City Council on 2025-12-09 6:30 PM - REGULAR MEETING

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Emily Ann Ramos 2:08

All right, good evening everyone. Welcome to the Mountain View City Council regular meeting of December ninth, twenty twenty five. Please stand and join us for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Emily Ann Ramos 2:37

All right, great. We'll move on to item three, roll call. The city clerk will take attendance by roll call.

Unknown 2:45

Councilmember Clark? Here. Councilmember Hicks? Here. Councilmember McAllister? Yeah. Councilmember Ramirez?

Emily Ann Ramos 2:52

Here.

Unknown 2:52

Councilmember Showalter. Here. Vice Mayor Ramos. Here. Mayor Kamey? Here. You have a quorum?

Emily Ann Ramos 2:57

Great. All right. We will move on to item four, our consent calendar. These items will be approved by one motion unless any member of the council wishes to pull an item for individual consideration. If an item is pulled from the consent calendar, it will be considered separately following approval of the balance of the consent calendar. If you'd like to speak on these items or the next item, oral communications on non-agenda items in

Emily Ann Ramos 3:29

Councilmember McAllister. Comment on uh Four point four. Great.

Kimbra McCarthy 3:38

Council

Emily Ann Ramos 3:38

uh Vice Mayor Ramos.

Kimbra McCarthy 3:40

Thank you, Mayor. I also wanna comment on item four point four, but not pool.

Emily Ann Ramos 3:46

Sorry, four point

Amy U 3:47

four,

Emily Ann Ramos 3:47

correct? Okay. All right, so um council member cowser will let you comment first? Um So I asked a question about the um The maximum w we had a big discussion going back how much th uh the cost for moving should be and we were teetering one way or the other and uh some numbers were flying out and uh The council decided let's let's put it back give it back to staff to come up with some numbers and I'm glad we did because these numbers are much lower than what we were discussing and they're more realistic and so Uh I applaud the council for taking uh you know an extra step to allow us to really research things instead of doing uh government b on the sly. So Uh I appreciate the staff coming up with the numbers.

Emily Ann Ramos 4:36

They look more reasonable. I think I've heard back from some of the uh landlords and they think that's much more reasonable too. So Government does work when you do it right. Thank you. Great, thank you, Vice Mayor Ramos.

Kimbra McCarthy 4:49

Uh thank you, Mayor. Um and also thank you to staff on this item. I know it's been a long slog and I also thank my colleagues for working

Emily Ann Ramos 4:58

with staff to um get what um their concerns were hashed out and worked out to get a nice strong ordinance. The whole purpose of this was to help mitigate or partially mitigate displacement in our community and I'm glad that we're taking this as a really good step forward for our residents.

Kimbra McCarthy 5:15

and those so that they even if they are displaced from their their their residents they may not

Emily Ann Ramos 5:21

it they increase the odds of not being displaced from our community. So thank you all uh for finding ways to get to yes. So thank you. Okay, would any member of the public joining us virtually or in person like to provide comment on these items? If so, please click the raise hand button in Zoom or submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk. We will take in pe in-person speakers first, but I'm not seeing any. So we'll move on to virtual and each speaker will have three minutes. So if we can unmute Anil.

Anil Bobar 6:02

Thank you, Mayor and and Council. Uh Anil Bobar with the California Apartment Association. I'd like to start by expressing my appreciation to council for continuing this item uh from the meeting prior and allowing for uh staff to conduct the stakeholder outreach. I you know, as you can tell and I wanna echo Councilmember McAlcher's comments, uh The stakeholders outreach provided some really good feedback. Um, and uh, you know, by extending the temporary displacement time frame from 90 days to up to 180 days, as well as placing caps on moving costs, especially uh according to unit size, I think this provides some good guardrails for the ordinance. Um, these changes weren't were were the result of pure outreach.

Anil Bobar 6:51

If council hadn't instructed staff to go back and conduct that, we would have a much more flawed ordinance. Uh so I wanna really underscore the importance of stakeholder outreach on every ordinance, which I think should be mandatory component when external