city council meeting.
>> good evening, everyone,
thank you for joining us, I
would like to call the
regular
meeting of the city of south
san francisco for NOVEMBER
12th.
>> councilor member coleman?
>> here.
Frnts counsel neb nagales?
>> here.
>> councilmember nicolas
?Frjts present.
>> councilmember addiego
?Frjt
here.
>> mayor flores?Frjts here.
Er
>> next item?
>> we'll mover to along to
pledge of leansbacker
allegiance
>> tonight is a district one
resident and member of our
anti-displacement citizen
advisory committee which we
will be hearing on later
tonight, please welcome
michele alvarez, if you're
able, please stand and place
your right hand over your
heart, after you, MS. Alvarez.
>> 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, you MAY be
seated.
Next item, please.
>> agenda review.
>> mayor flores, we do have a
change to the general abasing
I would like to mover item 15
and 15a to administrative
business, the last item, with
some late breaking news
regarding the snap program.
>> thank you very much.
Dually noted.
Next item.
>> levine act disclosures,
does the council have any
reporting?
No report, so we can mover
along to announcements from
staff.
>> great.
>> good evening, mayor, vice
mayor and councilmembers,
name
is devon stenhouse, the
equity
and diversion officer, this
evening I have three
announcements, this friday
NOVEMBER 14, the city of
south
san francisco will be
celebrating ruby bridges day
a
at city hall at 7:30 A.M.
Along with hundreds of
students, families and family
administrators from sunshine
gardens, spruce and a few
enthusiastic personalities
from martin elementary school
where I believe who is in
attendance this evening.
Just so that we can pay prom
homage to one of the youngest
pyre near ins the american
civil rights movement, ruby
bridges who was among the
first to break the jim crow
ware barrier ins the state of
louisiana in 1960, I believe
you MAY have more to hear
about this particular topic
later on this evening but for
now, I wanted to invite
councilmembers, the community
and all schools and students
throughout south san
francisco
to join us at ruby bridges
walk the school day.
Additionally, according to
the
federal trade commission monk
among the millions of
americans who scammers?
N2024, learn thousand protect
yourself from fraud at
tuesday
NOVEMBER 18th at 6:30 P.M. To
8:00 right here in the park
and is recreation center and
in the social hall.
Please scan the qr to learn
more and the register for
this
free seminar.
And finally I would like to
notify the public that city
pa
silts will be closed on
thursday and friday NOVEMBER
27 and 28 with the exception
of our quality control plant
and our police and fire can
departments, thank you.
>> thank you very much.
Any ohers?
That's it?
One more, okay.
Excellent, welcome.
>> yes, good evening, mayor
flores, vice mayor addiego,
city councilmembers, library
director valerie sommer and
I'm pleased to invite our
community to two upcoming
library programs this friday
and saturday NOVEMBER 14th
and
15th, the south san francisco
friends of the library is
holding its fall book sale,
come find books, dvd's and
cd's for your home libraries
as well as for holiday gift
giving, all proceeds fund
children and adult programs
and special library
collection, the sale I held
here on this build ining the
second floor in the community
room and is scheduled from 10
A.M. To 4 P.M. On both days.
Thank you.
And second, I'm also happy to
announce a special program
here many the city council
chambers tomorrow night,
amjan
scientists will speak on the
fascinating topics human
genetic, the 3-d genome
crisper for the palgts of
disease, it starts at 6:30
P.M., I hope to see you all
here, thank you very much.
>> good evening, greg
mediati,
director of parks and rec,
all
are invited to join us
NOVEMBER 22 for our 52nd5k
fund run, the run will begin
at 5 A.M. Sharp, there will
be
top finishers in each age
group and be entered into
drawings with prizes, the
last
day to register is NOVEMBER
15.
And next slide, all r welcome
to join us for our annual
santa comes to town event, it
takes place saturday DECEMBER
6 from 10 A.M. To 2 P.M. At
city hall, santa will be
joining us, board, one of our
own fire trucks, participants
will receive a dedicated with
dedicated reserve time to
take
a picture with santa, rain or
shine.
Er
>> remind your parents 10
A.M. On DECEMBER 6.
>> good evening,
councilmember, matt samson,
your fire chieffinger here to
remind everybody after they
had a chance to recover from
the fun run, we're inviting
them to fire station 61 for
an
afternoon with santa and it's
an opportunity to take
picture
widths santa on a fire
engine,
he'll be there from 1-3, the
event is open to the public
and is free.
The event is free, we are
asking family that is are
able
to, to please bring diapers
to
dough mate to support the
diaper drive.
Thank you.
>> thank you very much.
Thank you to all staff and
lots of great announcements
and lots of good events
coming
up in the next few weeks.
Thank you very much for that.
Next item.
>> we'll mover along
presentation, item 1 is a
certificate recognizing fizz
seek imaging any faoek on
their 28th anniversary and
regrand opening.
>> it is my honor to
recognize
a true pillar of our san
francisco community fizz seek
magnifique is celebrating
body
and wellness, they celebrate
an incredible 28 years of
wellness in south san
francisco.
Since oening their doors in
1997, jim and the entire team
at fi seek magnifique, they
have built a cmmunity around
the grand downtown avenue,
all
ages and all backgrounds and
all fitness levels are
supported and empowered to
become the best version of
chessmen we're proud to have
fizz seek magnifique as one
of
our local gym, while it's
personal training or group
classes or the warm
encouragement that greets you
t the door, fizz seek
magnifique has helped people
lead confident and healthy
lives, they continue to
evolve
and to inspire.
On OCTOBER 11, they hosted a
fantastic regrand opening
breathing new life into their
space and reaffirming the
commitment to serving south
san francisco for many more
years to come.
It was a celebration of
resilience, of renewal, of
community spirit, the values
that really reflect here in
south san francisco, so
tonight on behalf of this
city
council, I am proud to
present
the certificate of
recognition
on their grand opening and
the
celebration anniversary to
physique magnifique, thank
you
for what you continue to do
here to keep south city
strong
in mind, body and community.
Help me welcome jim and
futaba
to the podium to accept tis
certificate.
[Applause].
(Taking photograph).
[Applause].
>> thank you so much, we
appreciate -- we truly
appreciate this.
Especially because we really
didn't, you know, really
thinking we would get
anything
like this, we truly
appreciate
your support.
I would like to say thank you
to all the people in south
san
francisco tat have really
supported us throughout the
28
years including during the
pandemic when alot of
people,
we were closed for a little
bit over a year and even
then,
people said we're not going
cancel our membership because
we want you to stay in
business when everything
opens
up again, so we have
wonderful
people, like you said, a
community and a community
that
really supports us, so we're
very grateful and like you
said, we completely redid our
down stairs and now we have
more things to the offer and
yes, we want to be here for a
long, long time, as long as we
're able to, able-bodied to.
Thank you so much.
>> thank you, both.
[Applause].
>> I would just like to say
thank you to the city of
south
san francisco for allowing us
to operate our business in
this community, as an asian
and african american male, it
is quite a move for us to be
in south san francisco for 28
years.
We came here from a mom and
pop business from a garage
and
we started here 28 years ago
and now we look up and hope
to
be here another 28 years I
we
can make it that long, so
thank you all for allowing us
to again own and operate our
business in a predominantly
spanish speaking community
and
thank you, thank you so much
for allowing us to be here.
We really appreciate that.
[Applause].
>> thank you again.
Congratulations, thank you,
again.
>> thank you so much.
[Applause].
>> thank you, both,
congratulations again.
Next item.
>> item number 2 is a
proclamation recognizing
NOVEMBER 14, 2025 as ruby
bridges day.
>> tonight is also a very,
very special night.
I love when the energy is
here, so, if you are a martin
meteor, make some noise
tonight, let me hear you.
[Applause].
So, it's not just for our
city
and I think the scholars in
this room know this story but
for the rest of the audience
members and those watching at
home, it's for our entire
country because we're
recognizing a movement that
started right here in south
san fancisco in a fifth
grade
classroom at martin
elementary
school and has now grown into
a nationwide celebration of
courage, of justice and of
hope.
The ruby bridges walk to
school day, yes, was started
by a group of fifth graders
and by a student named
madeline, we call her maddy
who I completing her senior
year in southern california,
the movement began in
2017-18,
that school year, after maddy
asked her teacher, MRS. Debra
carlino if there was a a day
to honor ruby bridges, and
when she found out there
wasn't any, the class
launched
on a full campaign and
started
minimizing, the students
collected over a thousand
student and is petitioned the
south san francisco school
board, the south san
francisco
unified school district to
designate NOVEMBER 14th as
ruby bridges day.
They didn't just stop there,
the initiative spread and
their advocacy continued and
it then went on to the san
mateo county office of
education and the city of
south san francisco in
adopting and recognizing that
day.
The first walk took place in
2015, -- 2017.
and josh becker then passed a
a resolution the make
NOVEMBER
14 the official ruby bridges
walk to school day troughout
the state of clifornia.
And this friday, we have the
opportunity to proudly
celebrate starting at 7 A.M.,
so you all have o go to sleep
early on thursday evening to
show up with support of this
powerful walk in the steps of
city hall.
But I want to tll you what
this really is all about.
It's really a moment to
celebrate and recognize MS.
Ruby bridges who I had the
pleasure of meeting right
before the pandemic in
JANUARY
of 2020.
In 1960, at just six years
old, ruby became the first
black child to integrate in
an
all white elementary school
in
new orleans, she ws met with
angry crowds, escorted by
federal marshals and spent
her
first day in the principal's
office, no, not because she
did something wrong but
because se
f she did
something right, she was
making history.
Ruby's br
ifr ri was capture
ined a famous paint, the
problem we all liver with,
but
her courage sparked change
throughout the country and
she
never stopped walking
forward,
she graduated, became an
advocate and founded the ruby
bridges foundation to promote
tolerance, to promote respect
and appreciation of all
difference and is now thank
tos the incredible scholars
back then, MS. Debra car lean
know's fifth grade class,
what
started as a class project
became a county and a
statewide resolution and now
schools all across the
country, you could go into
social media and look at high
schools and look all over and
they now hold and participate
on a raoub ri
f b bridges
walk to school day.
That's the power of our young
people tha,'s the power of
our
leaders, that's the power of
their voices.
As a former educator and a
former school board PRESIDENT
Myself, this moment means so
much, I's full circle times
because I reminds us how we
need to continue to preserve
history and stand up for
what's right and to protest
and say it in peaceful and
powerful way and is it
reminds
all students including fifth
graders can lead movement,
can
mobilize to change this
world,
so on beof this city council,
aoem proud to present this
proclamation to the fifth
graders under the ladership
of principal jonathan kav acc
a and with the board of
trustees, superintendent
shontera moore and teachers
and staff at that school.
Let me read it into the
record, now it is therefore
resolved the city council of
south san fro
ns does
proclaim
NOVEMBER 14, 2025 as ruby
bridges walk to school day in
south san francisco ad
commends all students,
families and educators for
participating in this
significant day to honor the
civil rights activists.
The students here tonight,
they remind us of so much and
as you see their green martin
uniforms, it's baouz ne ear
also part of a safety patrol
group that really helps and
supports their fellow peers
in
morning drop off and
afternoon
pick up.
When I was on the school
board, I mentioned that and I
was so moved that there was
schools still moving with
safety patrols.
This was in 2018, almost 7
years ago, and at that point
in time, I was so excited
that
guess what happened at that
time, the whole class decided
to give me right there and
then on te dais one of their
hats and I've kept it ever
since, so, to the students
here tonight, thank you for
reminding me what it means to
be leaders.
[Applause].
Thank you for keeping this
legacy alive and we are so
proud of every advocacy
effort
that you are doing.
so, without further adieu,
please put your hands
together
and welcome the fifth graders
from martin elementary school
up to the front to accept
this
proclamation.
[Applause].
>> good evening, my name is
ally MAY, on behalf of martin
elementary websinger are
thankful for this opportunity
to be here with you to show
our continued effort despite
the courage and resiliency of
MS. Ruby bridges.
Before my friends start with
the proclamation, I want to
enviet you to ruby bridges
celebration websinger will
walk to our shool websinger
will have our school assembly
to present what each grade
level we'll be working on, we
will start our assembly at
8:45, we hope to see you
there.
>> we ae as ruby bridges an
american civil activist, at
the age f 6 was the first
black to disaggregate in the
elementary school in
louisiana
during the new orleans
disaggregation crisis in
1960.
And --
>> whereas ruby bridges walk
to school almost every day
and
on her first day at william
france elementary school was
escorted by four federal
marshals and spent the entire
day in the principal's office
as angry parents marched into
the school to remove their
children and --
>> whereas ruby bridges first
day of school experience as a
resource of the core or the
judge jay kelly wright U.S.
Circuit judge of the U.S.
Court of appeals for the
district of colombia circuit
was commemorated by norman
rock we will in his painting,
the problem we all live with
and --
>> attending great schools
through high school
graduation
and becoming an advocate for
equal rights for all students
and whereas ruby bridges
founded the ruby bridges
foundation in 1999 to promote
the values of tolerance,
respect and appreciation of
all [Inaudible] And --
>> whereas the [Inaudible] In
2017-2018 fom martin
elementary school in the
south
san francisco unified school
district learned about the
life of ruby bridges and as a
way to honor the civil rights
activist proudly founded ruby
bridges walk the school day
and --
>> whereas at the request of
martin elementary school of
the south san francisco
unified school district, the
san mateo county board of
education and superintendent
of schools adopted a
resolution number 1852 on
OCTOBER 17, 2018 creating
ruby
bridges walk to school day in
san mateo county to be
honored
annually on NOVEMBER 14.
>> now therefore be it resolve
d that the city council, the
city of south san francisco
do
hereby proclaim NOVEMBER 14,
2025 as ruby bridges walk to
school day in south san
francisco and commend all
students, families and
educators for participating
in
this significant day to honor
the civil rights activist.
[Applause].
>> let's give them a warm
round of applause, good job,
you all did great.
If I could have all the
students come back, we're
going to take a a picture,
we're going to take a full
photo, all the students from
martin, please come up, and I
would like my council to join
us in the platform many the
back so we could take a full
picture, please.
[Applause].
(Taking photograph).
[Applause].
>> thank you, all.
Great job.
Next item, please.
Er
>> item number 3 is a
proclamation recognizing
NOVEMBER as lung cancer
awareness month.
>> thank you, and I have
asked
my colleague, councilmember
flor nicolas to present this
proclamation tonight.
>> thank you, mayor, every
NOVEMBER, we observe lung
cancer awareness month.
Lung cancer is currently
considered the deadliest
cancer in the united states
and in the world, two of my
closest friends have come to
lung cancer so I deeply
appreciate this proclamation
and the work being done with
the american lung cancer
screening initiative.
A team of over 200 doctors
and
students working to raise
awareness for lung cancer and
lung cancer screening.
Professionally, I am very
familiar with the plight
lung
cancer therapies, it is a
small cell lung cancer is for
small cell lung cancer
harboring ep deer mall growth
factor receptor and 2, exom20
eaton, thus far or product
is
still in clinical trials and
has demonstrated superior
anti-proliferation and
anti-tumor effects in vitro
and in vvo, early diagnosis
improves survival rates.
Anyone with lungs can get
lung
cancer, regardless of your
age, gender or smoking
history.
Both of the friends I lost
were smokers.
For high risk individuals,
you
could be a eligible to a low
dose tomography screening and
I'm proud to present on
behalf
of the bier city council the
proclamation recognizing
NOVEMBER as lung cancer
awareness month, the
[Inaudible] Hannah, she is an
education and pub licity
chair
of the screening initiative
of
the uc berkeley chapter and
is a fourth year student in
pharmacology, MAY I call
benjamin and hannah to the
podium, please.
er
>> let's welcome them
tonight.
[Applause].
>> hello, my name is hannah.
>> I'm benjamin.
We
>> we ae the members of the
lung cancer screening, it's
national non-profit that's
composed of student and is
physicians to raise awareness
on lng cancer and lung
cancer
screening.
Er
>> we would like to thank
the
south san francisco council
for recognizing lung cancer
awareness month this NOVEMBER
2025.
It's an honor to be here
today.
>> lung cancer is now the
leading cause of cancer
related deaths worldwide,
tiets second most common
cancer in the U.S. With an
estimate of over 230 thousand
diagnoses in over 127
thousand
deaths this year alone, and
prostate and colon cancers
combined, lung cancer has
become the lung cancer in the
U.S.
>> however it doesn't have to
be, early screening can catch
lung cancer early and
survival
rate ares higher.
The national screening rate
is
as low as 18% and only 16% of
high risk californians are
being screened.
We strongly encourage all
individuals aged 50-80 with a
smoking history to ask their
doctor about lung cancer
screening.
It is also important the
spread the word to anyone who
MAY benefit from screening.
>> by advocating together, we
can remove the stig ma
surrounding it by
disseminating together
websinger can increase
screening rate and is
decrease
mortality, together we can
help save lives.
Thank you.
Er
>> thank you to both of you,
we appreciate it.
[Applause].
Thank you for your advocacy
and go bears.
Alright.
Next item, please.
>> item number 4, state of
the
city preview.
>> so, this is a special
night
for many multiple reasons and
this also speaks to the heart
of why it's so important to
be
able to have our scholars,
our
young generation here, but
we're also testing something
different here which we're
looking into moving forward
next year and that's
simultaneous interpretation,
language interpretation, we
have a few members of our
spanish speaking monolingual
community here that are going
the hear this state of the
city in spanish, so I will
try
to be slow for the
interpreters, I have learned
that lesson working with you
all, but I really want to
welcome you all this evening
for this section of tonight's
meeting and that's to honor
and to really stand before
you
and showcase what south san
francisco truly is.
What we have become and
reflect on this wonderful
state of our great city and
reminisce and be able to
share
with each one of you our
progress, our challenges and
most importantly, our people,
our community and our staff,
so we gather today, tonight
as
south city which is really a
diverse community and culture
in experiences but united in
purpose.
The theme of this year's
state
of the city address is
simple,
it's unity, it's resilience
and innovation because our
strength as city has always
been and has been found in
our
people but before I move on
in
this presentation, let me
tell
you a little bit about what
you can expect.
We will showcase some of the
different departments and
initiatives and program wes
ear proud to have been
working
on and achieve great
milestones throughout the
course of this year.
This is a very important
piece
of our city to be able to
report back to the community
and showcase the state of our
wonderful city.
That being said, let's mover
on to one of the first
topics,
everyone say you it with me,
it's adelante.
And that's really means
moving
forward, we're moving
forward,
and that will be the theme
for
tonight, we're united in our
diversity, over the past
year,
south san francisco has
faceted challenges but we've
responded with creativity and
with compassion.
We've built new partnerships,
we've strengthened our
neighborhoods and continued
to
invest in the wellbeing of
every single resident.
Every resident.
Together we're building a
city
where innovation really meets
also community, where
opportunity is accessible to
all and every single one.
Where every voice has a pace
in our community and it's
helping to shape our future.
As the city's first
salvadorian immigrant mayor,
it hs been my duty and my
honor to stand shoulder to
shoulder with you in
navigating these very
interesting times to say the
least but also helping to
preserve everything and
anything that makes suth
city
the place we're all proud to
call home.
this past year, we've
reaffirmed what makes south
city special, our diversity
and our ability to come
together for one another.
Through our promotores
program, we've reached more
than 120 residents with
multilingual assistance,
connecting neighbors to
housing, to resources, to
health care and to legal
resources in english, in
spanish, in ta gal low, in
mand r
in rin, in cantonese,
and through partnerships like
cora and the ymca community
resource center, we've
supported family with rental
assistance, with domestic
violence prevention, with
[Inaudible].
We hosted story times and
film
showings.
(Audio choppy and unclear).
While we expanded child care
programs that have created
120
new after shool spaces at no
cost to families, through our
expanded learning
opportunities program in
partnership with our school
district.
Also in partnership talking
about our school district,
this year we also helped
distribute bicycles, that's
right, 200 of our students
through our award winning
program every kid deserves a
bike.
Since it first started in
2022, we've equipped over
1400
students from low income
families with a free bicycle,
free helmet, free safety gear
and training in how to do and
how to ride a bike.
Imagine the life skill when
we
ear teaching someone how to
ride a bike for the rest of
their lives.
At the other aiming of the
spectrum t city has adopted
its first age-friendly action
plan, a road map to outlining
clear goals tos increase
livability for older adults,
across nine key areas, and
the
council was able to receiver
a
full report of that plan
which
includes house, includes
transportation, social
participation and what really
means a lot to our community.
Our seniors have enjoyed and
expanded services with
extended hours at our teglia
senior center, new programs
at
the bulos community center up
in westborough, we have
continued to demand and
continued to grow and
continue
to take feedback and ideas to
increase programming,
including our congregate
nutrition program, imagine
that, there's seniors that
every week that depend on
that.
We've served over 8 thousand
meals this year, together
these efforts really reflect
that here in south san
francisco, we're a city where
cultures are important, we're
also a city where we come
together to create something
uniquely, inclusive and
connected community goals and
whatnot.
Our parks and rec also and
our
libraries continue to be here
in south city and they
continue to connect our
community.
At the library and parks ad
rec center where we're all
at,
the city's largest community
hub bringing two departments
under one roof, we've seen
just how much our residents
value these shared spaces.
This past year alone, we've
welcomed more than 277
thousand folks, visitors from
65 thousand unique visitors,
there's people that actually
come here and study and say I
want to go work out of your
library, your center.
Our library continues to be a
corner stone of learning, of
creativity and connection
with
more than 2 thousand programs
reaching 51 thousand
attendees.
These programs include our
stem workshops, our many
which
are sponsored by some of our
community leaders and biotech
leaders here in oyster point,
comic art festivals very well
known as well as story times.
Our learning program has more
than ten thousand books
placed
right here in the hands of
young readers helping kids
build a lifelong love for
reading but here's the
exciting part.
Our library just alone this
year has secured more than
500
thousand dollars in grants
and
donations bringing new
creative opportunities and
programming for our youth and
our teens to continue to
succeed.
And our stress continues in
community spaces with the
parks and recreation
department, our commitment to
creating vibrant public
spaces.
Construction is well under
way
for the orange memorial park
aquatic center which we will
be doing a grand.Ribbon
cutting nester year.
The design has moved forward,
also on our westborough fre
school, the park at linden
and
pine, the dundee park ren
nation websinger ear also
designing centennial way park
north to start to address the
park deficit around our
communities including in
sunshine gardens neighborhood
and we've added new
pickleball
court tos orange memorial
park
so lots to get excited about
when it come tos outdoor
activity.
As part of our all all the
churl arts program, we're
expanding south city's public
art collection integrating
art
installation into new park
and
is facilities so creativity
and community pride are woven
into every day of our spaces.
Our parks continue to be more
than just buildings or
spaces,
they continue to be an
investment here in south san
francisco.
The orange memorial park
sports field which I hear so
many families participating
in
and so many families coming
and practice and joining
their
soccer clubs and leagues.
A quarter of a million
visitors just this past year
alone.
The new centennial way park
south saw 50 thousand
visitors
in the recently open phase
two
of oyster point shore line
park has seen one00 thousand
new visitors and of course we
celebrated I community this
past SEPTEMBER in concert in
the park where nearly 7
thousand people came together
to enjoy grammy award winning
band, community performance,
vendor and is family
activities.
This is what we're about in
our parks and recreation
department but you know we're
also thinking for the future
and those times that perhaps
might not be so strong, when
it comes to public safety,
both our fire and our police
departments continue the
really set the standard of
service, of safety and
innovation throughout our
city.
This year, the team completed
a 2 million dollar upgrade to
the fire training tower
replacing aging systems
adding
critical safety features and
installing a new technical
and
realistic saving life
training, our emergency
operation center received a
350 thousand dollar upgrade
to
its audio-visual to support
enhancing, so whenever a
disaster strikes, we're ready
to address it.
They've also placed into
service a new 34 foot fire
boat which we were able to
christen earlier this year
delivering more than 200
gallons of water per minute
and transporting personnel
and
supplies throughout the bay
during regional disasters.
Knock on wood, should a plane
ever go down around this
area,
guess who would respond first?
Our fire department, our
team,
our crews and this fire boat
is essential to making sure
that lives get saved.
Another major step forward,
the department launched its
drone program with three
certified operators now
providing real-time support
during emergency tos be able
to identify and analyze the
extent of a fire.
All together our firefighters
have responded to more than
8400 emergency incidents,
while our three ambulances
have transported more than 5
thousand patients to care.
Our crews have also answered
the call to assist major,
major wild fires throughout
the stit and I'm so humbled
and so proud when I get tose
e-mails saying that our crew
has been launched to assist
our neighbors in the north,
in
the south of the state
throughout the wild fairs
that
have spread throughout
california since the
beginning
of JANUARY icluding the
palisades fire in la county
earlier this year.
Looking ahead, our new fire
engines are under new
construction and our new fire
station is also moving
forward
here in south san francisco.
The department is
implementing
new records, being more
efficient and bing really
with an eye on promoting
equipment that will be ready
for the challenges of tomorrow
we're also proud of our
police
department, it leads with
compassion and innovation and
compassion, when I see them
out in the it is with
community partnership.
This year alone and I'm going
the repeat it so people can
hear it because sometimes
it's
startling to understand that
concept, but this year, crime
in south san francisco has
dropped significantly across
the board in every single
category.
Crimes against persons,
individuals or persons are
down 27%, property crimes are
down 31%, crimes against
society, individuals and
groups are down nearly 30%,
compared to last year.
In addition to our improved
technology and our suck says
flock cameras or our license
plate read etcherfinger we
have now really reached
strong
collaboration between our
officer and I the community
they serve.
We have more officers that
have grown up here in the
community that have attended
our local high schools and
middle schools and that's not
by just coincidence, the
department continue tos
embrace new technology ad
modern approach ts public
safety and this is what
really
mat and he iser we mover
forward.
I'm most excited too it's
become a practice in our
police department, we now the
city has hired a full time
mental health clinician to
support officer and is go out
there in many of the calls
for
behavioral related calls,
ensuring that residents when
-
they are in cisis, they have
someone that can receive
appropriate attention and
could listen to them and
dialogue with them with
compassionate care.
This includes and gives our
residents direct acess to be
able to have the opportunity
to get the resources that
they
need as well.
Finally the department has
welcomed 15 new officers and
six new professional staff
members so already looking
ahead to new recruitment
efforts early in 2026, our
police and fire department
will soon co-host a well
expanding the blue and red,
it's going to be a
recruitment
event encouraging more women
as well and people of color
to
join our public safety
careers
here in south san francisco.
We're invest ining our
infrastructure, we realize
the
city is growing and for that
effort, our pub luck works
and
our engineering teams
continue
to strengthen te foundation
of our city keeping south
city
safe, keeping south city
resilient and ready for the
city, we invested 5 million
through our pavement
management system, so you
have
seen them on your street and
is around time, improving
streets across the city,
making our daily commute
smoother for everyone, we
added two miles of bike lanes
across saoun per row
junipero
serra.
We up grated 220 led street
lights around grand avenue,
no
more is fwrand avenue going
to
be dark and scary, now grand
avenue and linden avenue as
you can see will be lit, will
be bright, will be welcoming.
We've built 80 new ada curb
ramps including a new
accessible path at cypress
and
pine park, we continue to
build on resilience against
climate change as well.
We understand that climate
change is real and we're
leading the way in resilience
and sustainability.
Our award winning water
quality control plant has
installed advanced sludge
dewatering technology,
savoring more than 100
thousand dollars annually in
hauling and chemical costs
and
we began to design a flood
wall project to protect the
plant from sea level rise
with
11.5 million dollars in
federal funding expected
through the U.S. Army corps
of
engineers websinger eve also
ko
frnted to expand our
electrical vehicle fleet,
reduce organic waste through
the free compost pilot
program
and we have engaged our
residents in sustainability
education through our san
francisco partnership with
our
ska
f jers.
What I'm most excited about
and many of our community
members is our south san
francisco free shuttle.
We have a free shuttle here
in
south city, it's helping lead
the charge in our
sustainability effort, what
began as a single route and I
want to give kudos to carol
matsumoto back in 2014 and
the
entire council at that time,
it really has grown now into
three full routes serving
every part of our city.
In the past year alone, the
shuttle carries more than 80
thousand passengers, that's
thousands of traipses that
might otherwise have been
made
by car so we're helping
reduce
traffic, cutting emissions
and
keeping our air cleaner.
The shuttles are free, folk,
you can welcome anyone,
they're ada accessible and
they're open to everyone with
the south city shuttle app,
you can check in and see when
the next ride is going to
happen, and we thank the san
mateo county transportation
authority who awarded us over
a million dollars to fund
this
continued extra lines and
operations of our free
shuttle
program.
South san francisco, we're
not
waiting for the future, many
of our colleagues and local
mayors, they always ask, how
did you guys do that shuttle,
it's te envy of folks around
town.
The last year alone, our
public works department has
also completed many of the
requests from the community
with an average response time
of two to three day and is
let
me tell you as you will see,
everything from repairing
pothole, yes websinger ear
repairing potholes and
clearing up the street lights
and cleaning up illegal
dumping, going out to the
street ins our neighborhoods
to try to combat and attack
any form of blight.
We're keeping our
neighborhoods safe, we're
working together to make sure
that our streets run smooth
and our amazing public works
team has done it through our
engage ssf app, you snap a
picture of a sofa or a
refrigerator that's been left
o
ut of a corner, I got an
e-mail from a resident u in
this area of town saying
there's a large tv screen and
then immediately within an
hour, she said, never mind,
it's gone, public works came
and picked it up.
And that's the ddication of
our staff, of our committed
who know it's important the
keep our city clean and
beautify it.
San francisco, we took action
to improve safety and access
to oyster point, with the
remao
ufrl of abandoned and
blighted vessel, old boat
that
is were left abandoned, this
progress follows the city
council's approval of a new
mooring odinance, I want to
give kudos the vice mayor
addiego, who provided t
staff
to really address the
derelict
boats in the city's navigable
waterways because previous
vessels could remain idle out
in the water for months on
out, and our guests and our
hotels were saying what's
going on there on the
waterfront so the city can
issue a notice and proceed
with remao
ufrl within ten
days of these vessels to be
able to remove them and this
ordinance represents a
critical step in moving
forward, thinking outside the
bock, not waiting for what
else is someone else going to
do but revitalizing south san
francisco's waterfront and
ensuring that our oyster
point
remains a a resource for all
to enjoy.
Toipt talk a little bit about
what's happening around town
in terms of our innovation,
our economic vitality.
Our economic vitality in our
area of business continues to
evolve blending our
historical
roots with cutting edge life
sciences and small business
innovation.
I want to congratulate and
thank the south san francisco
chamber of commerce for being
a support for our small
businesses and our local
businesses here, our economic
advancement center, if if you
haven't visitor on grand
avenue, make sure you take a
look and go visit, it has
supported more than 2
thousand
people with workforce
training, small business
development as well as
entrepreneurial support
delivered in partnership with
our local non-profits.
We developed a new program as
well, we didn't just want to
keep old storefronts or
vacant
properties, we created the
city's launch local program
which activates vacant
storefronts with pop-up
businesses, new businesses
while the proposed downtown
imprao
ufrment district
continues to evolve and we're
hopeful to continue to have
conversations on that.
And because of this great
program, south city will now
have its first bike shop,
mrao
ef it or not, a city
this
big and we don't have a bike
shop, well, folks, thankful
to
this council and staff's
support through our launch
local program, that will be
coming soon.
And we hosted a lunar new
year
night market drawing nearly a
thousand attendees from all
cities and neighboring cities
who took and came in right
here to south san francisco.
We're continuing to expand
our
efforts and as the birthplace
of biotech, south san
francisco remains a fwloebl
leader in science and in
innovation, many folks didn't
know what is happening on the
east of 101, so thank tos the
leadership of our city
manager
two years ago, we created a
speaker's series, what's
happening east of 101 where
folks like yourself and is
myself can go and visit and
hear what these amazing
cutting edge life science and
biotech companies are doing
to
find the next cure for cancer
as my colleague said earlier,
for lung cancer and other
illnesses and diseases too.
We're happy to partner with
new innovative companies that
have compose south san
francisco to come in.
Meanwhile also our small
businesses continue to be
supported and trive, along
grand avenue and spruce, we
continue to -- I can't tell
you how many ribbon cuttings
I
have attended this year
alone,
we welcome new restaurants,
coffee shop, wild fire bakery
for example at the carol
matsumoto plaza, where it's a
hub, people can get a bite to
eat, a cough tee if the
morning and a beer in the
afternoon.
Our small businesses continue
to thrive to feel supported
and choose south san
francisco
including brew kha which has
gone viral over social media
to come and go get your boba,
they could pick any city in
the peninsula, they choose to
come to south san francisco
for what's happening here in
our community and in our
neighborhoods and here you
are,.If you are wondering or
still wondering what is
happening in the intersection
of spruce and el camino real,
let me be the frst to remind
you or probably reshare the
news that we have a brand new
safeway currently under
construction on spruce and el
camino, they're making great
progress.
I'm sure some of you have
driven by, it's developed by
steel wave, this 68 thousand
square foot store will anchor
a new retail, new dining
center and it's -- hopefully
completed early next year
websinger ear looking forward
to more new innovation and
new
businesses coming to south
san
francisco.
But with businesses, with
retail, with having a xwraet
community, we also need to
address some of the
challenges, and some of the
challenges is housing, and
where is is housing leading?
We remain steadfast in our
mission to keep families
housed and to build new
opportunities for residents
at
all levels of income.
This year alone, the city
accepted 890 thousand dollars
from the state's prohousing
in.Sent tif program to
support
affordable housing
initiatives.
We've also increased
financial
support to developments, new
developments that are coming
like rotary gardens on linden
avenue, the bridging at the
puc site on mission road
totaling nearly 6.3 million
in
city funding alone.
We've made progress on other
developments on linden avenue
including an approved
affordable housing project by
san mateo county and advanced
planning for 500 rail rode
avenue which will bring home
ownership, not just rented or
leased, home ownership
opportunities to lindenville
air a ya here in south san
francisco.
Through ymca, our social
services core agency here in
the county, we've provided
rental assistance and
community partnerships, we've
helped 37 above households
representing 81 individuals
stay in their homes
preventing
displacement which we know
can
can lead to homelessness and
you will hear more about that
later tonight.
But we're not stopping there,
we're continuing to identify
and continue to support
affordable homeowner projects
that will help families plant
root and is thrive here in
south city.
We're connected on our
planning division to ensure
we're thoughtful in the
sustainable growth of south
city, we've streamlined
dwoment, review process and
our permitting standards and
updated our building codes as
well to align with state
standards as well.
And we're kicking off the el
camino real mobility plan
which we will reimagine what
el camino real will look like
in our city's most important
corridor up and down, making
it safer, make it walkable
and
transit while in terms of
transit as well so we could
reflect on what really is
happening in our vision
continues, you could still
weigh in on what the comments
and provide feedback on this
great plan so I encourage you
to scan that qr and be able
to
participate in that projts.
Invest ining our parks and in
our spaces is important,
construction is underway like
I mentioned ined our new park
on linden avenue and pine
avenue or soon to be underway
websinger ear moving forward
on upgrades to dundee park
and
the new westborough preschool
thanks again for the strong
advocacy of my colleague,
councilmember mark nagales.
But most of you have already
seen it around town, one of
our most anticipated projects
is the orange memorial park
aquatic center, it features
two new all electric swimming
pools, one indoor and one it
is the frst of its kind in
the peninsula and also we're
scheduled to open it next
year.
We continue to expand our
urban tree canopy program,
many cities have asked how do
you increase trees around,
well, many partnership with a
non-profit rise south city
websinger ear giving out free
tree tos paout fi our
neighborhoods, to strengthen
that while reducing our
carbon
emissions.
This is all part of our park
and rec master plan to
continue to make south san
francisco greener.
Our innovation and technology
and communication remains
strong here within the city.
If you probably have typed in
the city website or whatnot,
we're no longer ssf.Net, we
have merged and transferred
over to ssf.Ca.Gov so that
is a really exciting
opportunity to be able to
engage with our
constituencies
in our communities.
And we've expanded our fiber
optic cable project in
westborough to be able to
continue to provide it and
all
of this.
And all of this that we do,
we
continue as our city remains
strong and we continue to be
transparent about our
financial footing, thanks to
the helpful planing and
responsible stewardship of
our
public funds.
This year our finance
department as well, once
again, received national
recognition earning both the
distinguished budget
presentation award and the
award for excellence in
financial reporting from the
government finance officers
association.
We've implemented several --
the 2024 measure w, we've
modernized our business
license tax to ensure that
there's fairness, that
there's
long term stability and that
we continue to invest in
vital
community services.
Looking ahead, we're looking
forward to implementing new
programs and internal
platforms within the city to
be more efficient, to be more
conducive for efficiency in
our city processes, we're
building a stronger future.
This is where I want to end
with this state of the city,
across every single
department, our city is
defined by collaboration, by
innovation and a shared
commitment to progress.
We've secured millions of
dollars in grants, we
continue
to write these grants,s we've
strengthened our ina
structure, we've invested
that
connect family and is
opportunity.
We've listen today the call
and the request of our
community and our residents.
Our parent and is our youth,
when they say we want an
outdoor festival and
activity,
we want more program, we've
implemented technologies that
make the city feel safer and
faster and more transparent
but above all, this is not
just me saying we did it,
this
is not just the city council,
we've done it all together as
a community, as a community
that listens, that adapts,
that leads and does it with
purpose and with heart.
As we look into the future,
we'll continue to prioritize
what matters most and that's
the wellbeing of our people,
the safety of our community,
the sustainability of our
neighborhoods and the unity
that makes south city unlike
anywhere else.
This year alone, we've headed
and we've raised some
challenges but we've also
braised and encountered a lot
of opportunity.
We'll continue working to
ensure that every single
resident, that you feel seen,
that yu feel heard and that
you feel also supported.
That every neighborhood that
safe street and is accessible
transit, that every youth and
child has a place to play and
learn and that every family
can afford to call south city
home.
It's by unity, mitoses by
resilience, it's by
innovation, these aren't just
words on a paper or things I
like to say on a a mic.,
they're the fundation of who
we are and why we are in this
business of public service.
From our front line workers
to
our entrepreneurs, from our
teachers to our seniors, from
our volunteers to our youth,
from our immigrants, south
san
francisco thrives because of
you.
We have pover time and time
again there is no challenge
that is too great when we
face
it tolgt, whether it's
responding to to emergency,
being adaptable and molded
fied, reimagining our
streets,
building homes or expanding
opportunity, our strength is
and will always be working
together in collaboration and
in unity, bringing tgether
ideas that move us forward,
not complaints, not ideas
that
set us back but as we move
forward, we mover forward
with
resilience.
And as we do enter this next
chapter in south city's
story,
let's hold fast to what
defines us, again, it's our
unity, folk, it's our
resilience, many people
throughout the peninsula,
when
we go to conferences say, but
there's something about south
city televising's a
uniqueness, besides bag city
that's truly blessed time and
time again, I will tell you
we
have a a commitment to each
other.
I want t end by thanking our
powerful, amazing staff, by
thanking also the four
individuals that stand behind
me, our city council, who I
could unequivocally say have
passion, have love and have
purpose for this community.
Our community partners who
have stood with us when we've
reached out and at every
resident, I speak to you
tonight, young and old, new
that just came in maybe a
week
ago or those who have lived
here over 60 or 70 years, you
are what makes south san
francisco shine every single
day, south san francisco will
continue to grow, not just as
a city of industry or as the
industrial city, but a city
of
innovation, a city with
compassion, as a city with
connection, as a city with
possibility, and most of all
remember this word, as a city
of kindness, kindness.
Reimagine the word kind and
what that means to each other
and to your neighbor.
Folks, it has been the
greatest honor to be able to
lead this council and be able
to lead this city as an
immigrant and the majority o
this council, also
immigrants,
we're very proud to stand
with
our immigrant community.
A city built by immigrants a
city that continues to run by
immigrant and is we're
appreciative of the
resilience
that brings, it's my honor to
serve as your mayor and to
share this t state of the
city
with you tonight, the state
of
south san francisco is
strong,
thank you, thank you, south
san francisco and let's keep
moving forward.
Gracias.
[Applause].
And with that to reposition
our chambers, we're going to
take a five minute recess,
MADAM City clerk, we'll
reconvene in five minutes.
Thank you.
(Meeting in recess).
>> thank you, all, we will
resume back from recess.
Next agenda item, please.
>> we'll move along to
council
comments and requests.
>> great, thank you, who
would
like to start us off tonight
from my colleagues here?
>> aisle go.
>> thank you, vice mayor.
>> MR. Mayor, I wanted to
report out, one event that I
attended last month, it was
the 100th anniversary
luncheon
celebration for the icf which
an acronym is the italian
catholic federation which ws
a very big deal in south san
francisco many the 30's and
40's and it did begin had
this
town in 1925, I think it
started in san francisco in
1924, branch one, in south
san
francisco it's branch number
.So it was pretty early in
the
creation of those fraternal
organizations and just as we
-- see what is happening to
immigrants and not always
being welcomed in other
communities, it was the same
for people back in the 20's
and the 30's, so they banded
together to be able to take
good care of their respective
communities.
It's a much older club now.
I think I am one of the
younger members of the club,
I
was just with them for dinner
tonight at the santo christo
hall, I think the membership
is down to 30 like so many
s
frs organizations in any
community, yet that the
luncheon, there was over 125
people to celebrate and they
came from many other
communities and some were
multiple generations of
italian catholic federation
members.
The real sad part of the
story
is not that they're down to
30
members because they still
enjoy each other's company
like they were tonight at the
scepter crystal hall which
was
recently made available to
them because for 100 years,
the icf was at all souls
catholic church and in recent
time, two successive priests
have decided they don't have
room for them anymore and
these are people that for
decades did the work on
behalf
of the church, raised money
at
the festival, scholarships
for
the young people in their
schools and today there is no
room for those 30 older
people
in the catholic church.
I've been a catholic all my
life, it's not the first time
I've been disappointed in the
catholic church but this time
I'm a little angry.
I had a brief qu
ftion the
chief of police, every day we
get a watch report of what's
occurring in south san
francisco, these are
confidential reports because
they include name and is
addresses that can't be in
the
public, but recently there
was
an event -- an incident that
started off in grand avenue
but I will let the chief tell
the story because it is a
marvelous example of how our
technology is changing the
police work in south san
francisco.
>> good evening,
councilmembers, scott
campbell, chief of police.
Let me -- I a am proud of our
community, I'm proud of our
department and I'm proud of
all of you for supporting
modern 21st century policing
as it relates to technology.
Over the weekend, our
officers
received a report of a hit
and
run involving a vehicle and
sort shortly after that, a
hit
and run involve ago
pedestrian, our newly
launched, our drone got there
within 30 seconds, was able
to
identify the vehicle
responsible, our officers
were
able to follow and track that
to where the suspect vehicle
was located, we deployed a
star chase tracking device on
the vehicle which whe were
were able to track that
vehicle via computer instead
of getting into a high speed
purrsuit and creating damning
tore our community.
They were able to follow that
vehicle to home depot in
colma
where they were boxed the
vehicle in a and safely took
the suspect in custody.
He was a parole at large.
It was a win, win for south
city and a win, win for our
police department.
Ffrjt the chief could change
that into a script, he could
sell it to any number of
police programs.
>> thank you, vice mayor,
thank you, chief.
Who would like to go next?
Councilmember coleman?
>> sure, I'll go next.
So, I'll start with today and
then I'll go backwards in
time.
So, I had the opportunity to
tour our south san francisco
bart station with the mayor
and I saw her in the
audience,
bart director victor flores,
no relation, but how do I
say,
we don't have a bart board
representative in san mateo
county and e
f we should and
maybe we can work towards
that.
For the meantime, our bart
director is adopt thing south
san francisco station and we
had an opportunity to tour
the
station and think about ways
way
f we can improve the
area
there, better cleanliness,
better vegetation and so on,
better service and so on.
After that, I drove all the
way down to redwood city to
see the swearing in of our
new
san mateo county sheriff, ken
binder, we got a new sheriff
in town as they say, and
hopefully this is closing a
chapter of our sheriff's
department and starting a new
chapter, one of
accountability
and public safety and success
and I wish the san mateo
county sheriff's department a
lot of success in the future.
now going back in time, I was
able to attend last waoeblg
the boys and girls club
groundbreaking, as you all
MAY
know w ve a clubhouse on --
right beside orange memorial
park.
They will be doing a complete
rebuild, almost a a complete
rebuild, tublbacker doubling
the amount of space from 20
thousand to 40 thousand
square
feet, accommodating almost
twice the amount of students
including high school student
programming for the first
time.
We're excited about that and
lastly I wanted to give a a
big shout out to our city
staff who were able to in the
midst of the government
shutdown get together a
program to purchase hundreds
of gift cards to give to
those
who MAY not have received
their snap benefits in time.
And what I learned throughout
this process is there were
other councilmembers from
other cities who reached out
to me and asked how we did
this because their city staff
were very, very reluctant to
act quickly and I compare the
reactions of staff from other
cities to the reaction of
staff here and how fast they
worked and how they made it
possible and also the
enthusiasm they had to help
the community in south city
especially those who needed
the help the most and I want
to give a big round of
applause the our cty staff
for making that half.
[Applause].
And I would be remiss to not
also give a big shout out to
ymca, the community resource
center who also was able to
support and collaborate with
our city in making it
possible, thank you.
>> thank you, councilmember,
councilmember nicolas?Frjts
thank you, mayor.
I would just like to say
thank
you to our fire marshal ian
hardage and the entire fire
department for treating our
fire prevention poster
winners
and their family tos a lunch
from antying wah last OCTOBER
23rd, all winners received
individual custom plaques
that
made them all feel special.
Thank you to sharon, marie,
rich and ernesto for the
assistance on the council of
cities held at the fair winds
at kilroy phase 2,ern who
attended seemed to have a
great evening.
I am grateful to stacey for
the filipino american history
month act t
it, the
documentary fill k sloping of
the fire flies was well
received by te community,
councilmember nagales was
there for the 11 A.M.
Screening and shared our
pride.
Shout out to the new
graduates
of our citizens academy.
Kau dose to devon ten house
and to all of our
departments,
I hear great things from all
of the graduates whenever i
meet them and their
willingness to remain engaged.
Another great senior holiday
fair is in the bookers,
congratulations to our parks
and rec who worked hard but
with great review, it was
well
worth your efforts.
Like councilmember coleman,
we
attended the boy and is girls
club by the orange memorial
park groundbreaking and it
was
really a wonderful event.
We look forward to the ribbon
cuting and the new buildings
that will serve our young
residents here.
Con garage laix --
congratulations tos the south
san francisco camber of
commerce x the winners of the
taste of south san francisco,
as usual, we saw the ester in
what our city has to offer
and
thank you to all who
participated.
Congratulations tos the dream
team and the educated guesses
headed by councilmember
nagales and mayor flores who
made it to the second round o
the read tr
ifr ya contest,
it
was a fun event with proceeds
going to a worthy cause.
Earlier today, I joined our
dedicated parks and rec team
which included laura, angela,
casey at the age-friendly
workshop in brisbane, casey
gave a gret presentation of
our adult daycare,
age-friendly task member
lydia
and parks and rec
commissioner
bill was there to support.
And I would like te request
our meeting today to be
adjourned in [Ph-epl/]Memory
of the following, we have
lost
so many, first is theresa
anne, mother of our parks
supervisor, theresa was a
longtime south san francisco
mall tease american social
club member and a san bruno
neighbor, but a a resident of
our brentwood neighborhood
here in south city, she was
the beloved wife of joseph,
her husband of 51 years, they
had another son named brian,
she was also the grandmother
to blake and skyler.
Second was richardo carlos, a
a longtime south city
resident
in westborough area.
Lunila, she hd live ined the
same area up in north spruce
for around 50 years,
polycarpia who died at 102,
she used to be a resident of
the westborough real for some
time and he
f she used to be
the official caterer in the
philippines.
Alfred who lost his long
battle of cancer at 54.
MAY all their souls rest in
peace.
Thank you.
>> indeed, thank you,
councilmember, for providing
that list, we'll make sure to
send our condolences to those
families.
Councilmember nagales?
>> let me first start off
with
some thanks.
I want to thank public works,
there's a stretch of king
drive that's shared by south
san francisco and daly city
and there's been trash that
has been piling up on kind of
the -- under the overpass and
that's kind of on the daly
city side.
But it's encroaching to the
westborough side of my
district and I got tired of
seeing it and I want to thank
public wrks, they have gone
out tere numerous time tos
clean up the trash even
though
it's not in our district, in
our city, but they've gone
out
there and cleaned it and I
want to say thank you for
doing that, it has made a
difference n the community
there and I know our staff
has
reached out to the daly city
staff to ensure they keep an
eye on that area, so thank
you
to public works, thank you to
assistant city manager and
city manager for making
sthaour that daly city does
its job in terms of cleaning
up the streets.
I want today give a shout
out,
we all went to what's called
-
the counts of cities event
and
we just recently hosted that
event and basically it's
where
city councilmembers, staff
come and visit different
cities I san mateo county
and
learn what's happening and I
want to give a shout-out to
staff, ernesto and rich, who
else was presenting, and
-
sharon, I was sitting with
several councilmembers around
me and they were basically
kind of giving an update of
what's happening in south san
francisco and all I could
hear
from te councilmembers was
wow, wow, south city's doing
it right, wow.
I wish we can do tat.
And that is a testament I
think to all of us here and
also the staff of the amazing
work that we're doing here in
south san francisco because
when other councilmembers are
jealous of the work we're
doing, that speaks volumes to
the work that we're doing
here
in south city, so I wanted to
also congratulate the mayor
for hosting that great event
because afterwards, people
were just like, how can we do
that, you know, so way to go,
staff.
Citizens academy also enjoyed
it.
Residents learn more about
the
city and how they can get
involved and it's just
another
step for people to learn
about
the different departments
from
the police to public works to
city council, in a lot of
ways, a lot of those
individuals who graduate from
the sins -- citizens academy
end up applying tog various
commissions because they want
to continue to be involve
ined
the city and encourage those
who graduated to keep looking
for opportunity tos volunteer
within the city.
As councilmember nicolas
said,
I attended the song of the
fire flies which was an
amazing movie that was played
during filipino history month
which was about a true story
of this choir group in the
philippines that's become
world famous and it was like
an origin story, soy learned
a
lot in terms of my country
and
this amazing group of singers.
Went to the taste of south
san
francisco, always a great
event, thank you t the
chamber of commerce for
putting together another
successful event, the boys
and
girls club.
If you haven't seen the
design
of what it's going to look
like, it is night ad dy
compare today what we have
right now and I'm telling
you,
it's going to be an envy for
people that are going to want
to flock to the new boy and
is
girls club when it opens.
I forget who I was talking
to,
they were saying when they
opened the east palo alto
site, they were able t get
will I am, the celebrity from
black eyed peas so I
challenge
them now, now you have to
bring someone when we open in
27, so, I'm going the keep
them to that, and then again
to the project read trivia, I
was joined by our youth
commissioner sonia and our
own
director of capital project,
jacob gilcrhist, I was on the
team call ted deam team, the
goal is always get past the
first round.
We're not going to talk tabt
second round because that
doesn't really count, it
taoes
first round that really
matters, when you make it
past
the first round, if we can
show the scores, I don't want
to embarrass the mayor on
that
one, no, I want to thank the
mayor's team, the educated
guessers, that's great, I
also
want to thank the sherlock
homies which is the police
officers that participated
and
scott, you should be proud,
your redwood public lw also
made it past the first round
so this city know thousands
have a lot of fun and we
raised for an important cause.
Lastly, as a south city
graduate, I had to go to the
bell game, as my colleagues
in
el camino graduate,
congratulations to all the
players out there, it's great
watching those kids play, and
I'm probably excluding all my
el camino residents now, but
south city did win both the
jv
and the varsity games.
>> thanks, but educated
guessers did really well.
In any case, I also wanted o
start off by thanking our
city
staff.
Many times we come here to
this event, sorry, to this
venue, we automatically see
it
arranged for a certain
ceremony or a private event
or
whatnot on the two event
spaces right behind us but it
takes a lot of work,
especially our park and rec
and our library staff in all
the spaces that we hold for
community events, turning
them
around, getting them set up,
many times I'm walking in or
walking out, I see tem
cleaning, putting chairs out,
again, pushing out for a new
event.
I want to acknowledge many of
these events, many of them
happening here, it's because
of the great job of our
staff,
we're proud and honored and
even in council meeting
nights, they stay until 11 or
midnight and walk us out and
make sure we're ushered out
as
well, so also thank you for
all of that.
You know, it's exciting, I
shared a little bit earlier
of
what's happening and you can
hear it, I don't have to even
share it myself because it's
been resonating from my
colleagues here.
I don't like to use the word
envy, I like to use the word
of being in partnership with
our colleagues throughout the
city but I do want to call
out
the initiative that council
helped mover forward to
support our communities that
are affected by the federal
shutdown and the snap delay
and
snap benefits, it not only
did it motivate ere elected
and I did get calls from
other
statewide elected of how did
south city do I and how
could
we replicate or partner on
that, but what most touched
me
was that I got e-mails from
many of you, the residents,
saying how can I help.
How can I volunteer.
Where can I donate.
I want to roll up my sleeves,
how can I start afood bank,
where can I help, and that
really spoke to what I just
mentioned, it's the unity,
it's not saying, hey, how can
I get a free thing, it was
hey, I have experience as a
social worker, can I
volunteer
at the yca and help them
distribute something, so it
was a call that we didn't
even
put the call to action but
the
community responded in so
many
beautiful ways and I do want
to thank staff under the
leadership of course of our
city manager and her city
manager team but to nell
selander for being creative.
As I walked through the
avulses at city haul, she
said
this is what we're passionate
about and that's how every
single member of this staff,
our employ
f employee, they
care about our community,
kudos to you, putting events
on like project trivia night,
project read to be able to
support.
Over 300 attendees on friday
night supporting the efforts
of our library efforts that
we
move forward.
City of brisbane, city of
colma, city of san bruno
moving forward, the taste of
south city also, we had
several other mayor, san
bruno, burlingame came over
to
taste of south city and I
said, this is great, maybe we
can hold it at some point in
time in burbling game, he
looks to me and says, no, you
keep it here and I will keep
coming.
Mayor of burlingame, great
friend and colleague, so a
lot
of actinviter, a lot of
shared
partnership with all of this
that continues to happen.
And I don't want to talk a
little bit more, I think many
of my colleagues touched op
the events that I al joined
them and I want to be
sensitive to timing but
grateful to the invitations
and those events that
happened.
Lastly I want to take a
moment
of course of privilege and
honor because this is also
about our community and I
love
the history of south city and
how it played important in
the
different aspects and that's
to our veterans.
Yesterday we celebrated
veterans day, you know, a day
that reminds us of the
extraordinary courage, of the
extraordinary scrifice and
the love for our country
shown
by men and women in who
have
served in our armed forces
throughout, mny are in our
own public safety team ins
our
city, many are probably
within
your own family, many are
neighbors, many our uncles,
many are grandparents or
parents and I know I wouldn't
be sitting in this chair
today
and none of us would be
enjoying the freedoms we do
without the efforts of those
who stood up to protect them
and we owe or veterans not
just our grat taout and not
just taking a a day off for a
holiday but really our
continued commitment the
remembering their service.
With this federal shutdown as
you know, we have a national
cemetery here in san bruno,
the mayor of san bruno put
something together to
celebrate because of the
federal shutdown, the
cemetery
and the ceremony that happens
every year was not able to
happen, however, he was
resilient and a group of
veterans came together and
celebrated at his local
community center there
yesterday, so I want to
recognize and applaud to
every
veteran, past and present, we
thank you, we honor you and
we
will never forget your
service, and with that, let's
move on to the next item,
MADAM City clerk?
>> thank you, mayor, we'll
mover along the public
comments.
At this time, we have a total
of 16 signed up to speak for
general public comments.
>> okay, we're going the move
it to two minutes, pease.
We have to get to the agenda.
Before we proceed with public
comments, I want to state
that
the cty akcknowledges that
members of the public have
the
right to be heard but the
city
also wants to emphasize
clearly and sharply that we
have a zero tolerance policy
for discriminatory and for
harassing conduct.
The city denounces any hate
speech that MAY be vocalized
during public comments and
speakers making public
comments are not-I repeat,
are not express thing views
of
the city council or of the
city.
Let's proceed.
>> thank you, mayor, I do
also
want to note there was one
e-comment submitted for
public
comments which has been made
available to you gies.
We'll proceed with eric
coleto.
>> and then following eric,
we'll have tom trier.
>> good evening, city
council,
city staff, my name is eric,
a
a journeyman carpenter out of
local 217, I do wood framing,
concrete form work, finish
work and many other facets of
the construction and building
process.
I've been part of te
community, worked locally and
contributed to the local
economy for about 8 years now.
And im here tonight to touch
base on the cwa that san
mateo
county recently adopted which
does not cover me nor my
craft.
How is it that language like
the cwa can be considered a
good thing for the city when
thousands of union workers
and
their families are not
represented.
I urge this panel of leaders
to consider the cooperate
tor's prequalification
language that covers
carpenter
crafts bt all contractors,
it
is a flexible tool that
provides opportunities for
all
contractors bidding for work
in the city.
It keeps them responsible and
accountable to our area
standards and keeps many
local
workers busy close to home.
The carpenters
prequalification language
will
raoe yait more job
opportunities for all to
benefit from.
I'm grateful for tis
opportunity to come to you
tonight, to help raise
awareness of the potential
benefits this
prequalification
language can bring to working
class in the city.
Please consider the
carpenters
prequalification language.
Thank you.
>> thank you.
>> hello, councilmembers,
staff, thank you for allowing
me to speak to you tonight.
I would also like to point
tout lovely building we're
speaking in was build by the
proud members of sheet metal
workers of local 104 that I
myself am a proud member of.
Sheet metal workers local 104
was started in 1903 in san
francisco however we proudly
call south san francisco our
home in the former historic
and world famous cotelli
speed
shop.
I was speak at the college
of
san mateo to a group of 30
young people who was
interested in getting into
all
kinds of different trades.
Those students were really
excited to know about the
opportunities these project
labor agreements could offer.
As much as I would like to
see
apprentices come in and give
the same opportunities I had
in the trades, it's important
to take boo sbao
account
safety websinger mentioned
the
safeway, I have to be honest,
I have to file several osha
klaentbacker -- complaints
on
that job.
When I saw members working on
that job site, unsafely
hanging off a second story
build witching no safety tie
off ins the rain and no
railings.
Project labor agreements have
31% less recorded safety
incidences to the jobs
without
project labor agreements.
I want to see them getting
home with their families as
well.
Please consider a project
labor agreement a as a great
avenue to bring apprentices
into these trades to GOD,
healthy middle class jobs
allowed them to live and work
in the communities that they
want to.
>> thank you for your time.
>> thank you, next speakers
are marcus al rar -- alvarez
and cynthia markopoulos.
>> my name is marcus alvarez,
the organizer with the
elevator constructor's union,
I'm here today to share why
project labor agreements is
one of the smartest,
responsible steps south san
francisco can take.
This act as a job site
constitution that sets clear
expectations and safety
wages,
schedules and dispute
resolutions before boots hit
the ground.
Pla's prevent costly delays
and keep projects on track.
Peer reviewed research
including uc berkeley studies
showed that pla's do not rise
costs.
California pla projects
finish
15-19% faster than those
without them.
It's better use of public
dollars.
Also pla's strengthen
accountability, they include
built in compliance to ensure
prevailing wage and training
requirements are followed in
real-time and because pla's
guarantee highly skilled
local
workforce, they reduce
errors,
reworks and hidden costs.
Pla's invest in our
community,
they open doors to long term
careers by requiring
participation in state
certified apprenticeship
programs.
These produce nearly 80% of
california's aprentices
including large numbers of
women and workers of color.
Right here in our region, san
mateo has prepared more than
300 local residents for union
construction careers since
2014.
This is a real example of how
pla's help uplift local
families.
Pla's create a pathway for
veterans, women in
unrepresented workers while
ensuring safer job sites and
reduces the injury rate to
lower injury rates by 31%.
Adopting a pla position in
south san francisco makes us
leaders, it protects
taxpayers' investments,
equity
goals, strengthens local
workforce pipeline, ensures
infrastructure is built
efficiency and responsibly.
>> in 2010, fema did grant
the
money to conduct seismic
repairs identified by biggs
cardoza in 20 ot report but
the 2015msb facility report
verifies these still need to
be done.
Five years after receiving
fema funds, the [Inaudible]
What did the city buy with
millions in fema funds, is
this the political suicide
vice mayor addiego and
COUNCILWOMAN Matsumoto
referred in that crucial
meeting in on AUGUST 24, 2011
accepting the fma grant
solicited by a a rogue fire
captain that no city staff
knew about is the award of
construction contracts
ongoing
in exchange for the political
favors to donors.
Where are the permits for the
work allegedly performed by
f
with the fema millions.
Where are the inspection
reports for the work
allegedly
performed by with the fema
millions since DECEMBER
2022,
we have been requesting all
reports concerning the msb
and
no wonder the 2009 biggs
cardoza report I'm holding
was
not forthcoming.
It says the estimated
probable
cost t strengthen the
existing building, that's the
entire build, based on the
preliminary evaluation is 2.5
million dollars and in
general, the wild building
was
observed to be in relatively
good condition and minor
signs
of distress or damage, the
condition of the building
indicates it has been
maintained over the years.
>> thank you.
>> david, scott, nels.
>> good evening, mayor,
councilmember and is staff.
I'm david alas, a journeyman
carpenter for 35 years in the
trade.
I build projects up and down
the bay area and I'm proud of
the work I do.
I like working alongside my
brothers and sisters.
I'm here tonight to talk
about
the reunifying language
standard wages, health care,
apprenticeship and why I
believe the cwa/pla's are no
longer the best forward ways
for our city.
First met me be cear, I
believe in high standards for
wage, training and safety.
Every worker on a public
project deserves fair pay,
good benefits and a safe job
site.
I spent my creer earning my
journeyman card monitoring
apprentices and helping young
workers learn the trade.
that's what makes our
industry
strong but the cwa/pla don't
reflect today's workforce or
economy.
They do not cover me.
That doesn't serve south san
francisco taxpayers where the
next generation of carpenters
we're trying to bring in.
Instead of qualifying a
cwa/pla, the city council
-
should adopt a fair,
prequalified anointing wamg
that makes sure every crack
toer meets the same high bar,
pay standard wages, provide
health care, use certified
apprenticeship programs that
give young people a path to a
real career.
Commit to safety and training
standards we can all be proud
of.
Those are the things that
matter.
We can protect workers,
support apprenticeship and
build responsibly.
Thank you for your time.
>> thank you.
>> good evening, my name is
scott rathjen, council
peoplefinger thank you for
this opportunity.
I am a proud jaourn neman
carpenter from the 217, my
craft is window coverings, I
personally installed the
window cover ltion venetian
styles you have in your
library.
My wife and I have lived in
san mateo county all of our
lives, I have two children
and
my wife -- my children are
now
18 and 16 and my wife was a
stay at home mom for ten
years, so the first decade of
their lives, that was only
possible because of the
carpenter's union, so I
f
what I'm asking I you guys
please consider our language
in the bidding process
because
it does ensure that
contractors stay honest and
it
keeps the bad actors out and
keeps my job secure.
Thank you.
>> thank you.
>> next speakers will be
annie
low, patricia alhas and bart
bandoja.
>> good evening, city
council,
city staff, for those would
don't know me, my names is
nels, I'm a field
representative of carpenter's
local 217, the city is where
I
ly, it's who iam, my dad
graduate framed el camino
high
school in 1967, my mom from
south cty high school?
1970, my grand what worked
here for the city of south
san
francisco her whole career.
Proud to be a south san
francisco resident.
I want to thank you you for
your leadership, protecting
labor, pushing for affordable
housing and working to make
sure that south san francisco
is a better place for us all.
Tonight I want to share
something critical, when it
comes to construction, the
carp there's 11 crafts make
up
70% of the work on any
project.
Yet the community workforce
agreement, the cwa, also
known
as the pla that te san mateo
county passed does not cover
carpenter crafts.
Thousands of brother and
sisters, hardworking men and
women who build these
projects
are left out.
That's way
f why
prequalification language
matters.
It doesn't just cover 30% of
workers, it covers 100% of
all
trades.
It ensures contractors
provide
health coverage, participate
in state approved
apprenticeship programs and
hire at least 25% of local
residents.
These are basic standards to
protect workers and
strengthen
our community.
If a the contractor can't
meet
the standards, they should
not
be bidding on these prompting.
We have seen waste, tax fraud
and misclassification of
workers.
South san francisco deserves
better, our workers deserve
better, let pass lang wamg
that protects every single
worker, not just a fraction,
let's make sure public
projects reflect our values,
fairness, integrity and
opportunity for local
families
to thrive in our city.
Thank you.
>> thank you.
>> what other lies filling
the
air, it is 357 oyster point,
it is woman of the year,
trash
on the streets, msb, what the
the heck is is going on in
our
city.
We are residents of south
city, we deserve to know the
truth, s stop lying and
start
telling us the truth, do your
job or pack your bags and go.
This was exactly how I felt
at
the last council meeting on
OCTOBER 22.
I applaud vice mayor addiego
for clinging out the city
manager for blatantly lying
to
us that many people found the
meeting when in fact no
members of the public were
present at that special
council meeting on OCTOBER 4.
MR. Flores, during your state
of the city address, I
listened to you earlier, you
mentioned that you want all
of
our voices to be heard and
that the el camino real
envisioning project, we still
have a chance to weigh in on
that.
I hope that is the case.
I hope this is not going to
be
another women of the year
event where we e were told to
put your nominations in and
I'll look at it ad I'll put
someone -- I'll pt forward
the awardee, but in fact you
did not like most of the 44
nominations and decided to
put
in three women in your inner
circle as your awardees, so I
hope this el camino real
project is is not just
another
fake democracy facade of
soliciting public's input but
in reality you and the rest
of
the council as well as your
inner circle have already
decided on the changes that
you want to make.
So, thank you.
>> evening, mayor,
councilmembers, staff, I'm
here on behalf of ten
thousand
men and women in construction
in the building trades
council
who live and work in san
mateo
county including many who
reside here in south san
francisco, we've been having
conversation widths city and
staff for more than a month
now and had hoped to see a
request, see the request by
council for a pla to be an
item on the agenda in
previous
meetings.
So, it seems there was a bit
of a recurring breakdown in
communication, but there's
some hope because I did
receive an e-mail while out
of
the office traveling fr the
holiday weekend from staff
and
I'm looking forward to
meeting
with staff to address the
concerns and discuss how we
can move forward with the pla.
As we all know, it's much
easier to do things in
discussion face to face than
via e-mail.
The constituent who is work
in
-
construction and the families
they support are resolute to
see an agreement come before
the city council.
Some recent public pla's as
some have mentioned, county
of
san mateo, s.Fo, samtrans
district and daly city, some
standing pla's that have
existed for a long time and
have been renewed are sfo
since 1996, we've renewed p
will recollect a's with sfo
for all teir infrastructure
work.
The college district under
several bonds now.
This building was built under
a project labor agreement and
it sounds like my brother and
sisters also worked on this
building under a project
labor
agreement.
No one's excluded,
everybody's
invited, some people just
don't want to participate.
It's up to them.
Thank you.
>> hi, my name's pra the --
patricia, good evening, I
want
to thank the city council
employee and is my neighbors
for creating a city of
inclusivity where all people
feel welcome.
We are a diverse community
and
that not only makes uss
special and makes us strong.
In the coming month, we MAY
be
facing more forces to remove
members of our community.
We know federal agents have
been given permission to
racially profile citizens,
our
neighbors could be detained
and deported based on the
language they speak or the
color of their skin.
Some federal agents have been
flown to ignore the
constitution of our bill of
rights.
There are ways we can help
protect our neighbors.
Everyone should have the san
mateo rapid response phone
number in their phone, it's
(203) 666-4472, if you see
something that MAY be an ice
action, you can call that
number and verify they'll
come
out and check.
This information can
alleviate
worries for our neighbors if
the information is fa
l false
and also protect our
neighbors
if it is not.
Additionally I have some
ideas
for you as a city council.
Let's not be reactive but
proactive, like san jose, you
can pass an ordinance stating
that ice agents must show
their faces and show
identification.
They also passed an ordinance
saying that ice is banned
from certain public
facilities.
like chicago, allows our
police department to arrest
ice agents when they are
working outside the law.
Finally it's possible to pass
a an ordinance that states
ice
cannot be within certain
distances of schools or
places
of worship or public
buildings, these are some
ideas that maybe our city
could take to help protect
our
neighbors.
Thank you.
>> thank you.
>> ryan, joseph lopez and
fianola.
>> good evening, my name is
ryan montgomery, I represent
sprinkler filters local 483
and I'm with the building
trades.
Pla's promote predictability,
coordination and effective
efficiency on infrastructure
projects.
Pla's will also strike l
avoid
strikes and lock outs to
ensure uninterrupted supply
of
quality labor and pla's will
provide construction
management tools for planning
projects controlling costs
and
ensure workforce
sustainability.
Pla's are a value add to the
city, the taxpayers and the
local workforce.
Thank you.
>> good evening,
councilmember
and is saff, my name is
joseph lopez, a field
representative of local 217 i
would like to say thank you
for being proagent tif
supporting prolabor and
policy
and is prohousing.
As you heard from your
residents, language that does
not cover 70% of the working
class is a red flag.
Those trades not covered are
pile driving, carpenters, dry
wall lath, acoustical
ceilings, mill wright, mill
cab, modular install,
scaffolding, insulation,
hardware floor laying and
shing ers, fom start to
finish that's our 70%.
The carp the ers are no
loping
affiliated with the building
trades and they do not have
the authority to speak for or
negotiate on our behalf.
The carpenter's union has put
together prequalification
language that benefits all
contractors.
It keeps the playing field
level, it provides
opportunities for anyone to
have a better life right here
in south city and san mateo
county.
Our goal is to raise
everybody
up ask to see our residents
build housing, commercial
buildings and infrastructure
in our own backyard because
there is no shortage in
construction workers, there's
a shortage in construction
job
opportunities, so please
consider our prequalification
language which covers is00 %
of all construction work e
not
just 30% scope of work that
can't start until we start,
thank you.
>> thank you.
>> project labor agreements
deny 85% of construction
workers' jobs.
And for the record, MR.
Flores, bill gates has
already
debunked climate change or
global warming, calm it what
you want.
In 2007, we had the south
city
fire chief running a 3
million
a week illegal l gambling
racket on the clock on
taxpayer equipment.
You remember, you were there,
MR. Samson sx, so was your
deputy fire chief, devin flan
ri, and who suddenly had
temporary memory loss unable
to give evidence to the
prosecution against suspects
threaten tog throw you from
the top of the building and
kill you if you didn't pay
your 40 thousand dollar
gambling debt.
And like like a p in the
public pool, you just can't
get away from south san
francisco public officials
committing serious felony
offenses on the clock at
taxpayers' expense continues
but that msb fema fraud
thing,
it's everywhere you look
across the country, a rash of
embezzlement, fraudulent
applications, lying by
omission, from fema funds and
particularly in california,
it's stun, from south of los
angeles to northern
california, here's a snapshot
of the headlines and the
praos
cushions that have followed.
Under fire chief matt samson,
south san francisco fire
department is running an
illegal motel 6 in taxpayer
funded fire stations to house
out of area south san
francisco department
personnel
in illegal bedrooms built in
the vicinity of MR. Samson's
office.
Do you have permits and
inspections and certificate
of
occupancy, MR. Samson, or is
that just another wink and a
nod with permits that don't
exist for the msb.
Let's be clear how the pd and
fire department personnel
sleep at night.
>> you cut me off, I will add
to this next time.
>> moyses, al -- a alphonso
and rami.
>> good evening, I'm a field
representative of carpenter's
union, I want to get my brain
straight, let's see, mayor
flores, I want to say I agree
with you, sm. Speaking
spanish
).
I too know what the it is to
migrate to this country
seeking a better life.
I also worked, exploited
underpaid, hurt and paid out
of pocket while
underrepresented, then I was
introduced to the union,
that's when my life changed.
Let's move these forward and
let's not stay in the past,
let's not work with outdated
mechanisms from decades ago,
that also invite
non-responsible contractors
to
participate in project labor
agreements, taxpayers funds,
all they have to do is sign a
a letter of assignment and
they get awarded a project,
then once that project is
done, they go back to their
bad practices, why should
they
be awarded that?
It makes no sense to me.
I agree, let's move it
forward.
Let's empower everybody, not
just a select few, not just a
small group, 25%.
We are the carpenter's union,
we like to elevate everybody,
my colleague said, yes, there
isn't a shortage of
workforce,
there's a shortage of
opportunity, only when we
adapt prequalification
language and invite other
workers ore other contractor
dos do what's right when they
come into our city, you're
going the come to our city,
you're going to do what's
right, you're going to pay
proper wages, livable wage,
access to medical coverage
and
you will do local hiring.
Let's unite ad elevate all
together.
Will you be the champion of
the people, mayor flores,
will
you lead the way, show san
mateo county how it's done,
not through a pla bt through
the prequalification language
like you wouldn't let me pull
your teeth out with pliers
because I'm not a dentist,
let
do the prequalifyication.
>> good evening, mayor,
council.
My name's alphonso, a proud
member of the carpenter's
union local 217, I'm a local
resident of south san
francisco and just like our
young scholars that we had
here, I was once a young
scholar.
I went to spruce school
elementary, parkway heights
middle school and just like
mark, I'm a south city
alumni,
let's g warriors,.
So, I stand here before you
in
front of my union brothers
and
sisters that you guys review
and consider our prequalified
language and, you know, we
get
this moving forward and that
the's all I got.
Thank you for your time.
>> thank you.
>> good evening, city
council,
I want to start off by
shouting out the union folks.
City council, last MAY, you
soaked with your constituent
and is passed a resolution
calling for an immediate
seize
fire in gaza, since that day,
your palestinian community
has
been actively and obsessively
trying to further the
struggle
for justice and peace and I'm
here to express my
appreciation for that work
that you guys put in last
year.
In the time that followed
that
resolution, a very fragile
cease fire was announced and
yet MISS Sills stale reign on
the civilians in gaza and on
the west bank.
Your palestinian have lost
countless family members to
the bombing, famine and
starvation in the genocide,
yet despite the tremendous
crimes against humanity, a
strong snse of seadfastness
in our xaount ases we seek to
rebuild our lives, heal
ourselves, heal our land and
tha
we are indigenous to and
most importantly heal our
children in gaza.
Your actions aided us in that
steadfastness.
I remember in those
discussions there was a point
of cntention in discussing
that resolution because there
was a doubt in level of
impact
it would have.
And while it alone did not
force the cease fire in gaza,
it did not play an essential
role.
It holds us accountable as
leaders of the community.
I extend my appreciation for
the diligence and humanity as
you engaged us in difficult
yet candid and productive
conversations and ultimately
made a historic vote.
Your palestinian constituent
wills remember it and feel a
connection to you as we
continue our struggle for
liberation and collective
healing.
Thank you, all.
>> thank you.
>> mayor, I believe that
concludes our public
comments.
>> great.
Let's move on to next item,
please.
>> we'll mover along to our
consent calendar, item number
5 is a motion the approve
minutes of the meetings of
OCTOBER 18, OCTOBER 22,
OCTOBER 28, OCTOBER 29 and
NOVEMBER 3, 2025.
Item 6 is a motion to cancel
the regular city council
meetings of NOVEMBER 26,
2025,
and DECEMBER 24, 2025.
Item number 7 is a motion to
accept the construction
improvements of the community
development block grant ramps
and patsies project as
complete in accordance with
plan and is specifications.
Item 8 is a report regarding
a
resolution accepting
$5,263.11
from the south san francisco
friends of the library to
support library collections
programs and services,
amending the library
department's fiscal year
25-26
operating budget and
approving
budget amendment number
26.032.
Item 8a is the resolution.
Item 9 is a a report
regarding
a resolution approving the
grant of a utility easement
on
city of south san francisco
property located at 201 west
orange avenue for the
broadband expansion project
to
intermountain infrastructure
group for conduit and fiber
optic line and is authorize
thing city manager to execute
a utility easement.
Item 9a I the resolution.
Item 10 is areport regarding
a resolution authorizing the
submittal of a grant
application for caltrans
sustainable communities grant
multimow dad transportation
action plan.
Item 10a is the resolution.
11 is a report regarding a
resolution accepting a 10
thousand dollar grant from
genentech for the 2026 south
sans fra
ns lunar new year
night market and approving
budget amendment number
26.033.
Item 11a is the resolution.
Item 12 is a report regarding
a resolution amending an
existing shuttle services
agreement with parking
company
of america llc for a total
not
to exceed amount of 4 million
887 thousand 705 dollars for
the operations of the free
south city shuttle program.
Item 12a the resolution.
Item 13 is a report regard
ago
resolution report regarding
award ago construction
contract to express plumbing
inc. For the escanyo drive
sewer main line repair in an
amount not to exceed 168
thousand 385 dollars
authorize
ago total construction
contract authority budget of
193 thousand 650 dollars.
13a is the resolution.
Item 14 is a report regard
ago
resolution approving a first
amendment to a construction
contract with hp
communications inc. For the
installation of conduit and
fiber optic cables with&a
second amendment to sa
services agreement with
kimley-horn and associates
and
a second amendment to a
services for a fiber optic
infrastructure design
authorize thing city manager
to execute both amendments.
14a is the resolution.
Tr there item that is you
wish to be removed.
Er I I mover for the items 5
to 4.
>> mayor nroez florbacker
flores?
>> (Roll call).
>> yes.
>> thank you.
>> great.
We'll mover along t
administrative business, item
number 16 is a report on
acceptance of the
anti-displacement roadmap.
>> welcome, MR. Rozzi.
>> tony rozzi with your ecd
department.
I'm home -- hoping this
worses.
I'm here tonight representing
the anti-displacement
roadmap,
-
we're going the tell you what
that process looked like over
the past year and
recommendations from our
communities advisory
committee.
Who
are joining us tonight.
Toipt point out that this is
a
special sort of translation
experiment we're using
tonight.
We have simultaneous
translation, so if anyone
needs
a translation from english
to
spanish, that is available
and
as a reminder to myself and
all other speakers, use the
microphones so our
translators
can hear you and speak slowly.
Here's what we're going to
cover tonight.
I'm going to introduce you to
what displacement is, also
what this council has been
doing for the last several
years to try and manage rez
terrible and commercial
displacement.
We're going the talk about
the
way we've engaged with our
community over the last year
as we studied this issue and
then present to you sme
facts
and findings about what south
city faces on both
residential
and commercial displacement
before we highlight some
strategies to combat that.
As a reminder to the council
and to folks here and at
home,
in 2024, city council gave
guidance to study this issue
of displacement.
We had heard it through both
the general plan outreach,
through our housing element,
adoption process, my
advocates
who said this I happening in
your community, in our
community, what are you going
to do about it.
And the city hired hrna,
they're a national firm, they
specialize in these kinds of
study and is economic
analysis
and they also brought in a a
partner, earns -- kearns and
west to lead the community
engage sxment the
facilitation
pieces of this effort.
So, what is displacement?
At its simplest, it is
defined
as an involuntary relocation
of aresident or a business.
There are permutation, it can
be forced, it can be
pressured, it can be fear
based, but it has the same
result, someone's lifelong
business leaves your
community.
As I mentioned before though,
this is not something that
the
council has ignored, this is
something that the city staff
has ignored.
I want to highlight some of
the effort that is have been
done over the last several
years.
The roadmap layers on
anti-displacement policies we
already have in place.
There's a substandard housing
displacement ordinance, we've
also refried to ate as a red
tag ordinance in discussing
it
with council, what that does
is make sure there is tenant
relocation that is required
if
a building or a unit is
deemed
inhabitable due to code
enforcement issues.
Loo tl
's also an emergency
rental assistance program.
That was adopted just before
the pandemic with you
obviously became a critical
tool in combating the massive
spike in unemployment just
after the pandemic was struck
the bay area, the united
states as whole.
The council was able to use
and leverage federal funds to
keep people in their homes
and
not displace while they were
not working.
There's also a live work
preference for affordable
units.
This iss on our books and a
policy whenever an affordable
unit is raffled, there is
preference to someone who
lives in the city, used to
live in the city or works in
the city.
And then finally there was a
recently adopted sro, single
room occupancy hotel and a
mobile home park conversion
ordinance, we did them
separately but they really
act
the same which is mandating
very early notification and
relocation assistance for
these folks in these types of
units which are particularly
vulnerable to displacement.
Aon the commercial sited, our
economic development team has
led the way by negotiating
for
commercial space in community
benefit agreements for some
of
our life science businesses,
creating new space for
commercial businesses either
displaced or interested in
expanding.
The planning division led an
effort in the lindenville
specific plan to enact a
lindenville art and is makers
overlay, what that does is
preserve some industrial
space
in lindenville for creative
uses and then finally and
most
recently, launch local has
start and had that's
leveraging city asset, city
commercial assets for below
market rate rents with some
tenant improvement funding to
give a business a chance to
test their brick and mortar
concept.
So, with the roadmap, there
were three critical elements,
a community advisory
committee, interviews with
experts and business
operators
and then pop-up events where
we can engage with the
community and find out their
feelings and thoughts.
At this moment, I want to
invite anyone who is on our
community advisory committee
to just stand up for a second.
I want you to be appreciated.
Broadly this process rally
was guided by these folks.
They've been studying the
issue for over a year and
they
represent a very diverse
group
of input for the council.
These are lifelong residents
of south city, some are
recent
arrivals, we do have one
non-resident who is also a
representative of the real
estate interest.
They're a mix of home owners
and tenants the, are real
estate specialist, small
business owners, individuals
that work with small
businesses, they have
commercial landlord
experience
and they're also of very many
different life stage, some
have young families, some are
single, older adult, some are
care takers and we had
spanish
and english speakers on the
community advisory committee.
>> thank you, guys, for being
here.
Let's give them a hand, thank
you guys for being here.
[Applause].
>> so, this slide's a lot of
information, it's just
showing
this is what they've been up
to for the last year, they've
been coming fluent,
semi-expert and is a lot of
topics related to
displacement, understanding
terminology, understanding
the
economic forces and pressures
facing the bay area as a
whole.
These are just smap shots of
some of the hinges --
wantoning we've been studying
the first monday of nearly
every month for about a year.
They studied these issues and
it makes sense because this
is
how you get a roadmap of
policies that are appropriate
for south san francisco that
are not cookie cutter.
just an image of some of the
pop-up events, we went to
lunar new year, we went to
martin elementary for an open
house, we spent a couple of
hours at the senior health
fair getting input.
Here's just a smap shot of
some of the things we heard,
priorities of fr
the
community included
preservation and construction
of affordable house, keeping
commercial businesses in
south
city and supporting our
commercial core downtown.
Okay.
That's the background on
engagement.
Why we're doing this.
I'm going to show you a few
slides on what our kument
tant
-- consultant and our cnc
found out and discovered
together.
Thank you.
There's big forces at work
causing displacement.
This is not an isolated issue
for south san francisco, but
the local transformation has
been quite traumatic here
locally, particularly over
the
last decade and a lot of the
data you're going the see
tonight and the roadmap are
really looking at the last
decade and that's where we
had
the most valuable data from
various sources fms I don't
think it's a surprise we've
seen a shift in our
commercial
base and in our industries
fms
over the last decades, we
have
seen a ton of industrial
space
transformed into life science.
This is super charged rents
and it's creating much higher
paying jobs than were typical
of industrial businesses and
there's a mismatch, those
jobs
being created aren't
necessarily always connecting
or going the local residents.
A lot of them go to
non-resident commuters.
On the housing side,
obviously
everywhere demand has out
paced demand, it's compounded
by a renal issue, a higher
income earners are able to
mover into south san
francisco
and many of our middle and
lower income earners are no
longer able to afford to live
in south city.
The city's become
unaffordable
both to renters and aspiring
home owners and that's really
what this slide is saying.
At the same time we've had a
change in demographic, folks
makes less than 150 thousand
dollars are leaving for more
affordable locations those
who
are maiming more than 150
thousand dollars represent
the
large portion of new
residents
coming into south san
francisco.
There's a big slide, a lot of
stuff going on hre but it's
really helpful because what
the dark blue is showing you
is demand, the light blue is
showing supply and for a big
swath of folks in the
moderate
and lower income areas, the
demand far out paces the alt
of housing we've been able to
produce over the last decade.
A lot of the housing that has
been built actually eceeds
demand because it is market
rate, it is more expensive.
This slide is showing where
we've seen the biggest and
most dramatic change in
population and demographics,
so almost to 40% reduction in
latinos in the old town
district.
You know, on the commercial
side, there's probably three
critical elements that have
been driving the changes
we've
been seeing.
Redevelopment of industrial
into life science primarily,
lower rents in the east bay
that represent an opportunity
for businesses to relocate
and
lower their cost as well as
perhaps be closer to a number
of their employees who are
commuting, thep the other one
which was new to everyone on
the community advisory and
staff is the retirement of
business owners either
through
the sale of their business or
their building representing
an
opportunity to exit but also
the loss of a business that
MAY have been here for 30,
40,
50 years.
Real estate and economic or
employment trend analysis by
hrna showed that almost all
the job growth has been in
life science so you see the
big numbers here, we've added
6, almost 7 million square
feet of r & d and office
space, we've lost over a
million and a half square
feet
of industrial space.
That's important because
we're
goipg to get too another
slide
showing how it fits our
workers.
Local workers are
representing
a number of those industrial
jobs and far less in our
office and r & d jobs.
Almost all of te new jobs
are
going to commuters and a lot
of the joshes where our local
workforce is well
represented,
that square footage is
dwindling or being
redeveloped.
That's the trend we've seen
over the last decade.
>> one question, what do you
define as local workers.
>> rsidents of south san
francisco.
>> okay.
That wasn't too painful,
we've
gotten to the roadmap, the
strategies we're going to
present a few strategies the
cac is going to come up in a
minute and speak to them.
They were evaluated based on
a
criteria matrix prided to us
by our consultant.
That was a way to understand
what made sense to adopt and
could we afford it, would we
need to the find new funds,
is
staff available, would we
need
to staff up and then how
quickly could this have an
impact and slow the effects
of
displacement for residents,
commercial business operators
so tla's the rubric we're
trying to reevaluate all the
strategies that were brought
forward to you.
I apologize, tere's a lot on
this slide.
What we try today do is
highlight in bold the one
that
is the cac thought made the
mobster sense dp that they
thought were priorities to
present or to flag for
council's consideration, so
we're going to touch on a few
of them tonight but broadly,
there's a big gap in
education
and information, there's a
lot
we can do for technical
assistance, there are
opportunities to produce new
housing but also protect and
preserve the housing we have
and then there's some
strategies on the commercial
side that could be fairly
effective.
So, with that, I want to
invite michele alvarez and
margarie blend to come up and
speak the yu on a cup ofl
items and we'll go through.
>> thank you, welcome.
>> thank you.
Thank, mayor flores, vice
mayor addiego and councilmen
for allowing this opportunity
to come here and present.
My name is nichelle alvarez a
lifelong resident of south
city, I'm going the speak
about the communication of
the
responsibilities and rights
to
landlords and renters, I'm
gieng the touch ton find
advising the recommendations.
The cac recognize and is
landlords are nt familiar
with the requirements for
leases, repairs and rent
increase under state law.
There are existing resources
but it's hard for people to
access.
Given that our
recommendations
included informing tenant and
is landlords about their
rights regarding
affordability
and housing quality, to
empower community members to
feel safe to engage with
their
property embower to make
necessary repairs to consider
outlining landlord and tenant
right and is responsibilities
and then for the city to
coordinate and possibly host
quarterly know your rights
workshops with project
sentinel.
I'm excited to speak about
this recommendation to
provide
landlords and tenants
education on their rights and
responsibilities.
This resonates with me and
would have been beneficial
for
me during the time that I was
renting out my property.
During that time, I had to
independently seek out san
mateo county housing laws and
network with real estate
contacts in order to make
sure
I was in compliance.
I believe that most landlords
want to act in accordance
with
laws but with a lack of
education on those laws can
prevent that from happening.
In addition, when tenant ares
not educated with their
righters, they MAY be
resistant or even neglect
communicating needing repairs.
It's important to provide
this
information to both party and
is it can be done possibly
during the time now.
Thank you for your time.
>> thank you.
>> hi, my name is margarie
bland and I'm leer as south
san francisco resident and as
a pa parent who cares deeply
about our public school, our
essential workers and te
stability of our community.
Tonight I'm asking the
council
to take serious look at using
city owned land to build
workforce housing with
initial
priorities for teachers in
future phases for other
essential service providers
like firefighters, emt and
nurses.
South season fra
ns has
become
a a high cost city, the
average rent for a one
bedroom
apartment is now a little
over
3100 per month, even a decent
salary, many of our toppers
can't afford to live here.
My son was in the 8th grade
in
south san francisco high
school last year, one of his
teachers was commuting an
hour
and a half each way just to
come and teach in this
community.
That's three hours on the
road
every day before grade,
before
lesson plans, before
supporting student and is
family.
We know long commute leads to
chronic stress, sleeping
disruption, teaching critique
and all those issues wetly
increase burnout, turn over
in
the education profession,
teacher fatigue isn't just
staffing issue, the it is an
academic issue, it impact it
is quality of our
instruction,
the stability of the
classroom
and ultimately the success of
our students.
High trn over also disrupts
learning school wide when the
new teacher comes in every
months because the last one
burnt out or moved away.
The students feel it, and it
oafs the relationship and
trust an academic outcome in
south san francisco wants
children younger, innovative
teachers.
We have to give them a reason
to teach this city.
Passion alone doesn't allow
them to pay 300 otherwise in
rent or compete with silicon
valley husing costs.
We know workforce housing
works.
San francisco village with
135
units and many reserves for
sfusd educator and is staff.
Every education workforce
housing project in california
has a waiting list in demand
extremely.
South san francisco can build
a momentum and do it in a way
that reflects our community
values.
I'm asking council to dwrekt
staff to identify activity
owned land that wouldbacker
could spport teachers in
essential workers house, two,
prioritize first phase focus
on educators because stable
schools are a foundation for
a
stable neighborhood.
Three, coordinate with south
san francisco unified school
and san mateo county and
experience affordable housing
developer to bring forward
financial visible plan.
Number 4, ensure units offer
a
be
f below market rent to
make
living in our community
realistic for people who
serve
it.
When teachers, firefighters
and nurses can liver near
their jb, they have more
time,
more energy, more connections
to the community.
They spend less time in trfk,
more time supporting
students,
responding to emergency or
caring for patients.
They stay longer, they build
relationships, they
strengthen
our city, this is not just
about house, it's about
protecting the quality of
education, reducing burn out,
creating cities where
essential workers belong.
Dedicating city land owned
for
workforce housing is one of
the immediate immediate
impactful step tos support
our
educators, protect our
student
and is ensure our community
stases strong.
Thank you for your time and I
hope you're willing to make
educators, esessential worker
housing a priority.
>> should we wait for that
presentation for questions?
>> to staff or to the
presenter.
>> to staff, but I can wait.
>> we have a couple more
slides.
I'm going to invite bertha
and
-
jennifer to be our two next
cac speakers.
>> good evening, city
councilmembers and staff, my
name is bertha benton, I
want to discuss about the
rental inspections and I
think
it's very needed here
especially in south san
francisco.
The city of south san
francisco does have some
affordability but we want to
ensure the units do not fall
in disrepair.
This is why rental
inspections
is so important.
Rent it will inspection
program in collaboration with
tenant and is landlords could
prevent displacement.
San mateo cunty has a
program
that could serve as a template
or a partner agency for
instance like they have a
program, weatherability of
section 8 that does
inspections also as well but
the landlords also need their
own inspections as well as
affordability of any other
program.
Any rental inspections
program
adopted could have a few
simple requirements to ensure
habitability and safety
without being a burden.
So, interestingly that I just
recently moved to affordable
housing but my old landlord,
he had accidentally text me,
there was a tenant that lived
downstairs, similar to my
name, and this is why it's so
important about inspections,
so, this is what the old
landlord said, h, thanks for
letting the housing fire
inspector come and check the
water heater the other day.
They dd have some things
that
needed to be changed for fire
safety.
Aisle need you to get rid of
the tires, the back of the --
and put them in the garage
this week.
Can you send me a picture
once
the tires are gone so I can
provide to the housing
authority.
Could you also make sure not
to the put anything at all in
the closets with the water
heater.
Please send me a picture as
well showing empty and need
to
be checking that -- also like
he said, I'll need to be
checking that annually moving
ahead.
So, this is why it's really
important for the inspection
because if he had inspected
it
prior, it wouldn't be
probably
the fire department or fire
safety people to come out and
check, certain items can
cause
fire safety or are fire
hazardous, and interestingly,
he had said annually that he
would be checking it annually.
And so this was a private
owner, so I know there's new
developments are coming up
that needs to be more of
inspections so we can -- the
tenants can live in a safe,
not being in a displaced
area
where something can happen
and
the landlord is really
overburdened that the tenants
are putting things there
without their knowledge so
this is what we represent as
a
community to -- wanted to
present this to the city
council aout the
inspections,
it's very important
especially
if you put new developments
and in and also tosed ed de
f
daoe, mayor eddie explained a
little bit of this and he
touched a little bit about
this, about more of the
affordability and especially
at bridge housing.
I was one of the bridge
housing tenants and they make
sure there was one side was
for the affordability and the
other side was not.
At this point, all tenants
had
o to sign a lease that they
were -- had to have proper
inspections and that means
that not only if the
affordability people had hair
own inspection but the
apartments also had their
ininspection so some get it
twice a year with the
affordability of the home
from
the program and then there
was
some that had it, others as
well, it's just apartment
owners that did it themselves.
Like to thank nell selander,
tony rozzi, even mayor eddie
for putting me on this
committee also as well,
elected meto pult me here.
We wanted this presented to
the staff and also to the
councilmembers that tis will
also help the tenants to live
in an affordable and just
like
what tony just said, that
there's a lot of people are
leaving and we hasn't to have
the input having them to say
instead of the rent rising up
and we all know that this is
local.
it's not just here, but in
case we as a community in
south san francisco, if we
see
something that is really
important to help the tenant
and is help the landlord, it
needs to be addressed and
hope
you take that under
consideration.
I also want to thank the
committee who is part of what
we do also, that we all have
to have ideas and putting up
with one another also as
well,
so I thank all of my
committees also as well, so
hopefully that this will work.
>> thank you.
>> good evening,
councilmember
and is mayor flores, my name
is jennifer, as a newer
resident of south san
francisco, I was honored to
have this opportunity to
participate in this committee
and to help shape these
strategies that supports
small
businesses and the
neighborhoods of south san
francisco so, thank you for
allowing me to be part of
this
committee.
I would like to share two
ideas that were recommended
by
the committee, these are
strategies that can
strengthen
south city's small
businesses,
the small business ecosystems
and activate underutilized
commercial spaces.
Mayor eddie had touch on the
launch local program in his
adrez earlier today.
As you know, this program has
already shown success in
activating city owned sites,
city owned properties and we
recommend offering this
program for long vacant
privately owned commercial
spaces so here's a vision.
If property owners are
willing
to adopt the launch local
guidelines such as offering
reduced rent and tenant
improvement trent credits,
the
city staff could take the
lead
in promoting this program and
managing the process of
identifying potential tenants
for those locations.
This could create a
streamline
pathway to fill empty spaces
with vibrant community
serving
businesses and frankly we are
really excited some of the
real estate expert that is
are
part of the committee were
strongly supported this idea
as well.
They recognized that staff --
the city staff could play a
pivotal role adds a
connector,
connecting and bridging tat
twap between property owners
and these sbren neurowho is
are ready to bring their
small
businesses to the community.
Secondly, the committee
really
supports the creation of a
small business
anti-displacement emergency
fund, so we've seen firsthand
how the city stepped up in
times of need to provide
critical support to small
businesses such as funding
for
facade improvements, recovery
from vandalism and even
helping businesses navigate
ada lawsuits.
Lawsuit threats, we know
those
challenges don't necessarily
come with a warning, they can
be sudden for small business
and is that's why a permanent
emergency fund is extremely
important.
This would allow a rapid
response to unforeseen
shocks,
it could be a natural
disaster, economic
disruptions
as we've seen in the past few
years or other crisis, this
could prevent small business
closures resulting
displacement before they
occur.
I have previous experiences
as
a lender for a small business
loan fund.
We provided micro loaners,
some as small as $500 ad up
to 4 thousand dollars,
sometimes a really small
amount, even as small as a
thousand dollars could be
enough to need an immediate
need and provide a lifeline
to
a small business at a
critical
period.
To make this emergency fund a
reality, the city should set
aside resources right now but
would also need to identify
sustainable funding sources
for the future and obviously
that would be the greatest
challenge but we know when
our
small business can survive
and
to thrive, the whole
community
will thrive.
We believe these ideas are
really practical and align
with the goals of the cty to
build a resilient and
inclusive and a vibrant
community, so thank you to
staff and thank you to the
councilmen here for your time
and leadership and really
we're excited to see more
businesses grow and trive
here in south san francisco.
Thank you.
>> thank you.
>> to keep it exciting, we
have one last speaker come
tog
you by video.
Couldn't join us tonight
because he's at a taping of
wheel of fortune.
>> hello, how are you?
Thank you for the opportunity
to be on the community
advisory committee.
The committee was very
diverse
group of people, had business
people, real estate people,
property owners, tenants, it
was just great.
Often the substitutions were
a
wake up call for others.
We reached full consensus
that
overall tenants and landlord
are good people.
They need to communicate and
understand the law and their
obligations better.
It was an overwhelming
decision to support education
for both parties and to give
access to additional support
if necessary.
We thought it would be great
to have project sentinel and
legal aid san mateo county to
meet here locally once in a
while.
We do not support free legal
council.
The communication would be
landlord and tenant must
improve.
Group sessions MAY help that.
On the commercial side,
education -- something --
education was also something
agreed upon.
Grow the business culture
program at a minimum cost
through retired business
people and students at san
francisco state and sigh line
college, we all agree to
support and continue to grow
launch local and business
bucks local.
We all support inspections of
rental properties,
self-certification was
brought
up and I think will work the
best and I think least
costly,
both the landlord and tenant
can can complete it but it
has
to be kept basic, hot and
cold
water, no mold new york city
rodents, insulation, heating
work, very simple.
And probably done every two
years, every three years,
whatever, all of our
discussions were reality
based.
how we are going the pay for
this new program, we tried
haseder to keep costs down,
we
realize if property owners
face higher cossets, those
costs are going to be passed
on to the tenants and only
increase the rent.
So, once again, I got a lot
out of it, I hope everyone
else did, the group was a a
phenomenal group, everyone
got
along well, respected and it
was so diverse so we really
heard some real life stories
from everyone involved.
Thanks and have a great day.
>> okay, I want to thanking
the council for your time and
ability to give our cac a
moment to speak on this
effort
over the last year.
Staff's here for questions,
we
have our cac members, also
anna from hrna who's
available
for questions as well, so
happy to have a conversation.
>> thank you, tony, fr the
presentation, sometimes I
know
it's challenge speaking in
public s I appreciate
everyone who came toup the
podium and delivered your
presentation as well.
I'll open it up for comments
or questions from my
colleagues.
>> MR. Mayor?
>> please.
>> I work for project
sentinel
and toipt check with our city
attorney that I'm okay to
kind
of talk about tem, it's been
two years since I've left.
>> yes, under the political
reform act and fppc
regulation, as long as you
have not sao
ed income from
them within 12 months yu, ear
free to then talk about the
possibility of them
participating in city
programs.
>> okay, so when I worked for
project sentinel, I was in
charge of san mateo county
outreach, I couldn't do south
san francisco because
obviously I worked on the
city
council, but what I can tell
my colleagues and what the
folks here is education is
the
number one thing that I would
always hear about from tenant
and is landlords.
They wanted to know what
their
basic rights and
responsibilities were and
it's
just a simple question of
like
I have mold, what do I do.
Well, I would first ask, have
you spoken to your landlord,
if you have, has your
landlord
done anything.
If not, there's all these
other steps you can do in
terms of trying the fix that
situation, like maybe speak
tog a code inspector, then
the
code inspector would go down
and look at the situation to
see if it's hbitable, if
it's
not, that code inspector
would
have a conversation with the
landlord and try to fix that
situation.
Education I so important in
terms of understanding just
the basic rights that you
have
as a tenant and your
responsibility as a landlord,
the difference between at
fault and no fault evictions
and what te new state law
ares.
There's a new state law that
says you have to pay one
month's rent for a security
deposit, before it used to be
two to three months.
Ab1482, it provided a
guideline in terms of what
your rights are as a tenant
but not everyone knows that
and I think there is an
opportunity here and I'm glad
you brought this up where I
think an organization like
project sentinel can come
here
and provide education to our
tenant and is landlords.
When I left project sentinel,
I had started a conversation
with redwood city where they
were partnering with project
sentinel on basically what
you
were asking for.
Workshops, mediation, those
are things that project
sentinel on the
tenant/landlord side offers,
plus there's another side
they
work, on fair housing.
Tony, did you reach out the
redwood city to see where
they
are or how successful they
are
kind of the collaboration
with
redwood city?
>> we did t fun part of the
story is it was one of our
cac
members who came with a flyer
from a recent redwood city
project sentiel outreach and
said why are we doing this,
can we do this, should we do
this, jump started this
conversation.
>> here's my suggestion.
I think we can -- one of the
wins we can do right away is
to jump on this workshop
opportunity and to really
work
with project sentinel because
honestly, I think after I
left, I don't know how much
they th
e ear doing in terms
of south san francisco but I
can tell you right now, by
doing that on a weekly basis
and having a site, like the
cac where you have someone
that can come in for a couple
of hours, where a tenant or a
landlord can come in and say
I
have these questions, can you
help me out, that will
resolve
a lot of issues right off the
bat in terms of emg kaition
and then providing workshops
which they're supposed to be
doing because they get grant
money and they're supposed to
did a certain number of
workshops and especially
since
they have cdbg money from us,
I think on the fair housing
side, I want to see them do
more in terms of the tenant
landlord side of things s i
think we should reach out to
them and find out a way to
partner with them to say we
had this opportunity to do
something similar in redwood
city, I think that's the
first
step we need to do.
In terms of legal advise, the
other question I would get is
can yu provide me legal
right,, I can only tll you
your right and is
responsibilities, what they
are, I would refer countless
resident tos the legal aid
society bcause they would
provide free legal advice.
The problem is if you wanted
to meet with them, you would
have to go to their monthly
clinic and it was always
full,
always.
Now if we can probably do the
same thing in terms of legal
aid society and give them the
space, that also would help
our tenant and is landlords
in
terms of, okay, what is my
legal responsibility to do
these things or as a tenant,
I
have done all these thing ins
terms of trying to resolve
it,
try to do mediation, what are
my legal rights.
Those are things we can do
needily to try to solve or at
least help with this issue
and
I think it's a short term
problem we can do right away.
So, I hope we can have -- my
colleagues would agree it's
something we can do like that.
The oher thing that I wanted
to talk about and I'll stop
here because there's so much
issue wes can talk about is
affordable housing.
I've been watching the school
district kind of sit on
property on the sarah vista
property and the fox bridge
property at least for ten
years, decades, councilmember
-- vice mayor addiego and I
have been following this
they've been sitting on
property that they own and
they still don't have a
timeline o what they're
going
to do.
Noi
f now therk have said
they want to do certain thing
widths the bond money with
schools which is important,
absolutely important, but
you're absolutely right as
well, that we have a teacher
shortage and we have to build
more affordable housing and
the daly city model and also
the community college
district
also has a model in terms of
building affordable housing
so
my colleagues who sit on the
school liaison, I think one
of
the next things you guys talk
about is telling the city
council what I your timeline
to build housing on those
sites because I'm tired of
waiting because guess what,
there needs to be a
partnership.
At some point when they have
to build affordable house, it
has to come to us to rezone,
right.
So, I'm tired of the excuses.
I want to see them step up
and
build housing for the
teachers
there for our community.
In terms of property yes, we
need to look at building
affordable housing on our
property.
I know we've talked about the
msb and there are some other
sites but I'm going to
continue to talk about those
sites because affordable
housing is absolutely
important and we have the
opportunity to kind of
dictate
the terms of building
affordable housing.
The fact that we own the
property we potentially could
build 100% affordable units
and that's something we can
do
and so I'll just leave with
that.
>> thank you.
>> I will say and the mayor
can corroborate, we both st
ton school and city liaison
subcommittee and we have
tried
to bring up the issue of the
vacant properties and even
with the fox ridge parcel can
which they initially had
planned to build teacher
housing, they have
deprioritized it.
I forget, it was a, b, c, d.
It was at the bottom, they
wouldn't even cnsider it
until 2028.
And I will say and I'm very
thankful for staff for making
sure we are well prepared
when
we present at these liaison
meetings.
I would like to see the same
respect when we attend as
well
from the other side.
>> councilmember nicolas?
>> thank you, thank you for
the service of our committee
and everybody who had worked
on this.
I have a few questions on the
report, tony.
It says here under the
residential housing
displacement, it says here
higher income asian
households
are moving into south san
francisco, latino and black
household ares leaving the
city and specifically
district
5.
I would like the suggest that
we don't use groups of people
pitting against people.
I agree there MAY be higher
income -- and this is one of
the issues that asian
americans have been fighting
for, we have always been
looked at as the model
minority and higher income
people but it's not a
monolith, there are people
that are asians who also need
services like this because
some of them are not in the
higher income level.
So, I wuld like to revise
this and take out those asian
households moving and
displacing latino and black
household, I would say that's
a little disrespectful when I
looked at it.
So, on the second one, on the
same page under the
commercial
business displacement,
industrial rents across the
city MAY have more than
doubled over the last decade.
Pricing out legacy businesses
who have opted to east bay
where rents are lower and a
larger workforce is available.
Now, in the next one, it was
talking about our educational
attainment here in te city,
that we need more people who
are at least a four year
degree holder.
So, if these people -- why is
the larger workforce
available
in east bay when I'm sure
it's
also available here.
I mean, that should not be
one
of the reasons, it could be
just the lower price rent,
right?
Because if we have people who
are not as educated which is
one of the reasons why, you
know, people are out -- are
displaced, why would -- so,
the larger workforce that's
available who are not very
educated, they're available
to
work, right?
I would assume that that's --
>> happy to answer that.
To your first point, we'll go
back and take a look at the
word, I apologize for that
inappropriate lump of trend
definition, on the second
question, there's two,
there's
two pieces at play, do we
have
an employee base that meets
many of the industrial job
demand, absolutely.
Does the east bay have many
folks who also meet the
demand
of industrial jobs?
yes, they do.
There's an affordability of
housing that comes into where
your workforce moves around.
Affordability for housing has
as much to do when you
started
working as the price today,
so
folks that have been working
industrial jobs in south san
francisco since 1990 have
been
able to remain here in a way
that someone who has start
ined that job in 2020 just
cannot so they look for lower
cost housing further out,
east
bay, south bay, and that's
part -- that's not the only
explanation, it's part of te
reason we've seen major
industrial businesses
relocate
to the east bay for price of
land and availability of a
workforce that is stable and
living out there already.
It's not the only reason
though.
>> so, if we have only 39% of
our residents having at least
a four year degree, I noticed
that one of -- the steps that
you think we e can help
prevent displacement x why
don't we have a four year or
a
scholarship, imean,
endowment
program is one of the things
we can also do.
It's for those who are not --
who don't want to get a
college degree, we can also
offer scholarships for them
to
get skills or trades, get
into
trade.
I didn't see that as one of
the recommendations.
Perhaps I mean with all the
other resources we have, we
can have an endowment program
for scholarships so we can
help the people who are here
o
who would like to stay here
and work in the industries
that surround here to uplift
economic -- their economic
mobility.
>> I absolutely agree.
>> I think that's all I have.
>> great, thank you.
Councilmember?
>> sure.
Alright.
First I want to ground us a
bit in what we're loking for
now in the kind of trends
we're seeing and I say this a
a lot, the san mateo county
--
well, san mateo county
released a report about a
year
and a half ago that stated
that the fastest growing
homeless population in our
county is unhoused seniors
and
it's not unique to san mateo
county, it is a trend we're
seeing throughout california
and the country, it's not
just
seniors, it is our youth to
go
through k-12 school and are
looking for place tos move
out
and grow their family.
Far too often I see my
classmates I went to school
with have to move out and
sprawl into stockton and
outside sacramento and into
the central valley were
housing is still expensive
but
much more affordable than it
is here.
It's about ensuring that our
family and is our workers
have
a place to live, our
teachers,
our nurses, our firefighters,
our public safety officials,
everyone, if the workers that
make south city run are
unable
to afford to live in south
city, everyone suffers, that
is a fact.
And that is not even to
mention the homelessness
crisis we're experiencing
here
in the bay area.
I had the opportunity to
attend housing leadership day
hosted by the housing
leadership council, it was in
the south san francisco
conference center.
They unveiled some data that
showed that in the bay area,
we are making a lot of
progress with reducing
homelessness.
Last year about 20 thousand
people moved off the streets
and into permanent housing in
the bay area, but at the
same
time, about 40 thousand
entered homelessness last
year
so we are making progress,
but
the number of people being
pushed into homelessness is
outpacing the number of
people
who move back into housing
from homelessness every year.
if we want to address this
issue, we have to pevent
homelessness in the first
place, that is key.
And if we are not addressing
displacement, then we are not
treat thirsting crisis
seriously that -- as
seriously
as this moment in time
warrants.
Ipg education here is so
critically important, let me
back up a bit and say I'm so
thankful for staff and for
the
committee because oftentimes
these conversations can be
very contentious, what we
have
shown is that we can have
these conversation and is we
can respect each other and we
can agree on a balanced plan,
I think that this roadmap
here
is incredible, I'm very
impressed and especially with
some of the actionable steps
I
hope our council will
undertake in the coming years.
And so education's critically
important, I agree with my
councilmember mark nagales,
tenant/landlord law is
extremely complex and it
changes year to year.
And this information --
education and informing our
community goes both wayser it
means ensuring our landlords
understand the law as well as
the tenants understand our
law
and they should both benefit
from our programs.
Last year we pass add
business
license tax that included
rental properties so now we
have this handy dandy list of
all the rentals in our city
and we should be using that.
To be honest, when I proposed
last year to include rentals
in the blt, this was what I
had in mind is that now that
we have this d facto
registry
of rentals, now we have the
ability to do targeted
outreach and ensure that our
entire community whether they
be owners or renters have the
information necessary to
truly
thrive ad ensure all of our
rules and regulations are
being followed.
I would propose we send an
annual mailer to these
households with general
rights
of both rent and he iser
landlords as well as changes
in state law.
I would propose we include
contact information for legal
services if needed and that
we
have this information
available in spanish as well
as chinese.
I saw in the presentation and
this is a question I have as
well is adding a lease
addendum with rights, is that
the disclosure of rights at
the time of lease whenever
the
lease agreement would be
signed?
>> yeah, I think the vision
from the cac is a a one pager
that is accurate to that year
goes out with that sort of
targeted list we now have.
>> it would go out at the
beginning of each lease?
>> the idea is that the
easiest process would be to
send it out on the annual tax
mailers that would be once a
year and it would really be
going to the property owners
at this point, tenants, we
have to find a different path
to get our information to.
.
Er it would probably be
through mail.
Not everyone is online, not
everyone knows how to scan a
qr code.
If they're struggling to pay
rent, maybe they don't have
the technology and making
sure
this information gets to
households through physical
copies that you can hold in
your hand, I think tla's very
necessary.
Next I also want to just
support councilmember
nagales'
idea of I believe what would
be a version of office hours
in south city and I believe
they host us in other parts
of
the county but just having
there be some professionals,
probably project sentinel,
maybe legal a aid society or
a
version of klespa that's able
to be there maybe once every
week or so and be able to
provide that dr
etion and
legal advice if needed and
this goes both ways of
course,
both for renters as well as
owners that they have that
legal advice available to
them.
I also want to highlight that
proactive ispection program
is going to be very important.
If wi
f we allow for
potential code violation tos
go on longer, that could pose
-- if we alow these to
fester, it could be worse and
we want to make sure we keep
our homes as safe as possible
for the community that lives
there.
And I also just want to say
one last thing which is we
need t move also on the
production of affordable
housing.
We as a city do have public
land that can accommodate
mixed income, affordable
housing, our school district
also has land and I believe
it
MAY be time to engage the
community in those
discussions
to see what we find is
appropriate for our city.
Thank you.
>> great, thank you.
Vice mayor, any comments?
>> so, I appreciate the
comments, we're mostly in
agreement especially with
councilmember nagales,
there's
an element of deja vu, this
committee has been doing some
fantastic work but it seems
we've covered some of this
prior to the committee coming
into consist tense and I was
disappointed, greatly
disappointed by the last
comment, by MR. Gins berger
that we do not support free
legal assistance, what I'm
readinging and understanding
and understanding that
displacement which many times
is homelessness, might be
between landlord and tenant
dispute, the person MAY have
handed trouble with an
employer and let go
illegally,
inappropriately without being
able to to exercise their
right and is if you want to,
if you want to change that, I
mean, you can send mailers
and
you can educate the masses
but
you've got to be able to
rescue people and the way
you're going the rescue them
is with the legal system.
So, I'm not willing to walk
away from the idea of no
support for free legal
assistance.
I mean, it's great to invaoet
thm here, but they might need
algt bit more support o do
something meaningful for our
citizens.
>> sorry, I know I spoke, I
also want to add that comment
did also take me off guard
because it was included many
the plan, it was included as
a
long term plan so I believe
we
will pursue it.
And I also want to -- sorry,
I
also want to say that legal
services have been
implemented
in other cities and in other
states and what they find
with
the data is that when tenants
are represented during
evictions proceedings,
anywhere between 70 and 90
percent of those asepses,
tenants stay in their homes,
it is necessary.
>> alright.
Thank you.
, thank you, all, for your
comments.
I want to start off again
thanking saff, this didn't
just happen last night, each
one of you on a monday night
devoted your time, each one
of
your households, each one of
your residents for coming,
many of you brought your kids
to city hall and had dinner
with us, with them as part of
this committee.
That takes a lot of courage
and boldness because you all
care about south san
francisco
and you want the best for
your
fellow resident and is
neighbors and I want to call
that out.
I saw I at every point and
turn and I want to
acknowledge
the work.
I want to ak nonl the work of
staff and our consultant and
is being able to select
individual that is were truly
representative and inclusive
of what south san francisco
is.
It wasn't just a monolith, it
was diverse voices with
different opinions and
different experiences and I
want to appreciate it and
uplift that as well.
I aso want to call out that
this really started because
folks had this idea that all
this building, housing,
biotech, etc., we weren't
take
kayoing of our long legacy
neighbor and is community and
is families and bsinesses,
the word gentrification was
tossed around wthout really
any concrete evidence and
this
provided the technical data
points for us to really
understand what is happening
with our business owners that
we've had here for decades
and
why do they note want to
continue in south san
francisco.
It wasn't simply because a
new
housing development on
cypress
or airport is kicking out x,
y
or z business but we were
able
to understand through data
that many of those legacy
business owners wanted to
pass
down their businesses to
their
family members or sometimes
their own sons and daughters
and the family members said,
no, we're not interested in
continuing this business
model
and we're interested in
e-commerce or other
investment
that our family can continue.
These were lighting or
shedding light on myth that
is
have gone around our
community
saying it's because of x,
it's
because of y, it's because of
z.
I want to bring forth the
idea, we have a roadmap, what
this roadmap looks like, we
have lower tier, middle tier
and higher cost tier, we
can't
move things forward without
obviously additional monetary
resources and I appreciated
the fact we were able to grab
the low hanging fruit, the
policy making aspect of this
body as well as new ideas we
could further explore like my
colleagues to my right have
so
brought it forth, so I think
this is the start, this is
not
the conclusion.
I dn't like to say this iss
the end, this is a a living
tombing.
We could refer back to
additional ideas when we have
additional resources or fnds
or grants websinger could
look
back at this and implement
this.
This is one part of our big
portfolio to continue the
dialogue, to continue the
conversation.
I appreciate everyone's input
on this.
Within that, I want to go to
our city clerk to see if we
have any public comments on
this.
>> no public comments, mayor,
but there was one e-comment
submitted.
>> thank yu very much,
again,
I want to thank the members
of
the cac, I want to thank
staff, this is a report only,
so we do accept the report
find advising with the
additions and recommendations
of -- that were provided by
my
colleagues here, and thanks
for your effort and is your
time in serving south san
francisco on this project.
>> item number 17 is a report
regard ago resolution
approving a reimbursement
agreement with in-n-out
burger
restaurant for if a new
signalized intersection at el
camino real and southwood
drive/1st sreet in
connection
with the new restaurant
project at
f 932 and 972 el
camino.
Item 17a is the resolution.
>> welcome, nll.
>> sorry, let me fiebd the
beginning of my presentation.
Good evening, councilmembers,
nell selander here, economic
and community development
director and stephanie who is
is one of our senior planners
is sorry not to be here this
evening, she is not feeling
well, she shepherded this and
I want to acknowledge all her
hard work on this.
Tonight we're dosing an
already approved project, the
planning commission had the
authority granted by the city
council to approve a project
like this but what's coming
forward to you this evening
is
reimbursement agreement since
it has to do with utilizing
city funds, it comes to city
council for approval.
That reimbursement agreement
document, we did want to give
the council the benefit of a
brief presentation about the
project and also for the
community because we know
there are concerns about
traffic and queuing with a
project of this magnitude.
So as I mentioned t projts
was
approved by planning
commission on JULY 17th of
this year.
I'm going the give a very,
very brief presentation but
brigette williams with in? --
in-n-out and will a mor
thorough discussion of the
project design and then matt
ruble, our principal engineer
in public works is here to
help us as well with the q &
a.
So, the project is located at
932-9672 el camino where the
disht's walkable to here
which
is pretty exciting for all of
us to have late night
meetings
and centennial way to the
east.
So t approved project is for
a
new nearly 4 thousand square
foot building with quite a
bit
of indoor seating as well as
outdoor seating.
And drive-thru you queuing
for
39 cars, brigette is going to
walk us through this.
It's really a hallmark of
this
project.
Notable here is that all of
the buildings on the property
will be demolished as part of
this once in-n-out has site
control and a demo perm in
--
permit in hand.
the approved project also
includes some circulation
amenities, most notably a new
traffic signal at el camino
real and southwood first
drive, that is what is the
summating of this
reimbursement agreement.
There is also a pedestrian
pathway built from just on
the
project site from el camino
up
to a gate that will be
accessible to the sort of
bart
right of awhere we have
centennial trail.
If the city wanted to
complete
that connection to centennial
trail, there could be a a
nice
easy access from el camino
over through the in-n-out
site
to centennial trail.
Once the in-n-out burger
restaurant is built, there
will be interim traffic
control measures, no u-turn
signage, for folks traveling
southbound on el camino real
trying to loop around
northbound to access the site.
Here are a couple of
renderings, again, brigette
will go into more detail on
this.
In the interest of time, I
won't belabor this, I-n-out
did a great job in engaging
the community, they had a
large community meeting on
JANUARY 13, a I believe a a
number of you were in
attendance followed up with
attendees with sort of a
report of how the meeting
went, invited them to the
planning commission and then
had more targeted meetings
throughout the approval
process with the immediate
neighbors.
And you really saw that at
the
planning commission hearing,
there was public comment but
it wasn't nearly to the
extent
of the original community
meeting where some big issues
were raised that in-n-out
really incorporated into the
design.
The subject of this meeting
and this action by council is
the traffic signal
reimbursement.
Why this traffic signal is
important and particularly
important with this
development of the in-n-out
burger is that there's
already
warrants for a signalized
intersection at el camino
real
and southwood first.
What in-n-out would a is
additional traffic volumes
but
most notably a a u-turn,
folks
are going to be traveling
southbound, they're going to
want to hang a u-turn and
come
into that site, and having
that protected intersection
is
safety for not just vehicles
but pedestrians and bike
kliegs.
They started talking to
in-n-out about how important
a
signal would be here and how
we could partner to get it
done.
What we've negotiated over
the
past many months is an
agreement where in-n-out
takes
on all of the responsibility
for designing and building,
installing that signal.
The city's financial exposure
is limited to 600 thousand
tlars which does sound like a
lot of money, it's from our
transportation impact fee and
the city can -- there's a
schedule laid out in the
agreement to repay in-n-out
as
we receive transportation
impact fee sos that it's not
an all at once payment and it
limits city's cost exposure
on
the signal improvements as
contemplated in a conceptual
plan our public works
engineering division worked
out with in-n-out, and right
now in-n-out is is estimating
the signal will cost about
1.2
million dollars, so in-n-out
is spo
nd responsible
financially for that
additional 600 thousand and
then any cost overruns to
implement that conceptual
design, so we've sort of
agreed to aconcept design.
Right nw today, it sounds
like we'll be splitting costs.
The nice part about this
agreement, staff recommends
it, it does limit the cty's
cost to 600 thousand.
We've also worked out
provisions, this is a
caltrans
corridor so it require as
caltrans permit, that is a
lengthy process, if council
has questions about it, I'm
going to ask mats t ruble to
come talk about it.
We anticipate we lp get an
approval and there will be a
a
permit for this intersection
but tere are -- there is a
process in the agreement of
what happens if we can't
reach
agreement with caltrans and
the issue of that permit, so
that includes working
together
on design for a period of
time and then a payment of an
in lieu fee if caltrans for
whatever reason would never
issue that permit.
We don't think that is likely.
Again, matt can speak to
that,
we wanted to note it as this
is a process that we have to
go through with caltrans.
So, as I mentioned earlier,
brigette williams is here to
give a a more detailed
presentation on the queuing
and the traffic flow of this
project.
Matt ruble is here to help
answer questions.
I don't know if we want to
the
move into brigette's
presentation and then we'll
come back for request & a.
>> thank you, nell.
>> good evening,
councilmembers and staff, my
name is brigette williams,
the
development manager
representing in-n-out burger
tonight.
First we'd like to thank
staff
for working with us on this
project, we appreciate all
the
efforts to get us here today.
In-n-out was founded in 1948
by hairy and ester schneider,
more than 77 years after
opening that first location
have over 400 stores
operating
in nine state ad is still a
family owned business, h
et
and heres ear's grand daugt
ser the owner and PRESIDENT
Of
in-n-out and she continues the
legacy and core values of
quality service and community.
In-n-out burger operates from
a three pronged mission
statement, it is a a guiding
principle that shapes
everything we do, it
governing
all of operations, hiring
practice, company culture and
ensures we stay grounded to
our founding pribs + and
values.
Our motto is quality you can
taste, all our food is made
to
order, there isn't a single
heat lamp, microwave or
freezer in our
kitchensbackerens.
We are committed to only the
freshest ingredients that are
delivered fresh, never
frozen,
to each of our stores.
In addition to a quality
product, we are renowned for
our emphasis on customer
service.
Our associate ares the corner
stone of success, we foster
team oriented at mos fer that
encourages growth, provides
extensive training and
ensures
that every associate feels
valued and supported.
This commitment translates
into a a positive environment
that benefits not only our
team but the service we
provide every customer.
In 2025, glass door unamended
in-n-out the number 3 best
place to work.
In-n-out burger is proud to
contribute to the economic
vitality of the communities
where we operate.
Our new location in south
san
francisco will create
numerous
local job opportunities,
including over 45 store
associate positions, plus
additional support
opportunities such as
maintenance and landscaping.
It will also provide
competitive wage and is
comprehensive benefit and is
support career growth and
stability.
Beyond employment, our
operations simulate local
economic activity.
The economic benefits extend
further as the revenue
generated by our business.
Help support public service,
infrastructure improvements
and community involvement.
That is business that plays
an
act tef role in bolstering
the
bingeing nomg I can health of
south san francisco.
Our investment in the city
translates to sustained
fwro
et and prosperity for
its
residents ad cmmunity.
Community is what has shaped
in-n-out as part of our
mission statement, we are
committed to assist all
communities in our
marketplace.
We work with a var viet of
organizations seeking support
with their fundraising
efforts, including
non-profits, schools, youth
sports and more, in 2024,
in-n-out gave over 3 thousand
dollars worth of valued guest
cards, youth recognition
awards and in-kind donations
in san mateo county alone.
Additionally the company
operates three foundation,
in-n-out burger underwrites
the administrative costs of
all of these foundations.
We consider ourselves members
of every community we operate
in and we are proud to give
back in the ways we can.
As part of our development
process of this project, we
met with stakeholders
throughout the xlaount and
listened to their concerns.
We spoke with local
merchants,
we met with the community
director of the 988
apartments, we had one
resident attend the community
meeting who expressed a
concern with traffic.
We met with members of the
leadership team, the mall
tease american social club on
multiple occasions, since
NOVEMBER of 204, including
providing a tour of the site
and copies of plans.
we've met with board and
committee members and
discussed the club's concerns
with the project.
We held a community meeting
in
JANUARY of 2025,
approximately
70 community members attended
the meeting.
We displayed poster boards
that includes project backs,
design detail, building
elevations, both currently
and
proposed site plans.
Participants receive fact
sheets at frequently asked
questions documents.
We sent follow-up e-mail and
letter to meeting attendees
with a meeting summary.
And we sent direct mail to
neighbors announcing updates
to the project prior to the
planning commission hearing.
The neighborhood had a few
concerns, specifically the
largest and most important
concern we received was
regarding the traffic at the
intersection of el camino
real
and southwood and first
street, the request to
connect
the site the centennial trail
that were presented at both
design review and the
neighborhood meeting and the
other concern was drive-thru
queuing and management of
traffic.
We listen today our neighbors
and community groups.
And have addressed the issue
ins the following ways.
Traffic safety was the
highest
priority of concern that was
expressed at the neighborhood
meeting, we've worked closely
with staff to address these
issues.
In-n-out has agreed to
construct and install a
traffic signal with
crosswalks
at the intersection of el
camino real and first
street/so
ud wao
t, the
installation of this signal
is
a benefit to the community
that in-n-out and the city
work together to bring to the
neighborhood.
This city has provided the
conceptual design for the
interis section that includes
a four way traffic signal,
pedestrian crossings,
pedestrian push button,
improved medians and improved
ramps at nearby sidewalks at
each corner.
The signal will include
features such as video
detection, emergency vehicle
preemption and signal
controllers, the stein will
be
finalized by caltrans as it
is
in the caltrans right of way.
For improved pedestrian
access, the site added a
pedestrian great at the
northeast corner of the
property to allow pedestrians
to walk to our site and op to
el camino real, this was
requested by both the
neighbors and the design
review board.
The site has 51 dedicated
parking stalls which exceeds
the city's maximum
requirement
of 27 spaces.
This parking lot is designed
with optimal circulation with
no dead end parking aisles.
This additional parking
allows
associate and is parking to
park on-site minimizing
impacts tos the neighborhood.
This site lan has an on-site
dedicated driver tl
u queue
of
39 cars, the store in
millbrae has a a 10 car
dedicated quau and the two
store ins daly city have a 10
car and a 17 car dedicated
queue.
Our traffic study surveyed 8
existing stores in northern
california, on average, the
peak queues observed were 18
vehicles during weekday
evening and is 25 vehicles
during the saturday midday
peak period.
That data shows a minimum
storage capacity of 25 cars
is
sufficient for this site.
Of those stores srveyed, the
maximum queue length observed
was 33 cars.
This project has a storage
capacity of 39 cars, this
site
provides more than sufficient
queuing.
Also the dedicated queue
begins towards the rear of
the
site.
The site can hold
approximately 8 cars twaoep
the dedicated drive-thru lane
and the south entrance on el
l
camino real bringing the
on-site queuing capacity to
nearly 50 cars.
Our queue management system
begins when the stack reach
it
is menu board at car 10.
A a
t this stage, associates
are deployed with hand-held
devices to take orders
outside.
Awareness of the queue reach
thing 10th car is enhanced
with outdoor cameras and
indoor monitors.
These cameras display on
multiple mon toser located
inside the restaurant
including at the manager'ser
office.
This rest raont will be
equipped with three burger
grills, two grills will
operate a at all time,
activation of the third fwril
will be used for typically
high drive-thru queue demand.
With these practices and the
site design, we were
intentional aout minimizing
impacts to the neighborhood
and getting customers on to
our site as efficiently as
possible.
The mission of dpsh te
statement of south san
francisco is to provide a
safe, attractive and well
maintained city through
excellent customer service
and
superior program and is to
have a work ethic that will
enhance the community's
quality of life.
At in-n-out, we share in this
vision of south san francisco
and our project will spourpt
these goals.
We provide safe, attractive,
and family friendly
restaurant, with high quality
ingredients, excellent
customer service, we create
-
an
inviting space where family
and friends can gather far
meal we. Are thrilled to be
part of this community.
Thank you.
>> thank you very much.
>> any questions?
>> great.
Thank you, thank you for that.
I'll go to my colleagues here
for any additional questions
or comments.
>> MR. Mayor, I felt it was
only appropriate that I
tested
out the queue and is go to
the
various in-n-out -- no, but
in
all seriousness, I had a
question about the sop light.
So, it's two years, right,
that's what I'm understanding
,
and they can also deny the
permit but we still can build
it even if they deny it?
I'm trying to understand n
the
staff report, you're going
the
work something out with
in-n-out in terms of next
steps in terms of the light.
>> caltrans.
>> sorry.
>> matt ruble, principal
engineer, we worked closely
with in-n-out of on the
reimbursement agreement
recognize hating we are nt
the only parties that are in
control of whether this
signal
gets built or not, we know
how
long that process can take so
we just put provisions in
there that if caltrans were
to
deny the signal, that we
would
meet and work with the
applicant in-n-out to find a
a
way to mitigate for their
concerns, that said, we don't
anticipate caltrans staining
no to this.
Caltrans there l have the
requirement, they'll have
things that they want to
include in the stein and --
design and how they want it
built.
We have current bus stops on
either side of el camino at
that location that do not
have
safe pedestrian crossing.
We have a chance to bring it
to the community.
>> I think it -- it's
unfortunate we're going to
have to potentially wait two
years.
You're putting temporary no
u-turn signs there, we're not
going to have pd out there
the
whole time looking at if
somebodybacker someone's
going
to u-turn.
>> currently it's allowed
there, it warrant as a signal
but it noes not a particular
hazard at this time.
They'll be continually
monitored by pd and public
works and if it becomes an
issue during that design and
construction phase, we'll
meet
with in-n-out and figure out
other reasonable step that is
can be taken.
To in-n-out's credit, they've
engaged caltrans and have
submitted plans at their own
risk and are going through
the
process to do everything
possible to accelerate that.
We're trying to be
transparent
as we can to say we can't
control how fast the state
provides that permit.
>> I have to speak to
in-n-out
now.
In terms of general ukeep
for
the site, what are you doing
in thermoses of making sure
you're clearing out niz
vegetation or debris now, no
you it's fenced off.
>> in-n-out does not have
control of the property when
we get notice, our
understanding is the property
owners are working with the
code enforcement to do site
cleanups, there was a cleanup
that went out last saturday,
there was a clean tha
up went
out a couple of weeks ago, if
we hear about it, we engage
and let the appropriate
parties know.
>> okay.
>> thank you.
Go ahead.
>> brigette, please come back
to the podium.
MS. Selander, you used the
same term, you said once
there's site control, so I'm
going to interpret that as
you
don't own the property?
>> correct.
>> so, you got approval on
JULY 25.
How long does it usually take
you to finalize a deal for
land acquisition?
I mean, this is a a family
owned operation, right so,
there's not a massive
corporation, there's people
that can make decisions,
right.
>> we are --
>> how long does it take?
>> I do not know the answer
to
that question.
>> I'm sorry that you didn't
come with an answer for that
because I'm not really
interested in much else
except
the blight that that ste has
become and it's not the only
one on that strip of el
camino
real, there's another one
that
bothers me because it's been
ten years but I don't want
you
to put your toe in the water
and then splash around a
little bit and not make a a
commitment.
I don't understand why you
haven't bought the property
and I'm not going the vote on
the reimbursement.
Are we expected to vote
tonight on the reimbursement
agreement because I'm losing
interest rapidly.
It's funny because your sign,
I don't know if it's retro
sign or currently it said
in-n-out burger, no delay, I
suspect or suggest that there
be no delay in acquiring the
property and raising that
building.
And then I'll be interested
in
what you want to bring to
south city.
>> thank you.
Councilmember nicolas?
>> yeah, I want a
clarification from matt,
matt,
you said in-n-out has
submitted the designs at risk
to caltrans, right?
>> yes.
>> and so for caltrans,
usually what is their usual
length of time to look into
this in the past?
Have we done something like
this before wth caltrans?
>> yeah, we've done extensive
work at caltrans right of way
& so the most -- a very
simple
project which I would
consider
a signal to be, it could be
anywhere from 12 months to
get
a review and approval through
their process and then so te
two year timeline would
recognize, it would be about
a
year construction once they
get the approval to procure
the material and is do the
site work.
>> okay, thank you.
>> councilmember coleman?
>> yes, so councilmember
addiego or sorry, vice mayor
add yoeg -- addiego, your
line
of questioning intrigued me,
when the construction
expected
to start on in-n-out.
We don't have
>> we have no interest in
delaying construction but we
need permit ins hand before
we
can get going.
>> this DECEMBER?
>> yes.
>> and how long do yu
estimate this project will
take until completion?
>> typically our projects
take
about 8 months once
construction starts.
Er
>> so we're looking for a
lovely ribbon cutting late
2026.
And the intersection is going
the take two years?
>> that's what the agreement
allows more, at that time in
time we're already in
permitting with the city of
south san francisco, the
caltrans design was longer
than we were ale to get plan
ins.
That timeline includes the
fact we can cannot include
caltrans ask they tend to
mover slower than city review
sos that includes their plan
check process and
construction
of the signal.
>> right, believe me, our
council dwets a lot of e-mail
and is social media comments
and there is a lot of concern
about the traffic and my
worry
is we open that in-n-out and
the traffic signal is not
there yet and people say,
look, they didn't fulfill
their promise and they get
all
upset in addition to who
knows
how many months of there
being
worsened traffic at that.
So, what can we could to
ensure that the construction
of the intersection is timed
well to where it is open by
the time the in-n-out and
complete.
W redoing everything in our
power we can, we started
talking with caltrans in
MARCH
of 2025, so well before we
had
even established we were
going
to be working on this traffic
signal.
We started initial
conversations with them,
we've
launched dine already at risk
to start the plans of this
traffic signal and we're
submitting into caltrans so
we
are getting this moved as
quickly as possible and we're
trying to escalate and get us
quick reviews as we can by
caltrans, they just move
sloily
slily.
>> that is a question to
staff, is there anything we
can do bet tore ensure this
intersection gets cued in
time?
>> if I could just in before,
I had provided thoughts, I
believe it was nell or
someone, we have the great
benefit of south san
francisco
to be able to have two state
senators and two state
assembly members and I
encourage staff as well as I
was willing to put a letter
forth to caltrans, as well as
utilize our state legislators
to be able to expedite this
and make it a top priority
being ecr is such a commuted
and high desirable street
area, so I want today see if
that's moved anywhere, if
that's in consideration, if
either in-n-out has had --
just saying we can't do
anything because caltrans is
caltrans, we can't -- that's
not something that we could
just accept I guess.
>> no, we agree to that, as a
staff perspective, we write
the agreements tos recognize
what we and can't control, as
a staff level, we are engaged
with caltrans and in-n-out in
conversation widths the
state,
at various levelers we're
leveraging existing city
relationship widths our
counterparts at the state in
order to streamline the
process where possible and
help move through the process
so we're not passively just
waiting for caltrans, we're
working in partnership to see
this come to fruition as fast
as possible.
>> great.
>> my next question is so
last
council meeting, we received
a
report, was it from caltrans,
I think it was from caltrans,
they're potentially going to
have a bus lane, maybe a bike
lane.
>> megan's still here,
mobility.
>> great.
This is a question to
in-n-out
but up the street, we're
going
to get a new bike shop is so
the idea is there's going to
probably be more bikers, more
psych ers going up and down
camino real and I do not see
bike parking on in-n-out
site,
is that something you can
commit to?Frjts we have
short
term and long term bike
parking on our site.
.
Inger you do, thank you, I
appreciate it.
That's my questions.
>> anyone else?
Alright.
Do we have any public
comments
on this?
>> no public comments, mayor.
>> alright.
We are looking for -- this is
an action item, this is to
approve the resolution so
I'll
open it up, I there a motion
to move the resolution
forward?
>> okay, admittedly I did a
little grand standing there
because I wanted to make a
point, the reality is we've
approved the project, so
whether or not we get a a
signalized intersection is
really all on this agreement,
but I'm really not happy with
the fact that building is
still standing but I'm not
going the shoot myself in the
foot on the reimbursement
agreement, so ill make the
motion.
>> second.
>> I have a first and a
second.
can I please have roll call.
>> mayor flores?
>> yes.
>> councilmember nicolas
?Frjts aye.
>> councilmember nagales?
>> aye.
>> vice mayor addiego?
>> yes.
>> councilmember coleman?
>> yes.
>> mayor flores?
>> yes.
>> can I have item 15 come up
now before we do the last
final item, MADAM City
angering and nell?
>> it's a short explanation
of
the errata sheet we've
prepared.
>> will you read that.
Er
>> item 15 is a report
regard
ago resolution approving
budget amendment number 26
.035 appropriating 17 o 0
thousand dollars for
emergency
food assistance for south san
francisco supplemental
nutrition assistance program
recipients.
Item 15a is the resolution.
>> thank you.
>> nell selander, economic
and
community development
director, sorry, it's late,
on
OCTOBER 29, city council
authorized staff to move
ahead
with an emergency food
assistance program for snap
recipients that were not
getting their usual snap
benefits for NOVEMBER, city
staff worked closely with
ymca
on program guideline and is
held a distribution event on
friday NOVEMBER 7 serving 269
households with $100 in gift
cards.
The ymca currently has $3,100
on hand in gift cards tha,'s
from that fser allotment we
delivered and late last week,
it was still very unclear
whether or not those NOVEMBER
payments were going to come
in, in full.
There was some feeling that
maybe recipients would get a
partial payment so we made a
a
decision to mover ahead with
buying another tranche of
those gift cards so we would
be ready for a distribution
event today.
Well, as you all MAY have
received a ding on your phone
during this meeting, the
house
voted to approve the senate
funding package and the
PRESIDENT Signed it, so one
of
the great -- one of the good
things enshrined in that is
that tlas new funding cliff
at
the end of JANUARY but it
does
not apply to snap benefits so
there are some carve outs for
specific programs to not be
impacted by another shutdown
like this.
So, right nw we don't see an
immediate need for those
cards
which are non-refundable.
So, we want to -- with this
council action take -- make a
couple of tweak tos the
language, originally the
appropriate had been set up
to
appropriate yait that full
170
thousand tla council
authorized a the OCTOBER 29
meeting.
We recommend reduce hating to
85 thousand, so that would
cover 80 thousand and the
direct costs for those gift
cards and then 5 thousand for
reasonable administrative
expenses incurred by the
ymca,
they took about 11 staff
members off-line for most of
a
week to prepare for this
program and then actually
deliver it to the public.
So, that is what we recommend
is just to change the number
in the resolution from 170
thousand to 85 thousand.
There are a couple of things
happening at the county level
with the food distributions
that normally occur t county
has committed a good amount
of
funds to emergency food
relief, food assistance and
so
my understanding in speaking
with staff at the ymca is the
county will come through and
provide the protein in the
NOVEMBER thanksgiving and
DECEMBER sort of
christmas/new
year's food distributions but
it is not clear what is going
to happen into the new year
and so staff at this point is
recommending to wait and see
how the county decides to
spend that nearly million
dollars appropriated which we
should know in the month or
two and then make a decision
about how to spend those gift
cards that we have on hand
because there is such an
immediate need right now but
there MAY be in the coming
months.
The one caveat I would give
is
the ymca does have $3,100 on
hand and staff would
recommend
that we allow them to use
that
to fill their emergency
pantry
through the month of JANUARY,
so sort of using those funds
as they need to make sure
that
they always have a certain
number of staples on hand
which is something that
occasionally second harvest
or
the county will provide and
that's usually about a
thousand dollars a month.
And that is the staff
recommendation.
>> thank you.
Let's hear from everyone on
this topic.
I have some thoughts but I
would like to hear everyone
else.
>> I'm ready.
>> I wanted to roll back to
the 29th, the 29th, I
recognize the emergency
situation and that the mayor
wanted to get out in front of
this and it was ultimately a
good move although
unbeknownst
to any of us, not necessary,
but when emergency action is
needed, my understanding is
that the city manager has
some
availability and I think we
give you a maximum amount of
dollars that you can expaned
in a direction given in an
emergency, what is that
number?
>> I believe I can spend up
to
150 thousand.
>> yeah tha,'s what I
thousand
dollaring thought, that would
have been one way to go.
Quite honestly, I was a
little
unappreciative the way it
went
down because I'm sitting up
here flat footed not knowing
how to respond but maybe
we'll
have a conversation another
day.
As far as the money that was
expended, a little less than
30 thousand dollars, is that
what the five thousand
dollars
covers their cost for giving
away 269 cards?
>> so, --
>> is that correct?
>> yes.
>> tla's about $10 a card?
>> so, --
>> $10 on a $50 card to give
away money, is my math
correct?
>> so, it's -- with ymca
request requested is 18%
which
is an administrative fee when
they run our other programs.
Er
>> I think I had this problem
before with the y, I was
maybe exactly that 18%, I
can't believe there's not a
better way to do that and
these emergencies can happen
at any time and we have to be
able to mover quickly, but
giving up 18% of te funds to
get some food in people's
hands and now you want to
take
$3,100 and give it to them
for
their pantry but they have to
use a safeway card at retail
prices in a safeway?
That's how we're going to
fill
their pantry?
>> this MAY seem odd, that is
how second harvest and the
county are currently --
>> they go ta -- a retail
establishment t buy food?
>> the second harvest, the
large deliveries that come,
those are all bulk prices,
that's my understanding,
those
are all negotiated bulk
price,
when they buy protein for all
the core service agencies.
Very specific items for their
panty in there that are just
emergency items.
If somebody comes in without
diapers, we have the diaper
program, they can have
diapers, if somebody comes in
and doesn't have formula,
it's
just emergencies, it's a
different sort of set of
products.
>> you know, when you are
approached by non-profits to
donate money for a good cause
and you like that good cause,
one of the smart thing tos do
is to go online and see how
much administrative costs
there are and quite frankly
fi
aoem going to give $100, I
don't want $18 of it for
those fees, I won't give
money
to an organization like that.
I think we need to find
better
way.
I was having a brief ksing
with the city manager at our
weekly meeting, we had 269
families show up I guess on
that one day.
If you have a job between
8-4,
you couldn't get in line to
get assistance because it was
shut down at 4:00, that's --
again, I'm saying there are
some clumsy thing ins this
that we maybe moved too fast
t
spirit ws right, but it was
clumsy.
Imagine the other scenario
where you really got the
information o
ut to everybody
that needed 100 buck and is
all 1700 were on that corner,
the pd would have had a
tremendous problem with that
situation, so there's lessons
to be learned here moving
ahead.
I think we have to take
things
in our own hands bcause this
could have gone sideways in a
real bad way, so I'm not -- I
appreciate how fast you acted
and I know that other
communities are envious of
what we were able to --
that's
thank tos you, nell, and
thank
it I to the y, but
ultimately
there has been to a better
way.
>> I agree.
>> it's a program where
you're
exec checking -- checking, I
don't think that warrants 1%.
There's a reason why we asked
to donate to second harvest
directly and not necessarily
-- there are a lot of
advocates out there that say
you should donate to second
harvest, don't just bring
whatever's in your pant --
pantry.
As much a we can insure that
bulk pricing is used, that
means more mouths can be fed,
so ill appreciate if we could
use those excess funds in
that
way.
.
Er I concur with both of my
colleagues from mill right
and
left.
I believe that there was
probably a need but pulling
in
11 I guess staffers from
whatever they were doing and
18%, that-I would not have
moved forward.
Let's put it that way with
that.
>> is that an agreement we
have with them?
>> it's not, it was a
request,
they would do it either wy
and they did, they completed
that task, so n commitment
was made, tafs request which
I
have conveyed to council, the
reason why I think it is
reasonable is is typically --
so, for sort of background
that I think might help frame
that request is as the cdbg
subcommittee kows tymca has
come to the city in the past
for larger operational
support
the sort of steal them for
things like this, so they're
not asking for that
administrative fee on
individual programs but can
be
a more meaningful partner and
staffed to be more nimble
when
they're not right now tha,'s
like the background to this,
there has been a larger asks
sk
in the past, so in the
programs that we are running
through the ymca which are
very staff intensive, I don't
have a problem recommending
that as a reasonable expense
related to the program we're
asking them to run.
>> I have to interject, we're
talking about 11 people and
it's five thousand dollars,
what did they get paid?
What did their staffers get
paid on that day, nothing
near
5 tho, d thousand dollars.
Er
>> if I can just interject,
I
think one of the lessons
learned is we did act very
quickly and without as much
consideration as staff wanted
to provide, the direction was
just do it and we did it and
so with respect to lessons
learned, I think if we don't
want the continue the pay the
18% administrative fee to ymc
ark, wi don't have to spend
the other 50 thousand dlu the
ymca, that's why we're
recommending the pause, we'll
see what happens with the
rest
of the program and we can
give
you more option ins a more
thoughtful sort of way.
I think there was more for
the
ymca han just has appending
out cards, they had to
develop
a tracking system and how
with
regoing to keep track of
these
cards and the document had to
be vvisible to all of us
because the city wanted
fiscal
control, we wanted to make
sure all of those cards were
not going to be put in
somebody's pocket.
Nell and ymca worked that
out,
I think one of the lessons
learned is certainly given
more time to be
thoughtfulfinger we could
certainly be more efficient.
>> I don't want the down play
what staff did, I think we're
thankful that it happened and
it's just lez sons learned,
next time something happens
and hopefully it doesn't, who
knows what the federal
administration, like we will
know better, and I also want
to say there were comment
from
the community about this be
open from 8 A.M. To 4 P.M.
And
then I think I sent you a
text
and then the next week's
times
were again on a weekday from
8
A.M. To 4 P.M..
I think moving forward, we
have to be cognizant of that.
>> you've heard what you
need,
yeah?
>> so, you need --
>> we always intended to have
this resolution come at this
meeting to formalize what the
council direction was on
OCTOBER 29 which was to make
-- set these monies aside for
this purpose, so the amended
resolution would be to
decrease that, so if yu want
to decrease it to just the
city's direct costs of 80
thousand dollars, if you want
to decrease that to 85
thousand to account for some
administrative fees, that's
really at council's
discretion, but I would
recommend that you do
decrease
the amount of the
appropriation to what we've
spent, to what we know we
need
to spend.
>> and that is again?
>> 80 tousand dollars, 85 if
you would like the include
the
administrative fees.
>> alright, so we're going to
mover the resolution with an
amended cost, not the 170, to
mover it to 85 thousand as
recommended by staff.
Is there a motion to approve
this?
>> I think again we probably
sent a message, I think there
most likely was given on past
performance, there was
probably an expectation and
we
have to keep a good working
relationship between our
staff
that worked so efficiently
and
the yrk who was able to carry
something out at a moment's
notice but it eats much too
expensive for a food give
away
and the retail, you know,
buying retail, it doesn't --
anyway, it wasn't the most
efficient, but I can support
the 85.
>> like you said, it's always
-- the spirit was good, so
yeah.
Frngt there's a -- is there a
a motion?
Yes?
>> mike moved it.
>> I said I can support it,
someone else can make the
motion.
.
Er I have a first from
councilmember nagales, second
-- did you want to make the
second?
>> yes, I'll go second.
>> I have a first from
councilmember nicolas.
>> yes.
>> this is like getting
pregnant.
>> wow.
>> okay, first from
councilmember nicolas, is
there a second?
>> I can second this.
Er
>> I have a first and a
second.
Roll call, please.
>> councilmember nagales?
>> yes.
>> councilmember nicolas
?Frjts aye.
>> vice mayor addiego?
>> yes.
>> councilmember coleman?
>> yes.
Er
>> mayor flores?
>> yes.
>> thank you, nell and staff.
Next item, please.
>> item 18 is a report regard
ago a resolution approving an
employment agreement between
the city of south san
francisco and laura snideman
for service as city manager
and amend thing fiscal year
25-26 salary schedule t
reflect changes in the salary
for the city manager position.
Item number 18a is the
resolution.
>> good evening, mayor and
city council, as you know,
earlier this year, city
manager sharon ranals
announced her intention to
retier after more than 40
years of sto
fs the city.
Her last day of active s
frs
as city manager will be
DECEMBER 30th, which will
also
be her last day of employment
with the city.
Upon MS. Analyses'
announcement, city council
initiated a recruitment for a
new city manager, and that
process started in JULY and
that included retention of
professional executive
recruiting filler.
The city received over 60
applications for the position.
There was an initial
screening
and interview widths
recruiter, and review by the
city council.
a short list of candidates
was
prepared for interview widths
the full city council,
following that interview
process, council identified
laura snideman as the top
candidate, a an a ad hoc mitt
taoet of vice mayor add yoeg
goe and councilmember nagales
began the process of offering
MS. Snideman the position and
negotiating the terms of
employment conditioned on a
braque ground and reference
check and final approval by
the full council which is
before you tonight.
MS. Snideman has previously
served as the city manager of
the cities aof cal stowing
ga,
richmond and half moon bay
and
has held positions with other
cities as well.
Just going through the
proposed terms of the
employment agreement, her
first day of employment would
be JANUARY 5, 2026.
The base salary that's
proposed is 380 thousand 400
dollars this accidenter
amount
is in line with that of other
city managers within san
mateo
county and the surrounding
area with consideration give
to the size of the city, the
incumbent's tenure and prior
experience.
Benefits would be the same as
for other employee who is are
part f the exec tier
management units as provided
for in the executive
management compensation plan.
The agreement allows ms.
snideman to ge bin with
compliment with leave banks
of
80 hours of vacation and 40
hours of sick leave and would
accrue vacation at four weeks
a annually.
She will not receive a a car
allowance but will receive
mileage we ambushments for
use
of personal vehicle at the
standard irs rate.
The agreement is neshlly for
one year.
There is an initial
evaluation.
The resolution before you
would approve the employment
agreement appointing MS.
Snideman as city manager and
amend the fiscal year 25-26
salary schedule, a a all aof
these would be effective as
ofp JANUARY 5, 2026.
I'm available for any
questions.
>> thank you, MR. City, I
appreciate that.
Would members of the ad hoc
must be subcommittee like to
provide comment?
>> well, I would like to
point
out that MS. Snideman is in
the audience tonight and she
sat through most of this
meeting and she didn't rn
away, so she already passed
the first test and I'm not
usually like this, I'm a lot
more quiet so I don't know
what happened tonight but
this
is not always me.
I have done this -- these
searches four times and
they're never easy.
There is always people that
criticize your choice and
we've had in the past, we've
had an occasion when there
was
so much criticism that the
council caved and gave us a
very good applicant.
This is way in the past and
so
I think that I'm looking
forward to the change canning
at city hall.
I am excited about her
background, her depth of
experience and I will be
working with her for cal one
year but I think it will be a
a productive and gratifying
year for all of us.
>> first let me thank sharon
though for her 45 years of
service to the city.
I want to say thank you,
aisle
have more words tat reorg, I
wanted to recognize you and
say thank yu for your
amazing
work and I know that your
staff loves you and adores
you
and people in this community
adore you as well, so to
laura, you know, what I
really
appreciated was the one on
one
conversations I had with her,
just trying to get to the
know
her better, kind of
understand, kind of her
thinking and what I got from
it is that she is an
extremely
hard worker and that she is
going to make herself
available to staff and to
work
with everyone here, to really
continue the progress that
we're doing here in south san
francisco because a I said
earlier, we
people are pretty envious of
what we have done, I made
sure
laura understands that, and
we're a team and you're only
as amazing as your team and
we
have amazing people here.
I know the mayor will guide
her and I know all of us will
work with you and provide
direction, so you have some
big shoes to fill but I look
forward to working with you.
>> thank you.
Let's go to this side,
councilmember nicolas?
>> you know, sharon, how I
feel about you, it was during
my tenure as mayor even right
after mike ka tr
el announced
he was going somewhere else,
I
walked with you through that
fun run and we had fun, so
thank you very much.
Doing the initial interview
process of the finalists, I
posed a question that I would
like to see introspection, so
I asked, I proposed to ask
what keeps you up at night on
the decisions that you have
made and what lessons have
you
learned and what would you do
differently.
So, all of the finalists
answered that question.
During the second interview,
one of laura's question was
how would I measure success
and I know distinctly that I
told you that I would like to
see employee retention
because
as we all know, our employees
here is the life blood, we
can't do anything here
without
our employees.
Success for you would mean
you
will have a high retention
rate.
I understand and have read
many things, iternet nrftion
is all over the place, but
during my own career, I had
how many team members and had
experienced wins and losses.
I believe that we all evolve,
I am not the same person I
was
ten years ago or even just a
couple of years ago.
Laura seemed to have the
technical skills required for
the job during our interview,
that's based on my evaluation.
My fervent hope is for you to
apply those skills that I
have
observed while making sure
that it is also a good fit,
upholding our values and
norms, it is not just how
much
and what you have done but
also how it was done,
communication, appreciation
of
leadership and team work.
This is a very small, even
though we're a city of 6
people, this is still a very
small community, we know
what's going on, everybody
talks and it's really hard
not
to know, so ihope employees
should still remain engaged,
productive and have high job
satisfaction, so I'm just
really have high hopes that
this will work hopefully.
>> councilmember coleman?
>> so, first I want to thank
sharon for her 45 years of
service to the south city
community.
It's very sad to see you go,
I
know be active in the
community, maybe you will be
giving public comment like
everyone else I'm opining but
really you have big shoes to
fill and many of my
conversations with you, I
have
louvered the substitutional
knowledge that you bring and
the h
us ri that you bring to
the leadership of this city
and I fear after next year,
we're losing you and we're
losing mark, who's going to
be
the historian on our city
council, I don't know, it
will
be mark nagales and flor
nicolas, looking forward, I'm
optimistic, I know that there
is -- I would be remiss to
mention there is some anxiety
amongst staff and among the
community and I think that's
natural.
Whenever you see a new leader
in your organization, it's
natural to feel that way.
But I will say that dring
the
multiple sper viewers we've
-- interviews we had with oun
our candidates with laura, I
had a a one on one phone call
with laura sell and many of
the concerns we once had were
addressed.
And I believe that we will
have a very productive year
next year, I urge everyone to
give laura a chance, I know
laura comes with a lot of
experience, with michael len,
many skill and is with a lot
of south city as well with
and
for the community we have
built here.
I'm looking.Er ward to next
year and hopefully many more
year toser come in the city
of
south san francisco.
.
>> I want to thank sharon
for
her many year, she started a
junior in her career here in
south san francisco and that
speaks to what the culture of
south san francisco has been
with employees, many of our
employees that have been here
for decades started junior in
their career, perhaps right
out of kleng or as intern and
is I have seen during the
time
that I have been here in
relation to park and is rec
and all other departments,
see
that evolution and growth and
that maturity level and has
expertise level and that
level
of context and provide
framing
and being able to care about
our community and is being
able to respond and act
quickly when we know that
there is an important request
to public works or to parks
and rec, we're a city of
opportunity and is I want to
thank sharon on her tenure, I
want to thank all the
numerous
little sharon she will leave
behaind a also because your
leg is si will continue even
though we don't see you every
day, her training, her jokes,
her mannerisms, her ability
to
be able to to love the city
as
much as she has loved it for
for so many years, I want to
thank sky and I want to thank
leah and toipt thank the
recruiting team that have
been
able to mover this forward
and
so instrumental with such
caution and maturity and
understanding that this is a
sensitive issue.
I want to thank the members
of
the ad hoc committee here,
they did a lot of heavy
lifting from pulling
questions
to bringing town 60
candidates
down to the now finalists
that
we have before us.
I also want to say we are an
inclusive city, we are a city
of opportunities, not one but
even two opportunities, w're
not a city that dives into
council culture.
We don't counsel people
immediately without knowing
them, we give them an
opportunity, we give them a
chance.
We're not any of the other
cities that perhaps could
have
been mentioned or looked up
on
a google link or whatnot, you
see the five of us, we care,
we love, and you see our team
who lover and care also,
that's what has driven at the
center of they l
ex process
with trust and also thinking
about our community members
and thinking about our staff
that have been here for
decades, longer than many of
us perhaps have been here as
well.
So I want to appreciate all
of
those effort, I want to
appreciate the time we
recently hve gone televising
tl
u t sl
etion of a
chancellor at the college
district, a selection of a
PRESIDENT At college of san
mateo selection of another
PRESIDENT At skyline college,
I've seen this, I've seen
hiring committees, and like
councilmember coleman said,
it's brought anxiousness and
change can be good, I
challenge everyone to not
only
give an opportunity but allow
yourself tos learn and all of
us to be able to be hmble in
this new chapter that south
san francisco enters and
again
I couldn't be more
appreciative of this council
for the support and with
that,
is there any public comments
on there?
>> no public comments, mayor,
but we did receive
secondments.
>> noted, thank you very
much,
I would like to maouf forward
and make a a notion approve
item 18a as state ined the
resolution.
Is there a second?
>> I'll second that moex.
>> thank you, I have a first
and a second, can I have a
roll call, please.
>> councilmember nicolas?
>> aye.
>> vice mayor addiego?
>> yes.
>> councilor member coleman
?Frjts yes.
Er
>> councilmember nagales
?Frjts yes.
>> mayor flores?Frjts yes.
>> thank you, sky, and
congratulations, MS.
Snideman,
welcome to the team.
Thank you.
Alright.
Moving on and wrapping up.
Next item.
>> items from council,
committee reports and
announcements.
>> any committee reporters?
Go ahead.
>> not wraoelly committee
report, I am leaving to asia
tomorrow and coming back --
>> you're traveler.
>> I'm leaving to taiwan to
visit the homeland because
that's where my mother's side
is from and then to japan and
then I will be gabbing
DECEMBER 9 in time for the
reorg, I timed it perfectly e
I hope.
If you're mad at me, contact
the mayor.
>> or the soon to be mayor.
>> the harbor district
liaison
committee by councilmember
coleman and myself, we met,
the standard procedure of
being able to present before
us the police reportbacker
report t work they're doing
in
our oyster point marina t
harbor district w ve a
liaison
committee that meets
quarterly
o so that continues to exist.
Any other report from my
colleagues, if not, next item.
>> we'll mover along to
closed
session, item number 19,
conference with legal
counsel,
anticipated litigation,
significant exposure the
litigation pursuant to
government code section
54956.9d2, one potential case.
>> thank you, happy thantion
give, everyone, this is the
only meeting here in
NOVEMBER,
we will see each other back
in
DECEMBER for our regular city
council meeting.
We are now adjourned to
closed
session.