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live in and said she is proud of the Redwood City community and surrounding cities for their help and donations Mayor Aguirre and a Council Member thanked Ms. Borgens, the community and staff for their work. Claudia Calone said she is a Queen of the Festival finalist from the North Fair Oaks Festival, a high school graduate and intern, and she will be attending Berkeley in the fall. She asked for support for their festival and the San Mateo County Sheriff's Youth Programs by purchasing raffle tickets online and invited everyone to the festival. Janice Bonello, the current reigning Queen of the Festival, thanked everyone for their support. She is currently attending CSU (California State University) Monterey Bay and she is involved in the LGBT community womens' empowerment. She said she is representing the North Fair Oaks Festival that is on August 25t" and noted that all funds help the Sheriff of San Mateo County youth programs. Gita Dev, representing the Sierra Club, said that one of their members was manager of the apartment building that caught fire and she thanked everyone for their help. She said the Loma Prieta Chapter of the Sierra Club is a strong supporter of the Redwood City Downtown program and spoke in favor of the City advocating for Measure A and for funding for SamTrans stations and Caltrain ridership to provide transportation for the community. Joseph Rosas, representing Save Pete's Harbor, invited everyone to a special event on August 17th at the local Applebees from 8 to 10 a.m. for a pancake breakfast benefit for Save Pete's Harbor. He said they are concerned about the outer marina for public use, are not against development at the harbor with respect to CEQA mitigations, and they believe development at Pete's Harbor is a complex matter on land and on water and encourage Council to include Pete's Harbor in the Inner Harbor Plan. Shaunn Cartwright, representing Save Pete's Harbor, spoke about the Fourth of July fireworks. She also opined that there was poor planning in allowing people to leave the Port, because they were not allowed into Pete's Harbor as in previous years to view the fireworks. She said there are a lot of people displaced from the apartment fire and Pete's Harbor and with zero budget for low income housing; she is not sure what they can do. She invited everyone to picket on July 30th from 3 to 5 p.m. at nonunion construction site on Veterans Boulevard. James Lee, a resident, spoke about a joint meeting of the Association of Bay Area Government (ABAG) and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and how the numbers approved by ABAG do not meet the need for low income housing. He said one city was recently sued for not doing enough for affordable housing and opined that he does not want to see this happen to this City. He spoke in favor of incentives for building affordable housing and also mentioned the Saturday, August 17th fundraiser at the local Applebees. CITY COUNCIL July 22, 2013 MEETING MINUTES PAGE 3 MINUTE BOOK NO. 64 Page No. 400