What Does Half Moon Bay City Councilmember Paul Nagengast Think? Have a Listen to KHMB’s Coastal Windage Interview with Chamber CEO Krystlyn

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PODCAST. From KHMB’s Coastal Windage recorded on Friday, August 1st, 2025, in the KHMB Studios. The Coastside’s only live, call-in talk radio show, Coastal Windage features Coastside issues, hot topics, and live comments from Coastsiders in real time.

Summer is here and so is the 2nd annual Coastal Windage “Summer Mic Series.” Each week, a new guest host (or two) will sit in for Reuben and join Krystlyn! to provide live content, new perspectives, and fresh voices to the Coastal Windage brand. You absolutely must check out the hot summer lineup of amazing guest hosts.

And now, here is the Coastside Chamber’s Chief Executive Optimist, Krystlyn and Paul Nagengast, Half Moon Bay’s City Coucilmember for District 3 (see map below).


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Half Moon Bay City Council Meetings ~ 1st & 3rd Tuesdays @ 7:00pm

The City Council of Half Moon Bay is the City’s governing body, and consists of five elected members. The Council sets priorities and policies, makes final decisions on all major City matters, adopts ordinances and resolutions, appoints the City Manager and City Attorney, and approves the annual budget.

The Half Moon Bay City Council typically meets on the first and third Tuesday of each month starting at 7:00pm at the Ted Adcock Community Center, 535 Kelly Avenue.

HMB City Council Agendas and Zoom Links
Regular meeting agendas are posted 72 hours in advance.
Special meeting agendas are posted 24 hours in advance.
– Streamed live on Comcast Channel 27 and Pacific Coast TV website
– Facebook Live in English: City of Half Moon Bay FB Page
– Facebook Live in Spanish: City of Half Moon Bay Recreation FB Page

Comments 
in accordance with the three-minute per speaker limit. The City Clerk will read all comments into the record. Please visit our “Commenting at a City Council Meeting” information page.
– Email Maggie Rodriguez, Assistant City Clerk, at MRodriguez@hmbcity.com prior to or during the meeting
– Facebook live during the meeting
– Phone during the meeting:  (650) 477-4963 (English)   and   (650) 445-3090 (Spanish)

Archived HMB City Council meeting videos on PCTv

Subscribe to HMB’s Agendas, Weekly eNews, Project Updates, City alerts, Calendar Events, Bid Postings.

You can also learn about City Council Procedures and Decorum.

The City Council develops Strategic Elements to help focus the City’s actions and work plans on its key priorities.

Do You Know How the 1953 Brown Act Guides Public Agencies Towards Transparency?

City Council Contact
Phone: (650) 726-8250 (leave message with Clerk’s office)

Mayor Robert Brownstone, District 1; Term ends 2026
RBrownstone@hmbcity.com 

Vice Mayor Debbie Ruddock, District 4; Term ends 2026
DRuddock@hmbcity.com

Councilmember Deborah Penrose, District 5, Term ends 2026
DPenrose@hmbcity.com

Councilmember Patric Bo Jonsson, District 2, Term Ends 2028
PJonsson@hmbcity.com

Councilmember Paul Nagengast, District 3; Term Ends 2028
PNagengast@hmbcity.com

The City of Half Moon Bay holds district-based elections for its five city council seats. Each Councilmember is elected to a 4 year term. There are no term limits in Half Moon Bay. The City Council selects one of its members to serve as Mayor and one to serve as Vice Mayor, on an annual basis.

  • November 2024 Election – Districts 2 and 3 will elect a representative to a four-year term.
  • November 2026 Election – Districts 1, 4, and 5 will elect a representative to a four-year term.

Click here to figure out which district you are in. Type your address into the interactive map and it will show you which district you are in.

Map 503b Adopted 3.15.2022

From left to right: Deborah Penrose, Debbie Ruddock, Robert Brownstone, Patric Jonsson and Paul Nagengast


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The Coastside’s only live, call-in talk radio show, Coastal Windage features Coastside issues, hot topics, and live comments from Coastsiders in real time. Finally, the people of the Coastside have an opportunity to participate in their own community.

Host Reuben TruthMaker offers a curated and encouraging forum for discussion while regaling listeners with informed, entertaining, and insightful takes on a full spectrum of topics.

This is not a platform for endless arguing and posturing.

This is free-range thinking applied to local issues and daily lives with expansive, explorative discussion.

No dogma, no entrenched positions, no talking points or political agendas — just two Coastsiders with the time and curiosity to dive deep and go anywhere.

To be on the show listen from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. on Fridays

Call 650.560.9851

You can also email Reuben and Krystlyn with your comments at coastalwindage@gmail.com.


Reuben Truthmaker

A 20-year resident of El Granada, Reuben TruthMaker is a dedicated husband, dad, coach, community volunteer, and creative professional. He is also a confirmed cynic, a notable futurist, and a passionate iconoclast forever seeking the greater good. Voted “Most Likely to Wear a Tin Foil Hat” during his senior year of high school, Truth loves a good conspiracy theory. Humor him.

Krystlyn

Photo developer girl (back when it was negatives, darkrooms, and chemicals) —> led to digital photo restorations —> led to being a graphic designer and website developer —> led to marketer —> led to event planner —> led to chamber operations —> led to chamber development —> led to chamber CEO. Now a Coastside resident and the Chief Executive Optimist of the Coastside Chamber for 6 years! Lifelong dream #1: fulfilled. But wait! Proving that dreams really do come true, Krystlyn is checking off another bucket list dream — she is the cohost of an awesome live radio show (Coastal Windage, by the way, . . . just in case . . . ), tasked with the monumental responsibility of spinning gold out of straw and keeping Reuben somewhere within shouting distance of reality. 

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