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asked that council members and staff to continue working on solutions to make East Sunset safer. Jitze Couperus, Los Altos Hills, said there is a lot of concerned people feeling they do not have enough input in the performance of the Town and that the Town is not listening to the residents. He said the Town Hall process has to be more transparent. Gary Paton, Los Altos Hills, said that assessing the performance of the City Manager should be a transparent process. Vara Ramakrishnan, Los Altos Hills, said that she has attended a lot of different City Council meetings in various Bay Area cities and she complimented Town staff. John Swan, Los Altos Hills, spoke about transparency and asked, "how can we leverage technology that we encourage the overall transparency of our Town governance?" Bridget Morgan, Los Altos Hills, for the record, after they were annexed, she became involved in the governance of Los Altos Hills. She stated that she has never felt that Los Altos Hills represented anything other than complete transparency and encouraged all residents who are committed to good governance to get involved, pay attention, and read agendas. The Council took a recess at 9:35 p.m. The Council reconvened to Open Session at 9:40 p.m. MOTION MADE AND SECONDED: Vice Mayor Tyson moved to continue the meeting past 10 p.m. The motion was seconded by Mayor Tankha. MOTION PASSED 5-0: AYES: Tankha, Tyson, Mok, Schmidt, Swan NOES: None ABSTAIN: None RECUSE: None ABSENT: None 5. CONSENT CALENDAR MOTION MADE AND SECONDED: Vice Mayor Tyson moved to approve the CONSENT CALENDAR, with the exception of Item 5.13, which was removed, and Items 5.L and 5.N. The motion was seconded by Councilmember Mok. MOTION PASSED 5-0: AYES: Tankha, Tyson, Mok, Schmidt, Swan NOES: None ABSTAIN: None RECUSE: None City Council Regular Meeting Minutes February 18, 2021