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| 00:00:00.03 | Unknown | Weiner? |
| 00:00:00.67 | Unknown | President. |
| 00:00:01.16 | Unknown | Vice Mayor Leone. |
| 00:00:02.46 | Unknown | Here. |
| 00:00:02.85 | Unknown | Mayor Kelly. |
| 00:00:02.90 | Unknown | Thank you. Mayor Kelly. Here, Fritz Warren, would you leave us in the Pledge of Belize? |
| 00:00:12.86 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:00:12.97 | Unknown | for me. |
| 00:00:13.41 | Unknown | I believe. |
| 00:00:13.88 | Unknown | I'm sorry. |
| 00:00:13.97 | Unknown | allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. |
| 00:00:14.04 | Unknown | and allegiance to the flag |
| 00:00:15.71 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:00:15.99 | Unknown | Oh. |
| 00:00:16.21 | Unknown | . |
| 00:00:16.30 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:00:16.42 | Unknown | Amen. |
| 00:00:16.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:00:17.12 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:00:17.14 | Unknown | So, |
| 00:00:17.18 | Unknown | Amen. |
| 00:00:17.53 | Unknown | America. |
| 00:00:17.97 | Unknown | Thank you. and to the Republic. Thank you. |
| 00:00:19.84 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:00:19.98 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:00:20.03 | Unknown | which you stand. |
| 00:00:21.39 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:00:21.48 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 00:00:21.65 | Unknown | Amen. |
| 00:00:21.97 | Unknown | you |
| 00:00:22.17 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:00:29.38 | Unknown | Thank you, Fritz. |
| 00:00:31.35 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:00:33.01 | Unknown | All right, the council met in closed session at 5.30, and we discussed three conference with legal counsel items, as well as having a conference with our labor negotiators. There were no actions taken. Directions were given in several of those. So now we move to the approval of the agenda. Do I have a motion? |
| 00:00:57.98 | Unknown | some of |
| 00:00:59.67 | Unknown | Thanks. |
| 00:00:59.97 | Councilmember Ford | Thank you. |
| 00:01:00.68 | Unknown | All in favor? Aye. I want to point out that we are expecting Dawn Weiss later on in the meeting, and we will move her into the agenda following whatever we're talking about at that moment in time. |
| 00:01:01.69 | Councilmember Ford | Thank you. |
| 00:01:01.79 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 00:01:01.83 | Councilmember Ford | I don't know. |
| 00:01:01.95 | Councilmember Ford | Thank you. |
| 00:01:01.96 | Unknown | THE FAMILY. |
| 00:01:02.16 | Councilmember Ford | Thank you. |
| 00:01:02.30 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:01:15.21 | Unknown | All right, special presentations. We have two tonight. The first is a presentation to the South Carolina Police Department of the Challenge Award. California Highway Patrol, and to the Chief of Police, Jennifer, and |
| 00:01:38.77 | Amy Mangan | Good evening. Good evening. My name is Amy Mangan and I am the commander of the Marin Area California Highway Patrol Office that's located in Corte Madera. And first of all, I'd like to thank all of you for your time. I know that your time is very limited, you're very busy, and it's valuable, and so I respect that and I appreciate the opportunity to come here and present this award to the Sausalito Police Department. This award is from the California Law Enforcement Challenge, and it derived from a national model, a national law enforcement challenge. and it is geared toward traffic safety. And Sausalito Police Department was awarded a grant by Office of Traffic Safety in 2010 to focus on bicycle and pedestrian safety here in Sausalito. And, you know, we often focus on, not often, we always focus on crime. And we pay attention to that focus. And we pay attention to the results that we get. And I would guess that, you know, we're thrilled that here in Sausalito, there's a very low crime rate. The last homicide that you had, if I remember correctly, was in 2009. And it doesn't happen by accident. It doesn't happen overnight. It happens from sustained effort towards those goals of safety. Well, I would guess with the traffic safety, that, you know, it's the same thing, and we need that sustained effort. And unfortunately, just this morning, there was a DUI collision here in Sausalito. And I can speak for myself in our agency, Just over the weekend, just over the weekend, we investigated five DUI collisions on top of nine DUI arrests that were not involved in collisions. So you see, we have our work cut out for us, and for us it is absolutely fantastic to see other agencies come into the fold of that California law enforcement challenge in embracing traffic safety and realizing the importance of it. We know that people die each year, people are injured each year in collisions, there's lost revenue, wages, property gets damaged, insurance rates go up. There is absolutely nothing good, nothing good that happens out of a collision. And so the efforts from Sausalito Police Department in this town have got to be paramount to you. I know that currently there's an officer in motorcycle training, and for us we are thrilled, we are absolutely thrilled that we have partners here in Marin County that are putting their officers through motorcycle enforcement school so that we can work together. You know, I don't need to tell you about budget. You all know very well about budget. And were it not for the combined efforts and our thoughts of regionalizing things, we wouldn't be able to accomplish what we do. And so, in short, I really just wanted to commend certainly Chief Tejada for her relationship, but to the Sausalito Police Department. You know, them receiving this award, I believe, is their commitment to this community. And you allowing us to do this here this evening is your commitment to them and also your commitment to the community. And so I certainly appreciate your time and would like to recognize all of them for their efforts. |
| 00:05:04.36 | Unknown | We'll just have the people who actually do the work accept the award. |
| 00:05:07.88 | Unknown | Ha, ha, ha, ha, |
| 00:05:07.92 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:05:08.32 | Unknown | Bye. Yeah. Bye. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:05:34.27 | Unknown | And I'll just say thank you, Captain Mangan, for your partnership. We do enjoy a great partnership with the California Highway Patrol. We work very closely together, and it is Captain Mangan's leadership that can be attributed to that. So thank you very much. |
| 00:05:52.55 | Unknown | Thank you. And you all should know that you have the complete support of every member of the City Council and, of course, the citizens of Sausalito. So thanks again. |
| 00:06:08.72 | Unknown | All right, that was fun. Let's do another one. Now we have a presentation from the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary on the National Safe Voting Week. |
| 00:06:20.88 | Joanne Dunaway | you Thank you, Mayor Weiner, Mayor Kelly, excuse me. Mr. Weiner and the other council members. I'm sorry, they just kind of close off the tongue. There is a proclamation which I hope you've received in your office, because I don't have it with me tonight, |
| 00:06:25.54 | Unknown | That was good. |
| 00:06:25.96 | Amy Mangan | Why are the other kids? |
| 00:06:27.02 | Unknown | I'm sorry, I just kind of closed off the tongue. |
| 00:06:36.56 | Joanne Dunaway | And if not, I will just make a few remarks. You didn't get it, okay? But I want to thank you for your time. Your member, Linda Pfeiffer, is a member of our auxiliary. And I'm Joanne Dunaway. My husband, Ray Dunaway, and Gail Giacomini are here representing the Coast Guard auxiliary. |
| 00:06:36.68 | Unknown | And if not, |
| 00:06:54.55 | Joanne Dunaway | Um, which is partnering with a number of national agencies for National Safe Boating Week. which is happening now through this weekend. and the primary activities will be this weekend and they really focus on There you go, right up on the screen. Thank you. Um, So just a little background on the Coast Guard Auxiliary because I find that most people don't know about it. We are a volunteer arm that supports the U.S. Coast Guard on its non-law enforcement activities. So just as your auxiliary, sometimes substantiate police department, but in an unofficial civilian capacity, we do that. We're focused primarily on... voting safety and education, Marine Safety and Stewardship, Fellowship. search and rescue training and safe boating patrol assistance for the Coast Guard. So in celebration of National Safe Boating Week this weekend, we've got some activities going on right here in Sausalito. at the Coast Guard Station, which is down at the North Tower, the Golden Gate Bridge. You all know where that is, I think. From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., The Coast Guard and auxiliary are having an open house and some open boats. The 47-foot Surf boats will be open for tour, and I have to tell you, these are impressive vessels. especially it's fun for kids to see what are Coast Guard do, and it's really fun. And then we'll also have an auxiliary vessel that we go out on patrol in, and that'll be open, and we'll talk about what we do for safe boating on our bay. Um, And then at noon, there will be a life jacket photo contest, and we'll give away. We have 50 life jackets that we're giving away to the people who come. So that's also a fun event and we do focus a lot on children because we want to make sure that they know that it's cool to wear your your life jacket. That's a cool thing. Um, Then also down at West Marine, there will be some boating safety demonstrations and we had hoped that we were going to have 25 Um, replacement canisters for the inflatable life jackets, but they only sent three. So there will be three giveaways at that time. And then on Tuesday, there will be a safe boating exhibit at the farmer's market in Old Town, Novato. We have some flyers for these events over here. For anybody who's interested, please take one. And we also have a wallet card for our Um, America's Waterway Watch, which is something where we invite the public to participate with the Coast Guard and the Auxiliary to help keep our waterways safe. There's a phone number that you can call to report any suspicious activity. If you think somebody... is just doing something that looks a little weird and you think it could conceivably be terrorism or somebody doing mischief. They will investigate it and that's a great tool. So I want to thank you for your support for our National Safe Boating Week and Concern for Safety on the Bay. We're all in this together, and I thank you very much. |
| 00:10:10.52 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:10:16.68 | Unknown | All right, that moves us to Communications? |
| 00:10:21.65 | Unknown | I think the key point is to say something about the. |
| 00:10:22.52 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:10:26.31 | Unknown | . |
| 00:10:26.94 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:10:27.41 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:10:28.42 | Unknown | Thank you. I just want to take this opportunity also to thank the U.S. Coast Guard because you have trained several of our officers on how to deal with specific issues on the water, such as navigational hazards and hazardous conditions, and the training has been very valuable to us, as well as that you participate in our monthly task force meetings. And the exchange of information, the co-training that we do with you is invaluable. And it's at no cost to us. And so we are very appreciative of that because we have been able to expand our services to the waterfront. So on behalf of the Sausalito Police Department and the City of Sausalito, thank you so much. |
| 00:11:20.26 | Unknown | Thank you. All right, now we're on to communications, public communications. This is the time for the Council to hear from citizens and members of the public upon matters that are not on the agenda. Does anyone care to speak on matters that are not on the agenda? |
| 00:11:40.28 | Unknown | All right, scene. Thank you. |
| 00:11:41.58 | Unknown | you |
| 00:11:41.76 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:11:42.01 | Unknown | Did you raise your hand? Okay, good. Come up, please. Yep. No. |
| 00:11:42.18 | Unknown | Oh. |
| 00:11:45.95 | Unknown | you |
| 00:11:49.91 | Devitarra Holman | DEVITARA HOLMAN, Hello, Council Members. My name is Devitarra Holman. I have an acupuncture clinic on Caledonia Street at 38 Caledonia. I've been there for about 12 years and love being in Sausalito and love serving this population here and also really enjoy the a tree that is slated to be cut down I didn't realize that until just yesterday, actually. The posting wasn't very big, but it was there on the tree, and I walked by there every day, and I just saw it yesterday. And so I was able to request some assistance by a land planner to investigate, just give us another opinion about that tree. Because in that block of Caledonia Street, I know you're aware that we have some blight going on down there. We have two of our largest storefronts are either now empty or going to be empty. One is going to be empty soon. And then we have the Pine Street Papery that has left And so the whole street really needs some care and needs some attention, not just that one block, but that one block in particular right now because we have those two lovely big ficus trees that are slated to come down. And so I wanted to share with you, I hope that you received the email that I sent. Did everyone have a chance to see that from Evan Shepherd-Reef? Right, so I just wanted to elaborate a little bit on the points that he made. He was the one that investigated the situation just to give us another point of view on it. He did review the arborist's report and felt that there were a few items that had not been discussed and as possible mitigation measures for the concerns involving the tree. And so I'd like to just read those. The broken limb that occurred due to damage the broken limb that fell down just recently, fell due to damage, and that damage was not previously noted. Now, the rest of the tree seems to have pretty good integrity, according to his estimation. And there are no signs, according to the arborist's report, that there is damage such as we found on that one limb. in any other places on the tree. So the existing canopy that overhangs Caledonia Street can be trimmed down if it needs to be and reduce the load on that big tree, yet still preserving the beauty of that tree and the streetscape. In addition, the existing large branches could be supported with a cable, effectively supported with a cable. And if it's found that this is not a sufficient long-term solution, because we're concerned, of course, about safety as well, but it seems from his perspective this could be a good long-term solution. If it's not, it can be an effective short-term or interim solution until a viable plan for streetscape restoration can be implemented, including placement of replacement of trees with mature trees in planters that can later be planted in the planter areas that are now occupied by those trees discussed for removal. Okay. So note that we, again, will have two storefront vacancies adjacent to the tree and that the large next to the tree that's slated for removal. So we feel that the removal of the tree really that whole area cannot handle the blight occur as a result of the removal of the tree. So we asked for a reassessment of that. Okay, thank you so much. |
| 00:16:39.30 | Unknown | Thank you. As you're aware, we can't really talk about these measures that are not on the agenda, but the city manager and the director of public works are both here tonight, so I'm sure they will address your questions and issues. Great. Anyone else care to address the council on matters that are not on the agenda? All right, seeing none, we'll move to the next board. The next item, which is action minutes of previous meetings. Do we have a motion to accept? |
| 00:17:09.59 | Unknown | Except? One correction. Let me bring this up here. |
| 00:17:11.94 | Unknown | . |
| 00:17:16.56 | Unknown | to go. |
| 00:17:20.54 | Unknown | Where are the... Oh, here it is. Debbie, just for clarity's sake, I know you added when I joined the closed session meeting, The meeting on the vote on the Faustino Foundation was just four people voting. I know it says that I recouped. but it says unanimous and so it just should be the four people voting rather than unanimous. And unanimous are the four people voting. That's on page... |
| 00:17:59.49 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:17:59.51 | Unknown | Amen. |
| 00:18:04.28 | Unknown | Five, seven, seven. |
| 00:18:08.97 | Unknown | Yes. Yeah. It says Council Member Ford moved, seconded by Council Minister to waive the motion to be seen. I obviously approve by a voice vote if you could just say it for Council members. Thanks. |
| 00:18:20.35 | Unknown | Thank you. Any other corrections? you you A motion to approve. |
| 00:18:25.33 | Unknown | or move |
| 00:18:26.54 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:18:26.58 | Unknown | second. |
| 00:18:27.35 | Unknown | All in favor? Aye. |
| 00:18:28.60 | Unknown | Yeah. Thank you. |
| 00:18:28.90 | Unknown | Thank you. Ready? And that moves us to the consent calendar. Consent calendar are items and matters that are considered routine and non-controversial, require no discussion, are expected to have unanimous support. However, any member of the public or a member of the council may remove an item from the consent calendar. Um, A motion to approve consent, Senator. |
| 00:18:49.81 | Unknown | I just have a point of clarification for Jonathan on item C. Jonathan, is gate 6, that intersection actually within the city limits that we're getting this grant from, or is the county sort of giving us the right to oversee that project? |
| 00:19:07.63 | Jonathon Goldman | The intersection includes portions within our corporate limits, and it is a three-party project, State of California, Marin County, and City of Sausalito. |
| 00:19:24.52 | Unknown | but the grant funding's coming through you directly. So are you gonna get muddled in |
| 00:19:30.63 | Jonathon Goldman | It's not coming to me directly although I hadn't thought of that idea. Not to you, to the city. |
| 00:19:37.37 | Unknown | Not to you, to the city. Yes, I'm sorry. Yes, the grant is for the city. |
| 00:19:41.97 | Unknown | to the city. Yeah. Bye. Thank you. |
| 00:19:44.86 | Unknown | All right, I just wanted to make sure it wasn't going to be a political craziness thing. |
| 00:19:48.05 | Unknown | Okay. Any other questions, comments on the agenda? Do I have a motion? |
| 00:19:54.14 | Unknown | So I move. |
| 00:19:55.79 | Unknown | Exactly. |
| 00:19:56.57 | Unknown | All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Seeing none, we'll move to public hearings, of which there are none. And now we're on our first business item, which is to receive an update on the Police Department Marine Patrol Division. Sergeant Frost. |
| 00:19:57.46 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 00:20:12.55 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 00:20:12.92 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:20:13.68 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:20:14.63 | Unknown | I can't have too much after that. |
| 00:20:16.95 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:20:16.97 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:20:18.42 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:20:18.47 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:20:18.62 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 00:20:18.88 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:20:18.89 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:20:18.93 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:20:18.98 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:20:25.97 | Sergeant Frost | Good evening, Mr. Mayor, Councilmembers, and Mr. City Manager. Tonight, I have the privilege of updating you folks on the Marine Patrol Unit's accomplishments in 2011. I am lucky enough to be the supervisor of the Marine Patrol Unit among some of my other duties and it is one of the funner activities I've had in my 16 years of law enforcement. |
| 00:20:45.88 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:20:46.22 | Sergeant Frost | Thank you. Right off the bat, In 2011, we logged 300 hours underway on the water. That's the most we've ever had in one year. As you've seen, we've had a steady increase over the last three years, almost doubling our number of hours on the water every single year. In addition to the 300 hours we were actually active on the water, we had 7,416 hours of standby time. which meant we were able to respond to an emergency on the waterway within 15 minutes. And 15 minutes is usually a little bit of a long. We're more of about 5 to 10 minutes able to be able to launch and be on the water, ready to go to assist. That time is even faster than the United States co-started station Golden Gate. who are partners in everything we do, but they have even said that our response time is something they wish they could actually accomplish. |
| 00:21:36.44 | Unknown | Once they leave the room, you can trash talk them. Is that right now? |
| 00:21:39.05 | Sergeant Frost | Exactly. Bye. I was in a meeting with them today, and I took a lot of heat from everybody, so I can throw a little shot here. |
| 00:21:41.03 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:21:47.29 | Sergeant Frost | And the reason why we're able to amass so many hours and be able to be available so much is we have eight members of the Marine Patrol Unit. Myself and seven other officers that actually do all the work, I just sit there and fill out the paperwork. These officers are spread out through the entire department. Every shift has at least one or two Okay. operators available to respond. These officers have been trained by the US Army Corps of Engineers, by the United States Coast Guard, as well as our own in-house instructors. And because we do have eight officers and we have been able to accomplish so much, For last year, we were able to show record highs in all law enforcement statistical categories. In addition to that, we conducted 86 homeland security checks of critical infrastructure. And critical infrastructures are those items and locations upon Richardson's Bay that have been identified as areas that have some type of homeland security risk, such as fuel pumps, ferry terminals, and the Golden Gate Bridge. |
| 00:22:40.14 | Joanne Dunaway | Jennifer. |
| 00:22:48.51 | Sergeant Frost | We performed 154 security patrols at the various marinas and harbors within Sausalito. And we contacted 177 citizens regarding non-law enforcement matters on the maritime environment. That could be advice. how to get somewhere. best practices of season-ship, or just, hey, I'm lost, how do I get to Half Moon Bay when they realize they're in San Francisco Bay and... We basically have to give them a lot of instructions that In addition to that, we made three water rescues from Richardson Bay. in which... Two of them were intoxicated and if we were not able to get them out of the water in a timely manner, we probably would have had fatalities there. And two of those were nighttime rescues, in which we were the only emergency vessel available to launch in time. And if you could look, you look at the statistical comparison from the other it speaks for themselves because of our number of officers we've been able to train the new vessels that we are able to use, our areas of public contact are dramatically higher. By no means are we strictly a law enforcement zero tolerance. only looking for criminal matters. If you look, if you combine our citizen contacts with the number of regular law enforcement contacts we have, and then you look at our law enforcement actions of citations or arrests, we have approximately 300 contacts and only 12 citations. So we're out there educating more than we are strictly enforcing. So this is a multi-prone approach to these safety in the maritime environment. And why have we been able to accomplish so much? Well, one reason is we have a brand new patrol boat. Marine won. It's a 27 foot safe boat. We entered into an agreement with the United States Army Corps of Engineers for the joint use of this vessel. This is actually a kind of landmark agreement because in the history of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, which dates back to 1776 at the founding of the U.S. Army. This is the first time they have ever shared a vessel with a civilian law enforcement agency. And one of the best things about this vessel, it is strictly designed. for maritime law enforcement and rescue operations. This vessel prior to being an army vessel was a United States Coast Guard vessel. It was in Lake Tahoe. And this also enhances our ability to train with the U.S. Coast Guard because these are vessels that they operate every single day. partnerships Marine Patrol is all about partnerships. And our number one partnership in 2011 was our agreement with station Golden Gate of the United States Coast Guard. We entered a memorandum of understanding which facilitated Our intelligence and information sharing allowed us to share law enforcement personnel and conduct joint operations between the two agencies. We conducted numerous joint operations during every single month from joint patrols to special enforcement activities as well as monthly meetings. We have continued into this year About half our patrols on Richardson Day are joint patrols with the U.S. Army, not the U.S. Army, different branch. The Coast Guard and Social Police working hand in hand. We had citizen appreciation letters sent in, regardless of our partnership, And not only do we meet and sit down and talk face-to-face once a month, I am. probably sending off emails and on phone with different Coast Guard officers and petty officers multiple times a week. discussing issues on the bay, discussing best practices, and making sure our units are comprehensive and working together towards the same goals. |
| 00:26:29.94 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:26:35.93 | Sergeant Frost | And it's not just Sausalito PD and the Coast Guard that's working out there. We have a comprehensive task force that is comprised of numerous state, federal, and local agencies. Within the last year, just some of the agencies we've worked with have been the Coast Guards Intelligence Service, Coast Guards Investigative Division. Thank you. The Indian Institute. Moran County Sheriff's Office, San Rafael Police Department, California Department of Fish and Game, United States Homemade security. And California Department of Corrections, Marin County Probation, the US Army Corps, and there's a list more people that I can't remember right off the top of my head, but we have worked with just about every law enforcement and safety agency we can. Our goal is to work together, have a comprehensive approach, and provide for the best safety we can on Richardson's Bay. |
| 00:27:23.98 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:27:25.09 | Sergeant Frost | And our recognition and commendation this year was been banner. We had a lot of people notice our unit. and notice the good work the entire department has done on the waterway. There were some articles in the newspaper. But in addition to that, We received letters of appreciation from citizens regarding what we have done, helping them tow out of hazardous areas. allowing them giving them information, advising them better ways of being able to stay on the bay. and also our courteous and professional contact with the citizens and how we made contact with them and how they've never had law enforcement contact before But based on that contact, they have a more positive view of officers. We had a letter of thanks from the United States Coast Guard captain in command of Scepter San Francisco. regarding our Marine Patrol unit's efforts during Fleet Week, which was the largest Fleet Week in America this year. you It was larger than New York's, and it was one of the largest ones they've had in the last decade. We were out there every single day providing security and assisting the Coast Guard, the US Navy, and numerous other agencies. And because of the hard work and dedication and the excellent results of our unit in 2011, the seven members of the Marine Patrol unit received certificates of excellent performance for their accomplishments. It was a wonderful team. I'm very happy to be able to help those individuals. The officers on the team are the ones that deserve all the kudos and all the congratulations for the success that we have accomplished this year, and what we're going to continue to accomplish in the years to come. And with that, that is my presentation, so I'll be happy to answer any questions that you may have. |
| 00:29:06.42 | Unknown | Thank you. Good report. Questions? Questions? |
| 00:29:12.38 | Unknown | Bill, what do you think is... God, the predominant. challenge that you face with your patrols and how as we go through our budget process, besides buying new boats for Jennifer and water skis that she asked for as well. What are the top two or three things that are, as far as the Thank you. your patrols out there that you're encountering |
| 00:29:38.15 | Sergeant Frost | We are always focused on quality of life issues, and quality of life issues encompass numerous things. Some of them are the conditions of the vessels out there. looking for ways to assist the they anchor out individuals who choose to live out there on the water. We partner with our Homeless Outreach Advocacy Program regarding that. And we're also looking at the hazmat situations and debris that is on the vessels out there. The environmental issues are very high on our importance. We have worked with the Sheriff's Office and the Coast Guard to address a lot of vessels out there that were environmental hazards. So that is right up there. And the third one, which is no less important than any of the other ones we did, is the general safety of the boaters out there, making sure people are aware of what the rules of the waterways are, making sure they're operating their vessels in safe manners and making sure that they keep their speed low and that everybody is wearing the proper safety vests. Last year in the United States, there were 672 boating-related fatalities. Over 400 of those were big drownings. |
| 00:30:29.20 | Joanne Dunaway | Safe. |
| 00:30:45.99 | Sergeant Frost | 372 of those drownings were because people were not wearing their flotation devices. So we are out there making sure that everybody's safe and quality of life is kept high, and those are our priorities. |
| 00:30:58.31 | Unknown | Great. Any more questions? Thank you Bill. Mr. Mayor. |
| 00:31:03.82 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Mr. Mayor, I have a comment. I just want to say a big thank you. |
| 00:31:07.33 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:31:07.37 | Unknown | Can we wait till public comments? All right, thank you, Bill. We're gonna take some public comment now. Anyone in the public care to Address the counsel on this matter? |
| 00:31:17.32 | Unknown | It's like the chief does. |
| 00:31:19.27 | Unknown | Chief would like to. Oh, okay. |
| 00:31:21.04 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:31:21.10 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:31:21.14 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:31:21.26 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:31:21.34 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:31:21.68 | Unknown | Yeah, sure. |
| 00:31:23.99 | Unknown | THE FAMILY. |
| 00:31:24.28 | Unknown | Since you're ahead of schedule, Debbie, I thought I would affect that. |
| 00:31:24.34 | Unknown | . |
| 00:31:24.51 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:31:24.65 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:31:29.78 | Unknown | Thank you. Again, I want to take this opportunity to thank Chris Gallagher, Park Manager at US Army Corps of Engineers, because she was part of the driving force behind this agreement to use that boat. And her willingness to open the door for us to negotiate this. Lieutenant Skoog is in the audience. He did a lot of the background work on this. And then Sergeant Frost, and I think By virtue of the fact that we've been contacted by federal agencies, the US Coast Guard, the FBI, and most recently Homeland Security to partner with them to do some operations They wouldn't ask us if they didn't think we had the professional experience, the training, and the integrity to do that. So I want to thank Sergeant Frost for his leadership on the team because he really has a very professional image that he brings to this team in his leadership skills also. But he accomplishes so much when he also has emergency services and his primary job as patrol sergeant. So I just want to recognize him again for his work and his commitment to service to the community here and on the waterfront and his commitment to developing and maintaining professional partnerships. So thank you, Sergeant Frost. |
| 00:32:56.52 | Unknown | Yes, indeed. Anyone else care to address the council on this? All right. Thank you very much, Bill. It was a great presentation. |
| 00:33:06.91 | Sergeant Frost | Thank you very much. Thank you. |
| 00:33:10.18 | Unknown | All right, that brings us to item 6. Mr. Mayor? |
| 00:33:13.68 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Mr. Mayor, I'd like to make a comment if I could. Oh, sure. So I just want to say a special thank you to Lieutenant Skoog and Sergeant Frost and Chief Tejeda and Chris for your dedication and your help on everything you're doing with this. It's great. Your partnership, these partnerships with the Coast Guard and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, it hasn't happened before, like you said, and it's just real exciting to see, you know, what your team is doing. And I just wanted to say thank you. |
| 00:33:14.59 | Unknown | I love you. Oh, sure. |
| 00:33:44.80 | Unknown | Great. All right, we'll move on to item 6B, which is receive update on scheduled website enhancements. And that is Rhett. Redling McDermott. |
| 00:33:56.34 | Unknown | Thank you. The professor. |
| 00:33:59.71 | Unknown | that profession. |
| 00:34:00.03 | Unknown | Bless her. |
| 00:34:00.88 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:34:01.59 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 00:34:03.58 | Unknown | I'm never gonna shake that, am I? |
| 00:34:04.83 | Unknown | I don't think so. Thank you. |
| 00:34:07.09 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:34:13.36 | Unknown | Okay. Well, as you know, we've been working for a while now developing some website enhancements. Guys, something I said? Okay. As you know, we've been working on revamping the website a little bit. Not a complete overhaul, but kind of dusting it off. We've had it since 2007. We rebuilt it. |
| 00:34:24.82 | Unknown | Something I said? Okay. |
| 00:34:41.51 | Unknown | Back then, I'm trying to stall as a I'm trying to work the controls. I just wanted to remind you what the original scope of the 2007 rebuild was, which was basically just to provide clear information to the public |
| 00:34:51.50 | Unknown | I'm really excited. |
| 00:34:56.70 | Unknown | use photography and graphics to kind of promote Sausalito and to put together a site that non-HTML skilled folks could maintain, which is primarily what we have here. And for the most part, I think we were successful. But over time, we've discovered that the categories aren't always clear. Having news and updates and... the meetings, the upcoming meetings and events down here on the lower right hand corner. It's not always clear to the people updating the site, not necessarily clear to the people viewing the site where they're going to find the content they're looking for. Um... And when it's too hard to find the content, that speaks to transparency. and hopefully our public understands that we're only human, |
| 00:35:45.64 | Sergeant Frost | We're going to be talking about |
| 00:35:47.26 | Unknown | because government has kind of a, you know, Oh. an implication people sometimes think the worst, and we certainly don't want that. Part of what we realized is wrong with the site is that it's frankly too busy. And I have here five is greater than nine. And that's actually just kind of a note to myself that humans basically can recognize seven things, give or take two. So if you want someone to see everything on your site, you put five things up. With a government site, with as much content as we have, that's hard. But the further you get away from five, obviously the more likely you are to lose important content for your audience and you don't get to decide what they don't see. In addition to that, the content management tool, which was great four years ago, is feeling a little clunky and is frankly cumbersome. And the focus of our website is, it's so last decade, isn't it? |
| 00:36:41.53 | Unknown | which is to say |
| 00:36:41.97 | Unknown | Which is to say, it's a display web. I mean, you can register for classes online. There are a few things you can do. But for the most part, we're really just a display web. Thankfully, there's an app for that. There are several apps for that. And with this, our focus is shifting towards turning the website into a tool. It's probably the easiest way to minimize our carbon footprint because it's the one piece of our organization that people can take with them. They can look at it on their phones, their iPads, from the office, from home. and the more business that we enable them to do from home, the less reason there is to get into a car and drive all the way down here. Obviously, we'll still have a customer service friendly staff, but that staff can start to take orders and process business. over the web. So this round we are implementing a CRM package for DPW, which is essentially a help desk. There's a very simple version of this where you can report a pothill and it goes to an email address. But this is a way you can actually get a ticket. You can call in about the ticket if you're not getting the progress that you feel like you need. We're working on a new EOC portal, which will allow people to not only keep up with what's happening during a disaster, but where to find help, how to get out of town if need be, where to find sandbags, whatever the situation may be. We're also working on a mobile interface because what people need from a telephone or what people need when they're looking at an iPad or an iPhone is not always what they need from desktop. So yeah. Future apps include permit processing so that we don't have to fill up the hallway with people just trying to put new bedrooms on their houses or what have you. online payments, again, doing more business with the city, and a message board to encourage people to kind of become more a part of the conversation. And so... This is our new homepage design. We got rid of about put six items and reinvented a bunch. Let me actually go back. What we've done is we've gotten rid of the what's current, because what happens is everyone puts what they need and what they need to show right now and what's current in there, and there's absolutely no way to give anything priority. So nothing has priority. Again, the news and the updates was confusing. No one was really using the drop-downs. Or not no one, but very few people were using the drop-downs. And so all of the wonderful things we have in here just weren't getting used and people were getting confused. So. WE'VE replaced the updates and news and updates and upcoming meetings and events with community events. Our statistics show that what people come to Sausalito's website for is for fun events. Jazz and blues, Fourth of July. As much as Sausalitans, I think, like to bicker, they like to party a whole lot more. So they come here for this and then they get to see the rest of it. And the rest of it is hot topics. This is instead of something that every department can update, the city manager's office can put up items that are currently under discussion, things that we want to highlight. |
| 00:39:46.36 | Unknown | So. |
| 00:40:04.45 | Unknown | Headlines is something new where it's not so much a topic that's saying that you know the forefront of our minds for weeks or months on end but just kind of current, this could change every day, every couple days. This one's something I'm hoping to see right here. George Lucas may be buying Sausalito for a Star Wars reboot. Obviously this list is kind of made up. Mike Langford promises me that this is not him. He sent me this in an email. I didn't ask, so read into that what you make. |
| 00:40:33.25 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:40:38.96 | Unknown | Sorry, Mike. |
| 00:40:41.22 | Unknown | Just to be a fast. |
| 00:40:43.43 | Unknown | We've also changed what the buttons here do. The Sausalito catalog is great for classes, but public notices and applications and permits seemed a little bit more deserving of real estate in the home page. And then this is going to go to the EOC portal, which will include Sergeant Frost's excellent work that he's already done in that regard. |
| 00:41:08.83 | Unknown | So, I try to keep this down to about seven items. The meetings and agendas tile down here has been replaced with this, which is going to be a drop-down menu. But if you just click it, it'll take you to a 30-day calendar. And the default filter that shows you what's on it is going to be City Council and Planning Commission. This primary navigation, this whole tile obviously follows throughout the entire website. Rather than I want to being kind of an afterthought catch-all over here, we decided to reinvent it and make it category-based. Anything you might want to pay for, anything you might want to apply for, everything goes here. It's almost like a start menu on a a Windows interface. We combined living and visiting because we have a new facilities tool that's Google Map based that will show not only restaurants and churches and bars and libraries and |
| 00:42:00.14 | Joanne Dunaway | Thank you. |
| 00:42:00.16 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:42:00.30 | Joanne Dunaway | tomorrow. |
| 00:42:02.44 | Unknown | what have you. But we also realize that residents and visitors have more in common as far as their browsing habits than we thought before. And so we've done away with a bunch of redundancy. we've left city departments pretty much on their own, but we've got an effort that's been happening on the background working with the city departments to kind of help them reorganize their data so it makes maybe a little bit more sense, especially since they no longer have the what's current kind of catch-all available to them. And as I say, we have this here because this is, believe it or not, the star attraction to the website. I was kind of hoping it was going to be the photos, but |
| 00:42:44.02 | Unknown | . Because they're all yours. That's why. Exactly.. |
| 00:42:46.99 | Unknown | That's why. Great job, Rhett. Okay. So as I said, humans only see seven plus or minus two. This is our current website. We kind of see how much we have going on and where the eye wants to go. |
| 00:42:49.99 | Unknown | Great job, Rhett. Thank you. |
| 00:42:51.04 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:42:51.36 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. I'm not. |
| 00:42:52.74 | Unknown | THE END OF |
| 00:42:52.83 | Unknown | THE END OF |
| 00:43:02.53 | Unknown | Um, Kind of hard to look at. So we think this is a better job. It brings you right down the center. There's less to look at, less fighting for your attention. |
| 00:43:13.67 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:43:14.09 | Unknown | And we hope that that's going to result in people having an easier time navigating the So as a recap, what's changing is we're simplifying the homepage. We're minimizing the primary navigation options, but we're also orienting those navigation options based on what people access the most. We're upgrading the backend tool to make it easier on the staff and give them a few more features. and we're retooling the website and the whole focus of the website to be more application-based. And the timeline for all of this magic leads us to the middle of September. and with the bulk of the work being application site and development. And that is my presentation. |
| 00:43:58.28 | Unknown | Thank you, Brett. Questions? Questions? |
| 00:44:02.37 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Mr. Mary, I have a question? Thank you, Rhett. So I'm just curious, in the event of an emergency, is it possible, I saw the content management city management staff to update this site remotely? Yes. Like if they're not able to come into town, they could update it from home or something? Oh, absolutely. Oh, great. |
| 00:44:23.90 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:44:29.49 | Unknown | Oh, absolutely. In fact, much of the work we actually do on a regular basis. I know the, sorry about this, I know the city clerk and I both do a fair amount of work on it over the weekends. But you can update it from an iPad from a smartphone. |
| 00:44:44.96 | Unknown | Great. |
| 00:44:45.55 | Unknown | And the same holds true for the EOC component. It's not a separate piece. It's actually integrated into the whole flow. |
| 00:44:52.82 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 00:44:54.66 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:44:54.78 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:44:54.87 | Unknown | you |
| 00:44:56.94 | Unknown | Is this still using the same company and their software and hosting? It is. Okay. Are they charging you for any new gizmos, or is it using the same software that we pay for now? |
| 00:45:09.62 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:45:09.67 | Unknown | you Thank you. |
| 00:45:10.21 | Unknown | Well, we are paying for a new upgraded content management tool. As you may recall, when we first launched the site, the company that we're working with, which is Vision Internet, suggested that we pay them $20,000 a year. And for that, we could have anything we wanted. I think you and I were of the same mind that that $20,000 was more useful to us in our coffers than theirs. And so as a result, some of the updates that we would have had for that didn't automatically roll out to us. But the overall price tag for all of it is much less than one year of that support would have been. So they are charging us, but it's a better business model to do it, I think, ad hoc than sign up for the subscription, as it were. |
| 00:45:30.64 | Unknown | on theirs. |
| 00:45:44.63 | Peter Van Meter | So. |
| 00:45:44.97 | Unknown | They are. |
| 00:45:52.82 | Unknown | And do you know where they host this? They host out of Santa Monica. Thank you. Do they back it up somewhere else? Yes, they do. And so do we. Yeah, no, I know you have your off-site storage too. I'll talk to you afterwards about other stuff, but I'll offer you a free designer for a certain period of time to help you if you want that help. |
| 00:46:20.46 | Unknown | Thank you. Any more questions? It's not free. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Rhett. We'll take some public comment, if any. |
| 00:46:26.94 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:46:27.04 | Unknown | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 00:46:27.12 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:46:29.94 | Unknown | Any member of the public would like to ADDRESS THE COUNCIL? Jonathan standing for a reason? You want to address the council? Next. Oh, you're just anticipating that we throw Red away and bring you up, huh? Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:46:44.72 | Unknown | The one thing that you should talk to these guys about is if they brought in their own search tool rather than rely on Google to index your site because it's not the best user experience as you've seen, Google would be your search engine on an interior site. So that would be one thing I'd be asking them to do, see if they have their own. And you can get it really easy to – they're free. That's a good question. Yeah. I'll look into it. |
| 00:46:47.03 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:47:10.26 | Unknown | Great. Brad, thank you very much, and I'm glad you're doing this. Thank you. |
| 00:47:13.04 | Unknown | Thank you. Good. |
| 00:47:14.27 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:47:14.29 | Unknown | Good. All right, Jonathan, you're on. This is Status Report on Budget and Capital Projects 2012, and this is the May update. |
| 00:47:24.46 | Jonathon Goldman | Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the council, Chuck Loomer. and members of the staff. |
| 00:47:33.80 | Unknown | . |
| 00:47:37.49 | Jonathon Goldman | His contract up. That's an insight joke. |
| 00:47:38.69 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 00:47:39.03 | Unknown | Ha, ha, ha, ha. |
| 00:47:40.85 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:47:40.95 | Unknown | Yes. Thank you. That's a joke. |
| 00:47:42.76 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:47:45.09 | Jonathon Goldman | I am distributing, sorry. Hard copies of the presentation, it has not changed since it was distributed as late mail. I made some black and white copies that I also have available, although I realized after I made them that they're not perfectly readable, at least in one slide, so it's kind of a trick question. |
| 00:48:15.71 | Jonathon Goldman | Would you mind? actually. Thank you. Thanks, Chief. And thank you to the City Clerk for bringing this presentation up. This is a lot of slides, and while we're early and I'm tempted to take advantage of that, I know that the priority calendar is also a significant item this evening, and I want to – my personal preference or thinking is that that might be of more value than excruciating detail about some of the capital projects. But at the same time, I wanted to give this update. It hasn't happened for a while. Thank you. Thank you for that vote of confidence. Whoops, that was too fast. Just a breakdown on the general categories. I have followed the organization that's in the budget with the exception of one of these categories that's only here because there was an odd number. That's a repeat joke from last time. Traffic and transportation projects. Let's see. How can I best do this? You can all read the presentation. Members of the Council have had the opportunity to read it. I know that members of the audience haven't, so I'm going to just try and focus on some highlights. Some of these you have seen in other recent presentations to Council. With respect to this fiscal year's budget's budget, have completed a number of traffic and transportation projects that I'm personally and I think the community can be very proud of. Significant street repairs, safe routes to school improvements that were grant funded, storm drain projects that were not initially |
| 00:49:54.95 | Joanne Dunaway | Uh, |
| 00:50:14.31 | Jonathon Goldman | prioritized, but based on experiences, we were able to identify some urgent projects and complete them, as well as some significant improvements in the corporation yard. We have a number of things that are pending or in progress. We just sent an announcement on Incurrence today about one of our pavement marking striping maintenance projects between Princess and Napa. That work will start. I forget the date, but it will be completed within the next couple of weeks. We have pavement marking contract ready to go out to bid or to get quotes between South City Limits and Princess. That work will also be completed before we get significant rainfall again. We have deferred our traffic signal upgrades. We have requested budget for that. Historically, based on the perceived need, I mean, anybody who looks at some of the hardware out in the streets can see that it's old. On the other hand, it works. And rather than expend those resources, you know, we have kind of internally continued to defer those upgrades. The Gate 6 Road project I had a question about earlier. That's a joint project between three entities. Our city engineer was very successful in getting Caltrans to recognize that the way they and the funding agency had originally programmed those funds didn't make any sense given the context of the project. That's why we came back to you with a revised funding agreement because they agreed with him. We completed our first and initial phase of LED streetlight retrofits. I think very successfully. I mean, we've had a few complaints, but those issues have been resolved fairly quickly by doing the same thing we did before we had LED streetlights, which is installing shields and things like that. In addition, because we paid attention to the streetlight inventory and things like that, and our our contractor Republic ITS which is now a Siemens company division. We identified an opportunity to retrofit a fairly significant number of additional lights and thanks to Mike Lankford's efforts he was able to identify grant funding so I'm confident fairly soon we'll be able to bring back to Council an opportunity to do another maybe $10,000 a year in electrical cost savings grant funded. And. Keep that project rolling. In addition, and you heard something in public communications earlier this evening, we actually have a Caledonia streetscape capital project funded. We purchased a surface cleaner, which is a hot water pressure washer that has allowed us to do some maintenance, both on Caledonia Street and some other areas. We have replacement solid waste containers that also add the capability to accept recycling. We've had one of those units here in Sweeney Park for a while and expect to expand that testing program to see whether the community and the Caledonia Street merchants and the Sustainability Commission believe that we ought to replace those units on Caledonia with merchants and the sustainability commission believe that we ought to replace those units on Caledonia with these new ones. This is kind of a rehash of a presentation you've already seen, but wanted to just kind of reemphasize the fact that between 2006 and 2012, the city of Sausalito has performed significant maintenance or reconstruction on large areas, large segments of our streets network. This slide is Old Town. These are some of my favorite pictures of the whole time I've worked here. And I won't even tell you what they are, but you know what they are if you're looking at them. The Hill area and Newtown, same thing. These depict accurately to scale, depict road segments that we've done some form of pavement maintenance or reconstruction on in the last six years. Here's another couple of favorite photographs. I stole these from you, Todd. Sorry. Spring Valley, Pine Hill, Nevada, Cypress Ridge, and Points North, same thing. |
| 00:55:01.09 | Jonathon Goldman | Watery Street. Oh, I gave that one away. Storm drain projects, Gate 5 Road Flap Gate project took way longer than the consultant or I thought it would, but it has in fact been completed and we're working with the police department. We had a series of plus six foot tides recently, but it wasn't completed in time to demonstrate during that time period, but we're expecting the end of this month and early June. We have some plus-six foot tides again. I have offered the Oh, the chief is still here. I've offered the watch commander's compensation for excellent photographs showing Heath and Gate 5 Road area free of water at those super high tides. We also completed urgent projects at the 600 block of Sausalito Boulevard. That's where this is, Sagali Lane and Spring Street. Buildings and waterfront projects. I was hoping, I keep hoping, that we'll be able to christen may not be the right word, but... Opening ceremony. Yes, have opening ceremonies for the new restrooms just down the hall here. We expect that to be able to happen at your next meeting or shortly thereafter. We've also started subsequent phases of design. The library remodel, we are on schedule for planned construction still August of this year. doors and storefronts. We're in an interesting place. Lauren Umbertis, who's our Public Works Maintenance Division Manager, and I spent a lot of time talking about the process, the contractual process that we can deliver that project with. And it's more detailed than I think is appropriate tonight. You know, we are committed to and intend to successfully come up with a project that satisfies design review, historic landmarks, Ford, and public contracts code to get the doors and storefronts replaced here as soon as possible. The bulkhead project, the city hall parking lot. Let's see. I'll just skip over. I'm not doing what I said I would, which was highlights. Sorry. Some of you have seen, probably all of you have seen this photograph before. Spinnaker Point, February of 1960. Spinnaker Point, June of 2011. And then I have some snapshots from our punch list walk that we had last week on this project. We expect to have a grand opening there also in early July. |
| 00:57:25.59 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:57:25.60 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:57:25.72 | Unknown | you |
| 00:57:54.49 | Jonathon Goldman | Parks and recreation projects. We're planning to start construction at Harrison Park this fall. design review application and preparation for Viña del Mar Plaza. Restroom construction, bids are divided. We have our bid walk on that project. This is downtown restroom construction. Bid walk tomorrow. Sweeney Park, we have the concept approved and are working on the sequence of how we're going to deliver either all or parts of that project. Same with Southview Park. We have retained geotechnical engineer and structural engineers to evaluate the retaining walls there and give us advice on how they can be And we have some additional work to do to figure out how to craft that into a project. As was discussed earlier today in the Finance Committee meeting, that needs to factor into, you know, the funds that we program for subsequent phases of work. We also plan, Mike Langford, the Parks and Recreation Director, and I will be working together, and he'll be giving you a presentation in early June on parks projects. |
| 00:58:56.86 | Joanne Dunaway | Thank you. |
| 00:59:03.71 | Joanne Dunaway | Thank you. |
| 00:59:13.87 | Jonathon Goldman | Thought I'd throw this up. This is Bill Werner's rendering of the future downtown restrooms and bus shelter, B of A. I forget this woman's name. but I recognize her. Pedestrian bike projects, bridgeway to ferry landing project, we're expecting completion as early as next week and certainly the 25th of May. That project, I think, is going very well, thanks to Todd Teachout and our contractor there, Brennaman. We still have a non-motorized transportation pilot project, steps project that's working its way through the Caltrans process. We have completed a significant number of other accessibility ramp improvements and things like that, but we have what's called a transition plan update to do that will help us program additional improvements and prioritize those improvements. We're working on grant applications for South City Limits to Ferry Landing project that Council has heard about in the past. And then we're still, actually we're behind schedule in delivering this map that Council agreed to fund the production of showing our stairs and paths as a guide for disaster preparedness. Sewer projects, there's way too much to talk about here, but Project 1A, which is the Gate 5 Road project, We are just as a reminder, we kind of slipped that behind Project 1B, which is the Spinnaker Anchor Project. Project 1A, we are committed to restarting the design and permitting, and if at all possible, planning construction of that project in fall of 2013. We still expect to bid and award and construct the Spinnaker Anchor Project in fall of this year. Um... Thank you. 2C, which is on our original list, Alexander Avenue Beach Force Main. We are in pretty high priority coordination with Sanitaria District on replacing this or dealing with the beach force main issue. Oh. Whiskey Springs lift station, as Council may recall, you approved a purchase of a mobile generator which we have already received and we're working on installing it in coordination with the Sanitary District in the next month. |
| 01:01:51.40 | Joanne Dunaway | Thank you. |
| 01:02:01.19 | Jonathon Goldman | Martin Luther King, Jim Wendow's project completed. We actually have at the urging of our A fire prevention officer have identified the need for fire and life safety improvements in the gym and have prepared a design and estimated cost for that. factor into budget discussions. Then we also have some relatively minor fire service, which is the water supply for sprinklers and things like that, that we need to make a co-compliance update to. But we're planning to integrate that with any other tenant-driven improvements that we end up doing. Parking. We managed to roll out the resident cards in October of 2011. We have operating merchant validation and other system upgrades and are continuing to try to press those, to make those improvements, but we also need to make sure that they're going to work before we roll them out. So we're being very careful there. Reconfiguration master plan, we have conceptual plans that Council is aware of for pedestrian improvements. And we are in coordination planning with Golden Gate Ferry. They actually applied for a grant to fund a large portion of those desired improvements and they're expecting an answer on that grant application next month. reiterating some images of what the conceptual master plan for those improvements in Lot Anchor Street and Bay are essentially being completed with the Bridgeway to Fair Landing project, but we have the desire to improve pedestrian connection between Lot 1 and Lot 3 on both sides of Humboldt, as well as ultimately try to find a better and safer pathway for pedestrians who park in Lot 3 and walk to and from the ferry landing. |
| 01:04:04.59 | Jacques Ullman | Thank you. |
| 01:04:14.26 | Jonathon Goldman | That's my presentation. So, happy. |
| 01:04:18.72 | Unknown | Thanks. Very good. Any questions of Jonathan? |
| 01:04:26.35 | Unknown | Questions? |
| 01:04:27.65 | Unknown | That's a question Carmen makes, but I want to be the public then. |
| 01:04:33.03 | Unknown | All right, seeing none, I'll take it to the public. Anyone from the public care to... Talk about public works projects. Seeing none, we'll bring it back up here. Thank you. Come here. |
| 01:04:49.57 | Unknown | Would you comment on it? Well, I just think it's important to recognize the sheer volume of projects that Jonathan and Todd and the other folks in Public Works have done in the last two years. I would bet that it's pretty unprecedented in the history of the city to have that many Public Works projects going on at the same time. And the city has spent the variety of funding sources, Charlie can correct me, $11 million in the last two years on capital projects, three years, so the last three-year cycle of that part of the CIP, which is also, I'm sure, and that doesn't count the public safety building, way outside what we spent, I think, ever in the history of Sausalito at one time. And Charlie likes to call it Sausalito's mini stimulus package that we injected into the construction market because we had a huge amount of projects for such a small city in a short period of time. MR. But I think it's testimony to Jonathan and his team and Todd and his hard work and having the resources and time and human beings to actually finally accomplish some of the things that we want to do and why he's planning to have the money to actually do a lot of it. Thank you. Um, You still have a lot on your plate, obviously, and more projects than we'll ever be able to fund in a reasonable period of time. |
| 01:06:13.49 | Joanne Dunaway | Thank you. |
| 01:06:18.97 | Unknown | um, Congratulations to all of you for all the hard work you've done and the ability to actually complete projects and balance those planning as well as actually construction management of it. It's really a testament to you folks. Thank you. |
| 01:06:38.60 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:06:40.33 | Councilmember Ford | I wasn't going to say anything, but I'll just add to that, that I think that working with the community in terms of, well, specifically the peer work that you did, is fantastic. And that saved the city a lot of money. And it was a great project. It's almost finished. Not without its problems, but it's almost finished, and that's wonderful to see. And although the downtown looks really torn up right now, I'm hoping that will change here soon too, and I'm sure it will, so thanks. |
| 01:07:17.04 | Unknown | All right, I wanted to say the same, just to, not to reiterate, but I have the confidence now that when I get an email from somebody saying, I've got a tree problem or I've got a parking problem or I've got this problem or that problem, that's a public works that we could call, give to Jonathan and to Adam and the team and to Todd, and it gets done. It gets done not necessarily always the way people would wish it would get done, but it gets addressed and answered and in a professional and really, proper way. So, and that is, it's a joy to have a team like that. So thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:07:53.27 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Mr. Mayor, I'd like to make a comment too. So Jonathan, I do want to thank you and your team for this great work that you do and also really liked your presentation too. It covers a lot of territory, but it was really just amazing what you guys accomplished in your team. Thank you very much. |
| 01:08:17.53 | Unknown | One last thing I think really bears calling out, and it goes back to what the Chief was speaking back in her comments and the other presentations we had tonight. Just the – and it comes from both Adam and the department heads. Is there ability to work with other agencies to accomplish a lot of these things? Whether it's the county, GGNRA, the... Highway Patrol, the Coast Guard, what have you, has really improved. I mean, it was much more combative 10 years ago in working with any agency outside of the city of Sausalito um, both from the cities watching it from the outside on the city's actions. And I think these agencies realize they now have to work together. And you guys have done a good job at making that work. I mean, just looking at Herb's work and Jonathan's work with the ferry service, it's a complete 180 in terms of how the city used to interact with the |
| 01:09:07.11 | Joanne Dunaway | Very. |
| 01:09:12.16 | Unknown | with the ferry service. It was always threats on either side. It's, um... It's a testament to you folks who have just really changed the way we do business here, and that's a great thing. |
| 01:09:24.85 | Unknown | Great. Thank you, Jonathan. All right, we'll move on to the item 6E, which is the city priority calendar, step 3. which is to approve the... the, um, |
| 01:09:38.82 | Adam Politzer | you Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:09:39.40 | Unknown | Say. |
| 01:09:39.87 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:09:42.84 | Adam Politzer | So I'll do a brief introduction again. You folks have all gone through the drill here. And while I'm giving the introduction, Debbie is handing out the final forms, and then we'll put this information on the overhead. And there are some copies here, I believe, if anyone would like a copy sitting here. |
| 01:09:56.93 | Joanne Dunaway | . |
| 01:10:05.06 | Adam Politzer | So this is where it gets a little more difficult and I recommend that everyone continue to work professionally and respectfully through the process. |
| 01:10:07.88 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:10:16.40 | Adam Politzer | But this is where you'll take a look and you can see where each individual council member rated or ranked the 57 projects. So we had 57 projects that the council approved to be added to the priority calendar. And so they are here. You can now see. when you take all five council members' rankings and look at the average where everything falls out in terms of the highest priority and the lowest priority So, Your job tonight is to confirm that you agree with the ranking and that there's a consensus. Take public comment, obviously, and hear from the public, and then either add items, remove items. Again, you have the ability to do that if you so choose. You can also, with a majority vote, take items that are rated lower than you would like to see and move them up or take items that are rated too high. and move them down again by a majority vote. Um, Ultimately, at the end of the evening, you need to draw the line. and tell staff that items that are above the line are what our current priority is for the upcoming fiscal year 2012-2013. So effective July 1st. During the budget process that we start having the hearings in June, some of these items, as you recall, had dollars associated with them if we needed consultants or other experts or seed money to help move the items along. Other items were... had staff time associated with it, so it's understanding that, for example, Sergeant Frost, if emergency preparedness is still a priority of the city, and a major amount of his time will be dedicated to that. So you can't, ask him, If you divide his time up as you saw tonight in three categories, as the emergency services manager now working on the waterfront and boat program. I don't know the exact name for that, but the program that he just gave his presentation on the activity on the waterfront and enforcement. And then his responsibility as a supervisor patrol sergeant. You can't you can't, find more time for him. He's already maximized his time providing those three levels of service for the community. So that's when you would have to look for consultants or outside experts to come in to provide additional time which costs additional money. So again, at the end of the evening, you'll draw the line. For the public, if you see your item below the line, it doesn't mean that it's not a priority. of the city, it just means that city staff won't be spending time on it. which then falls back to our boards and commissions and committees and volunteer groups, and they can continue to work on them, and they can continue to ask for their item to be placed on the agenda, and then give reports. And the Sustainability Commission was a good example of bringing the wet waste composting program forward. and then working with staff to bring it to its final to its final approval of the City Council. So that's something that we'll be looking for looking for for the community as we go to the future. |
| 01:14:04.99 | Joanne Dunaway | Thank you. |
| 01:14:05.07 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:14:05.14 | Joanne Dunaway | for us. |
| 01:14:08.36 | Adam Politzer | I'm going to pause here because I did see Don Weiss walk in and see if the council would I prefer to go through this exercise or pause and have Thank you. |
| 01:14:19.62 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:14:19.99 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. I know that they are on their way to another city. They've probably come from one city to come to ours and then they're on their way to another city after ours. All right. Let's take a look. |
| 01:14:20.19 | Unknown | on. |
| 01:14:28.84 | Unknown | THE END OF THE END OF THE Let's take a pause on this and move. That's item 6C. So, Don, you're on. Thank you. |
| 01:14:49.96 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:14:52.24 | Unknown | I'll just say hello. Thank you so much for having us here this evening. I guess I should... It's really a pleasure to be back here and we're happy to give you an update on where we are right now. I'm going to turn it over in a minute to Justin Kudo. He's our account manager who's been with us since early in the year. He's going to give an overview of where we are. And it's kind of an exciting time for us because after being serving customers for approximately two years, we have gotten to the point where we're rolling out to the all the customers in Marin County that have not yet been offered service. While we're currently serving 14,000 customers, we're in the process of sending enrollment notices to the remaining 82,000 customers in Marin County. And so we expect that by the end of the summer we'll be serving approximately 95,000 customers. So it's a pretty big increase and it's been an exciting couple of years. We've been very busy with procurement activities. We're particularly excited about an announcement that we'll be making at a press conference this Thursday where we'll be releasing information about a feed-in tariff project that is being built for our customers right here in San Rafael. It's going to be the largest solar project to date in Marin County, and it's going to be serving our customers through our feed-in tariff. And the feed-in tariff, as you may know, is available for any folks in Marin County who would like to sell power to us. It's a great way to get some local economic stimulus happening and get some local renewables on the grid. So really excited about that project. And so Justin will be telling you more about that in a few moments. One other thing I should mention while we have a moment is we have a solar rebate program and an energy efficiency rebate program where we're giving out $500 rebates to customers that are interested in doing an energy upgrade. or are interested in getting a solar installation on their roof. And both of those rebate programs have been very popular and are almost fully subscribed. So if you're interested in either of those rebates, let us know soon. And with that, I'll turn it over to Justin Kudu. |
| 01:17:08.74 | Justin Kudo | Hi, thank you. We really do appreciate the flexibility you've had of the schedule of the council. It's very much appreciated and our apologies for that. Let's see here. Okay, so my name is Justin Kudo. I'm the account manager for Marin Clean Energy. And we're gonna give a brief presentation that kind of explains what the program is, how we function, what sorts of choices that we offer customers, and also how customers can opt out if they choose to not be part of the program. What we are is we're a public agency. We're not-for-profit. We're administered by a local group called the Marin Energy Authority. We are a community choice aggregation program. And I'll get to that and what that means in just another slide or two. What we are committed to is to provide a cleaner, greener, non-polluting choice of energy to customers that are interested. We partner with PG&E to deliver the energy and to maintain the power lines themselves. PG&E will still be providing those services to our customers the same as they always have been. We provide 50 to 100% renewable power. Customers who join Marine Clean Energy and look to get our services will get 50% renewable energy. If they're interested, they can voluntarily receive 100% renewable energy. Our service area includes all of Marin County right now. We actually may be expanding that. Richmond is currently interested in joining Marin Clean Energy and is somewhere we're headed to a little bit later tonight. We're currently serving approximately 14,000 customers. Our customer base is expanding right now. That's the enrollment that everybody's been getting all these letters about. And it's expanding to what we believe is gonna be about 95,000 customers by the end of July of 2012. And one thing that's really important to point out, because it is a concern people have, is that we are self-funding. We do not take public funds. We do not take tax dollars. And there is no liability for our debts to the public. A Community Choice Aggregation Program is something that is based off of or created out of legislation from 2002 by the State of California. We are sort of a hybrid between an investor-owned utility, which is what PG&E is. It's also what San Diego Gas and Electric is and Southern California Edison is. And there's also public utilities or municipal utilities, which is Sacramento Municipal Utility District, Palo Alto. Those are all examples. We are somewhere in between those two. And what we do is PG&E still maintains the transmission lines for our customers and provides the bulk of the customer services. We, however, purchase the power that our customers use. And so this is kind of a, this is a graphic that shows exactly how we function. Marin Clean Energy is the source of the electricity. We are responsible for buying electricity, for building energy supplies, et cetera. And then we put that electricity onto PG&E's transmission system. And then that electricity is distributed out to end customers. We are an opt-out program, and that is something that's important to a lot of people. It's also very concerning to a lot of individuals. What an opt-out program means is that customers who are currently with PG&E, if we don't receive notification from them within the five-month enrollment period, that they will be switched over to Marine Clean Energy Service. Customers receive at least four notices regarding this enrollment. State law actually requires that we send two, but we want to be absolutely sure that customers are aware that their service is changing over to Marine Clean Energy. Customers can opt out at any time during that enrollment period, and there's no fees for that. Any time a customer gives us an opt-out request, that opt-out request is permanent for that account. We will not enroll them in our service and they'll stay with full PG&E service. If a customer does choose to opt out after the initial five-month period, there's a one-time fee of $5 for residential customers, and commercial customers will receive a $25 opt-out fee. One other thing that's important to note is that customers, if they want to opt up, if they want to switch from the basic service to our 100% renewable deep green service, they can do that at any time. There's a couple ways customers can opt out. One is by calling our 800 number, which is listed up there, 1-888-632-3674. I really want to stress, and I know this might seem a little silly, but we've had a lot of issues with it. There definitely needs to be that one dial before the area code. We didn't indicate the one on the first round of mailers that we sent out, and so some customers have been reporting the number comes up as disconnected because of that. Thank you. We didn't indicate the one on the first round of mailers that we sent out, and so some customers have been reporting the number comes up as disconnected because of that. So please just be sure to dial that one. We have also had some issues where customers had difficulty with the automated system and getting it to recognize their account number. Frankly, there's a lot of different numbers on people's PG&E bills, and it's a little bit complicated. So what we did is we actually took down that automated system. If a customer calls and presses 2 to opt out, they will get a live representative 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The other way customers can opt out is they can go to our website, and if you go to marincleanenergy.com, up in the upper right corner, you'll see a button that says Opt Out. And if you click on that, it'll ask for account number, service address, and zip code. And if a customer can provide all that information the same way it is on their PG&E bill, it will give them a confirmation number and give them a list of accounts that they have and give them the opportunity to opt each of those individual accounts out. If for some reason we can't match that information up with our system to identify that account, it'll pop up a secondary form. and customers can enter in their information the best they possibly can on that form. and it will go to a customer service representative that will try to identify that customer, get them opted out if possible, and contact them if we have any further questions. Customers who do opt out will get a confirmation letter in their regular mail confirming the request in about 10 business days. |
| 01:23:47.95 | Justin Kudo | What are our choices? The choices everybody has now is they can stay with PG&E. PG&E offers 20% renewable energy, according to their last filing with the Public Utilities Commission. And that's what happens if you opt out. You have PG&E as normal service. A customer who does not opt out will get MarinClean Energy's light green product, which is 50% renewable energy. Alternatively, if a customer opts to sign up for our Deep Green service, they can get 100% renewable energy at the cost of a penny a kilowatt hour, which for the average household in Marin is about $5.40. |
| 01:24:27.00 | Justin Kudo | And this is a breakdown of what our renewable energy sources and our non-renewable energy sources were for 2011. This is important because people want to say, well, where do you get your electricity from? What is it really coming from? And there's a lot of different sources on here. The biggest chunk on there is net system power, and that's something that all electric service providers get in their power mix. It's sort of like generic electricity almost. It's electricity that's on the power grid that no utility has claimed ownership over or the generation credit for. Large hydro is the next biggest chunk, and that comes from Tri-Dam in San Joaquin. That is carbon neutral. It's carbon free, but it is not considered renewable, and we do not count it towards our renewable portfolio. There's a lot of other sources in there. They come from a range of places including California, but also Oregon and Washington. And they include wind, biogas, biomass, and solar. |
| 01:25:34.98 | Justin Kudo | This is a look at what the renewable portfolio standard is. This is something that's mandated by the state of California that says utilities and electric service providers have to have at least this much electricity that comes from renewable resources on their system. PG&E was previously failing to meet these standards, which was part of why Marine Clean Energy ended up being formed. PG&E is now meeting those standards. They have 20.1% renewables in their system. Marine Clean Energy in our 2011 filing had 27.8%. We were the first electric service provider to reach the renewable portfolio standard threshold, and we currently are the highest in state. |
| 01:26:16.56 | Justin Kudo | One thing that some customers really appreciate about us is that we do set our rates through public meetings and with the approval of our board of directors. And those rates are set annually. And that's something that provides a lot more stability than a lot of customers are used to getting from utilities, which can change their rates several times per year. To date, we've never raised our rates. That's, of course, not to say we won't in the future, but we certainly have not done it to date. And that kind of rate stability is something that a lot of people have appreciated about us. Another thing is that our customers are still eligible for care and medical baseline allowance benefits. Care is a low-income housing or low-income house electricity discount. And the medical baseline allowance benefit is if you have medical equipment in your house that uses an amount of electricity, that you get an extra allowance of electricity for that. And our customers will still receive those benefits the same as PG&E's. Now this is a rate comparison for the typical residential unit in Marin County. One thing that's very important to note about this is it does not include PG&E's, PCIA, and franchise fees on our customers, and I'll get to those in just a minute. But what this does look at is it looks at a breakdown of electricity generation costs. and transmission and distribution costs. Transmission and distribution will remain the same for customers of MarinClean Energy. However, generation costs will change slightly depending on what our rates are. MarinClean Energy's rates are 6.9 cents a kilowatt hour for July. The projected PG&E rates are 6.719. Those rates have not yet been finalized. So for the typical customer, that's going to be a cost difference of about 98 cents. |
| 01:28:08.89 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:28:12.45 | Justin Kudo | This goes into some of the other costs, though. PG&E has an exit fee that they call the Power Charge Indifference Adjustment. That's what's on there. It's PCIAA. It's an estimated cost right now. That really is the primary cost difference between PG&E and Marin Clean Energy. It's that exit fee they charge when customers leave their full service. It's an exit fee based on the assumption that that customer was going to use electricity that PG&E had contracted for for that customer. So it's a variable fee, and there's a lot of factors involved. It depends on what classification of customer the customer is, when they left PG&E service. But one thing that's important to note is that it can be expected to go down over time. Also, this projection was made before some changes happened about a week ago at the Public Utilities Commission, so it might actually be a little bit lower than this. The bottom line this comes down to is for a typical customer who is paying $90 a month with PG&E, full service, at the projected rates for July, would probably be looking at about $98.80 with marine clean energy. Well, the other fee on there you'll notice, and it's a very small one, but I'll just go over it briefly, is the franchise fee. That's a fee that's normally rolled into the regular PG&E rates, but has to be paid separately for Marin Clean Energy customers. |
| 01:29:28.58 | Joanne Dunaway | do the |
| 01:29:35.87 | Justin Kudo | This is a cost comparison for the typical commercial customer. They have a lot more usage, so the bills are going to be higher. There's also different pricing for commercial customers. Marine Clean Energy actually has slightly lower rates than PG&E does for commercial customers. And so as a result, you'll see here, there's actually a savings of $6.23 by being a Marine Clean Energy customer. Now, once you get into including the power charge and difference adjustment, that savings does go away. You end up having a power charge and difference adjustment of about $14.43. So as a result, you have a cost difference. It's going to be about $8.75 more for 50% renewable electricity with Marin Clean Energy's light green product versus PG&E. That's about a 3% cost difference. |
| 01:30:25.39 | Justin Kudo | This is a sample bill, and we provided this here just so customers can get an idea of how will my bill change when I switch to Marin Clean Energy. Bills are still going to be provided by PG&E, but they will look a little bit different. There's two things to note on this page. One, the electric charge from PG&E is still going to be on that first page. And that's a combination of PG&E's transmission charges, their distribution charges. So these are charges for maintaining the grid, substations, power lines, meters, etc. There are also a number of other charges, certain fees and things, and you'll be able to see those on the next page. Marine Clean Energy, however, will charge electric charges, which are for the cost of generating the electricity itself. And that's indicated at the bottom of that green box right there. And this is normally it's on the back of the third page, so I guess the fourth page of your PG&E bill. You can actually see a breakdown of what are all those charges for, what does that charge for electricity mean from PG&E? And it means cost for transmission, distribution, public purpose programs, nuclear decommissioning, all these different things. For a Marine Clean Energy customer, there's three things different on this page. One is the power charge and difference adjustment, which is what we mentioned on the cost comparisons before. Another is the franchise fee surcharge, which is about 20 cents, very small. And then the other thing is normally on your PG&E bill, you'd have a very large line item on the top that would say generation. And our customers no longer pay generation costs through PG&E. And this page is actually going to look a little bit different once we get to implementation in July. But just to give you an idea, there will be one extra page on your bill that will say third-party electric detail. And it will show marine clean energy at the top and give people an idea of what's the breakdown of your charges for marine clean energy. So getting a little bit back to generation of electricity and where our power sources come from, we have signed contracts for 45 megawatts of new solar projects in the state of California. Those are mostly in central California. We've also signed contracts for 3.2 megawatts of new biogas that will be located in Yuba and Solano counties. Locally, we've actually done a couple things. One thing is we have something that's called a feed-in tariff, and what that is is it's a standing offer. We say if somebody generates renewable electricity, we will buy that from you at a set price. Just make us an offer of a project, and we'll buy it from you. So we've actually signed a contract very recently and are going to be having a press announcement about it pretty shortly. It's a one megawatt solar project, or just under a megawatt, set for development in San Rafael. It will be the largest solar project in Marin County. We also currently have 429 Marine Clean Energy customers that generate solar power on their rooftops, and they produce about 400,000 kilowatt hours to date. And then we also have a one megawatt solar carport shade structure that we're trying to develop here in Marin County as well. It'll be somewhere in our member districts in our service area, but we have not finalized the location yet. |
| 01:33:51.76 | Justin Kudo | We have a number of other local programs, too. Customers who want to do energy efficiency or do solar are still eligible for PG&E rebates for those things. But at the same time, we also wanted to offer something extra. So we offered $500 energy efficiency rebates, and that's for either doing energy efficiency upgrade or for simply doing an audit of your house to determine where you could make such upgrades. We also offered a $500 solar rebate to residents if they wanted to determine where you could make such upgrades. We also offered a $500 solar rebate to residents if they wanted to put a solar installation on their house, they could do that and get a little bit of extra money from Marin Clean Energy. We actually gave out 40 of those rebates and that program is currently out of funding for the moment. That's something that may change in the future. We also help fund five electric vehicle charging stations for our member cities and towns. And we support local renewables. We talked about the feed-in tariff project a little bit. The other program we have is net energy metering. And that's, to simplify, is when customers have solar on their rooftop, And whenever they generate extra electricity, more than they're using, they can build up a credit and then use that electricity later. That's something that's pretty normal. It's offered by PG&E and other utilities. We have a program that's one of the best in the state. We actually offer bonus credit for the generation that people make on the rooftops. And more than that, we actually buy back electricity of the customer. generates extra electricity over the course of the year, we will buy that electricity back at retail rates. We're the only utility I know of that does that. PG&E buys it back at wholesale rates. Most other utilities didn't even do that until recently. So what have we done? We've created demand for new renewables supply in California and Marin County. We reduced greenhouse gas emissions by a little over 15,000 tons annually. That's the equivalent of parking about 2,700 cars for a year. We've also increased our renewable supply for our light green customers all the way up to 50% already. We've exceeded our California state renewable mandate, and we're currently leading the state in our renewable energy supply. So if you have any questions, Dawn or I would be more than happy to answer any of them. |
| 01:36:15.79 | Unknown | Thank you very much. Any questions? |
| 01:36:21.69 | Unknown | One thing that I'd like to just let you all know is that we have copies here of the opt-out letter that went out just so folks can see what it looks like. And I'll pass one around for you all to take a look at. Also, the envelope is worth mentioning. We have a message on here that says, important information about your electricity service inside. a higher percentage of customers are paying attention to the letter in the envelope than the method we used before which was a big glossy postcard. So we're excited to see that. We're really trying to get the word out to everyone. We will also be sending some postcards. Two letters have gone out already. The postcard looks like this, although it's on card stock and it's kind of glossy looking. This is the back. This will start going out in about a week. And then there will be two additional postcards going out after the enrollment begins in July so that folks will be notified that they've been enrolled and continue to be notified about how to opt out. |
| 01:37:07.52 | Joanne Dunaway | in about a year. |
| 01:37:20.42 | Unknown | The last thing I'll mention is that we have copies of the rate comparison that Justin went over, and I'll leave some copies up here in case members of the public would like to take a look at this rate comparison and take a look at all the detailed numbers. We have both the residential and the commercial comparison here. |
| 01:37:37.21 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:37:39.55 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:37:39.57 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Mr. Mayor. Yes, thank you for the presentation. I did have a couple questions and they're coming from residents. The first question is you mentioned the five month period for opting out. When does that begin and when does that end? |
| 01:37:56.02 | Unknown | Yeah. The period lasts four or five months, as you mentioned. It begins three months prior to enrollment. So our first notices went out at the very beginning of April. And we have three notices going out prior to the enrollment. The enrollment will occur during the month of July on the meter read date of the customer. So whenever the meter is scheduled to be read, that's when the enrollment actually occurs. And then the two additional notices will be coming out, one in late July and one in August. |
| 01:38:31.02 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | So the five-month period, it begins in April, and it ends in April, May, June, July, August then. |
| 01:38:39.34 | Unknown | Correct. For some customers, it will end in September. It's 60 days after their cutover or their enrollment date is when the statutory opt-out period ends for that customer. But I think it's also important to make sure folks are aware that they can opt out after that time as well. But there is a $5 one-time administrative charge for a residential customer, $25 one-time administrative charge for a commercial customer. |
| 01:39:05.89 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | So if a resident opted out during the month of April, then it's okay, it'll stay. And the other question I had was, I guess some residents, I guess in the beginning, PG&E, like a year ago or two years ago, sent out something that said, you know, you can opt out. And I guess some people did that. Was that... Does that count or no? |
| 01:39:33.07 | Unknown | So there are many customers that tried to opt out before they were being offered service, and it's not possible to opt out at that time. It's the way that the law is structured. We're not able to opt customers out until they are actually in our system. |
| 01:39:47.31 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Okay, thanks. So basically the bottom line is if anyone did anything earlier, it doesn't count. The whole period for deciding whether they want to opt out or stay is April through August. |
| 01:39:55.30 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:40:02.70 | Justin Kudo | That's mostly correct. One thing I just want to point out is if they did anything earlier through PG&E, then that would not be an opt-out that we could handle. There are some customers throughout Marin County that have been offered service by Marin Clean Energy over the past couple of years as we've been scaling up and moving towards full enrollment. If they opted out six months ago, for example, from Marine Clean Energy when we were offering them service, then that customer would still be in our databases opted out, and we would not offer them enrollment again. |
| 01:40:34.33 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | So you're saying that there were some customers in Sausalito you offered clean energy to earlier than April. Thank you. |
| 01:40:41.92 | Justin Kudo | Yeah, that's correct. I see. Okay, thank you. We still have 14,000 customers right now and about, we had about a, I think, around a 20% opt-out rate before that. So there's a number of customers that have been offered service already that we've received opt-outs from. |
| 01:40:41.97 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Yeah, that's correct. I see. OK, thank you. now. |
| 01:40:55.74 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Okay, thank you. |
| 01:40:59.29 | Unknown | We've gotten a few emails from folks you know about the use of credits and landfill gas to both meet these goals. Do you want to respond to both the Sierra Club analysis on landfill gas as well as? the use of purchasing credits or certificates to meet these thresholds. |
| 01:41:24.82 | Unknown | Yeah, I'm happy to. So I'll start with the landfill gas. There were some changes in the regulatory environment just in recent months that related to SB21X, which is the... relates to renewable regulations in California and I think there was some confusion in some of the discussion that I've seen recently about how those how that regulatory change might impact some of the purchases that we made because it's a similar type of technology but the types of purchases that we have made are from landfill waste to energy facilities, and in other cases, biogas facilities, as we saw in the pie chart, where the gas is actually being used on site. It's not being injected into the gas pipeline. The regulations that changed recently are related to gas being injected into a pipeline and being used in a different location than where it's actually being generated. So the contracts that we've entered into aren't impacted by that. A side issue that relates to the landfill waste to energy discussion is there's some debate within a task force of the Sierra Club regarding whether that gas should be used, whether there is a net benefit or a net negative impact to the environment by using methane that's generated on site at a landfill. the state of California, the California Public Utilities Commission, the California Energy Commission, and the EPA have all determined energy being produced by methane at a landfill has a net positive impact on the environment because it's taking a very potent greenhouse gas, which is methane, and using it to generate energy which offsets the fossil fuels that would otherwise be burned to create energy. And it also takes that methane and converts it into carbon dioxide, which is a less potent greenhouse gas. So the net benefit, in the view of these regulatory bodies is that this is a good thing and this technology is therefore certified as part of the renewable portfolio standard qualifying projects. These are RPS qualifying projects. We are very interested in following the debate, but as a load serving entity, our job is to follow existing law. And so we've entered into contracts for power supply that comply with the existing law. If there is some change in the law, we'll certainly follow that as well. But we think that there are certainly benefits in these local projects. One of the great things about Um, landfill gas projects is that they often benefit local landowners, local projects. They are less likely than some of the solar projects to use large multinational corporations, so it's nice to be able to have a mix that includes local projects like that. And, you know, the other thing that we like about these projects is that they are contributing, they're kind of using the burning of gas that often is flared and not used at all. Many of us have probably driven by the flare in Nevada where our landfill gas is being burned but not captured, not used for anything. The EPA requires that that methane be flared. And so the view of the EPA and the state is that it's better, if you're going to flare it, it's better to use it to generate energy and offset the fossil fuel generation. So I can spend a lot of time talking about that subject, but I'll move on to your other question, which is renewable energy credits. And renewable energy credits, there's a lot of confusion about them, and I think what happens is that sometimes folks get renewable energy credits mixed up with carbon offsets, and they're actually a very different product. When a kilowatt hour of energy is generated at a renewable facility, there are two things that are created. The electron is created, the electron of power, and then the green attribute. In many cases, we buy the electron and the green attribute together. The green attribute is really the premium that's associated with a renewable product. That's what makes renewable energy cost more. It's more costly to install renewable energy, and the market will pay more for that product. So in some cases, we buy bundled renewable energy, where you get the electron and the REC, the renewable energy credit, together. In other cases, it makes sense for the electron to be used on site and the REC to be sold into the market. This is the case with a couple of folks that we're buying power from where the electrons are used on site. Both of the operations that we're buying from, actually, that I'd like to use as an example, are local farms. So one is in part of the South San Joaquin Irrigation District. They use the electrons on site to pump water. We also recently entered into an agreement for renewable energy credits from a group, a coalition of farmers. on site to pump water. We also recently entered into an agreement for renewable energy credits from a group, a coalition of farmers in Oregon near the Hood River, and they use the electrons on site to irrigate fruit trees, to pump water to irrigate fruit trees. Now, it's beneficial for them to use those electrons on site rather than ship them all the way down here to Marin. You'd have some line losses there and you'd lose some of the value of those electrons. But to be able to sell the renewable energy credit in the market, there is a market for that. And our purchase of the renewable energy credits in an unbundled way helps them keep their business running and allows them to use renewable power rather than fossil fuel. So when we buy renewable energy credits, we are offsetting what would otherwise be generated with fossil fuel. It's very common. It's used by all the other load-serving entities in California that have green products, like the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, Palo Alto, even PG&E. And these renewable energy credits are also certified. You can use a percentage of them as part of your renewable portfolio standard qualifying supply. |
| 01:47:48.98 | Joanne Dunaway | . |
| 01:48:01.63 | Unknown | Um, We are using some renewable energy credits unbundled in our supply mix, and we're using bundled renewable energy credits with electrons for part of our power mix. It's about half and half right now, half bundled, half unbundled. |
| 01:48:18.76 | Unknown | All right, any more questions? Thank you. |
| 01:48:21.02 | Unknown | . |
| 01:48:21.38 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:48:21.40 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:48:21.58 | Unknown | Thank you, Don. |
| 01:48:22.14 | Unknown | you |
| 01:48:22.19 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:48:22.95 | Unknown | I have one last question from Don. It's a chance to educate people and hopefully some folks will be watching. A lot of people have commented over the years that I'm not actually getting that green power. |
| 01:48:33.80 | Joanne Dunaway | Yeah. |
| 01:48:35.16 | Unknown | that I may be purchased buying it through you, but it's not coming directly through the wire to my house. It's just going into the general pool of electricity. And that there's no benefit to that. Do you want to comment on |
| 01:48:51.43 | Unknown | Yeah, I'd love to comment on that. I think the answer, the quick answer, is that there is a net benefit to the utility grid. And if we really think about that question, what would it take to get the green electrons from the source where they're generated? Let's say there's a solar array down in South San Joaquin Errogation District, and we want to make sure that those electrons get to your house. Well, we'd have to build a separate transmission system for you. We'd have to put up a new wire that goes from the source to your house. That wouldn't be very efficient. It would cost a lot. It will cost so much that we wouldn't be able to offer that to customers, nor would any other load serving entities in California. So the way that Green Power is purchased and sold to customers is by buying our share and loading it onto the utility grid. And the utility grid is managed by an independent, the California Independent System Operator. Thank you. and it's their job to make sure that we put on the exact amount of kilowatt hours that our customers use. There's very careful and strict accounting very careful and strict reporting that we have to comply with to verify that every kilowatt hour that our customers use on a daily basis is accounted for by the supply that we purchase and put onto the grid. So I think And the analogy of a pool that you mentioned is a good one. We dump all of our renewable energy, all of the energy that we purchase into the California pool of energy. and then all the customers have their straws sticking in and it's coming out at the nearest point wherever they happen to live. But it is carefully accounted for, similar to a bank. We put our money in the bank, we get different money out, but it's still our money. The same is true with the electricity that we buy for customers. |
| 01:50:39.01 | Unknown | And how does Richmond fit into Marin Clean Energy? And is that too much to tackle at the same time as you're rolling in your customer base? |
| 01:50:44.27 | Unknown | you |
| 01:50:50.30 | Unknown | Yeah, well Richmond has been very interested in meeting the same types of objectives that have been identified in Marin County as far as reducing greenhouse gas emissions, getting more renewables onto the grid in California, and so they have a very aligned vision. As a result, they've been reaching out to us for the last year or so to see if there might be a way for them to join, just as other cities have joined the Marin Energy Authority. We are still having discussions with them. It looks very likely that they're interested in joining. And our board has discussed this and set up some parameters that would be required, including adopting a resolution demonstrating an agreement with our goals and policies and mission and that sort of thing. So we're really in the early stage of the process. If Richmond votes to join, they would be requesting to join MEA. Our board would then need to respond by accepting or rejecting the offer. And then it would take us some time, assuming our board accepted the offer and wanted to invite Richmond to join the board, it would take us at least six months to do a separate procurement for Richmond. So we wouldn't be looking at offering services to any customers in Richmond for approximately 12 months, probably at the earliest. So it's still a ways off. We are in the exploratory stages of possibly adding Richmond to the board, but even that hasn't yet been confirmed. Certainly the procurement and offering service to customers is quite a ways off. |
| 01:52:34.86 | Unknown | All right, thank you again. Any member of the public? Here in comment. |
| 01:52:47.55 | Peter Van Meter | Peter Van Meter, quick question. I think I saw a chart that said that the green mix from MCE was 27%. You're comparing it with like 20% for PG&E. Maybe I misunderstood, but then they're offering 50% and 100% renewables and wondering how those numbers work together. |
| 01:53:06.55 | Justin Kudo | Thank you. |
| 01:53:11.19 | Justin Kudo | Thank you. Yeah, the 27.8% was our submission for renewable portfolio standard for 2011. The board voted in February of 2012 to increase our procurement up to 50% renewable. And that's why that's not reflected in the 2011 data. We'll have the information on the 2012 sources available once we get into 2013. |
| 01:53:41.06 | Unknown | Just one other thing, so we're doing apples-to-apples comparison. If we're talking about the year 2011, where we were at 27%, PG&E at that time was at 15.9%. So they've inched up, which is great, and we have as well. |
| 01:53:56.04 | Unknown | Any other member of the public care to comment? All right, seeing none, we thank you very much for coming. Good luck to you. All right, back to Adam. |
| 01:54:10.35 | Councilmember Ford | Mr. Mayor. |
| 01:54:10.94 | Unknown | Oh, I'm sorry. Do you want to cut it? |
| 01:54:10.98 | Councilmember Ford | Thank you. Uh... Thank you. Thank you. I move we take a five-minute break, a five-minute break, before we tackle this. |
| 01:54:17.80 | Unknown | OK? All right. Five minute break. |
| 01:55:44.67 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:57:05.19 | Jonathon Goldman | Again, that's right, that's correct. I got to say chopped liver on national television. |
| 01:57:06.26 | Unknown | That's right. Thank you. |
| 01:57:07.03 | Unknown | That's great. |
| 01:57:07.39 | Unknown | Correct. |
| 01:57:11.10 | Unknown | Thank you. I'm here. Yeah, that was... Yeah, you had a chance. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:57:33.71 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:57:33.85 | Unknown | Really? |
| 01:57:34.40 | Jonathon Goldman | you |
| 01:57:34.61 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:57:34.98 | Jonathon Goldman | Thank you. |
| 01:57:35.03 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:57:35.87 | Jonathon Goldman | Thank you. |
| 01:57:35.94 | Unknown | That's old school. |
| 01:57:36.02 | Jonathon Goldman | That's old school. That's old school. People don't do that very often anymore, at least not. |
| 01:57:37.95 | Unknown | you That's old school. |
| 01:57:44.18 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:00:00.04 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:00:04.96 | Unknown | Thank you. Two of them, one was first. Thank you. |
| 02:00:14.97 | Unknown | Thank you. I hope this is good. Thank you. |
| 02:00:26.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:00:45.33 | Unknown | Who was the... |
| 02:01:54.26 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:02:27.51 | Unknown | you you |
| 02:03:21.00 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. It's really in the mouth. Yes. Thank you. This is a problem. |
| 02:03:47.29 | Unknown | As soon as we have a city clerk, yeah. |
| 02:03:53.65 | Unknown | work. |
| 02:05:01.68 | Unknown | All right, we're back in session. |
| 02:05:03.18 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:05:03.28 | Unknown | Uh, |
| 02:05:03.35 | Unknown | Um, |
| 02:05:11.62 | Unknown | I don't know. Anyway, it doesn't matter. |
| 02:05:12.97 | Unknown | It doesn't matter. Thank you. |
| 02:05:15.67 | Unknown | you Maybe they got reversed. All right, Adam, you're on. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 02:05:26.25 | Adam Politzer | Okay. |
| 02:05:27.12 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:05:28.95 | Adam Politzer | Take two. And we have some new audience members. So I will just give you a brief recap. Tonight is the third step in the three-step program. And it's the most difficult of the steps because you're now |
| 02:05:30.65 | Unknown | We have some new audience members. |
| 02:05:46.53 | Adam Politzer | going to take your individual rankings Look at the average. and then determine if this is the right order. and then draw the line for what items staff will work on and during the budget process in June that we will allocate dollars to help move these items forward in the effort to get them complete. Some of these projects as the council has noted, are ongoing. And some of these projects are things that we can do in a 12-month period of time. And so again, there's no distinction between things that are Could it be completed sooner versus things that are long range projects? Um, They're all important. They're important to somebody. They're important to different groups in the community. different boards and commissions of the city. and different members of the staff from various departments and obviously important to different council members at different levels and you can see that looking at the individual rankings that there are extremes. across the board and then there are items that are fairly close. But again, it's also a difficult task. And so I really appreciate and applaud the council for doing this exercise. I'm sure that many of you had a difficult time Thank you. picking out your top 10. and your bottom 10. And in some cases, you probably could have argued that your bottom 10 could move up to somewhere in the middle. So it's not an easy process, but it's a process that has shown results. And for the past four and a half years, I think as you've seen with the Community Development Department, with many of their projects being on the priority calendar in the past, and also with the Public Works Department And tonight we saw a presentation from our Public Works Director on all of the capital projects opportunities like that come out of the priority calendar. free up time that we would be spending on items that fall below the line that took us staff time, at least investigating, researching, analyzing, meeting with committees. and providing updates to the council. It's a very effective tool. It's also allowed us to maximize our financial resources so that we aren't spending money chasing every idea that comes forward It's also important to note that this is not an exhausted list. Many of the boards and commissions had items on here that didn't make the top 57. And again, it's not that those items aren't important and they're not items that have the community groups and committees and boards and commissions, if they would like to continue to work on them. and I'm sure the city council would encourage them to do just that. and during the council meetings provide updates to the council And if money becomes available through grants or gifts or other donations, bring that forward to the Council for the Council to reconsider those items and look at ways to support them and fund them and put them back onto the list and move them above the line. So just because it's not on the line here doesn't mean that it's not important, and it doesn't mean that it might not happen in the future. Again, just a reminder that tonight you'll look at the 57 items. You'll agree that this is in the right order. I don't recommend that you try to make it perfect and move items 27 to 23 or items 24 down to 26. That'd be a little bit too much of micromanaging the process. But if there's things that are at the bottom that you believe should be moved above the line. items that were marked above the line that should be moved below and given to the boards and commissions or community groups or to interested parties. And then you move those items down the line and give direction to those groups to work on them and then bring them back at a later date for reconsideration. At the very end of the night, what you'll give to us is a final document and the line |
| 02:09:51.59 | Joanne Dunaway | Committee boards. |
| 02:10:13.86 | Adam Politzer | And then during the budget process, we'll bring this back to you. for funding discussion. of the items above the line. |
| 02:10:18.73 | Joanne Dunaway | Thank you. |
| 02:10:20.66 | Adam Politzer | that may or may not happen. during the budget process. There may be still some things that are unknown. But we know sometime in the next 12 months that we'd be back before the Council saying was ranked as a priority of the Council and we're now ready to come and discuss that with you and talk about the needs of that and the next steps to move that item forward which may include spending staff time, additional staff time, or hiring outside support to move that item forward. Again, for the public, they're here to provide you feedback. and ask for your support on their items. AND FOR THE COUNCIL, to again collectively come to an agreement and draw the line. for the final ranking. Happy to answer any questions of the council. |
| 02:11:17.53 | Unknown | Anybody have any questions of Adam at this point? All right. Let's begin. Just as a starter, Debbie, there was a transposition error on my Yeah, the 11 and the 45 are switched. They're just right next to each other. So the 11 should be the Thank you. |
| 02:11:47.82 | Unknown | as a community garden. |
| 02:11:48.84 | Unknown | It's a community garden and community economic development study were neck and neck. They were both one above the other. I had a 45 on the community and economic development and an 11 on the community garden. And it got transposed. Thank you. |
| 02:12:03.82 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:12:12.70 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 02:12:15.75 | Unknown | I think, well, they may want to, that's probably a good idea, yeah. Yeah. |
| 02:12:21.44 | Unknown | I think what we'll do is take public comment at this time before we start deliberating up here. That way, we'll be infused with the knowledge that is going to be imparted to us. So those who would like to speak on this matter, |
| 02:12:41.34 | Unknown | filter up here. Great, Jox. Thank you for being first. |
| 02:12:48.42 | Jacques Ullman | Jacques Ullman, Friends of Dunphy Park, item number 23, the Dunphy Park Restoration Master Plan. So you all rated it pretty high, so at this point I suppose I should just thank you for doing so. And I just want to... |
| 02:13:04.72 | Unknown | First you need to berate us for a while and then you can... |
| 02:13:07.05 | Jacques Ullman | Well, no, I mean, the point is that there are a lot of things happening around the park now that we're going to have to attend to in a coordinated way. And we felt a little bit frustrated in that we haven't felt as friends at Dunphy Park really the legitimacy that we need to be able to help you properly. And if you put us high enough but this item high enough then we have access to the staff we have access to venues if you want to have workshops I mean it just makes the whole thing more possible and also once that we have some sort of a plan then we're in a much better position to try to get some funding from outside sources because as we found out in trying to purchase land and so on, that if you don't have a willing seller or if you don't have a plan, then it's pretty hard to go out and ask for support. So I think that we can turn a new leaf now and I think really begin to see some results. So thank you again. |
| 02:14:16.10 | Unknown | Great. Thank you. Can I just come out there? So, Jacques, just to clarify, there's no funding for that plan, but the staff time is in there. There's no funding in the budget to actually do the plan, but the staff is there. Where we'd love your guys' help is to actually get the money to do the plan. All right. That would be it. |
| 02:14:25.71 | Joanne Dunaway | Thank you. |
| 02:14:25.72 | Jonathon Goldman | No fun. |
| 02:14:25.99 | Joanne Dunaway | Yeah. |
| 02:14:33.59 | Jacques Ullman | Well, we'll try to get facilitator, you know, to do it pro bono. |
| 02:14:40.29 | Unknown | No, we'll talk about that. But yeah, finding the money will be the next big game. |
| 02:14:42.04 | Jacques Ullman | We'll talk about that. |
| 02:14:43.31 | Joanne Dunaway | you |
| 02:14:48.23 | Unknown | All right. Anybody else care to speak? Where did Adam and Oh, Adam? |
| 02:15:03.41 | Unknown | Okay. Oh, yeah. And then Benjamin Burke, you'll be next, okay? Great. Good evening. |
| 02:15:08.54 | Adam Politzer | Good evening, Mr. Mayor, respected councilmen, councilpersons. Uh, Reading the information that was made available at the website is very helpful. It also delivers a message to the reader that this community is more interested in fixing things than thinking ahead toward its future. Those projects which involve more community collaboration, those projects which are more complex, are not featured on the top. I'm talking specifically about the marine ship update and the review and update of the marine ship specific plan. And I'm talking specifically about the marine ship update. You have several thousand jobs there. You have several hundred firms making their business there, their daily business. You have historic values. you will not be able to save those historic values unless there is a public private, collaboration, to generate enough a vitality in the area to pay for all the infrastructure for pumping out the water, for keeping the area from flooding, etc., etc., that will take years to figure out the plan with community public participation You will spend years before you arrive at a plan to figure out what to do, and then you have to do things. So, I suggest... that you regard as a matter of utmost urgency your livelihood is partially provided by the Marinship area. So it is Easy to say, well, that's very complicated, it's expensive, it takes a long time, let's do it some other time. I am here to tell you that This is why we should start now. Thank you very much. |
| 02:17:44.76 | Unknown | Adam, before you leave, what items, if you had to pick one item from the three or four that were on here that had to do with community development and planning and so on, would the marineship specific plan be the first? |
| 02:18:01.42 | Adam Politzer | Yes. |
| 02:18:02.15 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. All right, who else would like to speak? Oh, Benjamin, you're gonna do it. Thank you. |
| 02:18:10.09 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:18:13.39 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:18:19.34 | Unknown | you Thank you. One second. It clears out. Yeah. |
| 02:18:25.48 | Unknown | the record, just note that Adam is distributing some written comments for the record. |
| 02:18:32.44 | Unknown | Right. |
| 02:18:32.71 | Jonathon Goldman | Thank you. |
| 02:18:32.72 | Justin Kudo | Thank you. |
| 02:18:42.76 | Benjamin Burke | Thank you. |
| 02:18:42.78 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 02:18:44.08 | Benjamin Burke | Hello, my name is Benjamin Burke and I'm here to speak in favor of the Community Garden Project. I'm a member of the Friends of the Community Garden organization and as you probably know, it's an organization that has garnered a huge amount of community support and been involved in a number of events in Sausalito and we're planning a busy summer with the Caledonia Street Festival, the Fourth of July parade again and so forth. And in the past, we've submitted pretty elaborate proposals for a project at MLK that received approval from Parks and Rec. And we've had a lot of work in the past. had fundraising projections and just a very comprehensive proposal. But of course, the stumbling block was the location. And in the past, we've had a position above the line that allowed us to work with city staff in order to help us find a location that's going to be appropriate. And I would strongly urge you respectfully to please help us remain above the line so that we can work with city staff in order to find a location that is going to be the most appropriate for the community. I understand that there's already some guerrilla gardening efforts that are going on in Sausalito over by Dunphy Park and areas that are maybe not as involving the organization and the community as much. It's kind of happening spontaneously in ways that are not appropriate for the community. And we really hope that we will be able to continue to work with you as the organization that we've formed that has a large number of members of the community that really want to come together and make this thing happen in a place that's appropriate for the community and i hope that we'll be able to continue to work with city staff in order to make that happen thank you very much |
| 02:20:49.01 | Unknown | Thank you for your comment. |
| 02:20:50.03 | Adam Politzer | Yes. |
| 02:20:51.57 | Benjamin Burke | Thank you. |
| 02:20:51.59 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 02:20:51.66 | Benjamin Burke | Thank you. |
| 02:20:51.77 | Adam Politzer | Can I just comment on that? Sure. I think it's important to note that city staff, since the council last year, the place of the community garden above the line. has been meeting with representatives of the community garden Public Works Director, the Park and Recreation Director, and City Attorney at various times we had meetings. They are coming, they are in the near future coming to a council meeting to tell you what they've you know, where they are. from all those meetings. and I think that they, are going to be responsive to some of the comments they've heard from the community. and obviously from city staff. So it may be one of these items that you pull out. And wait. until they come and tell you what they want to do And then here, from the rest of the community because there was a reaction from the community especially related to the size and the location at MLK or if they come forward with something that the community can support, and the, City Council may want to reconsider its position, so it may be premature. to rank that tonight. not really knowing what has changed from when they came a year ago to talk about the MLK site. So that is a recommendation from staff to maybe suspend that item until the folks in the community garden have an opportunity to present to council. Okay. |
| 02:22:21.65 | Unknown | All right. Peter. |
| 02:22:27.57 | Peter Van Meter | Peter Van Meter, thank you. Your finance director has made it clear that the city is at an inflection point in terms of your financial strength. You're going to have some difficult budgeting this season. And you're going to continue to have problems meeting your budget requirements in the future. This means that you really need to be focusing on the economic vitality of the city. Your engine of economic vitality is the marine ship. You cannot continue to kick this item down the road. You say it's a political hot potato, whatever, The point is you have to face it with an open mind, not have predetermined judgment as to what's going to happen when this planning process takes place. Like Adam says, You know, you can't just look at temporary stuff. You need to look long range. It's just, in my opinion ashamed to have this come down here in the lower third of the list. You've got to move that item ahead. You've got to get that effort started. You're going to kill the town if you don't. It's just that simple. You've got to decide what's going to happen down there. Now, related to that, is way down at the bottom of the list you have the Community Economic Development Study. The Rob Eiler Report. We've just spent thousands of dollars. Chamber of Commerce pitched in half the money, $20,000. And you're putting that down at the bottom of the list. You have a related item. which is the Local Economic Development Incentives Program, Those are really the same thing, in my opinion, because they're closely interrelated. You've got in the EILA report the metrics of the multiplication factors, the formulas, to, in fact, an incentive program that retains the current businesses attracts the kind of combinations of businesses that you want in Sausalito, It of course does tie in with the marineship, but we can deal with it the existing regulations there. Their finance director has already made it clear, at least to the business advisory committee, that he's prepared to recommend the $20,000 in your forthcoming budget discussions to be able to have us implement. the community. and economic development plan recommendations. And we're going to put in a lot of volunteer effort to make that happy. happen. but you've got to have a little bit of financial support for it because we have to bring in some outside experts and so on to help us with that. In my opinion, what you do is you combine the Community and Economic Development Study item with the Local Economic Development Incentives Program items. I wish we had numbers on here because you can't find them because we don't have the item numbers. But you put those two items together, and move them above the line. It just simply has to happen along with your friendship specific plan. You can't. kick the stuff down the road. The favorite term, we're talking everywhere at all levels of government, kicking it down the road. You just can't do it anymore. |
| 02:25:18.03 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else care? |
| 02:25:27.66 | Alice Merrill | Hi, Alice Merrill. I just noticed that Chris is here. I didn't know she was, so I was coming to be the WAM member for Chris. Please do. |
| 02:25:36.39 | Unknown | Please take your place. Thank you. |
| 02:25:37.47 | Alice Merrill | I will... you . somebody left their glasses up here and I'm so that's it. |
| 02:25:45.21 | Unknown | Just kidding, Kristin, you know that. |
| 02:25:46.73 | Alice Merrill | She, nobody can take her place. We know that. |
| 02:25:48.71 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 02:25:49.87 | Alice Merrill | And so I'm just here for that, because we put in some years, and really Chris did, and so. It needs to be addressed, just like the other people are saying. Thank you. |
| 02:26:05.51 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 02:26:06.34 | Alice Merrill | Thank you. |
| 02:26:06.61 | Chris | Like, |
| 02:26:07.28 | Unknown | I knew you were going to come up anyway. |
| 02:26:08.97 | Chris | Thank you. Jennifer, I hope you all enjoyed your boat, because we're taking that back. |
| 02:26:12.57 | Unknown | Because, uh... |
| 02:26:13.50 | Unknown | you |
| 02:26:13.66 | Unknown | Oh. |
| 02:26:13.78 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:26:13.90 | Unknown | I'm sorry. |
| 02:26:13.97 | Unknown | taking that back. |
| 02:26:16.47 | Chris | No, again, I'm here to wave the flag for the WAM committee. And last year I made the recommendation. It's not going to get cheaper. And maybe we don't pay for it this next year, but if the council doesn't start putting some money away, and a fund to start funding this, it's not going to ever happen. You know, and the council made the commitment last year to start doing that. Of course, I don't think it happened. You know, now you have the Rob Iler report. I've been told the WAM committee report is the best the city's ever received, and yet they're both sitting there with bookends on a shelf. So I think there needs to be a commitment to do that. So... |
| 02:27:01.10 | Unknown | Thank you, Chris. |
| 02:27:05.32 | Unknown | Maybe you can put plus one and just copy it. Thank you. |
| 02:27:09.98 | Cheryl Popp | Cheryl Popp, on behalf of the Suscelino Chamber of Commerce on whose board I serve, we're very supportive of the WAM report, the Rob Eiler Community and Economic Development Report, and all of the points that Adam Kravatsky, our chairman of the BAC, shared with you. Business is crucial to the economic sustainability and ongoing life here in Sausalito and the city has got to support that more than they have and the marineship plan is a part of that. All of the downtown many of which are on here are very critical to that. And it's got to work for residents as well as businesses, but we've got to focus on that. We, as you know, Sausalito Coastal Living just rated this as the third happiest seaside town in the country and out of fifteen. |
| 02:28:02.31 | Unknown | That was slap happy. |
| 02:28:04.70 | Cheryl Popp | I didn't know that. |
| 02:28:05.97 | Unknown | It's different. |
| 02:28:07.13 | Cheryl Popp | Well, who was number one? It's kind of huge. It was Kiowa Island in South Carolina. Number two was Naples, Florida, which I think is... But anyway, I lived in Florida. |
| 02:28:10.15 | Unknown | with the |
| 02:28:10.20 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 02:28:10.79 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:28:19.40 | Cheryl Popp | Anyway, there's really, we have so much potential here, and we have a lot of visitors, we have a lot of tourists. The hospitality industry is really important. It generates vital, vital... for this city, and we need to support that with keeping our economy vital and sustainable. And so I really encourage you to make all of those priorities on this list. |
| 02:28:44.05 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:28:44.24 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:28:44.39 | Unknown | Thank you, Cheryl. |
| 02:28:47.31 | Unknown | All right, anybody left? |
| 02:28:50.62 | Unknown | Ah, Jeff. |
| 02:29:02.62 | Jeff Shirash | Jeff Shirash. I just want to talk about two items. One is our economic development. study. When I first got on BAC a number of years ago, it was a dream that we actually could eventually do a study. We didn't have the metrics available. We didn't really know what all the different things that were going to go into the economic study. But finally, we raised the money, you know, private-public partnership, We did this during a time where there's downturn. I mean, all of our businesses are struggling right now. but our businesses saw the benefit of doing this long term. You know, as Peter Van Meter mentioned earlier, We needed that support. We needed the business to support. They see long-term growth. They see what we need to do long-term. The city needs to do the same thing. The city needs to understand if we don't have that growth, whether it be Marinship, downtown, we don't support our businesses, they're not going to be here and they're not going to thrive. We need them to thrive. We need the sales tax dollars. We need our businesses that are renting from the city all to thrive because it really hits the pocket at the end of the day as far as what goes in the city coffers. So I'm hoping that we can move that above the line and continue to support the economic study and do the work we set out to do. We're halfway there. Now we just need to implement it. We've got the data. But the day does no good unless we do something about it. Also, of course, AC34. Definitely we have a great opportunity this next two years to really capitalize on our waterfront. We have a beautiful waterfront here. We really don't do much with it when you think about it, compared to East Coast towns. So we really can capitalize on things in the water, AC34 events, and get people to come over and spend money here in Sausalito. Why not? We have a great opportunity, a great town, so let's utilize it and capitalize on what's out there for AC34. We're not asking for that much, but we definitely need support as far as city time, and we need some money down the road, which we talked about a number of weeks ago. But I won't get into that side of it, but we really need support from you to make that worthwhile. So thank you. |
| 02:31:05.97 | Unknown | Thank you, Jeff. |
| 02:31:12.37 | Unknown | I knew you were going to parade us. |
| 02:31:13.68 | Unknown | Ha, ha, ha. |
| 02:31:14.76 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:31:14.98 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:31:15.08 | Unknown | I'm just Thank you. |
| 02:31:16.96 | Jacques Ullman | Jack Holman because AC 34 was I have to speak about the America's Cup I'm just concerned that in this planning for America's Cup that the you know our citizens group was disbanded and and I haven't heard much about what's going on and I have concerned that we identified some problems. Of course, it's hard to know to predict how many people will be here, but if we get 20, 30,000 people, which seems to not be unlikely, the problems could be extraordinary. And I don't see the signs of the planning for it, so I'm concerned about that. |
| 02:32:03.38 | Unknown | Thank you, John. |
| 02:32:09.44 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:32:09.46 | Unknown | provides directions. |
| 02:32:10.42 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:32:13.91 | Unknown | Did anything change? Yes. Can we change the line? |
| 02:32:21.45 | Unknown | Plus they have numbers down the side now. |
| 02:32:33.18 | Unknown | 14, turn 20. |
| 02:32:34.19 | Unknown | you |
| 02:32:34.85 | Unknown | But did anything go above the 25 top projects? No. |
| 02:32:38.36 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:32:38.38 | Unknown | No. |
| 02:32:39.78 | Unknown | I haven't done 25. Oh, you have the numbers on the side now. Thank you. |
| 02:32:43.76 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 02:32:44.03 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:32:44.15 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:32:44.18 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 02:32:44.98 | Unknown | for the very change. |
| 02:32:46.38 | Unknown | Is 25 our cutoff? Or 24? |
| 02:32:46.46 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:32:46.51 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:32:46.53 | Unknown | Thank you. I've never heard of it. |
| 02:32:47.42 | Unknown | you |
| 02:32:47.71 | Unknown | you Thank you. |
| 02:32:48.03 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:32:48.10 | Unknown | Thank you. or 20 traditionally. |
| 02:32:48.98 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:32:53.35 | Unknown | All right. Any other member of the public here to address the... |
| 02:32:56.13 | Unknown | here to |
| 02:32:59.12 | Unknown | Council on any of these items? Seeing none, I'll bring it back up here. All right. Um, Thank you. How do we want to do that? |
| 02:33:07.03 | Unknown | Well, here, let me try one thing. So I'm going to lobby for... Some folks have lobbied for some very... And I want to get some sugar from those folks because I actually did rank those projects above the line, unlike what people thought I would do. But the... |
| 02:33:09.77 | Unknown | so I'm going to |
| 02:33:23.56 | Unknown | Thank you. But is the private use of public lands in the underwater streets? And I still don't think you guys fully understand the impact of what this would do and how it would solve a lot of the issues. This is like the third or fourth year I put this in here, in that if we sold the development rights or use rights of the underwater streets to, say, the trust for public land or what |
| 02:33:44.19 | Joanne Dunaway | you've |
| 02:33:50.28 | Unknown | You wouldn't have to worry about any future development of anything that crossed those streets like marinas or whatnot. And it would put an end to a lot of the use of the city's time and aggravation and the community's fears about what could be developed using the crossing those underwater streets. I can't say it doesn't have its nuances that needs to be worked out because we don't actually own those, the state does, but I'm sure we could, with the right political pressure, develop something that would work with, that the state would go along with. There's no vested interest of the state to increase fill on the bank. So in terms of controversy, in terms of all kinds of good things, it's... |
| 02:34:33.37 | Joanne Dunaway | controversy, in terms of all kinds of |
| 02:34:38.89 | Unknown | It is a very easy way to tackle a problem that's plagued Sausalito for decades. Thank you. The world has changed since the idea of having underwater streets and filling the bay with dirt existed back in in many eons ago, and it's time to put an end to the concept that you can build out over the water. So I would lobby for those, specifically, I think, as well as the community garden. Thank you. I also think we tend to wait for a problem to deal with some things, and the vegetation management is one of those problems waiting to happen in terms of fire, urban wildfire problems. But particularly those, the underwater streets and the community garden, I would certainly move up, and I've already ranked the... Let me just speak to that kind of like, you started my clock. You just start my clock. Okay, I'll speak, I'll wait and come back to the other ones. |
| 02:35:28.46 | Joanne Dunaway | it. |
| 02:35:36.70 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 02:35:41.52 | Unknown | So we're taking three minutes to talk about this in each individual. and discuss it and then you know. |
| 02:35:47.26 | Councilmember Ford | and discussion. |
| 02:35:50.27 | Unknown | and then we'll move from there. |
| 02:35:51.68 | Unknown | Okay. It's not a good plan. Go. It's |
| 02:35:53.57 | Unknown | Go. Thank you. |
| 02:35:54.53 | Councilmember Ford | It seemed that that's what we were doing. Mr. Mayor, if I may just throw in a couple of comments. I have, I agree with our city manager that we should hear what the community garden people have to say, and particularly since I've been working with the city staff for some time now, we should suspend them, hear what they have to say at an upcoming meeting, and |
| 02:35:55.48 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:35:56.09 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:35:56.10 | Unknown | Good. |
| 02:35:56.31 | Unknown | They were just... Yes. |
| 02:36:25.00 | Councilmember Ford | and deal with that. Um, In addition, I hear what Jacques is saying about the the America's Cup, and I think that we need since the residents will be fully affected by that. We need to keep that. Resident Committee. and have them be in an overview position and review the plans periodically. So those two things. And then the very important one that I see here is the... the bicycling issue. I would really like to see the part of our South End project that addresses Alexander through Richardson, that area of South Sausalito, be moved up because we're looking at many things in town. But that's one that we have not focused on since I've been on the council, and I continue to request it. I know there's a lot of concern in the community about it, but nothing gets done. So I would like to put a plug in for that, as well as the pedestrian and bicycle committee that goes with that piece, or we have a group of residents who are giving us input on how we control the bicycle traffic and how we deal with the issues that this particular problem brings to town, because it's only getting worse, and it started in high form already this year. So those things I would like to That I'd like to move up if we can agree on that. |
| 02:38:28.22 | Unknown | If we can agree on that. |
| 02:38:32.42 | Councilmember Ford | Okay, my point on that was reestablish the residence committee to oversee that. |
| 02:38:36.26 | Unknown | to oversee that. On the South City to Ferry Building, I think. |
| 02:38:42.59 | Councilmember Ford | Well does anyone else care about that project? |
| 02:38:45.02 | Unknown | You can see where I'm at. |
| 02:38:46.73 | Councilmember Ford | Oh, yeah. Well, I think, yeah. All right. Those are my issues. |
| 02:38:49.36 | Unknown | Right. Thank you. |
| 02:38:52.82 | Councilmember Ford | you |
| 02:38:52.87 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 02:38:53.14 | Councilmember Ford | you |
| 02:38:54.46 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Mr. Mayor, thank you. So I have to say I was disappointed in seeing where the exploration of consideration to withdraw from ABAG landed. Because I think that's a critical issue right now to take a look at, given some of the new legislation that I'm seeing. And with regards to Council Member Ford's comment about, I think it's item 34, which is South City limits to ferry landing, pedestrian, and bike improvements. The reason I ranked that lower was because it was not broken into two sections. I certainly would have ranked the Alexander through Richardson high. I mean as a high priority. But I think that the Richardson to the ferry landing proposal is controversial, and I could not rank that higher without a lot of public input and a lot of vetting and discussion. So if we were going to split 34 to be Alexander through Richardson, I would certainly dramatically increase my rating. So I guess those are my comments. And I'm also okay with setting aside the community garden to hear what they have to say. |
| 02:39:09.39 | Joanne Dunaway | That's a critical... |
| 02:40:24.10 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:40:24.11 | Unknown | Nice. |
| 02:40:31.93 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | at a later date. |
| 02:40:35.40 | Unknown | What, just to refresh my memory, is the controversial part from Richardson to the fair Euland. |
| 02:40:42.35 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | So the question was, what's the controversial part from Richardson to Fairy Landing? |
| 02:40:46.22 | Unknown | Yeah, I'm not playing with you, I just don't know. |
| 02:40:48.33 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | No, that's OK. They were looking at removing the, there are two walkways along Bridgeway and one walkway drops down. And the proposal was to remove the walkway that dropped down along the water's edge and push it out and have the |
| 02:41:06.94 | Joanne Dunaway | Yeah. |
| 02:41:10.98 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | pedestrian sidewalk there and it was just, you know, I mean there was just no community outreach and no I mean, it's very controversial and I just feel very uncomfortable moving forward on it. But with the Alexander through Richardson, I have no qualms about putting that a higher priority. Because, I mean, it's a miracle someone hasn't been seriously injured in that. Mr. Mayor. |
| 02:41:40.81 | Unknown | Adam wants to comment. Just one second. |
| 02:41:43.56 | Adam Politzer | Yeah, just a good opportunity to step in here and again remind the council that staff is As Councilmember Pfeiffer |
| 02:41:51.20 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:41:53.25 | Adam Politzer | just explain Amen. perspective from the community was exactly that, but Thank you. the project was a lot more involved. Underneath the lower sidewalk, as we know, is the sewer pipe. And so it's actually talking about the replacement of that. We obviously heard from the community that the reaction, he made the CBS News, on the local CBS News. And I think that our Public Works Director shared at the meeting that he came to you can still separate it down and have two different levels, but it won't be as low down because we've got to get out of the water with our sewer pipe. So part of that project and the most expensive part of that project |
| 02:42:31.62 | Joanne Dunaway | Thank you. |
| 02:42:31.64 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 02:42:31.98 | Joanne Dunaway | Thank you. |
| 02:42:39.05 | Jonathon Goldman | Thank you. |
| 02:42:39.06 | Councilmember Ford | for them. |
| 02:42:39.52 | Unknown | I'm sorry. |
| 02:42:40.16 | Adam Politzer | was replacing that sewer line that goes underneath the lower walkway. |
| 02:42:47.11 | Councilmember Ford | And Mr. Mayor, if I could ask our Public Works Director a question, please. Thank you. . |
| 02:42:59.09 | Councilmember Ford | I think, Jonathan, that when we talked about this the last time, that it was with the idea that those two sections had been broken down. Correct me if I'm misunderstanding. And that the south end from Alexander through Richardson would take priority for two reasons. That's the worst part, and secondly, that is the least expensive to deal with. |
| 02:43:33.42 | Jonathon Goldman | You're correct in that when they were originally developed, they were separated. primarily because the overall price tag of $30 million exceeded even the the most optimistic of our estimates of the non-motorized transportation pilot project funds that could have been available at that time or anticipated had the Transportation Act that enabled it continued to generate funding. |
| 02:43:52.25 | Joanne Dunaway | estimation. |
| 02:44:08.40 | Jonathon Goldman | It's certainly Council's authority and responsibility to tell us what the Council and the community's priorities are. Um, That's, I think, in part what we're doing here this evening. The projects were |
| 02:44:28.11 | Peter Van Meter | Thank you. |
| 02:44:28.13 | Jonathon Goldman | Thank you. the project was developed to provide a continuous links. between the South City limits, which is essentially the gateway to and from the Golden Gate Bridge, to connect with the ferry landing, which is a multimodal hub, as well as connect with additional bicycle facilities that are the sole pathway to and from the rest of Marin County. |
| 02:44:37.66 | Unknown | the |
| 02:44:37.96 | Joanne Dunaway | Thank you. |
| 02:44:45.61 | Joanne Dunaway | of the Thank you. |
| 02:44:57.18 | Jonathon Goldman | There's no other way to move by bicycle to and from San Francisco unless you have a continuous path. And as I'm sure you and other members of the council are aware, the existing configuration of bridgeway is narrow with respect to bicyclists. And we've made changes in the last few years to try to improve conditions essentially by |
| 02:44:57.22 | Joanne Dunaway | Thank you. |
| 02:44:57.24 | Unknown | MR. I don't know. |
| 02:45:25.60 | Jonathon Goldman | changing the pavement markings in the median to create what's called a continuous left turn that does allow people to pass a slower moving vehicle without crossing a double yellow line, which is a violation of the vehicle code, and also to give motorists the perception that they have a little bit more room so that they're more comfortable doing that. But those issues also don't address the fact that we have right now, without taking into account climate change and sea level rise, 100-year floodplain that extends across Bridgeway and portions of that segment, and the fact that we have critical facilities not only of the city of Sausalito, but also of Sausalito Marine City Sanitary District, that are immediately adjacent to San Francisco Bay, and in the event of an emergency cannot be accessed and |
| 02:45:45.72 | Unknown | Good enough. |
| 02:46:16.28 | Jonathon Goldman | worked without potentially being in the water. And in my judgment, those are very good reasons to pursue a project that attempts to develop funding to resolve all those issues. So that's why it was packaged the way that it was. |
| 02:46:32.33 | Councilmember Ford | But we didn't split it out then. I thought we had, but I guess we hadn't split the two. Because I know you're working Am I or maybe I'm misunderstanding this, that you're working on striping uh different striping and whatnot for bridgeway or considering it at this point as a separate project |
| 02:46:55.43 | Jonathon Goldman | That is actually already designed and expected to be bid. So, okay. What's the striping is really an upgrade to, you know, a maintenance improvement. Right. It increases the current compliance of the pavement markings, the compliance of pavement markings with the current codes. The critical issues are charrows that you may be familiar with, the pavement markings that go on the current codes. The critical issues are charrows that you may be familiar with, the pavement markings that go on the traveled way that are intended to communicate some of the same messages to both |
| 02:47:02.19 | Councilmember Ford | So, okay. |
| 02:47:09.22 | Councilmember Ford | I know. |
| 02:47:09.62 | Joanne Dunaway | Yeah. |
| 02:47:12.83 | Joanne Dunaway | I'm sorry. |
| 02:47:22.23 | Joanne Dunaway | familiar with. it. |
| 02:47:30.49 | Jonathon Goldman | motor vehicle operators and to bicyclists that they are sharing the road. |
| 02:47:32.01 | Joanne Dunaway | That's a question. Right. |
| 02:47:35.61 | Jonathon Goldman | But. those improvements don't address the fact that within the right of way that the city already is the steward of, there is room to widen traveled ways, widen sidewalks, et |
| 02:47:51.52 | Unknown | But just to clarify, so the... I forget what you call it. I don't even know what's on here. The beach, you mentioned in your presentation earlier this month, the force main along uh from Alexander across to Bridgeway is a separate project from it stops after you cross the bridgeway sewer pipes. Is that a separate project from the the one that's on the beach there. |
| 02:48:22.92 | Jonathon Goldman | MR. Yes. |
| 02:48:23.78 | Unknown | Okay. So, And looking in our budget packet that we all have, That one has some funding going towards it. The Bridgeway, doing the whole Bridgeway line has nothing funded for the next five years. Correct. So I wouldn't, in my mind, if we're looking to make some impact to the bike traffic, we have to consider, I know in the past there's been some pushback both from the community as well as from the merchants, just letting go of that median and making it a safer, you know, have a bike lane, car lanes that are adequate, and just let go of that median along that stretch. |
| 02:48:37.00 | Joanne Dunaway | Thank you. |
| 02:48:37.03 | Unknown | Correct. |
| 02:48:50.04 | Joanne Dunaway | So, |
| 02:49:02.26 | Unknown | so that we can actually have safe travel along that road. Because doing the riprap and the sewer pipes many, many years out, |
| 02:49:11.12 | Unknown | It is. |
| 02:49:12.27 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:49:12.28 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:49:12.32 | Unknown | The, in TAM's budget process, the Sausalito South End project was listed. |
| 02:49:12.64 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:49:22.59 | Unknown | I can't remember the time spread of that budget, but I think it was like 10 or 12 years. And it was in that 10 or 12 year budget way out. So it's earmarked, so to speak, |
| 02:49:28.52 | Unknown | of the game. |
| 02:49:37.60 | Adam Politzer | What? |
| 02:49:38.29 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:49:38.32 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 02:49:38.41 | Unknown | What? |
| 02:49:38.95 | Adam Politzer | Or at least on the list. But that was good. |
| 02:49:40.03 | Unknown | But that was going to be my point. We're on a list. But the problem with that is that we're on a list with a lot of other things that are on that same list. |
| 02:49:48.19 | Unknown | on the list. |
| 02:49:49.24 | Unknown | that are all of them being unfunded, and we're all going to fight for those dollars one way or another through TAM, and TAM has access to MTC and federal funds and so on. But there are other possibilities, but that's probably the best one that's on the horizon right now, but it's |
| 02:50:09.37 | Councilmember Ford | Yeah. Well, Mr. Mayor, I would like to suggest that the Council break these two apart. because when you look at the entire project that runs from Alexander to the ferry, Um... it's 30 million. When you look at just the Alexander through Richardson, it's, I think it was 7 million, 7 to 8 million. There's a huge difference there. And the possibility of getting the seven or eight million would be much greater. if we broke them apart, and that would solve a huge safety issue in that end of town. I have received emails from people who live along South Street that are hit by bicyclists regularly. And then you have the zipping through the Main Street crosswalks. And we really need to do something and address that issue. And even if it's just looking at the traffic issue ourselves, putting a stop sign at Main Street or something like that, it's time to address this. We've been dealing with bicyclists for three years now. |
| 02:51:16.11 | Joanne Dunaway | at the table. So, |
| 02:51:21.09 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 02:51:21.29 | Joanne Dunaway | Thank you. |
| 02:51:29.00 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Mr. Mayor, may I comment? |
| 02:51:29.93 | Councilmember Ford | Something is happening. |
| 02:51:30.93 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Thank you. Thank you. So, yeah, I would support Councilmember Ford's recommendation to split this into two different projects, because I agree that the priority of Alexander to Richardson is very high. Full disclosure, I live on South Street, so I have a front row seat to everything. And I can't tell you, I mean, I have a first aid kit in my trunk that I pull out all the time for the bicyclists billing in front of my house. |
| 02:52:02.25 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:52:02.28 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 02:52:02.42 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 02:52:02.47 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:52:02.57 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 02:52:02.77 | Unknown | you |
| 02:52:02.86 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 02:52:03.14 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:52:03.16 | Unknown | you |
| 02:52:03.40 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:52:03.41 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 02:52:03.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:52:04.10 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:52:04.14 | Unknown | May I just one second? This is because we're wandering away from the point. I think if we've just done a set-aside for the community garden, I'd support a set-aside of this item if you want to go that direction and then put it on the agenda. Yeah. |
| 02:52:04.17 | Unknown | I just want to. THE FAMILY. |
| 02:52:05.30 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:52:15.16 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 02:52:15.83 | Joanne Dunaway | Thank you. |
| 02:52:15.95 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:52:16.02 | Joanne Dunaway | Thank you. |
| 02:52:16.04 | Unknown | Well, I'm sorry. |
| 02:52:16.22 | Joanne Dunaway | Thank you. |
| 02:52:17.05 | Unknown | I don't think you need to break it, to be honest with you, because the rip-rap part along Bridgeway is so far out that that's on a different track. I think there's probably some interim solutions that we could do on Bridgeway with changing up the median and making it so you don't have to dodge the bikes and they're going by you with your handlebars at the... |
| 02:52:32.45 | Unknown | Mm-hmm. |
| 02:52:32.98 | Joanne Dunaway | Well. |
| 02:52:40.47 | Unknown | in that tight lane. that we could do in sort of a shorter term thing. |
| 02:52:47.19 | Councilmember Ford | At least Sharers. I don't want to get rid of the median, because cars use that to pass other cars if there's a |
| 02:52:48.96 | Unknown | Thank you. I don't want to get rid of that. |
| 02:52:53.38 | Unknown | You wouldn't need to know that. And then we have the loading and unloading. |
| 02:52:56.37 | Councilmember Ford | And then we hear. |
| 02:52:57.02 | Unknown | The low-savage. |
| 02:52:57.53 | Councilmember Ford | Thank you. |
| 02:52:57.55 | Unknown | I'm sorry. |
| 02:52:57.57 | Councilmember Ford | Thank you. |
| 02:52:57.62 | Unknown | I don't know. |
| 02:52:57.85 | Councilmember Ford | Yeah. |
| 02:52:57.97 | Unknown | We are. Mr. Mayor. We're debating an issue here as opposed to dealing with our priorities. |
| 02:52:58.93 | Councilmember Ford | Bye. |
| 02:52:58.97 | Unknown | All right. |
| 02:52:59.18 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Mr. Mayor. Mr. Mayor. |
| 02:53:03.18 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 02:53:03.74 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | I think your recommendation was appropriate to break them into two and have a separate |
| 02:53:10.07 | Unknown | I didn't say that. I said take the whole thing and put it in a set aside, just like we did with the community garden, and then revisit it at a time when we can debate the issue. OK. |
| 02:53:11.42 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Oh. |
| 02:53:14.88 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Well, okay. Okay, that's fine, but I would recommend still breaking them into |
| 02:53:24.40 | Unknown | Not tonight, I don't know. |
| 02:53:26.02 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Okay. |
| 02:53:26.98 | Unknown | Thank you. Well, then... Well, first of all, it's not on the agenda to break these things into pieces and do all that sort of thing. We're supposed to be ranking these the way we put them on here. |
| 02:53:36.11 | Adam Politzer | . |
| 02:53:36.19 | Unknown | . |
| 02:53:36.26 | Adam Politzer | Maybe to help, I just have to have you to draw the line where staff would make the recommendation regardless to what's below it. I'm not looking at what's below it, |
| 02:53:36.33 | Unknown | Maybe they. |
| 02:53:45.15 | Adam Politzer | Looking at, in the past we've been around 25 and we've gone down a little bit more. |
| 02:53:48.66 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:53:51.53 | Adam Politzer | At least it gives you a starting point of what you want to bring above that. or what you might want to move below it rather than Looking at each of these individually, I mean, I'm hearing that you guys could reach consensus or find an area, but that may not be as fruitful as just looking at What do you want to push above the line and what items may you want to push below? |
| 02:54:13.64 | Councilmember Ford | Where are you breaking it? Right after... |
| 02:54:15.24 | Adam Politzer | Right at 26, so if you want to draw a line on your own sheet here between 26 and 27, draw the line. |
| 02:54:21.33 | Unknown | A couple of us haven't had a chance to speak yet on this. So let's go ahead. Herbie, you want to talk? |
| 02:54:27.81 | Unknown | Well... Yeah, that passageway on the south end of town. Thank you. I really have studied this. I've looked at it. One of the things that we have done is we really meet with the bike companies and try to educate their customers about. |
| 02:54:41.77 | Amy Mangan | you |
| 02:54:53.19 | Unknown | the rules and how they should handle themselves coming into Sausalito. If you look at the records, last year we had six reported accidents at that end of town. That's a very low number. We're hoping that this year here, the Golden Gate Bridge works with us, that they take the bypass road and we'll hopefully be able to send a lot of people down into Fort Baker and let him come up to Alexander hoping that when they come up to Alexander at that point, they're on a flat surface, not flying down the road, and that will hopefully slow them down. But we are very, very limited there, and hopefully we're just trying to get these bicyclists rentals especially very, communicating on how the I don't know how to handle themselves on the road, but it's the spandex. right is and to think of putting a No, no, no. To think of putting a stop sign at Main Street, I wouldn't go for that. I really wouldn't. Right now we have a sign there that's yielding, that says yield to pedestrians, and that thing has created so much problem down there. People that don't know the roads just stop there anyway. And that has created a lot of problems. I think we have to look further into it, but I'd like to use the statistics and education to be able to improve. |
| 02:56:31.10 | Unknown | How about any items you want to push? |
| 02:56:32.59 | Unknown | No, I'll get to that later. |
| 02:56:34.83 | Unknown | Okay. All right. I'm in agreement that we need to do something in our business community to support our business community and to support economic development. I want to relate a little. I don't know what the, I got a call this week from an attorney in, whose name will remain anonymous at the moment, in San Rafael. |
| 02:56:56.48 | Unknown | In San Rafael. |
| 02:56:58.34 | Unknown | in San Rafael. And the attorney said, I want to speak to you. I assume he's calling me because I'm on the council. He said, I want to speak to you about business enterprises in Sausalito. because I guess I'm sort of, he says, I'm sort of having several cases here of people that are talking to me about the difficulty getting a business started in Sausalito. I've called him back. We've traded calls a couple times, so I haven't been able to talk to him to really get at what he wants to say. But it made me think that we don't make it very easy for businesses to be here. And we've got, I was shocked when I saw Eiler's report with, I think it was 2,000, correct me if I'm wrong in the number, but 2,000 people come into our community every day to work in Was it 5,000? Oh my God, I was way off. Look, 5,000 people come to Sausalito every day to work here. Every day. I mean, it's a huge number. If you looked at that in terms of the total population, It's the same as San Francisco, which swells a million people We're swelling. 5,000 people here every single working day. And I think that that deserves attention and the Council's attention and it deserves some time from staff to look at these issues and try understand them and at the same time develop and encourage businesses to be here, to flourish, and to stay in our communities. Um, The two things that I think are on the, I think we can combine a couple of items here. If we take the community and economic development study and combine it with the local economic development incentives, that's kind of in the same ballpark. It's really all in one rubric. So I would highly propose that we put that above the line. And then the second thing is that as much as everybody here wants to, you know, understand it's a third rail, that we take the Central Waterfront Master Plan, which is really the WAM Committee Report, and we combine that with the Marinship Specific Plan because both of those have to work in concert with one another, either as they exist or as they might be changed. And we put those above the line and we put some time in trying to develop some idea about how we're going to move forward. Even critics of doing anything in the marineship acknowledge at least the ones I've talked to, acknowledge that the friendship specific plan is woefully out of date and inadequate to address the issues that are that are springing up there. And I've learned a long time ago, if you don't address issues, the people address them for And so we'll find ourselves and do find ourselves with ideas and businesses and things that are perking underneath the radar, and we should get the radar to get the radar. on them. So that's my proposal, to get those two items above the line. All right. |
| 02:59:46.09 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 02:59:48.10 | Unknown | Well, I think if you look at the list, I put the marineship at the very... at the highest level. |
| 02:59:56.15 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 02:59:56.84 | Unknown | because I think it is the most important issue. It's kind of like all the other things, are kind of waiting for that to take place. And as we said, that is the last front that we have in this town to be able to hopefully be able to use that to move ahead and really and really address that. So I'd be willing to consolidate, as you said, the other items on the ILA report. and move that up. I'd be willing to move that up even consolidating those two and moving up to number 41 for me. |
| 03:00:39.23 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:00:39.28 | Unknown | but |
| 03:00:40.28 | Unknown | Yeah, no, I wanted to move it up to 41 and take off what I had. |
| 03:00:40.46 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:00:44.70 | Unknown | Oh, yeah, but just didn't use things to move up underneath. Yeah, well. Where are we going to draw the line? Adam, where are we going to draw the line? |
| 03:00:46.08 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 03:00:48.16 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 03:00:48.17 | Unknown | Yeah, well. |
| 03:00:49.04 | Adam Politzer | I'm going to go. were you going to draw |
| 03:00:50.98 | Jacques Ullman | Thank you. |
| 03:00:51.03 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:00:51.64 | Unknown | So, |
| 03:00:51.97 | Adam Politzer | It's on the board here, I recommend it right between 26 and 27. Last year you had 26. |
| 03:00:52.75 | Unknown | The board here recommended right between 26 and 27. item. It has to move up here. |
| 03:00:58.18 | Adam Politzer | the Thank you. |
| 03:01:00.88 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:01:00.90 | Unknown | Mr. Mayor, may I make a comment? So here's what I would suggest. That, you know, there's some, we have sort of the 25 magic, or 26 in this case magic line. |
| 03:01:03.19 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 03:01:13.03 | Unknown | And then there's some that always get sort of bounced around, around the edges, like the Marinship Plan or whatever. But here's a thought. So rather than have just a longer list, in which there's no funding for a lot of these anyway, so they're not going to happen unless you get funding for them, rather than just make yourself feel better that they're above some number, that you go back and re-rank after you say, well, move the community garden or move the ownership of the land, and you go back and re-rank because it prevents just gaming the system and also it makes you re-prioritize. Okay, here's a smaller list. You can re-prioritize those. They'll still be on the list, but they'll be re-prioritized. See what I'm saying? Exactly. Well, because, I mean, like, okay, so if you rank something 11 before and all of a sudden now you think it's the best thing to slice bread because somebody's talking to you, well, then you've got to let go of something else because you only have so much time and you only have so much money. Okay, okay. You know what I mean? Something has to fall. I agree. Because otherwise you're just making a longer list and nothing ever happens. So something has to drop off so that you can actually get some things done. |
| 03:02:08.91 | Unknown | Oh yeah. You only have so much money. Thank you. |
| 03:02:12.97 | Joanne Dunaway | make a |
| 03:02:19.77 | Unknown | And I was referring also to the idea of consolidating. No, I'm not criticizing anybody. And that changes the position of where they are on the list when you group them together. |
| 03:02:22.88 | Unknown | No, I'm not criticizing anybody. |
| 03:02:30.39 | Adam Politzer | Respectfully, if I may just respond. |
| 03:02:30.69 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 03:02:36.67 | Adam Politzer | I understand the value of what you're suggesting, but it will still create the same dilemma that you're in today. of, Yeah. Is it ranked number 27? or ranked number one, you're still going to have the same problem when you get to the budget process of where's the dollars coming from? So... I think to expedite this to at least get some certainty because we're now going to move into the budget discussions in our first meeting in June. Um, it's best that you set that line today and by a vote, I wouldn't recommend anyone changing their numbers. I would just see if there's a consensus to move As we heard tonight, I think there's a consensus to move the community garden out and let the folks come and present. So there's no reason to rank that tonight. above the line, just let it sit where it's sitting until after their presentation. So if there's consensus to move the bridgeway to ferry landing on the south side and split just by consensus, move it above the line. and it might end up that you have 28 You have 28 items. uh, But until we come back with a budget, It won't matter if it's number 15 or number 35. you're going to still have the same problem if you re-rank these and come back at a future council meeting or take a break tonight and try to re-rank them. That won't work either at 11 or 10 past 10. I agree with that. |
| 03:04:00.74 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:04:00.77 | Unknown | for kids. |
| 03:04:01.19 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:04:05.56 | Unknown | Yeah, I sort of disagree with you, Adam, because I think you draw the line, it's still 25, because there's only so much capacity to do anything. But at least you have reprioritized a smaller list so that if there is staff time versus just budgeted money, you know where it's going to go versus saying you'll take staff time to do something and never actually having the staff time to do it because there's no extra staff time. So, but, you know, I'll compromise on that. But so I'll compromise on that. Debbie, can you start my clock so I don't go on too long? I think I'm on ones. So I'm going to do a quick one. So that's fine to combine the economic study with the other thing and put it as a thing to consider. And I'd rank them so that they would be above the line. And for one reason, I'm definitely not in favor, and same thing with the Marinship Plan, of wholesale changes of |
| 03:04:36.85 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:04:36.88 | Joanne Dunaway | too Thank you. Thank you. um, |
| 03:04:39.02 | Unknown | What was that? |
| 03:05:03.63 | Unknown | real estate development in this town, and I've been consistent about that for 10 years. But you've got to pick and choose and decide, if I don't do that, what am I going to do? How am I going to pay for all this other stuff over time? So you need to make those decisions, so you've made the decisions. And if you need to raise taxes or have a bond to do X, Y, and Z to pay for your streets or whatever, you've made that choice as a community to pay for something because you didn't want something else to happen. But there's certainly some, there's room to give on any side in terms of making things better. There's no absolute in certainly in land use planning. But I would still like to make a pitch for that underwater streets thing because I think that is such a time saver. |
| 03:05:08.49 | Joanne Dunaway | you Thank you. |
| 03:05:45.56 | Unknown | Cheers. |
| 03:05:50.17 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Mr. Mayor, I'd like to respond to... So first of all, before I do though, I just wanted to get these numbers straight because the numbers are so tiny and they're not all up there. |
| 03:05:52.52 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 03:06:03.13 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | The economic study is at, what, 32 right now? No, that's the economic incentives. |
| 03:06:10.71 | Unknown | Mm-hmm. |
| 03:06:11.25 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | So the incentives is at 32. Where is the economic study rate? |
| 03:06:16.33 | Unknown | Oh, there's 42. |
| 03:06:17.93 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | 42. So the economic study is 42. The Marinerset Pacific Plan is 36. The waterfront plan, is that 37? Is that what you mean by when? |
| 03:06:29.49 | Councilmember Ford | What you mean by when? Central Waterfront, right. Central Waterfront. |
| 03:06:32.19 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Yeah, that's 37? OK. So I just wanted to get clarity as to where they're landing right now under the line. |
| 03:06:33.50 | Councilmember Ford | you |
| 03:06:41.93 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:06:41.96 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 03:06:41.98 | Unknown | on the sheets you just redid |
| 03:06:44.17 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 03:06:44.22 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:06:44.36 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | No, I know. It's just that the numbers are so tiny here. Even with my readers on, I'm struggling. And so I just wanted to make sure that I had clarity on that. So. |
| 03:06:49.15 | Unknown | And so, |
| 03:06:57.32 | Unknown | Do you have another sentence you want to say? |
| 03:06:58.13 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Yeah, really quickly, I do not support merging the incentives with the economic study or the central waterfront plan with the Marin-Shit-specific plan. I see them as whatever, whatever the merge proposal was. These are so completely different to me, so different. I just am so concerned about us just merging those, so that's what I wanted to say. Amen. |
| 03:07:28.43 | Councilmember Ford | Mr. Mayor. |
| 03:07:29.33 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 03:07:30.39 | Councilmember Ford | I agree with that. I don't think we should merge those two. They are completely different. I would like to say that while I support economic development, I do not support rezoning that area, certainly not at the moment with the studies we have. There's no proposal to rezoning. |
| 03:07:51.22 | Unknown | we have in place. |
| 03:07:53.41 | Councilmember Ford | Okay, well that would be, as I see this economic study, there's a lot of proposals to rezone down there. There's no proposal, let's just be clear. Excuse me, there are recommendations for businesses that do not comply with zoning. So I cannot support all of that. |
| 03:08:00.70 | Unknown | There's no proposal. Let's just be clear. Excuse me. Excuse me. |
| 03:08:04.06 | Chris | Thank you. |
| 03:08:14.27 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:08:14.28 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 03:08:14.35 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 03:08:16.76 | Councilmember Ford | Thank you. |
| 03:08:16.85 | Unknown | Well, I think what we change about this, if I may interrupt you, |
| 03:08:16.86 | Councilmember Ford | Anyway. |
| 03:08:21.62 | Unknown | is we changed consider. So it wasn't a wholesale. Remember, we changed this at the last meeting. So it's not a wholesale endorsement of everything. |
| 03:08:25.42 | Unknown | Right. |
| 03:08:26.03 | Unknown | that was. |
| 03:08:26.42 | Unknown | . |
| 03:08:26.47 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:08:26.50 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:08:26.55 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:08:28.51 | Unknown | Right. So, and I agree with you that what you just said, there's some things that are not just |
| 03:08:33.77 | Unknown | Well, we're not agreeing with anything except to work on it or not work on it. Those are the two things. Right. |
| 03:08:39.06 | Unknown | Right. No, I guess because you're just considering it, so it's not a wholesale endorsement or recommendation. |
| 03:08:40.15 | Unknown | I can't. |
| 03:08:43.65 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | to finish. |
| 03:08:44.18 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:08:46.21 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Mr. Mayor, would you like to make a comment? |
| 03:08:48.42 | Unknown | Okay. you |
| 03:08:48.96 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 03:08:48.98 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:08:49.00 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 03:08:49.15 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 03:08:50.18 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | So my concern about the economic study as well is that there were some things that I liked in it, but then there were some things that not only did I dislike, which is what Council Member Ford alluded to with regards to using uses that were not currently zoned, but that I had specifically asked the consultant and confirmed with the group that the study would not go in that direction. That would entail any type of rezoning for the marinship that would preserve maritime services. And so that economic study, there was a part of that study that went the complete opposite direction of what I had voted for. And so that's why I'm very concerned with merging these things together. And I'd feel more comfortable with being more specific in terms of if we were going to move anything up because that's just where my concerns are. |
| 03:09:30.27 | Joanne Dunaway | Mm-hmm. |
| 03:09:51.72 | Unknown | Thank you. We have to move out of the way that's it. |
| 03:09:54.47 | Unknown | OK, I'm going to make a motion that we move the marineship specific plan review and update and the central waterfront master plan above the line. And we can leave them separate or combine them. I don't care. |
| 03:09:54.84 | Unknown | I like it. |
| 03:10:13.72 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 03:10:16.04 | Unknown | I need to say it. |
| 03:10:18.18 | Unknown | I'll second that. Thank you. |
| 03:10:19.36 | Unknown | So you've got central waterfront, what was the other one? |
| 03:10:24.52 | Unknown | I'm going to mention Pacific and Central Waterfront. There's 36 and 37. Didn't you say another one? No, just those two for now. OK. Take one thing at a time. |
| 03:10:29.99 | Unknown | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 03:10:33.65 | Councilmember Ford | Would someone for the audience's sake explain what the central waterfront... It's the WAM report. |
| 03:10:39.04 | Unknown | It's the WAM report. |
| 03:10:42.02 | Unknown | That's why. |
| 03:10:42.40 | Councilmember Ford | Thank you. |
| 03:10:42.43 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:10:42.46 | Councilmember Ford | No, it's not. |
| 03:10:43.19 | Unknown | No, it's not. Oh, I thought it was. It's just the central water front in the zoning ordinance is just from Johnson to the Marinship. It's a regular area. |
| 03:10:43.86 | Unknown | Oh my god, nice. |
| 03:10:52.94 | Councilmember Ford | Yeah. |
| 03:10:55.54 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:10:55.76 | Councilmember Ford | Yeah. |
| 03:10:55.79 | Unknown | Yeah. Thank you. |
| 03:10:56.17 | Unknown | Today I'm not interested. |
| 03:10:57.23 | Unknown | that right now. |
| 03:10:57.95 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:10:57.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:10:57.99 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:10:58.41 | Councilmember Ford | So we're talking about two different locations and two different zoning zones there. I think that's fighting off a huge challenge. |
| 03:11:01.53 | Unknown | I separately. |
| 03:11:11.08 | Unknown | MR. Wait, wait, wait. That was not my intention, okay? So I'll limit that to the MARINSHIP- That's why I was clarifying the numbers. MR. I'll limit it to the MARINSHIP-specific plan. So I amend my own motion to the specific |
| 03:11:15.99 | Councilmember Ford | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 03:11:16.03 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | That's why I was clarifying the numbers. |
| 03:11:24.36 | Unknown | How about this, as an amendment to your motion, that instead of having to wait and hear from the community garden people because we're not deciding anything, you put the friendship |
| 03:11:25.43 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:11:40.34 | Unknown | the South City limits bike stuff and the local incentives to |
| 03:11:41.54 | Unknown | city limits. |
| 03:11:49.76 | Unknown | Well, the EIDLOR report and the local Sanchez, I believe those can be combined. I think they're different. |
| 03:11:52.88 | Unknown | I think they're different. One's a lot easier to do, but I think |
| 03:12:00.69 | Unknown | But I mean, you can't move everything. So I don't know where to start. |
| 03:12:04.00 | Councilmember Ford | You know, I was, if I may just follow up on the process, I think that what we may want to do is leave what we have, have staff come back to us with updates |
| 03:12:19.10 | Unknown | Staff doesn't want to do that. |
| 03:12:21.52 | Councilmember Ford | Community is coming back to staff don't want to do that with updates on these others Just to refresh your minds and with the costs and everything |
| 03:12:26.04 | Unknown | Others, just to refresh |
| 03:12:31.17 | Unknown | Let me, let me. |
| 03:12:32.22 | Councilmember Ford | I'm asking our city manager. |
| 03:12:33.72 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 03:12:33.75 | Unknown | Yeah. and most of the time. |
| 03:12:34.51 | Councilmember Ford | Thank you. |
| 03:12:34.55 | Unknown | on the table here. |
| 03:12:35.64 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 03:12:35.69 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:12:35.74 | Councilmember Ford | I know. |
| 03:12:35.76 | Adam Politzer | I know. |
| 03:12:36.28 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:12:36.42 | Adam Politzer | I would like to... But what do we do first? Can you repeat the question? I didn't quite... Yes. |
| 03:12:41.35 | Councilmember Ford | Yes, I would like to follow up. We were talking about the process here. We suspended the community garden. Until we hear from them, can we suspend the other ones that we have in... that were not agreed on and hear further on these before we make a decision to either move them up or not. |
| 03:13:07.84 | Adam Politzer | The quick answer is leave them below the line. And as the year progresses and the council asks either for the committees to bring forward a report that are working on them. and then you could direct staff to now work on them. |
| 03:13:20.19 | Unknown | and then, |
| 03:13:23.77 | Adam Politzer | So the Sustainability Commission was a good example. They were working on a project |
| 03:13:26.30 | Joanne Dunaway | Please. |
| 03:13:28.75 | Adam Politzer | They did all the legwork. They came forward and then the Council said, to Andy Davidson, our engineer. work with them. and bring forward a report to the council. So that's an example. If you put it above the line, then staff will engage just as you heard from from Jacques earlier, where they can now work with us, use our facilities, and that would begin effective July 1, technically. |
| 03:13:45.76 | Unknown | Yeah. for that new. |
| 03:13:54.11 | Unknown | Thank you. Yeah, I don't think these two heard. |
| 03:13:56.96 | Adam Politzer | THE END OF |
| 03:14:00.17 | Unknown | I'm going to let Jonathan make a motion. I'll withdraw my motion and you make a motion. Thank you. |
| 03:14:04.44 | Unknown | I don't know. |
| 03:14:04.64 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:14:04.66 | Unknown | I'll amend your motion. Okay, amend mine. Your motion had the Marinship plan added to his number 27. So what I would do is sort of a compromise to some of the things that have been expressed here tonight and still there's funding issues with all these things. I think the Marinship plan, my point of view on it is you're better off dealing with it than not dealing with it one way or the other. |
| 03:14:05.59 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:14:05.62 | Joanne Dunaway | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 03:14:05.79 | Unknown | Okay, my mind. |
| 03:14:07.33 | Joanne Dunaway | Thank you. |
| 03:14:30.95 | Unknown | And the community garden, why I think that's of the moment is not just because it's probably a good idea, but that, you know, we're going to have a new tenant moving out there that's on MLK property and it's better to sort out what you're going to do, you know, the Licee Francaise, so what you're going to do with the flatlands there now while you have that ability and maybe you have some ability to get funding from them to do that. So I think that's of the moment. The South City Limits thing, I think there's some intermediate steps or interim steps we can do. We need to start planning for that absent the sewer pipe construction. So I would try to move that up in the priorities. And the underwater streets, I think that is, that's my, this is why I'm putting forward as compromise, it's politics here. And the local incentive and economic studies, I think you can probably combine those two, but not necessarily buy wholesale into either one of them, because there's going to be a lot of work that needs to be done. So there's six things, or five things, but as a compromise, I would put that forward, because I think it combines some things that Linda and Carolyn are asking for, some things that other folks are asking for. I think they're all with good process and review over time, they could produce some |
| 03:15:45.27 | Joanne Dunaway | Thank you. |
| 03:16:00.29 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 03:16:00.62 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:16:00.64 | Unknown | I'll accept your amendment and do I have a second? I'll second. |
| 03:16:05.53 | Councilmember Ford | Okay, I have one comment on this in the spirit of compromise. I'd be happy to support your underwater streets issue if you will remove the marineship from this. |
| 03:16:21.57 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:16:21.58 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:16:21.63 | Councilmember Ford | NO. |
| 03:16:21.72 | Unknown | . |
| 03:16:21.80 | Councilmember Ford | you |
| 03:16:21.89 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:16:22.92 | Unknown | Yeah, my point with that, no matter what happens, is I'd rather deal with it and... and control it than to not deal with it and that other people control. |
| 03:16:42.20 | Councilmember Ford | We have control of it right now. |
| 03:16:44.90 | Unknown | I mean, it's a little out of control. My point is the control over the change. Change is going to happen, whether it's, you know, over time, whether it's enforced or not, is sort of a bigger picture decision. But it's better to make those choices and ourselves without it being made for us. But again, my point of view is there shouldn't be large-scale changes of development that don't fit the community. But I think in terms of, |
| 03:16:45.55 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 03:16:45.70 | Councilmember Ford | Thank you. |
| 03:16:45.75 | Unknown | I'm sorry. |
| 03:16:49.22 | Councilmember Ford | Right. |
| 03:16:49.48 | Joanne Dunaway | Thank you. |
| 03:17:16.70 | Unknown | There's still the uses in that plan that are not applicable today, that were applicable 20 years ago, like printing presses and whatnot. They're not quite the same as they used to be, but it's worth thinking about. |
| 03:17:24.78 | Jeff Shirash | Yeah. |
| 03:17:30.97 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 03:17:31.44 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Mr. Mayor, I have a comment. And I actually have a question about clarification. So my comment is in the spirit of compromise, For me, I mean the consideration to withdraw from a bag is very time sensitive. And it's something that Corte Madera is leading the way. Also, forming the Bicycle and Pedestrian Committee, I think, is really key. That was another high rank that I had. Well, wait a minute. |
| 03:17:54.26 | Unknown | it was. |
| 03:18:00.35 | Unknown | Well, wait a minute. Okay, are you gonna make a motion? |
| 03:18:02.16 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Okay, my comment here is For process clarification, we've got above the line is 26 and upwards. With the current motion on the floor, there are something like five that we would, quote, move up. Does that mean that things are being bumped out of the 26? Or does that mean that we're just lowering the bar? |
| 03:18:28.43 | Unknown | No. |
| 03:18:29.04 | Adam Politzer | just lowering |
| 03:18:29.82 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:18:29.87 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 03:18:31.33 | Unknown | The list just expands. |
| 03:18:32.92 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | THE END OF |
| 03:18:32.92 | Adam Politzer | The list expands. The list expands unless there is further discussion about moving items below the line that are above it. So what I'm hearing for clarification is going from 26 to 31. You're adding five items. Correct. |
| 03:18:33.00 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 03:18:33.02 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | The list expands. |
| 03:18:33.97 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 03:18:38.88 | Jacques Ullman | Right. |
| 03:18:39.10 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:18:41.19 | Jacques Ullman | Right. |
| 03:18:49.05 | Unknown | Correct. |
| 03:18:50.23 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Yeah. |
| 03:18:50.25 | Adam Politzer | And then the council, if they wish, could review those 31 and see if any of those items above the line can be pushed down into committee or out into the community or if they should |
| 03:19:02.27 | Unknown | Correct. All right. We have a motion and a second. |
| 03:19:03.11 | Councilmember Ford | All right. Well, now, wait. May I hear the motion again? ways. Which I want to know which specific items we're moving on. |
| 03:19:09.98 | Unknown | Yeah, sure. We're moving on. Okay. Sure. So the motion is to add below private sewer lateral program. To what? To add. Say the number, please. Well, right here, it's 26, the way they have it drawn here. But to add these items as priority items, they're largely unfunded, so they may not actually take place next year. |
| 03:19:12.14 | Councilmember Ford | Thank you. |
| 03:19:12.34 | Unknown | I'm not sure. |
| 03:19:12.41 | Councilmember Ford | Thank you. |
| 03:19:12.42 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:19:20.25 | Unknown | What? To add to add. Yeah. All right. |
| 03:19:37.08 | Unknown | But the community garden, the marinship plan, the local incentives slash economic study consider their recommendations, not... |
| 03:19:48.20 | Councilmember Ford | Could you please just say the numbers? If you read them off, we can tell you what the numbers are. |
| 03:19:54.00 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:19:54.12 | Councilmember Ford | Thank you. |
| 03:19:54.53 | Unknown | I'll find it. So, Marinship Plan currently is number 36. The community garden is currently 47. |
| 03:19:59.12 | Unknown | 36. |
| 03:20:06.29 | Unknown | 47. 47. |
| 03:20:07.79 | Councilmember Ford | We've already decided what we're doing with that one, right? |
| 03:20:09.90 | Unknown | you |
| 03:20:09.95 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 03:20:09.97 | Unknown | No, I'm just saying just put it above the line because we're going to have to deal with that part of the... |
| 03:20:10.63 | Unknown | you. |
| 03:20:10.69 | Councilmember Ford | Thank you. |
| 03:20:10.73 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:20:10.96 | Councilmember Ford | Thank you. |
| 03:20:11.15 | Unknown | So, |
| 03:20:15.64 | Unknown | Okay. I'm restating the motion. So the motion would be to add to 26, make 27, not in any particular order. The marinship plan, revisiting it, community garden, local incentives, and the economic study recommendations consideration. |
| 03:20:33.59 | Councilmember Ford | Which one is it? |
| 03:20:34.61 | Unknown | that local incentives is |
| 03:20:36.78 | Councilmember Ford | Which number? |
| 03:20:37.56 | Unknown | 42 is one of them. 32 and 42. 32 and 42. |
| 03:20:38.39 | Unknown | 32 and 42. |
| 03:20:41.24 | Unknown | 32. |
| 03:20:42.35 | Unknown | South city limits is 34. Underwater streets is... Where did that go? On the water. Where is that one? Forty-five. Forty-five. |
| 03:21:00.05 | Unknown | Yeah. Yep, that's it. |
| 03:21:03.43 | Unknown | Well, no, we're combining the incentives. Two were combined, local incentives. Those were part of that report anyway, the local incentives. |
| 03:21:03.87 | Unknown | We're combining the incentives. |
| 03:21:09.89 | Unknown | 32 and 42 become one of them. |
| 03:21:12.12 | Unknown | Correct, yes. Now again, for the public's knowledge, the large-scale rentship plan would require a quarter to a half a million dollars of funding to do. We don't have that. |
| 03:21:23.68 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:21:23.73 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 03:21:23.97 | Unknown | Uh, |
| 03:21:24.02 | Unknown | Um, the South City Limits thing would require probably a good chunk of money to do a good study, and we don't have that either, but we should start getting underway with some of the planning to do some of these things. |
| 03:21:38.31 | Unknown | Okay, motion and second. Debbie, would you call the roll? |
| 03:21:43.61 | Unknown | Council member Pfeiffer. |
| 03:21:44.72 | Unknown | No. |
| 03:21:45.26 | Councilmember Ford | Thank you. |
| 03:21:47.12 | Unknown | Council member Ford. |
| 03:21:49.01 | Councilmember Ford | Come back to me. |
| 03:21:50.97 | Unknown | Councilmember Weiner. |
| 03:21:52.06 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 03:21:55.35 | Unknown | Vice Mayor Leone. |
| 03:21:58.98 | Unknown | Yes, I made the motion. |
| 03:22:00.85 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 03:22:01.06 | Unknown | Thank you. Ma'am Kelly? Yes. And returning. |
| 03:22:04.23 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 03:22:07.91 | Unknown | Returning to Councilmember Ford. |
| 03:22:11.74 | Councilmember Ford | Yeah. Thank you. Well, when you put my number one up above the list, I get very concerned. So no. |
| 03:22:24.88 | Unknown | All right. So the question, the only question remaining, does anybody want to take some items off of the list that are in the now 31 or two items that are there? |
| 03:22:25.90 | Jacques Ullman | So, |
| 03:22:37.59 | Unknown | Well, sorry about that. |
| 03:22:39.50 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Mr. Mayor, I have a comment. |
| 03:22:41.49 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:22:41.62 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Bye. I have a comment. It just seems like we do this exercise every year, and then the three of you just move what you want to be into the priority list. So I just kind of wonder why I do this. |
| 03:22:52.27 | Unknown | Priorities. |
| 03:22:52.71 | Unknown | list, so I just kind of wonder why I do this. We went through a process. Everybody got to say what they wanted. We worked on a compromise. We thought we had some compromise, and the vote was taken, and that's the way the vote came out. You voted no, you voted no. You wanted to vote yes, then you could vote yes, but nobody's doing anything that's not in the process. You want to say something? No, I'm getting myself in trouble. Okay. So does anybody care to take anything off of this list? Thank you. that's not in the process. So you want to say something? No, I'm getting myself in trouble. So does anybody care to take anything off of this list, going once, |
| 03:23:01.57 | Joanne Dunaway | So, I'm going to go. |
| 03:23:01.59 | Jeff Shirash | I thought, |
| 03:23:01.81 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 03:23:01.82 | Jeff Shirash | I'm sorry. |
| 03:23:01.89 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | I'm sorry. |
| 03:23:01.98 | Jeff Shirash | Thank you. |
| 03:23:02.14 | Joanne Dunaway | I'm not sure. |
| 03:23:09.75 | Joanne Dunaway | Thank you. |
| 03:23:09.79 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 03:23:16.30 | Unknown | No, I'm kidding. |
| 03:23:17.82 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:23:17.89 | Unknown | So, okay. |
| 03:23:18.68 | Joanne Dunaway | Thank you. |
| 03:23:18.78 | Unknown | And I was. |
| 03:23:19.22 | Joanne Dunaway | Thank you. |
| 03:23:23.42 | Unknown | I had a question for Jeremy. Twice. |
| 03:23:23.44 | Unknown | Thank you. or, |
| 03:23:28.25 | Unknown | Sorry. Code enforcement ordinance update. I know this is something I proposed years ago, but what would we do with that? |
| 03:23:39.35 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:23:39.37 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:23:39.39 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:23:39.76 | Unknown | All right, he has no answer, so maybe that can come off the list. No, is there a need for a code enforcement |
| 03:23:39.77 | Unknown | All right, he has no answers. |
| 03:23:40.97 | Unknown | So maybe that could |
| 03:23:42.05 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 03:23:42.12 | Unknown | off the list. |
| 03:23:47.03 | Unknown | I believe staff recommended that that not be on the list. Okay. You recommended it not be on the list? |
| 03:23:47.71 | Unknown | I believe so. Do you recommend So you can take that one. I'm sorry? This was left over from years ago when we had |
| 03:23:53.14 | Unknown | Thank you. I'm sorry. |
| 03:23:58.02 | Councilmember Ford | Who? |
| 03:23:58.54 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:23:58.56 | Councilmember Ford | Who recommended that it be on the list? |
| 03:24:01.44 | Unknown | It's been continued for several years and staff is not supportive for the last two years. That's easy. |
| 03:24:06.40 | Unknown | Okay. That's easy. So there's one off list. |
| 03:24:07.53 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:24:07.57 | Unknown | So, |
| 03:24:09.10 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:24:09.12 | Unknown | I wish you'd like to see it. |
| 03:24:09.78 | Unknown | That's number 15 currently. |
| 03:24:12.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:24:13.00 | Unknown | So you take one off from above the line. |
| 03:24:13.14 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:24:17.52 | Unknown | Yeah, the sick and every morning. |
| 03:24:23.97 | Unknown | Adam, do you need City Hall Rehabilitation and Space Realization Plan, or is that ongoing even though this project is needed? I mean, it's almost finished. |
| 03:24:34.77 | Unknown | Is it funded? |
| 03:24:36.48 | Unknown | Well, this part, the bathrooms are, but I don't know what the rest of it is. |
| 03:24:40.34 | Adam Politzer | It may be a better question for the public works director because it's part of all the things that you've heard earlier in terms of $100,000. |
| 03:24:47.46 | Unknown | Yeah, I'm not criticizing, I'm just asking. There is money in the CIP for some of these projects, that's right. |
| 03:24:50.08 | Adam Politzer | There is money in this. ADA compliance, it's got a big fancy title. |
| 03:24:55.56 | Unknown | Right. All right, well, we'll leave that one there because I now remember there is money programmed in Johnson's CIP. |
| 03:25:03.80 | Unknown | Here's one that has no business being there, pension studies and other post-employment benefits. We can. |
| 03:25:09.50 | Councilmember Ford | I strongly disagree with that. We need to address this issue, and we need to address it now. It's addressed. No, it's not. |
| 03:25:15.74 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:25:15.78 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:25:16.03 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:25:17.95 | Unknown | No, it's not. I would say let's just leave it there. I think it's an ongoing issue we have to deal with. |
| 03:25:25.87 | Unknown | Private Surolatto Program. Is there any money for that? |
| 03:25:34.68 | Unknown | I say we leave the rules. |
| 03:25:38.07 | Jonathon Goldman | Mr. Mayor, I'm not aware of any specific money for that, although in terms of devotion Thank you. |
| 03:25:49.70 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:25:49.90 | Jonathon Goldman | somewhat significant staff level of effort, I think it's appropriate. |
| 03:25:50.07 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:25:50.12 | Peter Van Meter | Thank you. |
| 03:25:50.15 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:25:50.22 | Peter Van Meter | Thank you. |
| 03:25:54.39 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 03:25:56.73 | Unknown | If I recall, Mr. Maranty, that was implementation of the program you already... Partially implementation of the program. Yeah, but that program |
| 03:26:02.86 | Unknown | Yeah, but that program hasn't worked super well. So I think his point of leaving it on is you've got to connect something like that. |
| 03:26:05.69 | Unknown | leaving it on. |
| 03:26:06.44 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 03:26:06.89 | Unknown | Sorry, I didn't mean to, don't let me distract you. |
| 03:26:10.18 | Unknown | He doesn't ask for much. If there was a legal interpretation. |
| 03:26:11.01 | Unknown | He doesn't ask for much. If there was a legal interpretation. |
| 03:26:15.14 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:26:17.10 | Unknown | I didn't mean it. |
| 03:26:17.66 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:26:17.71 | Unknown | I didn't know. |
| 03:26:18.03 | Unknown | What does that mean to that? |
| 03:26:18.72 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:26:19.78 | Unknown | What about the zoning ordinance amendment definition of formula retail? |
| 03:26:23.46 | Unknown | That's not above the line. |
| 03:26:24.80 | Unknown | Isn't it? |
| 03:26:25.22 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 03:26:25.42 | Unknown | Oh, I'm sorry, you're right. |
| 03:26:25.71 | Unknown | No. |
| 03:26:26.01 | Unknown | Oh, sorry. |
| 03:26:26.35 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:26:26.40 | Unknown | Oh, I'm sorry. You're right. |
| 03:26:28.19 | Unknown | I don't see any other. |
| 03:26:29.52 | Unknown | All right, then seeing none, let's close this issue and move on. |
| 03:26:36.37 | Unknown | Put five and took one off. |
| 03:26:40.37 | Unknown | That's okay. |
| 03:26:41.59 | Unknown | I'm a part of the restaurant here at |
| 03:26:41.62 | Unknown | . |
| 03:26:44.57 | Unknown | 30. |
| 03:26:46.16 | Unknown | Okay, this is time for city manager to give us information. Thank you. |
| 03:26:49.94 | Adam Politzer | I think you've received enough information from us tonight. I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have. I will note, again, the Marin Council and Mayors meeting, the MCC-MT, will be in Ross later this month, and they're going to have a spokesperson. I think you've seen the announcement on the Major Crimes Task Force. So again, this is something that our chief is actively participating with the other new chiefs and the existing folks in the county of Marin to again look at how we participate. |
| 03:26:49.96 | Unknown | I think you've received enough information from |
| 03:27:13.50 | Joanne Dunaway | Yeah. |
| 03:27:29.09 | Adam Politzer | how it's funded And again, I think It'll be important to hear the presentation. It's difficult to get them to come to every town and do similar to what we asked Don to do tonight. I think Don, it was important to have Marine Clean Energy to come because our residents are all going to be opted into a program unless they choose to opt out. But on that note, Marina Clean Energy will also be holding forums in Mill Valley, and it'll be open to Southern Marin residents. They'll be doing that up and down the county. Thank you. So again... Uh, It'll be important that we have representation at our meeting. at Ross and this is an item that should be of everyone's interest because we spend a considerable amount of money participating in the Major Crimes Task Force. |
| 03:28:19.83 | Unknown | Why won't they come and give a pitch for themselves since they want money? What makes them special that they don't have to come down here? This is like TAM. What makes them special that they don't want to come down here and take some time out of their day to give us a presentation? |
| 03:28:34.95 | Adam Politzer | It's the same challenges that we have. It's limited staffing. There's only X number of folks that can actually speak. on the entire program, you know, there are obviously people assigned to various components of the program. but it's very diverse. So again, it's basically two or three people that have the ability to do that and then you're asking them to who are already attending a ton of meetings. It's not that they won't, but the question is why. And so the first step is asking your chief or whoever she designates to kind of give you you know, our summary of the effectiveness of the program and then see if there is a need to invite someone from the Sheriff's Office to come and speak about it. And so this is really an opportunity to get a snapshot of the program. as well as enjoying dinner with your peers at the MCCMC dinner. |
| 03:29:34.81 | Unknown | I'm not sorry, Mike, may I ask you to make a comment? Is all these JPAs should come. and do a presentation. It shouldn't be the other way around that we have to police them, we have to create a joint task force to review their operating plans like that exists at the MCC MC thing which I got off of that thing. Because that's the, what's the word that you always read every once in a while, the secret government. That's the government or little oversight over it that just sucks money and never has to be, like, smegs, never has to be responsible to anybody. So all those yo-yos should come here and say, this is why we do a good job for you, and |
| 03:30:15.68 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:30:15.97 | Joanne Dunaway | Thank you. |
| 03:30:24.18 | Unknown | you know? say, hey, this is why we deserve taxpayer money. |
| 03:30:29.38 | Adam Politzer | I'd be happy to invite them all. It's a very long list. There's probably over 27, and that's probably the short list. So it'll take the council to prioritize who they'd like to come. So, you know, good examples. We had John Robacher at Councilmember Ford's request. come speak about MIRA, so we didn't ask Maureen Kessingham to come down, who's the executive director, but I'm sure if we asked her she would come down. We can ask Mr. Devine to come down and talk about the zero waste JPA, you know, another, you know, so that was in concert to help them work with our sustainability commission to give the sustainability commission some ideas of how to move forward. There is a laundry list of JPAs, the animal control services. I'm sure they'd love to come and talk to us. about their needs and their budget constraints and their financial struggles. We know that we don't want to open a pound in Sausalito. We don't want to open a pound in Southern Marin. AND WE DEFINITELY DON'T WANT TO have to find homes for all these animals because they don't destroy them. So happy if the council would like to prioritize who they'd like to invite staff for being |
| 03:31:37.59 | Unknown | I think I'll hit this. So happy if it's not. |
| 03:31:40.46 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:31:40.61 | Unknown | So, |
| 03:31:43.83 | Unknown | Yeah, bring them over the course of the years because there's a lot of folks. |
| 03:31:46.01 | Adam Politzer | Well... |
| 03:31:46.08 | Unknown | Why don't you... |
| 03:31:46.75 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 03:31:46.81 | Unknown | Why don't you send out a list of people and we'll deliberate it, okay? We'll prioritize. Yeah, we'll prioritize. Right, exactly. |
| 03:31:47.73 | Adam Politzer | don't you? |
| 03:31:52.14 | Unknown | Yeah, well, of course. |
| 03:31:52.90 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:31:52.91 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:31:53.01 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:31:53.03 | Unknown | you |
| 03:31:53.18 | Unknown | you |
| 03:31:53.25 | Unknown | Right. |
| 03:31:53.76 | Unknown | to get to the next. |
| 03:31:53.88 | Unknown | Exactly. Thank you. |
| 03:31:54.55 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. Okay, any other questions of the city manager? |
| 03:31:56.09 | Unknown | OK. |
| 03:32:02.87 | Unknown | Okay. Let's move moving on to future agenda items. |
| 03:32:07.70 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Mr. Mayor. Again, I'd like to suggest we put the Arts Commission to revisit that because I have that material. Yeah, but no, I have that material. |
| 03:32:15.27 | Unknown | You know, I have. material. Yeah, but I have that. You're supposed to bring a presentation and put it on the agenda and that's where we're at. |
| 03:32:23.49 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Oh, I had the presentation at, I mean, I had the materials at the last meeting and. |
| 03:32:23.71 | Unknown | I'm sorry. |
| 03:32:28.45 | Unknown | We're waiting for you. Well, great. I'll submit it. I'll submit it. Thanks for clicking. |
| 03:32:29.75 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | out. GREAT. I'll submit it. Thanks for clarifying the process. I will do that by the way. |
| 03:32:34.38 | Unknown | Just like a staff report and submit it to |
| 03:32:36.59 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Great. No, I will – we will definitely – well, then we'll have it on the next meeting. Procedures and policies and how you think – |
| 03:32:38.04 | Unknown | Definitely. and how you're going to run it. |
| 03:32:41.97 | Chris | Thank you. |
| 03:32:42.00 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Wonderful. Well, I mean, we'll have it. We could have it at this meeting then because I had it the day at the meeting after you |
| 03:32:42.02 | Unknown | Wonderful. |
| 03:32:43.89 | Chris | I mean, |
| 03:32:44.32 | Unknown | Well, have to. |
| 03:32:44.72 | Chris | I love it. |
| 03:32:49.41 | Unknown | I think I recall asking you to do that last time, so it's up to you. |
| 03:32:53.83 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Oh, okay. Well, no, I will do it. And I just got the process wrong. Now, I have another agenda item, and I believe that perhaps the city manager may have been contacted by them yet. I'm not sure. Regarding the sister city with Cascais, Portugal, and moving that forward, I think they wanted us, if you'd like to comment at them. |
| 03:32:58.74 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 03:33:20.68 | Adam Politzer | So, had a discussion with the agenda setting committee, the mayor and the vice mayor. and I reached out to the representative of IDES Tahl, And so I wanted to clarify what exactly he needed and also shared with him that It was a little early. to do exactly what he was asking in front of the council WHEN YOU LOOK AT our Sakai Day Sister City program and the legwork that we asked the community group to do ahead of time to really educate the council and the community program actually is. What do we actually entering into the relationship about not just a name, but what's the program? And then the same with Michael Moyle with the Vena de Mar, sister city program again the amount of legwork that we asked him to do working with the community and working with the folks from Vida Damar to start that program. So what he has now asked for is a letter from the mayor basically saying that a delegation of folks from Sausalito including Councilmember Pfeiffer are going down there to explore this option and be ambassadors to our community and then bring back in the community. probably in July, I think that he was staying down there a little bit longer, but to come back at a future council meeting and give a presentation about the the ideas that were simulated, some ideas about the program And then in 2013 when they actually are coming to visit to celebrate IDES Halls 125th. celebration. is to do a program similar to what we did with our guest from Vina del Mar when the mayor and their delegation came to our town and he thinks that that will happen in 2013. So that gives them basically a year to develop a program and go forward and then gives him and the delegation of folks that are going to Portugal a letter from the mayor saying that they represent our town as ambassadors of goodwill to explore this possibility. |
| 03:35:26.48 | Unknown | Yeah, also keep in mind that the All of these sister cities are now attempting to work together with each other. That's Sacre de Vena and Qashqai. |
| 03:35:41.33 | Unknown | The Cachecois is not a sister city. No. |
| 03:35:43.02 | Unknown | No. Thank you. |
| 03:35:45.15 | Unknown | to be Frank, and not that it won't get, it's not to be Bill, and not that it couldn't be, but it's got to go out and actually get support from the community. I'm very proud of the Portuguese history here, but you've got to... |
| 03:35:47.04 | Unknown | Not that it won't get. It's a new bill. |
| 03:35:49.52 | Benjamin Burke | Thank you. |
| 03:35:49.53 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:35:49.57 | Benjamin Burke | Not the... |
| 03:35:49.99 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:35:59.29 | Unknown | You've got to do some footwork. |
| 03:35:59.95 | Unknown | footwork. what the future is. |
| 03:36:02.04 | Unknown | the committee of the people that live in town. |
| 03:36:03.61 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 03:36:03.96 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. That was a little bit of the discussion and Vasco fully understood, agreed and recognized he just didn't understand the process and how it works. |
| 03:36:07.34 | Unknown | in Glasgow to the Senate. Thank you. |
| 03:36:13.83 | Unknown | All right. |
| 03:36:15.79 | Adam Politzer | the Portuguese community here in our town and in Marin will work with residents and their friends in Portugal to continue to explore this and then actually bring a program forward to the council for their consideration at a future date. you |
| 03:36:33.73 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Okay, great. So I just wanted to put that out there and get clarity so that everybody knew what was going on with that. Thanks, Adam. |
| 03:36:40.43 | Unknown | Thanks. All right, moving on to council member committee reports. Are there any? |
| 03:36:51.57 | Unknown | Well, first, let me just say I said yo-yos with affection, by the way. Because there's a lot of good work that goes on at those JPAs as well. Do they have yo-yos? |
| 03:36:55.45 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:36:55.47 | Joanne Dunaway | Yeah. I'm not. |
| 03:36:56.04 | Unknown | and |
| 03:36:58.33 | Unknown | There's a lot of good work that goes on I'm sorry. |
| 03:37:04.33 | Unknown | There is a yo-yo JPA. They're very good at walk the dog and among other tricks. No, I think the only report I would give is from the Finance Committee and it's not an official report. It's just that this is our first year with the CalPERS. increases kicking in that have been pushed out, and this is a much tighter budget year than we've had in prior years. That's why a lot of these won't be funded that are in this list this year, and it is a, I would say, much leaner budget in terms of elective surgery than in the past, and so we have to live within that means. So we'll see what happens in June, but we'll have to deal with the consequences of that one way or the other in terms of the budget. |
| 03:37:58.75 | Unknown | Okay. Any other reports of significance? All right. Do I have a motion to adjourn? I move we adjourn. |
| 03:38:04.21 | Councilmember Ford | Thank you. |
| 03:38:04.23 | Unknown | I move we adjourn. Thank you. |
| 03:38:05.75 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:38:05.90 | Unknown | One other quick thing, would you make an announcement on the visiting? Go ahead. I have the mayor of Sykida is going to be here. Oh, yeah. |
| 03:38:09.68 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:38:15.57 | Unknown | Oh, yeah. |
| 03:38:18.22 | Unknown | What is it? |
| 03:38:18.73 | Unknown | The Mayor of Sakai is coming on the 25th. 25th of May? Which is Friday, right. Yeah. And he will be, there's an agenda that will be available. If it's not already publicly available, will be publicly available. |
| 03:38:19.30 | Unknown | The mayor is coming. The mayor said. Yeah. Thank you. |
| 03:38:23.59 | Unknown | I'm sorry. |
| 03:38:23.62 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:38:23.65 | Unknown | which is true. |
| 03:38:25.33 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:38:25.34 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 03:38:33.02 | Unknown | Thank you. about his visits and so on. There's a meeting here Saturday at 9 o'clock. If the whole council could make it, it would be great. Thank you. 9 o'clock in the morning, and we will greet them, and it will be short. So we exchange some pleasantries and gifts and one thing or another. That's the 26th. |
| 03:38:57.59 | Unknown | He's only here actually. He's coming just for the Golden Gate Bridge event. He's only here for three days. |
| 03:39:01.54 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:39:01.56 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:39:01.57 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:39:01.62 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:39:01.67 | Unknown | THE END OF |
| 03:39:01.72 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:39:01.83 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:39:01.99 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:39:02.03 | Unknown | He's only here for three days. Yeah. One, two quick things before we forget. So one, there was some appointment to some. You can put it on the next. Is there a special meeting next Tuesday? |
| 03:39:13.89 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 03:39:13.91 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 03:39:13.98 | Adam Politzer | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 03:39:14.03 | Unknown | Yes, 22nd. There was some alternate appointment that we just talked about. |
| 03:39:14.43 | Adam Politzer | 20 seconds. |
| 03:39:20.15 | Unknown | but we needed a, there was some. No, we handled it. Oh, you did handle it. Oh, okay. |
| 03:39:24.76 | Adam Politzer | Yeah, and just for clarification, that was the the mirror meeting tomorrow where Councilmember Weiner is going to be in place. Councilmember Ford is not available. Going back to the Mayor of Sakaita's visit, |
| 03:39:36.76 | Joanne Dunaway | Thank you. |
| 03:39:36.77 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:39:41.47 | Adam Politzer | The other significant activity is the planting of the cherry tree in Amy's memory. So the Public Works Farm and the Park and Rec Commission |
| 03:39:47.07 | Unknown | Oh, that's correct. |
| 03:39:53.48 | Adam Politzer | are working with the sister cities to facilitate that. So that immediately follows the more formal activity here in the council chambers out of here with some part of the territory. |
| 03:40:01.60 | Councilmember Ford | connectivity. |
| 03:40:08.16 | Councilmember Ford | Gabrielsson, please. Oh. |
| 03:40:10.29 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 03:40:10.32 | Unknown | If we could open up in there, it's not here. If we could open up in there, it's not here. |
| 03:40:14.52 | Unknown | Oh. |
| 03:40:16.60 | Unknown | Yep. |
| 03:40:16.87 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 03:40:17.21 | Unknown | So I guess we'll just walk over to Gabriel. Are you going to have limos or something? All right. So if everybody could be here at 9 o'clock on Saturday the 26th, then that would be terrific. |
| 03:40:23.79 | Unknown | All right. |
| 03:40:29.69 | Unknown | We could walk on those underwater streams, eh? Okay. We're adjourned. Thank you. |
| 03:40:31.13 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:40:31.26 | Unknown | All right. |
| 03:40:31.84 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:40:31.85 | Unknown | Okay, we are adjourned. |
| 03:40:33.66 | Unknown | you |
| 03:40:34.08 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 03:40:34.76 | Unknown | Thank you. |