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| 00:00:00.03 | Ray Withy | Okay, good evening and welcome to the Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 meeting. And at this time here, can I have a roll call, please? |
| 00:00:06.78 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:00:10.51 | Unknown | THE FAMILY. Councilmember Pfeiffer? Here. Councilmember Theodores? Present. Councilmember Whitty? Here. Vice Mayor Leone? |
| 00:00:14.05 | Ray Withy | President. here. here. |
| 00:00:17.07 | Unknown | here. And Mayor Weiner. |
| 00:00:18.91 | Ray Withy | President. At this time here, let's see what this is. Thank you. Robin, could you lead us in the pledge? |
| 00:00:37.54 | Ray Withy | to the flag of the United States of America. |
| 00:00:53.19 | Ray Withy | Thank you, Robin. MR. We had closed session. We went to closed session, and one was on real property. The other five items, one, two, three, We're on legal counsel. This time here, is there any public comment on those closed session items? Okay, with that, we'll move on to approval of the agenda. Move. Second. |
| 00:01:22.85 | Adam Politzer | Mr. Mayor, before you approve the agenda, staff is recommending Thank you. |
| 00:01:27.65 | Jeremy | Oh, yeah. |
| 00:01:28.00 | Adam Politzer | that we remove an item from consent and continue it to a date certain, and that would be, |
| 00:01:29.27 | Jeremy | Bingo. |
| 00:01:35.71 | Adam Politzer | The item 4B. |
| 00:01:37.30 | Jeremy | for |
| 00:01:38.56 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 00:01:38.58 | Jeremy | Okay. |
| 00:01:39.04 | Adam Politzer | the resolution amending turning regulations for Tracy Way Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:01:44.77 | Jeremy | you |
| 00:01:44.84 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 00:01:44.91 | Jeremy | you |
| 00:01:44.96 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 00:01:44.99 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 00:01:45.01 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 00:01:45.69 | Ray Withy | Can I also just poll for A and put it in? I don't know if that department is here tonight, but I have a couple questions on that. You want to make it a business item? Yeah, I want to move it to so that we can move that to 6 make it the new 6D D or E? D, E. Make it 6. |
| 00:02:01.40 | Ray Withy | I love it. do. |
| 00:02:06.56 | Thomas Theodores | Thank you. |
| 00:02:06.61 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 00:02:10.04 | Ray Withy | 6A. |
| 00:02:11.23 | Thomas Theodores | which item. |
| 00:02:12.18 | Ray Withy | 4A. |
| 00:02:15.30 | Herb | Thank you. |
| 00:02:15.35 | Ray Withy | for the next day. |
| 00:02:15.38 | Herb | Mm-hmm. |
| 00:02:15.67 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 00:02:15.69 | Herb | Thank you. |
| 00:02:15.81 | Thomas Theodores | Thank you. |
| 00:02:15.86 | Herb | Thank you. I'm concerned, Calvin. |
| 00:02:19.38 | Ray Withy | Yes. |
| 00:02:20.51 | Herb | removing 4A to succeed. |
| 00:02:22.27 | Ray Withy | We're going to move this into 6E, last item on the business. |
| 00:02:25.17 | Herb | Thank you. |
| 00:02:25.32 | Adam Politzer | item on the business. Mr. Mayor, can I just ask either to continue to the next meeting if it's a short discussion to move it next to the staff person Heidi Sobel. It's giving a presentation on the parklet tonight so maybe we can pair those together. |
| 00:02:43.23 | Ray Withy | All right. |
| 00:02:43.69 | Adam Politzer | if it's not going to be a long discussion. |
| 00:02:45.03 | Ray Withy | So you want to incorporate it into the... |
| 00:02:46.01 | Ray Withy | Thank you. So, |
| 00:02:46.59 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 00:02:46.69 | Ray Withy | Thank you. Make it 6C? 6C. When we see what time it is. When we make it 6C for now, we'll see what time it is. |
| 00:02:54.13 | Ray Withy | We'll see what it's going on. |
| 00:02:58.40 | Ray Withy | Okay. |
| 00:03:02.52 | Ray Withy | 6c is 4a. Yeah. Thank you. |
| 00:03:07.07 | Ray Withy | Okay, with that, the... Next we have on this presentation, Mike Langford, could you please? |
| 00:03:23.09 | Mike | Well, good evening, Mr. Mayor, City Council members, and of course, everyone here in the audience today. It's nice to have a packed house. Before I begin, I would like to say that it really should be Jeff Dibdahl, Recreation Supervisor, who's up here to introduce this next group. However, before the summer craziness begins in Parks and Rec, he has taken a few days off to spend some time with his family and his children. So I do want to thank Jeff for all of his work. We wish him well on his vacation. So this evening, I'd like to acknowledge a young and dedicated group of dancers who are currently enrolled in our ballet program. In 2009, the Parks and Recreation Department received an email from a ballet instructor who was relocating to our community and was looking to teach a world-acclaimed international ballet program locally. She was very... What's the word I want to say? excited, enthusiastic. She wanted to install additional mirrors, ballet bars in the exercise room, and envisioned a comprehensive program of ballet instruction that would provide opportunities for dance from early childhood development to the aspiring professional level. In March 2010, her courses began, and after some slow starts, but she stuck with it, The program grew and now three years later, Teacher Terry's original vision is quickly becoming a reality. This evening we are joined by Teacher Terry and some of her students from the Royal Academy of Dance Program, otherwise known as Rad Ballet. We're here to acknowledge a huge success in the program. Thanks to the dedication of the students and Teacher Terry's world-class instruction, Sausalito's Rad Ballet Program participants recently received the gold standard in the annual international examination. So Teacher Terry, if I could have you up here. Teacher Terry is here to provide a brief description of the Royal Academy of Dance program and explain the achievement of her students. |
| 00:05:26.09 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 00:05:26.16 | Terry | Thank you. Thank you. You always can call me Terry, it's okay. I can call me teacher Terry. Okay, I must, yeah. Okay, I might need some phone books. But first of all, good evening to everybody. First of all, I must have to say thank you to Mike and also Jeff. They took a chance on this foreign lady from London |
| 00:05:33.02 | Jeremy | Yes. |
| 00:05:33.51 | Jennifer | Thank you. |
| 00:05:33.55 | Jeremy | Yeah. Thank you. |
| 00:05:48.67 | Terry | and welcome Poise Ballet and RAD, the Royal Academy of Dance, with open arms. Most importantly, we share the same vision to provide the quality and enrichment program to the community. Three years ago, before my husband and I moved to Marin, we were told by our American friends that Sausalito is a hub of art and culture. And anybody disagree? No? Yeah, but after much research, I find that there is a vacuum of well-organized ballet educator here to nurture young talent. That's the reason why I decided to bring RAD, which is the International Dance Education Program, to hear so that to give the opportunity to the children to become professionals in dance or dance related fields. And today I'm the only Royal Academy of Dance, in short is RAD, that I'm the only professional RAD trained dancer, as well as a registered teacher in San Francisco and Marin County. So RAD founded 90, actually more than 90 years ago, I think it's older than everybody's here, and it is the world's largest teacher training and examining organization in the whole world. Our mission is to develop and promote knowledge Understanding and practice dance internationally Every year, we have 250,000 students in 80 countries, and most of the states in America learn the academy syllabi. And there are 15 levels altogether, from preschool all the way up to professional levels. And because of the global contributions and also the influential, High standard of excellence, that's the reason why King George VI, you may all know him in the film called The King's Speech, yeah? And he awarded the academy with a royal charter. That's the reason why we can be called royal. And last year, actually, RAD received an award, the 2012 dedicated to dance award by United Dance Merchants of America. Today, RAD is still supportive and also patron by Queen Elizabeth II. In terms of the exam, RAD set an international standard for all levels. And the Academy has a panel of international examiners all over the world. They travel all over the world and they examine students based on their technical knowledge, creativity, musicality, artistry, performance, and expression abilities. And the qualification is internationally recognized and university accredited. And the objective of the exam is to set attainable goals for the students to work towards, but most importantly, through the process, we instill a sense of purpose. a sense of responsibility, persistence, teamwork to the children at their young age. And through the hard work, we also help them to develop confidence, self-esteem, and teach them how to thrive under pressure. So most importantly, we always encourage them to do their personal best. and be an individual thinker. And that's a very good example. Last night when I finished class, I had two students come to me after class because they want to show me two dances they choreographed by themselves. And I asked them, is it because of the special show? They said, no, just for themselves. So they show me their choreography with a correct musical timing, And guess how old they are? There are Sikhs. and we have to pat ourselves on the back. that we are doing something, right? And that is what the Park and Rec and Poise Ballet and RADs is about. And in terms of Hoy's Ballet, we are emphasized on providing a quality learning environment. Our class is very small and we have the pianist to accompany the class so that to develop children's musicality. And this is part of the RAD also requirements. After all, we always perform with live music. When you go to San Francisco Ballet, we always dance with live music. And to give back the community, we also, in conjunction with Park and Rec, Poise Ballet give out a full scholarship to a boy, to encourage boys to dance. And we also give our half scholar to a talented girl who needs our help. So in order to continue this quality dance education program and to nurture the artists of the next generation and to keep Sorcerito's reputations growing, as an art and cultural hub. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Mayor and the members of the City Council, we need your help and to expand the program and also to put the work out for us. And this year, we have seven children entered into the exam, and all of them achieved higher score and distinction with gold medals by the International Panel of Examiner. In fact, we just received it and they're all wearing their gold medal proudly. And also the certificate from Queen of England and bearing the royal seal there on the certificate. And I would like to take this opportunity to invite Mr. Mayor, Mr. Wiener, to present the certificate to the girls. |
| 00:11:03.46 | Charlotte Mastrangelo | Press up. |
| 00:13:13.61 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 00:13:36.27 | Mike | This is why I'm in Parks and Rec. This is, you know. This way here, you put your best foot forward. Well, thank you to the boys' ballet and rad ballet for choosing to establish here in Fossilito. We look forward to continued growth and success, and congratulations to each of these wonderful dancers on your success in the International Rad Exam. |
| 00:13:38.55 | Ray Withy | time. |
| 00:13:49.67 | Terry | Yes. |
| 00:13:50.04 | Jeremy | you |
| 00:13:50.13 | Terry | Thank you. |
| 00:13:50.43 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 00:13:50.47 | Terry | you |
| 00:14:01.87 | Mike | And thank you to all the parents. |
| 00:14:12.37 | Jeremy | very well behaved. |
| 00:14:14.73 | Ray Withy | That's early. Okay. This is the time for the City Council to hear from citizens regarding matters that are not on the agenda, except in very limited situations, state law precludes the Council from taking any action or engaging in discussions concerning items of business that are not on the agenda. Would like...oh, okay. It is me. |
| 00:14:43.83 | Jennifer | It is me. |
| 00:14:45.88 | Ray Withy | I'm not. |
| 00:14:47.03 | Jennifer | My name is Jennifer. I live at 501 Ulema Street. Thank you. |
| 00:14:51.27 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 00:14:51.38 | Jennifer | Thank you. |
| 00:14:51.50 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 00:14:51.54 | Jennifer | Thank you. Mr. Matt, and council members, I went for a walk in the park today. Gabrielson Park, that is. specifically to look at Amy's tree. which is now about two feet high. that you wouldn't know that its aim is true, as far as I can see. It's got nothing on it. |
| 00:15:11.80 | Ray Withy | I get it. |
| 00:15:11.97 | Jennifer | It's an even golden little disc. |
| 00:15:14.96 | Ray Withy | Mike can answer. Yeah. Go ahead, Mike. |
| 00:15:16.68 | Mike | in mind. |
| 00:15:17.00 | Ray Withy | answer |
| 00:15:17.71 | Mike | Yeah. Thank you. |
| 00:15:18.72 | Ray Withy | you |
| 00:15:18.94 | Mike | Thank you. |
| 00:15:19.03 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 00:15:20.38 | Mike | A plaque arrived in my office. last Thursday and we'll be going up shortly as soon as we find the appropriate rock. |
| 00:15:28.90 | Jeremy | to do it. |
| 00:15:31.65 | Mike | I can bring it to you. |
| 00:15:32.95 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 00:15:33.08 | Mike | I do want to say it's a nice little saying, and it's in both English and Japanese. |
| 00:15:33.22 | Jeremy | Thank you. I do want to say, |
| 00:15:39.60 | Ray Withy | Okay. Thank you, Mike. |
| 00:15:40.85 | Mike | Thank you. |
| 00:15:42.06 | Ray Withy | Okay. Anybody else that would like to talk? Thank you. |
| 00:15:46.03 | Ray Withy | That arrived with a bunch of other, you ordered a bunch of plaques at the same time because some of them were stolen, and so we ordered a lot of replacement plaques at the same time. |
| 00:15:48.12 | Ray Withy | wanted to. |
| 00:15:56.24 | Scott Diamond | My name is Scott Diamond and this is sort of not on the agenda and also on the agenda. It has to do with the priorities you're considering for the calendar. We have a waterfront group that we've been working with, the Sausalito Police, and the the dock at Salido's, the Turning Street dock that's being used for access. Thank you. Jennifer Tejada suggested that we monitor the dock, and I talked with officers Skoog and Frost about this, and I said, well, we certainly could help monitor the situation, but we're not in a position of enforcing anything down there, down there. So I think we need to clarify the situation. And they gave me a copy of Resolution 3145, which was passed in 1982, which turned the whole situation into a 15-minute parking situation, which doesn't reflect the current use. So we're trying to work with the police department and come up with an amendment to this resolution that would hopefully be non-controversial that everybody could agree with and have them bring it forward. So I'm hoping that you could keep some time on the agenda in the near future to consider that. |
| 00:17:31.60 | Linda Pfeiffer | Mr. Mayor, if I may, could you be a little bit more specific? I just wanted clarification on the access. I didn't understand that part. |
| 00:17:40.73 | Scott Diamond | Well, currently, There's the launching ramp and what the consideration is that's going on now is that The side on the Turning Street side of the launching on the dock should be kept as a 15-minute zone for people that are launching and bringing their boats back out of the water and also commercial access. But for some years now, the offshore community has been using the other side of the dock in for lots longer periods than 15 minutes. And what we had was a situation a couple of months back where one of the meter maids came down and just rode a whole bunch of tickets for those boats, which was kind of selective enforcement since nothing has ever been done for years and years. kind of stirred things up and we thought, well, let's clarify this. We also have sometimes an abandoned boat situation there where people are leaving derelict boats there. we need to come up with something that will work. The current assessment is that The south side of the dock should be for the offshore communities use because there's very few access points right now even though in the past there were – this is kind of a hot issue. There is an access place that – |
| 00:19:06.52 | Jeremy | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:19:07.41 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 00:19:07.45 | Jeremy | you |
| 00:19:09.10 | Scott Diamond | Thank you. |
| 00:19:09.17 | Ray Withy | L.A. Harbor. |
| 00:19:09.54 | Scott Diamond | Yellowly Harbor. Yeah, it should be open for everyone. |
| 00:19:11.26 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 00:19:11.29 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 00:19:11.31 | Linda Pfeiffer | Yeah, it should be open for everyone. |
| 00:19:12.90 | Scott Diamond | Huh? Thank you. So anyway. Thank you. |
| 00:19:16.27 | Ray Withy | Okay. Yeah, and Scott, that's why we have it on the priority calendar, because that, along with Edgewater Yacht, the old Edgewater Yacht, that's on our priority calendar for tonight, Attorney Street, the whole, the boat ramp and the Edgewater Yacht kind of old slips that were there, trying to figure out what to do with that, and we just need to prioritize that as a council to get it up. |
| 00:19:17.54 | Scott Diamond | Thank you. |
| 00:19:23.12 | Scott Diamond | All right. |
| 00:19:23.38 | Terry | Thank you. |
| 00:19:36.56 | Ray Withy | above there because it's not just the time, it's the condition of the dock as well, right? So it's a combination. This is more shorter term. |
| 00:19:40.93 | Scott Diamond | This is more shorter term. This is kind of a little simpler rather than the whole edge water situation. Right. I got you. |
| 00:19:43.42 | Ray Withy | Thank you. Yes. Rather than the whole edge wire. |
| 00:19:47.42 | Jeremy | Bye. |
| 00:19:47.46 | Ray Withy | situation. Right. I got you. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else that would like to comment on items that are not |
| 00:19:50.19 | Scott Diamond | Thank you. |
| 00:19:50.24 | Una Kavanagh | Thank you. |
| 00:19:50.26 | Scott Diamond | you |
| 00:19:57.04 | Una Kavanagh | Una Kavanagh from the Saucelida Chamber of Commerce. I'm here on behalf of several of our members on Caledonia who received letters last week about the ordinance to do with A-frames and this has been an issue before. A lot of I've had long conversations with several of them. and I've also talked to Adam about this. All I want to do at this point is say that we like to sit down with the department. probably Jeremy and Adam and talk about this. the tone of the letter was pretty threatening and I would have liked as the chamber representative had some notice on it. I'm just registering on behalf of my chamber members. that we do want to do something about it. They have an issue and they have some problems advertising their business. They're struggling to get people to come to their business and that's the main aim of it. But we will talk with the city and try and see if we can get some resolution on this. |
| 00:20:55.82 | Ray Withy | Thank you. Thank you, Una. Anybody else? I would like to speak to any items that are not on the agenda. Okay. |
| 00:21:05.30 | Jeremy | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:21:07.98 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 00:21:08.04 | Jeremy | you Okay. |
| 00:21:11.85 | SPEAKER_30 | Good evening, Lily Shahabi, Lily Esselan. actually same letter that Una was talking, and they took even picture of my sign, which is on my property. |
| 00:21:25.38 | Ray Withy | Yeah, you can bring it over there. Thank you. |
| 00:21:27.36 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 00:21:27.39 | SPEAKER_30 | Thank you. |
| 00:21:28.67 | Ray Withy | Wow. |
| 00:21:29.08 | Jeremy | Over there, over there. |
| 00:21:29.15 | Ray Withy | Over there, over there. |
| 00:21:32.12 | SPEAKER_30 | you |
| 00:21:32.39 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 00:21:32.42 | SPEAKER_30 | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:21:34.97 | Jeremy | I'm sorry. |
| 00:21:36.98 | SPEAKER_30 | Thank you. Thank you. So I have no idea how we can work, you know, if there's threatening letters, you know, and harassment and those kind of things. We're supposed to make money here, and we need your support. |
| 00:21:44.99 | Jeremy | Yeah. |
| 00:21:52.03 | Ray Withy | Okay. As you know, we can't make any comment on that. But thank you. |
| 00:21:52.82 | SPEAKER_30 | Thank you. |
| 00:21:57.82 | Ray Withy | Anyone else that would like to speak on items that are not on the agenda? Okay. And then moving along then, move to minutes of the May 7th, 2013 meeting approval. |
| 00:22:05.11 | Jeremy | Oh. |
| 00:22:16.28 | Ray Withy | So moved. Second. Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Okay. Okay. |
| 00:22:18.54 | Herb | Check it. |
| 00:22:25.63 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 00:22:27.38 | Ray Withy | Okay, we'll start with our business items. |
| 00:22:31.46 | Ray Withy | I've got consent counter, sorry. |
| 00:22:33.64 | Ray Withy | That's all right. All right, so then we moved to 6C and we moved B. So with that, can I have approval of the consent? I moved that we. We moved it to C. |
| 00:22:36.75 | Ray Withy | So where's |
| 00:22:46.11 | Herb | I move. |
| 00:22:48.80 | Mary Wagner | Mr. Mayor, just to clarify, you're voting on items C and D, correct? |
| 00:22:52.42 | Herb | We're seeing death. |
| 00:22:53.13 | Ray Withy | for C&D. |
| 00:22:54.55 | Herb | I move that we approve items 4C and D of the consent calendar. |
| 00:22:58.73 | Ray Withy | Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Okay. |
| 00:23:00.91 | Herb | I'm not sure. |
| 00:23:01.00 | Jeremy | Yeah. |
| 00:23:01.13 | Herb | Thank you. |
| 00:23:05.13 | Ray Withy | Now we will start with our business items. The first one on there is the priority calendar. And this is step three. |
| 00:23:12.79 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 00:23:13.33 | Ray Withy | you |
| 00:23:13.38 | Adam Politzer | Adam? Thank you, Mr. Mayor and Council Members. our audience here in the council chambers and the audience at home hopefully watching this ready for the excitement. Today is step three of the priority calendar process. We started the process taking public comment, reviewing from our various boards and commissions and community members, a variety of suggestions and ideas to be considered for the priority calendar. We took those actions into consideration. and then move to step two. During step two, we heard public comment and reviewed the items and decided to rank 59 items. So the Council at the conclusion of that meeting agreed to individually rank 59 items and each FIVE COUNCILMEMBERS DID JUST THAT. AND TONIGHT, WE WILL reveal how that all comes out when you average them together. And that will then become the list for your discussion for this evening. This evening is part of step three. Once again, you will ask questions of staff if there are questions that still remain. YOU'LL TAKE PUBLIC COMMENT. and then you will, as a council, decide where to draw the line on items, on the 59 items. Staff recommends that you Thank you. draw the line somewhere in the middle, which would be roughly item 29, uh, to item 30, but the council at their discretion can move that line up to have fewer items. Above the line. or additional items, so to go further than 30 and draw the line lower on the list. Um, Once you have drawn the line, then those will be the Council's priorities for the year. Staff will work hand in hand with the council COMMISSIONS, COMMUNITY GROUPS, to try to fulfill those items throughout the year. During the budget process, some of those items will require money. Some of those monies will be seed money. and the community groups will go out and look for additional funds. That's usually the case when it comes to park projects we have great support from the community, Harrison Park, which we'll talk about later tonight. is a park where the Lions Club adopted it and worked with staff to raise the money and move the project forward. Um, Other projects may be relied upon by the Commission itself to move the item forward or volunteers. And I think that those are self-evident based on what we've done in phase or step one and step two of this process. So it should be relatively straightforward. You will see quickly where you folks agree, where there is a common thread amongst the five council members. And you will also see quickly where there are different priorities. for different council members and that's That's the American way. marching in the same step here and we represent different groups in our community and we have different ideas. on how to move the community forward. But this is a way that we can move forward as one body and not as individuals. So I recommend that you take a look at the list. We've given hard copies available to you there. We have hard copies available, I believe, for the public here. And we'll also put up on the screen so you can see the individual rankings and then also the collective ranking as it comes out in the total. It's ranked. So this is the numerical ranking that you have. So this is what you use to do your rankings, and then you'll see For example, with Council Member Weiner, where he ranked out of 59, 59 being the highest ranking, the highest priority, he ranked on ADA plan that as number 57. So item number one, and you see it on the screen, you have it in your hand. is the ADA plan and Councilmember Weiner ranked at number 57. So again, you can go through the list. The list is still in alphabetical order as it's been from the beginning. And it's numbered 1 through 59. And so you can now see where each of you ranked that particular item. At the conclusion of tonight, you will agree on a majority vote. on where to draw the line, and then we will move forward. Happy to take questions of the council. and then recommend council after questions taking public comment and then move to your deliberation and discussion. Thank you. |
| 00:28:30.19 | Scott Diamond | Thank you. |
| 00:28:31.07 | Linda Pfeiffer | Mr. Mayor, I have a question. |
| 00:28:34.31 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 00:28:34.33 | Jeremy | Go ahead. |
| 00:28:34.85 | Linda Pfeiffer | Yes, for the city manager. Adam, this list that I'm looking at, do we have one? Am I looking at it and just missing it? Do we have one? One list that rates everything in terms of the order that it fell |
| 00:28:50.73 | Jeremy | Yes, that's what we're getting. |
| 00:28:52.86 | Linda Pfeiffer | Oh, that's what we're getting. Oh, okay. Thank you. Thank you. I got it now. |
| 00:28:54.70 | Adam Politzer | Okay. |
| 00:28:55.02 | Jeremy | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:28:56.65 | Adam Politzer | So it's a very good question, Council Member Pfeiffer. What we first handed out and what's on the wall, what's on the screen here, reflects all five of your individual scores, but on the far right-hand column, it also shows the total ranking. What the city clerk, Debbie Pegliero, just handed out was now just the ranking on how it actually comes out. on item 59 through Um, So the highest ranking which received the score of 53, which is the EPA order. and the lowest ranking, which was the leaf blower ordinance, ranked at 7.2. So you now have this in numerical order as well. |
| 00:29:49.17 | Jeremy | This one is the one I want to know. That's where you want to go. |
| 00:29:57.61 | Linda Pfeiffer | So Adam, or Mr. Mayor, I have another clarification. So Adam, in looking at this, remind me about when we draw the line and we say everything above the line, you know, is part of our priority for the coming year, does city staff treat their decision-making process with respect to time management per the order of how these things are listed above the line. In other words, if I am in public works and I have an important criteria for EPA versus, |
| 00:29:59.88 | Jeremy | education. |
| 00:30:44.91 | Linda Pfeiffer | Friends of the Park, would I, since EPA is a higher rating, would I allocate more time would I make decisions that give EPA a higher priority in my time management? |
| 00:30:58.80 | Adam Politzer | Yeah, I understand the question. In a perfect world, that would be the case. But in some of these items, you'll see that they're ongoing. They're continued from years in the past, so for example, the machine shop restoration and preservations in progress and even though it didn't rank number one on everyone's list, it's still probably on the list that's going to show up above the line. So some of it's based on the timing, based on what threats there may be if the VA was coming in and we're going to scrape the building. We would obviously want to prevent that so staff would be allocated to spend time on that and as Council I may recall we put together a task force to work with staff to help on that effort. So it's not always necessarily that if the item's number one, that staff is going to start there and then when we get in April, move to items that may be lower on the list. Part of it is based on the timing and the needs. |
| 00:32:02.11 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. And a follow-up comment, just for the benefit of the audience, is that |
| 00:32:09.21 | Ray Withy | Yeah, it's just questions right now. |
| 00:32:11.26 | Linda Pfeiffer | Well, then I'll phrase this in a question. Just to confirm that with the individual council, the individual council ratings, the higher the number, the higher the priority, the lower the number, the lower the priority envisioned. That is correct. Okay, thanks. Because people get it mixed up. They think one is the higher priority. |
| 00:32:12.45 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 00:32:12.49 | Ray Withy | . |
| 00:32:12.62 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:32:12.72 | Unknown | and a question. |
| 00:32:30.95 | Jeremy | That is correct. Okay, thanks. Because people get it mixed up. Bye. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:32:35.78 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 00:32:38.00 | Jeremy | Mm. |
| 00:32:38.96 | Unknown | you |
| 00:32:39.03 | Ray Withy | Question? Thank you. Okay. you Want me to go to the public for now? Why don't I go to the public? Would the public like to comment? We'd like to have some input from the |
| 00:32:55.89 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 00:32:58.57 | Una Kavanagh | Luna Kavner, CEO of the Social Media Chamber of Commerce. The mission of the Social Leader Chamber of Commerce is to make Sausselito a better place. to live to work and to play. We believe that because of this, certain items, like the beautification of downtown Caledonia, and local economic development initiatives should be a priority. with empty storefronts and many existing businesses here in Sausalito are struggling. at the moment to survive. So I think it behooves the chamber and the city to make it a priority. to bring the right sort of businesses to Sausalito and to help those businesses that are struggling to do a better job. We do not want to turn Sausalito into Pier 39. We all love this town. I'm a resident of 18 years myself. The chamber represents both residents and businesses. And we just want to make that point to you. I also want to speak on behalf of hospitality, I sit on that committee, they also support both those initiatives. And I also, the chamber is working to organize some local focus groups with residents to talk to them about what they would like to see downtown, to encourage them to shop local and support their businesses. Because if we make this town a thriving town, it would be a better place to live and to work and to play. Thank you very much. |
| 00:34:29.01 | Ray Withy | Okay, thank you. Anybody else would like to speak on the priority? |
| 00:34:44.06 | Sybil Bertillier | Good evening, Mayor and Council Members, Sybil Bertillier, Commissioner amazing I've been following the age-friendly movement for quite some time and it felt that it was an excellent program and process for Sal Salido to be involved in. and provides an opportunity to share truly wonderful evidence-based tools and best practices with other innovative communities across the nation and around the world. And it's really a terrific match for South Solito and will enable us to become, to do much more for our own older residents as well as become more welcoming and accommodating for our older visitors. And what was most needed was, of course, the city's interest and then a team to work together on the program and the process. So I was thrilled when leaders of the South Slido Village let me know that they made this proposal. And I see that ADA compliance is high on the ranking as appropriate. Although age-friendly elements are different than ADA compliance, they work together and also will count towards progress in becoming a more age-friendly city. So that's also a natural pairing. So I'm really thrilled at the idea of us becoming a model city in the World Health Organization, age-friendly community of cities around the world. And so I urge you to consider that as a high priority, and I look forward to working with the village and other city leaders in making it a wonderful thing for South Toledo. |
| 00:36:27.77 | Ray Withy | And thank you for all that you do as a member of that board. We appreciate your service. |
| 00:36:27.94 | Sybil Bertillier | Thank you. |
| 00:36:36.90 | Betsy | I just wanted to clarify one thing, which is that we are talking about an age-friendly agenda which is a generic kind of agenda, and we are also contemplating the possibility of associating ourselves with the World Health Organization agenda. The World Health Organization Um, has been the leader in this program They came together in 2006. I think there were 33 representatives from 20 different countries, and they came up with a set of domains for measuring age-friendliness and a, uh process for progressing toward age friendliness. We are not convinced at this point, because we don't know enough, that it makes sense for us to be following the World Health Organization process and committing ourselves to their five-year plan of becoming age-friendly. We need to learn more about this. So I see what we're proposing right now as step one, which will be involving an investigation of the age-friendly movement and of the options that are available to us in this movement. The first step typically in age-friendly projects is after some initial education to conduct a survey of the assets and the needs of the senior population. And regardless of what direction we ultimately take in terms of affiliating ourselves with an organization, I think that's critical. And that's what we are proposing to do. And I'm very happy to report that we have a new member on our steering committee, Tricia Smith, who is the wife of Tom Theodorus. And she is a real dynamo. She has... Los Altos and Los Altos Hills became the first age-friendly community in California, and Trish was in her car going down to see the woman who spearheaded this project in Los ALTOS last week. And she somehow has a This woman is now her new best friend and wants to come to Sausalito and give us some more help. And we've just sort of got a real tiger by the tail, and I'm really excited about it. So I hope you guys will give it a priority that allows us to – I mean, we will proceed with it no matter what, but we hope that we can get the council's support on this. Thank you. |
| 00:39:18.16 | Ray Withy | Thank you, Betsy. Anyone else? Susan? |
| 00:39:22.45 | Betsy | Thank you. |
| 00:39:26.48 | Susan Frank | Susan Frank, 500 Turney Street, and I'm here on behalf of the Sausalito Foundation, who is undertaking the Ice House Plaza project. And this will be a new civic plaza for the city, for all of its residents, and we're imagining from the youngest to the oldest, and also for the visitors. So it will provide a lovely, wonderful new space in downtown Sausalito and give a sense of openness rather than crowding when all of the tourists come. So I think it's going to be an incredible asset for the city and we really appreciate you for putting it as a priority for this year. We have already gotten several grants from community organizations and we're just about to go public with our fundraising campaign, which will start in June. You'll be seeing a lot of information about it soon. So we're ready to go and we're imagining that construction will start October 1. We're going to have several open houses to talk more with residents about the project at the Ice House through the summer. So hopefully you'll all come visit and see what it's going to look like. It's going to be fabulous. So thank you so much. |
| 00:40:50.28 | Ray Withy | Thank you, Susan. Anybody else that would like to comment? |
| 00:41:02.04 | Christopher Holbrook | Good evening. Christopher Holbrook, 654 Main Street, and I'm a lifelong Sausalito resident as well as a business owner in Sausalito, and I'm just here to show my support for the downtown Caledonia Street beautification project. And I'm just here to show my support and let you know that we think it's very important. We've gone along Caledonia Street and talked to a lot of the business owners and they feel it's very important. So please take that into consideration. Thank you. |
| 00:41:34.19 | Ray Withy | Thank you, Chris. Anybody else like to speak? |
| 00:41:46.49 | Adam Krivace | Good evening, Mr. Mayor, Honourable Council members and public, Adam Krivace, 840 Ulema I would like to thank the Council for initiating a process whereby we can learn more about the opportunities provided in the Marineship area. And I don't want to belabor this. I hope this stays in the priority list. I would like to support the economic development study that was initiated by this city and the Chamber of Commerce when commissioning Dr. Eiler to produce a general overview of opportunities for the city to improve its sustainability. and THE COUNCIL ALSO APPROVED A SUBSEQUENT AMOUNT OF $5,000 giving this study more substance, which is now in process, and we expect the results by the end of May. The information we expect after this study will substantiate some actions that could be taken to take better advantage of business opportunities in the community. Also, we believe that these opportunities would contribute to the quality of life, |
| 00:43:07.66 | Terry | Thank you. |
| 00:43:30.54 | Adam Krivace | And help restore some of the physical infrastructure in the community which is badly in need of repair. I wanted to add one more comment in support of the Central Waterfront Plan that is promoted by Michael Rex. A vision combination of Dumpy Park, some waterfront private improvements, etc., etc., provide more continuity between the downtown that seems to stop at one point and the northern waterfront of the community which lives its own life. So these are the issues I'd like to support. I'd like to hand out rationale related to these. We submitted this rationale to Lili Shin Singh about... I'd like to hand out rationale related to these. We submitted this rationale to about two months ago, and I'd be very happy to if each of you are copying. |
| 00:45:18.14 | Ray Withy | Anybody else that would like to make a comment on the priority calendar at this time? All right, let's bring it up here. What I'd like to do is if we have questions, I'd like to one question at a time and go around, |
| 00:45:32.20 | Ray Withy | Just a couple of further questions. |
| 00:45:34.15 | Ray Withy | Questions first, and then individual questions, one from each if that's the case, and then we'll go for comment. Okay, anybody who would like to start? Ready? |
| 00:45:47.23 | Thomas Theodores | Yeah, I have a question of... staff i don't know whether this is uh... Heidi, Jeremy or Adam. I took very seriously in the list of projects. You gave us a list of projects in which you had the Department recommended whether they be a priority or not. And in particular, Something that I actually think is really important is a lot of the historical Um... projects that we have. But in particular, the Mills Act and the noteworthy structures, which seemed like a really good idea, staff recommended that they not be adopted. that this not be a priority. until we put the historic preservation regulations in place. And I took this quite seriously. So could you help me understand, could someone on staff help me understand, whether that is the case and what would be the implications of trying to do those projects without putting the historic guidelines in place. |
| 00:47:10.14 | Adam Politzer | I'm going to start with the answer and then turn it over to Jeremy. I think for what the staff provided during step two was looking at the items, giving some time estimates on how long it would take, looking at cost estimates if it's all just staff time or if we would need consultants, and then also looking at the demand on the resources that are already already exists. In the Community Development Department, we have some changes that have occurred over the last month or so that has reprioritized where the staff is assigned. We have one staff member out on leave, and we have a consultant, a contract planner taking the place. So as we look at our workload, Staff's not really necessarily saying that we don't agree that this is a priority or shouldn't be ranked, but at this moment in time, based on our resources and workload, staff is prioritizing these items for Council's consideration. For the specifics, if you want to understand the mechanics of what it would take for us to take on one of these items, specifically the Mills Act, Jeremy can comment on that. |
| 00:48:44.43 | Jeremy | In terms of the historic preservation regulations, that is a top priority in staff's mind because the regulations for the actions of the Historic Landmarks Board and the findings that the Planning Commission and the Historic Landmarks Board have to make when they are considering projects in our downtown historic overlay district or projects which are on the historic register. It's confusing for property owners, for architects, for decision makers and staff that those sections of our municipal code and our zoning ordinance are in sore need of update. So the top priority is the historic preservation regulations. In the materials that we prepared for the City Council in your Step 1 and Step 2, We were initially prioritizing, bridging off of the City Council's prior priorities for nominating the downtown historic overlay district to the National Register. And so we prioritize that. following staffs. identification of that in the materials that we provided to you. Staff had some subsequent conversations with members of the Historic Landmarks Board and in that discussion, we acknowledge that In order to nominate the downtown historic overlay district, we need at least half of the property owners to agree in writing that they want to have their properties as part of the downtown Historic Overlay District to be nominated to the National Register. That's a steep... threshold to surpass. and the way our discussion with the Historic Landmarks Board went is, wouldn't it be good for the city to be able to offer as many benefits as possible to the downtown property owners so that they see that there is a benefit to them of being a designation as a historic property. And one of those benefits can be delivered by the Mills Act. And so one of the options that the council could prioritize is to place the Mills Act, maybe the Mills Act should be done first before we go out and we identify that the Mills Act cost would be approximately $15,000 and wouldn't that be something that should be done prior to us going and discussing with the downtown property owners, would you like to agree to a National Register nomination? So that was one conversation we had. And a second conversation that staff had with the Historic Landmarks Board and also with Council Member Theodores is that properties which are currently listed on our noteworthy structure list do not have any formal protection by the city. and whereas properties in the downtown historic overlay district already have, development of those properties requires a higher level of review. Shouldn't we also add a higher level of review to the candidate structures on our noteworthy projects list? That project also should move up. And so those are some considerations that I want to update you on. Does that answer your question, Council Member Whippey? |
| 00:52:51.20 | Unknown | Yeah, it does. I think that helps a lot. I think they actually, most of them will be above anyway. |
| 00:52:58.62 | Ray Withy | Jeremy, can you consider that maybe the Mills Act one can be combined with the downtown historic overlay as a, you know, put the... No, they're really two... I know they're different things, but in terms of one being a carrot for the other, maybe by combining those, |
| 00:53:06.84 | Terry | No, they're really too... I know they're different things. |
| 00:53:08.70 | Jeremy | but if it turns out |
| 00:53:17.52 | Jeremy | I guess we really see them as separate tasks. Let me explain why. Thank you. |
| 00:53:20.63 | Ray Withy | No, I know why they're different. So I'm just saying for my purpose of right now, the Mills Act is not above the line. It doesn't agree. So if we want to have a successful participation in the downtown historic overlay National Register nomination process, it might be good to move it above the line. And since it's somewhat linked to that as a carrot to maybe put your property, to agree to sign off on your property, perhaps one of the things we could do is combine the two together, even though they're different. One is much more tax, obviously it's more tax-driven than the other, but that's a kind of... |
| 00:53:21.51 | Jeremy | They're different. |
| 00:53:26.67 | Jeremy | Thank you. It doesn't. |
| 00:53:49.01 | Jeremy | Thank you. Right. |
| 00:53:56.17 | Jeremy | I think from the staff's perspective, we also have to look at what are our staff resources right now and how many of these can we accomplish in the next fiscal year? Well, and that's what's... We cannot accomplish all of these. |
| 00:54:00.40 | Ray Withy | right now and Well, and that's what's... We cannot accomplish all of that. Right. And that's what I think, based off tonight, Adam and Charlie and I think Ray and I have to come back at the next meeting and say, okay, here's where the council rank these. Is there money to do these things? time from your perspective, you've got to let your boss know if you have adequate time to do these that fall above the line. And if we need outside help to accomplish those, then do we have the money to hire them? Yes. |
| 00:54:29.24 | Jeremy | had the money to hire them. All of these assume consultant help. Right. But even with consultant help, staff needs to arrange for the meetings, coordinate these procedures at the Sausaludia. |
| 00:54:33.83 | Ray Withy | Right. Right. |
| 00:54:35.92 | Terry | Thank you. |
| 00:54:36.03 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 00:54:36.04 | Terry | Thank you. |
| 00:54:43.37 | Ray Withy | Right. No, I understand it's not on autopilot when you hire someone from outside, so for sure. Okay, thank you. Jonathan? Well, so some of these, you know, are going to happen regardless of whether we prioritize them or not, just because they're either tied into the housing element or |
| 00:54:55.67 | Terry | Thank you. |
| 00:54:55.70 | Jeremy | Well, I'm sorry. |
| 00:54:55.77 | Terry | Oh, yeah. |
| 00:55:04.38 | Ray Withy | Um. They're part of an ongoing project, like the parking meters and stuff like that. I'm assuming, Adam, if that doesn't fall above the line, that's going to still keep going because that's sort of the nature of why we did that in the first place. Is that a fair assumption? |
| 00:55:20.03 | Adam Politzer | The downtown parking plan phase two, I think, you know, will come out of the $4.2 million project, so that's a project that Right now we don't have the money, so if the money didn't show up, then it would stay below the line and staff wouldn't work on it. |
| 00:55:35.90 | Ray Withy | Right. |
| 00:55:36.29 | Adam Politzer | If the pass-through agreement gets finalized and we get money to move forward, then we would bring that to the council and tell you how we're going to move forward and you would see the money there so you'd move it back above the line. |
| 00:55:48.34 | Ray Withy | Right, so a lot of this is dependent on time. staff time and money as money is either found or not found. And there are a lot of those that are kind of below the line here that are probably going to happen regardless of how we |
| 00:56:06.97 | Ray Withy | I think we played the lottery and won it. |
| 00:56:11.50 | Herb | Yes. Along the same lines is, are there any items, and if you just take this and draw a line in the middle, that's about above the line or below the line. I know we can move that, but are there any items that We've ranked low, the council's ranked low that staff believes should be above the line and want to and and would alert us to that we've missed something and that you think And these aren't the ones that are going to happen anyway, but these are the ones that would require some funds. some staff time, but we actually should do so. I'd like to hear that if there are any. |
| 00:56:47.70 | Adam Politzer | Thanks for that question. I think carefully how I want to respond to it. |
| 00:56:48.39 | Jeremy | That's a good question. All right. Yeah. |
| 00:56:56.90 | Adam Politzer | I pause because The staff put forward 59 items. The staff put forward 50 items and we added nine items from the Council. So at the end of the day, we feel that these are all priorities. These are all important items that Thank you. the community, needs to embrace and try to move them forward. how they get moved forward and as Vice Mayor Leone just spoke on, some of them will move forward because as you heard earlier, from Betsy. We're going to do it with or without you. You know, the community, you know, they feel that this is important. There's energy behind it. and it's going to move forward. Um, And how can the city assist in moving it forward? placing it above the line knowing that there's no money going towards it, that there's no staff resources going through it, The city has endorsed it. It's something that we want to accomplish this year and we're depending on the community to make it happen. So, That's why I said earlier, yeah, it would be nice to draw the line at item 29, which happens to be the age-friendly initiative. Um, or 30, which ends up being the adopted building code update. which is in progress, so we recommend that anything that's in progress, you probably want to keep that going unless there's a real dissent on the council We should have never been doing it in the first place and now let's change direction. But if it's in progress, it's probably something that you should move above the line. as long as there's still agreement that it's important that we work on but recognize there may be items on here that the Sustainability Commission will continue to work on, the Park and Rec Commission will continue to work on, HLB will continue to work on, you know, so on and so forth. recognizing that as we have time, going to Councilmember Pfeiffer's comment, If we find ourselves with time and energy, you know, then we can try, try to keep these moving forward and a little bit of that may be just showing up to a community meeting and and helping them continue to make that progress. So I don't know if that answered your question directly or if that was a good way to duck it. Well, we gave you a chance, and so we'll just move on with that. |
| 00:59:13.23 | Jeremy | . . |
| 00:59:16.32 | Adam Politzer | We trust the Council's decision on moving forward. |
| 00:59:19.24 | Ray Withy | Linda, you have a question? |
| 00:59:22.55 | Linda Pfeiffer | Well, I guess it speaks a little bit to what you were talking about. I'm concerned that... Question. Yeah. So the housing element, that was raised. And I remember that in earlier discussion, I had raised a topic for the priority calendar as being following through on the housing element with respect to the liveaboards. |
| 00:59:29.20 | Unknown | Question. |
| 00:59:29.84 | Terry | Thank you. |
| 00:59:50.07 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. and the second units. And I know the second units are well in its way but the liveaboards I think were just embarking on that. I forgot when we were listing the items and so it's not on the list. And so I guess my question is, is the housing element and staff time being spent on, needs to be spent on implementing the liveaboard plans, is that an automatic, is that factored in without it being on the list? |
| 01:00:22.47 | Adam Politzer | The short answer, and we'll keep it at the short answer, is yes. It's the housing element that was just certified that we are working on implementing has now become the city's regular business. So as we move forward towards the next housing element requirement, that would be something that we would bring back to the council and ask how do you want us to move forward with recommendations on how to move forward and if you decide at that As Vice Mayor Leon has suggested in the past, if we add items on, then we should push items then it may become something that we ask the Council's consideration. So the short answer is yes, it's what's been What we're working on now has become incorporated into this NAS time. |
| 01:01:11.93 | Linda Pfeiffer | So as a follow-up question to that, if the housing element and the liveaboard program implementation is part of general business, do we know yet the scope of that effort with respect to staff time? |
| 01:01:26.78 | Adam Politzer | No, and that's something that we can agendize for a future meeting and bring you an update on where we are with moving forward because I think the public and the rest of the council will probably be interested to hear where we are. Thank you. |
| 01:01:39.88 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 01:01:39.91 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:01:40.43 | Ray Withy | you Thank you. |
| 01:01:40.57 | Adam Politzer | Great. |
| 01:01:41.02 | Ray Withy | Do you have a question or do you want to come back? Thank you. |
| 01:01:44.57 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:01:44.70 | Ray Withy | Okay, Jonathan? |
| 01:01:47.15 | Ray Withy | I have more comments than questions. Okay. I have comments, no questions. |
| 01:01:49.14 | Ray Withy | Okay Linda, you have another question? |
| 01:01:53.24 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 01:01:53.26 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:01:53.36 | Meg Gawson | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:01:55.48 | Ray Withy | . |
| 01:01:56.33 | Ray Withy | Okay, then let's go to comments. |
| 01:02:00.68 | Ray Withy | Of course. |
| 01:02:01.02 | Ray Withy | is a good one. Thank you. |
| 01:02:01.58 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:02:01.61 | Ray Withy | . |
| 01:02:01.64 | Ray Withy | or. |
| 01:02:01.83 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:02:01.90 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:02:01.93 | Ray Withy | . |
| 01:02:01.96 | Ray Withy | things, if I may, that I think, you know, and Scott Diamond brought it up earlier, there's some of these things that are going to come back and bite you anyway. So if we ignore the dingy dock on Turney Street, that's going to come back and bite us down the road. That's below the line. One of the things that Amy frequently pushed, and we still haven't really done a lot of work on, is urban and wildland prevention slash whatever else. There's another term for it here, but really it's getting Southern Marin fire to step up to the plate. Vegetation management defensible space policy. That's a more challenging thing, especially here in Sausalito versus in other communities, which is, you know, having 20 feet around your house free of any |
| 01:02:03.38 | Ray Withy | or, |
| 01:02:45.97 | Ray Withy | flammable growing material. And that's tough when your lot's 30 feet wide to do. So it's hard to apply that here, but we really need to address as part of our disaster preparedness, this urban and wildland thing, and it got really pushed down I'm just bringing that to your attention. And the Construction and Demolition Waste Recycling Ordinance I have two more to bring to your attention. That one's going to happen whether you do it or not because as a community, every community brand has signed on to the zero waste, whatever thing that is. And we're one of the few ones that doesn't have a construction demolition ordinance, which basically means they have to sort out construction debris at site and so it can be recycled. And that's something we're going to have to do at some point anyway in order to meet our targets. And then the last one is because it's just always misunderstood what I'm trying to accomplish here. It's this underwater streets, and the underwater street idea is really just to put the underwater streets to bed, so to speak, and put them away and give them back to nature and stop development in the water. And it could be a water bed for some fish, yes, if they are so inclined. Because it leaves a huge cloud hanging over the waterfront to have these underwater streets there. And if you don't put them to bed, at least put them only for public use rather than private use. And that's why I keep trying to get that above the line. That's why I was above the line last year. |
| 01:03:56.53 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 01:04:18.58 | Ray Withy | rather than have to waste city time, city staff, city money, dealing with developers who are constantly holding that development over the head of the community. So those are just the four that I would rally for, but I don't see them coming up, given the support |
| 01:04:33.03 | Herb | Go ahead. |
| 01:04:33.40 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:04:36.02 | Herb | It depends where we draw the line, but the trees and views, if I just draw a line at about 30, is right below. And they had three items, and I'm going to recommend, I think one of them is, I think would be about, you know, number 32, if you just went to the top to the bottom. Trees in view, update the regulations and enforcement. I think it's necessary, and I'm the liaison to the Trees in Views Committee, and they also have two other Items, tree preservation and replacement plan and and revised protected undesirable tree list. I would propose combining them and moving the trees above the line. That's the first thing. I think the other thing I would... suggest is that possibly we have the historic district again, I'm arbitrarily taking 30 is above the line. and possibly moving up THE MILLS ACT which would fall below it. and put the historic district Just swap them right now and put the Mills Act for the historic, the line and the downtown district below the line for this year and keep it on the list. And then, The final thing would be I think maybe Adam answered this, but on the... The downtown parking plan would, again, if we drew up at 30, would fall below, and I'm not sure that we might want to see that above the line to complete it. |
| 01:05:54.32 | Ray Withy | Some money's come in then. Okay, so we don't need that. Okay. Linda? |
| 01:05:56.12 | Herb | OK, so we don't need that. |
| 01:06:01.05 | Linda Pfeiffer | So I just wanted to highlight a couple of the items that were raised by residents and items that I rated high. Age-friendly initiative, I think that deserves to be above the line. We have certainly an aging baby boomer population in Sausalito. I do see it as different from ADA. And also the fact that age-friendly also speaks to children. It speaks to all ages. And I think it's something that would really be a benefit with respect to quality of life and also for the city in general. I think the Ice House Plaza is something that has so much momentum. If we draw 30, that's above the line. So that's good. On the steps and stairways, I'm very happy to see that that would be above the line at 30. I guess my point of view is that I'm going to |
| 01:06:53.58 | Jeremy | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:06:54.66 | Linda Pfeiffer | And age family, yeah. And I guess one of the things I'm questioning is, Do we want to draw the line at 30? That's a lot. That's a lot of coverage there that staff could be facing with respect to juggling multiple projects. And I guess that one question I have for the council is do we want to keep it at 30? And if we want to move it up, that I would like to see those three items stay above the line. |
| 01:07:29.53 | Jeremy | they are Ready? |
| 01:07:35.78 | Thomas Theodores | Yeah, I... I can see that, first of all, on the trees and views, I actually think that that is reasonably important. But I think the tree replacement plan is a different, really a different issue because that went to a lot of what we've heard in the last meeting and the previous meetings about residents worried that, you know, trees are dying on public property and we're chopping them down for safety reasons correctly, but we're not replacing them. And I think that's a different issue than... Um... enforcing, updating and enforcing our trees and views regs. And I'm not quite sure where the priorities should be there, but Certainly something about trees should be above the line, I think. Thank you. The |
| 01:08:33.77 | Thomas Theodores | The second issue is... At the last meeting, I believe at the last meeting, Economic development, we seem to have either lumped together as one thing and then prized apart, as another thing Um... And at the last meeting, the item which is now will be pretty high above the line, locally concerned economic development initiatives program to retain and preserve maritime and arts businesses. Well, that's great. I mean, I support that. But where's the analysis to say what other businesses we need to actually attract? And I think I would question whether that wording is still right for the item that's above the list and try and move that more into a more general economic development question about what businesses are compatible with Sausalito's overall goals that the residents put forward. So that's the second comment. I'm actually pleased that some of the historic projects have actually moved above the line. I took staff's recommendation rather seriously in what they were recommending not to fund, but I actually think that's important. And I also think the age-friendly initiative should definitely be above the line. So those are some thoughts, at least, for where I'm thinking. Thank you. |
| 01:10:16.37 | Ray Withy | Mr. Mayor, if I could. |
| 01:10:17.77 | Thomas Theodores | Thank you. |
| 01:10:17.97 | Ray Withy | So, A couple things, since there are folks here, I've got to justify myself or I'm going to get in trouble. So, the downtown Caledonia Street beautification project, the reason why I didn't rank it super high is because I don't even know what it is. You know what I mean? It's so vague, but I know we need to do something to improve Caledonia Street's appeal to shoppers, particularly hard goods. We're coming sort of service-based. So I didn't have a clear point of view what you guys, what the merchants were proposing, but I'm in support of that. The Ice House, I'm on that board, so I ranked it super low so I wouldn't get in trouble, Susan. So I want to have no conflicts of interest there. So that's why I ranked it super low. Don, don't hurt me later, Susan, please. The tree replacement and preservation plan, I think the intent is there to replace the trees that we've cut down recently, B of A, and here on Caledonia Street. It's just going to require it. Those are big trees. And to dig out the stumps and put in, it's going to be a serious amount of cash. And we just have to find the money first. And that's what's the reason why I was a little bit not in a hurry with that one for this next year. |
| 01:10:23.69 | Jeremy | So. |
| 01:10:57.17 | Terry | Thank you. |
| 01:10:57.22 | Jeremy | Yeah. |
| 01:10:57.29 | Terry | I mean, I'm not sure. |
| 01:11:28.29 | Ray Withy | And if I may, on the economic development study, why I pulled that apart is because we need to do something off that list. And these are the two low-hanging fruit, in my opinion, in terms of people's tolerance. And let's see if we can make it work, rather than try and hook it up with some other things that are more controversial in the whole thing that's dragged down. And that's why I split those into two pieces and ranked one lower than the other. And the other, frankly, is the Business Advisory Committee needs to prioritize them amongst itself and do something the community can get behind right off the bat rather than just push forward their own initiatives that benefit them more directly. |
| 01:12:06.68 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:12:06.70 | Ray Withy | Well, I think that the age-friendly, since I'm the oldest one up here, I think I better go for putting that above the line. And the Mills Act, I think that should, as you noted, that should go above the line and maybe move the historic. Historic. Yeah. |
| 01:12:30.34 | Ray Withy | Yeah. Thank you. |
| 01:12:31.65 | Ray Withy | Go ahead. You can comment. It's OK. |
| 01:12:33.09 | Ray Withy | Yeah, can you wrap up here? Can you stop us now? No, he hasn't said it. |
| 01:12:35.89 | Ray Withy | All right. |
| 01:12:36.41 | Terry | Thank you. |
| 01:12:38.19 | Ray Withy | Well, so why I wouldn't bring those two down is because, man, that first one is going to take a long time to get 50% of the people on board. And I can tell you that carrot is only going to move a few of them, right? But you're going to need that carrot. But don't start, don't wait on that downtown historic district register thing because it's going to come back and hurt us. And Tom knows well what I mean. So we've got to strengthen that downtown historic district while we have the opportunity and the momentum and the council to do it. It's taken me six or seven years to get it above the line, So let's not push it down below the line because of the Mills Act. The Mills Act is a good thing. It's complicated. It's going to take you some time. and it's going to take time to explain to people and get them to buy into it. And they're not going to act on it right away because you've got to do some construction to get tax benefits out of the Mills Act. And so that's the immediate benefit isn't going to be there. I think if they see us working in earnest on it, they'll take into account their decision on the historic overlay district. |
| 01:13:22.69 | Terry | with the E. |
| 01:13:36.03 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:13:36.05 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:13:37.03 | Ray Withy | but I'm looking at a framing here in 815. Do we want to continue many things on this? |
| 01:13:44.86 | Terry | Bye. |
| 01:13:46.34 | Linda Pfeiffer | Miss Mary, I have a comment. |
| 01:13:47.66 | Ray Withy | All right, go ahead. |
| 01:13:48.06 | Linda Pfeiffer | Do you have a comment? |
| 01:13:48.98 | Jeremy | We're next. |
| 01:13:51.22 | Linda Pfeiffer | Okay, so I wanted to say that the downtown historic overlay zoning, is that the one we were talking about potentially? Yeah, I personally think that really needs to stay up there above the line. I think that's very important. Regarding the local economic development incentives program to retain and preserve maritime and arts businesses, the way I interpreted that was initially it was to preserve maritime businesses and I think the reason why was a more general interpretation of maritime, maritime businesses in light of green technologies, maritime services, what does that food chain look like now? What are the opportunities within that umbrella that we should be fully exploiting? So that was the context of my interpretation of that and why I think it should be above the line. The tree preservation and replacement plan, absolutely I do agree, concur that that should be above the line. We've heard from residents loud and clear that they would like to see the beautiful shady trees replaced and not in the big cement containers but in the ground. And finally, just to wrap up, the Which one? Oh, one thought I had with respect to making some room for the tree preservation and replacement plan would be, I notice we have the South City limits to ferry landing pedestrian bike improvements. That's absolutely, you know, very, very important. I'm a big advocate of solutions for that side of town, but I notice this is rather a large encompassing topic. It goes all the way to the ferry landing. |
| 01:15:39.39 | Jeremy | Mm-hmm. |
| 01:15:39.81 | Linda Pfeiffer | We also have bicycle congestion mitigation and safety plan ranked very high. It could be that perhaps we focus on the bicycle congestion mitigation and safety plan, you know, give, you know, priority to that as a first step. And then that, the solutions that bubble up from that will flow into the opportunities for the South City limits to ferry landing improvements. |
| 01:16:08.28 | Ray Withy | Okay. to you. |
| 01:16:11.70 | Herb | Um. At least I get in trouble when I go home tonight. I also support the age-friendly plan. It was already above the line, and I was only commenting things below the line. But you're showing your age now. But he doesn't want to get older. That's right. But what I'd suggest is that we pick a line, draw it, and then decide which ones will come above, and then move forward with that. |
| 01:16:16.23 | Jeremy | Glancing. |
| 01:16:19.91 | Ray Withy | Yeah. |
| 01:16:19.97 | Jeremy | Bye. |
| 01:16:20.02 | Ray Withy | Yeah. You show what you're raised now. He doesn't want to get older. That's right. |
| 01:16:33.52 | Ray Withy | Okay. So on that, I would suppose that we start at 30 and try to little it down if we can. But as I said, sorry, I didn't have my mic on. Which would be the Green Building Code. I think that's the 30th one, is that right? |
| 01:16:43.61 | Unknown | Right. |
| 01:16:52.32 | Ray Withy | and then decide whether you want to take anything off above that. And if you take anything off above, you could either leave it that way or if you want to move something from below, you've got to take something from above. |
| 01:17:05.33 | Herb | Absolutely. Well, one thing I think we could say, based on Council Member Pfeiffer's suggestion, why don't we combine the one we talked about from South Street on with the bicycle congestion. |
| 01:17:06.72 | Ray Withy | Go ahead. |
| 01:17:19.71 | Unknown | So on that, can I ask Jonathan what to... I need to clarify. |
| 01:17:21.13 | Linda Pfeiffer | I need to clarify, Councilmember Leon, I was not suggesting we combine those two items. I'm sorry for the confusion. I was suggesting we keep them separate and that, and I think they should both be above the line, but I was saying that in terms of order, we would probably address bicycle congestion first, mitigation and safety plan first, and that the solutions that would bubble up through that would probably flow. to the South City. |
| 01:17:49.04 | Ray Withy | Can we ask Jonathan to comment on, obviously not the first one, because the first bicycle congestion thing, we don't know what that is yet. |
| 01:17:55.54 | Jeremy | Yeah. |
| 01:17:55.81 | Ray Withy | The South City limits to Ferry Landing, some of those were funded projects and some were not. And maybe you can help us understand your understanding of what this means, and then we can decide where to go with those two items. If you would. |
| 01:18:14.91 | Jonathan Goldman | The most effective, shortest answer I can offer is that the city received a $125,000 grant from the OBEG program to do further design development on the South City Limits to Richardson segment of that conceptual project. of the timing on that grant funding We certainly don't expect to be able to complete that work this next fiscal year, but when the funds are available, we intend to solicit for proposals for design teams to work on that project and spend the grant funds. And to the extent that the council wants to go beyond that or expand the geographic area and prioritize that, that is certainly at your discretion. |
| 01:19:21.16 | Ray Withy | make sure I can understand it. So we got a grant. The money is actually not there yet. When it shows up, we will spend it. |
| 01:19:30.49 | Jonathan Goldman | Yeah. |
| 01:19:31.39 | Adam Politzer | Can I clarify that? The grant that we have that we'll be working on this year |
| 01:19:31.51 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:19:31.57 | Jonathan Goldman | Thank you. |
| 01:19:31.59 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:19:31.62 | Jonathan Goldman | Thank you. |
| 01:19:31.64 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:19:32.28 | Jonathan Goldman | Thank you. |
| 01:19:32.42 | Terry | Yeah. |
| 01:19:32.47 | Jonathan Goldman | The greatest |
| 01:19:38.95 | Adam Politzer | is to do this study. And what I think our public works director is suggesting is that to construct and make improvements. we would need to go find additional funds OR THE COUNCIL MAY DECIDE TO defer funds from other projects to help move it forward. |
| 01:20:00.12 | Linda Pfeiffer | And Mr. Geyer, I have a follow-up question for... Jonathan, so is the topic the South City... I need my readers on. The South City to Ferry Landing pedestrian Was that the item, the plan that we looked at that didn't have a lot of my opinion didn't have a lot of community outreach beforehand. that where we voted on it but we thought it was, we were voting on just a general concept it wasn't hammered in concrete and open to change. Is that the one we're talking about? |
| 01:20:42.48 | Jonathan Goldman | It is, and in fact, the Council did. The Council at that time did unanimously support the concept for the purpose of staff attempting to develop non-motorized transportation pilot project funds to take it further and do a public participation process in further refining the design. What we have been successful in doing since then is getting grant funding to do that same process with the South City Limits to Richardson piece of that project. |
| 01:21:15.35 | Linda Pfeiffer | Okay, because it was my understanding. It was a unanimous council vote because I recall that Councilmember Ford and I were very adamant that the design could be changed with public comment and that this was just being pushed forward for the sake of filing for the grant, but that nothing was cast in concrete. |
| 01:21:34.10 | Jonathan Goldman | Not at all. |
| 01:21:35.03 | Adam Politzer | Only were you adamant, so was I. |
| 01:21:36.60 | Jonathan Goldman | Yes. |
| 01:21:37.06 | Linda Pfeiffer | Okay, thank you. |
| 01:21:38.66 | Adam Politzer | Can I just add one other comment? because it's important. to Councilmember Theodore's question earlier. Are there projects that we would want to see above the line? And my answer was... if it's ongoing, we should, and if you look at last year's Priority calendar. Uh... the whereas the South City limits to ferry, landing, pedestrian, and bike improvements was above the line. So that's why we went for the grant, met with TAM, spent a lot of energy meeting and with the various folks. to be able to land that grant. And so I think there is momentum and then obviously the discussion from the past council to this council the safety issues related to that part of town from Alexander to Ferry. specifically to Richardson Street, is why we think that this item should remain above the line. |
| 01:22:39.58 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 01:22:39.59 | Ray Withy | Okay. |
| 01:22:40.54 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 01:22:40.57 | Ray Withy | Great, any comments? Thank you. |
| 01:22:47.07 | Thomas Theodores | So where are we? We've got a line drawn and |
| 01:22:51.02 | Ray Withy | And it's cutting it in half. It's basically 60 down to 30. |
| 01:22:53.65 | Thomas Theodores | Yeah. And |
| 01:22:59.83 | Thomas Theodores | It would seem that at some point we should vote whether the Mills Act should come above the line. |
| 01:23:06.58 | Herb | I will take them all at a time. |
| 01:23:08.01 | Thomas Theodores | I would also still like to suggest that our local economic development quote, incentives, which I worry about as a word, program, be expanded a little more. |
| 01:23:28.50 | Ray Withy | You get a trade. |
| 01:23:29.65 | Thomas Theodores | And... |
| 01:23:31.38 | Ray Withy | Compromised. |
| 01:23:32.02 | Jeremy | Compromised. |
| 01:23:33.69 | Thomas Theodores | I think... |
| 01:23:33.74 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:23:33.78 | Jeremy | you |
| 01:23:33.83 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:23:33.86 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 01:23:33.90 | Ray Withy | I think. You're gonna give me something from Paloma. |
| 01:23:35.52 | Jeremy | Hello. |
| 01:23:35.80 | Thomas Theodores | I, you know, I, I, Well, I think there's general consensus on the Mills Act. If I was going to trade for anything, I'd let you have your underwater streets back up. So just like you did last year. That's right. Thank you. |
| 01:23:50.08 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 01:23:50.11 | Thomas Theodores | as well. |
| 01:23:50.18 | Jeremy | and |
| 01:23:53.24 | Thomas Theodores | So I would like to suggest that the Local. economic development be reworded is more as study, attracting retaining businesses, that are compatible with Sausalito's goals. |
| 01:24:08.29 | Ray Withy | Thank you. And to clarify, so the Councilmember Pfeiffer's comment was not correct. The maritime and arts businesses do not include green businesses per se, because green business is a very stretchable term. Uh... |
| 01:24:24.88 | Linda Pfeiffer | It says green maritime technologies. |
| 01:24:27.85 | Ray Withy | not on this thing we're voting on tonight. It says to retain and preserve maritime and arts businesses. I'm not saying about the thing, whatever you're referring to. It's not even in. No, I'm not referring to that. Yeah, I think it is. I'm referring to. |
| 01:24:36.89 | Thomas Theodores | No, I'm not referring to that. Yeah, I think it is. I'm referring to rewording this to make it a little more expansive. Right, right. |
| 01:24:41.50 | Ray Withy | Right. |
| 01:24:41.77 | Herb | Thank you. |
| 01:24:41.84 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:24:41.85 | Herb | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:24:43.59 | Ray Withy | Right. |
| 01:24:45.26 | Herb | I would agree with the Council Member with the suggestion to broaden it. |
| 01:24:48.01 | Thomas Theodores | I'd make that true. |
| 01:24:53.31 | Herb | Yes. |
| 01:24:53.55 | Ray Withy | I'll trade you, but then do you want to bring |
| 01:24:53.56 | Herb | Thank you. |
| 01:24:55.89 | Ray Withy | I say we move the Mills Act up, combine it with the downtown. I know Jeremy thinks they're two separate things, but I think they're kind of linked, even if they're separate tasks. Move the water streets up. Move the water streets up and move the – make the economic development study all encompassing of both of those elements. You'd have to maybe move it down because the ratings are – |
| 01:24:59.74 | Herb | I don't know. |
| 01:25:20.07 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 01:25:21.80 | Thomas Theodores | Yeah, I'm not. |
| 01:25:22.44 | Linda Pfeiffer | So we're going into a conversation here as opposed to calling it. |
| 01:25:22.45 | Ray Withy | So, we're going to have a |
| 01:25:22.66 | Thomas Theodores | Thank you. |
| 01:25:22.81 | Ray Withy | So, |
| 01:25:22.86 | Thomas Theodores | Bye. |
| 01:25:22.91 | Ray Withy | Bye. |
| 01:25:22.98 | Thomas Theodores | Thank you. |
| 01:25:23.03 | Ray Withy | I'm getting into a conversation here as opposed to calling it. |
| 01:25:25.96 | Thomas Theodores | I'm referring to expanding just this. I'm not referring to trying to move that |
| 01:25:26.05 | Ray Withy | for an |
| 01:25:31.13 | Ray Withy | Oh, expand this. So what do you want to put in this number 31 here? |
| 01:25:36.04 | Thomas Theodores | Thank you. |
| 01:25:36.17 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:25:36.76 | Thomas Theodores | Number 31, I'd like to say local economic development study dash study attracting and retaining businesses, that are compatible with Sausalito's goals. And we've just set four goals at the last retreat. |
| 01:25:55.16 | Linda Pfeiffer | So Mr. Mayor, I have a comment on that. I disagree with that. And just to clarify the history of that topic, local economic development incentives programs to retain and preserve maritime and arts businesses. The origin of that was the Marinship. We were to retain and preserve maritime and arts businesses and at the time, |
| 01:25:57.18 | Thomas Theodores | Thank you. |
| 01:26:17.03 | Linda Pfeiffer | I mentioned that my interpretation of maritime was broader to include maritime green technologies and maritime green services, specifically maritime services. I think that we need better understanding of what that food chain looks like. So I just wanted to provide clarity on that. Excuse me, I still have time. The correct part is that these two were part of the... |
| 01:26:28.89 | Unknown | Right. |
| 01:26:29.18 | Terry | Thank you. |
| 01:26:32.98 | Ray Withy | I just want Clarity on that. Excuse me, I still have time. The correct part is that these two were part of the same study that was done for Number 21. We have separate |
| 01:26:44.47 | Linda Pfeiffer | We have separate topics, and that was the history of the local economic development. Can I finish my comment? Actually, you interrupted me, Vice Mayor. |
| 01:26:49.53 | Ray Withy | Can I finish my comment? Okay, then I'll keep it up. So this study was done in conjunction with... |
| 01:26:57.14 | Linda Pfeiffer | Do I get to finish my comment? |
| 01:26:59.13 | Ray Withy | Thank you. Hopefully not, because you're not making much sense. Thank you. |
| 01:27:02.91 | Linda Pfeiffer | Mr. Mayor, could you turn on your microphone? Okay, so just to confirm you, you asked me to finish. So I think we should keep the local economic development incentives program to retain and preserve maritime and arts businesses. I think that focuses on the marinship, and I think that is a topic of priority for residents. And I also, let's see, there was one other comment, but I've lost it now. |
| 01:27:02.94 | Ray Withy | And... |
| 01:27:32.85 | Ray Withy | Well, let's find out. Are we in agreement on that? I'm not. Thank you. |
| 01:27:36.46 | Herb | Bad comment. |
| 01:27:36.68 | Ray Withy | THE FAMILY. |
| 01:27:37.39 | Herb | Well, first of all, I think We're here, we can change it any way we'd like. We do have the Marineship specific plan is going to encompass that particular type of study. And I think what Councilmember Withy is referring to is that we're taking a look at the local economic development plan and looking at it citywide. And that will stand on its own. It actually will have some influence on the marineship, but we're studying the marineship. It's already above the line. I don't know what number. And I think it would include what you just described. |
| 01:28:05.18 | Jeremy | what you just described. How about this raise? |
| 01:28:08.42 | Herb | Thank you. |
| 01:28:08.44 | Ray Withy | I think what you're trying to do is wordsmith this number 31 a little bit better. And so I can tell you where this comes from. This is really very simple. Number 31 came from just saying, hey, you know what, if you're a maritime business or an arts business, you don't have to pay a business license fee, or maybe we can exempt you from sales tax as a way to kind of just give you a competitive edge. Very simply, that's just my vision in putting this on here originally, many years ago now. But I can see if you're sort of your conceptually, forget the words for a second, your concept is, and we could carve these out as two, for example, is to say, hey, if this is currently zoned in the city, then let's encourage it to stay. For example, maritime and arts businesses, something to that effect. Is that sort of where you're going, or is that far away from where you're going? I don't know. |
| 01:29:00.63 | Thomas Theodores | No, I think that's getting there. I think Council Member Theodorus has sort of hit the nail on the head here, which is Um, We've got the marineship specific plan, we've got a task force, we've got that. that's going to really get dug into Let's not have another initiative which appears to be very marineship focused. Let's have something that's asking the question, Let's look at the economic development holistically in the city and What are the businesses that are compatible with what we've got? Is there something we can do to retain them? It relates to Caledonia Street even. You know, that's where I'm trying to. |
| 01:29:36.90 | Ray Withy | you know, |
| 01:29:37.15 | Unknown | We'll be right back. |
| 01:29:37.20 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 01:29:37.23 | Unknown | even. |
| 01:29:38.80 | Ray Withy | Yeah, no, I mean, the reason, again, I pulled these apart is that maritime and arts are also zoned outside of Ritchie. They're zoned all along the waterfront on Caledonia Street. And so, say, for Chris, for example, you know, if he can have a more competitive edge against another gallery or, I forget the name of the other one, outside of Sausalito, great. because in I forget the ballet teacher who spoke just you know a few hours ago saying this is a cultural hub. We do very little to encourage the arts here in reality from the government's perspective. So these were kind of the easy swings at the plate. And my concern was, hey, let's not bog it down with debate over the marinship or what's green and what's not. If you're sitting in an office, it doesn't matter if you're green, blue, or pink. It's still an office building at the end of the day. But. So that's my concern with sort of tagging that to it. But as far as if it's zoned and if there's ways we can incentivize businesses to stay, then I'm all for that. You know, that's what my whole pitch with the chamber has been for. So I'm with you there. |
| 01:30:50.47 | Linda Pfeiffer | And Mr. Mayor, I have a comment. So with respect, my memory of this topic in terms of how it evolved here was specifically for the marinship. I see them as two different topics. Local economic development incentives program to retain and preserve maritime and arts businesses, specifically in the marinship. The other topic regarding the marineship, the marineship specific plan does not necessarily focus on exploring retaining and incentives for maritime services. That is open to discussion and different interpretations up here on this council. And my third comment is the Mills Act. In terms of moving that up, it's my understanding that the Mills Act focuses on restoring historic buildings for different uses. Is that correct? I guess it's a question. So I just want clarification on that because could city staff clarify for me that the Mills Act is not about restoring historic buildings for different potentially different |
| 01:32:03.49 | Jeremy | Ms. Heidi, Heidi, go ahead. |
| 01:32:03.98 | Heidi | Thank you. |
| 01:32:04.05 | Linda Pfeiffer | Bye. Bye. Bye. |
| 01:32:04.74 | Heidi | you |
| 01:32:04.91 | Linda Pfeiffer | Bye. |
| 01:32:05.09 | Heidi | Thank you. |
| 01:32:05.16 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 01:32:05.18 | Heidi | Thank you. |
| 01:32:05.73 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 01:32:05.75 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 01:32:05.77 | Heidi | Thank you. |
| 01:32:05.80 | Jeremy | anything. |
| 01:32:05.92 | Linda Pfeiffer | you |
| 01:32:05.97 | Heidi | Thank you. |
| 01:32:06.07 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 01:32:06.09 | Heidi | The Mills Act is basically a property tax incentive, so the city could set it up in any different way we would like it to be. It doesn't necessarily require construction or additions to the building, but it's a property tax incentive. |
| 01:32:19.74 | Linda Pfeiffer | So it's a property tax incentive or? |
| 01:32:22.68 | Heidi | Yeah. So the way it works in theory is that a property that's determined to be historically significant could apply for an application to the city once we have our Mills Act program in place, and essentially get not, well, I guess essentially not have to pay for a significant percentage of their property taxes, they would still be required to pay special bonds and assessments, but instead of, you know, paying, you know, the 1% property tax, they would get up to 80 to 90% of an incentive. They don't, they wouldn't have to pay that property tax. So, for example, if a property owner has owned the property for a long period of time, their tax assessment is probably pretty low. and there's no incentive for that. someone buys the Horizons and that's a great commercial building, it'll probably sell for A property owner would be incentivized to pursue that application process so they wouldn't have to pay those property taxes. |
| 01:33:23.00 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you, and then the property tax formula, that's something that's set by the council, so we decide how much of a break or not. |
| 01:33:29.06 | Heidi | It actually needs to be negotiated between the city and the county. |
| 01:33:33.06 | Linda Pfeiffer | I see. OK, thank you, Heidi. |
| 01:33:34.97 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:33:35.24 | Ray Withy | Thank you, Harry. |
| 01:33:35.95 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:33:39.25 | John Cox | Yeah. |
| 01:33:39.68 | Ray Withy | Just to, Heidi, if you, these properties already could qualify for the downtown historic district. If we adopted, if we did the process for the Mills Act, you could qualify on the city register. You could qualify, yes. Right. So somebody could do it already if we got behind this. Once we had the regulations in place. |
| 01:33:52.37 | Heidi | You can qualify it, yes. |
| 01:33:57.53 | Heidi | Once we have the regulations in place, the agreements between the city and the county are in place, then we can do it. And the city council would need to determine how many applications we would want a year. |
| 01:34:02.36 | Ray Withy | Right. |
| 01:34:05.93 | Ray Withy | Right, and to be frank, and this is not a question, so you don't have to comment on it. To be, no, that's Heidi. To be direct, let's leave Frank out of this for a second. Frankly, I did it on purpose. I was trying to be, never mind. I shouldn't compete with you, Herb, on the puns. |
| 01:34:20.43 | Jeremy | out of this for a second. |
| 01:34:26.05 | Jeremy | No. |
| 01:34:32.19 | Terry | Thank you. |
| 01:34:35.95 | Jeremy | Actually, |
| 01:34:36.63 | Unknown | to the next episode. |
| 01:34:40.48 | Ray Withy | He... It's going to be tough to get those properties above 50% on there. And so I don't think you want to adopt this until you, you know, it's sort of a, again, it's a carrot. It's sort of a, that's why I see it linked to the register movement. So that's just my personal opinion. |
| 01:35:00.95 | Herb | Well, I would say that we start taking these items and vote on them. And I would start with the council member with these change to local economic development and we just move on. |
| 01:35:09.13 | Ray Withy | Do you want to rephrase that? |
| 01:35:15.56 | Ray Withy | just tag these, for example, at the end. |
| 01:35:20.69 | Thomas Theodores | So local economic development dash study attracting and retaining businesses that are compatible with Sausalito's We could say current zoning. |
| 01:35:34.61 | Jeremy | That's cool. |
| 01:35:37.14 | Thomas Theodores | I prefer goals because we've got an interesting set of four goals that are multiplexed and relate to Sausalito's current plans, so I would prefer that are compatible with Sausalito's goals, including |
| 01:35:49.16 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 01:35:55.98 | Thomas Theodores | Maritime and Arts businesses. |
| 01:36:05.98 | Thomas Theodores | And yeah. So that would be my suggestion, rewording that. Is that clear? |
| 01:36:11.48 | Jonathan Goldman | is that, |
| 01:36:11.53 | Ray Withy | Is that? No. Okay. |
| 01:36:16.06 | Thomas Theodores | Thank you. |
| 01:36:16.07 | Ray Withy | Okay. |
| 01:36:16.51 | Ray Withy | Thank you. both. Those people can just... |
| 01:36:18.98 | Linda Pfeiffer | to do. |
| 01:36:19.69 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:36:19.70 | Ray Withy | Do we have a consensus on that? |
| 01:36:19.73 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 01:36:19.82 | Ray Withy | Yeah. |
| 01:36:19.92 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. you. |
| 01:36:20.41 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 01:36:20.48 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. No, we don't. |
| 01:36:22.49 | Ray Withy | All right, then vote. Yeah, because... |
| 01:36:24.48 | Linda Pfeiffer | Yeah, because I disagree with some of the goals that this council has generated so far. |
| 01:36:26.64 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:36:26.67 | Ray Withy | that |
| 01:36:27.33 | Unknown | you this. You don't have to go through a voice note. Thank you. |
| 01:36:32.54 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 01:36:32.63 | Ray Withy | We don't. |
| 01:36:33.03 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 01:36:33.05 | Ray Withy | Okay. |
| 01:36:33.35 | Linda Pfeiffer | that I voted no. |
| 01:36:36.37 | Ray Withy | Okay. |
| 01:36:36.66 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 01:36:36.83 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:36:36.93 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 01:36:36.97 | Herb | Thank you. |
| 01:36:38.90 | Ray Withy | Thank you. That's reworded. |
| 01:36:41.13 | Thomas Theodores | Thank you. |
| 01:36:41.17 | Herb | Thank you. |
| 01:36:41.20 | Thomas Theodores | Not just three words. |
| 01:36:43.80 | Herb | And then moving the Mills Act above the line. The move that we do. |
| 01:36:49.15 | Thomas Theodores | Thank you. |
| 01:36:49.18 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:36:49.20 | Unknown | you |
| 01:36:49.22 | Herb | Thank you. |
| 01:36:49.25 | Ray Withy | Yeah. |
| 01:36:49.49 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 01:36:50.03 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:36:50.08 | Unknown | STORIES. |
| 01:36:50.40 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:36:52.86 | Ray Withy | you know. |
| 01:36:53.03 | Ray Withy | So I would, is that... We all agree with that? Consensus? |
| 01:36:55.02 | Ray Withy | We all look good. |
| 01:36:58.04 | Linda Pfeiffer | I have a question. If we move the Mills Act above the line, what gets pushed down? |
| 01:37:01.69 | Ray Withy | We're just... Thank you. |
| 01:37:02.95 | Jeremy | you know. |
| 01:37:03.02 | Ray Withy | We're going to combine it with this historic district overlay. |
| 01:37:03.04 | Jeremy | We're going to combine it with this historic historic overlay. |
| 01:37:06.58 | Linda Pfeiffer | Oh, you're combining it with the historic? Yeah, that's right. No, okay, I need to comment on that. I agree that moving mills act above the line, but I think we are, |
| 01:37:08.52 | Jeremy | Combining it with the historic |
| 01:37:21.85 | Linda Pfeiffer | really, combining apples and oranges when we group it with the with the downtown historic overlay zoning. I think we are basically giving staff to very time intensive topics under one umbrella and I think they're very different. |
| 01:37:46.19 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 01:37:46.44 | Linda Pfeiffer | So I would not concur with that. |
| 01:37:48.92 | Jeremy | Love it. |
| 01:37:49.61 | Linda Pfeiffer | I would not concur with combining the Mills Act. |
| 01:37:51.35 | Jeremy | the Mills Act. |
| 01:37:54.19 | Unknown | Just vote, just vote vote. Consensus is to agree by consent. |
| 01:37:59.01 | Linda Pfeiffer | So for the record, Debbie, I agree with moving the Mills Act above the line. I do not agree with combining the Mills Act with the downtown historic overlay zoning district. Thank you. |
| 01:38:09.86 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:38:09.88 | Herb | you |
| 01:38:10.03 | Ray Withy | Okay, it's in the record. |
| 01:38:12.31 | Herb | And then what do we have for the tree hoogers? |
| 01:38:12.39 | Ray Withy | AND THEN, |
| 01:38:16.27 | Jeremy | Oh, wait. |
| 01:38:16.97 | Ray Withy | you know. |
| 01:38:17.32 | Jeremy | You've got to move. Thank you. |
| 01:38:18.69 | Ray Withy | my streets up, man. |
| 01:38:19.60 | Thomas Theodores | Well, |
| 01:38:20.49 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 01:38:21.32 | Thomas Theodores | So I would make a motion to move the underwater streets, develop policy and implement legislation up above the line and not move anything down the line. |
| 01:38:30.04 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:38:30.06 | Thomas Theodores | Thank you. |
| 01:38:30.10 | Ray Withy | I agree. |
| 01:38:30.58 | Thomas Theodores | Thank you. |
| 01:38:30.74 | Ray Withy | Okay. |
| 01:38:31.12 | Thomas Theodores | Thank you. |
| 01:38:31.14 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:38:31.16 | Thomas Theodores | Thank you. Fall in favor of that? |
| 01:38:32.83 | Linda Pfeiffer | I'm sorry, what was that? I didn't hear that. |
| 01:38:33.10 | Ray Withy | Thank you. On the water streets. |
| 01:38:37.08 | Ray Withy | underwater streets |
| 01:38:37.49 | Ray Withy | Underwater streets. Underwater streets. Just move it above the line. And by moving the other items up, that leaves it open that you can move that up. |
| 01:38:47.38 | Linda Pfeiffer | Well, I'm confused. If we move the underwater streets above the line, what gets pushed below the line? |
| 01:38:53.67 | Thomas Theodores | My motion was that nothing gets moved below the line. |
| 01:38:57.64 | Linda Pfeiffer | So in other words, we're expanding the list to 31 items? |
| 01:38:59.85 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 01:38:59.86 | Thomas Theodores | Thank you. |
| 01:38:59.88 | Herb | Thank you. |
| 01:39:00.03 | Jeremy | I got it. |
| 01:39:00.40 | Herb | No, would you do it? |
| 01:39:00.67 | Jeremy | you |
| 01:39:00.72 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 01:39:00.77 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 01:39:00.79 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 01:39:00.89 | Jeremy | I don't know. |
| 01:39:00.98 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. Okay, thank you. Just connecting the dots. |
| 01:39:01.36 | Herb | Thank you. |
| 01:39:01.43 | Thomas Theodores | Thank you. |
| 01:39:01.53 | Herb | OK. Just connecting the dots. Well, since there was some, but the current motion on the table was trees. No. Are we doing both? You're going out on it. Yes. Okay. |
| 01:39:11.86 | Ray Withy | Yes. |
| 01:39:12.69 | Linda Pfeiffer | I don't know. |
| 01:39:12.97 | Jeremy | Bye. |
| 01:39:13.02 | Linda Pfeiffer | Okay, I'll take care of you. |
| 01:39:13.84 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 01:39:13.87 | Herb | I'll see you next time. |
| 01:39:13.90 | Ray Withy | I'll take care of that. You're going out on a limb now. |
| 01:39:16.82 | Jeremy | a limb now. I don't know. |
| 01:39:18.64 | Ray Withy | Well, we're going to start. Yeah, let's move because we're way behind. |
| 01:39:18.68 | Linda Pfeiffer | Well, we're gonna start |
| 01:39:21.66 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:39:21.68 | Linda Pfeiffer | We're gonna start with the underwater streets and then |
| 01:39:23.57 | Ray Withy | and So what's consensus on the years now, Yes. |
| 01:39:30.12 | Ray Withy | Yes. Consensus is yes. |
| 01:39:32.35 | Ray Withy | Underwater streets to move above the... I'm in, sorry. |
| 01:39:33.68 | Ray Withy | the underwater streets to move above the... |
| 01:39:37.19 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 01:39:38.52 | Ray Withy | No, 4-1. |
| 01:39:38.99 | Jeremy | No, no, no. |
| 01:39:39.97 | Herb | Thank you. |
| 01:39:40.04 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 01:39:40.07 | Ray Withy | 4-1 |
| 01:39:40.84 | Jeremy | Thank you. you |
| 01:39:42.39 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:39:42.40 | Herb | Yeah. |
| 01:39:43.03 | Ray Withy | OK, and then what was the regular, I mean, the town? |
| 01:39:46.72 | Herb | Well, my proposal would be to combine the three tree items into one and move them above the line. So there's the trees and views, there's the tree preservation, and what's the third? |
| 01:39:48.38 | Ray Withy | trees. |
| 01:39:54.17 | Jeremy | There's the tree preservation. Two. |
| 01:39:58.08 | Herb | you two items. One is revising the ordinance regulations in general. And there's one that's |
| 01:40:02.74 | Jeremy | And there's, |
| 01:40:03.99 | Herb | A tweak of the, I think it's number 43, revised protected undesirable tree list, which is actually, I believe, part of the regulations in the ordinance. And then, as Council Member Withey pointed out, the other one is the tree preservation and replacement plan, which could be viewed differently, but I would suggest we combine the three and put them above the line. |
| 01:40:27.07 | Ray Withy | Well, I'm all for trees, but my comment would be some of these are money and some of them are time. And updating the regulations, as Herb tried to do this before, is going to be a meaningful amount of a slog to do, and that's something we could do. you know, maybe, I don't know if all three are exactly the same. So maybe if you want to prioritize one over the others, we can maybe move one of them up. |
| 01:40:59.37 | Ray Withy | Yeah. |
| 01:40:59.39 | Adam Politzer | but two. Can I get the recommendation on that one? |
| 01:41:04.23 | Ray Withy | on that one. |
| 01:41:05.26 | Adam Politzer | I think that the Trees and Views Committee This is an item that's important to them. But I think it may be best, and we have staff assigned to the Trees and Views Committee. I think it may be best, and we have a council member science. I think it may be best to let it stay below the line, let them start crafting some of the language and making a recommendation and then bring that recommendation forward to the council |
| 01:41:30.76 | Terry | Thank you. |
| 01:41:30.77 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 01:41:30.88 | Terry | Thank you. |
| 01:41:30.96 | Jeremy | All right. |
| 01:41:30.98 | Terry | Thank you. |
| 01:41:33.39 | Adam Politzer | They may want to keep these as three separate items and bring them as they move through agenda and then as time permits, Council can reconsider this at a time to be determined. |
| 01:41:49.29 | Ray Withy | preclude them from just pushing it through. I mean, I bet you'll see something on the single bag thing from the sustainability commission, even though it's not a buffer line. I mean, I'm not the rep there, but they tend to just move stuff up. |
| 01:41:50.45 | Adam Politzer | bringing it. |
| 01:42:00.61 | Ray Withy | Well, I mean, if we want you, |
| 01:42:00.73 | Herb | Well, I mean, if we want to on resources, keep it below the line. But I don't really think trees and views really are in a position to take a look at all the... the ordinance and the regulations and make the appropriate changes. I think they would need staff time and help on it. I mean, again, if we want to not prioritize, it's one thing, but I don't really think we can expect the committee to make these changes and move them. |
| 01:42:20.39 | Adam Politzer | Just in due respect, |
| 01:42:20.40 | Herb | Okay. |
| 01:42:22.87 | Adam Politzer | That's their job. Just as Jonathan Leone mentioned that the Sustainability Commission is going to do the research and the work They did it with the smoking ordinance where the county brought information. We have a volunteer in the community that's now a council member that worked on the construction time limits ordinance with with staff. I think that their charge is to bring forward recommendations At that time, if you want to assign additional resources to assist them, and then the council can do that. But I think that right now, It's just a concept. and I think My recommendation looking at the limited number of staff people that would be assigned to this, and it would Lilly Shinseng, who's assigned to the Trees and Views Committee already, that this would be something Thank you. |
| 01:43:16.67 | Herb | the |
| 01:43:16.73 | Adam Politzer | the volunteers could do a little bit of the legwork and then bring those recommendations to the council |
| 01:43:22.03 | Herb | Well, just respond, and if it goes below the line, that's fine. But I mean, most of these items are concepts and that they're going to be flushed out. That's why we have staff help and other things. So I don't know that that's particularly recent, but I'd go with what the rest of the council votes on here. |
| 01:43:41.93 | Linda Pfeiffer | So just to clarify right now, we're talking about the moving the tree preservation replacement plan, you wanted to group that together and move that? |
| 01:43:48.93 | Sybil Bertillier | No. |
| 01:43:51.97 | Linda Pfeiffer | Yeah, I personally would... would again keep it separate and I would move tree preservation replacement plan above the line. |
| 01:44:01.20 | Ray Withy | you |
| 01:44:01.45 | Jeremy | you |
| 01:44:01.65 | Ray Withy | Thank you. We have a, I'm just leaving everything like it is now. |
| 01:44:12.39 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:44:15.20 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 01:44:15.97 | Ray Withy | I mean, I think we do need to replace the trees that we have cut down. So the question is, I'm not sure what the |
| 01:44:19.10 | Unknown | Good. |
| 01:44:23.74 | Ray Withy | preservation part of it, you know, it gets a little mushy. So if it's really let's I mean, I think there are a lot of concerns of trees in the public space. You know, people are wondering why the trees on the bridgeway don't look better. Well, it's because they're encased in cement when they planted them. What are they, birch trees or what are the ones that add in with that leaves? And then there's the ones in B of A, and then there's the ones here in Caldonia's tree. So we should... I don't know about the preservation part because I really don't know where that's going. But as far as just replacing trees we've cut down, I think we can try and find the money for that. I don't know if we have it in this year's budget, but we could at least put it above the money and look for it. |
| 01:45:06.51 | Thomas Theodores | Yeah, I would support putting that above the line. I think the... The issue is that I'm not sure there is the money, realistically. |
| 01:45:15.47 | Ray Withy | Yeah, realistically. We'll have to come back and see. We'll see you next time. |
| 01:45:18.34 | Thomas Theodores | Yeah, I mean, I think we could try and see if we can find the money, find something in the budget to go for that. But I'm just here and there isn't staff time to do the ordinance. |
| 01:45:30.40 | Herb | Thank you. the preservation replacement plan above the line. Thank you. |
| 01:45:34.99 | Unknown | Yeah, I would support that. |
| 01:45:35.09 | Herb | Yeah. All right, we have consensus on that. |
| 01:45:39.90 | Unknown | And that's a consensus, a true consensus. |
| 01:45:44.17 | Ray Withy | Do you want to narrow that to Ridgeway, Caledonia Street to make it something that's actually accomplishable rather than citywide preservation programs? |
| 01:45:53.05 | Ray Withy | Thank you. I think I like that idea. Just so we can knock something down. So you're in on something other than it's all over the board. |
| 01:45:55.93 | Ray Withy | just so we can knock something down. |
| 01:46:00.17 | Herb | Thank you. |
| 01:46:00.19 | Ray Withy | I mean, it's... |
| 01:46:00.35 | Herb | I mean, just so you're clear, I think part of this is that, and from the Trees and Views Committee, they'd like to set a policy on how we replace these trees. And so it may be that we set the policy and then find funding and other, we may have other priorities. |
| 01:46:00.56 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:46:08.42 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:46:08.45 | Jeremy | It may be that we set the policy and then We may have one. Thank you. |
| 01:46:13.25 | Herb | Thank you. |
| 01:46:13.28 | Jeremy | you |
| 01:46:25.46 | Ray Withy | the list is smaller and more accomplishable that anyone has a huge issue besides the ones we've just discussed because let's not revisit those. |
| 01:46:49.14 | Ray Withy | I don't know. Conceptually, no. Literally accomplishable, yes, but conceptually, no. |
| 01:46:59.36 | Thomas Theodores | Thank you. I don't want to drop anything. |
| 01:47:02.49 | John Cox | Drop anything. |
| 01:47:04.02 | Adam Politzer | Okay, I can move to that. |
| 01:47:06.65 | Thomas Theodores | everybody. |
| 01:47:07.48 | Ray Withy | Okay? |
| 01:47:09.15 | Adam Politzer | Someone now moves to accept the list based on the motions that were made. |
| 01:47:10.08 | Ray Withy | moves to accept the killings. Bye. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:47:12.04 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:47:12.07 | Ray Withy | it. |
| 01:47:12.14 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:47:12.24 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:47:12.27 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:47:12.43 | Ray Withy | on the |
| 01:47:12.86 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:47:12.88 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:47:12.95 | Ray Withy | you Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:47:15.01 | Ray Withy | She did already. |
| 01:47:16.26 | Ray Withy | I know, I saw you move it. So it starts with two here, rather than one. Yes. And it goes down to 33, which is 32. Yep. |
| 01:47:20.19 | Jeremy | Yes. Yes. |
| 01:47:24.61 | Ray Withy | Yep. |
| 01:47:25.66 | Ray Withy | Okay. Make a motion to adopt the priority calendar for 2013-14, the items number two through 32. three on the rankings list for a total of 32 items. |
| 01:47:44.88 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:47:44.94 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 01:47:45.16 | Ray Withy | Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? |
| 01:47:47.86 | Jeremy | Bye. |
| 01:47:49.27 | Linda Pfeiffer | No. |
| 01:47:58.55 | Ray Withy | We're going to take a five-minute break, up to five minutes. |
| 01:48:03.22 | Jeremy | How much over were we? |
| 01:48:05.13 | Ray Withy | Oh, only an hour. |
| 01:48:07.78 | Jeremy | you |
| 01:48:07.84 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:48:08.40 | Jeremy | Thank you. Thank you. Who's there? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. What does he do for us? |
| 01:48:14.04 | Unknown | I don't know. Thank you. |
| 01:48:16.03 | Unknown | work. Dr. Bonadio wanted to recall you and inform you that we would prefer if Enzo did not go to the bathroom tomorrow before you bring him in for your appointment. They didn't do your analysis. So if you could just make sure he doesn't hear me before. |
| 01:48:20.10 | Unknown | call you. Yeah. |
| 01:48:26.74 | Terry | I'm not sure. |
| 01:48:27.03 | Jeremy | your appointment. than doing your analysis. you can just make sure You're an English. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:48:37.97 | Jeremy | with longer energy. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:48:40.14 | Herb | Thank you. |
| 01:48:59.97 | Mike | Thank you. You get one of the total contributions. |
| 01:50:00.03 | Jeremy | Yeah, he'll bring it in. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:50:46.76 | Jeremy | last year as much work. |
| 01:50:51.02 | Ray Withy | Can I get everybody back, please? |
| 01:51:13.30 | Ray Withy | Okay. All right. |
| 01:51:20.59 | Ray Withy | Mm-hmm. |
| 01:51:21.18 | Jeremy | Okay. |
| 01:51:21.97 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 01:51:21.99 | Thomas Theodores | Thank you. |
| 01:51:25.57 | Ray Withy | All right, okay, we're back. The next item on the agenda is the Bridgeway Parklet, and that will be Heidi. |
| 01:51:34.66 | Unknown | Good evening. |
| 01:51:35.02 | Heidi | Mayor Weiner, members of the City Council, and good evening members of the community. Mike Monsaf is here this evening requesting City Council endorsement in order to allow him to submit an application to allow the construction of a parklet within the Bridgeway public right-of-way. As summarized in the staff report, Mr. Monsaf has provided two conceptual parklet plans, which entails taking up two-meter parking spaces and two parking spaces in a green zone. |
| 01:51:35.03 | Unknown | from the airwiner. Thank you. |
| 01:52:03.94 | Heidi | in order to allow the installation of a parklet, and depending on which concept is ultimately submitted, it could be either a combination of 10 tables and 40 seats or 11 tables and 44 seats. The parklet would be located fronting four restaurants from 621 to 633 Bridgeway. So it would front Angelino's, the Venice Gourmet, Giovanni's Pizza, and then the Bridgeway Cafe. And also as stated in the staff report, the reason why staff is before you this evening is that pursuant to our municipal code, the City Council is the ultimate decision maker on items related to public rights of the way. And although I'll be speaking about different processes, staff would like the City Council endorsement in order to allow the submittal of this application. So this is a picture. It was also included in your staff report, and it identifies the general location of what I'm speaking to. So what is a parklet? So there's many definitions of what a parklet is, but essentially it's an extension of the into a public parking space to allow either an active or passive open area for the public. And typically these parklets are sponsored and maintained by private entities such as business owners or community organizations. Also depending on where it's located, some type of residential communities also construct these parklets. And there are currently many local municipalities that have parklet programs. The city of San Francisco is probably the most well known as they were the first city that actually developed these parklet regulations and many other cities followed suit. So these next couple slides will show examples of what a parklet could look like. So the picture, the top picture to the right shows the extension of the sidewalk into a street for seating purposes. The one below, the parklets could be used for bicycle storage. These next examples just show the use of the parking spaces for the use by the public. So you can sit and contemplate or you can sit and eat. and meet with your community members, or the visitors can come to Sausalito and enjoy our beautiful views. So what is the permit process? In our staff report, staff originally identified one process, which would be the submittal of an encroachment agreement in designer v. Permit. Typically a designer view permit encouragement permit application or encouragement agreement application would be for the location of or the use of the public right of way for three or more years. This does require review by the planning commission for the designer view permit and the planning review the findings for the encouragement agreement, and then forward a recommendation to the city council. The city council would be the ultimate decision maker. The City Council and or the Planning Commission could impose conditions of approval on the parklet or the encroachment. And there would be also a requirement for a subsequent building permit application seminal. And the processing time for this would be plus or minus two to three months. But since the writing of the staff reports and also considering what this parklet program is really going to entail, there's also a more streamlined or short-term process which could be approved by an encroachment permit The municipal code allows for a process whereby our community development director could issue an administrative permit. Again, this would be to allow the use of the public right of way for three years or less. The community development director has the ability to impose conditions of approval such as requirements for ADA compliance, building of compliance, the possibility for either a six month or an annual review of the parklet to see how it's working. This would also require a subsequent building permit application to address public works, safety issues, fire issues, and also building code compliance related to the construction of the park lift. And the processing time for this would be plus or minus one month. So depending on the purview of the city council, the city council could opt, you know, directing the applicant to submit, you know, an application for a short-term process or a long-term process. So one of the outstanding questions, which was not identified in the staff report, was what could potentially be the fiscal impact regarding the parklet. The proposal would eliminate two parking meters, So staff was trying to figure out how do we make this parklet or how could we demonstrate how this parklet could become revenue neutral. And what we determined is that one parking meter generates up to a maximum of approximately $3,600 a year. Again, this is a maximum and it doesn't account for any vacancies. So typically, We require $1 per hour for 10 hours a day, 365 days a year. Those meters aren't used all the time, so I just use the maximum just as a base figure. So how does this relate to the use of the tables in the parklet as that relates also to an increase in potential sales tax, because the intent would be people could get takeout food from these restaurants fronting the parklet or even other restaurants bring their food to these tables. and sit and eat there and enjoy again the beautiful views. So the city receives approximately 20 cents for every $20 meals that are made. So if based on, you know, the parking meter, revenue generation as it relates to an annual revenue and the amount of meals that would need to be sold per day. in order to meet the revenue neutrality. It would take approximately 50 meals at $20 a piece Um, per meter to reach revenue neutrality. This does not account So these 50 meals per meter would need to be above and beyond what those restaurants are currently making. in order to show that increase in sales tax. But it does show that the increase in sales tax related to the increased use in the restaurants could actually meet revenue neutrality as it relates to the loss of parking meter revenue. So I'm sure you're going to have questions for me regarding that. And I would be more than happy to answer those at the conclusion of my presentation. So another interesting item related to these $50, $20 meals per day per meter is that in order to meet those numbers, the parklet seats would need to turn over approximately 2.5 times a day. So during our peak summer hours when we have lots of tourism, tourists coming to Sausalito, there's going to be a lot of turnover in these seats. So there could be a reason why we could actually meet the increase in sales for these meals. So with that, staff is recommending that the City Council authorize the middle of the appropriate application for the parklet, whether it be a short-term or long-term application. And then we're also asking you to decide which type of application process you would like. Would you like the applicant to SUBMIT. an encroachment permit which would be the short term to see if this is a program that the city would like to pursue. Or is this something that maybe could be more long-term? So I can answer any questions you have. |
| 01:59:48.04 | Linda Pfeiffer | Mr. Mayor? |
| 01:59:48.14 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:59:48.16 | Heidi | Thank you. |
| 01:59:48.17 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:59:48.29 | Heidi | Yeah. |
| 01:59:48.51 | Unknown | Thank you. you |
| 01:59:49.56 | Linda Pfeiffer | Go ahead. Okay, thank you. So this is in the historic district, and I guess my question would be, wouldn't this require HLB approval? and review and approval. |
| 02:00:07.41 | Heidi | Yes, what was really interesting is that we really looked into that and for the new construction of structures within the historic River Lake zoning district, a design review permit threshold is not identified in our zoning ordinance, which also leads to the reason why we're very happy that we're updating our historic preservation regulations. trigger. that would get the project, well, The other. trigger a threshold that could potentially get that project before the Planning Commission. would be if there were a capital improvement project, but because it's funded by the applicant, it doesn't meet that threshold. So the answer to that question is no, the Historic Landmarks Board, it's not within their purview to review this application. |
| 02:00:54.53 | Linda Pfeiffer | So it may not be letter of the line required, but wouldn't you say the spirit of the ordinance, if that counts at all? |
| 02:01:04.03 | Heidi | if that counts at all. There's merit in the Historic Landmarks Board reviewing this application. The tools that we can use as part of this process is to impose conditions of approval, which could require this project to go before the Historic Landmarks Board on an advisory basis to provide direction to staff on its appropriateness. |
| 02:01:30.37 | Ray Withy | Okay. What would they do about nighttime lighting on that? Paklin. |
| 02:01:38.54 | Heidi | As part of the application, the middle process, staff would be requesting what type of lighting would be necessary, so we'd be analyzing that. and by staff, but our policy is that all lighting shall be shielded and downward facing and shall not obstruct vehicles. |
| 02:01:54.21 | Ray Withy | Yeah, and to continue on that, the structure itself being there. and the automobile coming reasonably close, what provisions of safety, lighting, or features would that have? |
| 02:02:13.01 | Heidi | There are public improvement engineering standards that we would, that the planning staff would defer to the engineering division to review. And as conditions of approval, we would require the parklet to be designed accordingly. So it doesn't create any site distancing issues or obstructions to the traveled ways. |
| 02:02:32.25 | Ray Withy | Okay, thank you. All right, let's start. Oh, I'm sorry. Just a question. We're gonna go one question and I'm around. So go ahead, you can start. |
| 02:02:36.43 | Herb | I'm sorry. So go ahead, you can try. Okay. And have you run it by our police chief and our public works on any of these safety issues or Are we figuring we would do that afterwards? |
| 02:02:52.16 | Heidi | We're at the preliminary stages, so staff has not yet brought that to those appropriate departments. |
| 02:02:59.18 | Ray Withy | Okay, Linda, you have a question? |
| 02:03:02.24 | Linda Pfeiffer | You can come back to me. |
| 02:03:04.26 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 02:03:04.30 | Thomas Theodores | me. |
| 02:03:04.60 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 02:03:04.63 | Thomas Theodores | Thank you. One item of clarification. is Is this for Anybody will just go up and sit down. Maybe they've bought a sandwich somewhere else. Or is this for table service by the restaurants that it's fronting? |
| 02:03:24.92 | Heidi | for Thank you. It's staff's understanding that this is a true public open space. If the applicant were requesting specific table service, then that would be a different permitting process. That would be an amendment to their existing outdoor dining permits. It would require public hearings, and it would require encroachment agreements. |
| 02:03:44.32 | Ray Withy | Would this preclude if you have already out, one of the arguments is that it would make the sidewalk, and then particularly here, it needs some help, right, during the busy times, more accessible. But if you already have permit for outdoor, does this preclude the use of your outdoor dining permit? for the table, so how would it make it more accessible? If you add the, it doesn't make it more at all. If you look at the drawings that have been submitted, It's a good thing. |
| 02:04:12.99 | Heidi | It would just need to, I don't think the intent is to make the sidewalk more accessible. |
| 02:04:19.59 | Ray Withy | But I think where this has been done in San Francisco, they eliminate the sidewalk dining and move it to the parklet. That's the whole intent is to sort of make it not to crowd the sidewalk even more with more tables on both sides. |
| 02:04:33.06 | Heidi | That's one of the intents. Another intent is to just allow additional public use of an open space. So it provides an alternative to these existing restaurants, but it doesn't restrict the usage to just those private entities that could allow for anybody. |
| 02:04:50.44 | Adam Politzer | And. |
| 02:04:50.49 | Ray Withy | Right. |
| 02:04:50.81 | Adam Politzer | Mr. Mayor, can I just interject here because what is up before you doesn't show tables on the sidewalk. I think that's what Mayor Leon and because the applicant is here, I think that you can either ask Mike Monsef Don Olson this question and I think that they may want to stand with Heidi. Thank you. as these questions are being asked because she's representing the city's perspective but obviously Mike is the one proposing this. |
| 02:05:19.40 | Heidi | And these are just concepts to give the City Council an idea of what it could look like. But regarding a formal application submittal, we would want existing and proposed conditions, which would demonstrate the location of those existing tables and also as those existing tables relate to accessibility and ADA compliance. |
| 02:05:40.61 | Ray Withy | partly in your report, partly in Mike's letter, is the, you know, the restaurants would pay to construct this and maintain it, right, according to whatever standards. Okay. Thank you. |
| 02:05:52.15 | Herb | and Just to be clear, the restaurants would construct and pay for it, but anyone could sit at those tables. And so if they bought one across the street, they can bring it over there. It's totally open to the public. |
| 02:05:58.66 | Heidi | And so if they bought it, |
| 02:06:03.14 | Heidi | it would be open to the public. And again, if the individual restaurants wanted to have individual table service, it would open up a different permitting process. |
| 02:06:14.44 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 02:06:15.35 | Ray Withy | Linda? |
| 02:06:15.83 | Linda Pfeiffer | Yeah, so was there discussion with respect to that space? I mean, given all the bicycle congestion downtown with respect to leveraging that space for bicycle lane or it just seems like we have, you know, thousands of cyclists and, you know, I don't know. |
| 02:06:16.13 | Unknown | . |
| 02:06:36.50 | Heidi | Thank you. City Council sees merit in endorsing this middle of an application. The City Council could direct staff, depending on which processes ultimately decided, to include in their design opportunities for bicycle parking. Thank you. |
| 02:06:53.31 | Linda Pfeiffer | And my next question, not parking, I meant a bicycle lane. Actually a bicycle, what's the word on? It doesn't get a bicycle lane. Yeah, in other words, you know, just anything, |
| 02:06:53.51 | Heidi | Thank you. |
| 02:07:00.86 | Susan Frank | Thank you. |
| 02:07:00.88 | Heidi | Thank you. |
| 02:07:00.97 | Susan Frank | THE FAMILY IS |
| 02:07:01.03 | Meg Gawson | Lane. |
| 02:07:02.32 | Susan Frank | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 02:07:04.43 | Linda Pfeiffer | Anyway, I'll move on. I was just, when I look at space that's being repurposed, You know, one of the things I go to because I ranked it high in the priority list is the bicycle safety and mitigation issue. |
| 02:07:11.85 | Unknown | Mm-hmm. |
| 02:07:19.82 | Linda Pfeiffer | And so here it looks like we're expanding the sidewalk. out into the street, we're removing parking and parking revenue and it's for public you know eating and If I were to ask myself what is, you know, the top of my priority list, it's the bicycle safety and mitigation. So that was my goal. the question. But my next question is with this, with this railing that's going to be going along, that's proposed to go along, it looked like it was waste level. Is that going to... Um... Thank you. then impede on the view of the bay if you're sitting down from inside the restaurants too? |
| 02:08:06.97 | Heidi | That's probably a better question answered by Mr. Monseth and Jonathan. But again, these are conceptual drawings. So if it's, if the city council would like to direct any type of improvement to not obstruct or obscure a view, then there is a design alternative that's possible. |
| 02:08:11.23 | Linda Pfeiffer | Yeah. |
| 02:08:27.06 | Linda Pfeiffer | And my last question has to do with scope creep, because we know that sometimes the tables are put out, and more tables are put out. And I'm thinking of some of the restaurants have done this and add more and more. and that sidewalk gets very, very congested. And so are there provisions to keep the designated tables within that frame and because this proposal, if that's open to the public, then these restaurants would be forfeiting the existing tables that currently line the restaurants and |
| 02:09:02.79 | Ray Withy | She said no, that's not necessarily the case. |
| 02:09:03.98 | Scott Diamond | Thank you. |
| 02:09:06.30 | Linda Pfeiffer | Oh, all right. So thank you. I've got my question answered then. |
| 02:09:08.90 | Ray Withy | It depends on what they're doing. |
| 02:09:10.19 | Herb | Thank you. |
| 02:09:13.98 | Herb | to you. |
| 02:09:15.14 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 02:09:15.16 | Herb | I was going to This is a little more questions. It's not comment. Well, maybe I'll save it for comment. Thank you. So Heidi, |
| 02:09:22.41 | Ray Withy | So Heidi and maybe Adam since, let's see Charlie. From the city's point of view, you're revenue neutral here. Is that what you're supporting it from that point of perspective? |
| 02:09:33.38 | Adam Politzer | Yeah, from the... pilot program perspective. You know, if we're looking at this in the short term, Let's see. how this works, what the benefits are, and what the challenges are. As long as it's cost neutral, then the city would support it. For the long term, I think it's a different discussion. |
| 02:09:47.02 | Ray Withy | Right. Well, so if I'm the Saucy Little Bakery, Where are my free tables? Where are my tables on there? So how can you deny have some and not be prepared to lose all the parking along there? Do you know what I mean? |
| 02:10:03.88 | Ray Withy | because he can't put it on. |
| 02:10:04.65 | Ray Withy | It's just like the sign idea that came a few weeks ago. How come my sign can't go up there? |
| 02:10:10.49 | Adam Politzer | I think with any project it would be case by case. And one of the things that we discussed... |
| 02:10:15.08 | Ray Withy | Nothing against you guys. I mean, I'm just at some point we have to sort of. |
| 02:10:16.67 | Adam Politzer | I'm going to go. It's a good question and it's something that was discussed at the OMIC committee when this was originally presented to us by Mr. Monsef and Mr. Olson. Uh, that there were multiple people that were looking at this and I can see folks on Caledonia Street looking at this as an opportunity. Thank you. So that's where in the long range plan as we look at the value of this, assuming that it's a benefit to the public, and to the business community. that we then create a policy and a program similar to what was established in San Francisco that says these are the rules and these are the requirements. And if you don't meet those, those requirements, then don't bother coming forward with an application. Thank you. if they meet those requirements and come forward with the application and the Council would be the first place to start because you're talking about public right away. And we would say yes, we're in support or no, we're not, or send it back for further, for additional information. |
| 02:11:21.43 | Ray Withy | So, and I'm asking tough questions because that's kind of my job, so don't hurt me yet. It begs the question in the median here, you know, why we have this median, which I think has largely been maintained both from a look perspective and for deliveries, right? So... And emergency. But at some point, you're gonna have to decide whether you want to keep that or not. The further we start pulling out this way for bikes, peds, and cars, safety, and, whether it's really needed to have that vacant in the middle, because otherwise it's not safe. |
| 02:12:01.91 | Linda Pfeiffer | Is this a comment or question? |
| 02:12:03.37 | Ray Withy | No, I'm just saying has that been considered as part of this, that we're going to have to re-look at the whole if we're starting to lose the parking and or proximity of the street. bike car to a railing versus a curb. |
| 02:12:19.75 | Adam Politzer | I think that's what staff is recommending. If you move forward, under the understanding that this is a pilot project and direct staff to come back with a with a policy and a more comprehensive look once we see what this actually uh, creates either an impact or or benefit. or a combination of both. I think |
| 02:12:41.86 | Jeremy | you |
| 02:12:42.28 | Adam Politzer | to not, Thank you. CONFUSED OR blends. the Alexander Avenue to Ferry Landing project will probably address what happens in the median as we try to address the pedestrian. and cycling. needs. and the deliveries, I think also the sewer We'll also address it because we have to deal with that regardless. as the EPA has demanded. Thank you. |
| 02:13:09.82 | Herb | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 02:13:09.95 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 02:13:09.97 | Herb | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 02:13:10.49 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 02:13:10.51 | Herb | How easy is it to disassemble and move these? And as part of that question, in San Francisco, when they allow them Are they set or are they temporary that they get them in one place for a year and they allow somebody down the block like Sausalito Bakery? Do they morph into permanent parklets or are they moved around or can you move them around? |
| 02:13:32.23 | Heidi | You can't move them around, so they will be constructed as temporary structures. And in San Francisco, there are programs where the parklets move from one parking space to another. There are parklets that have been in one location for longer than three years. It really depends on how the parklet is designed, how it's being used, and what's the purview of the permit, and whether or not it's going to get annually reviewed. renewed. |
| 02:14:15.97 | John Cox | Mr. Mayor and fellow council members, my name is John Cox. I live at 62 Marin. I think this is an excellent idea on a pilot project. One of the things that friends of mine who have visited from Europe they always had heard that Sausalito had a very European feel to it. I tend to disagree because I believe that Sausalito, if it wants to have that type of field, needs to have more ways for people to be outdoors. and that people are likely to spend more money in Sausalito if there are things like this to encourage them to stay outdoors and perhaps spend more time at Sausalito visiting other places. So that's my opinion. I believe that this is an excellent pilot. And as a pilot, you'd find out whether it works or not. And I feel that the questions that I've heard so far from city council are all questions that can be addressed. There doesn't seem to be anything that's a deal stopper right here. Thank you. |
| 02:15:24.18 | Ray Withy | Okay. Mike. Is it? I thought it was the same. |
| 02:15:28.43 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 02:15:29.87 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 02:15:29.98 | Mike Monsef | Is it... |
| 02:15:34.96 | Mike Monsef | Well, thank you very much for, my name is Mike Monsef, and thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to present this project to you. It's funny that I'm at the day here that you're talking about the 30 items on your list, and I found about four of them is gonna be in the body of the presentation. I'm gonna talk to you about it. Um, Don Olson and me here are in front of you for the blessing into the beautification of Downtown. This is one of the items that we were talking about. There are elements that bound us as a community. These would be factors that invite our residents and visitors to the downtown. There are many examples that have been proven in this theory. such as Jazz by the Bay, Haring Festival. farmers market, outdoor dining, and many other ones which I personally was involved in it. I recall in order to implement these ideas, They had to go through lots of skepticism. until they were accepted And I figure out by now I have shown my good intention So it's time to present another idea to this body. This is an idea that has been tried in many communities. It has been very successful all over the world. and especially some of our neighborhood community Since the idea is new, the advice of city manager We talked to the director of public work in order to get some advice about safety. And also, we presented to the OMIT committee, which two of this honorable panel were present at the time. So we are here in front of you to answer some questions which you raise at OMIT committee. and get the lasting and forward with the design. One of the questions was, what's the purpose of this parklet? to beautify our downtown, and make user friendly for our residents. as well as our visitors. such as outdoor dining without encumbering our disabled residents or members, and be able to cut down on congestion on the sidewalk. Especially the sidewalk is very narrow in that area. Outreach to the business community. We have outreach to the business community. Some of the business owners are here, and some of them, they left because it got a little bit too late for them. How would the safety factor of these parklets would be addressed? if the curb is a deterrent for the safety of the pedestrian, I think the sidewalk that we are designing, it's much stronger and greater deterrent than to curb for the sidewalks. Who would maintain the parklet? Without any question, this would be the responsibility of the tenant of the business And this matter has been discussed with every one of them, and they agree with it. The next question is how will Citi compensate for the loss of revenue? In this case, you have an area of yellow curb design for the delivery further out on the other side of parking area. At the time, When this was designated, there was a grocery store over there. The grocery store is gone now. So these parking meters can be transferred directly to that area, so you're still getting the revenue from those parking meters. Plus, to do to the fact that many people are much interested to sit outside. That encouraged the sale, which results more revenue for the city. As you can see, that most of our tax revenue comes from food establishment. how the city will be compensated for the use of public land by charging fixed fee for each table that we put over there. Now, The question was asked whether those tables that existed right now is going to be put over there. No, we are moving all the tables down in that area. So make sure that slide box, because it's narrow, so we'd be ADA accessible easier. So... That's the issue. The other thing was that who's going to pay for it? We are the business owners. We're going to pay for it, and we're going to keep it clean over there. We'd be the responsibility of our jobs to take care of that area. |
| 02:21:15.60 | Mike Monsef | And the bicycle route you're talking about, there is no bicycle lane over there. All we are taking, actually the area that we are taking is less than the parking that it is. the parking as by the |
| 02:21:32.59 | Mike Monsef | You know that. Okay, the parking, as you know, Yeah. Yeah. The parking that you know, it's by the standard of cities, 9 by... Eh... I think Jonathan can tell me, 9 by 19, I believe, each parking. Ours is going to be 8 foot, so it's about a foot added to the street. So, and the delivery right now, as you said, Mr. Leone, that it is, delivery is being right and the media right now is being delivered over there. We are here if there is any further question that I thought in the belly of that I answered most of your question, but I'd be glad to any further question you have. I remember our honorable ex-mayor is here when we put the tables outside and the way we paid for it, he said they're going to charge us for per table and we did pay for it. concept that we have in front of you. And I'm looking forward for the blessing of this panel, I hope all of you, And if you have any further questions, Mr. Donaldson is here too. He can answer that as well. |
| 02:22:54.02 | Ray Withy | Okay. Thank you, Mike. |
| 02:22:55.55 | Mike Monsef | Thank you. |
| 02:22:56.36 | Ray Withy | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 02:22:57.37 | Ray Withy | Okay. Just to clarify, because Linda asked this question earlier, so the plan would be to move all the outdoor seating onto this parklet? Exactly. Okay. Yes. And leave the sidewalk. Okay. Yes. Okay. |
| 02:22:58.07 | Mike Monsef | Just a quick question. |
| 02:23:07.68 | Jeremy | Exactly. Okay. |
| 02:23:12.38 | Ray Withy | Okay, yeah, I like that too. Okay. Any other questions? All right, then let's bring it. Thank you, Mike. Let's bring it back up here for comment. I have just one question for Heidi. |
| 02:23:23.38 | Ray Withy | I have just one question for you. Heidi? And then you ask if there's any further questions. |
| 02:23:27.04 | Ray Withy | Right. |
| 02:23:30.21 | Ray Withy | So, Heidi, it's up to then the business owners if they want to, I think you said earlier, if they want to have table service on the parklet. |
| 02:23:36.31 | Heidi | Thank you. |
| 02:23:38.97 | Ray Withy | there was, it triggered something. |
| 02:23:40.73 | Heidi | It would trigger an outdoor dining permit. So the majority of the restaurants already have those permits, but it would require a modification, which requires public hearings for that. |
| 02:23:42.87 | Ray Withy | Okay. |
| 02:23:48.79 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 02:23:48.83 | Ray Withy | OK? |
| 02:23:49.10 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 02:23:49.11 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 02:23:49.25 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 02:23:49.37 | Ray Withy | Thanks. |
| 02:23:49.62 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 02:23:49.72 | Ray Withy | Thank you. Any other comments, questions from the public? All right, let's bring it back here for comment. I'll kind of start it off. I like the idea. And on OMED, it was brought to us. There were two other places that they wanted to have apocalypse. One was on Princess Street, which didn't make sense, and the other was down by fish and chips. Okay. The reason that we seem to... Oh, did you have a comment? Oh, I asked. Okay. Go ahead, Charlotte. Yeah, I'll... Yeah. |
| 02:24:34.61 | Charlotte Mastrangelo | I'm Charlotte Mastrangelo, and I think I'm overwhelmed by this whole concept, as it is now when you walk down where they've got tables on the sidewalk. you have to sometimes walk out on the street. And I think if this proposal is presented to the city, I think you should present it to the people that live in this city, not just the merchants. I think this is not something that come before the city council for them to determine. I think it should be determined by the voters in this town and the residents of this town I think the whole concept is We've got one road coming into Sausalito, and that's Bridgeway. I might see this maybe on Caldonia Street. It might appeal, but certainly would not appeal on Bridgeway, which is our main thoroughfare And we need all the parking. All we talk about in Sausalito is parking and views. And to hear this go up, I'm outraged, really, by the whole thing. |
| 02:25:41.08 | Ray Withy | Charlotte, you did understand that they were going to remove the tables that are on the sidewalk. In other words, the tables that they now have on the sidewalk, they would be removed. So that would open it up for your walking pedestrian traffic. uh, Yeah, no, that's what they said. |
| 02:26:09.34 | Ray Withy | Well, but this way here you'll be changing that pattern. Okay, thank you. Anybody else? Let's start with the comments up here. If you go into San Francisco, especially Valencia, |
| 02:26:29.63 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:26:29.73 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 02:26:29.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:26:30.03 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 02:26:30.24 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:26:30.27 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 02:26:30.37 | Unknown | comment. |
| 02:26:30.39 | Ray Withy | comment? Heidi, can I ask you a question? Just on process. So can you just outline what the process for this would be from this step? I think what you're asking for tonight is just that this is the beginning of the process. |
| 02:26:30.76 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 02:26:43.97 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 02:26:44.23 | Heidi | Thank you. |
| 02:26:44.38 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 02:26:44.41 | Heidi | This is the beginning process. Originally in the staff report, staff assumed that this would be a much longer or more permanent parklet, but upon reassessment of the application, we are suggesting that this would be more of a short-term pilot program, and the process for that would be issuance of an encroachment permit to allow for the parklet, which would be an administrative permit with conditions of approval imposed upon it. |
| 02:26:44.48 | Ray Withy | This is the beginning. |
| 02:27:10.80 | Ray Withy | Okay, so you have two processes here. One, the short term would still have to come back to the City Council. This wouldn't be the only hearing of that. To grant the, there's no motion for an accroachment permit in this. |
| 02:27:22.45 | Heidi | No, what staff would be asking city council tonight is to endorse this middle of the application and the community development director actually has the purview to approve |
| 02:27:23.46 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 02:27:32.77 | Heidi | the parklet without going back to the City Council for review. Unless there is a special condition that would require that. |
| 02:27:36.50 | Terry | Thank you. |
| 02:27:42.19 | Ray Withy | Thank you, Heidi. Oh, sorry. The parklets, so we had two, there were three sites. We came up with the one, and the reason that we picked that one was because you have four restaurants all bunched together. This would be interesting because the ones in the city usually service the restaurant that has the parklet. It isn't for others to use it or other restaurants because if you look at the ones on Valencia, they're right in front of the establishment. but I think consolidating them in four and leaving the sidewalk open I'd like to see it. on a short-term basis and see how it works. As far as bicycles go, no. I recommend not putting any parking for bikes because if someone comes up with a bike that's carrying two people or three people, they'll be out on the street with it if they park it there. So I think it just should be for the tables. I mentioned about the lighting. Question on the ADA, where would they enter? If they came in off the sidewalk, You have that curbing. So where would the ADA accessibility be? |
| 02:29:09.55 | Heidi | all those issues. |
| 02:29:10.53 | Ray Withy | You would have to raise it? Is that what you're saying? |
| 02:29:13.15 | Heidi | Well, the applicant would be required to submit an application to show what the improvements are and then the city would send it off to our plans examiners to identify what the ADA improvements would be and all those accessibility improvements would need to be installed accordingly. Okay. So we don't know quite yet because these are again conceptual. |
| 02:29:29.31 | Ray Withy | Okay. |
| 02:29:29.63 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:29:29.65 | Ray Withy | Thank you. Mike, is that the... |
| 02:29:33.28 | Heidi | Thank you. |
| 02:29:33.31 | Mike Monsef | It's going to be... It's going to be the same level as sidewalk. All the panels are going to be the same level as sidewalk. If the ADA is going on the sidewalk, they can turn and go into the sit by the table. So there is no difference. Okay. It's going to be on the same level. |
| 02:29:49.38 | Ray Withy | Okay. Okay. All right, let's start. Ray, would you like to start? Any comments? |
| 02:30:00.83 | Thomas Theodores | If we were being asked tonight to approve this as a permanent thing, I would not be able to support it. But I'm actually, I think we should try different things. It should be short term and see if it works. So let it go through the season and see if it works. |
| 02:30:05.53 | Unknown | to some point. |
| 02:30:21.41 | Thomas Theodores | As long as the tables are removed from the sidewalks so that you've actually benefited the that are walking along the sidewalks, because that area is actually really quite narrow, the sidewalk. |
| 02:30:34.84 | Ray Withy | And it's... Right, right. |
| 02:30:37.47 | Thomas Theodores | Right. Right. So again, I would go for this. Let's do the experiment. Let's see if it works short term, and we'll soon find out if it doesn't. |
| 02:30:41.05 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 02:30:58.85 | Ray Withy | So just to clarify with you two folks, so if they want to have table service to the street, it would require an encroachment agreement. Is that correct? If it's dedicated table service. Is that...yes? So then... |
| 02:31:15.15 | Heidi | Well, we do have outdoor dining standards which require public review by our zoning administrator. So the zoning administrator has the ability to approve that through a sidewalk dining encroachment agreement. |
| 02:31:27.03 | Mary Wagner | Yes, I think that that's actually what I'm hearing now tonight is that what they would be doing is modifying their outdoor dining permit. to move the tables that are permitted in front of the restaurant onto this other area. |
| 02:31:38.19 | Jeremy | Right. |
| 02:31:38.63 | Mary Wagner | which is a little bit different than what the proposal that we had been presented. I mean, it's a good. |
| 02:31:43.98 | Ray Withy | I mean, it's a good idea, don't get me wrong, in terms of, you know, not so you have two rows of tables and the congestion just continues, but who, I'm just trying to figure out what the process is for that. |
| 02:31:55.50 | Mary Wagner | So it would be a zoning administrator process to modify their existing outdoor dining permit |
| 02:32:01.75 | Ray Withy | So that wouldn't have to go through the Planning Commission or through the City Council? Only if it were appealed. Or the City Council. |
| 02:32:04.87 | Mary Wagner | Only if it were appeals. No. |
| 02:32:07.70 | Ray Withy | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 02:32:08.02 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 02:32:08.23 | Ray Withy | Thank you. Thank you. Actually, what it is is a food court. That's what it is, but it's outside. In other words, you have a condense of four restaurants to offer this, plus anybody else that buys any sandwich or anything else. That's right, you can use that facility. I'm not sure. See you. |
| 02:32:30.11 | Herb | Yeah, I would support it on a six month basis, I think it's a good idea. I think the outdoor dining really adds a lot to Sausalito. I think it would really help the congestion in that area because I live there and you always have to walk around these tables. So obviously these tables have to go. And actually, I think it may help with the safety because when you make the right on Princess, people parallel park in there and that's sometimes... |
| 02:32:53.53 | Ray Withy | It's dangerous, it's very dangerous. |
| 02:32:54.83 | Herb | And it's dangerous that way, both for bikes and cars. So that could be an improvement on that score. But I think we just have to see. I would certainly be supportive of doing it on a six-month basis. |
| 02:33:06.59 | Ray Withy | Thank you. Linda? |
| 02:33:08.43 | Linda Pfeiffer | Yeah, so I lived in Geneva for five years, and I'm familiar with the pleasures of outdoor dining and eating on the plaza. But I'm very concerned about this proposal. I have to say that I'm concerned the HLB hasn't weighed in on this yet. I'm concerned that it compromises the aesthetics of our historic downtown district. And I just wanted to iterate that I never suggested bicycle parking in this area. I suggested that we are taking up this space to basically expand a sidewalk for a food court. And my question was, given the high priority of bicycle safety and mitigation for the congestion, that if I were going to remove parking and revenue from the city, if anything, I would look at the possibility of putting a bike lane there. But I'm not happy with losing four spaces downtown. I'm concerned that over time there's going to be a push to add outside heaters because this is outside, possibly umbrellas or awning for weather. That will further hurt the aesthetics. I'm also very concerned about the research and research. outside heaters because this is outside, possibly umbrellas or awning for weather. That will further hurt the aesthetics. I'm also very concerned about the comment about the middle median. We... We need that middle median downtown on Bridgeway for emergency access, for ambulances, fire trucks. We need that, too, for bicycle traffic mitigation. Every time I drive downtown, there are bicycles now with the Shero signs in the middle of the road. There are many safety hazards, and many times both cyclists may use that middle medium to avoid dangerous situations. And cars also have used that medium to avoid dangerous situations. So if that's linked with potentially losing the middle medium, I'm very concerned about that. Calling it a parklet is kind of misleading because you hear parklet and you think of green grass, but really what we're doing is expanding a sidewalk. for a food cart. So are we losing more parking downtown with this? Yes. Are we losing revenue? Yes. Are we making the area less safe? In my opinion, yes. Are we losing an opportunity for possibly scoping space for a bicycle lane to enhance safety? Yes. So I have to say that I'm very concerned with this proposal, and I think it invites congestion. I think it hurts the historic aesthetic, and unfortunately I can't support it. |
| 02:35:52.98 | Unknown | kings. |
| 02:35:53.62 | Ray Withy | Just the other comment is that, you know, we do have to make some adjustments because it has changed in the last 10, 11 years in the downtown area. I think you've heard me say it before, but now we have over a million people that come to Sausalito without an automobile. which is good. If you equate that in my numbers, we're saving the idea of 250,000 cars coming into Sausalito a year. That's why if you remember, even go back 10 years ago when you were on Bridgeway, you never thought of going down Bridgeway on the weekends. Now you do. So I think it's an adjustment where now we have to focus downtown more with, in this order, pedestrians, bicycles, and automobiles. I think the inundation of a of the amount of people coming in. by foot. or by bus, by shuttle, but non-motorized, or I shouldn't say that, I should say by, not by automobile, is changing how we have to address downtown, and this is one way that we feel that maybe a park would work. I'd be willing to try it for a short term and see if it fits. |
| 02:37:18.15 | Ray Withy | Okay, so go ahead. Can I just suggest some things? First of all, I think Tom's suggestion is six months is probably by the time you get it constructed, you want it up through another summer to really, you know, by the time it actually gets implemented, I would imagine you'd want it. But that's something to consider. But so the things that I would put forward when it would go through this process are one, that that as Heidi suggested, Heidi said we could do, have the HLB certainly provide guidance to the |
| 02:37:19.97 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 02:37:20.04 | Unknown | I'm going to... |
| 02:37:20.41 | Ray Withy | Thank you. Yeah. |
| 02:37:34.77 | Terry | Thank you. |
| 02:37:35.03 | Jeremy | But that's |
| 02:37:51.97 | Ray Withy | Community Development Director, I guess, is the permitting person here on the installation. I would ask, I think most of the ones I've seen in San Francisco have anchor tables and chairs, so you don't get this musical chairs and movement and from outside to inside and all that kind of stuff. so they're easily – you can tell them apart easily so it doesn't become just an additional problem. I think Mike's suggestion of the, you know, take this up with the chief on the yellow spot in front of the old Marin Proof, you know, that's a way to gain back some of the parking that this would lose for now. And the fact that the application should come with taking the other table, the outdoor dining, and pushing it onto the parklet as was offered by the applicant, I think, that would alleviate the congestion a lot. As far as the bicycle and the median, it's certainly not tied to the median. That's the comment and that's the personal point of view. But also, I think it would make it safer for the bikes in a weird way here because the bikes don't like to ride next to the cars because they're worried that somebody's going to open a door. And so they tend to, like, they'd rather take on a moving car than a parked car, which is weird if you think about it. But... Well, true. But, I mean, you know, it's sort of like the danger you know versus the danger you don't, right? So it's pick your poison in that scenario. So hopefully this could be designed in a way that moves people back over to the side as much as possible on the bike traffic |
| 02:39:30.75 | Linda Pfeiffer | Mr. Mayor, I have a comment. So with respect to this will be safer for the bikes, I guess I go back to my original comment saying if I was going to remove parking, I would look at using that space for a bike lane to reduce the congestion of bicycle traffic downtown. Regarding the comment about parking, living here 10 years ago and nobody went downtown because it was bumper to bumper. I was here 10 years ago, most of us were, And I often went downtown. I drove downtown, walked downtown, shopped downtown. I think the main reason people don't go downtown now is because we've got 370,000 bikes every year. So that's just my personal opinion. |
| 02:40:16.86 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:40:17.03 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 02:40:17.11 | Unknown | I mean, I think |
| 02:40:17.85 | Ray Withy | What you were referring to is, you know, in the last economic boom, you couldn't drive on Bridgeway because the traffic was backed up on weekends. And forget the walking part. That's not, I don't think that's what you were referring to. That's correct. It's not as bad from a car perspective of traffic as it was in the last economic cycle. But, you know, there are other issues that have come from the onslaught of |
| 02:40:17.94 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:40:17.97 | Ray Withy | We're going to be right. |
| 02:40:42.03 | Ray Withy | You mentioned about the median, but meanwhile, if you need five feet for a bike lane, well, you're going to put five feet out there. You don't have it right now unless you do take away the median. |
| 02:40:42.52 | Ray Withy | Yeah. |
| 02:40:53.92 | Ray Withy | So it's a separate debate. |
| 02:40:55.32 | Ray Withy | Yeah. Okay. Is there anything else or can we have a recommended motion on this? Excuse me. Jeremy. Thank you. Thank you. Look what? |
| 02:41:07.53 | Ray Withy | Yeah, the question for Mike or any of the restaurant owners is a time frame question also. How long is this going to take to construct, design, construct, and when do you want the permit to start and finish? |
| 02:41:11.03 | Ray Withy | Any of the rest? |
| 02:41:24.86 | Mike Monsef | so that if it's a temporary thing, it gives you enough time to go through a cycle. Well, it's about six months, as Vice Mayor said, it's not enough because by the time you get ready and get everybody going, making the panel, putting it in, we like to get it ready by this summer if it's possible. So I think you should give us a little bit of time since we're going to spend money to get those done, to try it for a couple of summers to see what happens. And I would say about |
| 02:41:26.15 | Ray Withy | and gives you enough time to go through a cycle. |
| 02:41:57.28 | Mike Monsef | If I'm going to do it, I'll do it in about a month, month and a half. Thank you. |
| 02:42:02.33 | Ray Withy | Well, that would take you to, let's see, so you're talking about going to, we'll say mid-July? Probably, yes. So that means you get July, August, September, October season. Yeah. We want to get it. Well, look, within three months, if you're operating August, September, October, in three months, we'll know pretty quickly because it'll be put to the test because you're in the season. |
| 02:42:15.96 | Mike Monsef | You want to get it? |
| 02:42:16.97 | Terry | Well, |
| 02:42:30.90 | Mike Monsef | Yes, but you see the point is that my intention is different than trying to get everybody together and get the money and go ahead and do it. |
| 02:42:38.98 | Ray Withy | But I will do it. I'll do it. Well, the question is, do you want this summer or do you want next summer? |
| 02:42:43.53 | Mike Monsef | Definitely we want to use this summer |
| 02:42:45.75 | Ray Withy | I said it's a very good thing. |
| 02:42:45.80 | Mike Monsef | As if there's an event happening, and so it's a good thing to have it. |
| 02:42:49.71 | Ray Withy | then you also, like business people, do have to take the chance that you can show us and we can be satisfied that we can move ahead with that on a longer program. |
| 02:42:51.06 | Mike Monsef | But at first... |
| 02:43:02.96 | Herb | Absolutely. Thank you. |
| 02:43:04.17 | Jeremy | I know. |
| 02:43:04.24 | Herb | Bye. |
| 02:43:04.38 | Jeremy | a program. |
| 02:43:05.29 | Herb | I believe Heidi said that we could only approve one year without going through the more extensive process. Is that correct? |
| 02:43:12.75 | Jeremy | No, it's actually us. |
| 02:43:14.05 | Heidi | Thank you. |
| 02:43:14.77 | Herb | Yeah that we can without yeah, yeah, yeah |
| 02:43:15.14 | Ray Withy | Yes. |
| 02:43:15.50 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 02:43:16.48 | Ray Withy | Facebook. |
| 02:43:16.96 | Jeremy | Yeah. |
| 02:43:17.30 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 02:43:17.42 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 02:43:17.52 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 02:43:17.60 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 02:43:18.36 | Heidi | And we could impose a condition that could require an annual review to come back to the City Council, provide a status update and the City Council could direct staff further. |
| 02:43:26.18 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 02:43:26.19 | Herb | and state council. on you. |
| 02:43:32.86 | Ray Withy | Okay. |
| 02:43:33.69 | Herb | What about one year from the time that they install it? Well, no. |
| 02:43:37.06 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 02:43:37.08 | Ray Withy | Well, no. You want to give folks that are worried about the impacts, you know, some relief if it is impactful. So the idea is if they really think they can get it up and running this summer, let them test it out this summer and fall. |
| 02:43:39.58 | Herb | Thank you. |
| 02:43:40.42 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 02:43:40.45 | Herb | Thank you. |
| 02:43:40.47 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 02:43:40.61 | Herb | Thank you. |
| 02:43:40.64 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 02:43:52.69 | Ray Withy | for the America's Cup or whatever else. And that's, if you're going to have impact, you're going to have an impact this summer. So you'll find out pretty quick. So maybe we just have it, whether it's next winter, you have to come back with a review of what's happening. Because to Charlotte's point, for this small town, it is a meaningful change. And you want to give people the comfort that we're really going to take a hard look at it. and see if it really is impactful. in a short period of time. Thank you. |
| 02:44:28.87 | Ray Withy | So what time do we put? Do we put six months from the time it goes up? |
| 02:44:28.90 | Ray Withy | So |
| 02:44:33.91 | Ray Withy | I would say just put it, you know, you send them through the summer and have them come back in the winter for a review during the winter, because the winter's not going to be an impact full time. Have them come back next winter for, you know, in front of the year. |
| 02:44:47.16 | Herb | Well then it's six months because it's May, six months is November. |
| 02:44:50.91 | Ray Withy | Just put a time frame, just say March of 2014, whatever. |
| 02:44:53.51 | Herb | March of |
| 02:44:54.94 | Ray Withy | Right. Okay. Okay. All right. |
| 02:45:00.71 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 02:45:03.38 | Ray Withy | Okay, so we have that time frame down? Heidi? Okay. So now move for a recommendation, recommended motion. |
| 02:45:13.00 | Ray Withy | Well, so what I put forward earlier, and I hear your point, Charlie, that we should go about this with caution, is to have... and for the applicant to come back with... I forget what the motion is. authorizes the middle of application, and that application should include that the indoor, that the outdoor dining be relocated to the parklet, that no indoor chairs or indoor tables will be brought outside, and that consider the use of anchor tables and chairs to avoid overcrowding. That's, I think Mike did that on the fish and chips. I don't know if you were involved in that one the last go-ground many years ago. Consider that. And that the I think Mike did that on the fish and chips. I don't know if you were involved in that one the last go-ground many years ago. Consider that. And that the yellow, have the city consider the yellow striping in front of the old marim fruit, which is now two meters, to offset the truck parking impact, and for the HLP to provide guidance to city staff on the proposal as is submitted. And for it to be reviewed next March. |
| 02:45:40.18 | Terry | We're an outdoor dining room. |
| 02:46:31.31 | Ray Withy | At the council. |
| 02:46:32.04 | Ray Withy | Okay, have a second. |
| 02:46:36.43 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 02:46:36.46 | Adam Krivace | Second. |
| 02:46:37.37 | Ray Withy | Okay. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? |
| 02:46:41.08 | Adam Krivace | No. |
| 02:46:42.52 | Ray Withy | Okay. You can go home now. Thank you for coming. |
| 02:46:50.23 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 02:46:51.07 | Herb | Thank you. |
| 02:46:52.56 | Ray Withy | Yeah. |
| 02:46:54.48 | Herb | Oh, there it is. It's like the table on the screen. |
| 02:46:57.81 | Ray Withy | Okay, then next item we have is the proposal to rename Harrison Park. |
| 02:47:02.74 | Adam Politzer | No, Mr. Mayor, you were going to insert |
| 02:47:06.21 | Ray Withy | Oh, I'm sorry. Heidi, while you're still here, we're gonna bring up the item that we moved. 4A. |
| 02:47:15.20 | Ray Withy | Oh boy. |
| 02:47:15.51 | Unknown | for |
| 02:47:15.97 | Ray Withy | Right. |
| 02:47:19.19 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 02:47:19.22 | Ray Withy | Yes, I'll ask a question. So I have a point of clarification here, and I'm on my own. So I had a couple calls from some folks on this one as to process, not the choice of awarding the bid. As to how the process is going to unfold and how will it |
| 02:47:22.36 | Ray Withy | I declare it. |
| 02:47:33.87 | Terry | is what I can do. |
| 02:47:39.45 | Ray Withy | How will both the HLB, the Planning Commission's Council, and the public have a chance to weigh in along the way as far as this particular project goes? |
| 02:47:49.02 | Heidi | Thank you. Well, as identified in the project scope of work, there are five meetings that the consultant will be involved with. We have our original kickoff meeting, and that kickoff meeting is going to be with staff. That will be Jeremy Grace and myself. And staff is also working on putting together a subcommittee that would consist of two Historic Landmarks Board members and possibly two Planning Commission members to work with staff and the consultant during this process which also facilitates you know having additional information of those hearing bodies to provide their input in during this process and there is going to be a public workshop so it'll be publicly noticed in our Marin scope and we'll have something in the sausage occurrence we'll invite the community to come and participate and provide their input and the consultant will also be providing a presentation during that public workshop and hopefully we'll have some fun exercises to get some community involvement and engagement and we're also going to have public hearings regarding this process at both at the Historic Landmarks Board level Planning Commission level and ultimately the City Council because this does take a legislative act since we are modifying our regulations. So there are going to be many opportunities for the public to be involved and also the Historic Landmarks Board. |
| 02:48:40.07 | Terry | I WANT TO TELL YOU WHAT I WANT TO |
| 02:49:08.30 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 02:49:09.43 | Ray Withy | Yes, that clarifies it. And thank you, Heidi. |
| 02:49:13.40 | Ray Withy | Okay, so what are we doing? We need a motion on that. |
| 02:49:19.07 | Thomas Theodores | Okay, so I move to authorize the city manager to execute a professional services agreement with Diet and Pajita for the update of historic preservation regulations, and I'm not sure I pronounced that correctly. |
| 02:49:39.47 | Thomas Theodores | Thank you. |
| 02:49:39.50 | Ray Withy | Okay, you get a second? Second. All in favor? Yes. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Okay, thank you. Thank you, Heidi. |
| 02:49:41.16 | Jeremy | Thank you. Yes. All right. Bye. |
| 02:49:48.85 | Ray Withy | Thank you, Jeremy. Next item here, proposal to rename Harrison Park. |
| 02:49:56.53 | Ray Withy | Langford. Good evening. |
| 02:49:57.80 | Mike | Good evening again, Mr. Mayor, council members. Because of the lateness, I'm going to try to keep this brief. |
| 02:50:04.09 | Ray Withy | Oh, no, we're early. Don't we're early. Okay. |
| 02:50:04.85 | Mike | Don't worry, don't worry. Oh, first thing before the questions come up, we were talking about Harrison Park. I was up there today and they're getting really close to finishing it. Oh, yeah. Looks great. Keep your eyes on your inbox for the grand opening party. It looks great up there. |
| 02:50:09.39 | Ray Withy | Is your second question. Oh, yeah. Looks great. |
| 02:50:23.02 | Mike | So when Harrison Park was a park, Back in the 70s, it was not uncommon to see Mary Ann Sears at the park tending to the grounds, picking up trash, planting plants, taking money out of her own pocket, buying plants, planting them, trimming things, watering, just basically taking care of the park and making it a really beautiful place for people to be. In addition to her work at the park, Mrs. Sears was one of the founders of the Sausalito Historical Society. She was known as the Tree Lady. She was on the Trees and Views Committee, rewrote the Trees and Views ordinance there. I have an email and I got some other things that she was instrumental in starting the Parks and Recreation Department. Thank you, Mary Ann. And was just a great person and very influential person here in the city. As the park was, talk was about redoing the park, it came up, well, maybe we should rename the park Mary Ann Sears Park. So I did a little research on this, actually more than a little research on it, and the only reason I could find why it's called Harrison Park is because it's on Harrison Avenue. It's not named after the Davies family who donated the property back in the 60s. It's not named after the person from the Seattle, or the Sausalito Land and Trust and Ferry Company, whatever it was, who donated, or which is Harrison Street is named after him, but Harrison Park is just named Harrison Park because it's on Harrison Avenue. So we discussed this a few times at the Park and Recreation Commission, and John Lerner, who is here today, formed task force, actually did quite a bit of research on his own. Went out and talked to various community members, members of the Lions Club who've been instrumental in getting the park to where it is now, which is almost completion. Talking to Dorothy Gibson, neighbors, just all kinds of people throughout town. And everybody thought it was a good idea. One of the things that did come up though is that it may be difficult for people to find if it's not called Harrison Park. because right now it's on Harrison Avenue, Harrison Park, easy to find. But that was really about the only issue that came up. There's no fiscal impact. We haven't had any signs made yet. That's still in the future. we can make the change and make the sign whatever we want it to say. So the Parks and Recreation Commission looked at it, but they did decide Rather than naming it Mary Ann Sears Park, they would like to name the playground in the park Marianne Sears Playground. So it would be Marianne Sears Playground at Harrison Park. Other options that the council have is to adopt a resolution and rename the entire park, Mary Ann Sears Park, which is what if the email that you got yesterday, earlier today, and this one here. |
| 02:53:25.21 | Ray Withy | From Jan. Jan Hodgson? |
| 02:53:27.26 | Mike | Jan, yes. That's what she would like and as well as the DEC family who live right behind the park. They were at the Parks and Recreation Commission meeting and they suggested the same thing. But at this point I leave it up to you and I'd be happy to answer any questions |
| 02:53:45.58 | Ray Withy | I think what she, what Jan Hodgson recommended, and it seemed to be a good compromise looking at the airport as an example, is to call it Harrison Playground and Mary Ann Sears Garden is actually what she says in her email. |
| 02:54:01.81 | Mike | I actually, because I had spoken with her on the phone a few times and I was a little confused. by that, so I asked her I said, when we talked yesterday, you said one thing, now you're saying something else. What is it? And she replied, I would like the whole park. My son wanted the garden area, just so it gets named after her. So she would like something there. She wanted the whole parkerson one of the garden areas. I think that was her compromise within her family there. |
| 02:54:29.97 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 02:54:29.99 | Ray Withy | Right. Thank you. Okay, any questions? So what is the proposal? Well, the proposal is whether we want to keep it as Harrison Park and name it as Mary Ann Sears. |
| 02:54:45.89 | Ray Withy | Well, was Harrison Playground before the actual sign used to say Harrison Playground? No, it used to say that. There used to be a sign that said Playground. |
| 02:54:49.55 | Ray Withy | Yes, you said that. Yeah, I didn't know. |
| 02:54:52.48 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 02:54:52.50 | Mike | I said public playground, but it was Harrison. The sign just said public playground. It did not say Harrison Park on it. It might have just said public playground. It just said public playground. It was a question. |
| 02:54:57.85 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 02:54:57.87 | Herb | Thank you. |
| 02:54:57.88 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 02:54:57.90 | Herb | not say, |
| 02:54:59.66 | Ray Withy | Is it cool? |
| 02:55:01.70 | Herb | just Thank you. |
| 02:55:04.18 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 02:55:04.53 | Herb | Thank you. |
| 02:55:04.77 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 02:55:04.79 | Herb | Yeah. What's our standard procedure in our parks, which tend to be small? Do we typically have a different name for the park and the playground? |
| 02:55:12.62 | Ray Withy | not usually. |
| 02:55:13.26 | Herb | Thank you. |
| 02:55:13.27 | Mike | Actually. |
| 02:55:13.66 | Herb | Thank you. |
| 02:55:13.70 | Mike | Yeah. |
| 02:55:13.78 | Herb | THE OTHER THING. |
| 02:55:13.97 | Mike | This would be the first to my knowledge and perhaps Adam and other people with more history here could tell me. But in everything that I've looked at here, the closest example might be the Blanche Dunphy Rose Garden. Thank you. At Gabrielson Park. But the Blanche Dunphy Rose Garden at Gabrielson Park. That's the only one that I'm aware of. None of our fields or other facilities have... They have one name. It's one name. Okay. |
| 02:55:27.26 | Jeremy | at the Edelson Park, but |
| 02:55:42.01 | Ray Withy | Well, my thoughts, I think you ought to call it, Oh, I'm sorry, public comment? There goes my thought. |
| 02:55:50.65 | Jeremy | comment. There goes my thought. Yeah. |
| 02:55:56.44 | Mike Monsef | Thank you. Again, Mike Monsef here. I, as a Lions Club member, me and Steve Buckley, we were involved to raising funds for the park when we were involved. And I have to say, Marian Sears was a, pivotal of this project, really. She did a lot of work and she was the first one. She told me that Mike, I'm willing to put, I don't want to say the amount, But I think they're still gonna put that. And she's done so much work. And I think it deserves to be called. Marion Sears Playground. That is, she deserved to have that. And a lot of these parks around here with different name, I don't think none of them, they put enough as Marion Sears put in this community and her husband both. Robert. |
| 02:56:55.96 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 02:56:55.98 | Mike Monsef | Thank you. |
| 02:56:55.99 | Ray Withy | left so you're lucky she just walked out the door. |
| 02:56:56.03 | Mike Monsef | left. |
| 02:56:56.74 | Ray Withy | You're lucky she just walked out the door. |
| 02:56:59.03 | Jeremy | Well. |
| 02:56:59.57 | Ray Withy | you |
| 02:56:59.62 | Mike Monsef | Thank you. |
| 02:56:59.77 | Ray Withy | Bye. |
| 02:56:59.81 | Mike Monsef | Bye. Thank you. |
| 02:56:59.98 | Ray Withy | Bye. |
| 02:57:01.38 | Ray Withy | John McFive. |
| 02:57:08.60 | Jennifer | There's so many memories in this room. For me. because I was on the tree committee, which I I took over from Amy when she ran for city council And it was Mary Anne that was on the tree committee. So I was with these women, all their lives on one project or another. And I was particularly touched by the plaque that Mike showed me because it wasn't just a statement. There's some... wonderful Japanese clicker field It also had a personal statement about Amy. Unfortunately, he took it away, so I can't remember exactly what the statement was. but I sort of think of Mary Ann. And I think of Amy. And I think of Mary Ann with a tree with a little plaque that says something about her personally, how wonderful she was. And they were both wonderful. Marvelous women. You know, we couldn't honor two more wonderful women in these two. |
| 02:58:11.25 | Ray Withy | Thank you, Sean. Any other public comment? Okay, let's bring it back up here. My thoughts... Mmm. I really would like to call it Mary Ann Sears Park. and then also add to it the Harrison Playground. by putting the name Harrison, people will know it's on Harrison Street. But I still I think that It's appropriate. And of all things, it's right across the street from where she lived all those years, and that's why she spent so much time there. It was like an extended garden for her. So that's just my thought. |
| 02:58:47.52 | Linda Pfeiffer | Mr. Mayor, if I may, I completely agree with you. I think not only do I support your proposal and echo it, that the park itself should be named Harrison, Harrison Park should be named Mary Ann Sears Park, but I can concur that there is a groundswell of support from residents. I have heard from them in supporting the name Mary Ann Sears Park because of her dedication to the community, her lifelong commitment to community service and the park. |
| 02:58:48.53 | Ray Withy | Yep. |
| 02:59:29.79 | Ray Withy | Well, if you look at the names around town, you get Gableson Park, Robin Sweeney Park, Dunphy Park. These are all named after people that really left their mark in this community. And they were serious about it. They didn't play around. So I think it's appropriate. |
| 02:59:52.15 | Herb | I would name the entire park, Mary Ann Sears Park. We already, every comment so far that's been made has confused playground and park. And I think we just set ourselves up. I think it's a little park. And I think one name is fine. And I think, you know, it deserves to be named after her. I would just name the entire park, and I would not have any other names on playgrounds or gardens there. |
| 03:00:14.95 | Ray Withy | Jonathan, just a quick question. It is the smallest pack that we have, isn't it? Yeah, no, it's smaller than Langendorp. |
| 03:00:21.87 | Adam Politzer | Yeah, no, it's small. So Casno would give it a race. |
| 03:00:28.53 | Ray Withy | Yeah, Casanova. |
| 03:00:29.07 | Ray Withy | Yeah. Mike, can you repeat what you had proposed earlier as far as the double name? |
| 03:00:33.12 | Mike | with this. |
| 03:00:35.01 | Ray Withy | So, because I've got |
| 03:00:35.13 | Mike | because I've gotten |
| 03:00:35.81 | Ray Withy | uh, |
| 03:00:36.02 | Mike | in the |
| 03:00:36.51 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 03:00:38.86 | Mike | What the Parks and Recreation Commission recommended was that the playground be dedicated So it would be within Harrison Park. So it would be the Marianne Sears Playground, that section. The park would still be named Harrison Park. |
| 03:00:55.11 | Linda Pfeiffer | And Mr. Mayor? So I move to, can't we make a motion and then have discussion? |
| 03:01:01.83 | Ray Withy | We make them Well, let's get a comment. Any other comments? |
| 03:01:06.72 | Ray Withy | I think we should go with the parking rec recommendation myself. Can I make a motion? I'd make a motion to forward the parking rec. |
| 03:01:11.04 | Linda Pfeiffer | Can I make a motion? So I'd make a motion to forward the party reg. I'd say to my wife, making a motion. Thank you. |
| 03:01:14.50 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 03:01:16.10 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 03:01:16.12 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 03:01:16.20 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 03:01:16.96 | Jeremy | Harkin Rex motion. Thank you. |
| 03:01:17.12 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 03:01:17.17 | Linda Pfeiffer | Park and Rec. |
| 03:01:17.74 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 03:01:17.81 | Linda Pfeiffer | Bye. |
| 03:01:17.96 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 03:01:17.98 | Linda Pfeiffer | Yeah. |
| 03:01:18.30 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 03:01:18.47 | Linda Pfeiffer | Oh. |
| 03:01:18.52 | Ray Withy | Bye. |
| 03:01:19.48 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. I move to adopt a resolution renaming Harrison Park Mary Ann Sears Park. |
| 03:01:30.09 | Ray Withy | you Second. Oh, wait a minute. John, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You got it, sir. |
| 03:01:35.02 | Terry | Thank you. |
| 03:01:35.05 | Unknown | You got it, sir. |
| 03:01:36.94 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 03:01:36.98 | Ray Withy | So I make a motion to go with the recommendation of the Park and Rec Commission to have at Harrison Park at Marianne Sears Playground. |
| 03:01:46.06 | Ray Withy | Okay. So now we... Thank you. you Make a... Yeah. |
| 03:01:51.25 | Ray Withy | a second. |
| 03:01:52.52 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. |
| 03:01:52.55 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 03:01:52.57 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 03:01:52.72 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. |
| 03:01:52.84 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 03:01:52.87 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. |
| 03:01:52.91 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 03:01:52.98 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 03:01:53.03 | Mary Wagner | Yeah. |
| 03:01:53.09 | Ray Withy | THE END OF THE END OF THE Thank you. |
| 03:01:53.41 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. |
| 03:01:53.62 | Ray Withy | No. |
| 03:01:53.65 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. And you vote on the... On the first. |
| 03:01:55.93 | Ray Withy | On the first? On the second? No, you vote on the last motion. First. Okay. Roll call. |
| 03:01:56.65 | Mary Wagner | on the second. MS. No, you vote on the last motion. |
| 03:02:01.04 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 03:02:01.06 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 03:02:05.09 | Unknown | Councilmember Pfeiffer. Council member three doors. |
| 03:02:08.43 | Unknown | Thank you. Yeah. |
| 03:02:08.55 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 03:02:08.67 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:02:09.67 | Unknown | Council Member Withey? |
| 03:02:10.95 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:02:10.96 | Unknown | Thank you. Vice Mayor Leone. I got a room for me. |
| 03:02:13.99 | Jeremy | . |
| 03:02:16.94 | Meg Gawson | Thank you. |
| 03:02:17.23 | Ray Withy | No. So I don't think, well, now we have to vote on calling it Mary Ann Chairs Park. |
| 03:02:21.75 | Meg Gawson | Thank you. |
| 03:02:22.03 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:02:22.10 | Meg Gawson | Yeah. |
| 03:02:27.18 | Unknown | Council member Fyber? Yes. Councilmember Erosiadores? |
| 03:02:31.11 | Sybil Bertillier | So, Member Erosie. Yeah. |
| 03:02:34.18 | Unknown | Councilmember Withey. Thank you. |
| 03:02:35.06 | Ray Withy | Yes. Yes. See, Linda, you can vote yes on something else. |
| 03:02:40.11 | Ray Withy | you |
| 03:02:40.14 | Unknown | We're going to say that. Fair winery. |
| 03:02:40.97 | Ray Withy | There we go. |
| 03:02:41.44 | Ray Withy | Bye. |
| 03:02:41.63 | Ray Withy | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 03:02:41.91 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 03:02:41.93 | Ray Withy | Yes. Okay. You have your direction. |
| 03:02:41.95 | Ray Withy | you. |
| 03:02:45.27 | Ray Withy | that. Okay, next item. Just a reminder that this item was supposed to be taken up at 9.05 and it's 10.10. So we... I'm running way behind. Charlie, introduction of the 2013-14 budget. And sorry to keep you waiting, but the numbers kind of got jumbled up for us. |
| 03:03:30.93 | Unknown | Thank you, Debbie. Good evening, Mayor, members of the City Council. Tonight's agenda item is to introduce the Fiscal Year 13-14 budget. The Fiscal Year 13-14 budget is the second year of the City's two-year resource allocation plan, but it's exciting to know that it's a transitional year as we transition from a back to the basics budget to a building on the basics budget. And we're going to point out several places today how the financial policies enacted by the City Council over the past four years have manifest themselves not only in structural balance but allowed us to achieve sustainability and now work towards resiliency in our financial statements. meaningiliency meaning, I mean in our financial position. Resiliency meaning that we have the structural balance, the strategies, the plans in place to be able to weather economic cycles as we go forward in the future. We also reflect the new goals that were discussed with the City Council and the strategic plan, and we'll point out how those work into the budget as well. I want to also say that we're investing in the quality of Sausalito's future. |
| 03:03:32.15 | Terry | I'm sorry. |
| 03:04:47.77 | Unknown | Yeah, you like that? Good. And this budget does that because it continues and actually it improves levels of service over the prior year and it continues with the robust investment in the infrastructure. So it's a real forward-looking plan of investing in Saucelido's future. I'm going to start off by introducing the budget, going through a citywide summary. We'll have a service level discussion. All the department heads are here this evening, and conclude with a summary and outlook, and then turn it back to the city council to ask discussions. I want to also point out that the city council finance committee has gone through and vetted this budget department by department, service level by service level, and also through the capital improvement plan. It was a comprehensive long-term budget planning process, but being the second year of the two-year resource allocation plan, it wasn't as intense as rebuilding the budget. We had our long-term financial projections. The council concluded their strategic planning retreat last week. We worked in some of the priority calendar, and as Vice Mayor Leon pointed out earlier, there'll be some follow-up with the Finance Committee on working in some of the other priority calendar items. Thank you. priority calendar, as Vice Mayor Leon pointed out earlier, there will be some follow up with the Finance Committee on working in some of the other priority calendar items. We've had management reviews, Finance Committee reviews, and tonight the City Council will be reviewing. All this goes into building the Fiscal Year 13-14 budget. It's a top down budget where the initial statements present the city wide on on a combined basis but it's very detail oriented and line item oriented when you get to the bottom. And so we'll be able to discuss the budget at any level and be able to explain to the policy actions that you're about ready to take. THE END OF On the summary level, very high level, we have a general fund budget of $12,323,000 in revenues and $12,305,000 in expenditures. A balanced general fund budget with a surplus of $17,584. As you all recall, the special revenue funds are funds that accumulate resources for spending on certain types of projects. And most of them are capital project spending that we've allocated here. Our debt service funds are funds that accumulate money solely for the purpose of paying debt service. One on the general obligation bonds and the one on the Tidelands loan that built the first bulkhead from Department of Boats and Waterway loan. General Capital Projects is anticipating almost $4.5 million in capital projects. Our enterprise funds will be continuing investing in sewer infrastructure. The old city hall has now been, has a new lease on it, and it'll be continuing to be able to provide general fund support. The MLK rental property with our two anchor tenants is on board with being able to pay off the final debt service on that by July of 2014. And which case will, except for the general fund investment in MLK, be debt free. And then our parking fund is still accumulating revenues to transfer to the general fund. And finally, we have internal service funds. This is where we put aside money for the specific purpose of replacing vehicles and equipment, paying our workers' compensation insurance and claims, and then accumulating money for employee benefits. The total of all this spending for the city is $25 million in revenue and $26 million in expenditures. But there's transfers between funds where we transfer money from one fund to another and that gets accumulated in the total. So in order to provide a net position for the city we show we have $21.9 million in revenues this year and $22.7 million in expenditures. That's not an unbalanced budget. What we're saying is that we're using resources that have been accumulated for specific purposes, capital projects primarily, to be spent in this year. There's a lot of numbers. And if anyone's watching on television, Vicki's out there in the audience and we're saying, well, what does this mean to me? What does this mean to me, the citizen? And I know the citizens are asking typical questions. Is the budget balanced? Are there reserves? How much will this cost me, the taxpayer? And what kind of services will I get? Will it be police officers? Is the library open? And the recreation department providing services at the new Mary Sears Park. Is the community being planned for the future? Will my streets get paved? And then finally, who's responsible? So answer the first question right there. The mayor. First, general fund is the primary operating fund of the city. This is the fund that accumulates tax dollars and provides the services that you see on the street. The police officers, the roads being paved, the recreation department, and our library. And our revenues are more than our expenditures, and so we comfortably say that the budget is balanced. Are there general fund reserves? And there are. We have in total about 76% reserves. However, they're not all liquid assets. Our liquid assets will total at the end of fiscal year 14 about 27% and reserves that are available for economic fluctuation, for catastrophes, or for any unforeseen expenses that are there in this budget. |
| 03:10:30.65 | Unknown | And- 55% of our revenue does come from taxes and the biggest source of taxes is our property taxes and followed by our sales tax and then our transient occupancy tax. But this structure provides for the sustainability. One of the key elements that got us through the reception was a tax structure that didn't respond to the economy as much as municipalities that were heavily reliant on sales tax or auto malls or heavy consumer spending. Because of this balance, we were able to maintain a revenue stream that was able to continue the level of service and infrastructure investment that we had over the past five years. And then our other revenues are primarily fees for services, some intergovernmental and uh, And it's interesting to point out that the primary consumer of the taxes is the police department, the library, the art of recreation and advanced planning. So those stable Revenue sources are providing the basic services that the city is providing with fees for services, providing the other services and the administrative costs that go into making sure that they deliver the services that you've ordained. that I'd like to go start with the police department. And one of the very happy things we're able to say about the police department this year is that we're proposing that we add an additional officer. And we're able to do that because we have a parking enforcement officer who's going to be retiring mid-year. That parking enforcement officer is at a step seven. because of the new plan that you put in where you have new pension costs for new employees, new employees coming in at about 35% lower than the retiring employee and no OPEB obligation and finally reduced health care costs, we were able to say let's eliminate one parking enforcement officer position and fund a full-time officer. So that savings between the labor reform package that you passed last year, along with exiting the Marin County Major Crime Task Force, provided the ongoing resources, the continuing ongoing resources to provide an additional police officer to the city. We're going to realize some extra savings, but there was a first year investment by exiting the Marin County dispatch and entering into the Central Marin City's Police Department dispatch services. That'll save us considerable police department monies going forward in the future, but there was a one-time investment this year. And so we were able to absorb that into the police department budget because of the other police officers that have resigned and are coming in at the lower level. So the strategy worked. of doing that. And we're continuing with the reserve officer program and then of course all the other activities that our chief presents to you in our quarterly reports. You can stop me here and ask any questions from the police department if you have any levels of service questions of the police department. |
| 03:13:53.07 | Ray Withy | I have a comment slash question-ish thing. |
| 03:13:57.79 | Ray Withy | I'll tell you say slash. |
| 03:14:00.02 | Ray Withy | No, I appreciate, I wanted to just say that the revenue savings or the cost savings that I'm imagining are coming from the task force exit and the dispatch, I don't know what the dollar amounts are off the top of my head, I can't remember, but it's close to $70,000, something like that. Doing that is not without its own cost, and I appreciate the chief taking that cost on. psychological cost in sort of restructuring how the county is delivering the entire county, not the county government, but the county is delivering these services. So I think some of us don't know the nature of that beast, but it is thanks to the city manager and to the chief for spearheading some of these reforms and how the public safety is being delivered in Murray County. |
| 03:14:57.61 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 03:15:09.14 | Unknown | Thank you. Let's move to the library. Another department that's building on the theme of sharing services. We heard about shared services in our strategic planning session last week and this budget for the library anticipates sharing services with Willow Creek Academy for children's librarian services where they will, where our children's librarian will be at their library providing services, helping the children out, and in return they'll be sharing revenues back with us. It allows us to advance that children's librarian to a higher level because she will be taking on more responsibilities, and accordingly the city gets more benefit from that advancement in her career as well. The Friends of the Library is supporting $3,000 for story times and there's the library continuing with the excellent level of service that we've seen with Abbott here. And if we have any questions from our librarian, this would be a good time to ask any... Any budget-related levels of service questions? |
| 03:16:13.75 | Ray Withy | So the only support that the friends are doing is the story time or there's another? Is there still, there's no book service support? We've eliminated that. The city's... |
| 03:16:23.35 | Unknown | Yeah, the city has gone back to the level of funding for the books budget. Right. Right. |
| 03:16:27.24 | Ray Withy | Right. Books, budget, yes. Right. And the children's librarian is funded |
| 03:16:34.12 | Unknown | by the city and the Yellow Creek Academy. |
| 03:16:34.75 | Ray Withy | Right, and the Friends. Willow Creek Academy. Oh, and Willow Creek is replacing the Friends contribution. Okay, that's right. |
| 03:16:41.34 | Unknown | Yeah, and there's a, you recall last year when we exited Marin that there was a surplus amount of money that came back to the city that funded her for the first year. Abbott promised us in finance committee meetings that he would find additional revenue sources to continue providing that service to the city. And Willow Creek Academy is an example of how shared services benefits not only our city but our community. |
| 03:17:06.15 | Ray Withy | should ask them to publicize that a little bit better amongst their community that you're because i think a lot of folks still on the willow creek community aren't aware that you're that the city and them are tied up in this way |
| 03:17:17.45 | Unknown | One caveat on that, they're hiring a new chief of school or headmaster on July 1st, and so this will not be ratified until after the new principal comes on board. |
| 03:17:33.57 | Unknown | Okay. We'll move to the Recreation Department. It's exciting to see the Recreation Department revenues steadily getting higher. Of course, we get a margin on the amount of fees that we collect over what we pay our instructors. But overall, the Recreation Department is continuing with its level of service and it's increasing the amount of revenues that it brings in. And when it does that, it reduces the general funds tax support that goes to the Recreation Department. Any levels of questions? Levels of service question for Rick? You want to roll now? |
| 03:18:08.74 | Ray Withy | want to vote. |
| 03:18:11.27 | Unknown | Our community development has, department has two divisions, a building inspection division and a planning division. I wanted to point out that here's an example, we're going to, when we finally get to administration, we've increased the number of positions in the administration and we've kept, and that was by moving Lily over to the administration department. And we kept the funding, I mean the positions within the Community Development Planning Department to have an assistant planner and two associate planners. How were we able to do that? Create another position? Again through moving the fire department out to the Southern Marin Fire District, created a surplus of revenues. We moved out less revenues than we moved out expenditures along with our labor reform program and the new planner coming in at step one created the excess capacity to be able to keep that position. So and then in the building inspection department the continuation with the same of funding. And you can see that both of them have fee support. In the future, we might look at breaking planning out into two divisions where we have an advanced planning and a current planning subdivisions where... The current planning is fully supported by fees, just like building inspections is almost fully supported by fees and the advanced planning would be supported by the general fund subsidy. |
| 03:19:40.67 | Jeremy | That's good. |
| 03:19:41.75 | Unknown | If you have any questions, Jeremy, and the planning projects that are included in this budget right now is the historic register for about $60,000. The second one was the... Historic Preservation Regulations for about $25,000, but what's not in here is the Mills Act. |
| 03:20:04.87 | Ray Withy | We'll take that out of the police budget, don't worry. |
| 03:20:07.20 | Unknown | . |
| 03:20:08.06 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 03:20:08.89 | Unknown | . |
| 03:20:09.21 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 03:20:09.23 | Unknown | you |
| 03:20:09.31 | Ray Withy | I'm sorry. |
| 03:20:09.88 | Unknown | Bye. Engineering, I mean, the Department of Public Works has two divisions, an engineering division and a maintenance division. Once again, we have a city engineer who's retiring on June 30th. We're going to be replacing that position with a first-level engineer, promoting the current engineer to a little higher position, and the director of public works, assuming the city engineer title. So again, that gave us some capacity to be able to balance this year's budget. The maintenance division provides services to sewer fund, the MLK fund, to the general fund as the engineering department is providing support for capital projects. And when you see this $138,000, that means that part of, that's the amount that's spent on general fund activities that's not being charged to capital projects or being charged to citizens. So any questions that you might have about the Director of Public Works, then take a look. |
| 03:21:16.78 | Ray Withy | From a staffing perspective, the staffing is staying the same level in Public Works. There's no additional new positions. |
| 03:21:18.38 | Unknown | . |
| 03:21:25.67 | Unknown | The number of bodies will stay the same, but the levels are changing. |
| 03:21:29.97 | Ray Withy | Right. |
| 03:21:30.36 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:21:30.53 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 03:21:35.20 | Unknown | And we've included in the proposed budget a five-year CIP with the first year being funded as the capital budget within the operating budget. And the total of all those projects comes in at $4.8 million. The five-year plan is balanced except for storm drain. And as you know, you've got an RFP out there for storm drain fee study to see what kind of projects we have and what kind of resources we have to provide those storm drains. And just to back up to that, you can see over this course of the five-year program, we have a considerable amount of storm drain activity that is unfunded at the current time. But all the other capital projects are funded over the five year program, we have a considerable amount of storm drain activity that is unfunded at the current time. But all the other capital projects are funded over the five year program. So it continues, this rather robust investment. chart of $10 million over the past three years does not include does not include the public safety building. So once you add that in, you're up to about $25 million in spending in the past three years. And then this year, $4.1 million. Next year, $4.8 million. We're investing in our infrastructure. We're investing in Sausalito's future and the quality of life here. Better streets, more parks, more pedestrian paths. |
| 03:23:04.32 | Unknown | Now we get to the internal... Any questions on Capital Projects? them. Information technology continues with a similar level of investment. What we're not funding here is an emergency reserve. We cut back the budget in the information technology department to reflect what they're going to actually spend every year. And so we cut back on the amount that was tucked away into a reserve fund. And the projects for the IT department next year are continuing with the thin client rollout. |
| 03:23:45.06 | Ray Withy | well received internally, the client aspect of things. |
| 03:23:48.21 | Unknown | You know, Rhett's not here. |
| 03:23:51.64 | Ray Withy | Shame on him. |
| 03:23:52.74 | Unknown | He's not. He's found a substitute way of keeping the Dells as desktops for now. We have some thin clients sitting up in the room there, and it's because of other priorities, one of them being the IT technician, has been, you know, he's only had one position instead of two for a while, so he's not been able to roll that program out. But he's found another way to save money on the Dell leases and continue to roll that out. So we're pleased with the level of IT support that we're getting. And finally, in the Administration and Finance Department, we were able to continue with the funding for the business analyst for the year 2014. And so you can see a little bit uptick in the spending there. But other than that, level of service is anticipated |
| 03:24:49.55 | Unknown | Any questions for the city manager? So who we call when it's not going like you thought. |
| 03:24:53.79 | Ray Withy | And again, since most of our costs are staff in all these departments except for capital expenditures, this is just one additional position fully funded for the next year versus a partial for this past year. |
| 03:25:06.16 | Unknown | That's correct. And as we get down into the MLK, the MLK budget's going from a, it was about a three-quarter time, part-time position as a property manager to a full-time position. So that's the only other staffing increase. And then we have a department called non-department. And that department is where we fund our retiree medical benefits, our city attorney, and a lot of other things. But most importantly is the community-supported groups. The historical societies funded out of there, contributions to the sister city, the Business Hospitality Committee, the Business Advisory Committee, and volunteer recognition and our sewer lifeline rebates are funded from there. I'd like to explain this big spike. The big spike here in the current fiscal year is where the money was transferred into the general fund in order to pay off the side fund, the fire pension side fund and the miscellaneous employee side fund. which also was part of the labor reform strategy. Our pension contribution rates for miscellaneous employees are down to 15%. And that's for tier one employees. Tier two and tier three, where new employees are coming in are considerably less. |
| 03:26:32.10 | Ray Withy | or memory what the 2007 spike was? |
| 03:26:35.75 | Unknown | That was transfers out of, there were, it was a result of income that wasn't expected like selling the city manager's house. And then we transferred that money to the disaster fund and to some insurance funds. |
| 03:26:44.88 | Terry | Bye. |
| 03:26:44.89 | Jeremy | I'm sorry. |
| 03:26:44.98 | Terry | Thank you. |
| 03:26:45.03 | Ray Withy | And then, |
| 03:26:54.04 | Unknown | Other questions on non-departmental? We also had an increase in the ERAF revenue that year, which is that property tax ERAF money. It was a huge increase. Okay, so the budget, like I said, builds on the basics. It's not back to the basics. We were successful in going back to the basics and we're moving forward now. And we're looking at a scenario where we can face fiscal year 14 confident that we're going to be able to meet our goals. And this is where I would have not put the exploding sun. So we're ready to answer any questions or any directions you might have. What if, why not kind of questions that are there for the City Council. And then also looking forward to your discussion about meeting back with the Finance Committee, perhaps, to talk about the priority calendar projects. |
| 03:27:48.65 | Ray Withy | Okay, we have any questions up here? |
| 03:27:51.87 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:27:51.89 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 03:27:51.91 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 03:27:51.95 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 03:27:51.97 | Ray Withy | My question, just two questions. So on the pluses and minuses of number of retirees, because we baked in, in our assumptions over the last couple of years, a certain number of retirees and the savings that we would accumulate because of the reforms that you spearheaded on the labor side and pension side. I think we were forecasting two people a year. |
| 03:28:15.50 | Unknown | Is there a... |
| 03:28:16.91 | Ray Withy | Thank you. or there were more of this looking forward, there'll be at least, you just mentioned. |
| 03:28:17.07 | Unknown | Thank you. Yeah. |
| 03:28:22.01 | Unknown | We had two parking enforcement. We have one parking enforcement officer left this year and one leaving next year. We have a city engineer that's leaving. |
| 03:28:33.62 | Ray Withy | Now, Jamie. |
| 03:28:34.78 | Unknown | Pardon? Oh, the library, we had a librarian there too. Oh, right, that's right. |
| 03:28:36.29 | Jeremy | library. |
| 03:28:39.07 | Ray Withy | Right. So it's four. In the next calendar year, it will be four new employees at the lower tier. So that makes a huge difference in both savings. Oh, and the IT technician, too. Right. So five. And that's what's allowed us to add new staff because people are coming in at not just a lower pay grade, but at a different scale of benefit packages. That's great. Yeah. That's great. So, Charlie, you've led us down the right road. |
| 03:28:46.23 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 03:28:46.41 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:28:46.55 | Jeremy | and then, |
| 03:28:46.75 | Unknown | Thanks. Oh, and the IT technician, too. the |
| 03:29:00.20 | Terry | you |
| 03:29:00.25 | Unknown | if you see. |
| 03:29:00.87 | Terry | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 03:29:03.79 | Unknown | that I'm going to be. |
| 03:29:04.03 | Unknown | Right. |
| 03:29:04.21 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 03:29:04.81 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:29:04.91 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:29:04.94 | Terry | Thank you. |
| 03:29:05.24 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:29:07.93 | Unknown | I don't want to underscore the huge decision, the policy decision you made also with the fire department. We've had three people out on workers' compensation. The fire district is absorbing that cost. That would have been over a million dollars of the cost that we would have had to observe this past year. |
| 03:29:29.31 | Adam Krivace | . |
| 03:29:29.48 | Ray Withy | Thank you. It all comes down to money. |
| 03:29:34.17 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 03:29:35.33 | Ray Withy | and people. |
| 03:29:37.22 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 03:29:38.69 | Ray Withy | Yeah, but yeah. |
| 03:29:39.18 | Jeremy | Yeah, but yeah. Thank you. We're taking public comment. |
| 03:29:43.28 | Ray Withy | We're taking public comment. |
| 03:29:44.56 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 03:29:45.08 | Meg Gawson | again. |
| 03:29:46.74 | Ray Withy | I didn't know your last name was public. |
| 03:29:47.03 | Meg Gawson | I know your last name was public. I'm Meg Gawson and I live on Cypress Place. And I noticed you had retiree medical benefits in there, and I was wondering if there was just general pension benefits that are billed in or they're off budget. |
| 03:29:48.44 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 03:29:59.83 | Unknown | Sure, that's a great question. That's a great question, Meg. So the question is, where do pension benefits get paid from? But we do have retiree benefits paid in here. So the answer is that the city is part of CalPERS, and CalPERS is the umbrella pension agency. We pay the employer share of our employees' pension obligation in there, and the employees pay the employee share. And then when they retire, share of our employees' pension obligation in there and the employees pay the employee's share. And then when they retire, CalPERS pays that out. Why it's different for the medical benefits is that is that, It's a city benefit, it's not a CalPERS benefit. And so when a person retires, what the city said, if you've worked here 20 years, at Sausalito continually, 20 years. And if you retire from the CalPERS system, then the city will pay your medical benefits for yourself, not for your spouse, as you go off into the future. We have one case where we do pay for a spouse, and that was by a contract. And so that becomes a direct city expense, something that the city has to fund. Now, that's called OPEB, Other Post-Employment Benefits. And those OPEB benefits can keep growing and growing as the number of people keep working and come to 20. So in this past year, What we did is we closed the pool. There can be no more entrants that can go into that pool. We don't offer that benefit anymore. And then the second thing we did is we offered to buy back their OPEB benefit in return for a defined contribution medical plan benefit. And lastly, the city said anyone with three years or less service just loses that benefit altogether, but replaced it with a defined contribution. So those three actions, if you look at a graph of those, the before graph would have shown the number of entrants increasing forever, and now we have a little hill and a very long tail as the number of retirees, well, we're all going to die, so eventually those retirees die. The new employees go, the existing employees go away and then the liability goes away too. We cut our normal cost in half by doing that. So it was a great program that was enacted by the City Council. Thank you for that question. |
| 03:32:32.43 | Ray Withy | your friends. Question? |
| 03:32:39.13 | Linda Pfeiffer | No, just a comment. I'll wait. |
| 03:32:40.26 | Ray Withy | I have one question. you At this time, any questions from the public? Thank you. All right, let's bring it back up here for comment. Thank you, I had Linda. |
| 03:32:49.55 | Linda Pfeiffer | So, Charlie, I'm still actually working through this budget, and I know I'll have lots of questions regarding the pension costs and the OPEB and that for a later date. Okay, great. |
| 03:33:01.88 | Unknown | Okay, great. Well, if you want to come in, I have a binder and we can go through it together. |
| 03:33:03.32 | Linda Pfeiffer | I just wanted to come in. Oh, yeah. Okay. Okay, great. So I just wanted to clarify. |
| 03:33:09.61 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:33:09.71 | Ray Withy | OK, comment? |
| 03:33:12.28 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 03:33:12.29 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 03:33:12.48 | Jeremy | you like, |
| 03:33:14.62 | Ray Withy | I wanted to thank Ray and Charlie and Adam, certainly, and the department heads for doing the yeoman's job and most of the work. And I think it really goes to show back to Charlie's guidance with the city manager and department heads and some of the changes we've put in place over the last few years in preparing for to get ourselves on stable footing at this moment in time is we had some visibility of costs going up. |
| 03:33:14.69 | Jeremy | Yeah. |
| 03:33:46.08 | Ray Withy | on the CalPERS side and we accommodated them and cut our underlying costs going forward. And as people retire, our cost base is going to continue to shrink, which is unlike very many. And being a small city, we're going to do that faster than most cities to have more financial flexibility. But I wanted to thank Charlie particularly. This is his major effort of the year, and it's a huge effort. And again, great graphics, Charlie, excellent. Nothing floating in, no exploding suns, but I like your new pie charts. They are very good. But, you know, we are very lucky to have Charlie here, not to toot his horn too much, but he's given us a great amount of guidance, and really we're at another level. We're at three other levels than where we were when I first started here in terms of just this budget process and looking forward, and it makes this process much |
| 03:34:18.80 | Terry | . |
| 03:34:41.97 | Ray Withy | Thank you. less painful. We still have some work to do because we just added a bunch of costs that So we're gonna have to go back and figure those out and come back again to the council, but thank you Charlie. |
| 03:34:53.53 | Jeremy | you |
| 03:34:58.57 | Thomas Theodores | So I've been immersed in this budget for a month or so. |
| 03:35:04.90 | Unknown | What do you feel like? |
| 03:35:06.59 | Thomas Theodores | Um... I think it's important for especially folks at home who may be watching, to realize that at least from my observation and having amount of budget and financial experience. That this is a really robust, balanced budget. It's tight. There's not a lot of wiggle room, so every expense had to be thoroughly scrutinized. But from my vantage point, there's no fat in this budget. You know? |
| 03:35:43.44 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 03:35:43.53 | Thomas Theodores | Thank you. |
| 03:35:43.56 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 03:35:43.59 | Thomas Theodores | Thank you. |
| 03:35:43.70 | Jeremy | . |
| 03:35:43.90 | Thomas Theodores | Thank you. |
| 03:35:44.20 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 03:35:46.85 | Thomas Theodores | I, |
| 03:35:46.90 | Ray Withy | I think that's a good thing. Yep. |
| 03:35:47.38 | Thomas Theodores | She has a thing that... |
| 03:35:48.67 | Ray Withy | She never heard you. She was sitting too far back. |
| 03:35:51.46 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 03:35:52.77 | Thomas Theodores | And we really screwed it up. We really screwed it up, the police department. |
| 03:35:54.48 | Jeremy | Thank you. Yeah. . |
| 03:35:57.99 | Thomas Theodores | Thank you. Um, I think it's also important for, again, folks at home or may be listening. Again, from my vantage point, and really having studied this, We're in sound financial shape. And that is because of all the really good work that the Vice Mayor's mentioned that has been done by excellent policy decisions from past councils and an absolutely superb fiscal management by the staff, Charlie, our city manager, and really all the department heads who, you know, who also recognize that they're operating under tight but very well managed budgets. So I would echo what the Vice Mayor said. This is a superbly run city financially. |
| 03:36:57.52 | Ray Withy | There's nothing to say after that, that's for sure. Would you like to say anything? |
| 03:37:02.06 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 03:37:02.08 | Ray Withy | Well. |
| 03:37:02.10 | Ray Withy | Just the beginning, we have a couple more hearings, right? We have two or three more hearings on this. So if you're, you know, the public, certainly Charlie's summary is a high level and it's easy to go through. And that's another change that Charlie's put into place is to have his higher level reviews. And I wanted to thank Ray for all the, he did a lot more hard work this year than I did. So thank you for that. But also, I mean, it really is, it wasn't that long ago. and I think it was when you were still here, the first time you were here, Thank you for that. But also, I mean, it really is, it wasn't that long ago, and I think it was when you were still here the first go-around, that this was in pencil, that our books were in pencil. |
| 03:37:04.85 | Ray Withy | Yeah. |
| 03:37:38.23 | Ray Withy | in the 90s. pencil. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 03:37:41.64 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:37:41.79 | Ray Withy | to the next one. |
| 03:37:41.97 | Unknown | So... |
| 03:37:42.02 | Ray Withy | Oh. |
| 03:37:42.26 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:37:42.29 | Ray Withy | Thank you. with a separate eraser. Crazy. You know, and we've come a long way in the planning and tracking and |
| 03:37:44.76 | Ray Withy | Great. |
| 03:37:44.99 | Unknown | See you. |
| 03:37:45.33 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 03:37:51.14 | Ray Withy | You know, when people worry that we're... And people used to be very leery of giving money to the city for a public good because you couldn't keep track of it. is so different now, and such credit to all the folks here. who've done that and hopefully when we get around to the parks, people will open up their pocketbooks because they'll know where the money goes. THE FAMILY. |
| 03:38:14.03 | Ray Withy | I want to thank Jonathan, Ray. Adam, Charlie, what you said you were going to do two years ago, you really stuck to it, and I really want to thank you very much for that. And I want to thank all the department heads because I think you listened and you came through and you've made this city a very, sitting on very solid ground. So thank you very, very much. Okay. All right. Since there's no... That's just for discussion, so we'll move on to City manager information. Thank you again. Thank you. |
| 03:39:04.90 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 03:39:07.14 | Ray Withy | See you at six in the morning. |
| 03:39:11.34 | Jeremy | Thank you. |
| 03:39:11.36 | Ray Withy | I'll be going by it. |
| 03:39:11.48 | Jeremy | . |
| 03:39:17.08 | Adam Politzer | I'll keep my items very short and limit them. |
| 03:39:26.41 | Adam Politzer | It was mentioned earlier that we had our strategic planning session a little while ago. Was it last week? Maybe it was two weeks ago now. And very constructive, positive, and I think that we got a lot done in a very short time. period of time. And so we'll be bringing that forward to the council for the council's review Our goal is at the next meeting so that the public can see that and then again reiterate how important the strategic planning process is. How it ties in with the priority calendars, how it ties in with the budget, both for short term and long term. objectives. uh, One of the things that we did that I think was really important I think you're seeing it in the budget process now. and the Vice Mayor made these comments Um, We've done a lot these past five and a half years, almost six years now that I've been the city manager. We have spent a lot of money during very difficult economic times and continue to put money away in case that rainy day, a real rainy day, affects us like it's affected the rest of the the nation so when we bring forward the strategic planning session We will, the notes from that, the executive summary, want to spend a little bit of time because, Although the meetings are open to the public, the public doesn't want to spend all day going through that process with us. So I think it will be important both from the staff presentation point of this, but also for the Council's participation. and leadership. that we have meaningful discussion and try to share The vision that we are going to embark on as we look five years out, because that's what the strategic planning session focused on, was shifting from the back to the basics to planning to the future. So planning out five years both on economic stability investment in our infrastructure, maintaining the character and uniqueness of our community, and making sure that we're effective, efficient, and transparent I think the community will see this. In the same discussion. are the same uh, tie to this is that we've talked about and we brought forward to the Council program. ON OPEN. Open Sausalito. or Peak Democracy, which is the name of the program AND STAFF, Rhett and Debbie and Lily have had meetings now and are in the process of rolling this program out. And what we think for certain will be one of the first, we're projecting it's the first item, is to put our goals and objectives out on peak democracy and open Sausalito. and let the public look at what we have described as our goals, and then the five-year objectives associated with it, and get their feedback. Are we focused on the correct goals? Are our objectives meeting the needs of our community? Are there things that we missed that we might want to consider? and let the public have the opportunity to participate through this new program that the council approved. I think we're excited about launching Peak Democracy We hope prior to the June Fourth Council meeting that this occurs so that you'll be able, when we talk about the strategic planning session, executive summary, you'll be able to see some of the feedback from the public. at that very meeting. So that will be a new launch for the city. Uh, I'm gonna conclude my comments by saying that you know, the budget process, the priority calendar process, and the strategic planning process is a huge investment of time. It's an investment of time by the council members, TO PARTICIPATE, TAKE TIME OFF OF WORK, take time out of their busy schedules to attend incredibly long meetings. The strategic planning session is an all-day event. as Vice Mayor Leon and Council Member Withey experienced with the Finance Committee meetings, Those were half-day events, but many, many half-day events because we had to go through every department and in some cases, A single department could take up the entire half day of discussion. Uh, The priority calendar process by itself was three council meetings and endless hours just in the council meetings in those discussions, let alone all the discussions that happened at the Planning Commission, the HLV, park and rec, sustainability, trees and views, and so on and so forth. hours and hours of staff time go into preparing and planning and presenting and bringing forward to reach these CONCLUSION. My, heartfelt thanks. to the staff that participate and prepare and plan the community groups and boards and commissions that take time on their agendas to make sure that they give this thought and careful consideration as they put forth their priorities. and their recommendations And then my thanks again to the council for their leadership and vision. It takes a team to make this effort. work. It takes compromise. and commitment. And the word that I've been now using it requires discipline. We have to be disciplined to stay the course And if we do, we'll see results. We'll get things done, and next year at this time, we'll be in a better position with considerable Um... accomplishments behind us and as Charlie's slide said, You get to hold me accountable for that if we don't reach it. And obviously, I understand that's part of my job. So thanks to all of you for your hard work. |
| 03:45:35.55 | Ray Withy | Thank you, Adam. Any questions? Any questions for public comment? |
| 03:45:41.75 | Ray Withy | So with the... |
| 03:45:41.76 | Ray Withy | So with the Thank you. |
| 03:45:42.98 | Ray Withy | that I can't remember what we decided to do with the true democracy or whatever it is. Is that for everything or is it for, we're gonna do it for a couple of subjects? |
| 03:45:53.42 | Adam Politzer | We're going to move for three months giving that responsibility of staff to work through the program in three months, working with Peak Democracy on giving us some guidance on which items to put forward. bring back a program through the OMIC committee on recommendations and then onto the council for your direction on what the final Um... what the final program and how it will be managed will eventually be the council's responsibility. So once we launched this program, three months later, within three months' time. we would have gone to the OMIC committee to give our recommendation on what we think the process should be. moving forward and then to the council within that three month period of time with our recommendation for council direction. |
| 03:46:41.62 | Ray Withy | So it won't be implemented? It will be implemented in three months or put in place in June? |
| 03:46:46.01 | Adam Politzer | It's nearly implemented by June 4th. |
| 03:46:48.07 | Ray Withy | Okay. |
| 03:46:48.23 | Adam Politzer | and the council direction was for staff Thank you. to test it, to put forward various questions, try to stay away from controversial |
| 03:46:56.35 | Jeremy | Oh, okay. |
| 03:47:00.96 | Adam Politzer | issues. |
| 03:47:00.99 | Jeremy | Oh, my God. |
| 03:47:02.56 | Adam Politzer | but put forward meaningful things so that we can really get some participation. I think our community is smart enough that if we just say what color should we paint, the council chambers, we probably won't get a whole lot of activity. |
| 03:47:11.33 | Terry | Thank you. |
| 03:47:11.37 | Jeremy | Yeah. |
| 03:47:11.59 | Terry | Thank you. |
| 03:47:15.25 | Adam Politzer | But if we talk about things that are meaningful to the community, Um, Ooh. staff will to propose various questions with some leadership from peak democracy because this is obviously examples of this. We don't have to reinvent the wheel. Examples of this and how they launched it in other communities is there to help us. |
| 03:47:39.47 | Ray Withy | Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Adam. All right, with that, we're going to move to our future agenda items. |
| 03:47:48.70 | Herb | But like there's no attachment? Is there a reason or? |
| 03:47:53.79 | Ray Withy | I'm just too busy. |
| 03:47:55.70 | Herb | . |
| 03:47:56.81 | Jeremy | Thank you. Yeah. |
| 03:47:58.23 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 03:47:58.32 | Jeremy | . |
| 03:48:01.34 | Ray Withy | Okay. All right. Future item? You got any future items, agenda items? |
| 03:48:07.82 | Linda Pfeiffer | So I've raised this before, but the Arts Commission, now that we've finally gotten the bicycle and pedestrian safety committee going, at least with the interviews, I come back to the Arts Commission. I was asked to submit a mission statement and my proposal, and I did so. And I'd like to see us move forward with that. And so that would be my future agenda item. |
| 03:48:11.93 | Ray Withy | Thank you. |
| 03:48:11.95 | Jeremy | Yeah. |
| 03:48:22.06 | Jeremy | Okay. |
| 03:48:37.67 | Ray Withy | Okay. Anybody else on future agenda items? Any public comment? No. Okay, next item. |
| 03:48:42.61 | Terry | of the |
| 03:48:42.78 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:48:43.07 | Linda Pfeiffer | Any public? |
| 03:48:48.92 | Ray Withy | Member of Committee reports, anything? Thank you. |
| 03:48:50.97 | Ray Withy | Yeah, the one thing that was reminding me today, so the school district, the Willow Creek will have a new headmaster. or whatever they want to call it, principal or whatever. That's going to be, depending on what that person is and who they are, is going to be very impactful as your school district liaison, impactful to kind of where that goes. And I don't know. I don't have any visibility on who that is at the moment. Or if the, and maybe Adam knows this better than me, if the school district itself will the head of the, what's her name? Well, whether she's going to be there past this year, I'm not sure. I don't know if you know. I don't know. Yeah, so she's a temporary position anyway, right? She's permanent now? She came in temporary and now she's permanent. Okay. But the one thing I will say that maybe you might want to reach out again. I mean, talk with some folks there with your idea of shared services on the public works side because I can tell you, as you know, they need some help and I don't think they're what they're paying for in terms of the maintenance of their outdoor facilities. I know you've tried before, but I think my impression is that |
| 03:49:40.07 | Adam Politzer | And now she's permanent. And now she's permanent. |
| 03:50:09.69 | Adam Politzer | My impression. We've tried more recently, obviously. But that might happen. |
| 03:50:12.71 | Ray Withy | But that might have to wait until this new person comes in. |
| 03:50:15.48 | Adam Politzer | Well, for Willow Creek, but Valerie Pitts is the superintendent of the district, so the bigger items like... maintenance and facilities. we'd still go through her and through the Board of Trustees. But I think that's a good thing. The library discussion started with Abbott and Valerie and I, and then Valerie was supportive and directed to work with the schools. and you've seen the fruits of that labor. Jonathan Goldman and I have had several discussions about the benefit of us taking care at least of the maintenance of the fields And so the facilities for exchange of the use of the fields and the facilities for programs and for some dollars in exchange. They are open to that discussion. I think that they had some big items in front of them, like what was going to happen with Bayside School, so we've deferred that discussion. And now we'll resume it. |
| 03:51:07.37 | Ray Withy | All right, thank you. Any public comment? All right, next item, other reports of significance. |
| 03:51:14.32 | Linda Pfeiffer | I actually have a couple of comments. So, council member of the Butte Task Force, you guys have the minutes here. If you have any questions, you can email me. And also, I wanted to announce that it's National Safe Boating Week. And we have the Coast Guard Auxiliary has a nationwide campaign. It's called Wear It, the Wear It campaign for life jackets. And we're doing outreach to, you know, citizens and children, I mean children and adults to wear life jackets. Last weekend we delivered a free, safe boating course in Sausalito. And we will be presenting to a school with a talk on life jackets this weekend. And on the, we have a free life jacket trade-in at Strawberry Center. We're going to be joined by Radio Disney. We're going to have lots of tents and, you know, lots of fun activities going on. And so the whole issue is just outreach regarding boating safety. And I think it's very timely with the America's Cup and all of the activity and focus on boating and the fact that the Memorial Day weekend is coming up. So it's a way of kicking off that message. |
| 03:51:21.96 | Unknown | Nice. Email. |
| 03:52:40.23 | Ray Withy | So if cars are going down the street without their life jacket on, Give him a ticket. All right. Any public comment? All right. With that, I move to adjourn. Second. Okay. See you on June 4th. |
Scott Diamond — Neutral: Raised issues about Turning Street dock parking enforcement, referencing outdated 1982 resolution, and requested council time to consider an amendment to clarify use for offshore community and commercial access. ▶ 📄
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