Spruce School uh located in district 5. But, um it's a a really um noteworthy uh day of remembrance of what um Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's legacy called all of us to do. And it's a day of service. Um and traditionally, they do other areas, regional uh regions down south, and they selected South San Francisco. So, I will be joining them as well. I was joined by our new city manager for the Sonteo County Board of Supervisors. Uh reorganization of of the board. Uh we attended Congratulations as well to President Noelia Corso and Vice President Ray Mueller who will be leading the board of supervisors. Um that is it. I will have more to share later during um uh commun uh committee reports and announcements. Thank you.

Okay. Thank you, Eddie. Um vice mayor.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'll be brief. Um, first I just wanted to welcome our new city manager, Laura Steimman. U, she's this week two now for you and she is already doing a fantastic job and I know she's implementing a lot of the projects and um, kind of our vision for the city. So, I really really appreciate you being here and I look forward to working with you and for you to getting out there and getting to know our a great city here in South San Francisco. And lastly, um I didn't know this, but um Dave Bach House retired after 31 years with the city and he did it quietly. And I think we should recognize him. Mr. Mayor, if you can write a letter just thanking him for his service to the city, I think we should recognize, you know, when the rains came, public works was out there. you know, they made sure that that the lights were working and and the street lights. I mean, they are our unsung heroes and Dave was one of those individuals and I think we should Dave was very quiet about you want to tell anyone snuck away. But, you know, I want to make sure we recognize him. So, if we can just do a letter thanking him for his many years of service, I think that's something we can do.

We can I actually had the opportunity to speak to him a couple days before his last day, I think, was the 30th. And um and Mark, I know you had the same um uh rapport with Davis. Something needed to be done and you put it on his lap. It happened right away. And so we're looking for more of that from public works. We just don't know who that contact person will be quite yet. Um I think that um uh Dave Bach House, it was not easy for him to leave because he had been talking about retiring for years and uh and he finally was able to pull the plug. But good luck to him on that next chapter of his life. And now we go back to um the presentations.

We're going back to presentation number one is a presentation from Sonat County Health on social determinance of health sharing understanding across public health and cities. Thank you so much mayor. Uh we're we're very happy that um uh Councilman Ruben Oh, Vice Mayor now, excuse me, Vice Mayor Ruben Raa from East Palo Alto, who is one of my favorites on the peninsula, was able to find his way all the way from EPA to Little South City. So, thank you for being here, Ruben. Thank you.

Well, thank you, mayor, vice mayor, city council members, uh new city manager. Congratulations, and city clerk. Uh my name is Curtis Chan. I'm the deputy health officer for Santail County. and with me already you all know Ruben Africa uh we represent we are part of the social determinance of health work group that's part of the community health improvement plan for Sanonteo County and so we're going to describe what that all means and we're here to engage you uh our you know important city of South San Francisco you're the local policy makers on the social determinance of health clicker yeah he's going to help me out Yes. Uh well, mayor, vice mayor, council members, uh new city manager, staff, and community. I uh I guess as my member, I went to the old building. How could I miss this beautiful place? So, my [clears throat] apologies for that. But um yeah, I'm part of the uh um you know, one of the work groups from from the public health. And so our purpose right now presenting to you and we did it in Eastpalto, we might do it with a few other cities is we want to, you know, let policy makers such as ourselves, I'm including myself, um to keep learning more about the social determinance that affect health. Um but also to get your input on ideas, suggestions that you have about how we could expand that and uh you know come up with uh better more strategies to uh also help educate ourselves collectively as policy makers and that includes also you know other elected officials but uh definitely we're starting we're starting with ourselves. Oh. Um, and then yeah, we'll keep going here.

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Yeah. So just to give you an overview, uh you know the the this is the first time that uh Satell County Public Health is really has developed a uh community and health improvement plan which is more of an action plan rather than uh you know the statistics which have always been good gives us a lot of information but there uh now there's there sort of an action plan to try to have more impact on on the on the whole system. So um and uh other other obviously you know other other counties other health agencies in the country are doing that but so this give you just a little list of the who has participated in it. If you if you notice there are two cities, Rebu City and Ispalto. I'm actually not officially representing Ispawalto. I just snuck in as an interested person at the time when they called the meeting and uh then there was somebody who worked uh with the city manager in Reu City at the time. So we were both kind of city people in a certain way and so we added you know our perspective to to this. But there's a whole group of organizations as well as the the major sort of health agencies in the county, right? Uh and so, you know, I remember that we when we got together, there must have been about 50 or 60 people. Uh they gave us homework right away to identify like the like the top three areas that we felt we could focus on cuz they're like nine or 11 areas that the county has identified and these were the three that came up. access to health care uh and then social determinance and uh mental health and I know that some of you I think the mayors recently over the last few years have already you know taken the lead on that and the county kind of

focusing on mental health this is uh so that the we're sort of we're part of the social determinance of health and then there's two other working groups uh and again you know we we're sort of advocating for us to keep uh you know being on the council, you being on the council, it's like we already do some things. Our staff already does things that are related to these and so we're just trying to uh expand the knowledge to more um elected officials and also try to improve whatever practices we have or maybe try some new ones in this. Okay, thank you. Yeah. Um yeah, I think this is your turn now. Sounds good. Thank you so much expert but I'm I'm you know learning more.

Well I I think as Ruben highlighted you know this is an effort not just of the health department. We do have health department staff here but it's that combination of the um university hospital the health plan the community benefits arms of the nonprofit hospitals the community based organizations. This is a both a recommendations for some of these agencies as well as a requirement that they're participating in this collective effort to figure out what is it that is going to make the residents of Satel County and each city more healthy. And one thing I'm a physician uh trained initially as a pediatrician and we all know that clinical care only affects 20% of outcomes. More than 50% of the outcomes are the really the social determinants of health. you know, the, you know, the quality of education. Um, some of these ways in which you're so you're convening such as the wonderful um um announcements by the uh by the library of of convening people together, education as you highlighted already, engaging young people, economic uh stability, social and community context, um and like I said, healthc care quality is only 20% of of of outcome. So, and the thing is for um my role as a physician or as the deputy health officer, we realize you you all are the decision makers that could legislate new policies and um the administration here and the city manager and the department leads uh are the ones that could actually implement and enforce these policies. So, we really appreciate that. But how do we actually learn what policies are the most effective and how do we implement them? So, um, we're at the county and we're just saying we don't know. We want to

learn what's the best long-term or medium-term process for us to understand, you know, how do cities look up their health statistics? Do they look at our website? Do they look at a website from the National League of Cities that I'm showing right right here, the city health dashboard? Do staff have time to look at the inequities? Um, so, you know, I I've worked in uh local government for a long time. We're constantly juggling um many um urgent needs. So, this is the the you know, these are kind of the questions that we want to have in our in our discussion. you know, how do you use these dashboards and how do you assess these disparities within the city? And again, I think this slide was initially for Reuben, but um but so these are the organizations that that participate in our social determinance of health work group. These are the people and some of the experts who could help us understand what are the policies that would actually and the practices that would improve again the social determinance of health and change uh um health equity. Um again this is um a a framework from all the local health departments in the Bay Area and the question that we have as as public health officers are right there in the middle. You all are the people that really determine help us determine the living conditions um and how do we actually modify those living conditions that impact disease um infant mortality life expectancy um I want to just move on further because I actually want to get to the questions and um to the actual discussion. These are some city policies from the Kaiser Permanente and the D Bumont Foundation.

We know that South San Francisco has been leads in things like um um alcohol policies, tobacco policies, uh advocating for green space. You know, these are some of the policies that national experts set forth. And um from city health there's ways in which you know cities can participate and earn medals too. Bronze, silver, gold. Is this something that our 20 cities in Sonteo County are interested in? The uh city health program is really for the 75 largest cities, but you could see that Santa Clara County here has its own program of healthy cities met me medals and you can see all their cities lined up and they have ratings for them. Is this an approach that um elected officials want to help design for Sano County? Is this worthwhile? Would particular elected officials want to learn what those policies are and develop our approach? So this is our question. This is our question. Ruben, you want to come up again? Um, these are just three general questions for planning and not just for the health department but you know all the different health institutions that participate in our chip. Um, the first question is how can we further increase your knowledge and our knowledge on the impact of local policies on social determinance of health and health disparities? What's the best process? The second question, I'm just going to read these all out and then we'll have a discussion. what policies are you considering to improve the public health of San Francisco? You can maybe highlight some things that you've already done as well too. And number three, um how should the health experts such as I mentioned the health plan of Sanonteo, Stanford University, Stanford Medical Schools involved? How should health experts and institutions support local legislators in developing policies

that improve public health? So those are our general questions. That's our overweight view. love to hear your advice or any anything that we can do to help clarify. Yeah, I I think I think in fairness to the council, you know, this is just kind of been dropped on us as a presentation and I need a little bit of time to ruminate on some of these possibilities. Um, if there's any questions, we certainly should from the council entertain them tonight. But um I guess I'm not quite understanding what you would like to see as the next step by a body like this. Can you share?

Yeah, maybe I'll just you know share what u so we had a presentation in East Palo Alto and then uh you're right this is not the time to really have a lot of discussion but if uh any council member or city manager have any questions. the public health, you know, on on this topic. Uh what we did in EPA was at some point down the line, uh there was a little meeting between the city manager and uh some members of public health just to sort of follow up and talk and brainstorm. Uh I would say you know from my perspective one reason why I got involved in this I've always had an interest in this but coming out of the pandemic I felt that to the degree that public health and city governments could really uh improve their communications find out how we're working together you know uh hopefully we'll never have another pandemic or another emergency but I think we all learned that uh we were really scrambling to kind of connect up and do that. So, so that's really it, you know, that uh we want to present these and then uh you know, have people follow up if they wish or individually too, you know, to do that. So, that's really there.

Well, thank you, Ruben. I think that, you know, uh we who have both served so very long, if you roll the clock back, um we just defaulted to the county when it came to social services and and this type of activity. So now you're looking for partnerships which is really the best way for us to um Does anyone have questions for the presenters? Yes, I do. Okay. Mr. Mayor, I I would just like to find out the dashboard that was shown. Um when was that information gathered? Uh can you give us a date range? You know, the dashboard for South San Francisco.

Yeah, I think some range. I think the latest date is probably 2023. It's um put together by uh one of them is Temple University. Um it go some of them date back to 2018. So there's a there's a range. We have some data in our um website as well as well too. Um altogether better Sonteo County. So I I think just in general I think that's a great question from the mayor. Just wondering if you have some immediate reactions like so we're the community health improvement plan. We want to know just generally how do cities create healthier policies. That's the general I think there's uh thoughts from from from Reuben that you know maybe that there's a a learning cohort of elected officials who want to learn in depth with like an academic partner like UCSF or Stanford you know is that something you're interested in is it learning or is it like you want to participate in a a a like award program a medal recognition program So, we want this to be a public question and um you know I think we could always you could always contact us as well too.

Okay. Okay. I think um first the vice mayor is pulling rank or something. So [laughter] he has some thoughts. I I maybe a suggestion I look at the the slide here with city policies with evidence of health impact. And just looking at this, I feel like we've done many of these. But I think for council, maybe if staff can provide a list of things that we've accomplished and see what we're missing, that's where I think we can start the conversation and we can go from there. See what we've done already and be kind of do a self evaluation. Okay, this is what we've done. What can we do to improve? I think that's the way to kind of have this conversation. A lot of it did look familiar.

Yeah. vice mayor uh from another vice mayor. Um uh your thought is is actually something that we when we met we we talked about you know cuz we know like in East Palatoto we have a lot of issues but we've done things right like South San Francisco you've done a lot of things and so just kind of getting up to date like what have we done uh in any of these areas are there any other things we could do so yeah I think that's a great suggestion if I'm thinking like Ruben must be doing something good that's [laughter]

yeah um okay Councilman Coleman Sure. Um I do have a question. Um if you could maybe tell me more about the origin of how the social determinance of health work group came to place and and I see a lot of organizations are participating in this. I think it's great. Um but I just want to know like you know what's the origin like how did this start?

Yeah. So um it's part you know I think it dates back more than 10 years that um nonprofit hospitals are required to do a a community improvement assessment as well as an improvement plan. So then for you know 10 20 years we as a health department have been working with community benefit programs to to actually put that together. um in the last three years. So there's been now national standards um in which both nonprofit hospitals, Medicaid managed care plans um and this is like a recommendation from the National Academy of Sciences says that we need to start thinking about this collectively together so that all these community benefit dollars, they're actually transformed. we're actually able to transform communities in a more organized coordinated way. So I mean obviously I have a lot of ideas where what what we could do and people and staff have a lot of ideas but part of the process is you know and and this chant this this community health assessment and community improvement plan there's a new improvement plan every 3 years. So this is in this is in part legislated in part like standardized so that we're constantly in these cycles trying to develop the best approach. And to to to your point, uh, vice mayor, like if other cities are wondering the same question of looking at this rubric of, you know, what qualifies as a um city that's protective against uh tobacco, for example, it doesn't make sense for each city manager to review all the policies themselves. How do we as a group of 20 cities and a county uh you know how are we be able to assess this together like over three years over

6 years over 9 years right so that's just I mean I think that's a great question and this is why it seems like we're not looking for something right away this is there's no bird flu that's happening but this is like part of the process we should be coming to elected officials and asking how would you all like to be involved how should we design things differently

okay great thank you and just from my perspective like I'm really interested in doing things like taking action and so um I agree very similarly to the to the vice mayor where like I would like staff to kind of you know put their heads together see where we're at what are we doing what can we do and then uh you know really see some actual policies maybe have some some model ordinances or or some some sort of example where we can pull from and just continue um to do good on you know the community of South San Francisco and I I love the work that you're doing. I think so much that you know when it comes to um health like it is it comes from the the environment that that people live in and it's something it could be something as simple as you know how easy is it to get fresh produce how easy is it to get to a gym or or to go bike and access to parks and so on and uh as much as we can improve on that I think is is a really great thing. Thank you.

Well said. Good floors.

Thank you Mr. Mayor. Thank you uh Dr. Chan and Vice Mayor Abria. you know, back I think back to 2020. Um, I think about EPA, I think about Bell Haven, uh, North Fair Oaks and South San Francisco where unfortunately, and I have to call this out, the county wasn't stepping out to even testing. It was testing before we even thought about uh, COVID vaccinations and a lot of community, especially in my district, were severely um, affected and infected and passed away because of uh, the lack of response. So absolutely it hits very close to home. Um I think about uh council member Nicholas and myself have graduate training in public health. We understand what this looks like but also there's the understanding that mental health, homelessness and including you know to some degree um uh this this this health is is the responsibility of the county. Um having said that you know and I think as cities we do need to partner and also stay um aware of the current and latest data. Um madame uh city manager for example when we write the latest grants when we site prevalence when we site mortality in South City where are we pulling that data from? Right? Is it the most current? when we write the grants, when we want to, you know, position uh ourselves for for a particular initiative, we want to make sure that we have the latest and most informative information. And I think about if I was to look at prevalence versus incidents, do we even know that? Do we even know the difference between that here in South San Francisco and some of the questions? So, I think it only um uh benefits us in the long term, right? Um the county has been a great uh partner in being able to provide the mobile health van um as well. Across the street we have the new clinic opening up in about a year. Uh Kaiser down the street. So there's a lot of synergies.

Um UCSF Health is coming to town to Oyster Point uh next year. Uh so there's a lot of good um collaboration that could exist. So looking forward to that and and seeing where this grows to. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Councilman and um Dr. Chan and Vice Mayor, um, thank you for reaching out to South San Francisco this evening. Yeah, thank you for your time and thank you for good work. Keep going. See you soon. Okay. Thank you, mayor. Moving on to public comments. I do want to uh inform the council that we did receive two e comments tonight. One from Ain Chararma and Ma Igstrom. And we will start with our speakers tonight, Cynthia Maropoulos.

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Happy new year.

Happy new year to each of you. The South San Francisco Citizens Coalition had requested the receipts of the 75 credit card holders having to make a formal complaint to the Sanonteo District Attorney's Office after a year and a half with 15 extensions that was initially requested on July 14th, 2024. And so far, we only received 29 holders for one year's time period. As Mayor Aiago stated a few meetings ago, everyone in the biotech industry knows South City, so why are so many staff members attending biotech conferences? Two staff are needed to table for a presence, but there's expenses. Transportation, flight, hotel, meals, events, registration, and we see for the Boston convention, 11 attended, and one meal cost the taxpayers $93.28. Yearly, the taxpayers gift staff with a holiday lunch. And this year, city departments were closed. You are planning a parcel tax for this year, but the more you tax, the more you spend. As we review the receipts we received, we see $500 for 30 bottle openers, $260 for two hours at Brentwood Bowl, two custom office chairs for the same employee, $2,188. Food paid paid for food for a well-paid staff employee, $3,212.74, including $1,3628 in Costco snacks. gift card staff give to each other. $150, $50 bottle of bourbon. Jen Yang gift shop $103. $41 per night at Marriott Hotel. $83124 for a hotel in Spain. $1,63960

for the Renaissance Waterfront Hotel in Boston. Tuition reimbursement $67,161. Several have no receipts or are not itemized. One executive staff member had a total of $3,57.71 reimbursed with no receipts. Another executive staff member had a total of $1,427.64 reimbured with no receipts. And we're beginning just to comb through through the receipts. There's more to learn. And you want to burden the taxpayers with the parcel tax. Tax and spend. The more taxes you get, the more you spend. As former finance director Karen Chang stated, quote, "The gap between revenue and expenditures remains unsustainable without structural change." End quote.

Thank you, Cynthia.

Moving on to Tony Allen. Uh good evening uh Mayor Adiego uh city council members uh city manager and uh community members. Um I want to thank the city council employees and my neighbors for creating a city of inclusivity. All right, where people feel welcome to visit, work, write and live. Um, we are a diverse community and that not only makes us special, but it makes us strong. So, I would like to repeat a request that was made not long ago by my neighbor Patricia Alouse. And in her message, she warned that federal agents who had been given permission to racially improfile residents of our of our country, now we've seen abuse, illegal detentions, deportations, and violence in action. Our South City neighbors, workers, and visitors could be detained, deported, or even killed. Federal agents have proven that they ignore our Constitution and our Bill of Rights. There are ways that we can help protect ourselves and our South San Francisco families, neighbors, workers, and visitors. For ourselves, everyone should have the Sanonteo Rapid Response number in their phone. That's uh 2036664472. If you see something that may be an ICE action, you can call the number. Verifiers can come out to check. We can do our part to help each other by speaking up. Also, we should all know our rights and help our neighbors know theirs. So, we appreciate Mayor Flores for having this information in his newsletters throughout the year last year and we hope it continues. And now for you, city council members. Again, we ask that you take action to keep South San Francisco safe for our residents, their families, our visitors, and

everyone who works here. We cannot afford to be reactive. We must be proactive. Like San Jose, you can pass an ordinance stating that ICE agents must show their faces and must show identification such as wearing a uniform and badge with a number and name. Also like San Jose, pass an ordinance banning ICE from using city properties and facilities for immigration and enforcement. Like Chicago, you can pass an ordinance that allows our police department to arrest ICE agents if they act outside the law. Finally, pass an ordinance that states ICE cannot be within a certain distance from our schools, places of worship, and government buildings. Our diversity makes us who we are. South City and South City cares. We are smarter together. We are stronger together. And we are safer together. Thank you for your time.

Thank you, Maudstrom. Good evening, Mayor Mark Aliago and Vice Mayor Mark Nagels. I would like to address Assembly Bill 413, also called daylight parking, and that contains 20 ft of corners should not be parked. The city has painted some corners red. They have painted half the corner. The other corner is not painted. So now you are inviting people to park right smack in the corner. And I live on Bethman Way. And that's district two for Mayor Vice Mayor Mark Nagels. And there is a stop sign on Greenale. And if they park in each corner, I cannot see going into Bman way. I cannot see going out of Batman way. And people don't stop at those stop sign. So it is really a hazard. It's just a time when there's going to be something big there. And I also did a request form for tra for the traffic advisory committee and I can give you a copy of that today. For example, in three of the four corners was uh cars parked illegally and one car was there for 3 days.

So it is really of importance that we do something before something happens. Thank you very much. Okay. Thank you Miss Xro. When I can't comment I can't comment on that but I am familiar with that space and we have like you said put some red paint on some corners but if I could have staff look into that a little bit more. So who do you want me to do? Let's give it to the city manager and the assistant city manager for them to have.

Yeah. I I think I I think I'd like to um you know, at the beginning of of this daylighting situation, we were led to believe that we were going to be um out there not initially ticketing, but warning people that they could no longer park on those corners and then we would follow up with some red paint. I'd like an update on I guess it would be in the last contract to get out there and do the noticing on corners. Um I've not seen any improvement in um in the district that I reside in and and on the weekends it's even worse where people are right on the corner hanging out making it very difficult for pedestrians to safely cross. Mr. Mayor and and madam city manager if we could look into that because um Miller and Chestnut same thing happening and all across Miller one side of the street is red the other isn't. So there's yeah updates under

that is that is true. will get you some more information that actually I know it sounds odd but that is the law in terms of it it depends on sight lines and where you're coming to approach the intersection so it is um it is not a mistake uh just to let you know that only some of those parts of those corners are painted red right but the daylight laws for every corner no we'll get you more information okay yeah on the right side you have any problems in your district? Not that I know of. You don't really have any problems in your district, do you? It's just so well managed. It's remarkable. It is the best district, apparently. What can I say?

I've [laughter] had to go out in my district with with staff to look at corners and we've had to have TAC kind of review those corners and that particular area. There's been streets we've had to go back and put corners on. So, I'm not surprised that that's a continuing issue in that area. So, your district's out of control. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, Councilwoman, um, Nicholas, do you have any uh anything to add what you've what you've seen in your neighborhood? Um, yeah. There it continues to be a problem everywhere, I think. And it's just that a matter of implementation of uh the new law. Right. Right.

So, I think we just have to deter them from doing that by making sure there's a a warning. Okay. Thank you, F. And thank you, Miss Extramm, for bringing that back into our um into our realm. Um any other speakers? We do. I have Annie twice, but I I'm you going to speak once?

Miss Low, welcome and happy new year to you.

Happy New Year to you, too. Thank you. So, I shared my concerns at city council meeting in the past regarding the lack of transparency and adequate recordkeeping on the city council meeting minutes since September of 2020 when public comments are now only recording the speaker's names but not the subject of the matter that they have brought forward to the council just like what we heard prior to September 2020. All prior city clerks diligently recorded not only the speaker's names but also a summary of the overall topic such as Mr. Jones spoke in opposition of project X etc. So city clerk Aosta responded to me that the city council established that action minutes would be used to record proceedings of the legislative body and in 2021 the city council handbook reaffirmed that process. Additionally, the California Municipal Clerks Association, CMCA, provided a guidance uh or actually guidelines for preparing meeting minutes that is efficient, succinct, and cost effective for all government agencies in California. And this is one of them. Now, per government code 59 54953C2, the city's min shall report the action taken at the vote or extension on that action of each legislative body member present, listing only the names of members who provided public comment. I looked up that government code but did not find any verbiage citing that listing only the names of members who provide public comments. I reached back out to city clerk Aosta regarding this issue and asked for more information on the CMCA guidelines by submitting a public record request back in September 2025 but never receive a response on that particular question. So, I submitted another request in November 2025 and received a response of no

responsive records on the government code cited by the clerk and that I should reach out to the uh CMCA regarding the guidelines which I did and I talked to the executive director and um what surprised me is that he does not even know who was responsible for drafting the guidelines nor did he know the history including the founders of the association even though it claimed to be have been around for about 50 years since 1977. I asked him to reach out to his board members and was told that he had but nobody knew anything about what I was asking for. So he also told me the guidelines are actually you know have has been taken down from the website and that CM CMCA members were not required to implement what was in the guidelines which was drafted and distributed without any input or comments from the public. So I believe both the city clerk and maybe assistant city clerk are members of CMCA and are probably going to attend the annual conference at Disneyland Hotel this April to early uh May. So I just want no Mickey Mouse business here please. Thank you.

Gotcha. Very good. Very clever. I have a comment. Um Sky, could could you at some point um share with us um you know how this came to be and kind of give us a refresher course? I think we're going to get a perhaps get into the handbook at our retreat coming up and this might be an opportunity to see if we're really on the page that we want to be. Yeah, it would make sense to cover uh this topic as part of the handbook when it comes to council and we can address a few topics that have come up. Okay. Thank you, Sky. Absolutely. And uh Venoa, happy new year to you

and to you, sir. Thank you. We have documented proof that this city is far from inclusive. In fact, it's run by exclusive circles of people that if you don't fit the criteria, you're not in the circle. We prove that when Mr. Flores decided to take it upon himself and collude with staff to conspire against the people in the women of the year event in 2025. It doesn't matter what the community says. It only matters what people in the exclusive C circles say and can do for for one another for political purposes. We fail to document the record. We fail to provide public records to the public. 15 extensions. Well, that's not a record because there's documented proof that there's much longer than 15 extensions going on with this city. You know, I wouldn't be surprised at all that there's a lot to hide. In which case,

what we need is an authority with subpoena power to come in here and clean out the rot and the corruption. I wouldn't be smirking, Mr. Coleman. [clears throat] If I were you, I start doing the right thing. It's never too late. Thank you. Thank you. Does that complete public comment? That completes public comment. M.

Okay. So, um, we can move along to, um, we'll move along to consent calendar. Item number two is a motion to approve the minutes of the meetings of December 9th, December 10th, and December 16th. Like to make the motion to approve the consent calendar. Okay. A motion on the floor. I'll second and a second by Councilman Coleman. Thank you. Roll call. Council member Nicholas. I. Mayor Adgo. Yes. Council member Coleman. Yes. Council member Flores. Yes. Vice Mayor Ngales. Yes.

Thank you. We will now move on to administrative business. Item number three is a report regarding a resolution approving budget amendment number 26.057 057 appropriating $7,867,49 from the commercial linkage fee fund in support of the first phase of the proposed Rotary Gardens affordable housing development project located at 500 Lynden Avenue, authorizing staff to negotiate loan terms and return to city council for approval of a loan agreement and any related documents and authorizing the reduction of select city development impact fees. Item 3A is a resolution.

So, um, happy new year, Mr. Noce, and I wanted to, um, let the ect know that I think, um, you're very brave. This is the one item on the agenda. The council has been well rested from the holidays and we're ready to bear down on this issue. So, it's your show. It's a pleasure to be here, Mr. Mayor. Uh, and good evening, honorable Mayor Adgo, Vice Mayor Ngales, and City Council. Uh Mike Noce. I am the housing manager in the economic and community development department. I am joined this evening uh by members of the development team from the South San Francisco Rotary Club as well as Beacon Development. Uh this evening we have a recommendation for a funding appropriation and uh reduction of impact fees. And I'll get into details for you. I'd like to start with a brief overview of the Rotary Gardens development. This is the two sites that this uh development is planned for. This is 500 Lynen is the first phase. It's they are both 100% affordable. Uh phase one is uh specific to senior households and phase two will be uh focused on family housing. Uh phase one will have 80 units, primarily onebedrooms, and phase two will have 64 units. Uh we'll have a mix of bedroom sizes. And the cross streets here are Lux Avenue and California um to the north with six lane uh [clears throat] dividing the two sites. And this is on Lynen Avenue. This is a visual of the senior building uh at the primary point of the the photo

here. Uh the family building is the second uh in the rear and I'll show that momentarily. This just another angle and this shows the family building uh as part of the two sites. Uh this second phase, the family building is is not part of the funding request that is before you this evening. And as mentioned, this uh development is a collaboration between Rotary and Beacon. Uh the same development team uh developed the Rotary Terrace building at 310 Miller and uh many years before that Rotary Plaza at 43, excuse me, 433 Alita. Uh both of the buildings that are part of Rotary Gardens, that's 500 and 522 Lynden, were ministerally approved on July 2nd, 2025. That's due to state law AB 2011 and that focuses on uh the development of commercial uh zoned areas and commercial properties uh allowing for ministerial approval for uh housing development uh either 100% affordable or at a uh percentage of affordable units being included in the development. Uh, as mentioned, I think the only uh items I I didn't touch on for both phases is uh the amount of parking that is included. There'll be 52 parking spaces in phase 1, the senior development, and 61 spaces in phase 2, which is the multif family. We'll now get into the current funding uh that is committed to the project. Uh

the city awarded uh the development team uh Rotary and Beacon uh just over $500,000 in in pre-development funding. This is not general fund uh money that was committed to the project. uh loan agreement was approved by council and the funds were encumbered. Uh this comes from the the state's permanent local housing allocation. Uh that is a the source of those funds are are from real estate fees that are collected annually and we receive a portion of those fees every year. Uh couple years later after pre-development and and that's when architecture, engineering and the the building design is is underway. uh the development team came back to the city um being very close to that entitlement uh timeline in in July. So just before that, we came to city council in June of 2025 uh seeking a a funding commitment of roughly $2.3 million. Uh this essentially put the development team in a very the the project itself or phase one of the project, excuse me, uh in very good standing for an application to county funding which would be shortly thereafter. So they received some a commitment from the city in June, entitlements in July of 2025, and then entered into application process for county funds. And I'll I'll go into that in more detail shortly. Uh what you see before you here is the current unencumbered affordable housing funds that we have. Uh housing trust fund, our our low mod income housing asset fund as well as the commercial linkage fee fund. Uh the funding before you this evening uh is uh

meant for uh allocation from the A23 account at 15.3 million. That number is slightly higher than what was in this reported to you in the staff report. Uh it was conservative conservatively increased uh based on uh Janentech DA funds that came in in December of 2025. Uh, and we wanted to be as accurate as possible for you this evening. Uh, the city, as you see there, is as part of that same development agreement is set to receive 4.5 million in December of 2026, but we have not received those funds to date, of course. So the current funding request before you and I know there's a lot of information on this slide and I apologize for that but I wanted to show current funding commitments toward the project and coming toward uh all these different sources and this is quite common for 100% affordable projects. Uh tax credit equity would actually make up almost 40% of the funds toward the project. Uh and then you have city committed funds as I mentioned the PLHA and fund 238 for 2.8 million. Uh the Rotary and Beacon uh development team they both organizations have significant funding toward the project uh including the purchase of the land. Uh that's approximately 17 million in funding. and San Monteo County. Uh, as I mentioned, they went through uh the development team went through the application process and they they were successful in their award and received 16.8 million uh which I believe is a a record amount uh from that source of funds from the county. So, a sizable amount of funds were received. Uh those funds are conditioned on an increase of funding

because it the county knew looking over the perform that there would be still a gap remaining of funds that would be needed for this almost shovel ready project to move forward and that amount is 6.7 million. So the county's funds are contingent on the city's increase of funds or another partner potentially, but we are the most ready to go. And I'll I'll explain some of the timing behind that. And that's it's really related to the tax credit award, which the next funding cycle or the next application cycle for tax credit award is in February of this year. So right around the corner. So, the current gap, and I'm going to break this down uh a little bit, is 6.7 million is the request to the city of the remaining gap. Uh we have the 2.3 million that was already committed, but we had planned to return to council to affirm that amount. We are now seeking to increase that amount uh in support of the project uh 5.5 million for a total uh cash reward of 7.8 million. or appropriation rather and 1.2 million in impact fee waiverss. Uh that was across of the development team uh in conversations that would soften the amount of 8 fund 823 uh funds that we would be putting toward the project. uh and staff did meet with uh other departments on making that decision on what what was palatable and potentially supportable uh to present to you this evening. Uh and I'll I'll break down the impact fee wavers here on the next slide. So what is uh the recommended approach is a 50% reduction for library, parks and wreck, public safety and

transportation. We would one reduce the entire fee for the child care impact being this is specific to 500 Lynen and thus a senior project and would have minimal impact on child care. Uh we are not recommending any reduction in the sanitary sewer capacity as we think the development should pay its fair share of development impact fee for that. And uh part of our conversations with the development team has been uh this is a substantial increase in city support. Uh we want to ensure that uh there's benefit to the to South San Francisco and our our community here. Uh we have negotiated amount with the county. Uh 51% of the units would uh receive the live work preference uh for South San Francisco. Uh we have also uh the development team is supportive of the city being the master leaseholder for the commercial space on the ground floor at both 500 and 522 Lynen for a minimal amount $1 per year. And you'll see the square footage of each of those spaces on the slides on the slide, excuse me. uh no future requests would be uh awarded in regards to any requests to reduce the parking. We feel that the parking amount should remain and the development team is supportive of that as well. Uh we also uh were seeking to uh recommend that the funding be drawn last for the city. That way if through the development process as a developer is is layering their financing, if you can be the last draw, there could be uh some percentage that

remains and that could support future projects even phase two of course at the discretion of council. Uh the factors that I have listed on this slide are not meant to persuade, but I'd be remissed if I didn't bring them up to you this evening. Uh senior affordable housing is definitely needed. We've seen that in the community. Uh there have been studies that uh we've seen that there's an increasing segment of older adults that are becoming homeless. uh a UCSF study I think that came out in 2024 um speaks to that in greater detail as far as throughout California. I think the median age for uh the homeless population has now risen to for the age of 47. So we're seeing an increase in the age of of our homeless population throughout the state. Generally evictions and also specific to Sanonteo County have remained high after the pandemic and seniors on a fixed income are often at great risk uh to rising costs. Uh the county award as I had mentioned is a uh contingent on a further local commitment that is a puts the city in a a very powerful position in regards to the uh this project moving forward. Uh without city funds it would likely be a one to twoyear delay uh to the project. Uh the next round of tax credits, as I mentioned, is right around the corner, February 3rd. And uh I don't think we would staff wouldn't be as supportive of of what we're presenting you this evening if Rotary and Beacon didn't also have uh a good amount of funding going toward this project. Uh the current timeline that and this is with city support uh this evening would put

construction commencing as early as October of 2026 but by the end of the year is what the development team is targeting and that does get us closer to phase two. So they would build phase one first before phase two would would be able to move forward and they would be actively searching for funds on phase two as well uh while all of this is going on. So, uh, just to reiterate the action in front of you this evening, it's $7.8 million appropriation. Uh, there is a budget amendment that is listed in the staff report and resolution and that those funding uh, the source would be fund 823 and then a $1.2 million impact fee waiver. The loan agreement itself would come back to council uh, just also in full transparency and wanting to to show total dollar amount that is going toward this project or being contributed. Uh I've listed the total for phase one as well as phase 2. So in total city support that's PLA commercial linkage fee fund and the value of the impact fee reduction we'd be uh providing $9.6 million toward this project. And then there is $1 million that was uh already earmarked and approved uh for phase two. So that would remain earmarked toward that phase of the project. Uh again the development team is here this evening. I am happy to answer questions and thank you very much for allowing me to speak.

Thank you. Why don't we hear from the development team and and if they actually could all come up and introduce themselves. Some are well known to us and um but I you know um we are indebted to our Rotary partners for what 60 years worth of investment in the community for housing for people that um desperately need it. So again, thank you to our Rotary partners. And uh

so my name is Bruce Wright, been a member of the Rotary Club since 1994 and been part of the housing uh project for Rotary since 2000. Okay. My name is Brian North. I'm a uh board member on our foundation. I've also been a member of the club for about eight years and a rotarian for about 15. I'm Matteo Rizzo, a member of the Rotary Club and the [clears throat] uh our club's foundation, and I've been a member for since around 2016, I think. Hi, I'm Matt Alonte, project manager with Beacon Development Group.

Good evening. I'm Peggy Lar, development director for Beacon Development Group, um, a human good company and um, yeah, I'm here to answer any questions. Wonderful. And it's great to meet you all again and uh, let's see what direction we're going to go in tonight. I'm hoping for great things, but we're going to start with um, Councilman Flores because it is his backyard. is his district and I'm sure he has lots of questions and thoughts. [laughter]

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, I have been tracking this for quite some time now. Um, even going back to when u Rotary Terrace was first getting off the ground, I uh truly really understand the need um not only um in this project, but in the project that just went up recently, most recently across the street, uh residents would ask me, "How do I get on the lottery? how do I get how do I sign up? Um it's unfortunate that that's the question that everyone's kind of uh wanting answers to immediately. Um now that it has been known around the community that this is going to be a a housing project and in particular for seniors, there's already questions of how do I get on the on the on the list, right, on the on the wait list and whatnot. I I want to say that um this is the opportunity for the city to be able to match. Um I was very very not only excited but really surprised at the delivery and the action that the county took in being able to move this forward. Unprecedented um historical in nature of the amount um being able to understand the conversations that happened. I know that they could have split the money um given it to others even though they did fund other projects but we were at the top there in the list. um understanding what the motive is of our commercial linkage fee fund, understanding uh these three funds and and what the purpose of it of of it is and understanding also everything in scope, right? where can we build, when does it make sense, the market rate, um our housing element numbers that we're accountable as a city uh to the state and understanding the dire need uh that housing um is absolutely needed um not just [clears throat] in this area of town. I'll emphasize this because for

many many years this has been the one area and I'm not the first one saying this from this day is that building has happened time and time again. I believe that other districts and throughout the city it should be spread just like we did in in your district where Rotary Plaza, Council Member Coleman, um I believe that other projects should be looked at as well. But um having said [clears throat] all that and looked at these numbers, I I looked at the funding request. Um I I appreciate the way it was presented. Thank you for for laying out all the important numbers that I was going to ask questions. Um so at this point, I am in favor. I am supportive. I am appreciative that this city is also able to partner and thank you to staff also for being able to to witness and see an opportunity. And I think it's incumbent upon us to be able to deliver for the 16 million that the county is also moving forward as well.

Okay. Thank you, Eddie. Let's um let's switch over. I think it's getting close to the 11:00 hour in Boston and we usually stop at 11:00. So, why don't you go ahead floor if you have any questions or comments on this project. Yeah, I don't have any question but I would like to also uh thank the Rotary and the Beacon Development uh group for partnering with the community and this um senior housing will be another contribution to our age friendly action plan. Thank you very much for partnering with us. Thank you. And I will support um this. Okay. And next maybe the vice mayor.

Thank you. Um, a quick comments on a few questions. I think this just shows how expensive it is to build affordable housing. It's extremely expensive. And you know, people sometimes complain about, well, there's all this development that's happening, but the back end of this is how much it costs to build. When you look at how we're paying for this, we're using commercial linkage fees. the development that you've seen in terms of R&D or other things is help paying for the affordable housing that's coming to South San Francisco. So, I wanted to highlight that. Um, I really appreciate staff in terms of the making sure that the work live work preference was a priority. I know the county with their they wanted housing is a regional issue and so the fact that it's still 51% that's in terms of are making sure our level of work preference is still kind of majority I really appreciate that. Um, I'm fascinated about the commercial space. The 500 Ling, you got 1,300 square ft of commercial space. Has staff kicked around because we're we're going to control that space. Has staff kicked around the idea of potentially what we can use that for? It's a great question. Uh, so we've had some preliminary thoughts, but we haven't had conversations with other departments. Uh we think there's definite avenues either for city related services, park and recck services, uh potentially even an extension of our our downtown business uh incubator. I'm totally blanking on on the name of the program that Ernesto runs. I've heard it hundred times. [laughter]

Uh those are those are great. Those are some avenues. We'd be open to feedback on that. We're at the very early stages,

very early stages. And I was thinking the same thing in terms of programs. The one program I would like to kick in there is child care. There's been studies that have been done when there's child care implemented below a senior housing that actually benefits both the residents and the children. And I know child care is high demand everywhere. And that might be another space to have there. Um, in terms of the council member um, uh, Flores mentioned in terms of the the the kind of the demand for when we folks can start asking to be put on the wait list. That was actually answered. And so I know typically the that list opens up prior to opening. Do we have a timeline of when that's going to be? Because you said that the construction is going to start fourth quarter of 2026. I haven't quite heard when the projected when the building is going to be completed and then when you're going to open up the list for people.

I'll answer. [clears throat] I don't have the exact dates, but it usually takes about 17 months to construct the building and we will start um open the wait list probably 6 months prior to finishing. Okay. And I'm pretty sure it you will there will be high demand for it. Yeah. Um, and then I know we're talking about phase one, but I I don't want to forget phase two. Really quickly, we're we already committed about a million dollars into phase 2. Is do we have any projections of what it's going to cost to complete phase 2? That's very similar approximately. It's very similar approximately 70 to 80 million.

70 to$80 million to fill that gap. Okay. Okay. And I'm It sounds like you will continue to look out. Keep going. That's what I wanted to make sure. We're going to go to the county and we're going to um work uh with Mike and Nell uh for ASIC funds. So yes, in April. Yeah. I I again, thank you to everyone involved. Rotary Beacon. Um these are projects that we just love being able to see these projects come out of the ground and helping our residents provide affordable housing. Um, just kudos and thank you for for believing in South San Francisco and being part of this great community. So, thank you, Mark. Uh, Councilman,

sure. Uh, what a lovely way to start uh 2026. Uh, cannot think of any meeting that could be better than this. Um, so brief question. Um, what's Okay, so I I see the AMI of the units for the senior portion of the project is 60% AMI. Um, could you describe the unit sizes? like are they studios, onebedrooms? And so seniors it's um we only have I think it's only five studios and then the rest are all onebedroom. We always have one bedrooms for our seniors. Great. And then for the family, what ami and also what is a split?

We're not going to go we're not going higher nothing higher than 60%. Um we're still putting that together but there'll be two onebedroom two and three bedrooms. So, um, one thing I did want to note is that we are we're going as low as 15% AMI on the seniors. We have 20 units for, uh, homeless and special needs. So, just want to let you know that. Great. U, we're hitting very, very deep levels of affordability that can sometimes be very, very tough to hit. Um,

and so I just want to thank our our Rotary Club here. I always tell people that we have the best Rotary Club in South San Francisco and it's because you tackle these issues uh head on and you've been doing it for decades and I believe your your first project was in District 4, South San Francisco and everyone loves it and so we're very much looking forward to your third project and your fourth and your fifth and and for so many more here in South City. So, thank you so much.

Just really quick, when you say AMI, we know what the percentage means. I just have this pet peeve where you have to actually say what the actual dollar amount is because when people are listening to this they don't know what 15% AMI is. They don't know what 30% is. Could you just really quickly say what that is so the people are listening to this who are excited about the project know I can tell you right now I think as [laughter]

we get this question every meeting you think we'd be prepared with a slide. Okay. So f so 60% um of the area median income for a family well let's talk a twoerson household is around $80,000. So, for a 2% household making less than $80,000, this is the project for them. And how much rent would they The rent would be? Um, so I've got calculated the like about $1,600 a month about $1,600 a month for those higher income. The 15% AMI will obviously be much lower,

right? And that's really important because we have actually heard from our residents saying, you know, even though they qualify in terms of AMI, the rent is actually a lot higher than they expected it to be. So, this really is going to help a lot of individuals in um in in that kind of income level. Yeah, the Beacon team was just mentioning that the 15% AMI units will be perhaps even below $500 a month. So, very very truly affordable. Yeah, that's great. Um I I was listening closely to the vice mayor's remarks on the cost of housing and he knows as a homeowner that um you've had your house for how many years? Eight years now.

Eight years. And if you could buy one for that price today, you would probably jump at the chance. Yeah.

Yeah. And and my point being that while it is a lot of money today to build this the these amount of units, fast forward 10 20 and the life of the project and uh this you know this amount of money that we're collectively putting in um uh becomes smaller and smaller with with time and um I think that uh uh that's the the power the secret power of uh our local Rotary is that they started doing this 60 some odd years ago. go and um that allows them to um uh put some of that you know equity behind behind the the effort. Um I think that um we are so fortunate that uh the council previous council put together this commercial linkage fee which really takes the place I'm remembering back 636 Elchamine Royale is is a pretty large project and at the time with redevelopment dollars the city was able to push easily push in $14 million to bridge a gap to make that happen and and that $14 million was money well spent because it it has provided housing for I guess we're coming up on at least 15 years over there on El Camino Rial. So, this is exciting stuff. As Councilman Coleman said, what a great way to start the new year. And I just wish we didn't have to wait 2 or 3 years for the family portion because while I understand the need and the numbers reflected with what's happening to seniors in our community, I know of many families that are living um too many families to a single home and and it's just not a um you know, when you talk about the uh um the the health equities and such, it's all related to the way we live sometimes. So anyway, um we're looking for um Oh, any um public comments on this item?

No public comments, ma'am. Any more comments or questions from the council? Oh, I just want to say it's a it's a beautiful building. We need more architecture like this. I'm a big fan. So, you like you like the um the like the old San Francisco architecture. [cough] Yeah. And many people have commented um the same way on the other project that was built on Lynen Avenue. And for some reason I enjoy the modern look, but uh apparently I'm more and more in the minority. Um so anyway, we're looking for a a resolution. Um Mr. Mayor, I'd like to move this item um in approval. Okay. Motion on the floor. I'm happy to second. Mr. Housing seconds it [laughter] and a roll call. Mayor Adiego, yes.

Council member Nicholas, I. Council member Flores, yes. Vice Mayor Ngales, yes. And council member Coleman, yes. Thank you. She passes. [applause] Congratulations. Can I just say one last thing? I really uh want to thank uh Nell Salander and Mike Noce staff um and you all. We really appreciate it. Yeah, we put together the commercial linkage. [laughter] No, I do uh their hard work. I really appreciate it. Thank you.

Thank you. Okay. [clears throat] I just wanted to add that in addition to the housing, the housing has allowed us to have a foundation. Our foundation last year gave away $253,000 of which $163,000 was directly here in South San Francisco. So, it's not just the housing. There's other impacts as well. Right. Thank you. It's a beautiful thing. Thank you, Bruce. Bruce, I thought you were retired. [laughter] Yeah, I retired from accounting to a rotary job. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Thank you for being with us tonight and for all the good news and the good work. And uh have a good evening. Um next item,

moving on to items from council committee reports and announcements. And we do have item number four is 2026 uh 2026 city council committee assignments discussion and approval. So, this was put together as a as a proposed draft, if you will. I'm trying to speed up the process. Um, and sometimes it's difficult to get to each and every one of you separately. And I'm up to any changes that you might want to make. I think for some reason, um, I had Councilman Coleman on my mind, so I twinned him up with me on a lot of committees, which he may not be up for, and and I would respect that. If there's anything you want to change, you can communicate to me this evening or um

I have thoughts and suggestions of the process.

Um we don't have to discuss it now, but I I kind of want to throw it out there, you know. Um, I'm thinking that sometimes it's good to have different perspectives on the committees and sometimes we get bogged down in the committees and we stay there, you know, for set number of years. And I'm wondering if it makes sense if we rotate. So instead of like which committee do you want to do, do you want to stay on there? maybe after a certain number of years because I think it's actually beneficial to us to provide like fresh perspectives and just also that we don't burn out in terms of being on a commission that we rotate after a certain number of years cuz I I have I have not served on on a couple committees and I don't know if if my colleagues have served on other committees but I think just to have that kind of conversation and maybe after 3 years we switch I'm not talking about like the regional committees where you're like uh have to be voted put on by council of cities like that's a different alto together but I think maybe we should talk about that and then I I was thinking about how council member Flores is really connected with the housing authority as their liaison and I'm wondering if it makes sense if we have liaison to various committees as well not so much we sit on them but if let's say park and wreck have questions about council direction or about something that maybe they know okay we can go to this council member just thoughts just a suggestion and then I was also thinking about like work plans for the for our committees for the various citizens committees sometimes I think they rely on us in terms of the direction but maybe if they had some sort of work plan in terms of organizing what they want to do for the year that might might provide them more direction in terms of having a more fulfilling and more filling out with their goals goals are and trying to achieve those goals.

Maybe doing that and I think that maybe having a discussion I think we're going to have a discussion about the handbook at some point and maybe that's that's maybe when we have that discussion but I was just thinking about this like how can we be more efficient in terms of this conversation.

Uh I mean there's a lot of merit there obviously and I think that um you know um taking some first steps to move in that direction and then by the time you're mayor you'll be able to [laughter] incorporate that new way. What I did basically was I tried to get a sense of of um as much as I know you, what you're most interested in. So I would never take PCE away from Councilman Coleman and and I would never take some of the housing um and transportation away from um the vice mayor. Um but but some of this I just mixed up to mix it up because um you know like the conference center uh a couple of us haven't served there for a long time and so now we will. But I mean, I'm open to any if if if I've offended anybody by removing you and it's something that you will miss, let me know. And then there's some there that maybe we really should be looking at um letting them evaporate. So there's a airport noise insulation program project. Um those funds went away a long time ago and we turned them over to to the um to SFO uh for their aggressive program. So, uh, we need to really look at what these committees, uh, are doing and and that's one that really I think is, um, is history. M, Mr. Mayor, I'd like to point out to this council that we're in a very unique almost special position because of the fact that this council does not have term limits. And because of that, even the non council of cities or city selection committee um regional uh bodies are looking to us for leadership. Many of us, I know that perhaps you and myself are in line for vice chairmanships and even chairmanships in some of these. Um, so I would just like to note that if we move ourselves off of that, we're looked as the new freshman in the in in the even though we've been

at the table for a while. So, I'd like to just reconsider um the vice mayor's uh request on that because um it will benefit the city to have leadership in this roles. Um, put that aside. I wanted to make an announcement that I think uh miss my my colleague to my left stole my thunder, but it's okay. Um, yes, I was uh appointed by the board of supervisors, and I want to publicly thank the the board of supervisors uh to the Sonatail County Charter Review Committee. Over 46 individuals applied. I am uh have been appointed to represent cities um which is a pretty large endeavor. Gets reviewed every eight years. Some of the things considered are term limits um for the board of supervisors, uh the authority to remove the sheriff forever, um and other things. So, it's a it represents various stakeholders, seniors, youth, labor, schools, I represent cities. Um, in addition, uh, the first Monday we came back into the new year, I received a phone call from the League of California Cities president, current president, who is the mayor of Elserto. Uh, interesting enough, I'll tell this really quick story. Christmas or not Christmas, New Year's Eve, when all of us are focused on something else. The county of Santa Clara had a special election and everyone was voting and up and down. It was for assessor, county assessor. Vice Mayor uh Nissa Figger from the city of Los Altos was elected. Um this was the I guess the general election cuz they had the the primary in November. She held a seat um at large in the statewide Cal's board of directors. Um, President Kinto um asked me if I wanted to join and he has appointed me uh to the state board of Cal Cities which um previous mayor uh

Rich Carbarino and was not only on the board for many years but also uh came up the ranks to serve as president. Um so because of these two new endeavors that I will be representing and advocating and pushing and trust me uh it's very important right now to be in the Cal League of Cities. Uh there's a lot of bills, not only VLF, but the Prop 4 climate bond um funds that could potentially come down, uh SP79, SQA, um and all of this. So, I will be very monitoring that. I I say all of this and share this with this council uh to just uh confirm that your moves and cuz I think I was the one that was most affected. I'm completely okay, 100% okay with him because I I need to have bandwidth to be able to support this. I think had over 15 16 subcommittees yet last year. It was a lot.

I was aware that [laughter] you were coming off a pretty intense year. You seem to have endless energy, but at the same time, [laughter] I thought I might be doing you. Thank you. You are um happy to, you know, serve as alternate, but the ones you have assign me, I'm good with them. Thank you. Okay. Any other thoughts from Councilman Coleman on I'm honored to be serving with you on so many boards. We'll see how that goes. It's my last opportunity to get to know you a little better. So that was that was actually my thought. Great. Thank you. There is one board that you took yourself out from. That was the Cal Modernization. I I I [clears throat] have a shameful attendance [laughter] record with that.

I'm the alternate. So I I'm happy to move forward with that because they are meeting transportation. I wanted to make sure. Very good. It's a train of some kind. It's not my train though, but No, no, but it's, you know, it's all it's all related. Okay. So, for the most part, we're okay on that. And um I don't see any reason maybe Sky or or the city manager can um uh at some time look at the airport noise insulation program project that we had a committee. I I don't think it's necessary, but yeah, I there have been some sort of low-level ongoing examination of some aspects of that to try to figure out exactly what is still around on the city's plate. So, it's a relevant conversation.

Okay. Thank you, Scott. And mayor, could we also have some clarification if [clears throat] you'd like to include some other discussion topics uh that were mentioned previously when we talk about the council handbook in relation to the citizen advisory committees? Would would you like to entertain some of the discussions about just to have a disc a future discussion about possibility of things um such as liaison or work plans related to the citizen advisory committees, right? Um, is that something that we can incorporate? I guess the retreat is pretty full. The retreat is very full. So, this is more with the workshop sit down for the handbook, I guess. Yeah, I was thinking more of the handbook.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. If I may, mayor, um, I will be out of town for the council's retreat, so I won't be in attendance to have the discussion on the handbook. We have traditionally held special city council meetings to discuss the handbook if that is something that you uh, choose to do. But if it is discussed at the retreat, then I would get back to the council if you have any questions on the formatting of minutes and the discussion on the public records requests.

Okay. But I mean certainly we could do a first pass on it, right? But okay. All right. So um if there aren't any other um items from the council, then we're adjourned at um is it really 807? 8:15. Oh, it is 8:15. Okay. Oh, the clock is not bad. Not bad. Thank you. recording stop. Manager Snider