PROPOSED FISCAL YEAR 2025-2026 CITY COUNCIL PRIORITIES
Primary
Department(s)
Support
Department(s)
Resource Intensity Similar Initiative
Underway
MAYOR NEWSOM
1 Housing, explore how we can help 2-story small to medium apartment owners redevelop their properties to make more units
CDD CAO; CMO Low - explore Yes – This is part
of City Council
Priority 19:
“Implement
Housing Element
Policies”
2 Explore and evaluate the replacement of Fire Station 27 CMO CAO/Finance Low – explore/evaluate
Yes – This is part
of staff’s work plan
to map and assess
City assets
3 Explore limiting overnight RV Parking in commercial corridors CDD; CMO; PD CAO Low - explore No
DEPUTY MAYOR LORRAINE
1 Explore how the City of San Mateo could partner with the San Mateo Union High School District, San Mateo-Foster City School District and other public, private and nonprofit organizations to support "Empower San Mateo," a community collaborative model aiming to help 1000 equity priority San Mateo students graduate and thrive. Possibilities include: evaluating how our city's assets (e.g. parks and recreation centers, libraries and more) could be further activated to support these and other San Mateo students; considering expansion/piloting of programming that could help such students find internships and local work experience, including within the City itself.
*Some information on Empower San Mateo attached.
PD; Parks CMO; CAO Medium - explore No
2 Commission a citywide feasibility study for groups of San Mateo businesses interested in forming business improvement districts (BIDs). This could include existing smaller districts outside of downtown, such as 25th Avenue and Crystal Springs Shopping Center, but it could also include new groupings such as sections of El Camino Real. Downtown could also be included, if businesses there wished to pursue a property-based BID or something else that could complement the existing Downtown San Mateo Association.
CMO CAO; CDD Medium/High Yes - This would
build on City
Council priority 15:
“Explore the
establishment of
Property-Based
Improvement
Districts.”
3 Explore how the City of San Mateo could partner with Sustainable San Mateo and Peninsula Clean Energy in "Charge Forward San Mateo," a countywide effort to ensure that residents have equitable access to electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure (and reduce the county's greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, currently 49% of the region's emissions).
Possibilities include: installing streetlight chargers near apartments and multifamily units; collaborating with Peninsula Clean Energy to identify apartment and multifamily contacts and offer financial and technical support for installing EV chargers; incentivize private employers to CMO; PW CDD; CAO Low - explore No
expand employee and customer EV charging. *Some information on Charge Forward San Mateo attached and linked.
COUNCILMEMBER DIAZ NASH
1 Establish Senior Hubs at MLK and Beresford Senior Centers Senior Hubs: Expand our current senior programming offerings to better meet the needs of our senior community members. By increasing the variety and frequency of events tailored specifically to seniors, we aim to provide more opportunities for engagement, socialization, and overall well-being. Additionally, investigate partnering with other organizations to provide coffee/tea or light refreshments that will enhance the overall experience but also encourage more participation by creating a welcoming and comfortable atmosphere.
Parks CMO Medium No
2 Develop and implement an ordinance to prohibit the use of gas leaf blowers within the City of San Mateo.
CMO CAO; CDD; Parks Medium No
3 Complete Speed Surveys
Complete necessary analyses and adoption of ordinances as required by the California Vehicle Code to ensure speed limits on the City’s roadways are enforceable. Perhaps, on roadways where the analysis recommends an increased posted speed limit, first identify ways to try to slow traffic on that roadway.
PW CMO; CAO Medium/High No
COUNCILMEMBER CWIRKO-GODYCKI
1 Electric pump station for lagoon.
Recommend exploring options for providing additional pumping capacity at the Marina Lagoon Pump Station to allow safely pumping the lagoon lower than 95’ and increasing overall resiliency for climate change and more intense storm events.
PW CAO; CMO High Yes – Refines/tiers
off of City Council
Priority 5: “Expedite
efforts to improve
the stormwater
collection,
drainage, and
storage system,
including dredging
the Marina lagoon.”
2 Starting Sea level rise levy project plan w/t Burlingame & Foster City, so once vulnerability study is complete in 2 years - we are shovel ready.
Develop a Climate Adaptation Plan to establish a comprehensive strategy for resiliency and adaptation against sea level rise and flooding.
CMO;PW Citywide High Yes – Climate
Adaptation Plan
Grant funding for
sea-level rise
adaptation planning
procured and work
is set to start; other
impacts of climate
changes are not
included in
funding/planning
3 Youth Service Officers at Schools – funding program.
City to work with the school districts over the next year to have the school districts help fund an additional school resource officer.
PD CMO; CAO Medium No
COUNCILMEMBER FERNANDEZ
1 Code of conduct with measurable consequences akin to the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors language with enforcement
City Clerk;
CAO; CMO
NA Low Yes – Some of this
work was started in
2024
2 Policy on regulating food trucks/in-home restaurants CDD; PW CAO; CMO; PD Medium No 3 Explore and evaluate allowing a retail cannabis storefront in downtown CMO CAO; CDD; PD Low -explore Yes – Previous Study Session on
broader topic was
held previously and
can be refined and
updated