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August 27, 2021
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Fiscal & Organizational Stability |
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The City’s revenue consultant, HdL, provided an update on home sale trends for the 2nd quarter of 2021. Overall, despite a new record price, countywide growth slowed and pending sales dropped for the first time since May 2020. Higher-priced markets continued to do well, while sales of lower-priced properties remained below last year’s levels. The statewide median home price increased 0.2% from the prior month and jumped 30.9% from June 2020. With pending sales down for the first time in 14 months, closed sales will likely remain lackluster as the market enters the second half of the year. However, Belmont’s home sales numbers continue to be on the rise despite the pandemic impacts, with sales volume and median sale prices both increasing from prior year 2020 Q2. Your Voice, Your Belmont |
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Thank you to the over 700 residents who have participated in Your Voice, Your Belmont so far. Your participation and feedback have been vital to this year’s budget process and priority setting. The City continues to work towards having the local control and capacity to be self-sufficient in the event of any emergency. The City must have local control over local funds for local needs – allowing Belmont to be self-reliant and ensuring that our tax dollars are spent for Belmont residents and not taken by Sacramento. If you haven’t had the chance to get involved, your feedback is important to this process, please take a moment to join this conversation now by visiting www.Belmont.gov/conversation. San Mateo County Strong Fund Round 6 Small Business Grants |
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The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors recently approved $2,000,000 for a new round of grants to help small businesses that have not received any assistance from the County, State, or Federal COVID-19-relief programs in the past 12 months. The Small Business Grant Program will provide grants of up to $10,000 to each qualifying establishment to offset losses in revenue and past debt due to the COVID-19 pandemic state shutdown orders beginning in March 2020, ensure continued operation, and assist in covering current business operating expenses.
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Let’s Talk Housing: Collecting Housing Stories Countywide Do you have a housing story you’d like to share? Let’s Talk Housing – an outreach effort of all the cities and towns in San Mateo County – is collecting stories from community members about their experiences with housing in San Mateo County to be used for videos that put a face to housing needs. These will be shared online and at future meetings with decision makers and the community. Content submitted can be written, audio or video. Important Things for Participants to Know You will need to submit a release along with your story and agree to be contacted for follow up questions if needed. We also ask for basic demographic information; this will not be shared and will only be used for statistical purposes to ensure we are reaching a broad cross section of San Mateo County community members. Releases can be found here. If interested, submit your story by messaging the Let’s Talk Housing Facebook page or emailing stories@letstalkhousing.org. You will also need to submit a release along with your story and agree to be contacted for follow up questions. |
Public Safety |
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On August 25, 2021 Belmont Officers were called to an elementary school on the report of an ongoing theft of electricity from the school. Officers arrived and saw damage to an air conditioning unit where suspects accessed the unit with extension cords to steal power. Personnel from the San Mateo Consolidated Fire Department were called to the scene to keep the area safe. [Read more] |
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See Something Say Something Officers aren't the only ones locating stolen vehicles and suspects! On 8/24/21, a BPD Dispatcher saw this stolen off-road motorcycle on her lunch break. Officers responded and arrested Stephen Hensley, a 25-year-old from Santa Cruz County. |
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Bay Area Health Officers Reaffirm Support In-Person School Bay Area Health Officials, we are excited that more than a million Kindergarten-12th grade students are returning to school for in-person learning this fall across the wider San Francisco Bay Area. In the counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Benito, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma, and the City of Berkeley, many children are back in the classroom for the first time since early 2020. Read the more here |
Infrastructure & Mobility |
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This week crews replaced both faulty R3-1 ABS’s on Ralston at Hiller. R3-1 ABS is the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) sign designation for a No Right Turn Activated Blank-Out sign. Every traffic control sign has a sign designation. All state, county, and local agencies must follow the guidelines in the MUTCD. Some states have added a few signs with approval from the MUTCD. The R3-1 ABS is activated when the pedestrian push button is pressed to cross Hiller Street and traffic traveling west on Ralston has a green light. This alerts vehicular traffic traveling west on Ralston Avenue and making a right turn onto Hiller Street that they must yield to pedestrians or cyclists crossing Hiller Street. Work was scheduled and completed prior to the start of the school year at Nesbit Elementary School. Remember to always be an alert and courteous driver. |
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El Camino Real and Emmett Street There is a reason that graffiti is rarely seen in the City of Belmont. Crews are actively looking for and immediately removing graffiti. Help keep our city beautiful and report graffiti. |
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Street Division This week, the Street Division raised a manhole and performed dig- outs on Christian Drive and Ralston Ranch Road, replacing 3.5 tons of asphalt. |
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