City Council Meeting Highlights

Highlights from the February 20 City Council meeting:

• The Council voted to urge Gov. Newsom to declare a state of emergency to expedite critical landslide remediation efforts and to request President Biden declare a federal disaster to potentially make federal funding and assistance available.
• The Council also directed City staff to complete the Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and final engineering for the proposed long-term Portuguese Bend Landslide Remediation Project based on its original concept design, and to return with an update at the March 19 meeting. With this approach, the City expects to move up the project’s Final EIR release date to May 2024 instead of September 2024. This alternative approach could still allow the City to make changes to the project based on a concurrent analysis of options to reduce environmental impacts.
• The Council agreed to join the other Peninsula cities in making necessary upgrades to the region’s shared automated license plate recognition (ALPR) camera system, including replacing 29 cameras. RPV’s share of the cost is 60% or $284,850.
• City staff gave an update on the pilot program creating the City’s new Public Safety Division using in-house staff to enhance public safety services. Next steps include hiring staff and procuring equipment to support the new division.

For all City Council actions from the meeting, watch video at rpvca.gov/agendas.