| Time | Speaker | Text |
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| 00:00:00.03 | Mayor Kelly | all time. |
| 00:00:06.36 | Unknown | Thank you. I'm not sure. |
| 00:00:08.08 | Carolyn Revell | THE FAMILY. |
| 00:00:08.25 | Unknown | I'm not sure. |
| 00:00:12.92 | Mayor Kelly | Here, the council met in closed session at 6.30 this evening to consider two matters, both dealing with MLK properties. One was negotiating parties in the New Village School, and we gave direction, and the other was to our council, and that matter is on the agenda tonight, so you'll hear about it later. And the other is with negotiating parties, which there's about five or six different tenants. And again, we gave instructions and that's on the agenda later too. Yes. Yes, the Pledge of Allegiance. Somehow I always leave that out. All right, Pledge of Allegiance. Fasco, would you lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance? |
| 00:00:55.84 | Councilmember | 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. |
| 00:01:10.82 | Mayor Kelly | Terrific. Now we can proceed. All right, is there any public comment on the closed session items? Anyone care to comment on closed session items? All right, seeing none, we'll move to the |
| 00:01:28.07 | Unknown | approval of the need to say. |
| 00:01:30.60 | Mayor Kelly | Approval of the agenda. Motion. So moved. Second. All right, all in favor? Aye. Aye. All right. And now two special presentations. And Chief Tejada is going to. |
| 00:01:40.08 | Unknown | Bye. All right. |
| 00:01:50.78 | Mayor Kelly | Give us a 9-11 reflection. |
| 00:01:55.36 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 00:02:14.34 | Unknown | Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council Members, City Clerk, City Manager, and City Attorney, and audience. So, I've been criticized for not acknowledging everyone in the past. So today is September 11th and I thought how appropriate. We have a city council meeting. It's a day that we ought not forget. So why not spend a moment remembering what happened and those whose lives were lost and just take a minute to reflect on what it is we have here as a community and as a nation that we ought to acknowledge and appreciate, embrace, and never forget what we have and always work towards it. So with that, I have a little slide show. I was fortunate enough to visit New York a couple of weekends ago. My husband is at the FBI out there. He's been gone for eight weeks, only two weeks to go. But I was able to join him on their trip to New York. So I was able to see New York from another perspective other than that of the regular tourist. And we got to go places and see things and do things that I will probably never get to do again. It was a very memorable trip in many aspects but the one place that we visited was Ground Zero and it was a very moving visit and thought-provoking and again we got to see and do things that the regular visitor doesn't get to do so I'm Thank you. moving visits and thought-provoking. And again, we got to see and do things that the regular visitor doesn't get to do. So I'm gonna share some of that with you tonight. |
| 00:02:41.86 | Heather Richard | Thank you. |
| 00:03:18.01 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:04:01.70 | Unknown | This is, of course, the site of the Twin Towers as you look down from one of the buildings that's there, and we'll come back to this one. I thought we'd start with just a reminder of what happened on September 11th, 2001. |
| 00:04:20.09 | Unknown | We were guests of NYPD, and we went to one of their original police stations. And in that station, it's a very old brick building, four floors. And up on the top floor, they have a memorial to 9-11 and to the officers who lost their lives, and the firefighters and the civilians. And so this is a photograph of a piece of steel from one of the towers. And that piece is in the museum. And it just shows you the damage that was done, the intensity of what happened to that building. This was a plaque on the New York Fire Department boat, which is named 343. One of the things we got to do was go out on that fireboat. The fireboat was constructed of steel that was salvaged from the Twin Towers site Thank you. It's an incredible boat, and we got to go out on that and go all around New York. But it's called 343 because they lost 343 members that day. In one day, in a very short period of time, they were immensely affected by 9-11. And this is a tribute to those people whose lives were lost in the line of duty. Back at the police station, there was a photographic exhibit Thank you. And, um, This was very moving for me, and it was moving because it reminded me of why I get up every day and put a uniform on and why I'm a public servant and what it means. And this is a picture. of a female officer. And it's a picture of her rescuing this man from the burning tower. And you can see he's so relieved to be out. She's so focused on her job. She's not focused on her pensions or her paycheck or anything. She's focused on her job, on saving lives. And that picture was taken right before she gave him some first aid. The reporter said he saw her come out, render some first aid, help some other people, and she ran back into the building. And this is what was left of her. So that artifact and that picture just spoke volumes to me about what we do and what it means. And we don't think about the danger. We run towards it when everybody else is running away. And I'm sure there's not one person in uniform in this room who Thank you. doesn't have a story to tell you about just missing it by that much. I know I do. And I know they do. But when we're there, we're not thinking about it. We're doing it. It's our job. Our job is to protect you, to save lives. And this is sometimes what happens. It's a huge price to pay. |
| 00:07:52.14 | Unknown | This is the only tree that survived at ground zero. And I took a picture of it because We have to think about moving on. We have to think about taking what's best out of everything and celebrating that. And so this tree, out of I don't know how many trees were at Ground Zero, is the only one that survived that day, and it's flourishing. So it reminds me about the future and about moving on. This is a piece of an NYPD car that was in the area. that survived. This is a Port Authority officer shortly after the attack, just reflecting, I'm sure, on the loss. This was a room in one of the remaining towers And I didn't take pictures inside because it's a sacred room. And we didn't know where we were going. And this room is up on, I think, the 12th floor of this building. And they didn't tell us where we were going, but it's called the family room. and it's a room where members of families of loved ones go to when they visit Ground Zero. They can go in here. There are memorials. The walls of this room, every inch of every wall on the back of the door is filled with memorabilia in tribute to the people whose lives were lost. There are letters from children asking, Daddy, you missed two birthdays, are you coming for my next one? There are favorite recipes, there are favorite hats, toys. It is, there wasn't a dry eye when we came out, but it was floor to ceiling. There was a children's play area, there was sofas where people obviously can sit and visit, but, Thank you. very, very moving and really gives you a sense of the intense loss that day. So moving on, this is, if anybody's been there, you'll recognize these are the memory pools that they created on the site of the buildings. It's really a very peaceful area. There were hundreds of people there, and you could literally hear a pin drop. Everybody was just silently walking through, taking it all in. This is the tower called the Freedom Tower that they're building. I took this picture from the water. I didn't realize that I would actually be going up into it when we got to Ground Zero, but they took us up. This is the base of it. and anyone who wanted to go up in the construction elevator could take a ride out. If you've ever been in a construction elevator, it's not a comfortable ride. It's very slow and it's very unstable. But the floor that's most complete is the 87th floor, and so that's where we got to go. There was no fence, there was no glass, there was just orange construction fencing, I guess, or tape. So when we got the courage to move towards the edge, I took some pictures. I took this picture, I held my camera out over the edge and took a picture of the pools down below, you can see them. But as I look at it, I can't help but think about the people who jumped out of the towers and this is what they saw before. This was how far they had to jump to get away and how desperate they were to get away from what they were facing inside. These are views from up there. I took this picture from the boat and I included it because It represents for us, I think, our freedom, the justice that we deliver to everyone, the liberties that we have, and a reminder that we need to work towards always preserving that. |
| 00:12:26.85 | Unknown | So now I'd like to take a moment of silence. |
| 00:12:57.09 | Unknown | Thank you for your time. |
| 00:12:59.62 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you, Jennifer. |
| 00:13:10.25 | Mayor Kelly | All right. We'll move on to communications, public communications. This is a time for the City Council to hear from our citizens on matters that are not on the agenda. Thank you all for coming out tonight. |
| 00:13:30.52 | Mayor Kelly | Does anyone have any item that would like to address the council? Seeing none, we'll move on to action minutes of the previous meeting. I have a motion. Any corrections additions? |
| 00:13:47.35 | Carolyn Revell | I've moved the minutes to be approved. |
| 00:13:49.62 | Councilmember | House Second. |
| 00:13:50.28 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 00:13:50.30 | Councilmember | Thank you. |
| 00:13:50.87 | Mayor Kelly | All in favor? |
| 00:13:52.25 | Carolyn Revell | Thank you. |
| 00:13:52.27 | Mayor Kelly | All right. And that brings us to the consent calendar. Items that are on the consent calendar are usually considered routine and non-controversial, require no discussion, are expected to have unanimous counsel support. Any member of the public, however, can request, as can the council members, to pull items from the consent calendar to be heard in regular session. Does anyone from the public have any items you'd like to pull from the consent calendar? |
| 00:13:52.29 | Carolyn Revell | Bye. |
| 00:14:22.06 | Mayor Kelly | Seeing none, anybody in the council have any items you would like to pull in order to discuss? |
| 00:14:26.93 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:14:26.95 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 00:14:26.97 | Unknown | I have a few questions. |
| 00:14:28.47 | Vice Mayor Leon | Mary, what is the necessity of the necessity letter for this? Why is it required for the approval of the market where a market used to be? |
| 00:14:40.23 | Mary Wagner | There's a code requirement. You're talking about the letter of public convenience and necessity. There's a code requirement that we have the council officially take that step. |
| 00:14:50.29 | Vice Mayor Leon | Okay, so it's not... required for some waiver of something is just required because of the specific zoning requirements of that lot. |
| 00:15:00.89 | Mayor Kelly | I agree. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:15:02.98 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:15:03.53 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 00:15:03.57 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:15:03.62 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 00:15:03.64 | Heidi | Look. |
| 00:15:03.67 | Mayor Kelly | No, I need to address it. |
| 00:15:03.94 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:15:03.97 | Heidi | So I just |
| 00:15:04.84 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 00:15:04.88 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:15:06.62 | Heidi | Good evening Mayor Kelly, I'm with the City Council. The purpose of the public convenience in this custody letter is when the Department of Alcohol and Beverage Control identifies that there's no concentration of liberal licenses within the SOSLITO, our regulations require the City Council to take action. |
| 00:15:23.84 | Unknown | you Thank you. |
| 00:15:24.31 | Mayor Kelly | Okay. |
| 00:15:24.53 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:15:25.91 | Mayor Kelly | All right, any other questions on any other item on the consent calendar? you |
| 00:15:30.64 | Mary Wagner | Mr. Mayor, point of clarification from staff on item 4N, the MLK rent issue, we would like to modify staff's recommendation that that item not include Suite 740. |
| 00:15:30.65 | Mayor Kelly | Mr. Mayor, point of view. |
| 00:15:37.44 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:15:37.79 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 00:15:46.57 | Mayor Kelly | Okay. at the Donovan suite. Thank you. |
| 00:15:50.16 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. All right. |
| 00:15:50.26 | Mayor Kelly | All right. So with that modification then, do I have a motion? |
| 00:15:57.20 | Carolyn Revell | I move that we accept the approve the items on the consent calendar. |
| 00:16:03.48 | Mayor Kelly | I second. |
| 00:16:03.70 | Carolyn Revell | Thank you. |
| 00:16:03.71 | Linda | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:16:04.37 | Mayor Kelly | With the one change? With the one change. |
| 00:16:05.67 | Linda | Thank you. |
| 00:16:05.69 | Carolyn Revell | With the wind change that, yeah. |
| 00:16:08.59 | Mayor Kelly | And you second? Okay, all in favor? Aye. |
| 00:16:11.00 | Vice Mayor Leon | Bye. |
| 00:16:11.14 | Carolyn Revell | Bye. |
| 00:16:11.49 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:16:11.51 | Carolyn Revell | Thank you. |
| 00:16:13.01 | Mayor Kelly | All right, that brings us to public hearings. |
| 00:16:15.12 | Vice Mayor Leon | Before you move on, I think we should just acknowledge all the hard work that Nancy Coltrider has done on the library boards. Absolutely. So she's a long-time member. Long-time member. And has really helped the city a lot over the years through the library board trustees. Terrific. Terrific addition to that board. Sorry to see her go. |
| 00:16:21.80 | Mayor Kelly | Oh, right. And as |
| 00:16:30.56 | Mayor Kelly | Terrific addition to that board. Sorry to see her go. Definitely miss her. All right, that brings us to public hearings. And item 6, or item 5, 5A, machine shop listed on a local historical register. Heidi. |
| 00:16:59.65 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:17:10.18 | Heidi | So the purpose of this agenda item is to have the City Council conduct a public hearing for the Liston and Machine Shop on the City's local historic register for section 10.46050 of the zoning ordinance. Staff is also seeking direction from the City Council to authorize staff to prepare the necessary paperwork to submit an application to nominate the machine shop for the state and national registers and historic places as well. Our zoning ordinance currently identifies that the Historic Landmarks Board, Planning Commission, the City Council, and any other private citizen can submit an application to initiate the local listing of a building on our local register. So on May 3rd of this year, the City Council, actually June of this year, the City Council formally authorized staff to pursue that. And so with that, it's a three-part public hearing process. The first process would be at the Historical Landmarks Board, there would be a public hearing. The Historical Landmarks Board would provide a recommendation to the Planning Commission, the Planning Commission would hold a public hearing, provide a recommendation to the City Council, and the City Council would ultimately take final action on the nomination. In order for the City Council to take action on the nomination, there are four findings that need to be made. The first is that the structure or site proposed for the local register is significant to local, regional, state, or national history. The second finding is that the listing of the proposed structure or site on the local register has been subject to environmental review and the appropriate findings have been made. Third would be the listing structure or site on a local register will preserve the historic character or integrity of the structure or site. And the last one is that the structure or site proposed to be listed on the local register as a significant architectural or historic character that can be preserved or enhanced through appropriate controls and incentives on new development and alterations to existing structures and landscaping. So I'll give you a little bit of background on the machine shop. City Council has heard about the machine shop on multiple occasions over these past three years, but for the benefit of the community as well, I just thought I'd just give a really brief recap. So the machine shop was constructed as one of the 30 integral buildings as part of the Marineship Corporation. The Marineship Corporation was instrumental in constructing memory ships and cargo containers during World War II, and it was owned by the Dactyl Corporation. |
| 00:19:23.33 | Unknown | you |
| 00:19:29.72 | Unknown | We're going to be right back. |
| 00:19:29.97 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 00:19:30.30 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:19:30.41 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 00:19:40.93 | Heidi | The project site of Machine Shop is located at 25 Literary Shipway and is accessed by The machine shop was specifically constructed in 1942. There was an addition that was added in 1943. And it was used in association with the outfitting of the ships once the ships went into the water. And unlike most of the other jobs in the marine ship, the machine shop was used and hired highly skilled workers or workers that have had extensive training. So this was an important building as part of that business or corporation. These next couple slides provide elevation of the floor plans of a deep commissioning study that was done in 1945. Essentially the building has remained intact since its original construction in 1942. In April of last year, the City Council authorized staff to hire a consultant to prepare a historic resource evaluation on the machine shop to determine whether or not the building actually may have any historical significance. In April of last year, the consultant identified that the machine shop is significant and the building appears to be eligible for the listing on the state and national register under the criterion as contributing a contributing building to a potential historic district for its association with World War II. It was also found to be eligible for listing on the state national registers on the basis that this is a rare property type associated with World War II. And lastly, that it is eligible for listing as a rare intact World War II industrial shipyard building that embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, and method of construction. So essentially the architecture of the building is important. Oops. So just to recap, in May of last year, the City Council accepted the report that the Historic Resource Evaluation Report directed staff to pursue the local nomination listing. In June of this year, City Council adopted a resolution to initiate the listing. In July of this year, the Historic Landmarks Board held the public hearing and provided a positive recommendation to list the building as well as to authorize staff to submit an application for the state and national register. The Planning Commission essentially did the same thing in July of this year and here we So staff is recommending that the City Council take into consideration all the information that has been provided to you in the past and list the machine shop on our local register. This would be the first building that is formally listed on our local historic register since the adoption of those requirements in 2003. And staff is also asking the City Council to direct staff to prepare the necessary application materials to nominate the machine shop to the state and national registrar. With that, I will conclude my presentation and answer any questions you may have. |
| 00:22:58.13 | Mayor Kelly | Any questions from the council? |
| 00:23:02.68 | Vice Mayor Leon | Heidi, can you just clarify as far as the last point, the necessity of the owner of the building to go along with those proposals? |
| 00:23:13.50 | Heidi | That's actually a very interesting question. So typically when you have a building that you're trying to list on either a state or national register, you need the property owner's consent. We have had the privilege and honor of having a very diligent Historic Landmark Board member who was out in Washington, D.C. on a business trip and actually met with the Department of Veteran Affairs Federal Preservation Officer and that Federal Preservation Officer suggested the importance of listing this building on our local historic register in addition to pursuing the nomination and once we have that application it has been stated that the Federal Preservation Officer will sign off on the application for national register listing and nomination. |
| 00:23:29.99 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 00:23:58.29 | Carolyn Revell | And was that Caroline Kiernotch? |
| 00:24:00.38 | Heidi | That is Carolyn Kermatt. |
| 00:24:01.93 | Carolyn Revell | I'd like to thank her publicly as well as you for all your hard work on this. Mrs. Kou. |
| 00:24:11.35 | Mayor Kelly | Any other questions from the council? All right, thank you, Heidi. Any comments from any member of the public? |
| 00:24:24.49 | Unknown | Good evening Mayor Kelly and council members. Our Chair Mori Pierce on the Landmarks Board is preparing to travel so he couldn't be here this evening. But as the Secretary, I'd like to say on behalf of the Landmarks Board that we want to thank the council for putting our efforts on the priority calendar and moving us up and funding us. We couldn't have done this without all of your support. It's been unanimous and it's been very heartening for us because we have done a lot of work but we knew you were behind us. I was going to say too publicly that Carolyn has been a tiger on this and she does this professionally so she did stop in in Washington and got not only some verbal agreements but an action plan that's a good outline for both sides to follow. So I'd also like to thank Community Development Director Jeremy Graves because I know that a big part of his budget supports our efforts, and we couldn't do that without Heidi's help. She's very knowledgeable, and she's resourceful, and she has used our certified local government status to her credit to form a very good relationship with the state so when we have questions or whatever we've got a pipeline now it's very good thank you |
| 00:25:40.53 | Unknown | Thank you. Is she a tiger? Two, we want to know. No, she says. |
| 00:25:42.47 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 00:25:42.49 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 00:25:42.52 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 00:25:46.37 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. |
| 00:25:49.07 | Mayor Kelly | All right, anyone else from the public here to comment on this item? All right, seeing none, I'll bring it back up here. Let me say that this is terrific. The next thing we have to do is get the VA to get off their duff and fix the building so it doesn't deteriorate any further. So. |
| 00:26:06.35 | Vice Mayor Leon | Thank you. as it ripped off the siding and was out. |
| 00:26:11.48 | Mayor Kelly | Well, they did that for asbestos, but that... No, I know, but that's like the best preservative, unfortunately, is asbestos. |
| 00:26:13.69 | Vice Mayor Leon | No, I know, but that's like the best preservative, unfortunately, in the US. |
| 00:26:16.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:26:17.03 | Vice Mayor Leon | MR. Yeah. |
| 00:26:17.94 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:26:18.10 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 00:26:18.13 | Unknown | you |
| 00:26:18.42 | Mayor Kelly | So at any rate, that's the challenge now going forward is once we get this on the path to getting recognition from the National Register and so on is getting the VA to get behind the thing and fix it and build their facility that they've been trying to build for seven or eight years now and haven't been able to. All right. Seeing no comment, do I have a motion to vote? |
| 00:26:42.75 | Vice Mayor Leon | Bye. I'll just make one comment, actually. To everybody's credit up here and all the folks who worked on this, this is one of the few things we've sort of come together to do, despite other differences. |
| 00:26:45.21 | Andrew Davidson | to |
| 00:26:57.63 | Vice Mayor Leon | It's also amazing to me it's taken this long, Thank you. to have any building in the MarinShip go on any register whatsoever for 80 years, close to 80 years. So I think we're finally, as a community, realizing the importance of what's still there and acting on it, most importantly. |
| 00:27:17.29 | Mayor Kelly | Bye. |
| 00:27:21.85 | Mayor Kelly | All right. Do I have a motion for local register nomination? So moved. All right. Second? |
| 00:27:26.64 | Carolyn Revell | All right. So, continue. |
| 00:27:29.55 | Mayor Kelly | All right. All in favor? Aye. All right. And we need another motion for the historic |
| 00:27:31.08 | Carolyn Revell | All right. |
| 00:27:31.67 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:27:34.37 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. The National Historic Register. Second. |
| 00:27:40.85 | Councilmember | Second. |
| 00:27:41.83 | Mayor Kelly | All in favor? Aye. Okay. Now get them to build it. All right. Moving along. |
| 00:27:42.84 | Councilmember | Thank you. |
| 00:27:42.86 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:27:42.89 | Councilmember | THE FAMILY. |
| 00:27:42.98 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 00:27:51.67 | Mayor Kelly | Next, we have business item 6A, which is to receive an update from the Sister Cities community, including an update on the recent trip to Cascais, Portugal. And we have some dignitaries. Vesky, would you introduce our dignitaries this evening? |
| 00:28:07.48 | Vasco | Yes, I would. Thank you, Mayor Kelly and Council. We have Nuno Mathias, who's the Council General of Portugal in San Francisco. Welcome. He arrived here about six months ago, and we're very, very happy. I think it's going to be a very good relationship. So as you're all aware, I've been up here twice before to discuss the proposal for a sister city with Cuscois. That is in part, there's two other sister cities right now, originally Vinal del Mar and Sakai to Japan. And because of the historic relationship between Tosolito and the Portuguese community, as evidenced by the Portuguese hall that was built in 1888 and has had continuous Holy Ghost festivals every year since. And next year we'll celebrate its 125th anniversary. We thought that this would be a good third sister city. After looking at a lot of sister city potentials in Portugal, we focused first on the Azores because most of the Portuguese in California are from the Azores, particularly in this area. But they already had a lot of other sister city relationships in the United States. So the next proposal was for Qashqai, which is just to the west of Lisbon. It's actually Armando Mendoza is from Qashqai, chief de Hada. She's the chief's gun, but she spent some time there as well. But it has a lot of similarities to Sausalito in terms of having a maritime tradition. It's slightly larger in size, but there was enough similarity, so we approached them and they really were taken to the idea of Sausalito because the only other offer they had, they had 11 other sister city relationships currently, and the only other offer, none in the United States, and the offer was for Pittsburgh, and then it was Positolito came, so they kind of really jumped on it. And then they invited... They don't knock this, not Pittsburgh. |
| 00:28:07.60 | Mayor Kelly | So good. |
| 00:28:14.82 | Unknown | All right. |
| 00:28:19.29 | Andrew Davidson | Yeah. Thank you. |
| 00:29:22.81 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 00:29:22.84 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:29:47.92 | Andrew Davidson | any other. |
| 00:29:52.04 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 00:29:57.45 | Unknown | So, so. |
| 00:30:01.23 | Unknown | Send me advice. |
| 00:30:02.45 | Unknown | it's not a lot of but i don't know |
| 00:30:05.03 | Unknown | My father grew up in Pittsburgh, so be careful. Yeah. Well, they have a river. |
| 00:30:07.97 | Councilmember | Well, they have a river. |
| 00:30:10.03 | Vasco | I don't have a bay. It was the geographic similarities that they were really focused on. So then they invited us towards the end of last year to a conference in Peshkais, which was this kind of sister cities conference. And Linda's going to speak a little bit about that as the second part of this presentation. But we had a delegation of myself, Linda, Manuel Barocca, and Jose Rapose, who couldn't be here. So it was a delegation of four of us. And it was pretty amazing. And I'll let Linda speak about that. So where we're at right now is we would like to move this to the next step. But I'm going to turn it over to Linda right now to speak about the trip last June. |
| 00:30:10.35 | Councilmember | Thanks. |
| 00:30:10.97 | Unknown | It was the |
| 00:30:12.64 | Jonathon Goldman | Jerry. |
| 00:30:12.98 | Unknown | I'm not sure. |
| 00:30:13.10 | Andrew Davidson | similarities. |
| 00:30:13.70 | Unknown | that they were really focused on. |
| 00:30:15.97 | Andrew Davidson | so |
| 00:30:21.79 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 00:30:51.99 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 00:30:52.03 | Linda | to the next step. |
| 00:31:01.63 | Linda | Well, thank you, Vasco, and actually feel free to jump in and, you know, supplement as I go through our slides here. But it was a wonderful, wonderful experience. I was humbled and honored to be a part of the first delegation to go to Qashqash. It's a beautiful seaside town. It reminds me of Sausalito, only it's larger. But we had a wonderful delegation. I think we've got some slides. Okay. Oh. And so wait for those to pop up. It was amazing. It was an international conference. When we arrived, we certainly were not prepared for the amazing reception we had. Kashkai is actually has embraced the sister city model and has many sister cities around the world. I'm not sure if the exact number, Vasco, but I think it's 11, yeah. |
| 00:32:12.17 | Andrew Davidson | but I think it's a lot. |
| 00:32:14.78 | Linda | And so here we are in the lobby of the hotel, but you can see there are delegates from other sister cities from Guinea-Bissau in Africa and Brazil. It was just an international community We were the only American city there. And it was just a wonderful event. And the one uniting thing with all of the cities is that they were all waterfront towns. So they shared similar challenges, rising sea levels. We talked about economic challenges or ecotourism. And we also, I met with Energia Qashqash. We were looking at local. synergy that we could establish ties. I'll let Vasco talk a little bit more about that because he met with a number of local groups as well. And picked up some best practices from Energia Qashqai, and I'm going to share that with the Sustainability Committee, see if there might be some ties in the future there. Qashqai, Portugal actually has done some amazing work with the EU and with the international ties with regards to the environment. And so there I am presenting. We had a video from the Chamber of Commerce. I want to thank the Chamber of Commerce for providing that for us so we could share the businesses in Sausalito. We talked about our marinas. We talked about our industries. And I think there's another slide. Yes, we were honored to meet Mia Farrow was there to promote Darfur and she has a very close relationship the Qashqai Sister City, I guess, agency delegation there too. So she came and When she heard we were from Sausalito, she said, well, you guys have come a long way. And we said we certainly support her efforts in Darfur. So it was amazing when I walked into the conference, I walked to the front row and they had us all lined up in the front and it was like a mini United Nations. Like the American flag was in front of me, and you had the different flags in front. of each sister city and then they had the headphones for translation. And it was just an amazing, amazing experience. And I've lived in Geneva for five years. I've lived around the world. And I've never experienced something quite like this. So many cultures coming together. And then we broke up into workshops and groups, and we exchanged ideas and best practices and, you know, |
| 00:35:13.86 | Andrew Davidson | you |
| 00:35:21.42 | Linda | and synergy, but the glue holding us all together was kush kush. And so it was just a wonderful, wonderful event. And of course there's also a you know, the local undercurrent to this, too, in terms of establishing ties with the local agencies that we did as well. But it was an honor meeting Mia Farrow, and we were all humbled by her work, great work in Darfur. So, Vasco, would you like to... |
| 00:35:52.32 | Vasco | Yeah, thanks, Linda. So I think there was one group, everybody made presentations, including Sol Solito, and there was a group from Norway that he coined the term global. And I think that was really kind of summed up the meeting quite well, which was that it was acting locally to affect global change. And so there were people from countries in Africa, from South America, Brazil, of course, and who were Portuguese speaking. And everybody had kind of a different place to her role to play, a lot of it was economic. Ours was kind of more of a cultural presentation. So in the end, I think that it was a very well put together conference. And I warned the mayor and the organizers that if they come to Sausalito, we're not going to be able to do what they had done because it was really very, very well organized. But I guess the next thing I just wanted to talk about is what the vision is for the Qashqai sister city. Luckily, this is the third of two other sister cities, and there's both very active. Of course, the Kaida's probably the most active. Michael Moyle and Susan's have been very instrumental in that and then Michael Moyle is taking the lead and reactivating the Vina Lamar. So we have kind of like older sisters, I guess, to follow in the footsteps. We're at the stage where this is very much in the infancy. As Linda said, I made a lot of contacts there with the police, with the fire department. Interesting enough, the fire department has a lot of very similar topographical issues here with the mountain. They service like Mount Tam with fire danger, with cliffs going down to the ocean where they do a lot of cliff rescues. So I thought that would be a good point of contact. I brought some gifts from Chief Tejada over to the chief of police and have some gifts to return to her from the chief of police at Qashqai. They have a very active women's club in Qashqai, as they, of course, we do here. And so that's another point of contact. Linda mentioned the environmental groups and we have so and then there's also the Rotary Club. In fact the annual Rotary Club meeting is next year is in Lisbon just about 20-30 minutes from Kishkash. So there will be contacts as we send from the Rotary Club in Sausalito to meet with the Rotode Club in Qashqash. So right now the way I view it is we've got all these points of contact and it's kind of just watering things and see what blooms and including I think we've discussed having a student exchange program maybe not quite the way Psychiatry does, maybe more of a traditional one, where a student would come for a period of time, like a semester or a year. And we have, luckily, a Portuguese organization, Palkus, already has the infrastructure for all of that. So we would be able to kind of capitalize on that. So just finally, the next stage, I guess, really really is, well I guess just to sum up, so the contacts would be political which is of course the mayor's, to the mayor's educational in terms of the student exchange program, cultural or also political would be the environmental group, cultural in terms of possibly having some art or other cultural exchanges and similar to the other existing sister city programs that we have. The next steps would be we would like to invite the mayor and the individual who is the head of the international relations of the camera which is their equivalent of the council it's their area is actually more like a small county there's several little townships within this area it's both a city and county situation so they we would like to invite them here next year to sign the protocols which are this twinning agreement which they signed when we were there and with the idea that they would come back so I would like to come back with the group from Kershkais in two weeks and hopefully have a board resolution or action that would authorize the signing of the agreement and the invitation for them to come, which would probably come from you, Mayor Mike Kelly, would be best and I could have a proposal of a letter to review. So I guess that's really it. I'm not sure if I missed anything. |
| 00:37:25.00 | Unknown | are. |
| 00:38:13.58 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 00:38:26.95 | Andrew Davidson | and |
| 00:39:27.34 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 00:39:27.46 | Unknown | . |
| 00:39:27.51 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 00:39:51.72 | Andrew Davidson | Amen. |
| 00:40:46.62 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:40:54.89 | Vasco | Okay, well I think that's probably enough time I guess then, so. |
| 00:40:58.11 | Linda | And Vasco, could we ask for the delegation to stand up, just to acknowledge? We've got Manuel. And is Jose here, too? |
| 00:41:07.38 | Vasco | No, but Manuel is here. Yes, Manuel. And there's three or four that would view me. |
| 00:41:08.37 | Linda | Well, Manuel is here. Yes, Manuel. Yes, please stand up. I just want to say, yeah, you guys were great. |
| 00:41:14.38 | Vasco | Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and I have a lot of support from the other Sister Cities groups here as well. Just one other point. I can't remember who it was. So I guess that's it. If anybody has any questions or... Any questions? |
| 00:41:17.65 | Linda | Thank you. |
| 00:41:17.69 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:41:18.90 | Linda | We'll be right back. |
| 00:41:19.07 | Unknown | phone. |
| 00:41:19.36 | Linda | Thank you. |
| 00:41:19.46 | Mayor Kelly | Bye. |
| 00:41:19.49 | Linda | Oh, yeah. |
| 00:41:19.58 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:41:19.63 | Andrew Davidson | to the next one. |
| 00:41:34.78 | Andrew Davidson | like, |
| 00:41:35.03 | Unknown | So, |
| 00:41:40.97 | Mayor Kelly | . questions. Thank you. question. |
| 00:41:43.99 | Councilmember | I'm very pleased. |
| 00:41:45.82 | Mayor Kelly | So you're, just so I understand what you're saying, the process from your point of view is that we would make an invitation to the delegation, the mayor and the delegation from Qashqai to come to Sausalito next year? |
| 00:42:02.10 | Vasco | Yeah, next year, and the date would be actually May 3rd, would be the center date. May 3rd to 5th is the 125th anniversary of the Portuguese Hall. So there's going to be a special banquet on the 3rd, and that would be the evening of the signing of the protocols. We'll probably have an event a day or two before, so it'll be about a three to five-day period that they would come, and we would offer them accommodations and I'm working with the other sister city groups on fundraising and those sort of things for that. And this is intended like the other sister city programs to be entirely self-funding. So no resources other than the political will of the city of Sausalito to engage in this. |
| 00:42:09.44 | Andrew Davidson | I'm sorry. THE END OF THE END OF THE So there's going to be a special |
| 00:42:28.59 | Unknown | the and we're going to be able to get a |
| 00:42:30.13 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 00:42:34.69 | Vice Mayor Leon | Exactly. |
| 00:42:39.58 | Vice Mayor Leon | Right. |
| 00:42:39.80 | City Manager Politzer | Thank you. |
| 00:42:46.74 | Mayor Kelly | Would this be under the rubric or under the umbrella of the Sister Cities organization? Yeah, we've already taken it. |
| 00:42:53.49 | Vasco | Yeah, we've already taken some steps to combine the three sister cities under one umbrella and I think Susan's going to come in October and Michael and others to talk about that specifically so you can get the structure, the new structure of the sister city program. |
| 00:43:06.51 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:43:06.55 | Linda | Mm-hmm. |
| 00:43:10.46 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:43:10.48 | Vasco | Thank you. |
| 00:43:10.51 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:43:10.65 | Vasco | Okay. |
| 00:43:11.78 | Linda | And can I say one more thing? I just want to recognize Susan Rowe, too, for all of her amazing work. She helped us so much. She knew exactly what we were going to be in for before we went over and helped us. Absolutely. |
| 00:43:22.91 | Vasco | Yeah. Great support from the other sister students. |
| 00:43:24.64 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:43:24.76 | Linda | Thank you. |
| 00:43:24.77 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:43:24.79 | Linda | Thank you. Yes, and of course Michael Moulton. |
| 00:43:30.20 | Vasco | as well, really. |
| 00:43:31.98 | Mayor Kelly | All right. Thank you, Vesco. And I have a short comment. Well, we're going to get public comment first, and then we'll have that. Certainly. Certainly. |
| 00:43:33.61 | Vasco | Thank you. |
| 00:43:33.63 | Linda | Thank you, Vesco. |
| 00:43:36.03 | Unknown | Can we? at first? THE END OF Certainly. |
| 00:43:41.17 | Mayor Kelly | Okay, one more question. |
| 00:43:42.86 | Vice Mayor Leon | So in between now and that time before an invitation is made, is there a way to come back and have sort of a more you know, here's our mission statement and here's the four things that we're going to try and do in year one, you know, in terms of whether, you know, rather than being conceptual. Because the last thing, I know you've worked a lot on this so far and I know you will continue to do so. But I think from the city's point of view, it might be good to see how the city is going to plug into this as the government part, in addition to what the chamber agrees to do, in addition to what the student exchange program might do. So at least in the beginning, we've got some steps that we know we have to hit, and we've all agreed to do those. And so everybody's on board, and then we can send off the invitations or whatever that's necessary. But I think having a nice little roadmap like that, and like a simple one that everyone can agree to, make sure it gets off onto a good start, I would think. |
| 00:44:36.56 | Vasco | Yeah, I'm actually planning, we were planning coming back in two weeks on the 25th of September. And so between now and then we can circulate the mission statement and whatever other steps. As I said, I think the main thing is the political, you know, the mayor being present for greeting the mayor |
| 00:44:42.85 | Vice Mayor Leon | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 00:44:42.90 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 00:44:42.94 | Vice Mayor Leon | Thank you. |
| 00:44:43.00 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 00:45:01.50 | Vasco | It's going to be very similar to the other Sister City programs in that regard in terms input or a commitment from the city itself, from the city council. |
| 00:45:11.32 | City Manager Politzer | Mr. Mayor, can I just very briefly add to that and say that I've been meeting with the various parties that VASCO has identified here in the audience about the overall program, this specific program. And it is mapped out, and this was really just an introduction and also a celebration of what just recently occurred. But as Vasco indicated earlier, come back in two weeks to kind of detect what Vice Mayor Leon did. and also a celebration of what just recently occurred. But as Vasco indicated earlier, come back in two weeks to kind of exactly what Vice Mayor Leon mentioned, kind of the roadmap, what's the commitment from the city, and then what are their objectives. And then in October, as identified, is have the Sister City Umbrella Organization come forward and kind of talk about what has transpired over the last several months on their good work to create some unity and not duplicate efforts when there's a shortage of resources and volunteers and already good work that has been done that others can learn from. So I think that you'll see a program at the next council meeting and that will be the opportunity to really ask some specific questions. |
| 00:45:41.00 | Vice Mayor Leon | Yeah. |
| 00:46:12.61 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 00:46:12.63 | Unknown | I think. |
| 00:46:21.15 | Vice Mayor Leon | If the boss is on board, I'm happy. |
| 00:46:24.93 | City Manager Politzer | All right. |
| 00:46:25.33 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 00:46:25.35 | City Manager Politzer | Thank you. |
| 00:46:25.72 | Mayor Kelly | All right. Thank you, Vasco. Would any member of the public like to address the council on this issue? |
| 00:46:28.14 | Unknown | you Good. |
| 00:46:36.24 | Mayor Kelly | All right, well seeing none, then we'll await a return. Carolyn, you wanted to say something? |
| 00:46:41.20 | Carolyn Revell | Yes, I would just like to thank the Portuguese community and Council Member Pfeiffer for working together to do this for their trip and for all the planning that went into that. I think it's outstanding. And I would also like to recognize the Council General's involvement in this and thank you very much for your participation in all of our functions. I know you were at the Sister Cities event and now here you are again tonight. And, I know you have to be a very busy person. So thank you very much for being here and for all the support you're giving to this project. And then of course our leaders in the Sister City area, Susan and Michael, thank you. Nice jobs, everyone. |
| 00:47:41.19 | Mayor Kelly | Great. All right. Thank you. We'll see you in two weeks. |
| 00:47:45.00 | Carolyn Revell | Thank you. |
| 00:47:45.02 | Mayor Kelly | Okay. All right. All right, moving on to item 6B, which is presentation on tsunami-ready community guidelines and signage posting. And that's going to be Andrew and... Bill Frost. Who's not here. Thank you. You're it. |
| 00:48:02.26 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:48:02.35 | Andrew Davidson | Not here. |
| 00:48:02.80 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:48:05.30 | Mayor Kelly | I don't know. |
| 00:48:06.03 | Unknown | it. |
| 00:48:06.11 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 00:48:07.11 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you, Mary. Mr. Tsunami. That's a hurricane more likely. Oh, that's my son. I'd like to thank the Mayor, Council, City Manager, and Director of Public Works for the opportunity to present to you information on a joint program between the Sausalito Police Public Works and Public Works departments to install tsunami warning signs as part of the city's Disaster Preparedness Emergency Operations Program. My name is Andrew Andrew Davidson, staff engineer here at the Department of Public Works. And just as a quick aside, thank you for allowing Chief Dejada's presentation. That was very moving. Sergeant Frost is not here. |
| 00:48:11.46 | Vice Mayor Leon | I'm not. |
| 00:48:11.63 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:48:11.65 | Vice Mayor Leon | that's my son. Um, |
| 00:48:34.53 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:48:42.86 | Unknown | THE FAMILY. |
| 00:48:43.03 | Unknown | is not. |
| 00:48:47.71 | Andrew Davidson | City staff is in the process of conferring with the National Weather Service and California Emergency Management Agency, also known as CalEMA, about obtaining storm-ready and tsunami-ready certification. Because of the efforts of the city's disaster preparedness emergency operations team over the last four years, the city already meets or exceeds several of the storm-ready and tsunami-ready certification requirements. Part of the tsunami ready certification process requires that the city place tsunami hazard warning signs within tsunami hazard zones. The county of Marin is currently working towards storm ready and tsunami ready certification and the county will be placing signs within its jurisdictional areas that are in tsunami hazard zones. These include areas just north of the city's northern city limits. Placing signs within Sausalito will coordinate with the county's efforts at making waterfront communities safer from tsunamis. It has been shown that tsunami signs are the most important tsunami educational preparedness tool that communities can use, especially for coastal areas with a large number of visitors like Sausalito. The proposed signage will make people aware that a tsunami hazard exists along the city's waterfront and provide them with information about where they should go under circumstances where a tsunami may be approaching. |
| 00:50:12.84 | Andrew Davidson | the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, Cal-EMA and the California Geological Survey have prepared a map showing recommended sign placement locations based upon state tsunami inundation maps, which take into account tsunamis generated by both distant and local sources. Distant source tsunamis may be generated by large earthquakes along the entire rim of the Pacific Ocean and may take anywhere from an hour or two over 11 hours to reach the marine coast. This amount of time provides local officials and emergency response personnel plenty of time to implement emergency response plans as needed. Now the tsunami generated by the 1964 Alaskan earthquake did strike Sausalito. Four-foot waves were reported and approximately $100,000 worth of damage was caused to the Marin ship and Clipper yacht harbors. The more recent earthquakes off the coast of Chile and Japan both generated tsunamis, but these tsunamis did not impact your city's coast. Locally generated tsunamis are less common than those created by distant sources. However, according to Calima and the California Geological Survey, the existing on and off geological conditions indicate that we are in a region capable of producing tsunamis that could strike the coastal area of Marin in less than 20 minutes. 20 minutes is not enough time for emergency personnel to effectively warn people located within tsunami hazard zones and for these people to self-evacuate. This is why it's important to place signs along the city's waterfront. The public should know when they are within a tsunami hazard zone and what to immediately do should there be a potential tsunami on the way. |
| 00:52:02.51 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:52:02.93 | Andrew Davidson | So this is a blow up of one of the tsunami inundation maps prepared by Canalima, the California Geological Survey, and the University of Southern California, were focused in on Sausalito. |
| 00:52:09.36 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:52:16.93 | Andrew Davidson | The red line indicates the run-up of tsunamis generated by local and or distant sources. For geographical content, it's about 2nd Street. City Hall's right here. Bridgeway, you can see, runs along here. This area is MLK. This is Valley, and here's Maine. |
| 00:52:48.68 | Andrew Davidson | Now this slide and the next show the locations and sign recommended to be placed by NOAA, Calium, and the California Geological Society. |
| 00:52:55.94 | Unknown | I'm not. |
| 00:52:59.06 | Andrew Davidson | The blue marks in and around the waterfront are the most commonly used signs, and they are the ones that couple tsunamis and earthquakes. Amen. You can see that they are sprinkled in and around the community's waterfront. The magenta sign right here is a tsunami hazard zone sign, and they are generally placed along roadways that allow bicyclists and motorists to stand, are large enough for bicyclists |
| 00:53:35.28 | Andrew Davidson | The third type of sign, here it is green. You can also see the additional earthquake blue signs, tsunami hazard zone signs, magenta's, and some more of the blue earthquake signs. The third type is the entering and leaving the tsunami hazard zone. It's represented here in green. It's on 2nd Street, or I'm sorry, on Richardson between 2nd and Bridgeway. It would be posted on both sides of the street. The entering zone would be on the downhill approach into the tsunami hazard zone, while the uphill direction would be the leading |
| 00:53:42.95 | Linda | Thank you. |
| 00:53:42.99 | Councilmember | more. |
| 00:54:07.52 | Andrew Davidson | Final sign locations will be determined by the city's emergency service manager and the director of public work. Some costs and benefits. The signs will be provided by Cal-EMA without charge. Wherever possible, the signs will be placed on existing facilities such as signposts or light poles. So material costs will be minimal. There, of course, are costs associated with the time for field verification and installation. But the real focus on this are the benefits. And those benefits are education, making people aware, and of course preventing injury and hopefully saving lives. |
| 00:54:20.94 | Linda | Thank you. |
| 00:54:47.21 | Andrew Davidson | So, without sounding overly melodramatic, We should all know that when you're near the bay or ocean and in a low-lying area, and should you feel the ground shaking due to an earthquake, this would be a strong quake, not a little one. This would be one that might last 20 seconds, might knock you down. or note rapid drawdown of the bay or ocean, or a large frothy surge. you You need to know that it's time to act and evacuate the low-lying water area quickly, as these are nature's warning signs that a tsunami may be on its way. So with that, I conclude my presentation. |
| 00:55:24.44 | Councilmember | Get for the hills. |
| 00:55:27.65 | Mayor Kelly | All right. questions for you. |
| 00:55:30.26 | Linda | Mr. Mayor, I have a question. |
| 00:55:31.95 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 00:55:31.97 | Linda | Thank you. So do we have a sample of one of these signs so we can see how large it is? |
| 00:55:39.07 | Andrew Davidson | They are, and I just got that kind of information, they're variable in size. The one that shows the earthquake ranges in size between 15 by 12 and 30 by 24, so it's variable depending on where you want it to be or where it will be placed. The entering and leaving signs range in size between 12 inches and 15 inches and 24 by 30 inches. And then the hazard zone signs are 12 by 12 15 inches and 24 by 30 inches. And then the hazard zone signs are 12 by 12 or 24 by 24. |
| 00:56:11.00 | Linda | So what are you proposing for Sausalito? |
| 00:56:15.08 | Andrew Davidson | Those will be determined by the emergency services coordinator and the director of public works depending on where, the size, where they are placed. Signs that might be placed on a restroom down in the marinship might be smaller. Signs that would be posted along the street might be a little bit larger so that lawyers would see them. And bicyclists as well. |
| 00:56:42.20 | Mayor Kelly | Any other questions? |
| 00:56:45.19 | Unknown | No. Okay. |
| 00:56:46.55 | Mayor Kelly | Okay. Thank you, Andrew. Any member of the public care to address the council on this issue? |
| 00:56:47.77 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:56:52.16 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 00:56:56.11 | Mayor Kelly | Seeing none, I'll bring it back up here. Comments from the... |
| 00:57:01.05 | Carolyn Revell | Thank you. |
| 00:57:01.08 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:57:01.20 | Carolyn Revell | I just would hope |
| 00:57:01.49 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:57:06.18 | Carolyn Revell | that our signs wouldn't be 20 by 30 you know this is this is something that may happen very very seldom and you know I'm not sure that everyone coming into town needs to be bombarded with a 20 by 30 sign so I would vote for the smaller signs I'd just like to put that as my input Okay. |
| 00:57:40.10 | Linda | Yes, Mr. Mayor. I would echo that. I think that the smaller signs would make most sense, I think, downtown. |
| 00:57:56.77 | Mayor Kelly | Okay, any other comments? |
| 00:57:59.05 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:57:59.98 | Mayor Kelly | All right, so no action item. Thank you very much for the report, and we'll anticipate seeing judicious placement of signs. |
| 00:58:09.24 | Councilmember | in your life, Saber. |
| 00:58:09.56 | Mayor Kelly | life's safe. All right, moving on to item 6C, which is authorized right of entry of city property and performance of public, sorry, performance of maintenance, piling, and dock. Section replacement by Cass Gidley Morales. |
| 00:58:24.28 | Jonathon Goldman | them. |
| 00:58:24.55 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 00:58:24.56 | Jonathon Goldman | Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the council, staff, members of the community. Jonathan Goldman, your public works director. This is a little bit of a fractionated presentation. So let me start by, I think council is aware of the circumstances that leave us with a few rows of seats short in chambers and the artwork missing behind you, but I want to make sure that if you aren't aware, and members of the community, we're doing some structural repairs to the ceiling in the back of chambers, and we lost some chairs, but put some plastic up just to make sure that no foul odors or other undesirable effects on members of the community here are perceptible. We also are making some changes to the framing for the artwork that is normally behind you so that it doesn't move around and those aren't done yet. The second thing I wanted to do is there is an action item before you this evening, a staff report in your package, and I'll be happy to. I'm going to talk a little bit about that. But Heather Richard from Caskill and Marina is also here to give a status update on her project. So with your permission, I'll just briefly describe the action item, turn the presentation over to Heather, who actually has PowerPoint slides, et cetera. And then it's at your pleasure whether you want to ask her questions or however you want to deal with that. And then I'll get back up and remind you that there is an action item. |
| 00:58:55.58 | Andrew Davidson | No, no. |
| 00:59:51.13 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 00:59:54.78 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 01:00:15.72 | Mayor Kelly | Okay. |
| 01:00:16.97 | Jonathon Goldman | Very briefly, and I'm not going to read the entire staff report, but as council is aware, the city issued a letter of intent, basically giving Cass Gidley Marina the opportunity to develop funding for improvements to replace what was Casa Marina at that facility. That letter really is in some ways nothing more than a commitment not to rent the property to someone else within a certain time period so that Castigli has the opportunity to try and develop funding. |
| 01:00:49.18 | Andrew Davidson | the property to someone else. Thank you. |
| 01:00:51.88 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:00:52.29 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 01:00:56.45 | Jonathon Goldman | I'll let Heather talk about the funding development process, but one of the things that has happened is that she's approached the city with the fact that she has been successful in developing donations, in-loop contributions, etc. that would allow some maintenance activities to take place at the former Cass Arena that really preserve and in fact enhance its value to the city. Certainly if Cass Ghibli is, and I'm assuming they will be, but whether they are or not, successful in developing additional funding and ultimately leasing the property and going through the approval process to take it over and make it publicly accessible, those improvements, that maintenance would be a benefit to them as well. But no matter what, it's of value because the city doesn't have the resources to perform that maintenance and have to do that work under the present circumstances. In order for that to happen, the volunteers, the Castigli Marina, needs to have the right to enter city property and do this work, as well as provide protections to the city, legal protections, insurance protections, and things like that. So what I'm advocating for, bringing forward this evening for action is a request to authorize that right of entry in a license agreement to allow Cass Gidley to make those improvements subject to, we know that there will be a BCDC permit amendment, there may be other approvals, building permit, things like that, that we'll have to work through. But that's the action item that we're recommending with CMA. |
| 01:01:01.35 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 01:01:01.37 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:01:01.59 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. It has. |
| 01:01:24.79 | Andrew Davidson | and |
| 01:01:24.86 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:01:24.96 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 01:01:30.88 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 01:01:58.61 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:02:00.09 | Unknown | of the state. |
| 01:02:00.38 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:02:52.22 | Jonathon Goldman | With that, I'm going to give Heather an opportunity to talk, and then I'll get back up. |
| 01:02:52.37 | Unknown | that I'm going to Thank you. |
| 01:03:05.03 | Heather Richard | Thanks, Jonathan. |
| 01:03:08.92 | Heather Richard | Yeah, I think you're going to do it for me, or will this work? |
| 01:03:25.60 | Heather Richard | Great. Okay, for those of you who might be watching at home, I'm Heather Richard, resident of Sausalito and of Galilee Harbor, next door to Cass Marina. I saw Lois go out of business and was very sad about it three years ago. Got together with some neighbors and friends on the waterfront and came up with an idea for how best to use this city property and keep it open for the public and make it very appropriate for Sausalito. So the first thing we did was develop a mission. I won't read that tonight because you're all very familiar with it but it's here for the record just to remind you and we are very dedicated to this mission. The mission is not changing. How we will do this is a little bit more of an evolutionary process. So what we have come up with is our priorities. What are the phases that need to happen based on our priorities for what we want to do there for fulfilling the mission. And the first phase is basically giving the docks, the ramps, and the ADA compliance. |
| 01:03:33.21 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 01:04:22.65 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:04:46.80 | Heather Richard | finished so that we can start running programs. The second phase would be doing interior work and adding storage sheds for equipment. The third phase would be an outdoor sheltered classroom space. And the fourth phase would be a bathroom |
| 01:04:47.00 | Linda | . |
| 01:05:04.01 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 01:05:04.03 | Unknown | birthdays would be a |
| 01:05:07.64 | Heather Richard | a more permanent bathroom than just a rented blue box, which will happen as soon as we're opening our doors. And the last phase, which may happen down the road, we hope someday it will, would be a breakwater or a wave damper and dredging if we find it's necessary. So that's kind of our priority list in order. Then after phase one is sort of a little pause and at that point we'll need to use some of our fundraising cash to hire staff by insurance, go through the operating startup costs and then move on to the rest of the construction. So the idea is that once we get ducks and the buildings shored up and not falling down and the ADA compliance finished, we would then be able to negotiate a lease with the city and start programs. And then revenue would be coming in. We would generate membership. We would have people there on a more regular basis. And we feel it would be a lot easier to continue to raise the funds for phase two. |
| 01:06:05.91 | Linda | coming in. |
| 01:06:18.11 | Heather Richard | So this is where we are financially right now. This is in your packet, and you can see that we have found a lot of in-kind services donated. In this economy, it's a lot easier to ask people for things that they already have than to ask for cash, which feels scarce to most people. So the cash in the bank right now is $16,000. The in-kind services is around $66,000. Some of those numbers are changing as we learn more about what people are willing to give us. And so the total remaining to be raised of our original budget is $77,000. |
| 01:07:10.78 | Heather Richard | Okay, in addition to the monetary, State of where we are I think it's really important to understand the state of the facilities right now as well So this weekend on Saturday you can see our librarian hard at work clearing brush and we had a Really productive volunteer cleanup Alice Merrill is removing non-native species We had we opened up the access to the buildings so that somebody could come in with volunteer labor and re-roof and re-side those buildings, and that labor has been promised, if we can take advantage of it. And now there's access to it. Bill Price and his team went in and removed hazardous waste of many kinds, engines and rat-related, both. And many, many thanks to him publicly for doing that we examine the existing structures this is the shed at the end of the point that sticks out it used to have the ramp attached to the main ramp to the docks attached to it and you can see the erosion problems that we're facing right now. That's the footing. Good piling. It should be under there. We cleared all of this overgrowth, so basically the site is now ready for work to be done when we have the manpower and the money to do it. We removed the bamboo. We filled a trash dumpster full of trash and a green dumpster as well full of green waste. And it was a great success. So I put that in there just to show you that there's a lot of willingness in the community to make this happen and a lot of bodies out there that want to help. So our first challenge is right of entry and that's what Jonathan has basically proposed and Mary has drafted up the document for that. And so we'd like to be able to get permission to take advantage of all of the donations that people are willing to make that would allow us to not have to raise so much cash. And the other side of that is also to not miss opportunities. So we had a couple of opportunities that came up to take docs from San Francisco that were in decent, very repairable, if not usable immediately, condition, and we missed those chances and they're now gone, so or gone to other programs so in order to not miss those opportunities especially in October the America's Cup is done and they leave we're really really working that angle to get some of the dogs that were built for that purpose over to Sausalito and there's a great possibility we can do that if we're ready to receive them and Bill Price and I will be bringing them over it won't cost the city anything to help them up so if that's possible we ask your permission for that |
| 01:07:16.38 | Andrew Davidson | really important. |
| 01:07:21.26 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 01:09:01.88 | Andrew Davidson | a great proposed |
| 01:09:12.29 | Carolyn Revell | Bye. |
| 01:09:49.27 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:09:49.52 | Heidi | America's |
| 01:09:50.03 | Linda | this |
| 01:09:50.45 | Unknown | done. |
| 01:09:50.87 | Linda | Thank you. |
| 01:10:14.90 | Heather Richard | We also have a pile driver who's willing to drive pilings, and the city has some left over from the bulkhead project. So those are the kinds of things that we don't want to miss those opportunities because the season is now closing as far as when we can actually take advantage of those things. We can't do it during the storms. Okay, so our second challenge is consensus. We'd like you, in addition to granting permission to take advantage of these opportunities, to help us come to consensus about the planning and approval process. The two main points being that we need to be able to do this within a reasonable budget, and we need to not, or we'd like to not expand the existing footprint or change the existing footprint of what has always been there, with the exception of reconfiguring the ramp to be ADA compliant. So Michael Rex and his team, Michael Rourke over there at his office, they have come up with plans. They've donated their time and given us site plans, both of the existing conditions and a proposed site plan. We have large ones available if you'd rather look at them in paper form. They're in front of you, right there on the table. And this is the existing site. This is the larger view of where it sits in the community, including the parcel map. |
| 01:11:10.42 | Unknown | . |
| 01:11:53.50 | Heather Richard | And this is the proposed site plan. Basically, The major changes to note are the entryway, the clearing of the entryway to allow us to use the main ramp as also a boat launching ramp. So it just widens the space and allows us to bring a boat all the way from the parking lot existing now down to the water and launch it off of a dolly which would be tremendously helpful. all the way from the parking lot existing now down to the water and launch it off of a dolly, which would be tremendously helpful. Otherwise, the office remains the same. The deck gets a little bit wider also to allow for wheelchair access. The area that's sort of empty... |
| 01:12:50.72 | City Manager Politzer | Hold it down. |
| 01:12:53.63 | Heather Richard | And... |
| 01:12:54.98 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:12:55.03 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:12:55.53 | Heather Richard | Thank you. |
| 01:12:55.73 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:12:57.73 | Heather Richard | So there's a larger square. area just above the office there. where you see little outlines of boats. And that's just sort of a general purpose area. We'd like to be able to have museum objects there, boats on display out of the water, and to have that be a changeable display, and also to use it as community space for events and various things going on. We have a picnic area and a fire pit, partly because Lois's fire pit was very popular and we want to kind of keep that tradition going and then the major change is really the building that's sitting out on the edge which is a tool shed right now and the engineering of that tool shed to continue to keep it a building is going to be very difficult because it needs a lot of foundation work in order to support a structure there that's as large as the structure that's there right now. On the other hand, it wouldn't be very difficult to put in a deck in that space with a roof that is, we're able to basically canvas it and create one solid wall on the side facing the prevailing wind which is sort of the wall going that way and still maintain shelter from in the wind and noise and privacy over to the other side to Galilee Harbor where the residents are and make that our classroom wall, basically. |
| 01:14:46.69 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:14:47.09 | Heather Richard | Thank you. So the buildings that Michael Rex has come up with look like this. They're very simple and kind of reminiscent of the pilot houses of boats around here. And he used some historical pictures of Sassilita to come up with these. The existing office, we would like to just renovate as is, more or less. It will be adequate for our needs as an office. Okay, so the last challenge that we face is in fundraising. We've learned a lot, and we've realized that it's a tough economy to raise a large chunk of change, especially when you're trying to deal with the cart before the horse issue, where people are saying, well, what if you fail? What's going to happen then? And it's a lot easier for people to give cash to things that they feel are known entities that have proven themselves. Well, we haven't yet. We've now been around for about three years. And we're still working really hard on it. But we realized that getting the word out there and getting exposure is one of our biggest challenges right now. So we are also asking or proposing some signage that could be attached to the site or more or less where the existing cast marina signage is that's deteriorating and it would be a thermometer that would be filled in from the bottom up as money is raised and we would like to finish this sort of signage signage with the city of Sausalito's logo or the Parks and Rec Department's logo and some wording that would be appropriate for that so the idea would be that the signage would go in this location and you can see the existing sign in its current state right there. |
| 01:14:48.11 | Unknown | So, |
| 01:16:07.03 | Andrew Davidson | So, |
| 01:16:20.06 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 01:16:20.09 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:16:20.11 | Andrew Davidson | Amen. |
| 01:17:01.25 | Heather Richard | So thank you for your time tonight and Hopefully we can get some answers to those three questions. Any questions, Nat? |
| 01:17:12.40 | Mayor Kelly | All right. Any questions? Bye. |
| 01:17:16.69 | Heather Richard | Thank you. |
| 01:17:16.88 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:17:17.59 | Heather Richard | Thank you. |
| 01:17:17.74 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 01:17:18.16 | Vice Mayor Leon | Heather, so the The shed, it's been a little while since I walked this site. It's been probably a year. is right now a storage is a shed. It's a structure, an enclosed structure. So you want to tear that down and put |
| 01:17:33.97 | Unknown | Shhh. |
| 01:17:37.78 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:17:40.81 | Vice Mayor Leon | a Michael Rex creation, which always runs over budget, in its place. So to me, that's like you're in trouble right there. No disrespect to Michael. That alone is going to eat you're $150,000 up easily. You know, I just, I'm worried that you're, that the cost of all these things is going to put you so far in the hole, especially... You know, is there a way to do this in a more... stepped approach so that you don't, you're not, I know you have a lot of steps in your other step plan, but as far as your construction, particularly because this is going to be on the waterfront, it's going to require more coverage of the lot and it's going to protrude over the water, which is going to force you back through an approval process to BCDC and here, And it's going to take you a long time. That alone is going to take you six months at the fastest. |
| 01:18:47.14 | Heather Richard | Yeah, well, the rear finger reciting of the existing office is something that we're pretty confident that we can get done through volunteer labor and materials donated. The deck that is basically enclosed all the way around |
| 01:19:00.83 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 01:19:07.02 | Heather Richard | Um, Thank you. |
| 01:19:08.86 | Vice Mayor Leon | This is a new structure, right? You're talking about tearing down what's there and replacing it with this. |
| 01:19:08.89 | Heather Richard | MR. |
| 01:19:14.29 | Heather Richard | We're basically talking about keeping the floor of it |
| 01:19:18.66 | Vice Mayor Leon | right, still tearing it down. |
| 01:19:20.40 | Heather Richard | And because the existing structure is, you can put your finger through. |
| 01:19:25.02 | Vice Mayor Leon | Right. |
| 01:19:25.14 | Unknown | I'm sorry. Thank you. Unfortunately. |
| 01:19:26.65 | Heather Richard | There's nothing about it at this point that's really worth keeping except for. No, I'm not. |
| 01:19:32.21 | Vice Mayor Leon | I'm not so concerned about the desire of maintaining the current structure. That's somebody else's business to look into, but as far as in the fact that you'll have to go through that process too with the Historic Landmarks Board and the community. This is a... I mean, it took us a year, and it's our own process to get the bathroom... |
| 01:19:44.24 | Unknown | All right. |
| 01:19:55.33 | Vice Mayor Leon | approved. So you're |
| 01:19:55.40 | Unknown | Approved. Thank you. |
| 01:19:58.72 | Vice Mayor Leon | got to |
| 01:19:59.75 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:19:59.77 | Vice Mayor Leon | Yeah. Thank you. I can't see it looking any faster than that for you. Not that it's a terrible process, and that it has steps, it takes time, you gotta get all your ducks in a row. |
| 01:20:04.34 | Unknown | Well, |
| 01:20:11.06 | Heather Richard | Yep. |
| 01:20:11.13 | Vice Mayor Leon | Yeah. Thank you. and |
| 01:20:12.02 | Heather Richard | Well, that's why we're starting now, trying to get through, you know, trying to get some consensus on where to go next with the process. I think that, you know, we've been very focused on docks, pilings, and ramps. Right. And the buildings are there, and we need to use them and take care of them. And right now, because the city continues to own and have control over the property, it's really kind of a process of asking permission to go in and take care of what's already there as best we can. |
| 01:20:19.72 | Vice Mayor Leon | and |
| 01:20:19.97 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 01:20:24.27 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 01:20:24.29 | Unknown | Right. |
| 01:20:24.63 | Carolyn Revell | Thank you. |
| 01:20:50.38 | Heather Richard | It's again that curvy for the horse thing. Eventually we'd love to have a complete classroom out there. We'd love to have a beautiful building. We're very realistic that that's probably not what we're going to be able to afford for a long time. And bathrooms are honestly more important. So this was the most affordable solution that we could come up with to build. It can be built entirely with volunteer labor. Being a deck, it's not subject to as much scrutiny as a building with a roof and four walls around it and doesn't have to be as structurally deepy underneath either. So as far as the foundation issues and going to DCTC, I think we've come up with something that we feel comfortable that we can get |
| 01:21:03.42 | Unknown | Mm-hmm. |
| 01:21:43.96 | Heather Richard | get done faster than anything else. |
| 01:21:45.36 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:21:48.95 | Mayor Kelly | Let me ask the council for questions and then we'll come back to comments after we get public comment. |
| 01:21:54.54 | Carolyn Revell | Okay. |
| 01:21:54.60 | Mayor Kelly | Okay. to a question? |
| 01:21:55.31 | Carolyn Revell | Thank you. Thank you. I do have a question. Could you go back to your stages, please? |
| 01:22:07.68 | Carolyn Revell | Thank you. Okay, so tonight you're asking for our approval to allow you to go through with Phase 1. Is that it? Or are you talking about the entire... |
| 01:22:27.01 | Heather Richard | No, just to go through phase one, basically, but also renovation of docks and buildings, meaning not letting things fall down. |
| 01:22:38.63 | Carolyn Revell | Yeah, okay. So one and two, basically. You're not talking about any new structures in stages one and two? |
| 01:22:47.00 | Heather Richard | No, we're not talking about building anything that isn't already there right now. Okay. As a building. In fact, there is no base for that, except maybe a bathroom as a separate building eventually. |
| 01:22:50.51 | Carolyn Revell | OK. |
| 01:22:57.06 | Carolyn Revell | Okay. Thank you. |
| 01:22:58.09 | Heather Richard | Thank you. |
| 01:22:58.41 | Carolyn Revell | Thank you. All right, so if you're just dealing with what's there and you're not going to be tearing things down and building a deck and doing this or that, we really don't need to go there tonight is what I see, but we need, and I take to heart what Council Member Leon has said, But I think that we need to take a look at exactly what you're asking for tonight. Thank you. |
| 01:23:27.81 | Mayor Kelly | Yeah, so let's get the questions. Okay, so stages one and two, I believe. So any more questions of Heather? |
| 01:23:30.84 | Carolyn Revell | Okay, so stages one and two, I believe. |
| 01:23:38.18 | Heather Richard | Well, one thing I want to clarify that, um, The city may have to make a decision on what to do about the buildings that are in really, you know, the building out at the end that's in really bad shape on its own. I mean, that may be something that... that Jonathan has to deal with immediately because it's in such bad condition. What we would like to do is be able to just ask permission to take advantage of all the donated services. So all the volunteer labor, all the pile driving and pilings and engineering, being allowed to let a surveyor survey it and doing all those kinds of things. So that's the permission we're asking for now. And then moving into the planning phase goes in that direction when we're ready. |
| 01:24:21.65 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:24:21.67 | Carolyn Revell | So. Thank you. |
| 01:24:25.99 | Mayor Kelly | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 01:24:32.27 | Mayor Kelly | Let me see if I've got this right. What you're asking for tonight is to authorize the right of entry to city property and perform maintenance on the piling, dock sections, and other replacements that maybe need to be done in order to enhance the city's property. Yes. In furtherance of the mission of having a marina that you can operate. Yes. Okay. So, and that's under the guidance of Jonathan and the city in terms of what they'll approve for you to do and so on. Is that right? |
| 01:24:47.88 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 01:24:52.65 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 01:25:02.36 | Mayor Kelly | Am I right? Okay. So I think that's what we're talking about here. And so any more questions? Yes. |
| 01:25:12.89 | Vice Mayor Leon | Yeah, no, I think you just may have to make that clear if you make a resolution. Because otherwise you're going to get Michael Rex back in here saying you approve my plans. You know, so... |
| 01:25:15.81 | Mayor Kelly | Let's go. |
| 01:25:16.43 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:25:16.45 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:25:17.68 | Mayor Kelly | in here. |
| 01:25:18.37 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 01:25:19.64 | Mayor Kelly | We're going to get a chance to tackle that problem. |
| 01:25:21.85 | Vice Mayor Leon | Don't worry, Don. |
| 01:25:22.94 | Heather Richard | We're just... for his actual plan. |
| 01:25:24.73 | Mayor Kelly | No. We just dealt with Michael many times over. We'll tackle that problem in just a few minutes. Okay. But for now, I think we're clear. Any more questions about what? I mean, I want you. |
| 01:25:24.78 | Heather Richard | Thank you. |
| 01:25:24.87 | Vice Mayor Leon | We just dealt with Michael many times over. We'll tackle that problem in just a few minutes. |
| 01:25:31.92 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:25:37.12 | Vice Mayor Leon | I mean, I want you to do your project, but I'm trying to be practical. |
| 01:25:41.71 | Mayor Kelly | We're trying to be practical. Everybody who's very supportive. We're just here. All right. So thank you. And we'll take some public comment at this point, if there's any. All right. Anybody from the public care to comment on what's been proposed and talked about here? |
| 01:25:43.60 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:25:56.41 | Vice Mayor Leon | All right? |
| 01:25:56.71 | Mayor Kelly | Seeing none, now we can come back up here. |
| 01:25:57.89 | Vice Mayor Leon | I just have a question for the city attorney. Sure. Mary, Heather actually brings up a good point in that at some point, um, Well, two things. One, you might want to consider in addition to just this right of entry that you have, Anybody who's volunteering work would ever sign release forms with the city. So we should put that in the resolution. Otherwise, somebody hurts themselves or whatever, it's their problem. Not the city's. You know, you have to do that, even do the coastal cleanup. I've got to wave my, if I die, cleaning up trash. It's my fault. And I believe that |
| 01:26:29.67 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. Yeah. And I believe that Jonathan Goldman had that done in connection with another recent community cleanup effort of the Creek Willow Creek School. Who had a bunch of volunteers and did sign waivers, do something similar. |
| 01:26:35.03 | Unknown | . |
| 01:26:45.70 | Vice Mayor Leon | who had a bunch of volunteers |
| 01:26:50.39 | Vice Mayor Leon | And Heather's other point, and I can't remember exactly how you phrased it. in not having a lease, which obviously they don't have a lease and they don't probably have the money to pay for a lease at the same time, is that maybe at some point to help them and also to define what they are. It might be worth considering doing some short-term leases in a very short term that could have automatic renewals for certain periods of time to give them some ability to and some legal rights between all these parties so that things are much more clear than just a letter of intent. |
| 01:27:29.49 | Mary Wagner | Right. So there was the letter of intent that was supposed to put the framework in place for the fundraising to begin to pay for the lease and the improvements that were going to be outlined in the lease |
| 01:27:39.24 | Vice Mayor Leon | No, I don't mean the long term lease. I mean extremely short term so that |
| 01:27:40.73 | Mary Wagner | I mean, like, |
| 01:27:44.37 | Vice Mayor Leon | It defines things a little bit better, and so maybe not. I know where you're going, but I... |
| 01:27:48.32 | Mary Wagner | The right of entry allows the city to retain a lot more control and rights over the property. But I understand you, and if this continues to move forward toward can we just hold classes on weekends for the summer, we might look at a more extensive right of entry or a license agreement or a lease, depending upon the timing. And we can work with Heather on that as that develops. And I don't mean to confuse this issue any further, but I want to make sure that I understand what the council authorization is tonight, and I believe it's as you indicated, the phase one, you know, and as the mayor read off, To the extent that those types of renovations need additional permits, building permits or permits from the Community Development Department, obviously they would be required to go through those steps as well. |
| 01:28:36.87 | Jonathon Goldman | So that's why it's... |
| 01:28:37.75 | Mary Wagner | The sign is another issue that would require a sign permit. Yes, if the city is authorizing and I don't I don't understand if that was being asked for tonight or not But if you were and it's not agendized as an item for you tonight, so we would really need to bring that back to you |
| 01:28:41.06 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:28:45.26 | Unknown | All right. |
| 01:28:45.27 | Unknown | THE END OF |
| 01:28:45.31 | Unknown | I'm sorry. |
| 01:28:45.46 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:28:45.55 | Unknown | I'm not sure. |
| 01:28:45.61 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:28:45.75 | Unknown | you THE FAMILY. THE FAMILY. doesn't it? |
| 01:28:52.73 | Vice Mayor Leon | Right, and so the questions I had on Some of what you said is number two includes the storage shed, which is not you know, this kind of what do you, you know, I would just limit it to the office because you're saying, And to your credit, the storage shed can't be repaired So how are you going to renovate it? You know, so it's sort of like you can't approve the whole action here, number two. I don't think we're even going that far. No, no, no. You're saying you're... We're just giving some... No, we don't grant the permit. It's not set the point, but there's no consensus on the second part, and she's asking for consensus. No. |
| 01:29:16.24 | Mayor Kelly | I don't think we're even going that far. No, no, no. You're saying you're great. We're just giving some questions. |
| 01:29:27.44 | Mayor Kelly | No. What we're going to do tonight is grant the right of entry to city property and the performance of maintenance, pile-in, dock section replacement under the supervision of the first part. So that is number one. |
| 01:29:36.42 | Vice Mayor Leon | So that is number one. |
| 01:29:38.55 | Mayor Kelly | whatever that is. I don't care if there's one or five or three or seven. No, I think you have to give them to the Mississippi. That's what's said. |
| 01:29:38.57 | Vice Mayor Leon | Thank you. and |
| 01:29:42.48 | Mary Wagner | That's what staff is asking you to. |
| 01:29:44.98 | Unknown | that's the best. |
| 01:29:45.16 | Mayor Kelly | I'm sorry. Yeah. |
| 01:29:47.65 | Vice Mayor Leon | But part of Heather's budget is to do the office renovation, so that's part of the second step. So you can't, I want to be very nice to Heather, but I also don't want to have any problems two months from now. So... |
| 01:29:51.24 | Mary Wagner | you |
| 01:29:58.85 | Mayor Kelly | That's why I don't want to approve what Heather has on the board. I want to give this authority to Heather. This is a legitimate authority. |
| 01:30:05.43 | Vice Mayor Leon | This is the authority to extend the very in-kind donations is to reshingle the office buildings. |
| 01:30:13.19 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. He's going to supervise everything she does. That would be part of it. And when he deems it necessary to come back to us to talk about other improvements that are beyond what this says, I expect him to come back here and do that. And you would do that, correct? |
| 01:30:31.42 | Jonathon Goldman | Absolutely. And if I may, Mr. Mayor, I think it really is important to be very specific here. I see phase one up here. That's not what staff or the agenda is asking council to prove. Correct. I know that Ms. Richard and Jessica and Marina is trying and is probably looking for some feedback from you, potentially members of the community, as to consensus on these concepts. But the action item this evening is strictly limited to a right of entry and license agreement to allow for maintenance associated with pylons, docks, and potentially roofing, but not reshing reaching the nothing that would involve a design review permit. It's fairly, my intent anyway, to limit it to again take advantage of the work that Ms. Richard and her colleagues have done that I think allows the city to accomplish deferred maintenance that if we had a tenant there, the tenant would have been responsible for. But because the tenant isn't there, those are city assets. And because we don't have the resources to do that maintenance, it's an opportunity for public benefit as long as insurance is in place, as the appropriate permits are issued, etc., etc. But it's intended to be very narrow. |
| 01:30:45.07 | City Manager Politzer | Thank you. for the |
| 01:30:50.72 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 01:30:50.77 | Unknown | you |
| 01:30:51.06 | Andrew Davidson | Yeah. |
| 01:31:19.72 | City Manager Politzer | Right. |
| 01:31:47.03 | Unknown | But... |
| 01:32:03.56 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:32:05.92 | Mayor Kelly | In the report under the section called Impact, it says the planned maintenance will not have environmental impacts. All the facilities contemplated involve the replacement or rehabilitation of existing facilities, with no change in capacity or use and are therefore considered consistent with the general plan and exempt from CEQA. So I think that's the spirit. |
| 01:32:25.49 | Vice Mayor Leon | That's the spirit. That's why we're not approving anyone here. You're approving us here. That's right. I love that this is a question. |
| 01:32:28.28 | Mayor Kelly | I love the concept. I think you're on the right track. But we're approving this tonight. And that's limited to what Jonathan just said and what we read here. So... |
| 01:32:39.41 | Carolyn Revell | Yeah. So. So I move. |
| 01:32:41.78 | Mayor Kelly | I move. Wait, she wants to come up. You want? Sure. |
| 01:32:43.43 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:32:45.46 | Carolyn Revell | Oh. |
| 01:32:50.08 | Heather Richard | So I think when I was asking for consensus, so what's in the action item is very clear. We just want to make sure nothing else falls down. And we want to renovate what's existing without changing anything, just exactly what's written. But what we would like consensus on is does council give Cass Gidley a thumbs up or a thumbs down to move forward based on what you've seen tonight? Or would you like us to move in some different direction? That's what I'm asking for as consensus. Some sort of direction. It's been over six months since we've talked about it. |
| 01:33:30.43 | Mayor Kelly | Let me just see if I can sum up and then others can disagree or agree. That I think in general, we like what we hear. Everybody's supportive of what you're doing out there. |
| 01:33:37.85 | Unknown | A teasing, a teasing, a silly way. |
| 01:33:47.98 | Mayor Kelly | We recognize that this problem in front of us is present right now, and you need to take care of it because you've got some issues if you don't. We want you to come back, however, as you develop these ideas and you get more substance to them, come back and talk to us about them. And Jonathan will know when that should be, and you'll know when it should be because you're talking with him. And eventually what will evolve from that is a nice, plan that you're going to be happy with and the city's going to be happy with. But it doesn't mean that we're going to just say, well, okay, we approve all those things because we can't. We don't know enough yet. |
| 01:34:20.12 | Unknown | Because we can't. Yeah. |
| 01:34:22.61 | Mayor Kelly | And you don't know enough yet to be able to describe it accurately. So we'll get there. But it's the process. And that's what we're doing. That make sense? Anybody disagree with it? Yeah, absolutely. No, it's fine. Great. Thank you. Super. Super. |
| 01:34:27.10 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:34:30.59 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:34:30.60 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:34:30.64 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:34:30.77 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:34:30.81 | Vice Mayor Leon | Thank you. |
| 01:34:31.06 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 01:34:31.16 | Unknown | Does that make sense? |
| 01:34:31.85 | Unknown | Do you disagree? |
| 01:34:32.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:34:33.03 | Vice Mayor Leon | No, it's fine. Great. Just to be clear, because, you know, Heather, I'll just give you my two words of advice. When I renovated my own house, I decided I was going to do so in a way that I wouldn't have to go through a lot of the planning approval process and trigger a lot of the triggers, because it's just going to take forever. And you don't need that. You don't need that. |
| 01:34:38.99 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:34:39.18 | Mayor Kelly | Because... |
| 01:34:39.90 | Unknown | We're beginning. |
| 01:34:40.38 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:34:40.48 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:34:40.51 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:34:40.54 | Mayor Kelly | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 01:34:45.19 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:34:45.20 | Unknown | Oof. |
| 01:34:45.64 | Unknown | I decided I was going to |
| 01:34:47.02 | Mayor Kelly | do so in a way that |
| 01:34:47.77 | Unknown | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 01:34:55.73 | Mayor Kelly | Don't hire Jonathan or me to do your house. Okay, that's the message here. |
| 01:34:57.74 | Vice Mayor Leon | The President's Office of the But, you know, so the renovation that you keep talking about is the docks. That's all that you're approving here. So you've just got to be clear it's not renovation of buildings. That's between you and Jonathan, and when you come back, I'll pay him. |
| 01:35:11.65 | Mayor Kelly | Okay. All right. That was more than two words. Beg your pardon? I did do public comment. Watch out. No one came up. Yes. Mr. Mayor. |
| 01:35:14.45 | Carolyn Revell | Thank you. |
| 01:35:14.48 | Vice Mayor Leon | Thank you. |
| 01:35:14.63 | Carolyn Revell | Thank you. |
| 01:35:15.17 | Vice Mayor Leon | I did pick. |
| 01:35:16.18 | Carolyn Revell | to do public. |
| 01:35:16.64 | Vice Mayor Leon | Thank you. |
| 01:35:16.69 | Carolyn Revell | Thank you. |
| 01:35:16.77 | Vice Mayor Leon | I love it. Watch out. |
| 01:35:19.66 | Carolyn Revell | Just a minute here. |
| 01:35:20.42 | Mayor Kelly | Yes. |
| 01:35:21.31 | Carolyn Revell | I move that we adopt a resolution authorizing right of entry to city property and performance of maintenance, piling and dock section replacement by Cass Gidley Marina. Okay. |
| 01:35:31.74 | Vice Mayor Leon | you |
| 01:35:31.83 | Carolyn Revell | you |
| 01:35:31.98 | Vice Mayor Leon | Second? |
| 01:35:32.16 | Carolyn Revell | Thank you. |
| 01:35:32.18 | Councilmember | Second. |
| 01:35:32.77 | Vice Mayor Leon | Thank you. |
| 01:35:32.89 | Councilmember | So, |
| 01:35:32.98 | Vice Mayor Leon | Thank you. |
| 01:35:33.02 | Councilmember | them. |
| 01:35:33.77 | Vice Mayor Leon | Can I make an amendment to that? That you include their signing of releases for work done by private individuals on public property as part of that? |
| 01:35:42.71 | Mayor Kelly | Yeah. That's part of it. And unnecessary liability. |
| 01:35:45.75 | Vice Mayor Leon | All right. |
| 01:35:45.77 | Carolyn Revell | I accept that amendment. |
| 01:35:47.66 | Mayor Kelly | Okay. All right. So with that, a motion and a second. |
| 01:35:47.79 | Councilmember | Thank you. THE END OF THE END OF THE Yep, I second. |
| 01:35:50.88 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. All in favor? Aye. |
| 01:35:51.81 | Carolyn Revell | Thank you. |
| 01:35:51.86 | Councilmember | Aye. |
| 01:35:52.53 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 01:35:52.58 | Councilmember | Thank you. |
| 01:35:52.84 | Mayor Kelly | a buzz. |
| 01:35:53.92 | Councilmember | Thank you. |
| 01:35:55.99 | Mayor Kelly | Go forward. |
| 01:35:56.18 | Councilmember | Go forward. |
| 01:35:57.75 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. Thank you. All right, good. Now we're ready to go to item 6D, which is replacement of fire alarm and warning system at City Hall. Mr. Goldman again. |
| 01:36:10.34 | Jonathon Goldman | Thank you again, Mr. Mayor. |
| 01:36:12.51 | Vice Mayor Leon | Michael, no disrespect to you. about your buildings going over budget. |
| 01:36:19.57 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:36:19.97 | Vice Mayor Leon | Thank you. |
| 01:36:20.04 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:36:20.09 | Vice Mayor Leon | Believe me, my billing over budget |
| 01:36:20.16 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. Bye. |
| 01:36:21.27 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:36:21.44 | Mayor Kelly | So, we're going to have a |
| 01:36:21.61 | Unknown | everybody, too. So. You're cool. You can go home and listen. |
| 01:36:22.03 | Mayor Kelly | I do. So. You're cool. You can go home and listen. |
| 01:36:29.66 | Jonathon Goldman | This item to Mr. Mayor and members of the council, there's no PowerPoint presentation on. It's really here as a business item for two reasons. One, the significant dollar value. And then secondly, it requires special circumstances for the city to acquire something, a public works project, without competitive bidding directly. In this case, we are asking that the council approve and authorize the city manager to execute a cooperative purchase contract with Simplex Grinnell for a replacement fire alarm and one system for city hall. The cooperative purchasing contract is a competitive process that the state of California engages in to try to get, in fact for the purpose of getting, the best value, best prices for the state of California. And under our purchasing ordinance and public contracts code, the city is allowed to take advantage of, to piggyback on that kind of procurement, if in our collective judgment, and eventually that relies on the city is allowed to take advantage of to piggyback on that kind of procurement if in our collective judgment, and eventually that relies on the city council's concurrence, that it does provide best value to the city. |
| 01:36:29.71 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 01:36:30.05 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 01:36:30.08 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:37:44.43 | Mayor Kelly | And that allows us to bypass a bid procedure where we invite bids and do that sort of thing. |
| 01:37:50.34 | Jonathon Goldman | Correct. And the objective isn't necessarily to bypass the free market process. The objective is to make sure that we're getting the best price for the money. And taking into account the level of effort necessary to develop detailed plans and specifications and perform bidding, our judgment in this case is that awarding this contract to Simplex Grinnell with California multiple awards scheduled pricing does provide best value. The reasons for that are laid out in the staff report. I'm happy to talk in detail but fundamentally Simplex Grinnell manufacturers some of the equipment and installed the fire alarm and warning systems in our two new public safety buildings in addition they have just last week completed the installation of a fire alarm and warning system at the NLK gym. There are advantages to the city to having commonality in that equipment, and it's the equipment that is actually the California Multiple Award Schedule pricing that we are benefiting from. Right. Because the labor on a public works contract is prevailing wage. Labor in theory should be equal no matter which contractor is doing the work. |
| 01:38:01.68 | Mayor Kelly | That's price. |
| 01:38:10.84 | Andrew Davidson | Uh, |
| 01:39:10.49 | Mayor Kelly | Right. |
| 01:39:20.06 | Unknown | Perfect. |
| 01:39:22.22 | Jonathon Goldman | Thank you. Because City Hall is the most intensively used city building, and the fire alarm and warning system that's in this building, it's unfortunate that we're at the end of the agenda, but the warning panel for City Hall's current alarm is in Charlie Francis' office. and there are parts of it that our current monitoring contractor just refuses to fix or pay any attention to. So when we have issues, we're not protecting the public. |
| 01:39:46.86 | Andrew Davidson | figure that out. Zero. |
| 01:40:03.35 | Mayor Kelly | What is that date to? |
| 01:40:05.22 | Jonathon Goldman | For all I know, it dates the 19th century originally, though. Judging from the looks of some of the things. But it may be as recent as the 70s when this was transferred, translated, transformed from being a school into being a community center. So given the need to, or the clear need, to upgrade the system to reflect the level of use in the building, the fact that in the event there was a fire, we need to make sure that all of the occupants of the building are notified in a timely manner, that the fire department is notified in a timely manner, and in the best of circumstances, we're able to prevent any significant damage to the building. My judgment was that it's time to consider replacing that entire system and make it not only compliant with the current building code for fire alarm and warning systems but also make it accessible to people with disabilities. So that a person in a wheelchair can reach a fire alarm pull station and actually trigger the alarm instead of |
| 01:40:06.03 | Mayor Kelly | All I know is this one's in the middle of the result. . Judging. Yeah. |
| 01:40:14.60 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:40:20.98 | Mayor Kelly | came into play yeah |
| 01:40:52.16 | Andrew Davidson | Yeah. |
| 01:41:07.22 | Andrew Davidson | but also make it accessible to |
| 01:41:17.12 | Jonathon Goldman | Thank you. |
| 01:41:17.36 | Unknown | No. |
| 01:41:17.39 | Jonathon Goldman | Thank you. Thank you. And that's why the Department of Public Works asked that budget be set aside for this item in the budget. The council approved that budget. We hired Simplex Grinnell to evaluate the system that we have now and to design a replacement system. And then as indicated in the staff report, ask them to provide a quotation for instruction, furnishing and installing that system. So based on all of that, we have a lot of questions. Thanks. |
| 01:41:56.04 | Jonathon Goldman | Based on all of that, we are recommending that the City Council adopt a resolution approving and authorizing City Manager to execute a cooperative purchasing contract with Simplex Grinnell. And the total dollar amount requested is $162,610. There's $200,000 for this project in the budget, and all of those funds are available |
| 01:42:23.91 | Mayor Kelly | um, Questions? I have a question. Let me ask you one. Since Simplex designed the system and they are also the vendor, did you have anybody else look at that just to kind of give you a thumbs up? Not that the pricing is not right, but just that they just did it correctly. |
| 01:42:40.11 | Jonathon Goldman | No, but we have the benefit of our experience dealing with them at public safety buildings and in MLK. We also took advantage of, for example, the systems that went into public safety buildings, did not use internet protocol, whereas the one that we installed in the gym and that we're proposing to install here will give us some significant advantages for kind of expansion and integration in the future. |
| 01:42:46.78 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 01:42:46.93 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 01:42:56.20 | Unknown | Mm-hmm. |
| 01:42:56.55 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 01:43:01.24 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. We'll do that. |
| 01:43:09.26 | Mayor Kelly | So that gave you a comparison. You had two comparisons to make with this on your own. OK. All right. Fair enough. |
| 01:43:12.68 | Jonathon Goldman | On their own. Yes. All right. Fair enough. We did verify that the pricing that's being offered for the equipment is conforms to the State of California contract. |
| 01:43:15.01 | Mayor Kelly | We did bear |
| 01:43:23.10 | Mayor Kelly | Mm-hmm. All right. |
| 01:43:24.87 | Jonathon Goldman | Thank you. |
| 01:43:24.95 | Mayor Kelly | Okay. Any other questions? No. No questions? Yeah. All right. Thank you. |
| 01:43:31.26 | Vice Mayor Leon | Any... Thank you. |
| 01:43:32.23 | Mayor Kelly | I've got a question. |
| 01:43:32.58 | Vice Mayor Leon | Thank you. You're pretty confident this is falling out of the state bidding process gives you a competitive pricing for the system as well as you could get going out yourself, more or less, if not more. We use the same thing for buying automobiles or trucks or whatever. |
| 01:43:47.41 | Mayor Kelly | Bye. If not, |
| 01:43:51.85 | Mayor Kelly | Yeah. of the world. |
| 01:43:52.93 | Vice Mayor Leon | Thank you. |
| 01:43:52.96 | Mayor Kelly | Yes. Okay, thank you. Any comments from the public? Anybody care to address this item? Seeing none, bring it back up here. Any discussion? hearing none? |
| 01:44:06.30 | Vice Mayor Leon | No, it's about time to have some safety in the city hall, so it's a good thing. Jonathan, good job at sort of knocking one pin down after another. |
| 01:44:11.34 | Mayor Kelly | So, yeah. Thank you. |
| 01:44:15.63 | Mayor Kelly | I know. That's a lot. He's good at that. So a motion? |
| 01:44:19.58 | Carolyn Revell | So I move that we authorize the city manager to execute a cooperative purchase contract with Simplex Grinnell for a replacement fire alarm and warning system for city hall. Thank you. |
| 01:44:33.62 | Linda | Second. |
| 01:44:34.19 | Vice Mayor Leon | Thank you. |
| 01:44:34.21 | Linda | Thank you. |
| 01:44:34.63 | Vice Mayor Leon | One point verification. You know, you have a project out there for windows and doors of City Hall. And from experience, the door and the window and the alarm configurations all get sort of tied in together. And then everybody has an excuse why that doesn't work after the other one goes in. If you haven't picked your window or your door, they run the wire down and somebody seals it back up inside the wall. Thank you. Do we have any idea how all that ties together? Or is that still up in the air in terms of the windows and door replacements? |
| 01:45:10.37 | Jonathon Goldman | uh... first of all uh... In the short term, all that we're having Simplex Grinnell do has to do with fire, heat, and smoke. It doesn't have to do with security, which the perimeter pieces would cover. In addition, the purchasing office, the city manager and the finance director, have a requisition for me to start the door replacement process. It's a long story about how we got to where we are but the fact is that alarms don't really play a role. If at some point in the future we wanted to improve security, we wanted to improve |
| 01:45:29.17 | Vice Mayor Leon | Okay. |
| 01:45:29.54 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:45:29.89 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 01:45:30.01 | Unknown | you |
| 01:45:30.20 | Andrew Davidson | I'm sure. Thank you. |
| 01:45:32.65 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:45:32.69 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 01:45:36.58 | Unknown | . |
| 01:46:05.48 | Vice Mayor Leon | It's just life safety, not security. Okay. Thank you, John. |
| 01:46:05.90 | Jonathon Goldman | life safety. |
| 01:46:10.63 | Mayor Kelly | All right, we have a motion and a second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? |
| 01:46:14.39 | Vice Mayor Leon | I'm not sure. |
| 01:46:15.78 | Mayor Kelly | All right, that brings us to Our favorite part of the evening is city manager information for the council. |
| 01:46:30.58 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. Got him to smile. Thank you. It's a man. |
| 01:46:31.03 | City Manager Politzer | I'm just smiling. All right, thank you, Mr. Mayor. City Council members, welcome back from the break. Six weeks about, roughly. And a lot of work here at City Hall and around town has been happening. And we appreciate the evening breaks from Council. So I hope that you folks have come back. You appreciate the breaks for us. Is that what you just said? You mean you didn't miss us? |
| 01:46:52.40 | Vice Mayor Leon | You appreciate the praise for us. Is that what you just said? |
| 01:46:55.59 | Unknown | You didn't miss us. |
| 01:46:56.33 | Vice Mayor Leon | You didn't know. |
| 01:46:58.23 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 01:46:59.77 | City Manager Politzer | My presentation goes a lot faster than I just... Okay. Okay. But in all seriousness, a lot of work does happen during the month of August, even though both the City Council and the Planning Commission takes some significant time off during that time, one with the effort and expectation that you folks also take a break. |
| 01:47:02.37 | Unknown | Oh no. Thank you. |
| 01:47:21.77 | City Manager Politzer | refresh and re-energize and come back because in my mind it's halftime. We've made it through. the first part of the year, January through July, the calendar year. and we're off to what in many cases becomes a very difficult time of the year with the winter season and all the preparation that has to go in both on the streets and in the homes here in our community. but it's also an opportunity to look at how we've done when the special event season is coming to an end. The art festival usually signifies the end of a very busy special event season with the street fair kicking it off in Memorial Day weekend, the 4th of July event, opening day on the bay, and then obviously jazz and blues by the bay every Friday night downtown. mixed in with a whole bunch of other community events, both big and small. um, It also takes an opportunity to take a look at how our businesses are doing, how our community is doing after the peak season. And hopefully the businesses that have suffered over the downturn in the economy has seen an improvement this past summer. during the financial reports and of what happens, the sales tax information comes two months in arrear so we'll have a good idea of what happened in June and July. And next month we'll be looking forward to see what happened in August. But that will really give us an opportunity to to see how our business community is doing in terms of generating sales tax. But talking to the merchants, I think that they felt that this was a good summer. I think the business all in all was better than the year before and the year before that. It also looks at where we are in providing city services. Again, the good weather brings out a lot of folks that are coming to the planning department to look at getting their building permits, to do renovations, to come to the library to take a look at the new services that our new librarian has brought on board. So it is an opportunity to kind of pause and take a look at how are we performing as departments providing services to our residents. We have, as you know, had a very successful first half. We had a successful financial. half on how we managed our budget, we brought forward in at the end of june a balanced budget that preserves what's important to our community, maintains the existing level of service, but keeps doing that under modest gains. and how we spend our money and how we receive revenues to support those same services. We also had a very successful capital projects season for this first six months, and we look out right now to what's going on downtown with the building of the new restroom. the improved sidewalks on anchor and bay. and the activity that's taking place, both for sewer improvements downtown, let alone the major project that's coming to an end, which is the Sasori Yacht Harbor bulkhead project, which is going to be open to the public, parts of it's open to the public now. and the whole Boardwalk will be open very shortly. from my understanding from meeting with our Public Works Director and Jim Madden. Uh, This is also an opportunity to look at the impacts, and I'm looking for feedback from our council, from our residents, from the various stakeholders in the downtown community of the amount of pedestrians, vehicles, traffic circulation, and then obviously the impacts of bikes. And I think that I can sit here and say, and I said it to the stakeholders that I've met with, that every year we've made improvements. Every year we've had some additional benefit of what we've done in the past, which is evaluate how things are going and what next steps are needed to make the next year better than the previous year. The reservation system obviously was one of the major steps that we put in this year, which gave people the ability to get a reservation on a boat, put their bike in the bike rack, and then go enjoy our business community and what they have to offer. And I've witnessed this and I'm sure that many of you in our residents as well, have seen that almost every single restaurant during the summer Seven days a week was packed. And I think that was because people were able to park their bikes, get their reservation, and go have lunch and sit around for an hour. and go and enjoy the shops and then come back and get their bikes. And rather than standing in line for two hours, they've been able to enjoy the town. It's not perfect. There's still a lot of issues that have to be worked out. There are some significant safety concerns that we have that many of us witnessed as members of the council lab. about what happens on El Portal, because that's where people turn in. That's where people exit off of the boat. That's where cars are coming to park. There's a lot of activity with pedestrians walking in the street, bikes going. all directions. as well as cars that are trying to enter that location And then you have LA service in and above tide. So there's going to be a lot of discussion over the winter months. preparing for next spring on what next steps are needed. So any ideas that members of the council have, members of the public, have on things that they witnessed. It's not just pointing out what's wrong, because I think that many of us will be able to identify that, I welcome pointing out what's wrong, but also pointing out some opportunities to improve what exists today. As you folks have heard in the past... Many months ago, the Golden Gate Ferry is coming forward with their proposed improvement to the float. and they have shared with you various ideas and got the feedback from the council on a preferred design, which is similar to what exists today. They'll be coming to our next council meeting to go into the details of that. It's about a two-year project. It's not something that's going to happen overnight. They have to look at how they're going to impact the existing area service. You can't take out a float and have to figure out where you're going to provide the service if, in fact, that is possible. So if you need the information that was provided to you when Jim Swindler came and presented before, I'm sure that we can find that for you if you don't have it in your files or you can't find it by doing the search on our past agendas. It is public information and they are in the archives and you can find it if you don't readily available if you need our help. Either Jonathan, Debbie, or I would be happy to provide some of that information for you. It will be part of the staff report. It will make sure that the public is aware of where we've been and where we're going. Thank you. |
| 01:55:10.23 | Unknown | I'm sorry. |
| 01:55:10.48 | City Manager Politzer | Mm-hmm. Thank you. The other significant feedback that we'll be looking from the community for is, you know, we want to move forward on the repaving and the recirculation of the downtown lots. It's something that we've been working on since 2009, and it's the front steps of our home. When you get off of the ferry, you come off of the tour bus, and both for visitors and for residents that are community, It's the welcoming gate to Sausalito, and it's an opportunity now as it's been in the budget for years now, to move forward on the circulation and repavement and re-striping of the downtown lots. This afternoon, the Public Works Director and I went for a walkthrough in the parking lot and he informed me that he is working actively not only with bringing that plan forward, bring forward in the near future. but also to save the trees. And I know that there was a lot of talk about potentially taking and removing the trees and putting trees and potted trees. in parts. and taking them out of the ground but there may be an opportunity to save the healthy trees that are there. work with that. But there'll be a lot more that comes with it, and what I'm getting at is during the month of August when we have this opportunity to kind of take a time out from writing staff reports and doing presentations and having meetings about what the staff report should say and what the presentation should look like, we're actually able to roll up our sleeves and get into the nitty gritty of the details of what's necessary as we look forward and look at what's coming down the line. |
| 01:56:51.53 | Councilmember | Thank you. |
| 01:57:02.68 | City Manager Politzer | I'm going to skip a lot of this because I know that my... audience knows most of what I'm talking about here, but I just thought it was an opportunity since we had time to talk about it, to present some of these things. But the street projects, we're in the middle of meeting and Jonathan and Todd Ticha and I have had many meetings during the month of July and August to look at what are we rolling out next spring. This is the design. phase, how much money do we have? Where else can money come from? What grants are available? What can we look to the county for in terms of support to again, maximize our street pavement plan? A reminder, we've paved over 62% of our streets in three years, which means we've got 38% left to do. And our effort has been to not just do what the pavement management system rolls out, because that's a formula. that takes the politics out of it, takes all of it, and says, here's the condition of the it's excellent or it's poor, It falls in the middle. If it's poor, you don't get to pave it because it's a waste of money in terms of the plan. The middle says you better do something now or it's going to turn into a forestry and then eventually it won't ever be paved. We use that as a guiding tool, but we also look at what streets are heavily traveled, what streets give us vertical down and horizontal across to help the circulation through town. Obviously, with Watery Street, San Carlo Street, 3rd Street, Johnson Street, we looked at the opportunity there to replace the concrete streets. and build with Lottery Street a street that didn't even exist, and for years was argued if it was actually going to the city or not. But through grants and what you've already heard from past presentations, we were able to get money to support the effort at Watery Street. So as we go through this process, we'll be bringing forward our recommendation to the Council with the funding to support these efforts, but I think that the public would want to hear this, Two of the streets that we're now looking at at the south in the town is Richardson and Main Street. Those are, again, two. Um, horizontal or vertical streets that help bring traffic that comes off of Spencer Avenue, which we've improved, And we've gotten Spencer Avenue all the way down to San Carlos to Bridgeway improved. Now let's take a look at how we bring people down into the other parts of town. And so, Richardson and Maine are high priorities. I don't know if we can afford to do them. They're long streets, there's a lot of infrastructure underneath them that'll have to be addressed, but it's important that you recognize that we're looking at this. |
| 01:59:37.36 | Unknown | So. |
| 01:59:50.30 | City Manager Politzer | A lot of residents ask these questions, and so this is why I bring it up so that the council and anyone that may be listening Thank you. I'll keep it. I just couldn't spread this word out. It is our intentions over the next five years to get all 38% of the streets that are remaining done. But your street may not be next, and it may be the fifth year when your street gets done. If there are circumstances that we aren't aware of, that's why we're asking for the If there's something that people should tell us that maybe we're not aware of, We live at a cul-de-sac. But in this cul-de-sac is the largest apartment complex in the city. and you're not taking, you're just looking at one property and not recognizing the value of that one property and the number of people that live in there. So that's the type of discussions that we're having. Bonita Street, obviously, cutting across here in this part of town. is another important street. Girard that comes down, everyone is aware of the condition, especially off of Pine. that connects you over to Casno there, That street needs a lot of work. But again, we're trying to prioritize these and when we come forward here at the end of the fall. We'll have a plan. We'll take your directions. the opportunity for public to come in and lobby for their street to be moved up. And then us to tell you here's the money we have. And if you want to move money from other capital projects, to do more, then that would be the opportunity to to share that with the staff. |
| 02:01:21.39 | City Manager Politzer | I'm just taking a look here and I think that I will stop there except for two quick items. |
| 02:01:25.81 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 02:01:26.40 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:01:30.99 | City Manager Politzer | Shared services, I mentioned this last time, you know, the grand jury report really talked about the importance of shared services. And I said in previous reports that this is something that is important to me, it's important to the community. and to take a look at everything that we do from the smallest to the largest And so we do plan on coming back in October. to talk about what shared services that we provide today that we're already in JPAs or agreements to do and then proposals to move forward on new shared service opportunities that were in the very beginning in conceptual at the staff level. and we hope to have some discussion at our next strategic planning session on shared services, which transitioned, but We've. were to have a strategic planning session back in March. But because of the fire consolidation election, we purposely held off on that, and with the break in August, We're still delayed in hosting and hosting our strategic planning session. So I'm proposing something that is always going to be difficult because it's not just getting all five council members to have a date that's available It's also getting the department heads and managers there to join us, which obviously enlarges the circle of people's calendars that we have to juggle through. |
| 02:02:51.10 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:03:00.02 | City Manager Politzer | And as you recall, our last strategic planning session, both Councilmember Leon and Councilmember Weiner out of the state. I think Councilman Weiner was in Chile and Council Member Leon was back east. And they flew in and arrived at noon. or sometime afternoon and join us in progress. I'm proposing October 5th, which is a Friday, which is traditionally the day that we hold our strategic planning session. |
| 02:03:21.66 | Andrew Davidson | FRIEND. |
| 02:03:25.81 | City Manager Politzer | as the date that you folks put on your calendar, and ask that that we moved tonight to secure the location and the facilitator for that. and for me to be able to give direction to staff to prepare. on the various material and presentations that we traditionally do at the strategic planning session. So I'll be asking the mayor to confirm that with you folks here. at the conclusion of my report. The very last item is the MCC MC dinner is coming up, and it's, Debbie sent out a reminder to you folks that it's on a Monday this time, it's not on a Wednesday. It would have been on Wednesday the 26th. This time it's Monday, September 24th. And the special and uniqueness about this meeting is that your council member Weiner is going to be, is now the president of MCC MCC MC. And this will be his first meeting. So it'd be nice if the majority, if not all, the council members could be there to support him on his first meeting. and congratulations for that opportunity. I'm happy to take any questions on any of the items that I discussed and asked the mayor to take action on this. |
| 02:04:45.38 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 02:04:45.41 | Mayor Kelly | Discuss. |
| 02:04:49.73 | Mayor Kelly | Let's deal with the October 5th date. Can everybody make it on October 5th? |
| 02:04:54.05 | Unknown | Thank you. Oh. |
| 02:04:59.10 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. that I'm sorry. MR. Okay. All right. October 5th it is. So, before. All right, any questions? |
| 02:05:11.77 | Carolyn Revell | I have, you know, the business with the bicycles and the pedestrian sidewalks, whether we're talking about the bicyclists coming into town or whether we're talking about where they or how we have pedestrian and bicycle traffic moving downtown and asking for input on that. I think that the best way to get that input, and I know you're not going to like this, but it's something I've proposed before, is to do like every other town in Marin County has done and establish a bicycle and pedestrian committee. made up of residents, who can give input on such things. Not only our bicycle traffic, our pedestrian traffic, but... And our pedestrian traffic does include the steps that go up and down the hills. but that kind of thing it seems to me that typically we look to the business community but the business community is a small part of our town and I think that we as council members and city staff need to hear from the residents who are putting up with the bicyclists day after day after day and hear what they have to say about how that is going because it's not just parking downtown that is the issue. And until we can get those bicycles out of the The B of A, Plaza, I don't think we've solved that problem either. So I once again urge staff and the city council to look at establishing a pedestrian and bicycle committee. |
| 02:07:16.48 | Linda | Mr. Mayor, I'd like to comment on that too and just echo what Councilmember Ford said. I had a meeting actually with Council Member Weiner about two weeks ago with some residents, concerned residents on South Street regarding the bicycle traffic. And, you know, the numbers keep growing, and it just seems absurd that we don't have a bicycle pedestrian committee. And I really hope that we, you know, can move forward on that and explore that a little bit more. because I know that I've had at least three people contact me and want to be on that committee. They're very motivated. |
| 02:08:01.50 | Carolyn Revell | Any willingness to establish such a committee? Do you have a future agenda item? As a future agenda item, I'm asking. |
| 02:08:10.68 | Mayor Kelly | Yes. It could be a future agenda. Sure. |
| 02:08:18.10 | Carolyn Revell | Thank you. |
| 02:08:18.14 | Mayor Kelly | Uh... |
| 02:08:18.15 | Carolyn Revell | Uh, |
| 02:08:18.83 | Mayor Kelly | We'll consider it on the future agenda. Thank you. |
| 02:08:20.45 | Carolyn Revell | And when? I mean, we've heard this story before. October, November. |
| 02:08:25.24 | City Manager Politzer | Mr. Mayor, may I just comment? If I turn what Councilmember Ford said to a question to me. I think what I would say is that |
| 02:08:27.87 | Carolyn Revell | Yeah. |
| 02:08:35.97 | City Manager Politzer | recommend is part of this evaluation process that staff is undergoing now. And that's with the Police Chief. several members of the police department including the lieutenant Public Works. Let us come back and give you some feedback from what we received. And there may be a recommendation, and I will bring this to the the staff to explore an opportunity to discuss what a bicycle committee would be charged to do. I think that what Council Member Ford has said in the past, is that when we went through that bridgeway from Gate 6 Road to Ferry Landing discussion, one of the things that was recommended in that study was to put together a bicycle pedestrian committee and there was talk about what that committee would be made up of. And we never populated it. We couldn't populate it. we had various challenges getting each of the different required fields filled. And there was residents and there was a few |
| 02:09:45.73 | Carolyn Revell | No, excuse me, but that's not what I recall. Well, this is not the agenda. |
| 02:09:48.45 | City Manager Politzer | This is not on the agenda. I think it's important for the public to understand what we're talking about. And if I can remind Councilmember Ford, this is this is much earlier in the process. This was when we did the what you may be talking about in the future is different than what was talked about. |
| 02:09:51.74 | Mayor Kelly | to show you. |
| 02:10:06.78 | City Manager Politzer | as part of the gate six road to ferry landing process. And it required certain people to be on the committee. |
| 02:10:07.76 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 02:10:13.49 | City Manager Politzer | and we had a lot of discussion when Todd teached how to get the presentation. about how many pedestrian advocates should be on there versus cyclists and we had originally was more cyclists pedestrian and we kind of went back and forth. to Council Member Ford, point. we were talking about expanding it so that it included the pathways as well as just the path. It never went any way. further than that. It doesn't mean that it's not a good idea and it's not something that should be a priority of the city. but I think where we are at this moment is give staff the opportunity to evaluate our current situation that the challenge that the council will have Um, is that one committee won't be able to look at all of that. It'll be too broad, it'll be too big, problems where we get with other commissions where they They have a tough time getting the honors around it. a clearer direction that the council gives to the committee on what they're focused. And it may be like, Cass Gidley. you got all these phases, let's start with this, which may be downtown, or it may be Alexander Avenue. But there's got to be some focus, otherwise if you say it's everything, it will be tough for them to get their start. I don't think that it's something that needs to be discussed tonight. I think it gives the staff an opportunity to reflect on what Council Member Ford has been saying at several past meetings. and let us come back and tell you what we think the opportunities are and then get direction from council. |
| 02:11:52.08 | Carolyn Revell | Well, i will respond to one comment we as a council had input from the bicycle coalition group and from others as to how the committee should be established what the mission would be what the breakdown between pedestrian and bicycle advocates would be and we had it all laid out and in the end we did not have council support I think that needs to be revisited I think that it's all ready to go if staff wants to look at it great that I would ask that you bring it back in October or November can I get a yes on that or is this simply another delay |
| 02:12:46.23 | City Manager Politzer | It's not a delay, it's a priority which this is not on the priority calendar. but you're getting a commitment from your city manager tonight to include this in the evaluation of where we are with the bicycle parking downtown. which is where they eventually end. And I can't tell you if that's October or November when we'll be able to come back to the council. But I'm telling you that it's on the list. and it's something that we recognize regardless if we come back to council, We've done it for the past five years where we've made improvements for signage. for circulation. and not to wait until we come back to October What you just described was part of the Gate 6 road to Ferry Landing process. that. was populated. as recommended, but we weren't able to fill all those populations. What you were. When the plan came forward for you to accept, for the council to accept, That's when you were making the statements and making the recommendation that we um, either populate or keep this committee together to move forward to deal with the bigger issues that were outside of the gate 6 to gridway program. So that's what I'm trying to make sure that we're going to do. |
| 02:14:05.49 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 02:14:06.03 | Mayor Kelly | So that's what I want to make sure that we're doing. We're going to have a deep discussion about that. Can I ask you to move forward? Let me make a statement because I helped set the agenda. I'm interested in setting agenda items that I believe have a point. They've been studied. They've been written up. |
| 02:14:11.30 | City Manager Politzer | Let me make a mistake. |
| 02:14:11.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:14:11.99 | City Manager Politzer | Thank you. |
| 02:14:12.01 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:14:22.21 | Mayor Kelly | and we have a clear understanding of what it is we're trying to accomplish. And just mentioning bicycles and pedestrians conjures up about six or seven different categories in my mind. Is it downtown? Is it the guys who ride all the way through town? Is it the steps and stairways? Is it the pathways? Is it the waterfront? Those are all separate populations in the bike and pedestrian experience in Sausalito. If I personally were interested in having a particular issue addressed, I would write up a paper on it and I'd say, this is what I want addressed. And I have to understand that it has to be somewhat constrained because we can't throw big committees together with lots of problems. They'll never come to any conclusions. I feel the same way about the Art Commission. I've said that about that before. If the Art Commission has a purpose, I'd love to see it and I'd love to study it. But just to say we needed our commission or we needed a bike and pedestrian committee leaves me with a foggy understanding of what that means. So I'd be happy to entertain it if somebody can put it in a form that I can look at it and say, ah, There's something that council can debate. and talk about And it's not so wide ranging that at the end of the day, we'll all be sitting here with our head in our hands. So that's my view. |
| 02:15:42.76 | Carolyn Revell | Okay, and I will respond to that by saying if we have... None of this is on the agenda. We need to know for it. Excuse me. |
| 02:15:46.49 | Mayor Kelly | If we have... None of this is on the agenda. We need to know for it. Excuse me. Point of order. Point of order. But not specific to interrupt people. |
| 02:15:51.58 | Carolyn Revell | Point of view. |
| 02:15:53.91 | Vice Mayor Leon | It's not to interrupt people. Point of order. Point of order is not a motion that allows you to interrupt people. |
| 02:15:57.91 | Mayor Kelly | Would you please stop, please? We've been through this before. Last meeting, we had this happen, so let's |
| 02:16:00.26 | Carolyn Revell | Please. |
| 02:16:00.76 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:16:04.34 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 02:16:04.38 | Carolyn Revell | okay but what I would like to say is this and I was responding to the city managers call for more input more public input I think we do need public input from our residents |
| 02:16:04.39 | Mayor Kelly | All right. Yeah. But what I would like to see |
| 02:16:19.98 | Carolyn Revell | Set up your committee. Give them the questions that he is looking for answers to, and let's move on with this. Every other town in Marin has done it. It's a good way of getting public information. information from our residents so that's my point. And that's why I brought it up in response to what our city manager said. So I'm sorry there's no support for it, but I rest my case. All right. Mr. Mayor. |
| 02:16:52.27 | Linda | Mr. Mayor, I support it for the record. |
| 02:16:54.17 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. |
| 02:16:54.21 | Carolyn Revell | Thank you. |
| 02:16:54.24 | Mayor Kelly | Bye. |
| 02:16:54.26 | Carolyn Revell | Bye. |
| 02:16:54.29 | Mayor Kelly | So, |
| 02:16:56.40 | Councilmember | Sure. |
| 02:16:56.59 | Carolyn Revell | Thank you. |
| 02:16:57.78 | Councilmember | Look, if you want the answers for those things, come and see me. |
| 02:16:58.31 | Carolyn Revell | Thank you. |
| 02:16:58.33 | Mayor Kelly | What? |
| 02:17:01.09 | Linda | Thank you. |
| 02:17:01.11 | Mayor Kelly | And... |
| 02:17:01.26 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:17:01.31 | Linda | Oh. Thank you. |
| 02:17:02.02 | Unknown | you |
| 02:17:02.04 | Linda | her. |
| 02:17:02.38 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:17:02.39 | Mayor Kelly | All right, here we go. Council Member Committee reports. Do I have any Council Member Committee reports? |
| 02:17:07.12 | Linda | Thank you. |
| 02:17:07.15 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:17:07.66 | Linda | you |
| 02:17:07.96 | Mayor Kelly | Okay. |
| 02:17:08.57 | Linda | Mr. Mayor? Yes. So, unfortunately, I won't be able to be at the MCC MC meeting because I have a, sorry, Community Development Block Grant Commission. So unfortunately, I won't be able to be at the MCCMC. |
| 02:17:28.46 | Mayor Kelly | Yeah. Do you have any reports? Any reports? I'll make one quick committee report. As you probably read in a newspaper, it was discussed at TAM last night, Transportation Authority, Marin. The Marin Transit is making a break or is contemplating a break with Golden Gate bus service. So Marin would no longer be serviced by Golden Gate Transit under the contract that's existed for over 40 years. It's a big deal. So if you have anything to say about it, you need to get in front of Marin Transit and or. |
| 02:18:08.83 | Unknown | I'm sorry. |
| 02:18:09.50 | Mayor Kelly | Thank you. Private services, other private services. They now use two or three other private services that were in areas where Golden Gate cannot or won't service. So, but it is a major breakup of the transit system in Marin County, so. |
| 02:18:28.96 | City Manager Politzer | It's worth noting that that was the story of today's paper. |
| 02:18:32.23 | Mayor Kelly | Yeah, I didn't read the paper today. But I was there last night. And TAM's role in this is merely as an oversight because they give 30% of their budget to Golden Gate or to Marin Transit. And as such, they have a fiduciary responsibility to oversee what that money is being used for. So last night they did commission a study to see if indeed the feasibility of Marin Transit operating the system entirely without Golden Gate would work. And sure enough, it came back that it would because they've got these private carriers that they've already contracted with and they can really change the service from them. But there's a lot of complications in that. And it's not certain that Marin Transit will actually not find agreement with Golden Gate. They may yet find agreement. But the cost of Golden Gate exceeded what they thought they could get in the private sector for bus service. It's a big deal. Thank you. So stay tuned. If you have comments to make or something, you can certainly write a letter and give it to either Diane Steinhauser or to Marin Transit folks. |
| 02:19:33.74 | Andrew Davidson | Yeah. |
| 02:19:34.03 | Vice Mayor Leon | I'm so happy to. |
| 02:19:42.94 | Vice Mayor Leon | One comment on the future agenda item. As far as the priority calendar, it didn't make it above the line, but it was not... I think it was 47th or 45th. There's some skips here. But even Council Member Pfeiffer didn't rank it above the line in terms of priorities. So there's... Yeah. |
| 02:20:03.27 | Mayor Kelly | Yeah. |
| 02:20:04.52 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:20:04.54 | Andrew Davidson | Thank you. |
| 02:20:06.78 | Vice Mayor Leon | It's an important issue, but that particular committee and its purpose, I think we need to sort of figure out what to do first before we establish a committee. |
| 02:20:19.76 | Mayor Kelly | Okay. I move we return. Any other reports of significance? |
| 02:20:20.71 | Vice Mayor Leon | you |
| 02:20:20.76 | Carolyn Revell | I move we adjourn. |
| 02:20:25.25 | Mayor Kelly | See none. Move adjournment. |
| 02:20:29.06 | Carolyn Revell | So move. |
| 02:20:29.51 | Mayor Kelly | All in favor? |
| 02:20:30.71 | Carolyn Revell | Hi. |
| 02:20:31.49 | Mayor Kelly | Good night. |