Belmont Resident and Small Business Owner for 30 years
I've been a homeowner, a renter, a college student, a single adult, a community leader, a community activist, a small business owner, a volunteer, a public school parent, a private school parent, a pet owner, a non-pet owner, a wife, a mom, a Councilmember, a Planning Commissioner, a Boardmember, and a Vice Mayor — all in Belmont!
Moving into the apartments on Carlmont after graduating from our local university, my husband and I began investing in our community through our activism in the Lions Club. Once we moved into our home in Homeview, I became the President of our Neighborhood Association and began learning how city processes worked. After ten years, I became a Planning Commissioner, and now I’m in the City Council and serving Belmont on a number of County of San Mateo Boards.
Through my students volunteering at the annual Save the Music Festival, I was able to integrate my community service life with my small business. The Latimerlo Studio (latimerlo.com) has been training students to sing since 1998 here in Belmont, and my singers have been both adolescent students from every school here, as well as amazing adults from lots of different walks of life.
By continuing to listen to the voices throughout our community and referencing my own experiences here in Belmont over the past 25 years — and by engaging in creative problem solving — I'm helping our community figure out ways to use our land, property, spaces, and processes to better the life experiences of everyone in our fantastic community by the bay. Contact me at glatimerlo@belmont.gov to share your ideas and opinions!
Priorities
1. Staying ahead of the curve in development projects: Belmont is in a time of growth and transition. District 1 is the both the center of growth and the heart of the commercial and residential communities in Belmont. Let’s make sure we have a true revitalization that works for both the current and future populations of Belmont.
2. Creating pipelines to leadership for leaders of diverse backgrounds: I’ve spent my life empowering voices, and I intend to continue that tradition with special attention to the voices that are often unheard. This includes increasing voter turnout, as well as creating new opportunities for leadership.
3. Accessibility to city government: Including improving communication between residents and city government, encouraging true two-way engagement, making sure all voices are heard, and becoming more responsive to residents through a village approach.
4. Keep Belmont’s Open Space open to everyone: Sharing the land and open space has been the lesson of the last couple of centuries. It’s important to ensure that everyone has equal access to our greenest resources.
5. Continuing to focus on improving infrastructure with our roads, sewers, and storm drains: Our infrastructure sat idly degrading for a number of decades before work starting on them a few years ago. It’s important to keep moving of the repair of our concrete resources.
Successes on City Council
I’ve been honored to serve as a Councilmember for the City of Belmont since first getting elected in 2022.
We’ve had many successes as a City Council — including much better engagement with our residents and lots of progress on our roads and infrastructure. We are building in resilience for storm water and flooding with the recently completed Twin Pines Creek Restoration Project and are actively collaborating with neighboring cities on the bay’s effect on Belmont’s Island Park area.
Our new Business License Tax structure is already attracting more businesses to Belmont, and our Recreation Programs have had increasingly accessible events for kids of all abilities. Our Police Department hired its first mental health clinician to assist officers in mental health calls, and we are almost finished with another affordable housing project on El Camino — one that also helps house formerly homeless folks.
On a more individual note, each year, I’ve undertaken a different adventure here in Belmont! These include the First Friday Neighborhood Walks (started in 2023), the Belmont Restaurant Tour (2024), and the Day in the Life Series (2025) when, once per month, I spent a day with staff members from each city department to understand how they do their jobs.
I love serving on county-wide committees, too! I spend time increasing sustainable commutes as the Board Chair of Commute.org. And, as Vice Chair of the Community Action Agency Board, I have my eye on how we are serving the most vulnerable of our population.
Belmont City Councilmember
2023 - present
Belmont City Vice Mayor
2024
Belmont Planning Commissioner
2021-2022
Commute.org Board Chair
Committed to getting cars of the road in favor of functional, easy public transportation
San Mateo County Community Action Agency Board Vice-Chair
Helping to coordinate our Core Agencies (homelessness, food insecurity) and distribute funds
Present/Past Boardmember: Belmont Public Safety Subcommittee, Belmont Audit Subcommittee, Planning and Housing Subcommittee, HEART representative
2023-present
Belmont Community Service Award
2019
Belmont Mayoral Proclamation
2019
Homeview Neighborhood President
2009-2019
Belmont Small Business Owner
1998-present
Former Nesbit and Carlmont Parent and School Volunteer
Past Member of Belmont Lions Club
Notre Dame de Namur University Alum