City Council Meeting Minutes
April 22, 2025
CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING MINUTES
City Council Chambers, City Hall, One Twin Pines Lane, Belmont, California Tuesday, April 22, 2025
1. ITEMS BEFORE 7:00 PM
A. CLOSED SESSION (none)
B. STUDY SESSION (6:30 p.m.)
a. Belmont's Centennial Celebration Discussion
Parks and Recreation Director Shearer provided a presentation of initial planning efforts for Belmont Centennial Celebration in 2026.
No action required.
C. SPECIAL SESSION/OTHER TOPICS (none)
Recess: 6:44 PM
Reconvene: 7:00 PM
REGULAR BUSINESS ITEMS
2. CALL TO ORDER 7:00 PM
Roll Call
Councilmembers Present: Jordan, McCune, Pang-Maganaris, Mates Councilmembers Absent: Latimerlo
3. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Led by Mayor Mates.
4. REPORT FROM CLOSED SESSION
No closed session was held on this meeting date.
5. SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
a. Proclamation Recognizing May as Mental Health Awareness Month Mayor Mates read the proclamation and presented it to Patricia Player Maxwell Belmont Redwood Shores Rotary.
b. Proclamation Recognizing April 22, 2025 as Earth Day Mayor Mates read the proclamation.
c. Proclamation Recognizing April 25, 2025 as Arbor Day in Belmont Mayor Mates read the proclamation.
d. Proclamation Recognizing May as National Arab American Heritage Month Mayor Mates read the proclamation.
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e. Celebrate the Music Presentation
Alan Sarver, event coordinator provided a presentation on the music festival.
6. PUBLIC COMMENTS ON ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA
Tiffany Obayashi provided comments on Ralston Avenue pedestrian protection.
Eric Dentler provided comments on the benefits of the Belmont History Museum.
7. COUNCILMEMBER ANNOUNCEMENTS
Councilmembers shared updates on upcoming events and highlighted recent successful events held prior to the meeting
8. CONSENT BUSINESS
a. Approval of Minutes March 23, 2025 Meeting
b. Motion authorizing the City Manager to negotiate and execute a service agreement with Bay Area Tree Specialists for vegetation management and fuel reduction services for an amount not to exceed $207,000. c. Resolution 2025-30 approving winter Holiday Closures for the periods December 25, 2025 through January 1, 2026; December 25, 2026 through January 3, 2027; December 27, 2027 through January 2, 2028. d. Resolution 2025-31 authorizing the City to accept a $500,000 grant from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) Transit Oriented Communities (TOC) program for the purpose of administering a multi-jurisdictional study to update inclusionary housing and commercial linkage fee policies, enter into a Master Grant Agreement with MTC to be the fiscal agent for the multi-jurisdictional grant, and appropriate the grant funds to the Affordable Housing Fund.
e. Introduced an ordinance regulating indemnity requirements for applicants and holders of permits, licenses and other city entitlements, encroachments, and right of way maintenance
f. Motion authorizing the City Manager to negotiate and execute an agreement with the County of San Mateo for minimum wage enforcement services for a one year term, with the option to renew for two additional two-year periods, at a flat rate of $10,000 annually.
g. Motion approving a Permanent Encroachment Agreement for Retaining Wall within the public right-of- way adjacent to 1041 Hill Street.
Public comment provided by Giuliano Carlini on item D of the consent calendar. E-mail comments also received prior to the meeting.
ACTION: On a motion made by Councilmember Pang-Maganaris and Councilmember Jordan the Consent Calendar was approved by a roll call vote (4-1, Latimerlo absent).
9. PUBLIC HEARINGS (none)
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10. GENERAL BUSINESS
a. Annual Transportation and Mobility Update
Assistant Public Works Engineer Matthews, Police Lieutenant Hussey and Deputy Fire Marshal Martin provided a report on the three Es of multi-modal transportation (engineering, education and enforcement) this was an informational item, no action taken.
Public Comment provided by Giuliano Carlini
b. Amendments to Regional Commercial (RC) Zoning District Deputy Community Development Director Russell and provided a report on proposed amendments to the Regional Commercial Zoning District Designation and associated Environmental Review.
Council concurred with staff recommendations; no other action was taken.
11. BRIEF VERBAL REPORTS FROM MEMBERS AND STAFF
b. Verbal report from Councilmembers on Intergovernmental (IGR) and Subcommittee Assignments
Councilmembers reported on their IGR assignments.
c. Verbal report from City Manager
City Manager Oskoui reported on an upcoming community workshop regarding the Harbor Industrial Area. He noted that outreach efforts are in preparation for summer construction projects. He also shared that a survey was distributed to the community to gather input on the City’s website modernization and refresh.
12. MATTERS OF INTEREST/CLARIFICATION (none)
13. ADJOURNMENT at this being 9 p.m.
Submitted by,
Jozi Plut, City Clerk