Town of Moraga

Moraga Town Council

37 meetings on video, Oct 2024 to Oct 2026. The typical one ran 2 h 11 min in session.

2 more videos found, not yet transcribed.

Recent meetings

What the body took up lately

Regular meeting · 1 h 39 minWednesday, October 28, 2026The council gave direction not to hold an additional hearing on the Parks, Recreation, and Open Space Master Plan and heard a staff report on the Livable Moraga Road Corridor Study.Speakers: Steve Woehleke, Kerry Hillis, Graham Thiel, Lisa Maglio and 1 more

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Regular meeting · 53 minWednesday, September 9, 2026The council appointed 21 applicants as voting members of the Moraga Youth Involvement Committee.Speakers: Kerry Hillis, Lisa Maglio, Graham Thiel

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Special meeting · 1 h 06 minWednesday, August 26, 2026The council introduced an ordinance on the appointment of the town treasurer and changes to the Audit and Finance Committee, and received an informational update on the library hazard tree assessment.Speakers: Kerry Hillis, Steve Woehleke, Lisa Maglio, Brian Dolan and 1 more

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Meeting · 2 h 10 minWednesday, July 8, 2026The council directed staff to proceed with demolition planning for the La Sala building at the Hacienda de las Flores property, the item carrying 3 to 1, and acted on amendments to the fiscal year '26-'27 budget.Speakers: Kerry Hillis, Graham Thiel, Steve Woehleke, Lisa Maglio and 1 more

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All 37 meetings

How we know

We count one meeting per body per day. A summary line shows only where a second AI reader checked every sentence against the transcript. More on how we count

Clips

What members said

I understand when people say they want their Hacienda back. Right now we need money to just keep it open, keep it going, and keep the building from falling apart. So our contract with that outside service provider does make sense until we figure out what the heck to do with it.Lisa MaglioCouncilmember · Moraga Town Council · Mar 25, 2026Watch the full meeting from 2:59:03
Are there some non-parking examples of what can be creatively done in a 40-foot setback?Graham ThielCouncilmember · Moraga Town Council · Nov 12, 2025Watch the full meeting from 1:10:05
Please, I have one question of staff, and it is my understanding from my review of the document that there is no intent to disturb any MOSO area space, and that WRT fully, um, understood and fully reviewed all of our MOSO regulations, documents, and that was a part of the process in providing us with the document.Lisa MaglioCouncilmember · Moraga Town Council · Oct 28, 2026Watch the full meeting from 37:38
They also tend to fare best when you have lots of them nearby each other because they kind of hold each other up. The question that I would have, given the shallow roots, is something like a root barrier even something that could be considered without damaging the health of the tree?Kerry HillisMayor · Moraga Town Council · Aug 26, 2026Watch the full meeting from 53:58
Have we done a foundation inspection of this building? I'm assuming. That it is probably at least dating to the '60s, if not earlier.Kerry HillisMayor · Moraga Town Council · Aug 26, 2026Watch the full meeting from 50:09
I'm, um, can you describe, uh, for members of the community who may be watching this or, uh, have heard about it, let me put this in context. I think there are some in the community who are concerned that we're knocking down the Hacienda, and of course they don't want that to happen.Lisa MaglioCouncilmember · Moraga Town Council · Jul 8, 2026Watch the full meeting from 1:25:50

How we know

Officials on the body's roster only, never members of the public. Each clip plays here from where the member began speaking, and we checked who is speaking before it went up. More on how we count

Where the time went

Parks, recreation, trails and open space took 11% of this body's meeting time.

Out of 76 hours. The two AI readers disagreed on 14% of it; that time stays in the total.

Parks, recreation, trails and open space11% · 8.3 h
Housing element, rezoning and state housing laws5% · 4.0 h
Specific housing and mixed-use projects5% · 3.8 h
Downtown plans and business districts4% · 2.8 h
Fire safety3% · 2.0 h
Local tax and bond items (schools and city)2% · 1.3 h
Other building projects and design review2% · 1.2 h
Trees and tree rules1% · 0.4 h

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How we know

Two AI readers (Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Gemini) each split every transcript into agenda items and gave each one issue from a fixed list. A stretch counts toward an issue only where both agree (lines on an item's edge are left out); the rest is 'unknown' and stays in the total. An issue's time is shown only when an independent Claude Opus read of randomly drawn moments (longer lines more likely) agrees at a Wilson lower bound of .90 or better. More on how we count

How members spoke, as a body

At least 11% of members' remarks raised a concern, of 117 remarks.

Board level only: never one member, never ranked against other bodies. A floor: the strict rule misses many polite concerns.

How we know

Three AI models read each member remark on these items. A remark counts as raising a concern only when all three agree, so the share is a floor. Never one member, never ranked against other bodies. More on how we count

Its busiest hearings

4 of the 20 busiest hearings were here.

38public commentersMoraga Town Council, Jan 15, 2025Specific housing and mixed-use projects · Appeal of 1600 School Street 66-unit housing project approval34 against · 2 for · 2 no clear side
17public commentersMoraga Town Council, Jun 10, 2026Parks, recreation, trails and open space · Parks and Recreation Master Plan, Rancho Laguna Park workshop and scheduleSides: — sides on this issue did not pass the check
12public commentersMoraga Town Council, May 14, 2025Other building projects and design review · Item 8A St. Mary's College Campus Master Plan Amendment and EIR Addendum6 against · 6 for
10public commentersMoraga Town Council, Jun 24, 2026Parks, recreation, trails and open space · Parks and Recreation Open Space Master Plan updateSides: — sides on this issue did not pass the check

The members

Who talks on the Moraga Town Council

Minutes speaking per meeting · 37 meetings with names, Oct 9, 2024 – Oct 28, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

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Listed by seatMuch of what members say isn't matched to a person yet, so these minutes are floors. The real totals are higher.

Minutes are each member’s own speaking time that we could match to them, so each is a floor. We are measuring how much we miss.

Members · listed by seat

Brian DolanVice Mayor · at-large2.9+min per meeting, at least29 of 34meetings heard, of those seated and not running it1.4questions asked per meeting where we named them

Kerry HillisMayor · at-large · ran 17 meetings6.4+min per meeting, at least17 of 20meetings heard, of those seated and not running it3.3questions asked per meeting where we named them

Lisa MaglioCouncilmember · at-large3.0+min per meeting, at least30 of 34meetings heard, of those seated and not running it0.9questions asked per meeting where we named them

Graham ThielCouncilmember · at-large3.9+min per meeting, at least31 of 34meetings heard, of those seated and not running it3.6questions asked per meeting where we named them

Steve WoehlekeCouncilmember · at-large · ran 17 meetings12.6+min per meeting, at least17 of 20meetings heard, of those seated and not running it4.3questions asked per meeting where we named them

Teresa OnodaFormer member · ran 3 meetings · Sat in 1 meeting they didn't chair. We rank members after 80.0+min per meeting, at least0 of 1meetings heard, of those seated and not running it0.5questions asked per meeting where we named them

David ShapiroFormer member · Sat in 4 meetings. We rank members after 81.6+min per meeting, at least2 of 4meetings heard, of those seated and not running it0.5questions asked per meeting where we named them

Renata SosFormer member · Sat in 4 meetings. We rank members after 88.0+min per meeting, at least3 of 4meetings heard, of those seated and not running it3.0questions asked per meeting where we named them

Minutes speaking per meeting held while seated, leaving out the meetings the member ran; a meeting they missed, or where we couldn’t match their voice, counts as zero, so every number is a floor · talk time only, never tone or stance · Hamlet · How we count

How we know

Two AI readers named each voice and had to agree. A blind reader checked 462 names across this group of bodies, as drawn: 459 were right, and the 3 wrong lines were taken down. Minutes count meetings while the member was seated; a meeting they missed counts as zero. Questions count the times a member put a real question to staff, presenters or colleagues; two AI readers had to agree, and 287 of 290 we checked were real questions. Only speech we could name counts, so they are floors. Meetings each member ran, of those counted here, from the body's dated officer list: Kerry Hillis 17, Steve Woehleke 17, Teresa Onoda 3. A member's minutes leave out the meetings they ran. More on how we count

Public comment

28 of the 37 meetings we counted had a public commenter. The busiest, on Jan 15, 2025, heard from 38.

38 on Jan 15, 20255.3 a meeting on average

How we know

We count public commenters. They are counted, never named or quoted. Officials, staff and invited presenters aren't counted. We checked the count against a full read of 50 meetings: 50 were within one speaker. More on how we count

Attendance

The roll call, at the 30 meetings where we could read one

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Oct 28	Sep 9	Aug 26	Jul 8	Jun 24	Jun 10	May 27	May 13	Apr 22	Apr 8	Mar 25	Mar 11	Feb 25	Feb 11	Jan 28	Jan 14	Dec 10	Nov 12	Oct 15	Sep 24	Sep 10	Aug 27	Jun 25	Jun 11	May 28	May 14	Apr 23	Apr 9	Mar 26	Mar 12	Feb 26	Feb 12	Jan 15	Dec 11	Nov 13	Oct 23	Oct 9
Kerry Hillis	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Absent	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present
Brian Dolan	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Absent	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Lisa Maglio	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Graham Thiel	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Absent	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Steve Woehleke	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present
Teresa Onoda	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present
David Shapiro	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Absent	Present
Renata Sos	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present

PresentArrived lateAbsentNot recorded

How we know

From the roll call, or the chair's statement of who is present, read by two AI readers who had to agree. A meeting with no roll call we could read says "not recorded"; we never guess. We checked 158 roll calls against a separate read and 157 matched; of 91 absences, 91 were right. More on how we count

Members from the body’s own roster page · Meetings from videos the city posted