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| 00:00:55.97 | Unknown | You're definitely on the my side. |
| 00:01:01.17 | Unknown | because I thought that might be the problem. |
| 00:01:04.83 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 00:01:07.92 | Vice Mayor Leone | It's fucking what? |
| 00:01:09.10 | Mayor Kelly | I lost notes. |
| 00:01:10.03 | Vice Mayor Leone | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:01:32.20 | Unknown | No, I think I'm back. |
| 00:01:39.22 | Mayor Kelly | All right, let's call the... |
| 00:01:41.48 | Unknown | I love him. |
| 00:01:42.72 | Mayor Kelly | The meeting of the regular meeting of the South City Council to order, please. Debbie, would you take the roll? Have you ever your attention? |
| 00:01:51.68 | Unknown | Let's go. |
| 00:01:54.56 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Council member Pfeiffer. |
| 00:01:56.13 | Mayor Kelly | THE FAMILY. |
| 00:01:56.81 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Councilmember Weiner. |
| 00:01:58.41 | Mayor Kelly | President. |
| 00:01:58.86 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Vice Mayor Leone. |
| 00:02:00.05 | Mayor Kelly | Here. |
| 00:02:00.40 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Mayor Kelly. |
| 00:02:01.34 | Mayor Kelly | Here. The council met in closed session to consider one item which was MLK properties and we gave direction to staff Is there anyone here to comment on items on the closed session? calendar. Seeing no one, we'll move on. Let's see. Who could I pick on? Joe, how about you lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance? Thank you. |
| 00:02:25.38 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:02:29.75 | Mayor | I pledge 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. |
| 00:02:29.97 | Unknown | CONGRESSMAN. |
| 00:02:30.54 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:02:44.33 | Mayor | No. |
| 00:02:45.68 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 00:02:46.03 | Mayor | Thank you. |
| 00:02:49.12 | Mayor Kelly | All right. Do I have an approval agenda? |
| 00:02:55.46 | Mayor | So move. second. All in favor? Aye. |
| 00:02:58.87 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Aye. Mr. Mayor, if I may just comment that Council Member Ford is not present tonight because she is home very sick with the flu. |
| 00:02:59.45 | Mayor | Thank you. |
| 00:02:59.48 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 00:02:59.51 | Mayor | Amiss |
| 00:03:08.98 | Mayor Kelly | Okay. Special presentations, Jonathan Goldman, introduction of newly hired wastewater maintenance worker, Trevor Seidler. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. |
| 00:03:20.49 | Jonathan Goldman | members of the council and staff and the city attorney and all the viewers at home. I'm going to defer to Lauren Umbertas, who's the maintenance division manager, to introduce Trevor Seidler, who's our most recent hire on the wastewater maintenance technician. |
| 00:03:27.64 | Unknown | I'm going to... |
| 00:03:39.54 | Lauren | Great. Good afternoon, Mayor, City Council. Again, it is my pleasure to be able to introduce a new employee to the staff of the city of Sausalito. A few months ago, we went through an extensive interview process for a new wastewater maintenance worker. We had over 40 resumes that we sifted through. We went through some additional personal interviews with some other individuals and Trevor Seidler here rose up to the top of that group. Trevor comes to us from Roto-Rooter. He's been working in Sausalito before. He's probably been in some people's houses and now he'll be out in front of their houses helping us out with the business. |
| 00:04:02.20 | Unknown | went through some additional personal |
| 00:04:19.26 | Unknown | And now we'll be out. Thank you. |
| 00:04:22.01 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:04:22.08 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:04:23.55 | Lauren | getting ourselves clean and making sure that we don't have any sanitary sewer overflows and any other problems. Right now we are back up to strength of four members for our Wayswater group. We've also gotten back one other individual who was out on the road. medical leave for a little while, so we are now up and running. And with that, I'd like to introduce Trevor Seidman. |
| 00:04:52.41 | Mayor Kelly | You didn't know speeches before the council would be there. |
| 00:04:54.69 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 00:04:54.85 | Unknown | THE FAMILY. Thank you. |
| 00:04:55.85 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:04:56.02 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:04:56.04 | Unknown | you |
| 00:04:56.61 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:04:56.64 | Unknown | What was that? |
| 00:04:57.32 | Mayor Kelly | I'm sorry. |
| 00:04:57.35 | Unknown | It's okay, we'll hear it through the pipeline. |
| 00:04:58.97 | Unknown | It's okay, we'll hear it through the pipeline. |
| 00:05:02.97 | Unknown | I love it. |
| 00:05:04.03 | Unknown | I'm sorry. Bye. Thank you. |
| 00:05:07.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:05:08.13 | Unknown | It's |
| 00:05:09.40 | Trevor Seidler | Thank you. |
| 00:05:09.72 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:05:09.75 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:05:10.21 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:05:11.24 | Trevor Seidler | Thank you. |
| 00:05:11.26 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:05:11.27 | Trevor Seidler | laughter |
| 00:05:11.39 | Unknown | . |
| 00:05:12.07 | Unknown | I'm sorry. |
| 00:05:12.12 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:05:12.15 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 00:05:12.74 | Trevor Seidler | I just want anybody to know, I'm a hard worker. I'm going to help in maintaining the sewer systems, making sure we don't have those SSOs, and we don't get those 2 o'clock in the morning call-outs, and the headaches, and do everything I can to make sure it doesn't happen. And I hope to see everybody around in Sausalito. |
| 00:05:33.85 | Unknown | You will. Terrific. Well, thank you, and welcome aboard. |
| 00:05:33.92 | Mayor Kelly | Terrific. Well, thank you and welcome aboard. |
| 00:05:35.84 | Unknown | I'm sorry. |
| 00:05:36.06 | Trevor Seidler | Thank you. |
| 00:05:44.03 | Unknown | you Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:05:48.58 | Mayor Kelly | The council, by the way, will close the session tonight in honor of Martin Swig, who died this last week and who was a valuable member of the community here in Sausalito. ALL RIGHT, WE'RE TO COMMUNICATIONS. THIS IS A TIME WHEN MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY ADDRESS THE COUNCIL ON MATTERS THAT ARE NOT ON THE AGENDA. DO WE HAVE ANYONE HERE THAT WANTS TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL ON ANY MATTER THAT'S NOT ON THE AGENDA? All right, seeing none, we'll move to action minutes of the previous meeting. This is one where I think we have some action. We have some comments from Council Member Ford, and she's not here tonight, so we might push these off until the 31st. All right. I do want to read something into the record here. Last meeting, it was said from this dais that the unfunded pension liability in the city of Sausalito was $45 million, and that is not the case. the unfunded pension liabilities, the actuarial pension liabilities that were figured by our actuarial firm, John Bartell, the unfunded liability for the city of Sausalito is $4,547,328. as of June 30, 2010. So that's not close to $45 million. There is a side fund that was delivered to the city when we moved from one pool to another a few years ago, not at our request but at CalPERS' decision. And that fund is about $4,879,925. We actually pay on a regular basis on that fund at an interest rate of 7.75%. As a result of the fire annexation and other items that will enrich our treasuries to some degree, we're going to pay down that side fund with some of the surplus funds that result from the fire annexation. So that side fund will be paid off. Thank you. down that side fund with some of the surplus funds that result from the fire annexation. So that side fund will be paid off, we expect, in the next three to five years, which will leave the only remaining pension liability to be the CalPERS liability of $4.5 million. So just to put that on the record. All right. Moving along. |
| 00:08:17.66 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Mr. Mayor? |
| 00:08:18.59 | Mayor Kelly | No comments. |
| 00:08:19.70 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Regarding the minutes, if I have an edit on the minute, because that was what we were discussing. |
| 00:08:21.54 | Mayor Kelly | Yeah. Sure. Well, we're going to do that next week. |
| 00:08:25.76 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | I understand that, but if I could provide feedback for Debbie so that the version we see next week would be... Okay, thank you. |
| 00:08:29.40 | Mayor Kelly | We'll do that next week. Okay. All right, the consent calendar is the next item. Matters listed on the consent calendar are considered routine and non-controversial. They require no discussion. and are expected to have unanimous support. But any member of the public or a member of this body may pull those items for consideration, pull consideration. So we have tonight... TWO ITEMS. ONE IS THE ADOPTION OF A RESOLUTION RATIFYING MARIN COUNTY REGISTERED VOTERS CANVASED THE VOTES FOR THE SPECIAL ELECTION THAT WAS HELD ON JUNE 5TH. AND THE OTHER IS ADOPTING A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING BRIDGEWAY TO FERRY LANDING IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT. Anyone care to pull any of those items? All right. Seeing none, do I have a motion? |
| 00:09:15.12 | Mayor | Right. So move. Thank you. |
| 00:09:18.88 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:09:19.59 | Mayor Kelly | All in favor? Aye. |
| 00:09:20.45 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:09:20.57 | Mayor | Bye. |
| 00:09:20.63 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:09:20.65 | Mayor | Thank you. |
| 00:09:20.67 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:09:20.69 | Mayor | Thank you. |
| 00:09:20.70 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 00:09:21.16 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 00:09:21.17 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 00:09:21.66 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Now to the public hearing section, and tonight we have an introduction and reading by title only of an ordinance of Council of Sausalito amending Chapter 12.28, Clean Indoor Air and Health Protection, regulating smoking in multi-housing residences, including common areas, private balconies, porches, decks, and patios. |
| 00:09:32.30 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:09:43.42 | Mayor Kelly | All right. |
| 00:09:46.40 | Allison | Thank you. Good evening, Mr. Mayor and council members and members of the community. This evening we have a proposed amendment to chapter 12.28, Clean Indoor Air and Health Protection. |
| 00:09:49.85 | Unknown | Mary. |
| 00:10:05.34 | Mayor | You've got to hold it down. |
| 00:10:06.84 | Allison | As you may remember, in November of 2011, there was a city council meeting where the staff introduced the proposed regulations for the possible clean indoor air and health protection ordinance. At the time, staff was directed to work with the public to amend the existing smoking regulations, creating more of a restrictive clean indoor air and smoking regulations. On February 14th, staff met with the legislative committee and at which time staff was directed to proceed with the draft ordinance and conduct public outreach with members of the business community, the multi-unit family community. |
| 00:10:42.90 | Unknown | you |
| 00:10:52.43 | Allison | And and the Parks and Rec Commission. An additional item that came up at the legislative committee meeting was whether or not medical marijuana smoke would be included in the smoking regulations. As the Code as proposed does not prohibit medical marijuana smoke as part of the regulations. If the City Council would like to amend that to include marijuana smoke, as part of the regulated smoke Staff has provided language specifically addressing the medical marijuana smoke, and it would be provided in the ordinance, and it can be seen the exact language in the staff report. Thank you. on May 30, 2012, staff had a a public workshop, and we had the workshop in conjunction with the Marin County Department of Health and Human Services. |
| 00:11:47.03 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:11:51.01 | Allison | We sent out notices and invited every multi-unit family resident, owner, homeowners associations, and landlords. We also invited all commercial and industrial property owners, business owners and property owners, We invited the Parks and Rec Commission, and the notice was also placed in the Sausalito Currents. Approximately, we had approximately 10 residents attend the meeting and it was a very productive meeting. And the majority of the attendance was for the multi-unit housing questions and concerns. At this time, I would like to introduce Bob Curry. He's from the Marin County Department of Health and Human Services, and he will discuss and explain the actual regulations a little bit. |
| 00:12:42.17 | Unknown | Absolutely. |
| 00:12:52.08 | Bob Curry | Mayor and council members, thank you for inviting us back. And I just want to thank Allison. She's done a tremendous job in both the outreach and in helping draft the ordinance and just keeping everybody informed and moving the process along. |
| 00:13:13.33 | Bob Curry | I'm going to go through the first number of slides very quickly because some of this we went over last time I was here and most of it I'm sure you've heard over and over again. There's a reason why we are going forward with a policy here and in so many other communities around the state and the country is because of the health risks, the secondhand smoke and people are really asking for protections in their communities. We all know the Surgeon General has come out and said there's absolutely no risk-free level exposure to secondhand smoke, and the California Air Resources Board also has determined that it's a toxic air contaminant, and it's on their list. |
| 00:13:50.28 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:13:50.30 | Jonathan Goldman | you're going to be |
| 00:13:50.59 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:14:01.35 | Bob Curry | Third hand smoke. Third hand smoke is the toxins that are left behind after someone is smoking, especially when you think of multi-unit housing and people smoking in the apartment that they're currently in. All that smoke is going not only on the walls, but it gets into the carpet. |
| 00:14:12.94 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:14:21.55 | Bob Curry | And then when you think of young people especially that are down crawling or just laying on the floor, they're breathing in all of those toxins. And so that has been an issue that has really come to the forefront in the last few years, and especially where it comes as a health hazard for our infants and our children. And as I said, the public support has been overwhelming for us to do something in a policy form. And these are old surveys that you have here, and you can see the high percentage of people who have asked for some policies for outdoor areas. |
| 00:15:11.23 | Bob Curry | And we, you at the city level and us at the county level, we get a lot of complaints. A policy like this really helps us to be able to mediate a good compromise between the person who is complaining and the person who is actually smoking. So a policy really, I think it's a win for everybody, to come up with a good resolution. Because the ordinance, again, is not about the smoker. We are not trying to take anyone's rights away to smoke. It's just a health protection is what we are all concerned about. |
| 00:15:53.96 | Bob Curry | So the thing is with the ordinance, if you do pass it, the most important thing is that we do a lot of education and we make sure that we enforce it. And after a very short period of time, people are aware of the new policy. As we have seen with other policies in the last 20 years, they become very self-enforcing. So it's not going to be a burden on employees, especially on any enforcement, code enforcement people, to have to do a lot of work in it because people in Marin County, when they have a policy and they understand it and they know it's there for a good reason, they usually will obey that policy. |
| 00:15:58.41 | Unknown | I don't know. |
| 00:16:40.80 | Bob Curry | Now to the meat of what's in the ordinance draft. |
| 00:16:41.34 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:16:46.46 | Bob Curry | Uh, 20 feet around the doors and windows of all your businesses. And the decal over to the right is something we have thousands of, so you don't have to go and purchase any of those. And that would be a small decal. It's, I think I showed it to you before. It's these, and we're hoping that most of the other jurisdictions that have passed the policy, these are the decals that they are using and have posted in their windows or on their doors. You go to our dining, you know, and especially here in beautiful Sausalito, people love to go and eat, and they love to eat outside. And there's nothing worse than having a family sitting down with their kids and halfway through their meal, and all of a sudden somebody comes and sits next to them and starts smoking. It's not only smells terrible, but people know it's a health hazard. Thank you. next to them and starts smoking. It's not only smells terrible, but people know it's a health hazard and it pretty much ruins their meal. events such as those that you have in the park, gatherings and family gatherings. You have sporting events, you have speaking engagements, ceremonies, pageants. These are events where people gather and it's very important for people not to have to breathe in secondhand smoke. Bus stops and other service lines. There's nothing worse than people getting up in the morning and we get a lot of calls at the county on this and I think you probably do here at the city. But people at six o'clock in the morning, they're waiting for the bus to go into the city and You know, they are standing there waiting for 20 minutes. And, you know, people who are addicted, they like to have their addiction taken care of first thing in the morning. But you have to be able to say you've got to do that 20 feet away so that you're not going to bother the people that are trying to just simply wait there for the bus to come. Construction sites. That's when people question quite often, they say, well, that's outdoors and it's workers outdoors. But when you think about it, you've got four or five people that are standing around and working in a very confined area. And one of them or two of them may be heavy smokers, smoking all day long with those other people right next to them really isn't fair. So that's why if there's a crew, then they have to leave and go at least 20 feet away, have their cigarette, and then they can come back and work with their peers. And that fairs and other gatherings, farmers markets, is another place that is very important that we have smoke-free areas. Another one that's not on here, and I was looking through the... The staff report, the number three on your staff report is the marina facilities, the docks and the piers and the dock boats, vessels and host boats. This was brought up at the legislative council meeting as a real concern because a lot of people there are right on top of each other. and that somebody is constantly out on their boat and two feet or five feet away from a neighbor and all that smoke is going right over into their area. Again, the fairness is not there. |
| 00:20:26.88 | Bob Curry | The new ordinance is going to take care of indoor and outdoor common areas and make sure that there is signage there, and this is in multi-unit housing. I'm going to get into the disclosure map a little later on, but disclosure for all people coming into or those who actually reside at a current multi-unit housing, but anybody coming in, it has to be disclosed to them exactly where the smoking units are and where the non-smoking units are. It's very important, and that's in your ordinance. As it says here, all new multi-unit housing units are going to have to be smoke-free. So any new buildings that you have on your planning to go up here in Sausalito, they would all have to be smoke-free. And a minimum of 80% of the existing multi-unit housing would have to be smoke-free. Hopefully, a lot of them, as we have seen in Larkspur and some of the other communities, they have decided just to go 100%. And they say that works a lot better simply because no one is smoking. It's much easier to enforce if it's 100%. And they, on their own, have decided to do that. And it's also a great cost savings to anyone who runs a multi-unit housing facility. This is the map of what I was talking about with the disclosure. Now, this is a map that, you know, people have not been taken from one area. They're smoking in all these different places. But in the end, this map, all the red spots where the smokers exist would have to probably be, and they would probably, you know, this is up to the owners of the complex. they would have to probably decide and would decide, probably put the smokers, clump them over where most of the red dots are. And then this area would be green and probably most of the third column would be green as no smoking areas. |
| 00:22:10.29 | Unknown | but have. |
| 00:22:35.45 | Bob Curry | This is a lease addendum sample that we have, and we will provide that for all of our managers and owners of the complexes. |
| 00:22:48.44 | Bob Curry | CC&Rs, this is for the condos. Condos are also, you know, to go because they're multi-unit housing. And, you know, they're even at more of a disadvantage than someone who is renting because they are pretty much stuck where they live right now. And if a family is living in their underwater on a cond that they own, and then somebody moves in right next door and happens to be a heavy smoker, well, that family now is in a real bind. They can't afford to move. Whereas somebody in an apartment, if they don't want to stop smoking in their unit, you know, it's much easier for them to relocate. But for a condo, a person living in a condo, it is not. So they're even at more of a disadvantage. So with them, in amending the CCNRs, they would have a vote of all the condo owners and they would decide if they want to go be less than the 100% of the units being smoke-free, then they would, as an association, they would decide which ones are going to be allowed to be for the smokers. |
| 00:24:08.12 | Bob Curry | This is in a regular apartment multi-unit complex. I think it's very important to survey the tenants, ask them if they are smokers, number one, find out where all the smokers are. And then the owners would have to designate exactly which 20%, if they're gonna go with 20%, would be allowed for smoking. Then they should notify the tenants again of those changes and tell them exactly, disclose to them which ones it is. Then there may be some go back and forth to maybe change a little bit. Then they have to amend any new leases, make sure that is pointed out exactly what the new policy is, post signage, train their employees, and then they also have the option to designate an area on their complex grounds that would be a designated smoking area for all the smokers to go and smoke. and then to establish a good procedure for complaints. |
| 00:25:24.89 | Bob Curry | Communicating the policy change, as I said, it's very important to have meetings with your tenants. Let them know what the policy is. 30 days notice. Make sure you give plenty of notice to all parties that are involved. in your current makeup of units. And any changes that you make, there should be a 30-day notice given. And then again, there has to be some good signage. |
| 00:26:03.38 | Bob Curry | You hear about liability, and I just want to make clear that the liability, the legal risks, are really not from those who are the smokers. Smokers really don't have any constitutional right to smoke, so that they really can't sue and say that we have a right to smoke in any certain area. But there are legal rights. The legal risks are from those who are non-smokers who are breathing the secondhand smoke toxins. And they can make |
| 00:26:44.08 | Bob Curry | And lastly, implementation form. We had the first form providing a lot of information, but I think it's very important after an ordinance or policy is adopted that we again have another form, and that would be one to help all of the owners and managers of multi-unit housing businesses that would like to come for a training and help them with the implementation process. So we would be willing to help staff with that also. So at this point, any questions on anything at this point? So just to say, |
| 00:27:26.93 | Vice Mayor Leone | Thank you. |
| 00:27:26.98 | Bob Curry | Thank you. |
| 00:27:27.12 | Vice Mayor Leone | Thank you. |
| 00:27:27.52 | Bob Curry | Thank you. |
| 00:27:27.62 | Unknown | Go ahead, El-Suri. |
| 00:27:27.69 | Vice Mayor Leone | Thank you. |
| 00:27:27.88 | Bob Curry | Go ahead. |
| 00:27:33.11 | Allison | So that concludes the report. At this time, staff recommends that the City Council conduct a public hearing. And also there was a mistake in the ordinance title. So staff recommends you amend the ordinance title to the title of the staff report. Thank you. And, uh... Introduce and read by the title only, an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Sausalito, establishing regulations for smoking in multi-family residences, public streets and parks, outdoor dining areas, and recreation or special events. The wording is up on the screen also. And continue the second reading to July 31st, 2012. Thank you. Thank you. Currently, the proposed ordinance did not require the mailing of public notices to affected parties, in which case staff did not send out a mailed notice to affected residents and parties. And because of this, the City Council may choose to alternatively direct staff to provide additional public notification, and hold an additional public hearing on July 31st. And that concludes the staff report. And if you have any questions, myself and Bob Currier are available to answer any questions. |
| 00:28:48.99 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 00:28:50.75 | Vice Mayor Leone | Two questions, one with the I want to make sure I'm reading it correctly in terms of the implementation. So you have the option to as a multi-unit housing owner to come in and say I want to do 80% or some fraction thereof to retain smoking in those units if you so choose. If you do that, you have to submit a bunch of things. Yes. If you don't do that by, and there's some deadlines in the language of the ordinance, it just by default becomes smoke-free. Is that correct? Okay. I just want to make sure that's right. |
| 00:29:16.41 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 00:29:33.22 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:29:33.31 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:29:33.59 | Vice Mayor Leone | after a certain period of time. And then, |
| 00:29:35.37 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:29:38.22 | Vice Mayor Leone | As far as, you know, there's all different kinds of multi-unit housing, and we have it labeled here as anything more than one unit with a couple of exceptions. So if you have a common building, let's say there are a lot of multi-unit housing that's just a house, you know, with a couple of units or two or three units in it. Do you still, if, is kind of the signage and the other things that you would have to do the same as if it was a large apartment complex? |
| 00:30:07.28 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:30:07.29 | Allison | Thank you. |
| 00:30:07.36 | Unknown | you'll see. |
| 00:30:07.43 | Allison | Thank you. It would be the same. In the definition of the multi-unit housing, It's basically lumped into one group. There's no difference between a large condominium complex or a large apartment and a smaller three unit condo. |
| 00:30:27.41 | Vice Mayor Leone | Right. single family home with detached or second unit or in-laws with these three California code references. What do those three California code references mean on page four of the ordinance language itself? Not of the staff report, but of the ordinance. It's like it's |
| 00:30:51.44 | Mary Wagner | I believe they're the second unit regulations, if I'm not mistaken. |
| 00:30:53.92 | Vice Mayor Leone | If I'm not mistaken. Okay. So those are... |
| 00:31:00.48 | Vice Mayor Leone | So that permitted per those code references, who would permit those? |
| 00:31:05.53 | Mary Wagner | If I'm following you correctly, you're talking about the definition of multi-unit residences? Yes. And then the exception to multi-unit residences, which is a single-family home with a detached or attached second unit, basically. And then the reference to the California government code sections, the 658, 52.1, and the other ones. I believe those are the second unit regulations that were added in 03. Seems like so just yesterday. |
| 00:31:09.01 | Vice Mayor Leone | Yeah. Yes. |
| 00:31:12.38 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:31:18.83 | Unknown | Right. |
| 00:31:34.70 | Vice Mayor Leone | Simply so. Thank you. Right, but it says permitted pursuant to that. So there's a difference between permitted and as defined in, you know what I mean? Like permitted. |
| 00:31:44.09 | Mary Wagner | We could clarify when we bring forward the second unit policy. if that's what you're referring to, that's part of the implementation of the housing element. that they fall within this definition. |
| 00:31:56.39 | Vice Mayor Leone | Okay, well, my concern is one, |
| 00:32:02.58 | Vice Mayor Leone | Does it have to be a legally permitted unit for this to apply, if you phrase it like this, versus something that is not already legally It hasn't gotten a permit to be multi-unit and is actually multi-unit. And there are a number of those, and we're going to have an amnesty program for those. But, you know, you have to piece apart permits from health situations here, in my mind, right? Because, you know, there are different things. And then what do these reference? What is this? What, you know, if you have a two or three unit house, how do you have a common area inside the house if there is none, right? If all the entrances are outside rather than the central hallway kind of thing. So even then, you may not have any common areas except for stairs, you know? |
| 00:32:31.12 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:32:59.13 | Vice Mayor Leone | So that may need a little just to see what these definitions are and see if they provide some clue as to what this exemption allows. Um, |
| 00:33:17.20 | Vice Mayor Leone | And the other one I had was |
| 00:33:24.16 | Vice Mayor Leone | If you do the latter alternative, what would you do in terms of the outreach. |
| 00:33:31.80 | Allison | Well, we could use the same list we previously used for the workshop and notify individually each interested party |
| 00:33:39.26 | Unknown | easily. |
| 00:33:41.62 | Allison | or we could post it in the newspaper and notify the participants at the workshop specifically |
| 00:33:52.94 | Vice Mayor Leone | I mean, how would you know who's an interested party, and how would you reach them? |
| 00:33:55.56 | Allison | How would you reach them? Well, the list we did, we considered anyone in the multi-unit family community or anyone in the commercial or industrial community an interested party. Okay. And so we sent notices to everyone. Okay. And so we could, we have the list and we could send them the list. |
| 00:34:07.49 | Unknown | Okay. Okay. |
| 00:34:12.69 | Vice Mayor Leone | Thank you. |
| 00:34:13.16 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 00:34:16.01 | Vice Mayor Leone | And the last question, I think you were getting to this in your remarks, but in the lease addendum, it basically saying to a landlord, this is more of a, you're designating things this way, but you can't be held legally responsible for Um, you know, you can't be there 24 hours a day to make sure someone doesn't. So as far as the liability issue that you were referencing earlier, it kind of gives them a little bit more leeway to not feel like if this goes into place, they're gonna get sued and be held liable for a lot of this. I think it's more of a noticing and Maybe you can characterize it better than I could. Maybe that would be helpful just so the public knows and the people who own multi-unit know what the flexibility of that addendum gives them. |
| 00:35:06.22 | Bob Curry | Yeah, I mean, the thing is that they have certain steps that they have to take initially and make sure that they have the signage and the meetings and the clear notice. Once they have done that, there are two options. I mean, as a landlord, they can evict somebody, but they would, if they've done everything they can, they're not gonna be held responsible to code enforcement and to be fined or anything like that. As long as they're taking all the steps that they should. Okay. |
| 00:35:38.53 | Mayor Kelly | Okay, Council Member Pfeiffer. Do you have any questions? |
| 00:35:42.62 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | No, I don't. |
| 00:35:43.41 | Mayor Kelly | Okay. I have a couple. Could you not use the, or did you use the list of landlords that we could get through our business license folks to let the landlords know this is happening? |
| 00:36:00.49 | Allison | We can and Bob with the county put together a very comprehensive list for pretty much the entire multifamily community, property owners and rent. |
| 00:36:10.59 | Mayor Kelly | Sorry. And they were noticed? |
| 00:36:13.24 | Allison | Yes. |
| 00:36:13.34 | Mayor Kelly | Yeah. Okay. THEN MY SECOND QUESTION IS, I looked for the penalties, and I was referred by the code to Chapter 1.10 of the Sausalito Municipal Code. Can anybody tell me what that is? I didn't ever have a chance to look it up. |
| 00:36:29.61 | Unknown | That's the code enforcement section. |
| 00:36:31.11 | Mayor Kelly | I know that, but what are the penalties that apply? So I'm a bad guy. I smoke all the time. |
| 00:36:37.21 | Allison | And Well, there are, you know, eventually there are monetary penalties that range from $100 to $500 over a specific amount of time. And if the violation keeps occurring, you can keep finding every day thereafter that they keep violating the code. |
| 00:36:39.77 | Mayor Kelly | Jennifer comes after me. Thank you. |
| 00:36:57.66 | Mayor Kelly | So do we have to write that into our code or is it already there for smoking or is there some other, something else? |
| 00:37:03.21 | Allison | So, Currently, the code enforcement section doesn't specifically address the smoking or the non-smoking regulations. And from what I remember, I don't think it specifically addresses any of the sections, but that's why we put it in the code to reference back that this is the way that we will enforce it is through our code enforcement process. |
| 00:37:09.42 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:37:09.44 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 00:37:09.47 | Unknown | Right. |
| 00:37:24.59 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. |
| 00:37:24.64 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 00:37:24.86 | Mary Wagner | I concur. So the fines of the $100 a day, $200 a day, $500 thereafter apply. through the reference to that chapter. |
| 00:37:33.86 | Mayor Kelly | to that chapter without having to amend the code. |
| 00:37:35.07 | Mary Wagner | Yep, so there's no need to restate them. And those are the statutory amounts. |
| 00:37:40.64 | Unknown | Okay, good. Any more questions? |
| 00:37:43.86 | Vice Mayor Leone | So the penalties, there's language in here both for retailers, that's a whole different thing where, and I can't remember how you described this the last time you had much better way of describing the retailer regulations here, where it's almost like creating a license, in effect. Is that correct? There's... |
| 00:38:02.14 | Allison | Thank you. |
| 00:38:02.29 | Catherine Hayden | There's... |
| 00:38:04.37 | Allison | Thank you. |
| 00:38:06.71 | Vice Mayor Leone | Oh, we didn't include that in this. Okay. Okay. Okay. |
| 00:38:09.45 | Allison | Thank you. It would be a separate ordinance. |
| 00:38:11.77 | Vice Mayor Leone | Oh, okay. All right. |
| 00:38:13.36 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. it. All right, I'll close questions and move open public comment on this item. Would any member, I've got two actually. |
| 00:38:23.15 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:38:23.23 | Mayor Kelly | Catherine Hayden. Would you like to address the Council? Yes, please. Thank you. |
| 00:38:32.16 | Vice Mayor Leone | It's OK. Herb won't bite you. I promise. Yes. |
| 00:38:32.19 | Mayor Kelly | It's okay. |
| 00:38:35.60 | Catherine Hayden | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:38:36.14 | Mayor | Yeah. |
| 00:38:36.38 | Catherine Hayden | Yes. |
| 00:38:43.57 | Mayor | Housing. |
| 00:39:02.25 | Catherine Hayden | Um... It's pungent. I mean, it's, and the heavy smoker, I mean, all you have to do is, if he opens his car So, I mean, I'm really glad y'all, it's become a really profound issue to me because I feel it in my throat, my head, my mouth. And I mean, I'm glad you're doing what you're doing. 20 feet. I'm not, so I don't want to. cleaner. not at a problem. |
| 00:39:37.48 | Mayor Kelly | Would you address the council? |
| 00:39:39.17 | Unknown | I think. |
| 00:39:39.98 | Catherine Hayden | But, I mean, 20 feet doesn't do it. And some smokers here, some smokers there, it doesn't do it. This stuff is so pungent and so travel so pervasively that to solve the problem of not having non-smokers be affected by nicotine and cigarette smoke is, it takes a wide, I can smell, when people come and sit on these steps to smoke, they're not going to be able to smoke. |
| 00:39:59.12 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:40:14.41 | Catherine Hayden | It goes right, and these buildings are built to have your windows open, there's not air conditioning. It's just, it's a very interesting, I think. |
| 00:40:32.16 | Mayor Kelly | Great. Thank you very much. And then William Simpkins. |
| 00:40:42.97 | William Simpkins | I had hoped to perceive Katherine, my tenant, who just spoke, but she covered the subject very well. But I would like just for a moment to revisit the physiology and physics that were faced First, our lungs. |
| 00:41:07.24 | Mayor Kelly | Could you speak just a little louder for us or more into the microphone? |
| 00:41:15.34 | William Simpkins | First, our lungs. I have capillaries here. Yeah. They have a very small inside diameter. As a matter of fact, only one blood cell at a time can trance the capillaries on the way to getting oxygen. |
| 00:41:32.28 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:41:39.72 | William Simpkins | But on the other side, looking at this cigarette smoke cloud, we're looking at a composition there of a lot of things, a lot of elements, but it includes carbon particles, very minute carbon particles. Thank you. as small as blood cells or smaller. And of course, when we take that into our lungs, We're taking those particles through it. they get into these small tubes. block the blood cells. And that's the beginning of black lung. And that's nasty and leads to Thank you. eventual death. So I just wanted to share that with you, if you haven't thought about that lately. That's the basis of this whole thing. Thank you. |
| 00:42:31.11 | Unknown | death. |
| 00:42:40.90 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Joe Burns? |
| 00:42:52.93 | Joe Burns | Good evening. I want to applaud the council for this effort and staff for bringing this issue to the forefront. We kind of started about a year and a half ago with Parks and Recreation and inviting Pam and Bob to a meeting to kind of initiate this process. And it's been wonderful and to get to this point is super. So I throw my support in this direction as a starting point of future things to come. And those future things for me are now that we know and agree that cigarette smoke and the product itself is full of toxins and pollutants, that we can go ahead and pass an ordinance to restrict it from our city-owned property altogether. As an owner of property, I think we need to take all pollutants off the property. Second, as stewards of the bay, based on our influence and impact on the bay, I'd like to see some effort to lead the region in cigarette butt eradication on streets that get into stormwater and into our bay. It does have an impact on our wildlife and I think we have the most impact as a community to maybe put our hand up first and say we want to kind of start that effort. So I would be a supporter and a person who would want to be involved in that effort and we'll be working with the county further in that area. But I just wanted to kind of throw that out there. This is an excellent starting point but we have more to go and I still want to thank the staff for what they've done to this point. |
| 00:42:55.86 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:43:04.08 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:43:08.07 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:44:07.04 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:44:07.06 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:44:07.25 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:44:22.25 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. Thank you, Joe. Pamela Granger. |
| 00:44:30.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:44:32.91 | Pam Granger | Good evening, Mayor and Councilmembers. I'm Pam Granger with the American Lung Association. And I have the privilege of But... territory as it were that sort of goes from the Bay Area to the Oregon border. And with this, opportunity, I get to watch all of the trends and what's going on. I sit through a lot of city council meetings, find out some really interesting things. |
| 00:44:57.47 | Allison | Thank you. |
| 00:44:57.70 | Pam Granger | But I'm only going to share the part that would be pertinent to tonight. So I tried to take some notes so I could address a couple of the questions that came up. There was the question about medical marijuana. What we've seen around is there's, first of all, there's been a precedent in Marin County to include any kind of substance, weed, herb, etc., when defining smoke and secondhand smoke. and the kind of calls and complaints that we get and they could be verified from the Marin Health Department too, include any kind of smoke, So a woman with emphysema doesn't care if it's coming from a cigar or medical marijuana, if it comes through window doors or vents. So a trend has been to include medical marijuana as an issue, not that individuals couldn't, use it, but they couldn't use it in a way where their relief is a cause of harm for somebody else. I've also learned from sitting through a lot of these meetings that there are alternative ways other than smoking to ingest marijuana. I'm not here to say that I know which one would be best under which circumstances. I just know that there's some alternatives. I've heard the hoorah for vaporization, but I can't say. Um, In 2009, I was dancing for joy in Novato when they passed to 50% of existing units and 75% of new units would be designated as smoke-free. And what we can tell in the last three years is that 100% is the new 50%. And so I'm just throwing out there that with a small percentage of individuals who choose to smoke in Marine County, it wouldn't be very far. You could eclipse San Rafael, which is looking at 100% new and existing units. So I just put it out there that that's what the county of Sonoma did, Sebastopol's done, Pleasant Hill just did, Richmond did, you know, so I'm just saying, you might want to consider that. |
| 00:47:01.55 | Unknown | I just did. |
| 00:47:07.86 | Pam Granger | Um, uh... There is some precedent. I've not seen it done except for one city for smoke-free city properties, but counties are doing smoke-free properties. Again, Sonoma County, so Joe just mentioned, you could, if you so choose, designate your city properties as smoke-free. And cigarette butts, of course, continue to be the most littered item in the world. So anything that you can do, especially the beautiful bay. I figure if you designate styrofoam as no, then that's probably two. Thank you very much. If you have questions. |
| 00:47:41.98 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. And Elizabeth Emerson? |
| 00:47:47.20 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:47:54.99 | Unknown | Good evening, Mayor and Council members. I'm Elizabeth Emerson, and I'm on the local advisory council of the American Cancer Society. also representing the Smoke Free Marine Coalition. And I've been working with city councils off and on during the last 22 years assisting with implementation of smoke-free ordinances. And today I happened to have a conversation with an apartment manager of an 80 unit complex in Fairfax, which is known to be kind of libertarian. And so I was curious about how it was going there, because as you know, Fairfax has enacted this similar ordinance. And she said that it really was a wonderful change for their complex when the Fairfax Town Council passed the Smoke-Free Multi-Unit Housing Ordinance. And I asked her, you know, what were the benefits that she's seen? And she said that for the first time in years, the past year, there have been no complaints and no disputes between smoking and non-smoking tenants, which was causing her a lot of stress as an apartment manager. |
| 00:49:04.77 | Stacy Gregory | smoking tennis. Thank you. |
| 00:49:10.54 | Unknown | because you can only imagine And she said it's just been a more harmonious community there, the people living there. She also feels much safer now because she's no longer worried about apartment fires, which is a huge fear for people who are renting to smokers. And if you've been watching the newspapers, the Marin IJ through the years, I've been analyzing this. Every few months, there's a smoking related fire that's where neighbors' units are impacted. |
| 00:49:28.88 | Stacy Gregory | Ready? |
| 00:49:42.42 | Unknown | There was one in San Rafael, and I spoke about this the last time. I don't know if you've seen this. our video of our PowerPoint. that You know, city councils often wonder about the cost of implementing these ordinances. well, it's usually a mass mailing. but compare that to one fire in San Rafael where five units burned, And according to the San Rafael Police Department, there were 59 Firefighters. and 12 police officers that had to respond to that fire and of course there was a lot of damage and people were displaced for several months Recently when I trained healthcare workers at Marine General Hospital how to help patients quit smoking, One of the nurses told, well actually there were several nurses that told me that one of the patients that was brought in with a woman, a non-smoker, and Her neighbor had lit up in her condo and lost control of the cigarette, maybe fell asleep. and that patient died within a week after being brought to Marine General Hospital. She was a non-smoker. It was from her neighbor's cigarette. And so these ordinances are cost-effective for cities and for apartment managers, and they prevent tragedies as well. And the American Cancer Society and the Smoke Free Marin Coalition supports your effort wholeheartedly. Thank you. |
| 00:51:06.10 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 00:51:07.01 | Unknown | you |
| 00:51:07.32 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. John? |
| 00:51:14.37 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 00:51:14.39 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:51:14.49 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 00:51:15.14 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:51:15.80 | Jean Piddler | I'm Jean Piddler and I live at 501 Oliva. One of the things I didn't see mentioned were the extinguishers for the cigarettes. at City Hall for a long time to get those extinguishers up there. and before they were put there used to see people congregating at the doors and smoking and just stubbing out the cigarette butt on, you know. So now you don't see much of that. And so if they could put more of those around at bus stops and near businesses where people are smoking, such as the no-name bar, Thank you. |
| 00:51:51.46 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:51:51.83 | Jean Piddler | You know, I think that it cut down a lot. Because people don't quit smoking very readily. I know as a nurse they don't. |
| 00:51:51.85 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:52:00.62 | Jean Piddler | And even when they're dying of lung cancer, there's still smoke. With oxygen, And so it's a very difficult thing to quit. but at least we can help them a bit by getting those containers that Cut down on the smoke. as the cigarette goes in. |
| 00:52:20.27 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. Would anyone else care to address the council on this matter? All right, seeing none, I'll bring it back up here. Um, |
| 00:52:30.16 | Unknown | Amen. Thank you. |
| 00:52:32.79 | Mayor Kelly | I don't want to speak. |
| 00:52:33.39 | Unknown | Thank you. Oh, okay. |
| 00:52:36.31 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Well, my only comment is that the research is clear. Secondhand smoke causes cancer. And if you believe the research, and I do, then there's only one way to vote on this, and that's yes. So I'm glad to see this ordinance, and I'm glad that we have it in front of us to discuss, and I want to thank everyone who's spoken out in support of it. |
| 00:53:06.98 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. Sure. |
| 00:53:12.92 | Vice Mayor Leone | Yeah, no, I think this is, and thanks to both all the parties who've helped us get along to this point and for pushing the city earlier on with some failing grades on certain things. And so we're trying to get out from underneath that and be more proactive. And I think Joe has a good roadmap for us in the future for other things we need to do. So I think this has been pretty well thought out, and this language has been used in other jurisdictions, I think, with not a whole heck of a lot of problems to it. So it's in terms of the form and function of it. I think as far as going to 100%, I hope we'll get there. But I think the last thing, at least in my intention, is to push people out of Sausalito from a, that we're really trying to maintain our multi-unit housing to let those who to enable those who can least afford to live here do so. But I think we'll get there over time, as the culture is getting there over time, to just give it up totally. So the 80%, my feeling is you're probably going to get very few people who come in and apply for greater than 80%. Um, or even 80% because you can't get greater than 80%. Sorry, Allison. So, but we will find out. As far as your comment about being impacted by your neighbors, I think this will give, as folks said, the apartment, in that case the Rotary or Paradise Properties, I think manages that. And if they're not being responsive to you, let Herb know because Herb knows folks who run Paradise Properties and the Rotary. Give them a tool. They can call the health department, and the health department can call the city and ask to enforce it. And then there's fines, and so it can be enforced. Right now, it's just a dispute among tenants. And that's hard to, unless you want to take someone to Salt-Clanes Court or something, that's very hard to do. So this is a tool for you, for the city, for the county to use here in Sausalito to maintain that. And if we have to go back and look at the 20 feet and play with that over time, we'll do that. Because this is a first start, it's not the close of the chapter, it's just the first go at it. And we'll refine it over time. So it's something that's long overdue. We need to do this. It's certainly, I think, where our culture should go and move away from harmful substances that are causing all of us problems one way or another, whether it's added cost of health care or impacting our health directly. So this is a good thing to do. I'm glad we're finally doing it. |
| 00:56:06.05 | Mayor Kelly | All right. What about the issue of including marijuana? |
| 00:56:15.66 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | I will comment on that. I thought I read that part of the ordinance and I thought it was a |
| 00:56:30.71 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | I thought it was worded in a conscientious way to balance the needs of those who might require medical marijuana for, you know, terminal illness or whatever with the needs of those of us who, you know, really cannot, don't want exposure to the smoke. I was just looking at the wording on that and it was on |
| 00:57:02.67 | Trevor Seidler | and stuff. |
| 00:57:03.95 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Yeah, no, I was just reading the wording. |
| 00:57:10.67 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | you Yeah, it's on page three of four. I assume you read it, everybody read it. So I thought it was well-worded. Thank you. |
| 00:57:21.69 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 00:57:21.94 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Thank you. Any comments? I mean, that was just my 10 cents. I welcome your feedback. |
| 00:57:24.57 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:57:24.61 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:57:30.99 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:57:31.02 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. |
| 00:57:31.24 | Mayor Kelly | All right. Thank you. |
| 00:57:33.94 | Mary Wagner | Mr. Mayor, if I may? So that language currently is not in your ordinance? Yeah, the language in the staff report is a suggested |
| 00:57:37.43 | Mayor Kelly | and that's the language |
| 00:57:38.97 | Jonathan Goldman | Thank you. |
| 00:57:43.62 | Mary Wagner | revision should the council wish to include medical marijuana in the types of smoking that are covered by this ordinance. There's a couple of typos in the language in your staff report. County should be city, and the reference to 7.70.080, I believe, should be 1228.090D. |
| 00:57:55.98 | Vice Mayor Leone | difference to 7.7. |
| 00:58:03.13 | Vice Mayor Leone | Thank you. If you do choose to go that route, I would take your suggestion, which is actually make it anything that you're smoking, rather than point out, you know, just... Or any herbal... Maybe, whatever, you know, whatever the right term of art here is. |
| 00:58:05.58 | Trevor Seidler | Mm. |
| 00:58:10.98 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:58:11.03 | Unknown | point out just |
| 00:58:12.26 | Mayor Kelly | or any herb |
| 00:58:13.27 | Unknown | and it's a great place. |
| 00:58:13.46 | Mayor Kelly | or whatever. |
| 00:58:17.64 | Vice Mayor Leone | whether it's closed cigarettes or, you know, smoking my own carpet, whatever you want to do, don't affect other people because you're doing it. So you'd have to take this route, which means that it won't be adopted until after August because of our August recess, because the second reading would be in September. Yeah, in September. Yeah, right. But I mean, and also, |
| 00:58:30.20 | Unknown | So, then, |
| 00:58:39.53 | Mayor | All right. |
| 00:58:39.85 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:58:39.89 | Mayor | September. |
| 00:58:44.26 | Mayor | Thank you. But I mean, and also... |
| 00:58:47.55 | Vice Mayor Leone | Thank you. |
| 00:58:47.56 | Mayor | Thank you. even though it's changing. |
| 00:58:49.44 | Vice Mayor Leone | Yeah, I mean, in some ways there's no need to hurry, but in other ways it's kind of like it's up to how you want to do it. What do you got? |
| 00:58:58.79 | Mary Wagner | If I can interject or ask a question, I think our definition of smoking includes all forms of the definition of smoke and smoking includes all forms and it actually includes |
| 00:58:58.97 | Vice Mayor Leone | If I can interject or ask a question. |
| 00:59:01.72 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:59:10.40 | Mary Wagner | Um. So if you look on page... It's page five of the ordinance. I apologize. I don't know which page it is of your staff report. but the definition of smoke, which is number 29, and the definition of smoking, are broad enough to incorporate whatever people choose to ignite that creates smoke, I believe. |
| 00:59:29.94 | Vice Mayor Leone | and why do you need this other land? You don't need it, though. |
| 00:59:31.27 | Mary Wagner | in New York. |
| 00:59:31.96 | Mayor Kelly | We don't need it. |
| 00:59:32.45 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. |
| 00:59:32.59 | Allison | Thank you. |
| 00:59:32.60 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. |
| 00:59:33.03 | Allison | Oh. |
| 00:59:33.35 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. |
| 00:59:33.48 | Allison | Thank you. |
| 00:59:33.50 | Vice Mayor Leone | Thank you. |
| 00:59:33.65 | Mary Wagner | Because there is a section in there that says it doesn't cover marijuana right now. |
| 00:59:34.39 | Allison | So, |
| 00:59:38.14 | Vice Mayor Leone | it in the definition of smoke. |
| 00:59:38.46 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. |
| 00:59:38.48 | Allison | the definition of smoke. It's differentiating in the code between marijuana smoke and medical marijuana. So someone who has a license to smoke medical marijuana in their home, it currently in the code is not prohibited by this code or by the proposed code. But other marijuana smoke that is illegal in general would be prohibited by the code. |
| 00:59:45.60 | Catherine Hayden | So much. |
| 01:00:04.03 | Allison | So it was differentiating between medical marijuana and use marijuana. |
| 01:00:05.19 | Catherine Hayden | Thank you. |
| 01:00:05.22 | Mayor | medical marijuana and marijuana. Number one. |
| 01:00:08.95 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:00:09.02 | Mayor | Thank you. |
| 01:00:09.04 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:00:10.30 | Mayor | you |
| 01:00:10.78 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 01:00:10.91 | Mayor | Thank you. |
| 01:00:11.01 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 01:00:11.06 | Mayor | you |
| 01:00:11.32 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 01:00:12.33 | Mayor Kelly | Where is the smoke? It's smoke is 29. It does say marijuana smoke. It doesn't say medical marijuana smoke. |
| 01:00:12.51 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 01:00:18.82 | Vice Mayor Leone | You're saying later on in the order, where is that reference to? |
| 01:00:24.65 | Allison | So under definitions of smoke, |
| 01:00:26.72 | Vice Mayor Leone | Yeah. |
| 01:00:27.23 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:00:27.89 | Vice Mayor Leone | the |
| 01:00:28.05 | Unknown | I got that. |
| 01:00:28.46 | Allison | That's on, okay. And then it would be the definition of, well, medical marijuana would be inserted in section 10.28.130, or 12.28.130. Yeah, B. Which is? B. Which is on your page. |
| 01:00:46.03 | Mary Wagner | Yeah, B. Thank you. |
| 01:00:54.09 | Allison | 11. Monday, 11. |
| 01:00:57.53 | Vice Mayor Leone | Yeah, it doesn't, all it says is not prohibited. It doesn't say the rest of the ordinance doesn't apply. Right, all the other conditions would still apply the way I read this. So all it says here is notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, smoking marijuana for medical purposes as permitted under the Health and Safety Code of California, section blah, blah, blah. is not prohibited by this chapter. Well, neither is smoking prohibited by the California Health Code. |
| 01:01:18.39 | Bob Curry | neither |
| 01:01:21.99 | Vice Mayor Leone | So All it's saying is that you can do all this other stuff no matter what. It would still be, am I reading this incorrectly, that it would still be covered by this? |
| 01:01:31.72 | Mary Wagner | Well, I think what we're asking is what he wanted to say with respect to medical marijuana. We get that part. |
| 01:01:35.37 | Vice Mayor Leone | No, we get that part, but as it's phrased now, if we don't have to continue it another to the first reading to the next meeting, the way that that section 1228-130B is written It just says it's not prohibited. but we're not prohibiting smoking either for that matter. tobacco or anything else. We're just saying if it has to comply with all these other things. |
| 01:02:04.45 | Mary Wagner | I think what we're saying is smoke and smoking is governed by, as set forth in these regulations. And that includes marijuana smoke, except for medical marijuana smoke. So if you want the smoke that is emitted by medical marijuana card carrying users as authorized in the Health and Safety Code to be covered by these regulations so that if somebody living in an apartment complex, lives next door to somebody who's smoking medical marijuana and believes that there's an issue with that. you would have to add the language that is in your staff report to address it. but let me defer to the county. |
| 01:02:40.41 | Bob Curry | And that was page 24. There's actually a penal code for medical marijuana, and that code says that any place where there's a policy with a regulation not allowing smoke, then medical marijuana is not allowed in that area. So you don't really even have to put anything in the room. The language that you were given, that is something that can't be put in because they wanted to allow people, if you put that in, you're allowing those who are smoking medical marijuana to continue smoking in their home as long as it isn't detected, then we change. But if you leave it with the way it is right now, the penal code in California that passed medical marijuana says if you have a policy prohibiting secondhand smoke, then you are not allowed to smoke medical marijuana in any of those places. |
| 01:03:05.40 | Unknown | So you don't really... |
| 01:03:06.83 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:03:06.90 | Unknown | happy. |
| 01:03:07.29 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:03:08.23 | Unknown | You don't need it. |
| 01:03:09.03 | Unknown | and your eating references. |
| 01:03:18.43 | William Simpkins | Wow. |
| 01:03:19.40 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:03:19.44 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:03:19.47 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:03:50.15 | Mary Wagner | Yeah. |
| 01:03:50.45 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:03:50.91 | Bob Curry | Thank you. So you can set yourself. |
| 01:03:51.47 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. |
| 01:03:51.48 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:03:51.50 | Mary Wagner | Ms. Mayor. |
| 01:03:52.68 | Bob Curry | Thank you. |
| 01:03:53.64 | Mary Wagner | depending upon which direction you want to go. Yeah, if you wanted to include it, you just take it out. |
| 01:03:56.75 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:03:56.85 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 01:03:57.22 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:03:57.54 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 01:03:57.56 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:03:59.24 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:03:59.33 | Mary Wagner | Well, I think it sounds like |
| 01:04:00.97 | Unknown | that he's |
| 01:04:01.47 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Mr. Mayor, if I may, Mr. Mayor, may, Mr. Mayor. So, in other words, if we included what is in the staff report, the wording, which in the staff report it says, smoking marijuana for medical purposes as permitted by the California Health and Safety Codes shall be basically okay, provided the marijuana smoke is not reasonably detectable. It says a complaint, if a complaint is made by a resident of the multi-unit building that the marijuana smoke is detectable to him or her. So the staff report wording has provisions that says if they're smoking medical marijuana and it's bothering people, then there are, you know, steps could be made. Can I make sure I understand what this is? I'm just trying to understand this wording. But I think... |
| 01:04:01.56 | Mary Wagner | Mr. Mayor, |
| 01:04:01.96 | Unknown | Lighten up a little bit. |
| 01:04:03.35 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:04:03.45 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:04:03.58 | Unknown | reference. |
| 01:04:03.90 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:04:03.97 | Unknown | Mayor? Mayor? |
| 01:04:50.46 | Mary Wagner | Let me, can I make sure I understand what this is? I'm just trying to understand this wording. But I think that, I think there's a different distinction there. And I appreciate that clarification because I was not aware of that. So what I'm hearing is if you adopt the ordinance without the reference that's currently in there about medical marijuana, this ordinance governs medical marijuana. Right. If you include... |
| 01:04:57.31 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 01:05:13.06 | Bob Curry | If you include... Right. We're calling error one because it's in your definition of self. |
| 01:05:16.35 | Mary Wagner | Right. Thank you. if you keep the language you have in there right now, it carves out an exception for medical marijuana. If you put in the language in the staff report, it's an in-between. Yes. |
| 01:05:28.06 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:05:28.07 | Councilmember Packer | Yes. |
| 01:05:28.61 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:05:29.97 | Mary Wagner | medical marijuana is not covered unless it becomes detectable to somebody outside of your dwelling. Yes. I believe and I don't know if that's too simplistic, but I believe that there's a |
| 01:05:37.49 | Councilmember Packer | Yes. |
| 01:05:41.32 | Mary Wagner | the, if you don't include it at all, it's the most restrictive with respect to medical marijuana. If you include what's in the staff report right now, it's the least restrictive with respect to medical marijuana. And what you have in your staff report is in between. |
| 01:05:44.71 | Councilmember Packer | Respect. |
| 01:05:45.03 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:05:45.05 | Councilmember Packer | All right. |
| 01:05:45.07 | Unknown | All right. |
| 01:05:50.13 | Councilmember Packer | for some reason. |
| 01:05:54.01 | Councilmember Packer | Yes, Mr. Mayor. Is that accurate? Mr. Mayor. Just for you. It's not accurate. |
| 01:05:54.57 | Mary Wagner | Thanks. |
| 01:05:54.77 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:05:54.80 | Mary Wagner | Thank you, Mayor. |
| 01:05:55.31 | Trevor Seidler | Thanks. |
| 01:05:56.49 | Mayor Kelly | Yeah. |
| 01:05:56.71 | Mary Wagner | just |
| 01:05:57.03 | Mayor Kelly | It's not accurate. Just by bugging him doesn't mean he hasn't recognized him. Just wait a minute. You've had a lot to say, so others may have something to say. |
| 01:05:58.15 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:06:01.72 | Mary Wagner | Is that you? So I'm incorrect, so why don't we get a clarification. |
| 01:06:07.29 | Bob Curry | clarification. Yeah, it's, if you Go with the provision that is suggested that the county had. What the county's ordinance is saying that medical marijuana is only allowed if you put that language in. If you don't put that language in the county, it was not allowed. We put that in because somebody on the board of supervisors wanted to allow people to smoke medical marijuana. And so the other members agreed by saying that, okay, you can put that stipulation in, but if it is detected by somebody, then they cannot smoke the medical marijuana. |
| 01:06:17.05 | Unknown | Mm-hmm. |
| 01:06:59.81 | Bob Curry | Thank you. |
| 01:07:00.03 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:07:00.04 | Mayor Kelly | Okay, so let me bring it back up here. How many want no marijuana at all? No marijuana at all or do you want medical marijuana? |
| 01:07:00.06 | Bob Curry | Okay. |
| 01:07:09.09 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 01:07:09.11 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 01:07:09.14 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Mr. Mayor, can I comment? No, I just want to know what you want. Mr. Mayor, I support the language in the staff report on page three of four. |
| 01:07:09.16 | Mayor Kelly | Mr. Mayor, can I comment? No, I just want to know what you want. |
| 01:07:15.30 | Vice Mayor Leone | Thank you. |
| 01:07:15.33 | Mayor Kelly | Okay, that's good enough. |
| 01:07:17.07 | Vice Mayor Leone | If you want to do that, you have to continue it to, you can't have the first reading tonight, you have to continue it. You can if you tell, if you, right. |
| 01:07:19.06 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:07:19.10 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 01:07:24.58 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:07:24.63 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. |
| 01:07:24.66 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:07:24.70 | Mary Wagner | You can if you tell... Right. Whatever changes you direct tonight are part of your first reading. What we can't do is have changes that are brought to you on the 31st. Then you'd have to redo your first reading. |
| 01:07:36.51 | Vice Mayor Leone | then you'd have to redo your first |
| 01:07:38.59 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:07:38.62 | Vice Mayor Leone | Yeah, but I think you're better off tying all the loose ends up with the state code references, the penal code reference. Well, that's what we do right now. |
| 01:07:38.91 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:07:38.97 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. |
| 01:07:39.21 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:07:39.24 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. |
| 01:07:39.26 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 01:07:46.89 | Mayor Kelly | Well, that's what we do right now. |
| 01:07:48.85 | Vice Mayor Leone | Thank you. |
| 01:07:48.97 | Mayor | Thank you. |
| 01:07:49.42 | Vice Mayor Leone | Thank you. |
| 01:07:49.47 | Mayor | can do that. |
| 01:07:50.08 | Mayor Kelly | So the question is, do you want, you have three choices, no medical marijuana, |
| 01:07:50.11 | Vice Mayor Leone | Thank you. |
| 01:07:57.05 | Mayor Kelly | Oh, oh. medical marijuana. or limited medical marijuana. And limited is in the staff report No is the state law, and our code that we're looking at right now says that it's not included, so it allows it. |
| 01:08:14.07 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Mr. Mayor, I'd like to comment. |
| 01:08:15.04 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. Just let me conduct the meeting, okay? We're trying to get at what the language is so we can decide how we want to go. |
| 01:08:27.46 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | So... |
| 01:08:27.85 | Mayor Kelly | Not advocating anything, we're just trying to get at the language. |
| 01:08:28.06 | Councilmember Packer | Yeah. |
| 01:08:30.55 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | I'd like to just make a comment, Mr. Mayor. Can I make a comment? |
| 01:08:33.97 | Mayor Kelly | Make a comment. |
| 01:08:33.99 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Thank you. Thank you. My feeling is that it should be continued because if we are adding what is in the staff report, the residents need to see that. |
| 01:08:48.75 | Mayor Kelly | See that. We're not at that point yet, okay? |
| 01:08:51.17 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Well, that was my comment. Thank you. |
| 01:08:51.18 | Mayor Kelly | Well, that was my comment. Thank you. |
| 01:08:53.39 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 01:08:56.38 | Vice Mayor Leone | Yeah, I'm fine with the in-between language that's in here. In the staff report, obviously, there's some errors, and you read them earlier, into how this is written and if you have to reference anything else. |
| 01:09:14.71 | Vice Mayor Leone | I'm happy with that. I mean, I'm happy with that. It makes sense to me. But the question is whether you need to let other folks know. |
| 01:09:23.95 | Mayor Kelly | I think that's a big part. Thank you. you |
| 01:09:25.46 | Vice Mayor Leone | That's a different question. |
| 01:09:26.42 | Mayor Kelly | I have a question. And what I'm hearing is that by the reading that we make tonight, with that change, it does not require a continuance. So I would like to move...let's just take a vote on that. So I would like to include that language in this motion. I make a motion that we include that language in this motion |
| 01:09:26.48 | Vice Mayor Leone | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:09:38.87 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:09:45.40 | Mayor Kelly | That's the staff language in this motion, and we do not have a continuance that we read at first reading tonight with that new language. Do I have a second? |
| 01:09:55.00 | Unknown | you |
| 01:09:56.24 | Mayor | I'll give you a second. |
| 01:09:57.23 | Mayor Kelly | Okay, voice vote. Better call her out. Call her out. |
| 01:10:03.34 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Mr. Mayor, may I get a clarification before we vote? So we would vote to include this in the ordinance and then we would continue the... No continues. We would just include this. Just read it before we go on with the first reading. Okay. All right. |
| 01:10:18.48 | Mayor Kelly | We just include this. We just refer to the first reading. Right. Thank you. All right, you call the world of me. |
| 01:10:25.84 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Councilmember Pfeiffer? |
| 01:10:27.02 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Yes. |
| 01:10:28.72 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Councilmember Weiner? |
| 01:10:29.72 | Vice Mayor Leone | you Yes. |
| 01:10:30.17 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Thank you. Vice Mayor Leone? |
| 01:10:33.02 | Vice Mayor Leone | Yes? |
| 01:10:34.00 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Mayor Kelly. |
| 01:10:34.80 | Vice Mayor Leone | Yes. But before you close this item, maybe we should, you know, just notify, you know, the medical marijuana. It's a courtesy. Yeah, and say, hey, you know, this wasn't in our first reading. You can come to the second one if you have a huge problem with it. There's a few groups that you can just contact and they'll, you know. |
| 01:10:42.88 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:10:43.03 | Mayor Kelly | Right. |
| 01:10:43.22 | Unknown | right? |
| 01:10:43.28 | Mayor Kelly | to the police. |
| 01:10:43.54 | Unknown | So, |
| 01:10:43.76 | Mayor Kelly | See. |
| 01:10:44.08 | Unknown | Yeah. This wasn't. |
| 01:10:46.03 | Mayor Kelly | for the first one. |
| 01:10:46.64 | Mayor Kelly | Yeah. |
| 01:10:54.49 | Mayor Kelly | Well, actually, if they didn't have a problem with this one, they certainly wouldn't have a problem with it. Well, it's a little confusing, you know, how |
| 01:10:57.43 | Vice Mayor Leone | Well, it's a little confusing how it's worded. |
| 01:10:59.33 | Mayor Kelly | I don't know how it's worded. Right. Because I think we've improved on this. Thank you. All right, I would like to... |
| 01:11:02.76 | Vice Mayor Leone | All right. |
| 01:11:04.87 | Mary Wagner | Mr. Mayor, I apologize, but the only other modification staff is suggesting is that the title of the ordinance that's in front of you will actually reflect the title that's up there. |
| 01:11:14.23 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:11:14.25 | Mayor Kelly | Oh, that's good. |
| 01:11:14.89 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:11:15.02 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 01:11:15.04 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:11:15.48 | Mary Wagner | Right, and we'll make that change on the ordinance that's in here. |
| 01:11:19.30 | Mayor Kelly | So introduce and read by title only an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Sausalito establishing regulation for smoking and multifamily residences, public streets and parks, outdoor dining areas and recreation or special events. Do I have a second? |
| 01:11:32.80 | Mayor | Can I have a second? |
| 01:11:36.14 | Mayor Kelly | and continue the second reading to July 31, 2012. Thank you. |
| 01:11:40.69 | Mayor | I'll second. Thank you. |
| 01:11:43.46 | Mayor Kelly | No, we voted on the first. We've actually just been putting the clause in. First section. Okay. So I moved and seconded. Can I be called wrong? |
| 01:11:43.83 | Mayor | Thank you. No, we voted on the first section. Yeah. |
| 01:11:55.22 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Council member Pfeiffer. |
| 01:11:56.39 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 01:11:56.49 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Yes. |
| 01:11:56.84 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 01:11:58.02 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Council member Weiner? |
| 01:11:58.95 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 01:11:58.98 | Councilmember Packer | TO BE ABLE |
| 01:11:59.17 | William Simpkins | Yes. |
| 01:11:59.96 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Vice Mayor Leone? Yes. Mayor Kelly? Thank you. |
| 01:12:02.92 | Mayor Kelly | Yes. |
| 01:12:03.12 | William Simpkins | Good. |
| 01:12:03.90 | Mayor Kelly | All right. Great. Thank you very much. It brings that item to the conclusion. |
| 01:12:04.23 | William Simpkins | Great. |
| 01:12:08.60 | Mayor | and we'll see you next time. |
| 01:12:08.84 | Mayor Kelly | You want to smoke, you've got to go outside. |
| 01:12:08.98 | Unknown | If you want to smoke, you got to go outside. The next item is... Right. |
| 01:12:10.68 | Mayor | Thank you. |
| 01:12:10.75 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 01:12:10.83 | Mayor | Thank you. |
| 01:12:10.97 | Mayor Kelly | The next item is... Right. Is that the way it is? You got to keep it on. All right. We're here to business items, and the first one is A, adoption of a resolution of approving the construction of the downtown Sausalito public restroom project, and Jonathan Goldman Thank you folks. Lead the way or is Lauren gonna lead the way? Lauren's gonna lead the way. |
| 01:12:29.97 | Unknown | Thank you, folks. |
| 01:12:34.90 | Mayor Kelly | or Jonathan's billy do I have, both of them. Thank you. |
| 01:12:41.54 | Mayor Kelly | Good. |
| 01:12:42.44 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:12:42.54 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 01:12:42.71 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:12:45.64 | Lauren | Good afternoon, Mayor and City Council. Again, it's my pleasure to come in front of you tonight to discuss the Sausalito Downtown Public Restroom and to provide you a small fit of information regarding that project and to answer any questions you might have about the staff report that is in front of you tonight. |
| 01:12:46.56 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:12:46.71 | Unknown | I'm sorry. |
| 01:12:46.82 | Unknown | it. |
| 01:13:04.32 | Lauren | Debbie is to Jim. |
| 01:13:13.88 | Lauren | Thank you, Debbie. |
| 01:13:18.64 | Lauren | I'm going to first start off with providing some background information to the project. You can see that this is a long project that is hopefully finally coming to a conclusion. There was a settlement reached in September 2006 regarding accessibility in downtown Sausalito. In 2009, the council discussed replacement of the downtown restroom rather than remodeling. You can see that through December 2010, 2011, designs went in front of the |
| 01:13:40.23 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:13:40.40 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:13:49.90 | Lauren | subcommittees in front of the council, then again in front of the Planning Commission, at which point it was denied. There was a reconsideration. That was also with a resolution of denial. There was a Planning Commission vote, which was a denial. City Council denied an appeal at that time. |
| 01:13:57.06 | Unknown | a reconsideration. |
| 01:14:10.52 | Lauren | And finally, the council directed staff to consider the Warner Associates Architects design |
| 01:14:21.78 | Lauren | That one went through the Planning Commission, and on May 9th of 2012, the city extended an invitation to bid for the downtown public restrooms. We received four bids from general contractors on June 12th, 2012, and tonight we're in front of you to ask that you review these bids and authorize the city manager to execute an agreement with John Pope Construction. Assuming that bonds and other documents are submitted in time by John Pope Construction, we should be able to issue a notice to proceed in late July, and with a six-month anticipated construction schedule should be completed in winter 2012, 2013, January or February of 2012 to 2013. |
| 01:14:24.67 | Joe Burns | Maybe. |
| 01:14:24.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:15:05.45 | Lauren | to provide a little bit of background on the bids that we will receive in front of you on your staff report, you'll see that we received four bids. John Pope Incorporated at $723,000. Annie Nelson Construction at $740,000. CF contracting at $728,000. and H&M construction at 499,000. Immediately after the opening of these bids, H&M Construction asked that they be granted a couple days to go back and review their bid as they stated that they had made a mistake. In fact, they had stated that in one case they had a wrong decimal point location, which changed their bid by approximately $86,000. When they added in profit and overhead, that made it a $96,000 change to their $499,000 bid. They asked to be removed and to withdraw their bid. We reviewed the documents. They submitted their request within the five days. We believe that it was an honest mistake, and so we're asking the council to allow the city manager to permit H&M to withdraw their bid. That leaves John Pope Construction at $723,000 for this project. |
| 01:16:32.41 | Lauren | I'd like to go into a few details about where that money is. There is significant site work, landscaping and ADA accessibility improvements that are taking place at the site. And I'll show you a graphic of the site in just a moment. But we've been able to work with John Pope and also take a look at some of the Thank you. estimates by Bill Werner and what we've determined is that approximately 130,500 of that 723,000 is for site work which is earthwork and excavation, new concrete sidewalks around the area, landscaping and restriping and pavement markings in lot two. The area of that work is approximately 2,650 square feet. The restroom specific construction is approximately $537,400. That is an 800 square foot restroom. That includes the access path of travels, the approaches to that, Some of the significant costs on this are the exterior brick veneer, very similar to what we have on the public safety facility buildings down the street. interior full height ceramic tile, Standing seam roofing with a 20-year warranty. That is a standing seam roofing, different than what you might see on a warehouse. It's intended to be unique to this building and to the area, and also durable plumbing fixtures. Also, there are some significant structural elements to this building, and part of the reason for these costs is that we don't want to have to come back and fix this restroom in 10 years, 15 years if it's a standard wood structure with standard sheetrock and other types of cheaper materials. So this is going to be a sturdy facility and hopefully it will last for another 50 years just like the previous one did. Finally, there is the bus shelter construction. There is actually a deed restriction on that area that requires that there be a bus shelter. The area of the bus shelter is approximately 112 square feet. It is surrounded on three sides by glazing. It has display cases, and it also has some weather-resistant roofing materials. It does have some structural elements to it, and also has brick veneer on the structural elements to match the structure. Here's the... site plan. You can see that in the very light blue, that's all the site work that's going into this area and the landscaping. You'll see that the area of the restroom is included in green and then there's the bus shopper there just to give you a sense of perspective on those square footages. |
| 01:18:53.94 | Unknown | you |
| 01:19:06.36 | Vice Mayor Leone | Lauren, do you want us to wait and ask you questions, or can we ask questions as you go? |
| 01:19:10.07 | Lauren | I have two more small pages, so if you want to wait, I have an answer. |
| 01:19:15.98 | Vice Mayor Leone | Thank you. |
| 01:19:16.03 | Trevor Seidler | Thank you. |
| 01:19:16.69 | Lauren | Thank you. |
| 01:19:16.70 | Vice Mayor Leone | My short-term memory is really poor. So I'll try, though. |
| 01:19:16.76 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:19:16.79 | Lauren | Well, I'm sorry. |
| 01:19:20.89 | Trevor Seidler | Thank you. |
| 01:19:20.92 | Lauren | I'm just going to take it over. |
| 01:19:21.28 | Trevor Seidler | Thank you. |
| 01:19:21.31 | Lauren | Thank you. |
| 01:19:21.60 | Trevor Seidler | Thank you. |
| 01:19:21.92 | Lauren | So ongoing costs and issues if we don't start soon are that we are renting the temporary restroom trailer, which is costing us $900 a month and $3,000 to set up and $3,000 to break down, but $900 a month is the ongoing cost. That temporary restroom trailer is sitting on five parking spots behind the Bank of America, so we are losing revenue there. |
| 01:19:22.12 | Trevor Seidler | So ongoing possibility. |
| 01:19:45.58 | Lauren | And also just the appearance and convenience for visitors to our city and also to the businesses that want to have those visitors come. Because of the cost of the bids, staff is recommending that a supplemental appropriation of $10,000 be made to allow for 5% contingencies such that a total project budget of $760,000 be available for the completion of that project. And we're also recommending that $150,000 appropriated for project number 140-410-4169-450, which is the City Hall Elevator Upgrade, be defunded and used to backfill project number 140-410-4110-450 to ensure the timely delivery of non-capital project improvements in that budget category. There are reasons for defunding the City Hall Elevator Upgrades. We do have many other upgrades that are intended for defunding the city hall elevator upgrades. We do have many other upgrades that are intended for this building. And that one is, while important, is probably on the bottom of that list. So there will be other improvements that are going on in this building for accessibility. Finally, we have indicated to John Pope Incorporated that we will try to identify potential cost savings on this project by sitting down with him and reevaluating many of the finishes, many of the construction methods to determine if there are some ways of saving any money. We'll take a look at how the structural construction works and if there are some possible modifications there. Possible differences in the roofing, though we are pretty happy with the existing or the designated roofing and possibly some changes to the interior finishes. But the main point that I'd like to make is that we are not going to make any changes that will change the durability of this building. It's important that this building lasts. And so we want to make sure that whatever we do doesn't affect that. So with that said, the staff report is in front of you. We are asking you to authorize the city manager to issue a notice of award and execute a contract with John Pope Incorporated for the construction of this downtown restroom project. And I'm happy to take any questions. |
| 01:22:03.21 | Unknown | OK. Any questions? |
| 01:22:05.66 | Lauren | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:22:07.24 | Unknown | Linda, a few questions? Okay. |
| 01:22:10.38 | Vice Mayor Leone | So, Lauren, a couple things. I don't have necessarily a problem with the elevator upgrades, but how much is in the current budget for this particular project? So why do you need to defund 150? How does that tie into this? |
| 01:22:30.87 | Lauren | The $150,000 will go in. The actual fund, 140-410-4110-450, is for Yitocchi, Viña Del Mar, and restroom ADA improvements. It's all part of the settlement. So it involves other aspects of the city in that area. So the $150,000 that will go into that fund will help to go and fund those. To make sure those things get done. |
| 01:22:39.24 | Unknown | Mm-hmm. |
| 01:22:53.41 | Mayor Kelly | right? to make sure those things get done. |
| 01:22:56.76 | Vice Mayor Leone | Thank you. Right, because the total budget in that Fuck it. for Yi Tak Chi, Vina Del Mar, and this restroom is what number? 750. That was the $750,000. So there won't be enough. We know there won't be enough money to do those other two projects, even with the $150,000 being defunded. |
| 01:23:08.62 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:23:08.64 | Lauren | MR. |
| 01:23:16.30 | Unknown | Uh, |
| 01:23:16.92 | Lauren | Thank you. I'm not familiar with what the cost estimates are for Vina del Mar. Jonathan Goldman may know that, but it's my, I'll let Jonathan answer it. |
| 01:23:26.98 | Jonathan Goldman | Thank you. |
| 01:23:27.86 | William Simpkins | Thank you. |
| 01:23:27.87 | Jonathan Goldman | Thank you. |
| 01:23:27.89 | William Simpkins | Thank you. |
| 01:23:31.52 | Jonathan Goldman | Yes, Mr. Vice Mayor, just very briefly, the Vineyard El Mar project is short only the design review permit for the partscape materials that are proposed to provide the accessibility around the park. I'm confident, based on the estimates that we've made, that $150,000 will allow us to deliver that project. And until we have that permit and have the opportunity to bid the project, we won't know for sure. What we didn't want to do was shortchange that or anything else in these circumstances and then wish we hadn't. What we tried to do is identify something that we could defund that, as Lauren said, while it's still important, isn't as important in the short term as I think delivering and potentially some further design work on e-touch. |
| 01:24:16.20 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:24:16.22 | Vice Mayor Leone | Right. |
| 01:24:32.74 | Vice Mayor Leone | Right, because the design there isn't even finalized for Yi Tuk-chi. Right. And the 150 is the, was the budget for the elevator alone or were there other things in that funded number? |
| 01:24:44.47 | Jonathan Goldman | elevator. |
| 01:24:45.56 | Vice Mayor Leone | Okay. And Lauren, if you can flip back to the diagram, the site diagram. |
| 01:24:45.58 | Jonathan Goldman | Okay. |
| 01:24:53.21 | Vice Mayor Leone | So is what portion, it's just within the red that is included in this particular project, the Bank of America of landscaping that Bill Warner did here is not included. |
| 01:25:05.55 | Lauren | That's correct. The red outline is the site area. There's work that is actually taking place in parking lot, too. Like I said, the restriping, there's some bike parking that you'll see there. There is a new handicap, our ADA parking stall, which is being moved from the other side over into that area. There is site work, such as an electrical line that's going to go to the back of Bank of America. that is not included on this. But for the most part, what you'll see as general site work such as an electrical line that's going to go to the back of Bank of America that's not included on this. But for the most part what you'll see as generally a construction site and where most of the work is going to be taking place is. |
| 01:25:05.83 | Vice Mayor Leone | That's correct. |
| 01:25:30.86 | Bob Curry | Thank you. |
| 01:25:30.98 | Unknown | not. Thank you. |
| 01:25:32.56 | Unknown | Amen. |
| 01:25:32.93 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:25:40.68 | Lauren | Thank you. |
| 01:25:41.24 | Vice Mayor Leone | But the...and correct me if I'm wrong, please. But the tree that's to the left of the proposed building, the three trees that are kind of in the middle of those hardscape there, those are existing. Is that correct? |
| 01:25:56.54 | Lauren | Thank you. No. No. Those, the tree to the. |
| 01:25:57.91 | Vice Mayor Leone | Thank you. |
| 01:25:58.03 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:26:01.62 | Vice Mayor Leone | Didn't some woman come in and tell us that they were planted a tree in honor of somebody and we're going to cut it down? Yes. So we're going to cut it down. |
| 01:26:07.26 | Lauren | Yes. We have researched approaches for trying to save that tree, and we contacted a company that said they could remove the tree and replant it, and that at a cost of $18,000, and they couldn't guarantee that that tree would survive. The area down there is very close to the water table. It's perhaps a surprise about trees doing as well as it is, but we did research that. The woman, her name was Margaret Thompson. She came before the council. I have tried to track her down. There is no Margaret Thompson in Sausalito. There was one in San Francisco. I left her a message and said, if you were the Margaret Thompson, please contact me. |
| 01:26:45.14 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:26:54.69 | Lauren | Thank you. We have taken cuttings from that tree and we are trying to regrow that tree. And if we can get those to come to fruition, we will plant them and we will find a location for them. It may not be right here, but we want to do that. In her speech at the city council, she actually said that that tree came from a cutting. So if we can get these next cuttings to work, it's a nice continued progression of that. So that's one thing that we're looking for and we're certainly willing to dedicate another tree issue, like another planting somewhere else. But I don't believe that $18,000 for the picking up of the tree and replanting it, |
| 01:27:07.50 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:27:07.65 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:27:07.70 | Unknown | you |
| 01:27:39.56 | Lauren | is an effective use of the money as much as I would like. |
| 01:27:39.58 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:27:39.97 | Vice Mayor Leone | Mr. President. Is there a plaque of any kind that's already there or there's nothing on that existing tree? I don't know. Is there a plaque of any kind? No, it's not. Okay. So my concern with this diagram is that certainly he should resubmit this without anything over here to the right because he has no business in designing that plaza. |
| 01:27:50.89 | Lauren | side. |
| 01:27:52.29 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:27:52.30 | Lauren | and stuff. |
| 01:27:52.86 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 01:28:04.93 | Vice Mayor Leone | Secondly, what you do here in next to the building has to somehow account for like some theory of what would go there. So it's sort of a chicken and egg problem with these three trees in the middle. So rather than spend the money to to design anything from the right of the building to the red line. Perhaps, you know, there's a more simpler way to approach that and deal with it when the whole area is redesigned rather than have some part of a plan and then something which the public has not had any chance to opine on. |
| 01:28:36.45 | Lauren | My guess is that since this has gone through plan and commission review, that if we wanted to remove those three trees, we would have to go back in front of them. And my first guess would be that they would say no. |
| 01:28:48.11 | Vice Mayor Leone | Yeah, well, so my problem with this is you have a planning commissioner designing a project for the city and being paid to do so, which is problematic in and of itself. And so it just flies in the face of any kind of arm's length nature of things. And here we have someone who said, okay, well, I'm just going to redesign the whole area because I want to. you know, good for you, but this is not the plan because it's never seen the light of So rather than sort of redesign the whole area in your, you know, your vision of what the world should be, because you're that type of person, this is not appropriate to submit this drawing as the final drawing. |
| 01:29:26.97 | Mayor Kelly | We need to make questions here. |
| 01:29:29.32 | Lauren | And I just want to clarify, if I may, are you talking about the V of A in front? |
| 01:29:30.64 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 01:29:35.65 | Lauren | These trees? |
| 01:29:37.93 | Vice Mayor Leone | Yeah, I'm saying that it's sort of like the problem with the Dunphy Park, right? If you don't know where the exact size of Dunphy Park's going to be because you have visions of the future, don't bother to landscape it up to the T. because it's going to change. And the same thing is true here with the Bank of America, So my question was, is this, What? has been proposed next to it. part of a part going to be was it what the Planning Commission adopted and are these three trees part of you know there are three there's some trees there now so that's why my question is whether those are existing so. |
| 01:30:06.63 | Jonathan Goldman | Thank you. Mr. Vice Mayor, if I may, just for clarification, there are not three trees there now. There are trees of some kind. There were three Monterey Pines there that had to be removed. |
| 01:30:15.83 | Vice Mayor Leone | or trees of some kind. No, no, not in front of the Bank of America. The three that are, there's trees next to the existing bathroom, tree of gum cup of some kind. |
| 01:30:25.09 | Jonathan Goldman | bathroom, tree of some kind. There's a tree next to the existing restrooms. It cannot be protected in place. And as Lauren mentioned... |
| 01:30:29.63 | Vice Mayor Leone | Right. |
| 01:30:35.33 | Vice Mayor Leone | No, and that's what he just went through that. So what I'm asking is... |
| 01:30:37.56 | Jonathan Goldman | What I'm asking is... The point, if I may, that I wanted to make was the Planning Commission has seen and approved this plan for the downtown restrooms, including the landscaping that is depicted in the area of work. In addition, the Planning Commission and the Trees and Views Commission have seen the conceptual plan for the B of A Plaza, which Mr. Werner created at my request. |
| 01:30:40.04 | Vice Mayor Leone | Mm-hmm. |
| 01:31:02.82 | Vice Mayor Leone | But has that been approved? No, it hasn't. All right, so then it should be taken off these documents so it does not go into the file as something that anyone could construe down the road, as this is the vision for that plaza. |
| 01:31:04.51 | Jonathan Goldman | No, it has not. All right, so then it should be taken off the |
| 01:31:14.89 | Jonathan Goldman | I respectfully disagree, but I suggest that we... No, because this, the way the process is supposed to work is that these |
| 01:31:19.06 | Vice Mayor Leone | No, because the way the process is supposed to work is that these things have to come here to start. The proposals for a city property have to come here to start, not at the planning commission. So we submit the proposals for city property from this dais. |
| 01:31:37.10 | Jonathan Goldman | I certainly apologize for having asked the architect to develop a conceptual plan for Villavea Plaza that in his judgment integrated with what he had been tasked with designing. |
| 01:31:47.68 | Vice Mayor Leone | At the end of the day, the responsibility is here, not in Bill Warner's apartment or his office. |
| 01:31:52.27 | Jonathan Goldman | Right, or his office. It's the responsibility for requesting the design and for providing it to the planning commission before you hit CMA. |
| 01:31:55.59 | Mayor Kelly | and for providing it. All right. All right. |
| 01:32:04.92 | Mayor Kelly | What we're asked to do tonight is to, regardless of what's up there, what we're asked to do tonight is to approve the restroom inside those red lines with that landscape plan. And there is, the only other thing that's not in there is some work in the parking lot and some work with an electrical line. Correct me if I'm wrong, Lauren, right? Electrical lines, some parking lot work, which deals with moving the handicapped space. And did it leave anything out? No. Okay. So I suggest that we can save the debate on how we want to deal with the next property next to it to another date. And because what's important tonight is to get approval, if we can, of the – so we can go forward and build the public restroom, which God knows we need badly. So right now we're not in a comment period. We're in a question period. Okay, so you have a question? All right. |
| 01:32:39.47 | Lauren | No. |
| 01:33:03.70 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Question here. |
| 01:33:07.49 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I do have a question. So if we are voting tonight on the area within the red lines, I for one would be interested in the process forward for the rest of this because I personally think this is very lovely and I would just like to know. how we also, after voting on this, move the rest of this forward. |
| 01:33:38.26 | Mayor Kelly | but that's not on our agenda tonight. |
| 01:33:40.69 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | It is a question as to process because we are seeing this entire diagram together. Okay, let's- |
| 01:33:47.24 | Mayor Kelly | Okay. Let's, let's, let's, can I ask, Jonathan, could you answer the question of when will we likely be addressing the rest of this site? |
| 01:33:57.24 | Jonathan Goldman | Um, I can't answer the question. |
| 01:34:00.52 | Mayor Kelly | that someday in the future? Absolutely. |
| 01:34:02.22 | Jonathan Goldman | Absolutely. It was not reviewed for the purpose of approval by the Planning Commission. Correct. And assuming that the Council awards this contract this evening, we are in a position to have to evaluate the budget available and prioritize the projects that we deliver. And certainly if it pleases the Council, I'll be delighted to prioritize the development of that concept and request appropriation supplemental funds and get it designed in the |
| 01:34:07.28 | Mayor Kelly | Correct. So whatever... |
| 01:34:21.81 | Mayor Kelly | Right. |
| 01:34:29.51 | Mayor Kelly | Right. |
| 01:34:35.87 | Mayor Kelly | Good. Does that answer your question, Leonard? Thank you. |
| 01:34:39.18 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Thank you, Jonathan. Did I answer your question? |
| 01:34:40.91 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 01:34:40.97 | Mayor | Yes. |
| 01:34:41.59 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:34:42.70 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Yes, thank you. Okay, do you have a question? |
| 01:34:43.14 | Mayor | Thank you. Yeah, I have one question. The facility, the restrooms, men and women, how many units are there inside to accommodate? |
| 01:34:44.36 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 01:34:54.18 | Lauren | There are four units in the women's, and there are two stalls and two urinals for the men. |
| 01:35:03.63 | Mayor | Okay, all right, thank you. |
| 01:35:07.21 | Mayor Kelly | Any more questions? Thank you. Okay, all right. I'll close our question period and ask the public if anyone would like to speak on this matter. Yes. Julie? |
| 01:35:22.60 | Julie Warren | Julie Warren, 1707 Bridgeway, number three. What I would like to say is as one of the docents of the Visitor Center Museum, I can now say, where's the bathroom? In every language known to name. We need that new restroom. And then the other thing, although the porta potties are an improvement on the original ones, I still get constant complaints. And so, anyway, I'll walk out like that. |
| 01:35:41.68 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:35:41.70 | Pam Granger | Thank you. |
| 01:35:42.07 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:35:42.78 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:35:44.01 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:36:01.09 | Unknown | No, no, no. |
| 01:36:04.21 | Mayor Kelly | All right, thank you. Would anyone else care to comment on the downtown public restrooms? All right, seeing none, we'll bring it back up here. Does anybody have anything to say about this? |
| 01:36:05.66 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:36:17.42 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Well, I am very happy at the pace of this. I want to thank city staff, Lauren and Jonathan, for their hard work on this, and, of course, Bill Werner for his efforts and hard work. And I think it is very exciting to see this all come together. And I am very, very happy to see that we look, it looks like it will all be completed on time, you know, early next year. So that's good news. |
| 01:36:52.24 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:36:52.49 | Vice Mayor Leone | Thank you. Thank you. Again, I voted against this every time with anything to do with it because it smells bad. It's just the appearance of this. |
| 01:37:01.52 | Unknown | So there's... |
| 01:37:03.80 | Vice Mayor Leone | I don't disagree that we need to replace the public restroom. It was one of the things we talked about. Instead of actually repairing it, we actually just decided to get rid of it, and that was the right thing to do. But the process thereafter has not been above board in my opinion. Nothing illegal or But it's like, you know, It's a way of, it just, it cannot be construed in a good way if I vote something down. and then go hire me and I'll give you something you should approve. It just does not, It's not arm's length and it shouldn't have been allowed to happen. But My concern here are two things. One, this is project creep. which has not, this is the first time I've seen this diagram. at City Council has seen this diagram. It's not just about me, I'm not trying to say I know everything, but the process should work for proposals on city property, that it has to come here as the applicant for what's going to happen there, whether it's the the bathroom out at the clubhouse out at uh, MLK, whether it's whatever. So even if you're doing the, you know, you have good intentions, this is where we go awry because we shortcut things and then people complain. This is a certain vision of a sort of closed use of that space. Why it would be appealing to face the Bank of America as where you're sitting on a bench, I have no idea. It's not the most, but wouldn't it be, instead of using this as an open plaza for tables or whatever, you know, your benches that face the street or face the water or whatever. There's a lot of other alternatives to this. And so it can't be short-circuited by this kind of thing. Right. So, and I'm sorry if I'm getting a little emotional, but this is what happens in Sausalito where people are trying to do good things. but they have their own vision and they're not willing to open it up to the public and if you're at all concerned about transparency and openness and there was no story polls or anything for all this stuff over here. You got to do it the right way. |
| 01:38:59.86 | Mayor Kelly | Bye. |
| 01:39:03.31 | Mayor Kelly | So, yeah, and I feel assured that, I mean, I can sort of put my hand over this like that and say I'm only looking at that and what they're doing there doesn't, except for grades and other things like that, doesn't impact that other site. And that has to come, you're absolutely right, I believe that has to come back through the council and as applicant and be looked at. And whether this is the right architect to do that is a whole other question. Yeah, but I... You're absolutely right. I believe that has to come back through the council as applicant and be looked at. And whether this is the right architect to do that is a whole other question. Yeah, but I looked back. |
| 01:39:32.95 | Vice Mayor Leone | Yeah, but I look back at April, whatever her name was, plans for Dunphy Park. Never adopted, never approved by anybody. Just somebody said go off and do it. She's a fine, she does a great job at all her work. |
| 01:39:40.19 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 01:39:40.35 | Unknown | THE FAMILY IS NOT |
| 01:39:46.72 | Vice Mayor Leone | But now it's always held up as, well, somebody This must have been approved as in a picture and it's in the city files. |
| 01:39:52.06 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:39:52.34 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:39:52.68 | Vice Mayor Leone | And it becomes the yardstick with how we're supposed to redevelop Dumpy Park when no one approved it. So, and this was long before my time. |
| 01:40:00.86 | Mayor Kelly | So would you be satisfied if we asked the architect to redraw this and take off everything there except a plot map on the site? |
| 01:40:09.20 | Vice Mayor Leone | I'll say you only submit what you're doing. Okay. Right? And forget your concept of the future, which no one has had a chance to actually comment on. |
| 01:40:15.85 | Mayor Kelly | Okay. |
| 01:40:16.69 | Vice Mayor Leone | Thank you. |
| 01:40:16.81 | Mayor Kelly | Um, Thank you. |
| 01:40:19.80 | Mayor | No, I'm flushed out. |
| 01:40:21.42 | Mayor Kelly | Yeah. My other, I had actually a question, which |
| 01:40:23.61 | Mayor | Thank you. |
| 01:40:23.65 | Vice Mayor Leone | My other question is, is the architect overseeing the budget for the entire project or just for the architectural part of it? Or is the engineering part and the site work part? As far as a markup on that, aspect of the project, are you administering that directly or is the architecture firm administering the entire project budget and marking it all up? |
| 01:40:44.67 | Lauren | I will be acting as project manager on behalf of the city. Bill Werner does have construction administration within his contract, so he will be involved in change order review and analyzing changes to the structure. If the contractor suggests making a change, that would go through the architect for his review as well, but ultimately this is managed by the city. |
| 01:41:08.25 | Vice Mayor Leone | But as far as if you flip a couple slides forward, the three components of the budget for the project, where was that? Where you had $3 amounts. There it is, sorry. Are all those underneath the architect's contract or is it So the total of these under the architect's contract in terms of his percentage of the however he's charging you for his time, or is it a time materials, or is it a percent of the project? |
| 01:41:35.18 | Lauren | which is baked into his contract. It's a fixed fee that he has for the contract for doing this project, going through construction and due completion through, which includes responding to RFIs, weekly meetings, other things like that. That's a fixed fee that he has right now. This cost right here is approximately $723,000, which is included in the construction documents. So site work, restroom, and bus shelter are all included under Bill Werner, Associate Architect's original design |
| 01:41:35.35 | Unknown | which is affecting to his colleagues. |
| 01:42:09.59 | Lauren | Thank you. |
| 01:42:09.96 | Mayor Kelly | but not anything outside of that red map. |
| 01:42:10.84 | Lauren | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:42:11.98 | Unknown | The black red flood map. |
| 01:42:14.18 | Mayor | Go ahead, Frank. Yeah. |
| 01:42:14.72 | Mayor Kelly | All right. Okay. All right. Any other comments? All right. |
| 01:42:19.41 | Mayor | Thank you. Make it. |
| 01:42:21.03 | Mayor Kelly | motion. |
| 01:42:21.40 | Mayor | Thank you. Yeah, to adopt the resolution approving appropriating funds for and authorizing the city manager to issue a notice of award and execute a contract. |
| 01:42:25.99 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 01:42:33.25 | Mayor | with John Pope Incorporated for the construction of the downtown So it's a little public restroom. |
| 01:42:39.32 | Mayor Kelly | Second. Thank you. Okay, we have a motion and a second. I will call the roll, Debbie. |
| 01:42:46.48 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Councilmember Packer. |
| 01:42:47.84 | Councilmember Packer | Yes. |
| 01:42:49.26 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Councilmember Weiner. |
| 01:42:50.51 | Mayor | Yes. |
| 01:42:52.15 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Vice Mayor Leone. Mary Kelly. |
| 01:42:55.71 | Mayor | Thank you. |
| 01:42:55.72 | Mayor Kelly | Yes. All right. So that moves us to... |
| 01:42:57.02 | Mayor | Thank you. |
| 01:42:57.28 | Mayor | Thank you. |
| 01:43:01.44 | Mayor Kelly | Update on parks, Item 7B, Update on Parks and Recreation Facilities Improvement Program. Mr. Langford. who looked great in his Fourth of July costume. That was pretty terrific. Yeah. |
| 01:43:13.14 | Unknown | Yeah. It's in the wash, so I'm sorry. Okay, okay. |
| 01:43:15.96 | Mayor Kelly | Okay, okay. |
| 01:43:17.56 | Unknown | Thank you. couldn't wear that. |
| 01:43:18.81 | Mayor Kelly | Nice parade. |
| 01:43:27.70 | Unknown | down a little bit. |
| 01:43:28.49 | Stacy Gregory | I hope there is. |
| 01:43:35.87 | Unknown | Okay. In fiscal year 2010-2011, Council ranked the park improvements as number nine on their priority calendar. In FY 2011-2012, it moved up to number eight. in FY 2012, 2013. We had a couple more things. We bumped down to number 12, but it's still on the top part there. So in response to that, I'm here tonight to give you an update on the past of the parks, the present of the parks, and the future of the parks. |
| 01:44:08.64 | Unknown | All right. So in 1902, the first park in Sausalito was developed. It's the O'Connell Bench. Although small in size, it was just the beginning of our parks. Can anybody guess what that park is? |
| 01:44:24.52 | Unknown | Thank you. . Thank you. |
| 01:44:26.33 | Unknown | Gone. Depot Park. |
| 01:44:29.01 | Unknown | you Yeah. |
| 01:44:30.16 | Unknown | So right before and right after. And that's circa 1905. You can see that's long before the elephants and the fountain were there. |
| 01:44:41.55 | Unknown | The next park to be developed in Sausalito was Southview Park. There's the school, and there's Herbie's app. |
| 01:44:44.96 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:44:49.46 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:44:49.68 | Unknown | I'm not. |
| 01:44:49.87 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:44:50.19 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:44:50.74 | Unknown | you |
| 01:44:50.95 | Unknown | Wait a minute, Jonathan's is right on the other side. It's not there yet. What game is that anyway? |
| 01:44:52.72 | Trevor Seidler | Yeah. |
| 01:44:52.73 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:44:55.00 | Unknown | It's not there yet. |
| 01:44:56.40 | Unknown | What game is that? |
| 01:44:58.96 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:44:59.16 | Unknown | I don't have a date on this. Fast forward to the 1960s and 70s, land was being developed quickly in the city and there was demand by residents to set aside open space for recreation and play. At the time, Southview Park was built. |
| 01:44:59.23 | Unknown | Thank you. don't have a date on it. |
| 01:45:00.11 | Unknown | of your self-suffering. |
| 01:45:01.32 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:45:01.46 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:45:13.10 | Unknown | BILL. you |
| 01:45:13.86 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:45:13.96 | Unknown | Thanks. |
| 01:45:14.57 | Unknown | That is Jonathan's house, right there. |
| 01:45:14.59 | Unknown | It is good. |
| 01:45:15.20 | Unknown | That is Jonathan's house, right? |
| 01:45:17.36 | Unknown | All right. Yi Tak Chi, kind of an angle there. You can see the beginning of Yi Tak Chi was actually benches along the waterfront and the future development included the parking lot there that you can see |
| 01:45:27.78 | Unknown | future development. |
| 01:45:31.87 | Unknown | Gabrielson Park. Thank you. |
| 01:45:33.51 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:45:33.62 | Unknown | Thank you. Now many of these properties, although designated as parts, would sit idle until groups of residents formed committees and put their own sweat equity in the land. Perhaps the best example of this is Dunphy Park. For years, the land had been used as Sausalito's unofficial town dump. But in 1970, faced with the prospect that this land might be developed into a multi-story apartment complex, the residents of Sausalito banded together and passed a $560,000 bond to purchase the property. |
| 01:45:53.67 | Lauren | It's funny. |
| 01:45:53.91 | Jonathan Goldman | Thank you. |
| 01:45:53.99 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:46:07.90 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:46:08.42 | Unknown | The group calling themselves the Community Park Volunteers formed and came up with the design for the park. Over the next few years, volunteers built the park at an estimated cost of $50,000. In 1972, under the auspices of Mayor Robin Sweeney, the park was renamed Earl F. Dunphy Park. Now, unfortunately, since that time, sufficient time and money has not been dedicated in the city's budget to maintain the parks. And after this period of development, as an example, rather than replace the unsafe play equipment that was installed at Harrison Park, the city simply removed the equipment. A similar fate happened to the play equipment at Dunphy Park. The exception was the play equipment that was replaced in Southview Park through a grant in 1991. However, this is 1991 equipment. It is now out of date and out of compliance. In 2000, the voters of the state of California passed the Roberti Zeberg Harris Urban Open Space and Recreation Grant Program. And in 2002, voters passed the 2002 Clean Water, Clean Air, Safe Neighborhood Parks, and Coastal Protection Act. Through those two different bond programs, the city was allocated $333,754. So what have we done with that, Mike? Well, originally... The thought was to use all the money for Dunphy Park. We had a group of volunteers, including landscape architect April Phillips, who came up with |
| 01:47:38.65 | Unknown | Thank you. See, this is what I'm saying. She lives on forever. You put her into the paper and stuff with that. |
| 01:47:39.83 | Unknown | See, this is what I'm saying. |
| 01:47:40.98 | Unknown | She's a good flower forever. going with what Jonathan said. The plan went before the Planning Commission on February 13, 2002, and |
| 01:47:48.37 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:47:52.18 | Unknown | We didn't approve it. I was sitting on that thing, man. I'm telling you, man. |
| 01:47:55.37 | Unknown | and concluded that the plan was consistent with other aspects of the city of Sausalito's general plan. However, no further action was taken. |
| 01:48:07.86 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:48:07.88 | Unknown | So it was not approved. It just said it was consistent with the city's general plan. |
| 01:48:07.98 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:48:08.00 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:48:08.50 | Unknown | So it was not a problem. Thank you. Thank you. It just. |
| 01:48:10.44 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:48:12.82 | Vice Mayor Leone | I told you the short-term memory has gone. The long-term memory is still there. |
| 01:48:15.35 | Unknown | I can't remember he's still there. But it looks nice up there. During this time period, there was also talk about the possible acquisition of adjacent lands, but again, no further action. Ultimately, the plans were put on the shelf, and the grant funds remained idle. |
| 01:48:18.02 | Unknown | During this time. |
| 01:48:29.56 | Unknown | Now, in 2007, with the grants getting closer to their expiration date, the city begun the process of upgrading the parks and recreational facilities using state grant funds The first project was the MLK Fieldhouse. This project was spearheaded by the Rotary Club of Sausalito. The city contributed $39,150 to this project. The project was completed at a cost of approximately $155,000. It is very important to note that the remainder of that $155,000 came from donation. It is also important to note that this $155,000 cost does not include the countless hours of donated time, professional services, and materials. Right. Next project that we did was the Robin Sweeney basketball court. Court was completely redone, two inches of asphalt overlay, new hoops, new backboards in the back there. |
| 01:49:27.22 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:49:27.51 | Unknown | That and do fencing. |
| 01:49:28.05 | Unknown | that answer. |
| 01:49:30.50 | Unknown | The cost for this project was $38,160. Next, we undertook some projects here in the Parks and Recreation offices. We re-carpeted the Edgewater room. See the nice carpet down there. We redid the wood floors throughout the recreation center. These improvements cost $11,060. Then we did the Marin Tennis Court fencing. The posts that you see there were still good, so we reused those. Public Works spent quite a bit of time repainting those, so we did that internally. The windscreen that you see there was purchased at a later date and we'll get to that. So just the fencing for the tennis courts there was $21,780. We went back and did some more work in the recreation center. You can see the mirrors the mirrors that were in the exercise room and added some additional mirrors. The problem with the existing mirrors is that they were not safety mirrors. They had no backing on it, so should they break, there was the chance that a piece of glass would fall on the floor or even worse, on a participant. We painted the entire interior of the recreation department downstairs, put new heater grates in the edgewater room, timers for the exterior lights, and automated the restroom toilets and sinks with the hands-free devices. We were doing all this work with the anticipation that the grants were about to expire. However, at the end of the fiscal year, the state extended the grants to 2015, giving us a little bit of breathing room, but we did have a lot of things still in the hopper, so we continued with the work. Next we completed the Power box at Gabrielson Park. That was a cost of $37,163. It's a lot of money for a little box there, but there was quite extensive trenching, and that power box will serve the needs of Gabrielson Park in the future. It's very nice now at Jazz not to have to drag cords all over the place and to know that you have a reliable power source. Next project was the Marin Ship Tennis Course. Like I said, we redid the windscreens, replaced all the windscreens that were there, cost of $2,091. Then we undertook a really big project at the MLK Gym. One of those being the windows there. These are the new windows. The old windows consisted of wood-framed glass windows, many of which had been replaced with scratched-up plexiglass, and none of the windows were operable anymore, so they could not be opened. What we did was replace them with new windows that could be remotely opened. We also redid the circuit box there and put in up-to-date circuitry. In the past, participants had to use the circuit breakers as on-off switches, which is not legal. We put in new breakers up to today's codes and put in the proper on-off switches now so that everything is safe there. In addition, we had the |
| 01:51:50.68 | Unknown | MR. |
| 01:52:10.74 | Unknown | probably, |
| 01:52:10.96 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:52:11.32 | Unknown | Thank you. in New York. |
| 01:52:20.94 | Vice Mayor Leone | Are you getting into the too much information category as far as whether we were complying with code and whatnot? |
| 01:52:27.03 | Unknown | Thank you. Well, it's important to note that because these buildings were not compliant, and it was a danger. So we did these things. They were prioritized by Parks and Rec as well as you for a reason. Marinship tennis courts. Let's see. We already did that one. Tennis courts. We redid the MLK courts. It's basically a painting, a patch and paint job. It wasn't a full resurfacing like we did here for the basketball courts at Robbins-Sweeney Park. If you go out there now, you will notice some cracks and chips, but they're a heck of a lot better than they were shortly before that. It's important to note that at the same time the Marinship courts were being done, the MLK courts were being done, the Marinship courts were being done, which was being paid for by the Sausalito Art Festival. The MLK courts were 10,000. were $20,693 in grants and $10,764 in community donations. The Marinship Tennis Courts, which again were paid by the Art Festival, was $11,400. So now let's move to the present. Currently, Parks and Recreation staff, public work staff, community development staff, along with community volunteers are working on a variety of park projects. We've all seen this before at Harrison Park. We're moving along, we're getting to the Final phases before we go out to construction bids. We should have the construction documents to us within the next month or so. Then we'll go out to bid with construction planned for this fall. Robin Sweeney Park, this is just a sample of one of the focus group notes. You see a few different focus group notes. We had extensive meetings on Robin Sweeney Park, and we came up with a design for that. We're still working through some of the issues as we go to the Planning Commission. Southview Park Council last year appropriated funds to have the retaining walls looked at by a geotechnical engineer. They looked at them, decided that the walls were not safe, so they have drawn up plans for improvements to the walls. Recreation office, you can see the ceiling tiles are missing. We have allocated funds for that, and that will be progressing shortly. Along with the ceiling tiles at Parks and Recreation, we have grant allocated funds towards the MLK gym. We're holding up on this right now because the gym does not have what they call life safety in it. It does not have the proper firearms or fire sprinklers. So before we do tiles, we're going to make sure that we're up to code on life safety. |
| 01:55:13.95 | Unknown | Looking towards the future, Robin Sweeney Park, that's the plan that was approved by council and will be going to the Planning Commission shortly. Harrison Park, as I said, we're going to start construction this fall. MLK Gym Recreation Center, gonna get those ceiling tiles replaced, again with grant funds, and get the ceiling tiles and life safety in at the gym. The ceiling tiles for the gym are being paid for through grant funds, life safety funds are through the MLK fund. Dunphy Park. For FY 2011 and 2012, council ranked the master plan for Dumpy Park as number 22 on the priority calendar. For calendar year 2012-2013, council moved it up to number four. Funding was not allocated in the budget. Staff has already met with the Friends of Dumpy Park and the Friends are eager to take on the project as a volunteer effort. The FY2012-2013 budget includes $150,000 for the necessary improvements to the storm drains at Dunphy Park, We did apply for a $500,000 grant from the Costco Busan funds. Unfortunately, we were not accepted to make it to the next round. |
| 01:56:36.22 | Mayor Kelly | Did any of our projects make it to the next room? Thank you. |
| 01:56:38.55 | Unknown | We'll get there. |
| 01:56:39.16 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 01:56:39.27 | Unknown | It's a surprise. Next is Casno Park. Casno Park is up on Casno Avenue. When I first got here, I did a site visit and it was pouring rain that day. I went up to the swings. |
| 01:56:45.53 | Unknown | it. |
| 01:56:51.74 | Unknown | kicked it with my foot and my foot went right through one of the supporting beams. I sent a text message to Kent Basso and within a matter of hours it was removed for safety. But recently, staff was approached by the Rotary Club of Sausalito for a community service project. We reviewed their needs and Rotary expressed some interest in Casno Park. No commitments have been made, but staff is hopeful that the Rotary will take on this Fishing Pier. |
| 01:57:20.65 | Unknown | What? |
| 01:57:20.99 | Unknown | That's one of the projects that we applied for Costco Busan grants in the amount of $150,000. We were invited to submit a full grant for that project that is due in September. |
| 01:57:31.94 | Unknown | that. Thank you. |
| 01:57:37.70 | Unknown | Other parks and recreation facilities. Although there is certainly a need, there is no current plan for renovations at the rest of the city parks or facilities. It is staff's recommendation to address these parks in future budget years as time and funding allow. In the meantime, the FY 2012-2013 budget includes $50,000 for consulting services to assist in developing and involving the community in capital projects and planning as going forward. The main issue with our parks is that they're out of date. That swing set there, or swing set, goes right into the tree. The slide there, I called the manufacturer, and they had a guy that worked there for 40 years, and he doesn't even remember that slide. |
| 01:58:23.33 | Unknown | Thank you. you Thank you. |
| 01:58:29.42 | Unknown | Talked about MLK Park doing things with that, but that's down in the future. Perhaps with the cooperation of the new school, we can make some irrigation improvements to the park there. This is a map that we include in all of our magazines that includes all the different parks throughout Sausalito. So we have quite a few locations here for people to go enjoy themselves. Many of them need work. |
| 01:58:48.91 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:58:49.40 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:58:51.73 | Unknown | But of course, sooner or later, in the worlds of our great Charlie Francis, it all comes down to money. |
| 01:58:52.87 | Unknown | . |
| 01:58:52.94 | Unknown | Sooner or later. |
| 01:58:59.83 | Unknown | I'd like to thank Dorothy Gibson for providing the manuscript for her book, Sausalito's Parks, Playgrounds and Plazas. I want to thank the Sausalito Historical Society for the photos, the Parks and Recreation Commission for their support, and of course, City Council for putting parks back on the front of the top of the priority calendar. |
| 01:59:20.45 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you for cheering us up. Hey. |
| 01:59:23.50 | Unknown | Bye. And if you don't know that song, that's the theme song to Parks and Recreation. Thank you. |
| 01:59:29.34 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:59:29.39 | Unknown | Ha ha ha ha |
| 01:59:31.28 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:59:32.28 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:59:32.31 | Mayor Kelly | All right. |
| 01:59:32.33 | Unknown | Does the council have any questions that I can answer? |
| 01:59:33.20 | Unknown | Any questions? |
| 01:59:33.73 | Mayor Kelly | I probably do. Questions? Councilman Pfeiffer? |
| 01:59:39.08 | Vice Mayor Leone | Yeah, just a question. You sort of said it, but you have about, sounds like between you and Jonathan together, you have. And Johnny G, let me say, you know I love you, man. All right, sorry for, you know, but you know I love you. We're like brothers. We fight a little bit here and there. |
| 01:59:52.10 | Unknown | But you know I love hearing people. |
| 01:59:56.26 | Unknown | They get a long-handed fist. They say shake hands and then fold the fist. |
| 02:00:01.81 | Vice Mayor Leone | But I think it's, you know, I'll save that just a comment. Question, you have about, it sounds like you have about seven, eight things, small, some smaller, some bigger than others. But what is the timeframe for Harrison in terms of actually, because the funding is the problem with all these things, |
| 02:00:19.21 | Unknown | Actually, funding is settled for Harrison Park. We're using the remaining grant funds for Harrison Park, along with community donations. And we've got that covered. |
| 02:00:20.03 | Vice Mayor Leone | That one we hit. Funding to settle for Harrison's part. |
| 02:00:29.36 | Vice Mayor Leone | that you think they've got the alliance have got that? Yes. They've committed? Yes. Okay. So when do you think we might get to breaking? We're waiting for, I can, |
| 02:00:37.79 | Unknown | We're waiting. |
| 02:00:40.44 | Vice Mayor Leone | Thank you. |
| 02:00:40.49 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:00:40.52 | Lauren | Lauren's here, he can answer that question. |
| 02:00:40.81 | Vice Mayor Leone | here to bid it and |
| 02:00:44.44 | Lauren | The plans are with Don Olson at this point, and he has sent me an email, which I've forwarded to other members of the staff, that says on the 16th of July, he will have some drawings for me that should have enough detail that we should go out to bid. I'm going to wait until the 16th and see what happens. We have been working on them. There were some structural details that he wanted to work out for some of the low walls around the ramp. There's a fence issue or not an issue but there's a fence that runs along a property line that we are maybe looking at a redesign to make it a little less expensive. That's been going on for the last few weeks and he told me that we should have plans this |
| 02:01:02.78 | Unknown | So, |
| 02:01:03.08 | Unknown | Good. |
| 02:01:03.50 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:01:24.06 | Lauren | Thank you. |
| 02:01:25.12 | Unknown | you |
| 02:01:28.26 | Mayor Kelly | it. Any other questions? No. Not for now. Thank you. |
| 02:01:31.87 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:01:31.90 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:01:32.04 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 02:01:32.77 | Mayor Kelly | Public comment, yeah. But there's council questions for him. Yeah. All right. Would any member of the public, Julie, like to care to address the council on parks? |
| 02:01:33.31 | Unknown | Pabla. |
| 02:01:46.48 | Julie Warren | I was on Parks and Rec Commission in 1992-93 thereabouts. And we had this wonderful idea to restore the fishing pier that dated to the late 1800s but had been removed for some good reason. or other anyway. getting around to this century, It is now back on the agenda. And I love it, we're not talking about a peer committee, a whole marina down there, we're talking about a fishing pier. you know, that residents used to crab from, that kids used to skip rocks from. I mean, something that was really cool. before the word cool existed, but all through my childhood and a few more. So that would be great. Thank you and Rob. |
| 02:02:32.11 | Mayor Kelly | Yeah. |
| 02:02:39.67 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you, Julie. John. Ha, ha, ha. |
| 02:02:46.51 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:02:47.98 | Jean Piddler | there again 501 Olima. That park on Harrison Avenue Wasn't that the part that Mary Ann Sears looked after for so long? And didn't I hear a rumor that it possibly may be named after Mary Ann Sears? Who did so much for this town? |
| 02:02:58.84 | Unknown | Yes, sir. |
| 02:03:08.07 | Mayor Kelly | I heard that rumor too. |
| 02:03:09.04 | Mayor | Yeah, it's down the line. |
| 02:03:09.07 | Mayor Kelly | Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Anyone else care to address the Council on Parks and Thank you. |
| 02:03:18.20 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:03:18.35 | Mayor Kelly | Would you come around? |
| 02:03:18.71 | Unknown | Would you come around to the mic? I'm just kidding. State your name, please. |
| 02:03:20.21 | Adam Politzer | to the |
| 02:03:20.58 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 02:03:21.03 | Adam Politzer | I'm just kidding. Stage your name, please. I feel compelled, and I'm sure the council will echo this, but |
| 02:03:25.34 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 02:03:31.41 | Adam Politzer | You know, once again, the reason why these presentations are so important is that so much work happens and a lot of folks don't actually see it or recognize it. or understand the benefits that they have for the community. And some of these are small, but for some individuals, it's really important for the little kids to take the classes and look in the mirror, you know, the tennis players that go out there in a very windy town and have not only a fence that keeps the balls in the court but also prevents a little bit of the wind from impacting the quality of their play. The work that Jonathan and his team has put on working with Mike Langford to work together. something that hasn't happened for decades. So again, my compliments to Mike Langford, Jonathan, and obviously Lauren Humbertus, which we're now seeing why it's so important to have someone of his caliber on our team as a project manager helping us move these projects forward and having two dedicated and passionate department heads working together obviously has a benefit as well. The work on Robin Sweeney Park, we're at the very beginning of that and being the person that worked with April Phillips, on Duffy Park. and standing there talking to the Planning Commission, which Jonathan was a part of, There was a ton of work very similar amount of work that went into the Duffy Park Program that Mike Langford did with the Robin Sweeney Park Program. where we held many, many workshops, went out and did surveys, did a lot of work, and a lot of this information when we invited April to meet with the Friends of Dumpy Park, the members that were able to attend. which included Paul Leffinwell and Jock Coleman, we were able to kind of go through all of this material that got lost in time because it happened back in the early 2000s. But, What I want to warn our community and our council, is that we did all this work on Robinsveney Park, and because of financial restraints, 10 years could go pass very easily And someone at the council could say, this didn't go through the process. and people in the community could have some memories that may not reflect the quality work that went into getting Robin Sweeney Park where it is. I think bringing April Phillips back to the table with Jacques Goleman and Paul Leffingwell is actually very beneficial. And April has no interest in continuing in this process or picking back up. in this process. But some of the work that April did I think now becomes valuable to Jacques and Paul as they use this voluntary effort to move that project forward, which is in the hands of a committee. to push this forward and because the council place it above the line and allows them to work with Jonathan and Mike as they create ideas to bring it back in front of the council to ask the council what would they like us to do next, either as a committee or staff working with the committee. but it is really important to stop and reflect. and say, good job. on the work that has been done. and recognize that this council along the way has approved The money is to move forward on design or actual construction. And I agree. with Julie if she looks like she has left. But there's a lot of folks, including me, that threw rocks, I didn't skip them, threw rocks, and fished off of that pier. So I'm very pleased that it's still on the list of eligible projects and we have to compete for that money. And I wish us well on that endeavor. So Mike and Jonathan and Lauren, congratulations and good work. Thank you. |
| 02:07:29.79 | Mayor Kelly | All right, I'll bring it back up here. Anybody else? Thank you. |
| 02:07:33.10 | Vice Mayor Leone | Yeah, I would say, and this has been my approach with everything we do here, is that the nature of public involvement in these type of projects has changed and should change from sweat equity to help us find the money for these things. because what has been a problem with Harrison Park is, you know, you get people's time for free, They got to make a living over here. So everything is going to go that much slower. So the architects donated his time for free. |
| 02:07:57.65 | Trevor Seidler | So, that's... |
| 02:07:57.97 | Unknown | . |
| 02:07:58.04 | Joe Burns | weapons. |
| 02:07:58.38 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:08:02.88 | Vice Mayor Leone | So it's always going to move slower and no problem with that because it's not his job. he's got to pay the bills. So, But I think the idea that we can all go out there with a shovel and create a new park is just that those days have gone. You get sued if you do the wrong thing. It's not going to last as long. And it won't be as... designed as well as something as what we see for Robin Sweeney Park. So the days of public involvement is you've got to help us raise the money. You've got to go and help us knock on doors. What the city needs to do is give you a blueprint to go raise the money for. And so my idea of this going forward is instead of just allocating what had been the past practice for decades is if somehow you found some money, you threw it at something and try to get as much done as you could with that money. But what I think we need to do is sort of what the county has not done with its sales tax initiatives. Come up with, here's what we're actually going to do with them. Here's how much it's gonna cost to do Langendorf Park. Here's how much it's gonna cost to do uh, you know, all 15 or whatever number of parks, do you want to pay for it at Sausalito? Or do you want to knock on your neighbor's door and get them to pay for it because they got a lot of money? Whatever the case may be. And that is what needs to happen to improve the quality of life as far as this goes, not just for kids, for everybody. |
| 02:09:03.41 | Unknown | All the... Thank you. |
| 02:09:05.89 | Trevor Seidler | Thank you. |
| 02:09:05.99 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:09:21.65 | Vice Mayor Leone | And so that way we've got a blueprint. We've had enough public hearings on every single park that the designs are sort of good to go. to avoid what Adam is saying. At some point, you've got to pay for this stuff. There's no magic money falling from the sky. You're not going to get it from the feds. You're not going to get it from the state. Those wells are dry. So we have to look out for ourselves and decide, And the sales tax is not the way to fund these things because everything that's funded by the sales tax goes like this, is whether we're gonna have a parcel tax to fund some of this and along with private donations. So, and I think there are people who would step to the plate if they knew Thank you. |
| 02:09:57.60 | Mayor | if they were informed. |
| 02:09:57.61 | Vice Mayor Leone | If they knew the money was going to go to specific things, and it wasn't going to go, you know, the worry about giving money to the city to do anything was that it was going to go over here once I turned my back, you know, 10 years or 15 years ago. So, but I think we're getting beyond that, given this professionalism of the staff that we have here and the approach that the city manager has taken. So, we've got a long way to go, but I think if we set the table and find the money for it, we can really make this town, so much more attractive to all age groups and all economic wherewithal. It could be really, these parks could become a real asset for us instead of just sitting there dormant and unsafe. |
| 02:10:41.17 | Unknown | Okay. Thank you. |
| 02:10:41.76 | Mayor Kelly | I want to thank Mike and Jonathan and Lauren. I mean, there was just a lot of projects in there, a lot of work got done, and it shows. I mean, I come down here every Sunday, or not every Sunday, but on Sundays and watch my wife play taiko drums in here and look at the floors and look at the mirrors and so on and appreciate the fact that it's become a room that really gets a lot of use and is very, very nice. And that's just one of many things that you guys have done. So I agree with Jonathan that I think that public-private partnerships to do the work here in Sausalito with Sausalito people. |
| 02:10:41.89 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 02:10:43.36 | Unknown | you All right. Thank you. |
| 02:11:23.05 | Mayor Kelly | the social-dealer residents. There's enough money here that I think we could do matching funds and all sorts of things. I'm not against short-term taxes that expire after a period of time that would finance a bond issue or something like that. So I think that we should look at that. For pennies, basically, we could end up with a very nice set of parks that would last for 20, 25 years and the money that we would use to finance that would come from, again, public-private partnerships. So maybe I'll turn my attention to that now along with Jonathan and others who want to participate. Okay. Thank you again, Mike. Nice presentation. All right. Let's move on to... Is it a recommended motion? Our finest are officers. |
| 02:12:04.24 | Mayor | Is it a recommended motion? |
| 02:12:07.97 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 02:12:08.01 | Mayor | Yeah, we have to. Oh, do we have to do something? Yeah, I move to accept and file update on parks and recreation facilities improvement program. |
| 02:12:08.77 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 02:12:08.78 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:12:08.80 | Mayor Kelly | What do we have to do? |
| 02:12:16.24 | Mayor Kelly | Second. All in favor. |
| 02:12:18.65 | Mayor | Hi. Hi. All right. Okay. |
| 02:12:18.69 | Mayor Kelly | Aye. Aye. Aye. Yes. |
| 02:12:20.61 | Vice Mayor Leone | Make a suggestion for, and this goes, we go for all departments. Mike, I don't know how flexible the website is now. I know Rhett's changing it. But those pictures, you know, just create a, what have we done? 2012, 2011. And, you know, just. Inform them. Yeah, that, it's, just give yourselves credit for doing these things. Same thing with the streets. As you pave them, take a picture, put it up on accomplishments for this year for the streets. Or for the sewers or for the parks. So, and the pictures paint a thousand words. I mean, I'm looking at the, it shows you guys are working hard and it gives people a way to see how hard you're working. |
| 02:12:20.68 | Mayor | Thank you. |
| 02:12:20.71 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 02:12:20.73 | Mayor | Thank you. |
| 02:12:32.98 | Mayor | but, And foam them. Thank you. |
| 02:12:38.60 | Unknown | THE END OF |
| 02:12:38.74 | Mayor | Thank you. |
| 02:12:38.79 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:12:45.49 | Unknown | or for the sewers or for the parks. |
| 02:12:55.93 | Mayor Kelly | All right. Great idea. All right, Jennifer Tejada, chief. |
| 02:13:01.69 | Unknown | Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, City Council Members, City Clerk, City Attorney, Mary Wagner, and City Manager, Adam Pulitzer. |
| 02:13:07.10 | Unknown | Keep going. |
| 02:13:08.81 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:13:08.93 | Unknown | Right. |
| 02:13:09.15 | Unknown | any? |
| 02:13:09.47 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:13:09.55 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:13:10.11 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:13:14.27 | Unknown | Anybody else? And our audience. And the viewing public. Actually tonight is your lucky night. |
| 02:13:16.06 | Unknown | and our audience. |
| 02:13:17.97 | Unknown | and |
| 02:13:19.27 | Allison | the viewing public. |
| 02:13:20.10 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:13:20.13 | Unknown | . Yeah. |
| 02:13:24.70 | Unknown | You will not be listening to me any further this evening. |
| 02:13:24.82 | Unknown | You will not be listening. |
| 02:13:29.18 | Unknown | This is an opportunity for us to have one of the members of our department who works very hard on many, many issues come up here and share with you some of the accomplishments and successes and hard work that our staff has been engaged in for six months. And so tonight, Sergeant Gregory is going to take you on a journey through the first six months of 2012. And as you know, Stacy has been with us for, it will be 15 years this coming December. Thank you. |
| 02:14:02.17 | Unknown | Damn. |
| 02:14:02.22 | Unknown | . . |
| 02:14:04.23 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:14:04.60 | Unknown | . And we do have a very highly educated workforce. She has a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's degree in administration of justice. So I'm going to share with you some things that you may or may not know about Sergeant Gregory. Uh-oh. |
| 02:14:23.97 | Unknown | It's just a little bit. |
| 02:14:24.15 | Unknown | Because I think it's important that we put a human face on who we are and we're more than the uniform |
| 02:14:24.19 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:14:24.27 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:14:24.63 | Unknown | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 02:14:24.69 | Unknown | I'm sorry. |
| 02:14:24.74 | Unknown | Yeah. Thank you. |
| 02:14:33.62 | Unknown | And Sergeant Gregory is always challenging herself in both her professional life and her personal life, to go beyond the norm and to step out into unchartered territory. And she does it in her work. And we all know that. We're accustomed to hearing about the good work that Stacy does and the innovative programs and thinking. that she brings to the table. In her personal life, she has hiked the Inca Trail into Machu Picu in 2010. She did that. She's run six marathons. Last year, she set a goal of running a half marathon every month, and she met that goal. |
| 02:15:16.08 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:15:16.85 | Unknown | She also cycled from Seattle to San Diego last year. And in, I think, three days, she's off to Hawaii, and she is going to be hiking and backpacking on the Nepali coast. Wow. |
| 02:15:32.50 | Vice Mayor Leone | Let's take a look at the vacation policy. |
| 02:15:32.75 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:15:32.87 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:15:32.94 | Unknown | Thank you. Please stop. The recent highlight in her personal life is cementing her relationship with a very wonderful person, Katrina Whitaker, in a commitment ceremony that some of us had the pleasure of attending. And, you know, Stacey is a rising star in this profession and always treats people with respect. She knows how to talk to people from no matter what walk of life you're from. She makes a difference in people's lives. And she is very good at establishing relationships and inviting the public into our world in a way that makes them feel comfortable being with us and understanding why we're here. She epitomizes what a public servant in this profession is and ought to be. So I'm done, and it's my pleasure to introduce to you Sergeant Stacy Gregory. |
| 02:16:40.32 | Mayor | Hey. Hey, how's the fishing out there? How's the fishing? |
| 02:16:44.39 | Stacy Gregory | What? How's the fishing? Super. |
| 02:16:47.59 | Mayor | you |
| 02:16:47.64 | Stacy Gregory | . Mayor, council members, thank you for having me. Keith, thank you for having me. And I'm gonna share the last six months of what the police department has been up to. We're going to start off with that picture, because I think that represents our police department and our policing philosophy, which is quality of life policing. We're part of the community. We enjoy it. We embrace it. And I think this shows what we're up to. This is, I think, the fifth year that we did tug of war as cops versus kids. And this year, they limited it from 10 and under. Thank you. This is, I think, the fifth year that we did tug of war, it's cuffs versus kids. And this year they limited it from 10 and under, and we still lost. So we've lost five years in a row as well. And we truly try. People think we give the kids a chance. We don't. We try. |
| 02:17:08.13 | Unknown | you |
| 02:17:08.30 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:17:08.40 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:17:08.79 | Unknown | Hmm. Thank you. |
| 02:17:32.04 | Unknown | I'm not sure. |
| 02:17:35.72 | Unknown | So we'd love to hear. Thank you. |
| 02:17:47.09 | Stacy Gregory | So moving on, Personnel in the police department, we hired our fourth parking enforcement officer in January and that was due to taking over the community lots and having to enforce them. We're down two officers currently and so we're trying to bring our staffing up to speed. We have one officer with a conditional job offer right now. We also have one person that's been offered a conditional offer for an unpaid reserve position. So that gives us more manpower once we're trained on the street. |
| 02:18:28.12 | Stacy Gregory | Let's talk about some recent accomplishments that the police department has had. Twin Cities Police Department in the past few months opened up a position to be on their SRT team, which is similar to a SWAT team. We had an officer apply for it, Officer Francisco Padilla. In order to get on this team, you have to go through some rigorous testing. You have to do an oral board where you sit in front of staff and they question you about teamwork, why you want to do it and all that. You have physical testing, which he had to run cone patterns, lift and drag a 185 pound dummy for 15 yards, do push-ups, two full pull-ups with a 20 pound vest on. I mean, some extraordinary stuff that just anybody couldn't do. I know that I could ever do it. Also the shooting qualification. He has to be very proficient in both the pistol and the rifle. He passed with flying pillars. Now, we have a representation from our police department on that team that could respond throughout the county. |
| 02:19:28.73 | Unknown | We have. |
| 02:19:37.59 | Stacy Gregory | The second thing I want to talk about is our new motorcycle patrol. We have borrowed a bicycle from San Anselmo, and we've put an officer through not only 80 hours of basic training, but also 80 hours of pre-training that San Anselmo Police Department and Twin Cities Police Department was kind enough to give us their training officers to train our officer. And that's Sean Smigelski, who is our newly appointed motorcycle officer. So you'll see him. |
| 02:19:53.07 | Unknown | you |
| 02:20:13.48 | Vice Mayor Leone | AND WE CAN'T GET A LITTLE and punch. Thank you. |
| 02:20:16.05 | Stacy Gregory | . |
| 02:20:16.10 | Unknown | I'm sorry. |
| 02:20:16.98 | Stacy Gregory | Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 02:20:17.45 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:20:17.47 | Stacy Gregory | His chest open. Thank you. The third thing is the ABC grants. Corporal Jason Conaghy applied for an ABC grant, and we received it, just over $17,000. This money will be used for training and equipment related to alcohol defenses, and the money that's left over for that will be used for overtime for officers to do stings in liquor stores, underage drinking stings, enforcement in places that serve alcohol, enforcement in education. So that's something to look forward to. We haven't actually started using those funds yet, but it's coming soon. The fourth thing is our boat program. We had a couple rescues that I want to highlight. You all know about the boat program. Sergeant Grass has done a great job developing that program. But recently, besides the regular patrols that we do, we had two rescues where we had vessels in distress. One of them was a guy in a dinghy, and the tide was going out, there were winds. He called 911 because he knew he was going out in the straits, and it was going to be bad news. The postcard wasn't available for one reason or another. So our officers were able to get on our boat, go and save the guy, bring him to a store. Same thing with a vessel that was in distress out under the Golden Gate Bridge. Kids and adults on it. I think it might have ran out of gas or something. We were on the water at that time. Officer Brandon Rogers, as well as a Coast Guard officer, was out on the boat, and they were able to go, respond, bring them back with no itches. Super success for the boat program and the boat operators. |
| 02:20:23.80 | Unknown | The other thing is that ABC |
| 02:20:38.68 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:21:30.11 | Unknown | It begins. |
| 02:22:12.76 | Stacy Gregory | This is a monthly report that you might have seen. It's on the website. Lieutenant Scoog is in charge of putting that together every month, and it kind of highlights the statistics of the crimes, some of the issues that we're dealing with, the cases, and I'll just run through real Breaks down the part one crimes for, this is May, so for May, for year to date in 2012, and year to date in 2011. Talks about training. Some of the stuff we've done for the community, some of the traffic issues, and then the cases and the detective update. So that's always available on the website. You can go to the police department's page and there's a little tab for monthly updates. Some of the cases, there's three cases I'm going to highlight really quickly. The first is an auto burglary case that we had one early morning. We had about 10 vehicles broken into in the area of Casnew. At that same time, we had a Land Rover, a Range Rover that was stolen, and it turns out it was stolen by the bad guy to get away. Daly City Police Department, a couple days later, recovered the Land Rover, arrested the bad guy, and our detective, Detective Bather, worked with Daly City, their detectives, and was able to recover all the property, link the crime to the bad guy, and the bad guys having to face those charges as well. So that was an awesome case for the department. This next case is a bike theft child pornography case, and there's a lot to it that kind of fits together to make a puzzle piece and shows the teamwork of the different agencies that are involved. So I'm going to read it. I apologize for that. |
| 02:23:44.62 | Unknown | Thank you. you |
| 02:24:04.50 | Stacy Gregory | But just pay attention because it's pretty neat how it worked out. There was a guy that was stealing bikes throughout California, and he would go into high-end bike stores. He would ask for a test ride. He would leave a fake ID, and then he would not bring the bike back, and he'd sell them on Craigslist. So San Francisco PD was taking so many of these cases that they titled this guy the California Bike Bandit. Brian, Detective Madler, I'm going to call him Brian because it's easier, joined with some of the detectives in the county and they started investigating some of the theft that was going on in not only Marin County but also in the Bay Area and other counties beyond that. At one point, Brian takes a report from a San Ramon resident who called to say he had inadvertently purchased one of these stolen bicycles and he bought it from the guy in Sausalito. At that same time, San Francisco police detectives distributed a flyer with some of the aliases that this bike bandit was using. Brian, being the awesome detective that he is, noticed that one of the aliases that was listed on the flyer was the name of the guy who sold the bike to the San Ramon guy in |
| 02:25:08.16 | Unknown | Excuse me. |
| 02:25:21.20 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:25:22.74 | Stacy Gregory | So Brian showed a photo lineup to the San Ramon victim, and he was able to pick out the suspect. He identifies the suspect. At that same time, Twin Cities Police Department makes an arrest on that guy for another bike theft, and because of Brian's working together with the other detectives in the county, they know that we've had a problem, So they call Brian and Brian says that's our guy. So we get to re-arrest him for all the cases that we can tie him to. We are re-arresting for the case. Suspect bails out, doesn't return home. A couple days later, the suspect's wife calls the police department and we end up taking custody of a laptop that she had found in her house that had suspected child pornography on it. We took that laptop and we started investigating that. And then a few days later, he was found and had committed suicide in Antioch. So that is just an awesome example of how all the law enforcement agencies, not only in Marin, but in the Bay Area, work together and can communicate this stuff and work to solve these crimes and put these bad guys to jail. |
| 02:26:00.82 | Unknown | a couple days later, . |
| 02:26:22.44 | Catherine Hayden | Thank you. |
| 02:26:22.67 | Unknown | Thank you. And I'll... |
| 02:26:38.98 | Stacy Gregory | The last one involves a resident being a witness. Somebody called and said that they see somebody they're not familiar with walking up to their neighbor's house. Well, the subject walks up to the house, takes something on the porch, and walks away. So the witness resident calls the police, gives the description, direction of travel. We end up contacting the guy. We find him in his camp. He was camping in a tent that he stole from a house down the road. We're able to arrest him for possession of stolen property and prowling. If that resident hadn't called us at that time, we probably never would have known he was there. He probably would have gone around and continued to steal from people in the neighborhood. That's why it's very important for people to call when they see something that just makes them double guess what's going on. |
| 02:26:59.61 | Unknown | And Thank you. |
| 02:27:37.85 | Stacy Gregory | Some of the community concerns that we have and the ways we're addressing them is we've developed a traffic complaint log and that that log is used to keep track of the complaints that come in to individual officers. A lot of times I'll take a complaint and maybe the team that I never see because there's one side of the team. There's one team that I never see. This way I can write it down. They'll know that it came in. They'll see the different actions. So we log the actions that we take to correct or to monitor that complaint. And it's just an ongoing log that we keep track of. So when somebody asks, this is what we're doing, and either it's been corrected or we're working on it. That's something that we've developed recently. The other thing is the VIPs nighttime controls. We had a burglary prowler case on Casnew and after that case, Chief Tejada had an idea to get the VIPs involved and to have them go out to be a second set of eyes for the police department. Of course, they were excited about it. |
| 02:28:24.50 | Jean Piddler | Yeah. |
| 02:28:45.35 | Stacy Gregory | On a pretty regular basis, they double up in cars, they get in their VIPs cars, they light up like a Christmas tree, and they go up the hill and they cruise around. They're acting as a deterrent. They're told not to take any enforcement or any action whatsoever. It's been pretty successful. They found open windows and doors that have been suspicious, moving vans that are out at a certain time that seem suspicious, and called us so we can investigate it further. So that's a huge success, I think, and it's a great use of our volunteers. The next thing is crime prevention for the elderly. Sausado Village, which we work very closely with, had called and asked us to present, at one of their meetings, information on frauds and scams and things that the elderly should be familiar with. So Corporal Shoupin Officer Schmigowski, went out and presented all this information and it included emergency preparedness, the RUOK program, personal safety, home safety, and it was a huge success. In fact, after that meeting, we had three or four people turn in the RUOK form that we try to get out throughout the community. |
| 02:30:11.13 | Stacy Gregory | Some of the community policing projects, I think you're all aware of where we used to live. This is 300 Locust Street. It turned into a little shanty town after our trailers left. And we, the police department, worked very diligently with community development and the public works to make it look like the picture on the right or as it should. It took a lot of work. The officers were there daily, two, three times a day, sighting, trying to remove, doing what we could to get the people out of there and have it not be the place for everybody to hang out and drink and barbecue. So it was very successful. The motorhome that you see in the bottom was up there, and we were finally able to remove that from Uni Lot 5 as well, pick and pull, and Richmond came and got it. |
| 02:30:11.25 | Unknown | of the community. |
| 02:30:57.49 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:31:04.54 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 02:31:06.68 | Stacy Gregory | Thank you. |
| 02:31:06.73 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 02:31:06.75 | Stacy Gregory | Thank you. |
| 02:31:06.77 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 02:31:09.60 | Stacy Gregory | So the outreach to the schools that we do, |
| 02:31:12.55 | Unknown | Thank you. Jumping rope. |
| 02:31:14.90 | Stacy Gregory | With the house? Yeah. Yeah. Outreach at the schools that we do, we go to lunch during recess and have playground interaction with the kids as much as we can, depending on staffing and cultural service. And this is so the kids see us in a positive light. I mean, we all know that they, you know, when they see us, they think somebody's in trouble, and we want to try to get that mentality out of their mind. We do go and counsel at-risk use, though. The school will call us when they have out-of-control kids. We go and counsel the kids. We counsel the parents. We give the teachers advice. We do what we can do, and we follow up with those children. In fact, Officer Don Bartle has just done an excellent job with counseling kids and in fact he's single-handedly turned around quite a few kids at Bayside School where the staff is, they verbalize it to us that Officer Don has done great things with these kids. It's been a success. We've participated in lockdown drills at the school and we've |
| 02:31:15.25 | Unknown | Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. It's we go to |
| 02:32:17.30 | Unknown | So, It's been a long time. |
| 02:32:25.61 | Stacy Gregory | Our role in these lockdown drills is when they have it is to evaluate what they're doing and try to find issues with the drill, things that they can do to make it better, safer. And, you know, we work together with them to make sure that when and if they need to use it, it'll be right and everybody will be safe. The last thing that we do at the school is we teach the classes. We just sent two kids to RadKids, which RadKids works on improving self-esteem and also personal safety education. So soon we will have officers in classes, and I believe that program will teach all classes. And also Chief Dehada goes in once a week, teaches the kids at Bayside School in the fourth grade the Second Step program. And that program teaches character education and bullying prevention. So we have our face in the school, and I think it's helping, and we'll continue to do so. |
| 02:33:34.93 | Stacy Gregory | The RUOK program, you've heard about it before. This new program is batchgeo.com. If you look at the little push pins on the screen, the officers can access this from the patrol cars and they click on one of those push pins and it'll bring up the resident's name in the RUOK program, the emergency contacts, whether or not we have a key, and a lot of the pertinent information that we would need if we were having to respond to, and frankly, in a disaster, it'll just tell us where they are in case we need to go and assist. |
| 02:33:53.15 | Unknown | you |
| 02:33:53.44 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:33:53.56 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 02:34:17.18 | Stacy Gregory | Currently, we have 17 people in this program and I update it as we get more. The great thing is, and some of you might remember, when we used to have the R U OK program as it was, where we'd make phone calls. Well, Sausalito Village just contacted me today, and they want to set that up again using their volunteers to make the phone call. So hopefully that'll happen. I think it's great, so we're going to meet, and that's in the works to start doing that for the elderly that don't have anybody in town. |
| 02:34:38.23 | Unknown | So... |
| 02:34:51.37 | Stacy Gregory | The law enforcement for Special Olympics. Sausalito has been involved in the Special Olympics at least for 14 years, ever since I've been here. It's a pretty awesome event. We do the torch run which starts, we grab the torch from Sonoma, we run it all the way through the county, across the Gonge Bridge and we hand it off to San Francisco, raising money as we do that. Sometimes we have athletes run with us. The gentleman in the white shirt, that's Brian, he's one of the athletes holding the torch, handing it off to San Francisco PD. That was this year. |
| 02:35:14.10 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:35:33.88 | Stacy Gregory | It's just super cool to have them run because they're the most innocent of adults that you'll ever see. The other thing we did this year and we have in the past is attended the opening ceremonies at the College of Marin. That's where all the athletes get together and just celebrate the start of their games. So we got to be involved in that as well. And that's Sean Smigowski over there with one of the athletes. |
| 02:36:03.17 | Stacy Gregory | The Homeless Advocacy Program, we're in the works of planning our next events with the Health and Human Services. One new aspect that has come up under this program is dental care. There is a woman at Homeward Bound who is interested in people's teeth, specifically homeless people's teeth. So she's working on getting funding and finding people who will do free work, if not discounted work, to help these people get either their teeth cared for or pulled. She also has a program where she's getting free dentures for them. She only has seven people in that program. The ability to put seven people in that program. I was able to get one of our Saucedo residents in there. She's all her teeth pulled. She's getting dentures. I mean, it's pretty awesome. We're still doing the veteran's assistance, helping them with housing, paperwork, what they need. The prevention of future homelessness, now that we know all the resources and we know the people to contact in the county, we're able to steer people in the right direction so they don't end up on the streets. In fact, we have somebody in town right now, he's in his 80s, he's a major alcoholic, he's going to lose his house, and what's he going to do? 80-year-old drunk man out on the street? Can't have it happen. Knowing this and learning this and knowing the resources that we have, he's now in a place where he can be cared for. |
| 02:37:12.75 | Unknown | end up on the street. |
| 02:37:36.49 | Stacy Gregory | The last thing under the Homeless Advocacy Program is the Emergency Services Fund, which in 2007 the council approved the money from the meters to be put in this fund. It was $2,500 at that time. So we're still regularly handing out bus tickets to people that need them. Recently we helped purchase a birth certificate for somebody because they didn't have it, so it was $20. And finally they'll be able to get a California ID and they'll be able to prove who they are. |
| 02:38:08.52 | Stacy Gregory | This past Friday night, I don't know if anybody went through it, but we did a DUI checkpoint right there on the 2900 block across the street from Dario's. It was a sobriety and a driver's license checkpoint. This checkpoint is funded from the Office of Traffic Safety. San Rafael holds the grant. It's called the Avoid the Marin 13. They put checkpoints on throughout the county. Officers from throughout the county work every checkpoint. So at our checkpoint, we had officers from all over. The whole point of the DUI checkpoint is not really to arrest DUIs, it's to educate people about drunk driving and to remind them about the consequences of it. We were fortunate. We did get a DUI. We actually got a guy who came through on a motorcycle with a stolen plate on his bike, so we got to arrest him. We wrote many other citations for suspended and no driver's license. DUI is a big deal in this town. I don't know. People drink in this town. Really? This year we had 34 DUI arrests, and five of those were DUI crashes. And in fact, we just had one at 7 PM two nights ago. So it's a big deal. So this Avoid the 13 really helps educate people, because we hand a flyer to every person that goes through. |
| 02:39:15.25 | Unknown | Really? THE END OF THE END OF THE This year we have three or four UIRS. |
| 02:39:18.40 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:39:37.79 | Stacy Gregory | Future projects and plans that the police department has, we're working on an ambassador program with the Chamber of Commerce. This program is going to be made up of volunteers who want to be down by the ferry to help regulate all the bikes and everybody who's trying to get on the ferry. So that's in the works. We're doing joint training in Southern Marin. We're currently working on a prototype defensive tactics training for all the Southern Marin Thank you. in Southern Marin. We're currently working on a prototype defensive tactics training for all the Southern Marin agencies, Tiburon, Mill Valley, Belvedere, and Sausalito will be involved. We're hoping that this will have some cost savings, we can share equipment, and we'll also be trained the same, so it works out for everybody. Of course, the Citizens Academy. Hopefully, we'll get one of those going soon. It'll be the 18th Academy. |
| 02:39:41.83 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:40:01.23 | Unknown | It's my favorite. |
| 02:40:33.33 | Stacy Gregory | Not as good as the music. Where do you go? Not as good as the music. |
| 02:40:36.43 | Unknown | Amazing. |
| 02:40:38.69 | Stacy Gregory | We get thank you letters in the police department all the time from the public, and these are the words that are regularly on those letters. So it's great for us to see that people actually appreciate the hard work that's going into whatever the officers are doing, whether it's making arrests or helping an old lady cross the street. We appreciate the letters. |
| 02:40:57.64 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:41:05.98 | Stacy Gregory | And any questions? |
| 02:41:11.19 | Mayor Kelly | Wow. Any questions? |
| 02:41:14.98 | Unknown | Thank you. Oh, I see that. Thank you. |
| 02:41:18.01 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 02:41:24.26 | Mayor Kelly | All right, thank you, Stacy. Any member of the public care to address the council on this matter? All right. |
| 02:41:37.25 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Mr. Mayor? Yeah. Well, I want to thank Stacy, and I want to thank the whole force. It's just amazing. You do so much, and you add so much to our town in everything you do. And to just see all the programs that your force is covering, it's hard to believe that you're doing so much with your team. And I just want to thank you so much. It's great to see. It's very inspiring. |
| 02:42:07.35 | Vice Mayor Leone | Yeah, I would just say certainly as far as First I want to say how fine Curtis Goob looks tonight because you're looking good, man. |
| 02:42:12.00 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:42:12.03 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:42:12.06 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:42:13.72 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:42:13.73 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:42:13.78 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 02:42:15.42 | Mayor Kelly | the |
| 02:42:15.50 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:42:17.87 | Vice Mayor Leone | um, |
| 02:42:18.41 | Mayor Kelly | Undercover, right? I just had to throw that. |
| 02:42:21.50 | Vice Mayor Leone | I just had to throw that in there because, you know. |
| 02:42:27.42 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:42:27.49 | Vice Mayor Leone | Thank you. |
| 02:42:27.52 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:42:28.26 | Vice Mayor Leone | Thank you. |
| 02:42:28.28 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 02:42:28.77 | Unknown | She's over. |
| 02:42:29.29 | Unknown | . I can't speak anymore. That's how good you look. |
| 02:42:31.03 | Unknown | was. the end |
| 02:42:37.12 | Unknown | Thank you. . Thank you. Um... |
| 02:42:41.24 | Vice Mayor Leone | Where was I? |
| 02:42:41.65 | Unknown | Thank God. |
| 02:42:41.97 | Vice Mayor Leone | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 02:42:42.03 | Unknown | going, |
| 02:42:42.25 | Vice Mayor Leone | No, I want to say that as far as, you know, it's nice to have Stacey come and talk to us, but I have to say her work with folks in need has, you know, that is something that she brought, I think, largely to this department. And Jennifer now as the chief has given her a lot of support in that. |
| 02:42:42.29 | Unknown | this. |
| 02:43:01.59 | Vice Mayor Leone | And I've seen it in action. not just with you, but how you've impacted the rest of the force around you, how they've become more sensitive to these issues, than they might have otherwise been. And just the other day, they helped me with a homeless person and did it in a very professional and, you know, Um, I think caring way would be the way. I would put it straightforward, though, not BSing anybody what their options are, because in Moran there just aren't a heck of a lot of options, and that's something the county needs and the cities need to address. Um, but given to them straight, here's your options, here's what we can do for you. you know, and finding out what the root of the problem is in terms of what they, in the this person with. And that, as a resident, that it's both an awakening as to how powerful the work you're you're doing on that front and also how much more we have to do and help you, enable you as part of this city, but I appreciate that very much and thank you for coming. |
| 02:44:11.08 | Unknown | Well. |
| 02:44:13.38 | Mayor | I want to say job well done, and I'm happy to hear that you're trying to look for someone to replace me downtown. It's been four and a half years now, but a job well done, and really I think we should be very proud of our police department, so thank you. |
| 02:44:34.76 | Mayor Kelly | I like all those comments and Herb's irreplaceable as we all know but |
| 02:44:42.32 | Vice Mayor Leone | The quality of service will go up. The quality of service will go up. |
| 02:44:44.04 | Mayor Kelly | Well, |
| 02:44:44.27 | Unknown | I don't know. |
| 02:44:45.03 | Mayor Kelly | Bye. |
| 02:44:45.07 | Vice Mayor Leone | I don't know. |
| 02:44:45.49 | Mayor Kelly | Bye. |
| 02:44:45.62 | Vice Mayor Leone | Oh. |
| 02:44:46.03 | Mayor Kelly | . |
| 02:44:46.11 | Vice Mayor Leone | Thank you. |
| 02:44:46.13 | Unknown | . Thank you. Thank you. |
| 02:44:47.08 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 02:44:47.13 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 02:44:47.14 | Mayor Kelly | Sorry, Herbert. |
| 02:44:47.19 | Unknown | Dang. |
| 02:44:48.34 | Mayor | No, no, excuse me. Excuse me, I agree. |
| 02:44:48.44 | Mayor Kelly | No, no. |
| 02:44:48.97 | Vice Mayor Leone | I'm not sure. |
| 02:44:49.03 | Mayor Kelly | . |
| 02:44:49.07 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 02:44:49.20 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 02:44:49.25 | Unknown | I'm sorry. |
| 02:44:49.34 | Mayor Kelly | Exactly. |
| 02:44:49.79 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:44:52.92 | Mayor Kelly | I don't know how many other cities, how other citizens in other cities react to their police department. Obviously, the bigger the city, the more the problem sometimes with that. But here, I've gotten numerous compliments about the way the police department reacts to this issue or that issue. All the way from folks who get ticketed to folks who don't like the ticket, but the officer treated them well, to folks who say that this officer reached out and did an important thing for me which was way beyond what I would have ever expected for a police officer to do. And when I came on board with the counsel, Joe Crimes was the police chief here and did a terrific job. Scott followed him, did a terrific job. But I think the leadership in our department is at the top. It's got to be at the top level for any police department anywhere. So congratulations. And congratulations, Stacy, for your accomplishments. Good. Thank you. |
| 02:46:00.52 | Mayor Kelly | All right, you take the suit off now. |
| 02:46:02.39 | Unknown | So you can give me back my time. |
| 02:46:02.42 | Mayor Kelly | . and you can give me back my time. |
| 02:46:07.28 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:46:07.30 | Vice Mayor Leone | Thanks to all the administrative staff from the police force that came tonight. Thank you very much, all four of you. |
| 02:46:07.32 | Unknown | Thanks to |
| 02:46:12.60 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 02:46:13.02 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:46:16.26 | Mayor Kelly | All right, that brings us to the city manager reports. Mr. City Manager. |
| 02:46:22.30 | Adam Politzer | Thank you, Mr. Mayor, council members. Just two brief items. |
| 02:46:26.42 | Vice Mayor Leone | I hear Matt, as far as public speaking goes, you and Stacy can have the gift of gab, as they say. |
| 02:46:28.78 | Adam Politzer | . |
| 02:46:29.24 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:46:29.32 | Adam Politzer | You and your family. |
| 02:46:29.74 | Unknown | You and Steve. |
| 02:46:34.33 | Unknown | I will refrain from responding. |
| 02:46:36.34 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. Thank you. . Thank you. I will refrain from responding. So thank you, Mr. Vice Mayor, for that introduction. |
| 02:46:46.23 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:46:48.20 | Adam Politzer | The upcoming strategic planning session needs to be scheduled. We delayed it purposely because of Measure D, and obviously, if we would have done any strategic planning in Measure D, would not have passed and there wouldn't have been any value looking forward. Now that it has passed and we understand what that means, it gives us the opportunity now to continue the strategic planning practice that the city has implemented over the many years. I think what we would all agree on is that the strategic planning and the priority calendar process and the budgeting process has allowed us to move these projects forward. regardless to if it's some of the things you saw tonight on the police department's plate, some of the things you've seen in the past on the public works department's plate, community development, so on and so forth. So it really is important that we get back to the table with the department heads and managers and the city council and look. Back. for the six months or so. Our regular pattern is to look back six months, see where we've been. talk about where we are, and then talk about the next six months of where we're going. So we'll be proposing to do that unfortunately probably in August when we're on break, but we'll have to look at all of the schedules because this is the time where the department heads, managers, and council members are encouraged to take time off. If that is not possible, then we'll look at September when we come back from the break. So I'll be sending out an email in the very near future to the council asking you to look at your calendars for both the month of August and September, and then we will schedule our strategic planning session for a time that works for the majority of the management team and the five council members. As we did last time, we had two council members that were traveling. Councilmember Weiner and Vice Mayor Leon. and they joined us in the middle of the session, which was fine because they were able to still participate. So just understand that there is some urgency to this and importance to it, and then again, we'll do it after the November election, probably in January, and then try to get back, you know, back on course to do it so it syncs up with the budget process and the priority calendar process as we've done in the past. The only other item that's again on the top of my list of things that need to, be seen by the community is what's going on with the school district and those discussions I believe that they've taken a break from their planning meetings for the month of July and August and are planning on picking it back up again maybe at the end of August as people return from vacation and kids are coming back into school. We've put some of that information out in the current. We'll continue to do that as we get the information. I know that Vice Mayor Leon has attended. a recent school board meeting and has shared some of the feedback from that meeting with the council here at past meetings. But just want to reiterate the importance of our participation with our school district and our school board. That ends my report. Happy to answer any questions of our council. |
| 02:50:17.18 | Mayor Kelly | Any questions? |
| 02:50:20.38 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:50:20.39 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:50:20.53 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:50:20.59 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:50:20.68 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 02:50:20.71 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:50:20.73 | Mayor Kelly | Okay, seeing none, we'll move on to future agenda items. |
| 02:50:30.82 | Unknown | I've got to plead full priority, guys. |
| 02:50:33.67 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Mr. Mayor, I have two future agenda items. |
| 02:50:35.71 | Unknown | Right. |
| 02:50:39.16 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | you. The first is the Arts Commission report. I have some residents working on that with me, which has held up the submission a little bit longer than I expected. But I am hoping to get consensus and submit that so that we might be able to squeeze it on the July 31st agenda. And the other topic is the sister city delegation to Portugal. I don't know if there's room on the July 31st agenda to hear from the team on that, but it would be great if there was. So those two topics. |
| 02:51:20.05 | Adam Politzer | Yes, Councilmember Pfeiffer, before the delegation left to Portugal, I had committed that July 31st worked, I know, for one of the leaders of the group. And so we would have a presentation from that group. Just a reminder to the council and to the public, you know, there is a process that will undertake. to formalize if it's the desire of the city, the community, and the council to do so. And I think that the cooperative spirit of our sister cities coalition, which represents Vina del Mar and Sacade, are all working together now. So I'm looking to this delegation to come back and just talk about the experience, not so much coming forward with a proposal for the council to accept. It's my understanding that we'll be looking to formalize this agreement next year when we celebrate anniversary of the IDA, so I think it's the 75th anniversary So we have some time to formalize this. And really this is an opportunity to kind of celebrate the trip. and learn about their experience and then a preview of what's to come. |
| 02:52:39.26 | Mayor Kelly | Okay. |
| 02:52:39.51 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:52:41.60 | Mayor Kelly | Committee reports. Any committee reports? |
| 02:52:45.55 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Mr. Mayor, CDBG met last night, and we met last night to reallocate funding that the Redwoods had initially received for some projects that they were working on and could not act upon. And so we reallocated those funds to Homeward Bound for Marin Working Families as well as the Bridge Home Project, Bridge Housing Corporation for Marin Wood Plaza. So that was, I just wanted to report on that. |
| 02:52:46.63 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 02:53:23.98 | Unknown | Right. |
| 02:53:24.19 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | you And the other comment I have is just a follow-up on the Sister City delegation to Qashqash, Portugal was amazing. But, of course, it was a team effort. And like Adam said, there's wonderful synergy with the, they're calling it the Three Sisters Organization Group. And so I look forward to July 31st when hopefully we can hear from the whole team and you can learn more about the experience we had because I was so honored to be a part of that delegation and it was just amazing. Thank you. |
| 02:54:10.95 | Mayor Kelly | Good. Any other reports? |
| 02:54:13.01 | Vice Mayor Leone | Yeah, as Adam said, I attended the school board, both a special meeting that was at MLK Academy, so that's in Marin City, as well as the normal school board meeting, I think it was on the 21st here at Bayside. And if I had, you know, Adam's a little more diplomatic about this, but I think so their concept of passing a bond, putting it on the November ballot, to essentially separate the schools in two different campuses, the public school in Marin City and the charter school here. I think that's been put on the back burner, there's still some financial reasons why they were looking to do that outside of maybe some... personal points of view of why that should be done by some board members, but the So I think that what became apparent in the meeting here in Bayside was that actually Willow Creek School was not in the loop. in terms of the school board is doing. So given that four members of that or the school board are very tight with Willow Creek. It's kind of strange that they didn't involve their own board. But be that as may, I think they're trying to solve a very difficult problem. There's no easy solutions, but at least the solution of putting the public school in Marin City and the charter public school in Sausalito is still open for debate going forward. Otherwise, it was going to be a rush job to get something on the ballot. In my opinion, the funding request of $20 million was a little bit padded in a lot of ways, and it would have doubled people's school property taxes. So, but anyway, I think it's a longer term problem, but hopefully there's some momentum to start addressing the underlying issues. |
| 02:56:12.76 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:56:12.77 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 02:56:13.13 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:56:14.02 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 02:56:14.06 | Mayor | Thank you. No, other than I'm reading here that we have the young people from Sikaita, Japan coming to visit. There will be 13 students and two chaperones. And I'm reading here that on Monday, July 30th, they're requesting that the City Council at 9 o'clock in the morning meet all of them here. So could you please write that down, 9 o'clock on July 30th. At 9. Okay. Thank you. |
| 02:56:53.56 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:56:55.42 | Mayor | Yes. Ten days. |
| 02:56:56.36 | Mayor Kelly | Yes, they arrive on Sunday and leave the following Sunday. |
| 02:56:59.89 | Councilmember Pfeiffer | Herb, just to clarify, you said July 30th, that's a Monday? That's correct. Oh, that's unfortunate. I'll be at work, my regrets. |
| 02:56:59.94 | Mayor Kelly | and, |
| 02:57:03.13 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 02:57:03.15 | Unknown | That's correct. |
| 02:57:08.02 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 02:57:10.62 | Mayor Kelly | Okay. Any other reports of significance? Thank you. |
| 02:57:16.73 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:57:17.96 | Mayor Kelly | Seeing none, I move to return. |
| 02:57:19.52 | Unknown | Move to adjourn. I move to adjourn. |
| 02:57:21.51 | Mayor Kelly | All right, we made it. Three minutes after 10. Okay. Almost a record, but not quite. |
| 02:57:23.41 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:57:23.43 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:57:23.48 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:57:23.53 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:57:28.68 | Unknown | get something done. |
William Simpkins — In Favor: Supported the ordinance, explaining the physiology of how smoke particles damage lungs by blocking capillaries, leading to conditions like black lung disease. ▶ 📄
Joe Burns — In Favor: Applauded the council and staff, supported the ordinance as a starting point, and urged future steps to make all city-owned property smoke-free and to address cigarette butt litter impacting the bay. ▶ 📄
Pam Granger — In Favor: Representing the American Lung Association, supported the ordinance, noted the trend of including all smoke (including medical marijuana) in regulations, and suggested considering 100% smoke-free housing as the new standard. ▶ 📄
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Jean Piddler — In Favor: Supported the ordinance and suggested installing more cigarette butt extinguishers at bus stops and businesses to reduce litter and smoke, noting the difficulty of quitting smoking. ▶ 📄