| Time | Speaker | Text |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00:01.47 | Councilmember Weiner | Where's Anna? |
| 00:00:02.07 | Susan Rowe | Thank you. |
| 00:00:04.79 | Councilmember Weiner | We have a great day. |
| 00:00:13.19 | Herb Weiner | Good evening. And welcome to the Regular City Council meeting, Sausalito City Council meeting of February 25, 2014. Debbie, could you call the roll, please? |
| 00:00:37.53 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Councilmember Weiner. |
| 00:00:39.25 | Councilmember Weiner | Residence. |
| 00:00:40.13 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Councilmember Leon. |
| 00:00:43.31 | Councilmember Weiner | Here. |
| 00:00:44.63 | Councilmember Leon | Thank you. |
| 00:00:46.28 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Vice Mayor Theodores. |
| 00:00:48.12 | Councilmember Leon | Present. |
| 00:00:48.19 | Debbie (City Clerk) | as well. Mayor Withy. |
| 00:00:49.83 | Councilmember Leon | here |
| 00:00:52.77 | Debbie (City Clerk) | So. |
| 00:00:53.03 | Herb Weiner | Let's see who's that. Susan Rowe, would you like to leave us in the place? |
| 00:00:57.35 | Susan Rowe | Thank you. |
| 00:00:57.49 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. |
| 00:01:01.56 | Councilmember Weiner | to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. |
| 00:01:01.59 | Herb Weiner | Thank you. |
| 00:01:02.15 | Susan Rowe | you |
| 00:01:02.20 | Herb Weiner | Thank you. |
| 00:01:02.22 | Susan Rowe | Thank you. |
| 00:01:02.30 | Herb Weiner | Thank you. |
| 00:01:02.98 | Susan Rowe | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:01:03.97 | Herb Weiner | Thank you. |
| 00:01:04.04 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:01:04.36 | Herb Weiner | Thank you. |
| 00:01:06.37 | Unknown | Thank you. Amen. |
| 00:01:17.88 | Councilmember Weiner | Thank you. |
| 00:01:18.28 | Herb Weiner | Thank you, Susan. There was no closed session this evening. So moving on to item E, the approval of the agenda. Do I have a motion? So moved. Second. All in favor? So our next item, number 1A, is an introduction of a new employee, a recently hired assistant civil engineer. And so over to our director of public works. |
| 00:01:57.26 | Jonathon Goldman | Thank you, Mr. Mayor, Mr. Vice Mayor, members of the Council and staff. I take great pride this evening in introducing our most recent hire and assistant engineer and assistant civil engineer. I have a very poor Chinese, so I won't introduce him in Chinese. But Alex Chan is a recent graduate from University of California at Davis. He was born in Hong Kong and has been in this country for some time. I just want a couple of excerpts from his application letter and his resume that I think are important to all of us and members of the community and areas where I think he will distinguish himself and contribute to our office's operations and to the city. He has a strong interest in city planning and city management, which he credits to taking a course in transportation, land use, and sustainability design at UC Davis. He was also employed as a research assistant for environmental engineering department and was involved in wastewater treatment projects there. His bachelor's is in civil engineering with a technology management minor, which is also very relevant to what we do. Eight quarters on the Dean's List at UC Davis, a member of two national honor societies, Cayef Salon and Tau Beta Pi, is fluent in both Mandarin and Cantonese and fluent in a number of the software programs that we use in this office and I expect we'll use very successfully in our asset management program and a number of other things going forward. So with that, I would like to introduce Alex Chan and thank him very much for joining us and giving him an opportunity to say hello to all of you. |
| 00:02:16.19 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 00:03:59.64 | Alex Chan | Hello, everybody. My name is Alex. I'm the new assistant civil engineer. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Jonathan and Andy and the city of Sausalito for giving me this opportunity to work for the city. I'm very excited. This is my first full-time engineering position, and there's a lot for me to learn. I'm very glad to be here, and I look forward to getting to know the community and serving it. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:04:24.82 | Councilmember Weiner | . |
| 00:04:25.02 | Alex Chan | Thank you. |
| 00:04:29.44 | Unknown | We always have to shake your hands. Welcome. Welcome. Thank you. Glad to have you here. |
| 00:04:34.98 | Councilmember Weiner | Well, I'll see you downtown. |
| 00:04:36.53 | Susan Rowe | . |
| 00:04:39.02 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:04:40.56 | Susan Rowe | Thank you. |
| 00:04:40.70 | Unknown | Right. |
| 00:04:40.71 | Susan Rowe | Thank you. |
| 00:04:40.78 | Unknown | . to. |
| 00:04:42.69 | Councilmember Weiner | . |
| 00:04:43.46 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:04:50.79 | Herb Weiner | welcome and it's really great to see that we can hire young people of such great talent. So, I... Before we move on to the next item, I just wanted to say that unfortunately, Council Member Pfeiffer is ill this evening, so we wish her a speedy recovery. So our next is a presentation from our sister city organizations and I believe, Susan, is it over to you? |
| 00:05:31.03 | Susan Rouse | Thank you, Mayor Ray. and council members and city staff and people that came tonight to this meeting My name is Susan Rouse. And I'm the president of Sausalito's Sister City Program. And for those of you that don't know, we have three. Vini del Martín, eh? Sikai de Japan. in Qashqai, Portugal. I'm going to give you a brief summary of some of our accomplishments in 2003 and then turn it over to three of the operation council chairs to speak about what happened and what's going to happen in 2014, so buckle up. because there is a lot on our plate. In 2013, in January, we had a hoedown on behalf of Kashkai at the Portuguese hall. Hugely successful country and western event. made a lot of money. The same month, we had an event at the Pines, at the mansion for Vina del Marchene, made a lot of money to fund the program for 777. seven women. Seven Days, Seven Dreams. We designed it. We sculpted it and rechopped it And that was our dream. in March. A delegation went to Viña del Mar and traveled to meet the seven women who were coming here. Mayor Herb Weiner. accompanied us. It was a fabulous delegation. It happened to be Women's Day. in Chile when we were there. depict the women that were coming here for the program. You'll hear more about that from Cheryl Popp in a few minutes. April, a delegation went from Sausalito to Qashqai, Portugal. Mayor Herb Weiner led the delegation, accompanied by many people in this audience in May. Sakaiti held a fundraiser in June. Sakaiti and Vignette El Mar had a jazz and food booth, made a lot of money and a lot of fun, In July, we marched in the Fourth of July parade. In July, a delegation went for the 25th anniversary of Sakai Day, Councilwoman Linda Pfeiffer, who's not here tonight, accompanied us. Former Mayor Mike Kelly, who's also our treasurer. for Sausalito Sister City. And his wife, Monica, went with us. Herb Weiner went with us, and a wonderful delegation, and we celebrated. In August, we geared up for what we were going to do for the following year, and we had a board retreat. We revised our bylaws. We ran an analytics of our vendors that we tap all of the time in town to help us, and how can we acknowledge them. We talked about fundraising efforts because we rely on you and organizations in town to help fund us. In September, we had an artist come here for the Saucyedro Arts Festival in Sacaiti had a food booth. In September, we did a follow-up retreat. Budgets were due. Marketing plans were due. |
| 00:08:38.70 | Unknown | Bye. you |
| 00:08:38.92 | Cheryl Popp | Thank you. |
| 00:08:39.02 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:08:41.45 | Susan Rouse | We took a little bit of a rest in October, and we went to visit the consulate generals. We went to Sakaidi's new consulate general. and we visited with Herbie at the helm every place we possibly could to enhance our program. I'm going to let everyone here speak on behalf of their organization, starting with Dina, who's going to speak about cicada. I want to let you all know that when we go on these delegate visits, we pay our own way 100%. And Monica and Mike Kelly would like me to put into the Council's noodles that we would like you to consider October of every year, being Sausalito Sister City Month. in Sausalito, and we will get the appropriate banners. We are the only place that has three sister cities that are hugely successful. I'm going to turn it over now to Gina on behalf of Sikai Day. Thank you for all of your support. We couldn't do it without you. |
| 00:09:37.61 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:09:42.56 | Gina | Okay. |
| 00:09:46.25 | Gina | Okay, so this is always my problem. I have to just bring it down, is that okay? |
| 00:09:51.89 | Unknown | . |
| 00:09:52.19 | Gina | We can see you. You can see me. I can barely see you. Okay, so Sakaide, our program constitutes a student exchange. in which student delegation from sisters from Sakaide and from Sausalito, traveled to each other's cities. and there they live with host families and experience the local lifestyles and the local neighborhoods in which their families reside. During the day, they participate in a very rigorous, dense program. Both here and in Sakaire, the students are kept on their toes constantly. It's a very intense immersion experience. The Japanese kids come here. and they look like Japanese kids. when they leave, They are hugging and laughing and smiling. just like American kids. And when our kids go there, They become Japanese kids and they bow and they are very polite, just like the Japanese kids. but I want to share with you some of my thoughts and observations about this program. and give you some updates because there have been some changes. Firstly, I want to say that it's actually quite remarkable that this program has operated actively for 25 years. It's incredible. We have sent about 340 students from Sorcellito to Sakaide. They have sent more to us. and |
| 00:11:50.96 | Gina | Although, the city officials and the program leads have come and gone. and people have changed their positions. What's been incredible is that the two cities have a very deep bond. And as we go there and the same people on their side are still working on their sister city, and as they come here and the same people on our side are working on our sister city, relationships develop. And communication becomes very easy, and it feels natural. It feels like the two communities are one big happy family. |
| 00:12:36.35 | Gina | The program does have a life-changing impact on the students. I'm sure you've heard that many times. But let me give you some examples. Five of the students who went to Sakaida in July have enrolled at the College of Marin and are now studying very seriously the Japanese language. One of our students took her last semester of high school and went back to Japan for six months to learn Japanese and to specialize in manga and anime. Her father then joined her And they went to Sakaide together and felt like they were treated like royalty. This past delegation created a book which it sent to Sakai Day for Christmas to say thank you very much to the host families and to the city. And the students, they write to their host families, they exchange gifts, and they reflect very deeply on their experience. Some are thinking of going into international relations and becoming members of the US diplomatic corps. The Saucydes students get to know Saucolito really well. They visit. all over. the sites of Sausalito, the walks in Sausalito, the local restaurants, the neighborhoods of Sausalito, and they leave with a love and yearning and a passion. to come back. And some of them have actually done so. They've come back. They've stayed with their families, reconnected. Our program has gone through some changes over the last two years. We've added a leadership component that the alumni can participate in. The leadership component involves day captain associates, Thank you. an associate chaperone position when we go there. and program assistance and Council, not council members, yeah, operation council members who are students. So we are instituting an orientation and a preparation. for our leadership program this year. to prepare them for the associate day captain positions. and Many of our alumni are working very hard to stay in touch with us even when they go to college and university. and part of the leadership that we are instituting is to help them to do community service. And it's a community service that is required for when they go to college and university. We'd rather they did it with us than went and did community service with other organizations. We've also added a presentation component. I don't know if some of you were there. When the students came back this year, they did a whole presentation for the community. on there. experiences. And it was very, very good. It was a way for them to process what they've just been through and to find a way of articulating it for others to get a taste of the experience. We have a delegation of 14 students coming from Sakaide in July. and two chaperones. Every year we are going to institute a theme. to the delegation visit. Last time they were here, The theme was art, environmental balance, and culture. This year, our theme is going to be the peoples of Sausalito and the Bay Area. The students will visit many museums around the Bay Area. and they will visit the houseboat communities, Marin City and other places around Sausalito. They'll meet the diversity of the Bay Area because in Japan everything is pretty homogeneous and this is a way for them to learn about other peoples in the world. We have two major fundraisers planned. One is the 29th of March at Stage Door. It's called Swing Low and Speak Easy. It's a big prohibition party. The second is the Full Moon Blossom Festival, which will take place on May 10th. and that is the more formal event where we will have the consulate and his staff represented and it'll be very... upscale. Thank you very much for taking the time to listen to this presentation. |
| 00:17:59.93 | Cheryl Popp | Good evening or Buenas Noches, I should say. I am Cheryl Popp and it looks as if I will be at the helm of the Vina del Mar Operations Council. I'm also leading the delegation to Vina del Mar which leaves next week on March 5th. Last year, overall our strategy is to do entrepreneurial economic exchange as well as artistic exchange. And Susan outlined a little bit what we did last year. We had a delegation of Chilean businesswoman from Valparaiso and Vina del Mar here. They home stayed with us, they met with Isabella Allende, We did training leadership workshops with them. They met with other entrepreneurial women in business, the Cowgo Creamery founders, some of the women leading, heading up wineries in the Napa Valley, as well as a lot of our local people. Monica Finnegan put together a remarkable workshop for one entire afternoon, and we had very successful entrepreneurial business women who were sharing their ideas and concepts with these women. So they were all very, very inspired. They will be coming back again this year in June, and we will be staging a similar program As Susan mentioned, we also trying to cultivate an artistic exchange. We have had Vina Del Mar artists at the Saus Lido Art Festival, as well as in galleries here. And one of our one of our projects on this upcoming trip is to investigate and sort of do some reconnaissance for how we can get some of our Sausalito artists in galleries in Vina del Mar and do an exchange with them on that front as well. So going forward, we just want to continue to be even more strategic on how this can additional economic development for this city as well as cultural exchange. It's the longest running Sister City program, I believe, in Marin County. It hasn't always been in full operation like Sakaita, but it is 54 years old. and in the last three or four years has really been revived and is really quite robust. And we very much appreciate the community's support for it. We had a big fundraiser just this last Friday. Your vice mayor, Tom Theodorus, distinguished himself on the red carpet and the strutted his stuff on the fashion show catwalk. So appreciated his support. We had some other local celebrities like your chief of police, Jennifer Tejada, Yoshi Tome, Larry Mendel from Pojo was James Bond. And it was a smashing success. I think we netted over $10,000 to support the program. So it is, as Susan said, totally volunteer, and we depend on the support of the community. Ray Withey will be joining us in our delegation in Vena del Mar next week. We also had Rolando Ortega, the Consul General from San Francisco in our fashion show last week, and he set up meetings with us in Santiago with the U.S. Embassy, various diplomats there, even though We are coinciding with their presidential inauguration, which is on March 11th, and as well as with International Women's Day. And not so coincidentally, their new president is a woman. So we're hoping to get involved in that as well. But that's just a snapshot of what we're doing, and thank you again for your support. Muchas gracias. |
| 00:21:26.73 | Susan Rouse | We're all a band of volunteer gypsies working really hard for the cause. And because all three are vastly different, but they're all exchanged, people to people, country to country, culture to culture, it's a really amazing program if you understand it. And I want every single council member... Jonathan, Theo, you must go and experience this because there's nothing quite like it unless you really immerse yourself in it. And I'd love to, you know, you're all invited every year when we do our exchange. And our last sister city, our newest one, which is really exciting, and I hope Jim Meyer will say a few words, he has time set aside for the Council to talk about his projects and Qashqai projects at the end of March, I believe early June. But right now I'd like to introduce him because he's our lead on Qashqai Portugal, our newest and most exciting sister city. |
| 00:22:36.58 | Jim Meyer | Mr. Mayor, Vice Mayor, Councilman, and you, Herb. I'm actually representing Jose Raposo, who is the Councile of the Cascade Sisters City Program. He's not here tonight, so I'm going to say a few words. As Susan said, Qashqai is the newest sister city with the twinning agreement signed last May, so we're not even a year old. We spent the first year really getting to know of course, and getting to know Qashqai. There was a trip to Qashqai with Herb, myself, Jose, and Vasco Moraz who started the program. And we're going to get back again this May. We liked it so much in May, so we're going back again. But this time we're going to do some work. We spent a lot of time this year with the Portuguese community here in Sausalito. As many of you know, most of you should know, that the Portuguese have an important part of the history of Sausalito. At one time, 30 to 35 percent of the people in Sausalito were Portuguese. Many of the leaders of Sausalito were Portuguese. And we are cultivating that and understanding that and got a lot of projects underway to bring awareness to the people of Sausalito, that historical background and significance of the Portuguese community and the role it played in the development of Sausalito. We also spent a lot of time with the Council of Portugal, Nuno Mathias, who has been just wonderful as The council from Chile has been, I think I spent more time in Nuno's house than I have. It's amazing how many events he's had. From going to here, Marisa, who is the number one Fado singer in the world, we had a party the council before we went down there for fundraising. We had Ruben Bentancourt, who's a famous Portuguese classical guitarist playing at his house. So there's some really wonderful cultural things, but And Thursday, we are fortunate enough to have the vice mayor of Qashqai in town. Those of you may not be aware, but there is a major, and I want to underline, major conference being held at Half Moon Bay this week. put together by the National Geographic magazine and The Economist. It's called the World Ocean Summit. And one of the key speakers there is the president of Portugal, who's in town. And the vice mayor of Qashqai is there at that conference, and he will be joining us all day Thursday. And there will be a presentation to the council members Thursday morning, which I hope all of you can join us. And that will be a lot more remarks of what we did and what we're going forward with. So it's been a wonderful first year, and I think the relationship with Qashqai will be wonderful going forward. And all of you should visit Portugal. It's a wonderful place to visit. And they treat people from Sausaludo very nicely. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. |
| 00:25:38.96 | Susan Rowe | Thank you for the parents who are here to say, please get involved in some service system. you |
| 00:25:58.13 | Herb Weiner | Well, Susan and everyone, thank you for that great update and presentation. I'm really looking forward personally to joining the delegation next week to Vina del Mar. I'm always struck obviously in many different ways by the spirit of volunteerism that we have in Sol Solito. It really reaches a certain special level with the Sister City programs because, you know, we don't spend any public money on this. This is all money that's raised by fundraising, and we send our ambassadors out who are the face of Sausalito on three continents, and that is really amazing. Many countries have sister cities as it's institutionalized. You know, the government pays for the programs. The city I was born in in Europe had a sister city. I went as a summer student to our sister city. Now, it was only across the pond in France, but it's institutionalized. Here, you need active fundraising and volunteering to make it work. So, thanks all of you. |
| 00:27:42.25 | Herb Weiner | So thanks again everyone. |
| 00:27:49.07 | Herb Weiner | Now, the item two in our agenda is our regular communications time. And this is the time for the City Council to hear from you, from citizens, regarding matters that are not on the agenda. And as you know, except in very limited situations, state law precludes the council from taking action or engaging in any substantive discussions concerning these matters. So with that, is there any member of the public here tonight who'd like to come up and make a communication about anything that's not on the agenda? |
| 00:28:35.71 | Unknown | Go ahead, Peter. |
| 00:28:36.23 | Herb Weiner | Peter. |
| 00:28:40.40 | Herb Weiner | Crystal. |
| 00:28:41.63 | Crystal Gift | Bye. Crystal Gift, I'm here to talk to you about some of the things that we deal with during storms in the Anchorage. One, we deal with people that stow their boats in the Anchorage and they're not living on them. And these boats break loose during storms and put the entire community at risk. Also, The Coast Guard does a great job in rescuing boats out there, but there are certain things that they could do to improve their rescuing skills. When they're rescuing boats, they untie the ground tackle and they just throw the rope. which, Some of the people in the community cannot afford to replace that ground tackle. And I'm sure if they tied a buoy to it and left it that the community person would probably give it back to them. But also this also goes into the bottom of the water. And when cruisers come in, they drop their hooks and that can foul their gear. Also, you know, they don't have shallow draft boats, and that's one of the reasons why boats hit Belvedere is because it's too shallow for them. And that's where the Rapid Boat Response Team comes in. We kind of help them with the boats they cannot get. also The people need showers. desperately need showers. Showers provide jobs and opportunities for people that would normally get these opportunities. Also, I wanted to personally thank the City Council For looking at us as human beings because a lot of us either whether they're natives from this town, Sausalito, or a lot of us are refugees from other ports where Quite frankly, we were subjected to a lot of hate due to our culture. And we want to thank you for treating us as humans. And we love you very much and many blessings to all your family. Thank you. |
| 00:30:39.96 | Herb Weiner | Thank you, Crystal. |
| 00:30:47.29 | Herb Weiner | Peter. |
| 00:30:49.26 | Peter Romanowski | Peter Romanowski, the second oldest anchor out on which is somebody um, And um. and chaplain of the Anchorage. Anyways, my ancestor was here in 1890 as a chaplain and worked with waterfront people here and set up a mission in San Francisco, a finished seamless mission, which became the Finnish Lutheran Church next to Safeway in Castro. I think it was the first church to go gay to, but I think my great-grandfather would roll over in his grave, but that's another story. Anyways, I'm going to try to rattle through a list of demands. I'm going to request, okay. Okay, okay. First of all, the state of Saucedo is out of compliance with Berry v. New York. They need to have an application permit process for street vendors. Okay, number one, Berry v. New York. I would like to be named the honorary mayor of Saucedo, but some is just, you know, okay, just, I'm just, I want my dog to be the official mascot, right? |
| 00:31:40.68 | Unknown | Mm-mm-mm-mm. |
| 00:31:53.25 | Peter Romanowski | I would like the keys. to the shower at the senior citizens. when I was 65 on June 26th. |
| 00:32:01.99 | Unknown | Who? |
| 00:32:02.08 | Peter Romanowski | in lieu of having a shower on the waterfront, we can twist the arm of Schoonamaker Point I'm sure in the original agreement they had a shower on the water, a cold water shower to rinse off. We can twist the arm of Schoonermaker to build a shower. Cold shower, it doesn't matter. It could be solar powered. It doesn't matter. It's just cold shower. I haven't showered for three or four years. I almost forgot what it is. I don't even want to start until we get a shower. I'm not sure. Queen Isabella of Spain never showered in her life. Once, she showered on her wedding day. On her wedding day. Queen Isabel is famous. Jesus' brother never showered. half-brother, first bishop of Jerusalem, was a non-vigor. It's another story. Okay, blah, blah, blah. Okay, like the keys to the city, named the Fish Honorary Mayor, keys of the jail. I've been arrested. non-violently more than anybody in this town, I think, falsely accused, Last time, one time I got arrested, just for giving the cops the fingers. I mean, when is it against the law to give the cops the finger? And of course they rolled me up and tied me in hand and foot, you know, and gave them the one finger piece signed. Somebody should tell the cops, it's not against the law to give the cops a finger, you know? It's not. It's freedom of speech. Okay, okay, okay. There needs to be a memorial for Otis Redding. Thank you. on the waterfront. I don't care about the thing that you ride it 100 feet away from Saucedo. or in Saucil, there needs to be a memorial. And I'd like my heirs to have the last word when a statue of my dog and I is erected in downtown, which I'm working on already. And there's already a statue of me in San Selma, by the way. God bless you. But look at the statue of George Lucas of Indiana Jones. It's my face on there. It sounds similar. When you see it. Thank you, Peter. |
| 00:34:00.17 | Herb Weiner | Thank you, Peter. Thank you. |
| 00:34:01.10 | Susan Rowe | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:34:04.15 | Herb Weiner | Is there anybody else who would like to make a public comment? |
| 00:34:18.61 | Unknown | Hello, Mayor. Hello, Council. Hello, citizens. I'm here to second Crystal and Peter's request for a shower. Now, this is not just a bathing of the outer person, but also of the inner. it can be considered, let's call it a baptism. So when I went to the church that I attended, Marin City, I saw that their baptism pool was not full, and I asked them the same thing that I'm asking you. which is that the people have a way to make themselves holy, which, of course, is what we all are. We are a nation of priests, that's what the Israelites are, and for priests to be able to serve, we have to sanctify ourselves and purify ourselves. So there are some sources of water, but there are no public sources of water in Sausalito for people to bathe, the inner and the outer person. The second thing I want to talk about is is what I also requested of the church is I went to a meeting up in San Rafael And it was a faith and food group. What we're working on is community gardens. around the churches, around the synagogues, around the mosques. We are in a drought. I hope tomorrow that this drought ends. We're asking for water for purification purposes so the water of righteousness and the water that we need will fall from the skies. Now... We've worked on this garden for a few years. It has not happened here in Sausalito yet. I talked to Herb and he suggested where the old police station was was a good spot. So I did that last year and it didn't exactly work out. We have a good group of people who want to do this. All we are asking is not for money, but for the groups that don't want this for whatever reason to please either change their minds or get out of the way. And I appreciate you for listening and thank you very much. |
| 00:36:39.99 | Herb Weiner | Thank you. |
| 00:36:43.59 | Herb Weiner | Is there any other member of the public who would like to make a communication at this time? Seeing none, we will move on. |
| 00:36:55.09 | Herb Weiner | The next item, three, is the action minutes of the previous meeting. And Debbie, I think you have a correction. |
| 00:37:07.24 | Debbie (City Clerk) | There is one correction that needs to be made, and that is on item 6B, the Butte Street Task Force update. The vote was entered incorrectly on the copy that you received. The vote should be that there were five council members voting in favor of that motion. |
| 00:37:26.16 | Herb Weiner | Thank you, Debbie. With that correction, do I have a motion? |
| 00:37:32.35 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. Nothing. |
| 00:37:36.59 | Herb Weiner | Did you have a question? Thank you. |
| 00:37:39.17 | Councilmember Leon | you |
| 00:37:39.24 | Herb Weiner | Okay. |
| 00:37:39.36 | Councilmember Leon | Thank you. to approve the minutes as correct. I get it. Oh, second. |
| 00:37:40.57 | Herb Weiner | Thank you. |
| 00:37:40.61 | Councilmember Weiner | Thank you. |
| 00:37:40.66 | Herb Weiner | Thank you. |
| 00:37:40.67 | Councilmember Weiner | as THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 00:37:41.69 | Herb Weiner | Oh, second. All in favor? Okay, there are no consent calendar items this evening. |
| 00:37:54.56 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Thank you. Yeah, exactly. |
| 00:37:55.46 | Herb Weiner | Yes. And no public hearings. So it's on to item six, our business items tonight. Um... with five minutes ahead of schedule We'll see how far we can say the same thing at 10 o'clock. |
| 00:38:17.44 | Unknown | in the classroom. I just jinxed yourself. |
| 00:38:21.61 | Herb Weiner | I do withdraw that comment. So the next item is an update from our Sustainability Commission. |
| 00:38:24.48 | Unknown | THE END OF THE END OF THE I don't know. |
| 00:38:36.60 | Jonathon Goldman | Yes, Mr. Mayor, Jonathan Goldman, your Public Works Director. Normally, Andy Davidson would introduce this item, and I just want to confirm that there are folks here from Sustainability to deliver this. Excellent. Yes. But Andy had to leave on short notice, so I just wanted to encourage the Sustainability Commission to come and offer their report. |
| 00:38:45.30 | Unknown | of the |
| 00:38:48.97 | Unknown | you |
| 00:38:49.03 | Herb Weiner | Yes. |
| 00:38:49.74 | Unknown | I'm going to go. |
| 00:39:02.11 | Herb Weiner | Good, thank you Jonathan and hello. |
| 00:39:05.82 | Greg Hannon-Coulomb | Greg Hannon-Coulomb, one of the newest members on the Sustainability Commission. We had a |
| 00:39:18.48 | Herb Weiner | Yeah, just hold on a second, Greg, and let's see if we can find the presentation. |
| 00:39:20.03 | Councilmember Weiner | Thank you. |
| 00:39:20.22 | Greg Hannon-Coulomb | Thank you. |
| 00:39:20.52 | Councilmember Weiner | Thank you. |
| 00:39:26.06 | Councilmember Weiner | We'll just take a minute for a commercial. |
| 00:39:33.01 | Greg Hannon-Coulomb | Thank you. |
| 00:39:33.26 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:39:49.63 | Greg Hannon-Coulomb | While that's queuing up, I'll just get into a little bit of my background real quick and why I joined the Sustainability Commission in the first place. I'm a sustainability consultant right now within San Francisco working on Bay Area projects. I have a power generation background and an MBA in sustainability. The idea was that if I can do this outside, I Sausalito and not do it in my backyard that I'm not really tying the walk to my talk. So I'm really pleased to be able to do this as a volunteer here in Sausalito. So there are two things that we want to get to through this presentation, one being you assess update of the work the Sustainability Commission has done up to now, but also we want to take a vision on how the Sustainability Commission is going to proceed going forward and taking a look at expanding the definition of sustainability. So where we'd like to start is we would like to integrate more with intra-city agencies to look at establishing a 10-year vision for a sustainable Sausalito, looking at a triple bottom line as I know sustainability to be not just environmental stewardship but social outreach and economic ones as well. And how if you can tie the three of them together, you not only create a thriving, beautiful community, but an economically thriving one as well. So the vision that we're trying to promote is to create a Sausalito that's a living laboratory for sustainable innovation, tying these three themes together. And I'll give you a few examples. I think that we're going to have to do some more study to actually figure out where the best and lowest threshold ways of implementing this strategy are. But just take a look at some of the innovations that are not just within the Bay Area but around the world in this space. Something that is close to home is community solar investment such as Solar Mosaic in the East Bay. Looking at community crowd sharing platforms for public community solar. managing the pool of investors over an internet platform, but keeping the entry to the solar installation for the community to be low threshold, low investment. So, and that, I just went to those three bullets right there, but moving on to a second opportunity, space activation. There are buildings within Sausalito that are lying underutilized, and the idea is to solve this blight with positive transformation. The idea is that looking at some of the reports that have come out in Sausalito, such as the 2003 Strategic Asset Planning Report, there's been an assessment that we have been looking at some of the reports that have come out in Sausalito, such as the 2003 Strategic Asset Planning Report, there's been an assessment that we have been looking at some of the reports that have come out in Sausalito, such as the 2003 Strategic Asset Planning Report, there's been an assessment of the types of businesses that provide the greatest economic stimulus, the greatest multiplier of stimulus within the city, that being professional services like engineering, design, architecture, things of that nature. But still you need to make sure that you provide an outlet for social and civic entrepreneurship in those types of spaces as well. And there are some great examples of this in other countries and in other parts of the Bay Area, in the East Bay being really good at doing projects like this The idea is, and I just put that picture up of the machine shop as an example of the types of buildings, and I know the machine shop in and of itself has its own issues within the marineship, but the idea is that you have gradual activation of the physical space. You get investment based on a gradual increase in rents. With those gradual successes, you increase rents for the businesses and civic entrepreneurs that operate there. And within a 10-minute presentation, it would be really hard to get into the real value that's created in a mathematical, tangible way. But I would love to have this conversation in a deeper format down the line. But there are great examples of this where you have areas that have large commercial buildings that have been in blighted areas due to the recession or shrinkage in demographics that brought together artists, engineers, and progressive businesses like urban agriculture all within the same edifice, providing local jobs, artistic outlets, and creating a technical community that also has the ability to create more economic stimulus Another technology set on the waste energy side, this is going to take a little more study on our part on where we can apply this, but San Leandro has a wastewater treatment facility that's also using anaerobic digesters to take solid waste and create energy out of it. This type of technology can also be used in hospitality, tourism industry here, whether that's hotels or restaurants on small scales. I think bringing this education to the community at large, including the business community, these are some of the ways that we think that as a commission we can engage other city commissions and agencies like the Business Advisory Council or other local area committees and steering committees to bring this type of education to their, I guess, constituency would be the best word. |
| 00:46:03.84 | Greg Hannon-Coulomb | So with that, I'd like to actually pass the torch to my co-presenter, Cynthia Numeau, who will finish off the presentation. |
| 00:46:14.91 | Cynthia Numeau | Thank you. Thank you again for having us. So I'm Cynthia Nemo, also a newer member of the Commission, and just want to reiterate that we are here representing the full Commission. Many of whom our members are here and have been working on this for quite a long time. Greg was laying out a future vision that we've been discussing of a broader way to think about sustainability And many of you who are familiar with our current efforts will probably know more about us from what we've been doing to be promoting composting and recycling and reducing waste. So I'm going to talk about that now so you have a sense of what's been happening and where we are and what there is left to do. |
| 00:46:50.80 | Unknown | There is. |
| 00:46:53.58 | Cynthia Numeau | So obviously our town is a beautiful town. We are located on the bay, which is one of our greatest assets. And one outcome, I think, of that proximity is that we have increased and increasing numbers of visitors here, which is wonderful and supports our growing economy. At the same time, it also increases waste that is being produced here. And so some of what we talk about is how to handle that. Why do we talk about that? Several reasons. One is that it is the law to recycle, not for every individual, but there are a couple basics here for certain sizes of businesses that are generating a certain amount of waste, also multifamily communities. So that's a baseline. but we are not satisfied with being at the baseline. We don't want to be behind the curve. We'd like to be in front of it. Many of you know there's a growing trend around the world, but certainly in the U.S., to be reducing, reusing, recycling, composting. An example is the state of Massachusetts, which has made this, has regulated this, and as of January of this year, they are requiring that all large-scale food producers compost. And I'm not talking about restaurants, I mean really large-scale, like prisons, universities, colleges. So this is just an example of some of these governments and statewide ones that are really taking this to heart. Sausalito is also a supporter of the zero waste HIRIN goal. The city of Sausalito has signed on to support this and what that really comes down to is to eliminate waste by 2025. Various strategies are being used, and these are the ones I already mentioned, of composting, recycling, reusing, and reducing waste. So what is the city of Sausalito doing for those efforts? In August 2012, Sausalito launched a composting program, and a lot of that, again, I think was due to the efforts of many of our members here who've been on the commission for quite a long time. A year after that, in August 2013, the city of Sausalito commissioned and supported a study where there were waste engineers who looked at what is going to the landfill in Sausalito. The very basic findings are that 65% of trash that's going to the landfill from Sausalito could be diverted. Of that, 34% are food scraps, and so that could be composted. And the reason that's important and why composting is important is because food scraps going into the landfill produce carbon dioxide and methane gas, which are significant contributors to global warming. |
| 00:49:37.98 | Cynthia Numeau | Here's what we've been doing so far to try to decrease that number or increase the number of individuals and businesses and organizations who are composting and recycling. So we are educating residents. We're working very closely with BCRS, Bay Cities Refuge, to create and provide input on materials that are going out, including in the inserts and the bills that people receive and doing surveys of folks to find out what's working and what's not. We have begun talking to the local schools in Sausalito, the preschools and the K-8 schools that are here, to encourage them and educate them on how to either begin a composting program or increase what they are already doing. We have begun reaching out to restaurant owners very informally to get a sense of which ones are composting and or recycling, which ones aren't. And if they aren't, why not? That is informing our ongoing efforts to figure out what's the next step, what's the next strategy. And, you know, interestingly, it really comes down to education. So some of the reasons that we hear is it doesn't work, especially if you're a restaurant, because the waste isn't picked up frequently enough when in actuality it could be picked up daily. So there is just a need for further education. We support and promote the regularly held e-based events that are here. And we also have helped to purchase triplet containers. Those are the ones where they're the three connected for compost and landfill and recycle. And have supported their placement in really highly trafficked areas. So if any of you are out walking through our parks, you will have seen them. And we sort of informally patrol them and check them out to see how they're being used. And so far, they seem to be going over pretty well, though we did recently just get some stickers made to put on there to even further clarify what should go where, especially, again, given the number of international visitors we have here and people for whom English may be a second language. We are relying heavily on visual cues for that. We also recently received, requested and received grant funding to purchase more of these, as well as additional educational materials. So here's how we would like to be supported by you all. I think first, again, we really appreciate that you asked us to be here and listen to what we're doing and what this future vision is. We'd like to continue the conversation. Here are a few suggestions here of how we feel like you could support us in our conversations and continued outreach to businesses, restaurants, schools. And the final point here is we'd like to talk about how this concept or idea of sustainability can be better integrated into other things that you are working on in other business that's affecting the future of Sausalito. Thank you. |
| 00:52:33.34 | Herb Weiner | Cynthia and Greg, thank you very much. We may have some questions up here. Before we do, could we, Cynthia, would you introduce the other members of the Commission that are here? |
| 00:52:48.30 | Cynthia Numeau | I would be delighted. And would you all stand up? We have. |
| 00:53:01.47 | Cynthia Numeau | And, |
| 00:53:06.37 | Cynthia Numeau | Monica. |
| 00:53:10.52 | Cynthia Numeau | Thank you. |
| 00:53:10.64 | Laura Rapp | soon. |
| 00:53:10.93 | Cynthia Numeau | Thank you. |
| 00:53:12.28 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:53:13.22 | Herb Weiner | Thank you. |
| 00:53:13.24 | Cynthia Numeau | Thanks. |
| 00:53:13.61 | Herb Weiner | Bye. Thank you. |
| 00:53:13.91 | Cynthia Numeau | all of whom have been working on this commission for quite a long time. So when we talk about what's happened, I mean, really, everybody needs to give these people their thanks. |
| 00:53:22.69 | Herb Weiner | Thanks a lot. Any questions from? So is there any member of the public who'd like to comment on the presentation we received from our Sustainability Commission? |
| 00:53:44.18 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:53:46.60 | Herb Weiner | Peter. |
| 00:53:49.38 | Peter Romanowski | Peter Romanowski, thank you for taking the time to be here. I mean, this is a great service you're doing. It's not easy to come to these meetings. There's so much to do, but it's the only way we're going to get anything done and change by complaining. We never speak up. You know, on the machine shop, I mean, my heartfelt feeling is that it should be not used for the hospital, the Veterans Hospital, for instance. All due respect to them, it needs to be part of the marineship plan, you know, the waterfront community. It would be a good place to, the first floor, to have small boat works rented out for boat projects and maritime activity and, you know, storage in the yard, Maybe the second or third floor, depending on how many floors there are, then have artists, like, as you know, my in-laws own the industrial center building and turn it into an art industrial complex. And that's a good model. It's a good model. We could use that as an art and industrial complex and both building and storage. Maybe enough room for some low-income housing, you know, because Osceola is out of compliance to the best of my knowledge. You know, low-income housing, you know. Um... So that's basically it. And as far as recycling and sustainability and all that, I'm with you. I've recycled enough cans and bottles to stretch from here to Los Angeles. Maybe the Mexican border, you know, in the past 30 years, you know, with my bare hands. I've been digging through the dumpsters, every trash can in this town. For 20 years, I hit 70 dumpsters a day, taking everything out that was recyclable. I did that for 20 years. That's another reason to have a statue. 20 years, 20 years I've been doing this and I still do it, I still do it. But I mainly like entertaining, you know, preaching entertainment. My back is too screwed up to do any of that anymore. But yeah, I'm all for the global warming. Sorry, I don't agree with it. Stop global warming. Stop buying Chinese products. They're building power plants at one a month. They are the number one polluters in the entire world. Until we stop China, just forget about its global warming business. God bless you. |
| 00:56:15.08 | Herb Weiner | Thank you, Peter, Vicky. |
| 00:56:21.43 | Vicki Nichols | Vicki Nichols. I just think that was a great report from the Sustainability Committee, and I like their direction of taking a more integrated approach to the three components. I heard a rumor that they may be discussing the... single-use bag issue, and I wondered where we were with that, adopting that resolution now that there's no vulnerability. |
| 00:56:43.87 | Charlie Francis | It's on next. |
| 00:56:45.68 | Susan Rowe | Thank you. Thank you. Good. |
| 00:56:49.51 | Jonathon Goldman | Just briefly, Mr. Mayor, I think Council's next agenda we have now. Okay. |
| 00:56:59.23 | Herb Weiner | Were there any other comments from the public? No. So I'd just like to, again, thank you for coming. I think it's great to begin to think in a more integrated way. I also am continually struck by the fact that if we could continue the efforts of removing stuff from our trash, our waste, there's 65% of stuff to capture there, a large part of which can go into the compost. And so, you know, that's very doable. So really interesting that you're focusing on schools and restaurants where you can get real bang for your buck. |
| 00:57:40.91 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:57:40.99 | Susan Rowe | Thank you. |
| 00:57:41.18 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 00:57:54.05 | Herb Weiner | of my colleagues. |
| 00:57:54.98 | Susan Rowe | Thank you. Add anything? |
| 00:57:56.13 | Herb Weiner | Thank you. |
| 00:57:57.36 | Unknown | Oh, it's great. It's great to see, you know, new people bringing new energy to a group that's already gotten a lot done. And, you know, it's a committee that keeps re...commission that keeps reinventing itself and coming up with great things to contribute. So it's good to...I'm glad all of you are here. Thank you all for coming. And thanks for your efforts. And keep pushing us to do things, as you know. It takes time and the public system isn't the quickest to respond. But with your help, we can move some of these things forward. Thank you. |
| 00:58:29.57 | Herb Weiner | Okay. Well, thank you very much indeed. |
| 00:58:30.28 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:58:36.59 | Herb Weiner | OK, the next item is an analysis and evaluation of the marine ship specific plan. |
| 00:59:00.51 | Cheryl Popp | Thank you. |
| 00:59:01.18 | Lily | Good evening, Mr. Mayor, council members. I'm going to take advantage of sitting here and address you from here tonight if that's okay. I have on this agenda item tonight a brief monthly report from the Marineship Specific Plan Steering Committee. And this report will cover the end of January and this month of February for Steering Committee activities. Your last update was January 28th. On the 27th, and I gave a brief overview of this on the 20th, but just to recap, on the 27th of January, the committee did receive presentations from city staff on specific topic areas, including the historical context of the marineship. There was an economic snapshot and some infrastructure issue conditions presented by staff. The committee also received updates on the interviews that were conducted on January 13th and the 14th. |
| 00:59:49.29 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:00:01.04 | Lily | And the committee made a recommendation to the council to change the composition of the steering committee to allow the council positions on the steering committee to be voting members. |
| 01:00:17.15 | Lily | last night the steering committee held their february meeting their public meeting here and there were two major items on that agenda the first was the presentation of the summary of the interview results and so we had the consultant give that presentation to the steering committee members the um consultant presented that they received feedback from approximately 120 people in the community over those two days, including feedback on the Open City Hall website. and in-person interviews were composed of marine ship land owners and tenants, business owners, residents of Sausalito and city staff. The summary of the findings report is available online. I've provided the link here online. And there's also a video of the meeting online as well. The later part of the steering committee's meeting was composed of a discussion of the remaining scope of work for the marineship project. The consultant, after reviewing So the committee initially directed the consultant to focus on the interview portion of the scope of work and the consultant approximately quadrupled their efforts in that area of the work. And so therefore the consultant presented last night the committee with options on moving forward with the project given the budget constraints. After discussion, the committee voted 7-0 to recommend to the council that the council allow for a mid-year budget adjustment for the project to allow for an additional $20,000 for the project in order to complete the remainder of the work, which would include first additional property owner outreach. The committee felt very strongly that additional property owner outreach be conducted and was necessary. The committee also requested that the consultant conduct and participate in a tour by water of the marine ship. next draft of the consultant's recommendations would go to the committee for review. And then we would conduct a public forum. to vet the consultant's recommendations with the community. and then there would be a revised draft that goes back to the committee two times. After that, it would be presented to the Planning Commission at a special meeting and then presented to the Council at a special meeting. |
| 01:02:56.50 | Lily | The next regular meeting of the committee is set for the 24th of March. It says February on the screen, but it's the 24th of March. And we are looking at options for moving that date a few days ahead of time or after that date. And that date is to be set pretty soon. And I will notify everyone on the mailing list if the date does change from the regular meeting date. And this was just for information. No action is required of the council. But I'm available for any questions, and Charlie is as well. |
| 01:03:34.86 | Herb Weiner | Okay, any questions of staff at this point? |
| 01:03:40.84 | Councilmember Leon | Thank you. |
| 01:03:43.13 | Unknown | So, Lily, as far as property owner outreach goes, what has prevented property owners? I mean, why do we need to make it spend money to touch base with people who it's their vested interest to be actively involved in this discussion? |
| 01:03:59.35 | Lily | So as we did inform the council a number of times, we have tried pretty hard to get outreach out to the property owners of the partnership, including a postcard notice and a flyer notice of the interviews and engagement in this process. The committee, I think, felt like there hadn't been to date enough property owner engagement in the process, and it was important to the committee to take that extra step to try to engage property owners further. |
| 01:04:31.97 | Unknown | So how would that be accomplished? |
| 01:04:34.61 | Lily | And we haven't had a strategy meeting yet with the consultant, as this was just discussed last night. But I think the consultant was going to be sending out a letter that would come from them and not from the city, letting the property owners know of the importance in participating in the process right now. |
| 01:04:56.00 | Unknown | And the report, can you get back to your timeline for a second? the report that gets generated and goes to Thank you. |
| 01:05:07.15 | Unknown | Hmm. |
| 01:05:07.42 | Unknown | the Planning Commission in June, what exactly Thank you. is the vision of what that report will be. Is it a zoning change? What is it going to be? |
| 01:05:17.43 | Lily | It... a series of recommendations on options. |
| 01:05:20.47 | Unknown | to for zoning changes? Is that what it is? |
| 01:05:23.32 | Lily | At this point, we don't know what those recommendations are going to be. |
| 01:05:27.06 | Unknown | Okay, so why do they have to go to the Planning Commission if it's not zoning changes is my... |
| 01:05:31.86 | Lily | There could potentially be recommendations for zoning changes. At this point, we haven't seen the report. The consultant hasn't delivered it. |
| 01:05:31.87 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:05:42.13 | Unknown | So based off the interviews, the consultant will come up with suggestions for |
| 01:05:44.04 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:05:48.95 | Unknown | whether it's zoning changes or something else, based off the interviews with the people who have participated in this. |
| 01:05:56.95 | Lily | and their own observations given their experience and backgrounds. |
| 01:06:03.97 | Unknown | So then... So is it sort of going to be an action-based report? in terms of like, the steps we would anticipate. Following. |
| 01:06:16.93 | Lily | There could be a recommendation from the Planning Commission, for some changes to the report, but the Planning Commission wouldn't be asked to be making zoning changes, it would be essentially for information, the ultimate would be delivered to the council for your consideration. |
| 01:06:34.70 | Unknown | That's more informational in nature to the Planning Commission. |
| 01:06:37.60 | Lily | Thank you. And of course the Planning Commission could make a recommendation and that recommendation would be forwarded to the council upon your review. |
| 01:06:45.38 | Unknown | right? |
| 01:06:45.45 | Lily | It's getting the Planning Commission's feedback on the report before delivering it to the council. |
| 01:06:45.46 | Unknown | So... |
| 01:06:46.04 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:06:51.99 | Unknown | What purpose? It seems to be sort of cart before the horse. It's sort of like where does and this is for you two guys, it's sort of the Planning Commission is not a legislative body. It is not a place to vet public policy. That's this body here. Once we decide what public policy we want to change as a group, then it goes before them to review. It's not for them to draft and send to us. That to me is sort of the reverse. And that's part of the problem we've had Thank you. with the flow of this current planning commission is that it's taken on a life of its own as a legislative body and that it's not appropriate in my mind and it hasn't been the practice since in many, many years. So I don't know if that's the right forum for this, frankly, until we have specific recommendations of what we want them to do. And because they're a review body, not a policymaking body. |
| 01:08:00.71 | Councilmember Leon | Thank you. Well, one of my comments will be to that. I think one of the things that we need to know, tentative schedule right now. And I think one of the things that we have to include but we had this as the scope of work for the consultants, but we do have to include these periodic reports to this council so that we can have input such as we just heard. And I think when we get to the draft report to the committee and when we start looking at what some of the options may be and proposals may be, it's going to dictate whether we're going to maybe go to Planning Commission or not. And I think that this can be changed, but I think that's highlights some of the importance to make sure that we have these periodic updates on on the schedule so that we can have input and some of this could get changed as it goes along. So we'll know. Um, We'll probably have some, I would imagine. several before we get to anything that goes to the Planning Commission and we can make a decision at that time. Thank you. And the other thing was, was a question I think I understand. We, we, the Task Force has asked for, and the consultants have suggested they need an additional $20,000, and I take it that's coming in the Mid-year budget review, we're going to cover that at that point. Okay, thanks. |
| 01:09:17.00 | Herb Weiner | Any other questions of staff? So let's open this to comments from the public. And Peter, good evening. |
| 01:09:30.92 | Peter Van Meter | Dr. Van Meter, Cloud View Circle. Not clear if this is just an outline of schedule or if it's intended to be an update of work product of actually what they're going to do. If it's intended to include tasks they're performing. I don't see anything here about review of all of the documentation, prior reports, all that information that's available to go into making recommendations. on any revisions to specific land. Um, Perhaps that's just a clarification, more of a question than a comment, because, of course, they need to do all that stuff as well. Thank you. |
| 01:10:07.95 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:10:10.31 | Herb Weiner | Do you want to, Doug, before you begin, Lily, do you just want to clarify that? And perhaps also we do have... two of our consultants. |
| 01:10:31.12 | Crystal Gift | Thank you. |
| 01:10:31.17 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:10:31.25 | Crystal Gift | Thank you. |
| 01:10:31.47 | Herb Weiner | Wrong subject. That's the next subject, sorry. |
| 01:10:33.70 | Unknown | you Sorry. It's something. |
| 01:10:37.97 | Greg Hannon-Coulomb | Thank you. |
| 01:10:38.37 | Unknown | Well, we'll put... |
| 01:10:38.54 | Herb Weiner | Well, we'll put it. |
| 01:10:39.79 | Councilmember Weiner | Thank you. Right. Exactly. What are you doing the next five minutes? |
| 01:10:40.92 | Herb Weiner | What are you... What are you doing? Yeah. We were gonna spark it on you later. Lily, would you like to... |
| 01:10:51.64 | Lily | I'd be happy to provide a clarification. This is just an outline of the schedule. Our scope of work does include all of those items that Peter mentioned and would continue to do. |
| 01:11:03.33 | Herb Weiner | Thank you. |
| 01:11:03.36 | Douglas Storm | right. |
| 01:11:04.28 | Herb Weiner | touch. |
| 01:11:04.55 | Douglas Storm | Thank you. |
| 01:11:07.80 | Douglas Storm | Yes, Douglas Storm, 700 Wallow Point, Sausalito, California. My concern, and it just hit me when I was in the audience, I feel as though I'm on a train. We're all on a train. And when I see the schedule, it is, this train's leaving and it's going and there's no stopping it. And Peter kind of hinted on it. Where's the work product, your additional money, Why wasn't public workshops conducted way back at the beginning of the train. Why not get the input from the public, from the owners, So what's going to happen is that all this is going to be condensed because we're on a schedule. Uh, The consultants aren't going to... And I was at the meeting last night in this very room. and there was a request by the advisory board, well, can you do this? Can you do this? And he's hesitating because they're being asked to do something that the citizens of Sausalito should have done. And so they're going to be made a scapegoat. And the train's going to come into the station. And what we're going to end up with is committees that everybody, many people in this room, have been involved with, WAM and all these other things. They just spin and spin, and you come to these meetings, and you spend time, and you feel good, and you hear yes, yes, yes, and then nothing gets done. And so nothing will come about what I have personally experienced. There's been some good. I'm not saying that it's been all bad. But there needs to be the public input, the workshop, the money. Take that $20,000, get workshops that actually work, and get the energized, give the resources to the citizens, to the men and women of Sausalito, so that they can work together with the property owners to come up with a plan. Thank you. |
| 01:13:35.65 | Herb Weiner | Thank you. |
| 01:13:35.66 | Peter Romanowski | any eight. I don't know. Thank you. Oh, Peter Romanowski. Actually, I live in Belvedere. That's the GPS coordinates of where I live. But I tie up here. They won't let us tie up in Belvedere. It's like a forbidden island. They check everybody's license plate. But anyways, I was at one of the meetings, and it was great. It was great. The consultant was from... East Bay somewhere. Would have been nice if we had a consultant hired locally. That would have been great. And the meeting, other than that, went well. It went well. And we got to talk about the waterfront and preserving it. |
| 01:14:19.93 | Peter Romanowski | And does Galilee Harbor fit in the Marineship plan, or is that outside of the Marineship plan? |
| 01:14:26.73 | Unknown | It's outside here. |
| 01:14:28.51 | Peter Romanowski | It's outside. Shem, shame, because I'd like to see a statue of Cass Gidley instead of those sails out there. Those sails are obnoxious in that little park across in Galloway Harbor. It doesn't define saw-steel working waterfront at all, sailboats, yachts. It doesn't define it at all. This is a historical waterfront working community, and it needs to be preserved at all costs. But all I can say is I'm not worried about a thing. Because deception always collapses on itself. A lie will eventually collapse, just like Galley Harbors can eventually collapse. |
| 01:14:58.40 | Unknown | Oh, my. |
| 01:15:02.97 | Peter Romanowski | you know, under their lie. Don't worry. All lies will collapse under its own power. And one other thought. The last thing we need on the waterfront is office buildings. Everybody wants to throw up an office building and have a bay view. That's the devil. That, and it's already happening above the wine bar. office buildings with a baby. We don't need any office buildings with the Bay of U. Amen. |
| 01:15:31.32 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:15:31.73 | Peter Romanowski | you |
| 01:15:31.90 | Unknown | No, all this movie. |
| 01:15:34.06 | Peter Romanowski | Thank you. |
| 01:15:34.41 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:15:34.44 | Peter Romanowski | Thank you. |
| 01:15:34.46 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:15:34.55 | Peter Romanowski | Thank you. |
| 01:15:34.56 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:15:34.63 | Peter Romanowski | Thank you. |
| 01:15:34.72 | Unknown | you |
| 01:15:36.34 | Herb Weiner | Thank you. Adam. |
| 01:15:41.62 | Unknown | Good evening, Adam Krivac, 840 Lima Street. I'd like to clarify something and respond to Councilman Leone's question as to the property owners. The steering committee yesterday asked the consultants, okay, we have the council now has an overview of the community's opinion or at least the people I think that's a good question. their opinions about what they envision there, what they don't like, etc., etc., so in essence, There is a strong public input that the council can start with. And the question was raised, Do the... property owners relate to this. And couldn't the property owners be helpful in looking at the financial feasibility of some of these ideas that the public offer. Because the public offers no understanding of the economics of any investment. And investment is critical to the infrastructure, to building public and private infrastructure. So the next step will be to interview property owners. The property owners will probably broaden the understanding of the consultants about the reasons why things happened or didn't happen in the past. And now the steering committee asked the consultants to come forward with their interpretation of what might be options for changes or might be opportunities for changes to serve the community better. So I think we are moving in the right direction. And I am impressed that the consultants can do this for $20,000. So I wish them good luck. Thank you. |
| 01:17:54.64 | Herb Weiner | Thank you. Anybody else from the public like to comment? Okay, seeing none, let's bring it back up here. |
| 01:18:10.22 | Unknown | So I'll just state my concerns. And this is just because I'm not involved in this process. So I view my role here as kind of a check and balance. And not that you're up to nefarious things. Well, I know Tom is because that's just him. But sorry, Tom, I'm just kidding. |
| 01:18:23.35 | Unknown | That's just. |
| 01:18:23.97 | Unknown | Him. Thank you. |
| 01:18:33.81 | Unknown | I'll take Doug's analogy of the train, and this is a train to a certain extent, and it's been fearful. A lot of people have been fearful of it ever leaving the station, let alone getting anywhere. And you can count me as one of those because this is, forget the next item on our agenda, the housing element, which is important. has more of a chance to change what Sausalito looks like and what it's like to live here than item on our agenda, the housing element, which is important. This has more of a chance to change what Sausalito looks like and what it's like to live here than incorporating sprinkling affordable housing throughout Sausalito. That being said, It's good to get things done. I think you're to be commended for doing that. But I do think we have to be cognizant of balancing that with, you know, making sure there's enough outreach to, if the proprietors don't want to participate, man, you know, that's just, that's flag number one, that there's something wrong with the system kind of thing. But that being said, because they're going to do what they want to do regardless of what input they're going to give you in their interviews. That's been my experience with the prop donors in the Marin chip. I'm a little fearful of where this is going, but my I'm open to suggestion, but I would again, emphasize the problem with big projects like this is that you try to accomplish everything at once. And that is such a big sort of nut to swallow. is that my personal point of view about the marinship is let's find things that are easily accomplished or are not trying to solve all the problems at once by there's probably a better way to kind of take it in bites over time rather than try to sort of make this the penultimate decision for what happens in the marineship. Because I think that to borrow, I'll use Linda's, that has to, you have to boil that down to resolution that can go to the voters if you're going to change things drastically in the friendship. And if you can't boil it down to a paragraph that people can understand, then don't bother doing it in the first place. But if there are small things that can be done, to to, you know, provide, encourage investment, to, you know, to revitalize certain aspects of it without losing the character and what the overall purpose of what the apprenticeship is and what the apprenticeship plan has been trying to achieve. then that's great. But I'm a little, my word of caution is just me thinking out to myself is let's not try to bake the whole pie and eat it all at once because we're going to choke on it. |
| 01:21:25.26 | Councilmember Leon | The only comment I have is, Lily, thank you for the report, and you can These are all publicly noticed meetings, these marineship meetings, and you can watch our nefarious activities online. As a matter of fact, Last night we had someone watching the streaming and she heard a comment and she wanted to comment on that comment. It rode down the hill in five minutes and was at our meeting and was up there speaking. So we do encourage everyone to participate. Their notice, you can get literally your email and be on the email list. And you can follow all the meetings both as they happen and they're all archived as well to just see what we're doing there, thanks. |
| 01:22:07.60 | Councilmember Weiner | Well, just shortly, I will comment that to do nothing there is the worst thing we can do. And I really don't consider blight preservation. And there are places and pockets down in the Marinship where that exists. I came to Sausalito 37 years ago, and that was a topic then. Nothing really has been done. And I think as a city we should just attempt to do what we can to improve that area and yet keep the marine style of living that we have down there. So I hope that we can move forward. Whatever we do, I just hope, and even if it just... It doesn't go anywhere. At least we looked at it and attempted to move it forward. Thank you. |
| 01:23:05.46 | Herb Weiner | Okay. Thanks. I really have very little to add to that. I'd reiterate that, you know, if you have views on this, come to these meetings. We've got a steering committee that is I was quite surprised at some of the things that actually emerged last night in terms of really pushing the consultant to move in directions that They were a little initially hesitant towards doing it, and that's good. I told everybody when this process started that I have absolutely no preconceived notions as to what the outcome is, and I still very much believe that. And I do appreciate the caution that you're expressing because Um... Not only do I have no preconceptions, I don't know the what an earthy consultant's going to come up with in terms of recommendations. But where they're at is having talked to over 100 people The way I put it is they sort of like have an impressionistic view as what's going on there. And what we've asked them to do is provide some sort of balance and analytical framework with the recommendations and some options so that we can start picking apart those options and ask the question, well, what should we tackle first? to your point. And I think that's the really important thing. Let them now do their work. Let them synthesize what they've learned. I mean, they presented a report in terms of what our residents and what people think. And, you know, we've heard it all before. There's nothing too surprising there. It's in the WAM report. It's in other things that people have talked about. Now we need them to use their expertise to sort it all out for us and say, look, this is where it is. We understand what the community wants. Now here's a few realistic things that we could do. And if that can be an outcome that we can then deliberate on and figure out do we want to do those things, that could be... A good outcome, I think. |
| 01:25:40.53 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:25:41.07 | Unknown | ask or make a suggestion that maybe in these updates, it's great to have schedules and all that. That doesn't really give a flavor what you talk about at these meetings, right? And yeah, I know I can go back and review the stream, but I'm probably not going to do that, to be honest with you. So it'd be much more just like a committee, like if you're the representative on |
| 01:25:49.27 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:25:49.30 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:25:49.47 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:26:02.36 | Unknown | or MTA, that's a good question. I don't really care about your budget cycle. I'd rather know, here's kind of the meat of what the discussion was that went. on at that day turnaround is a little bit tough to do, obviously. But that would, I think, also that gives me a chance to, again, take bites rather than have to swallow the whole pie in June, right? And that's just my personal preference. Um, Because then I hear that you're looking at things from both sides of the coin and everything, you know, things are more on the table. And I don't go to those meetings because then I can't say anything anyway because there will be three council members at that meeting. So it's almost... Yeah, I've learned not to go to those meetings because I can't keep my mouth shut. So I know, you have to realize what your limits are. |
| 01:26:52.62 | Unknown | . |
| 01:26:58.74 | Unknown | but Yeah, rather get into a big debate about the whole thing, I think that would help me. So, I mean, I think blight, Herb, I've got to say, is self-imposed blight by some of their own property owners is not an excuse to upend, you know, if I choose to let my property go downhill, that's my choice. And I shouldn't be granted a free pass on putting up an office building because I've done that. No one would say that. |
| 01:27:08.56 | Unknown | We understand. |
| 01:27:22.60 | Unknown | that. Thank you. |
| 01:27:26.23 | Unknown | And Doug, I did vote against Wellington's when I was on the office building above Wellington. Who was it? Peter? I voted against that when I was on the Planning Commission. But that's too – it's water under the bridge. All right. |
| 01:27:36.83 | Susan Rowe | for bed. |
| 01:27:40.48 | Unknown | enough proselytizing from you and me tonight. |
| 01:27:42.08 | Herb Weiner | with me tonight. |
| 01:27:43.02 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:27:45.45 | Herb Weiner | I think I would just finally add that to your point, the consultants are now going to frame sort of provide an analytical framework and the first sort of set of recommendations next to the steering committee. I think that will be obviously then the next thing that comes up here in the monthly update. |
| 01:28:11.63 | Unknown | Yeah, that would be great. I think it's better to have it rough rather than polished. |
| 01:28:13.36 | Herb Weiner | THE FAMILY. Thank you. |
| 01:28:16.50 | Unknown | Yeah. So I would expect |
| 01:28:16.52 | Herb Weiner | Yeah. So I would expect you're going to see something every month until, okay, yeah. |
| 01:28:23.47 | Susan Rowe | that long. |
| 01:28:25.43 | Herb Weiner | Okay. Good. Thanks very much, Lily. So where are we? I'm wondering whether we might take a five-minute break. Okay, thank you. to 2017. 2014 housing element and the update to the 2015-2022 housing element. And, Lily, it's over to you. |
| 01:28:57.07 | Lily | Thank you, Mr. Mayor, council members. |
| 01:28:57.69 | Herb Weiner | Mr. |
| 01:29:00.97 | Lily | As the mayor noted, this is an update on the upcoming housing element update and implementation of the prior housing element that was adopted in 2012. late last year and early this year the council appointed a subcommittee of two council members a mayor and the vice mayor and two planning commissioners chair Joan Cox and commission member Susan Cleveland Knowles as a part of the housing element subcommittee to review the updated housing element and the implementation Thank you. programs to implement the prior housing element and that subcommittee did meet three times in january of this year and they have forwarded a recommended draft of all of the zoning ordinance amendments necessary to implement the prior housing element update and those are in your packet this evening. The subcommittee was working with our higher consultant, M Group, and Karen Werner and Associates, who the city contracted with for the prior housing element update. And with that, I'd like to welcome Dave Javed from M Group, and we also have Karen Werner from Karen Werner Associates here to give the presentation as well. |
| 01:30:28.08 | Dave Javid | Thank you Lily. Good evening, council members, Mayor Weide. As Lily mentioned, we have Let's see. Thank you. All right, here we go. So as Lily mentioned, my name is Dave Javid with M Group, and I'm here with Karen Warner. We're here to give you a very short overview of the zoning amendments that we've made and an update on the housing element going forward. We're also going to give you an update on the LIVA boards and ADU update process and then talk a little bit about next steps, including a workshop that's coming up, and then also be here to answer questions as they come up. So as Lily mentioned, the process started in November. We've had many meetings with the subcommittee. We're obviously here today to meet with you all to give you that update. And then moving forward, we do have a community workshop scheduled in March, on March 15th. And we'll follow back through with you all to give you a report back what we heard from the community as we develop the final drafts of the amendments on track track one where the code changes are. So basically we're talking about two different phases here. Phase one is the code changes and phase two is the housing element update and obviously you see a little bit of overlap as we go to the community workshop. We're also going to be providing an update to the community as to where we are in the housing element update process for this upcoming cycle. And then we'll also go through a series of meetings with you all, including a second workshop on the housing element. |
| 01:31:15.55 | Unknown | So, |
| 01:32:06.83 | Dave Javid | goal being that we have to have the housing element updated on the 31st of January 2015 to avoid getting thrown into a four-year cycle of the update, which we definitely want to avoid doing. So this just gives a short synopsis of the meetings coming up in the next process. As far as the project overview, as I mentioned, phase one is implementing the programs of the current housing element and able to reach the streamlined process. We have to do that per ACD, and that includes obviously drafting the code language that we've sent you and you hope you had a chance to review. Then as part of Phase 2, this entire process, we're basically just confirming the goals, programs, and policies that came out of the current housing element. We're not reinventing the wheel here. And as part of phase two, we're going to be doing that by updating the needs assessment, which includes the demographics and the household income information that we'll get from the 2000 census. We'll be reconfirming the RHNA numbers as well as confirming the residential site inventory, the sites that were picked the last round, just confirming that those are still applicable here. And again, just a reminder that January 31st deadline is a key |
| 01:33:22.70 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:33:24.91 | Dave Javid | So I wanted to just go ahead and kick off the process by talking about the list of programs that are part of the current housing element that we are implementing, again, as part of this process, which includes the vertical mix use and horizontal mix use, accessory dwelling units, liver boards, the density bonus, multifamily standards, special needs, and reasonable accommodations. Essentially, the accessory dwelling units and the liver boards are basically a conditional compliance, where the density bonus, special needs, and reasonable accommodations really fit into the streamlined process. And those are requirements, again, to fit within the streamlined process. And I'm going to give you just a very short overview of each one of those and then again we'll be open for questions. As far as the VMU and HMU, those are broken out into two separate regulations. The vertical mixed use regulations are essentially an amendment of your current residential use in commercial districts, and that's 1044190 of your zoning code. And that is essentially set up to limit residential on the upper stories within the CC, CN1, and CR zones. That is essentially any developments between one and five units are required to include at least one affordable unit. Other highlights are that development application fees including planning and building permits are reduced by 50% for application for affordable units. And all this is really meant to meet the policies that are again within the current housing element of providing a variety of housing choices, flexible development, family housing, a jobs housing balance. That's what the intent is by developing this existing or this future ordinance. |
| 01:34:18.59 | Unknown | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 01:35:28.39 | Dave Javid | There's the HMU. We've treated this more as an overlay of two specific sites within the CN1 zoning district, again, that were identified in the last housing element. And again, this is to allow ground floor residential in exchange for affordable units. And the key is, again, up to... The standards are essentially consistent with the base zoning, but again, it's really kind of incentivized affordable units in kind of a mixed-use nature here, having residential next to commercial. And the goal is again to also provide, in most cases, to provide up to 30% of those as three bedrooms for large families, again to kind of diversifying the housing mix. Density bonus, this is one that's basically mandated by state, government codes 65915 and 65918. And essentially we've updated the existing density bonus that currently resides within the city's code with a new language so that we're up to speed with state law to include at any level of 5 to 35% of a density bonus depending on the amount of affordable units provided, as well as up to three concessions or incentives, which could be anything from reduced parking standards to setbacks to reduced costs. And this has to do with units of five or more is where this actually applies within the city. The multi-family standards are currently in progress and the first reading is on March 4th with City Council. I know that's something you've been working on here for a while so you'll be getting an And with that, I'm going to hand it out to Karen Warner to cover the next few. |
| 01:37:31.86 | Karen Warner | Good evening. So the zoning ordinance amendment that addresses special needs is a requirement under what's called SB2, which has several different components, the first of which is to provide zoning district where emergency shelters will be permitted by right, so essentially without a CUP, and as part of the housing element process, the decision was made to identify the public institutional zone as a zone in which shelters would be permitted. So what we did in drafting the ordinance for the the shelters, we looked at all the other jurisdictions in Marin County as well as a couple other similar jurisdictions like Beverly Hills and the Gore Hills to look at what standards they had. The law only allows certain aspects to be regulated in terms of the shelter, in terms of its size and proximity to other shelters and parking and what have you. So within those parameters, we've developed what we feel are pretty good regulations. And then, of course, anything that did come before the city would still be subject to the city's designer view. This is a map of all the PI zoned properties in the city, the vast majority of which are under city ownership. Another component of the SB2 requirements and part of the Housing Elment Program is for transitional and supportive housing. Transitional housing is, just as it sounds, it's temporary housing, generally anywhere from six months to two years, with services to help the occupants transition to a permanent lifestyle. So a typical transitional housing might be for victims of domestic violence. ones that are coming up more now is transitional housing for veterans. Thank you. and Supportive housing, in contrast, is permanent housing, and it's for persons with disabilities and that are not able to live independently and they're rent restricted, long-term affordable. So what SB 2 says is these types of housing need to be treated the same as any other residential use. So the changes that we've suggested, we've are to add definitions of these in your code, but then to also list them as a residential use within all the categories, zoning categories, where residential is permitted. Single room occupancy units are small 150 to 350 square foot rooms, essentially. typically with a sink, a toilet, a closet, and shared kitchen and shower facilities, down the hall or what have you. So they're very low cost living facilities. They're rented usually no first and last month's rent, you know, usually on a weekly basis. This is something that is, jurisdictions are required to accommodate through zoning |
| 01:41:22.35 | Unknown | I'm a big fan. |
| 01:41:23.65 | Karen Warner | in whichever way they see most appropriate. So when we went through the housing element process, it was determined that these are most similar to motels, which is the most common way cities regulate them. So what we've suggested is allowing them in the CN1 zone with the CUP. |
| 01:41:48.27 | Karen Warner | Reasonable accommodation, and again, this is a program straight out of the housing element, and this is all of the ones that I'm talking about are required so the city can get its streamlined review through the state. And reasonable accommodation is to provide written procedures so that an individual with a disability can have an accommodation to the city's zoning, building, or other procedures. They don't have to go through a variance process, what have you. So again, we looked at all different kinds of ordinances that similar jurisdictions have had and we've come up with what we think is a good process for an individual to receive |
| 01:42:30.87 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:42:35.52 | Karen Warner | Live aboard update. As you probably remember, this was a part of the city's sites inventory in the housing element. We had kind of two components in terms of the sites inventory count towards the RHNA. The existing live aboards that weren't counted in the census, and there was a total of 38 that had, you know, the BCDC permits that we could look at by census block and see that there was an undercount. And then there was the future liveaboards and that was the additional capacity within the marinas that had BCDC permits that weren't being utilized. So on the existing live aboard undercount, there were three marinas that were undercounted. One of those marinas is within the Marin ship. where liveaboards are viewed as a legal non-conforming use. So there's really no additional city permitting that needs to be done in that instance. Two of the other marinas, you don't have any city permits. So in order to count these towards the city's sites inventory and its element, in the city 2014, before submittal of the updated element to the state, there will need to be local permitting of those marinas, the liveaboards in those marinas. The future liveaboards, kind of a similar situation where they're were three marinas that had additional capacity. Two of those fall within the marina ship. Nothing else needs to be done. The one outside of the Marin ship will need to go through a permitting process. |
| 01:44:42.43 | Karen Warner | Then the accessory dwelling units were also a big part of the city's housing element sites inventory. Cities had a very successful amnesty program that was adopted November 2012 and then came into effect in early 2013. in the at Seismontory we assumed, we didn't know how many amnesty units you get, so we were told to be conservative by the state, so we assumed 12. Um, you've already had 11 approved with 18 more going through the process. So you're going to well exceed your amnesty estimate, which is great news. In terms of the new ADUs, We, again, you know, took a shot at how many might be developed within the three-year planning period we had and estimated a dozen, you've had three that have been approved, two more going through the process. and You've more than offset that though with the additional, the Amnesty ADUs. |
| 01:45:58.18 | Karen Warner | And then I'm going to turn it back to David to conclude with next steps. |
| 01:46:05.11 | Dave Javid | So as I mentioned before, the next meeting we'll have with the community, the first community workshop will be on March 15th at the Marin Ship. And I know Noticing has started to go out on that, and we'll then report back. to the council in April. Again, what we've heard from the community and that'll be our opportunity to get the final refinements to the zoning amendments. And then as far as CEQA review, in this case there actually isn't a need for CEQA review because that was covered during the previous housing element and essentially we're just implementing those programs which were already covered under the CEQA review at first round. And then we'll come back to you all for the final approval and adoption of the code amendments. And then meanwhile, as we showed in Track 2, we'll be working on the housing element update to get that through the process by the end of the year. So with that, we'll open it up for questions. |
| 01:47:05.42 | Herb Weiner | Thank you very much. Do we have questions of staff or our consultants? |
| 01:47:12.73 | Unknown | Thank you. I just have a general question as far as the language of some of the draft amendments. Are you looking for comments from us tonight or is this more informational and we'll |
| 01:47:31.85 | Lily | THE END OF THE END OF THE If I may. If you had something specific, I don't think that we were looking for specific text amendment language right now. If you see something looking through it that you'd like the consultant to take note of, you're more than welcome, but we were just looking for general feedback right now. |
| 01:47:46.04 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 01:47:52.07 | Unknown | What? |
| 01:47:53.36 | Councilmember Leon | I do have a comment to be on, and this is on the first page of your report. You talked about track one. enabled to be on the fast track so that we would not have to have another housing element in four years that we could go out to. MR. 28, 2023, correct? MR. Correct. MR. Okay. And we need – you specified the elements that had to be listed. There were seven or eight elements, and I guess my question is, |
| 01:48:13.94 | Unknown | right. and |
| 01:48:23.10 | Councilmember Leon | If we decided not to go on the fast track, would we not have to do any of those elements or would they all have to be ultimately done anyway? Thank you. |
| 01:48:31.98 | Dave Javid | Next question. |
| 01:48:32.70 | Councilmember Leon | you |
| 01:48:33.16 | Dave Javid | Thank you. |
| 01:48:33.68 | Councilmember Leon | Thank you. |
| 01:48:33.70 | Dave Javid | you |
| 01:48:33.93 | Councilmember Leon | it's, it's, |
| 01:48:34.14 | Dave Javid | Thank you. |
| 01:48:34.17 | Councilmember Leon | Thank you. |
| 01:48:34.46 | Lily | We would still have to complete those amendments. I'll leave. Correct. |
| 01:48:36.92 | Dave Javid | I'll let you. Correct. Yeah, that purview is just to make sure that you don't fall in that four-year cycle. |
| 01:48:43.03 | Councilmember Leon | And some of them were required by our last housing element, and some of them are by SB2. |
| 01:48:49.71 | Karen Warner | Thank you. And the fast track is still the same timeframe in terms of the public review and the preparation. What the fast track is, |
| 01:49:00.19 | Unknown | terms |
| 01:49:07.26 | Karen Warner | We are able, when we submit the draft element to the state, to submit a red-lined copy. So all they are looking at is the changes. So it's a much quicker review from the state, much more focused review on their end, which |
| 01:49:25.06 | Lily | Karen, if I also may add that there are certain sections, if we do do the streamlined approach, that certain sections of the housing element that we don't need to look at if there aren't any amendments. If we went into the four-year cycle, we'd have to submit a completely brand-new revised housing element and look at all of the chapters. |
| 01:49:43.15 | Councilmember Leon | That's great. But just to follow on to that, is there anything additional that we have to do to be on the fast track? Being on a fast track, there are things we don't have to do ultimately. Is there anything additional we have to do because we're on fast track that we wouldn't have to otherwise do? |
| 01:49:57.30 | Karen Warner | You just have to fill out the streamlining checklist when you submit it to the state. That's basically it. |
| 01:50:08.20 | Unknown | Thank you. I don't have any more questions. |
| 01:50:12.13 | Herb Weiner | Okay, is there any member of the public who would like to comment on this subject? |
| 01:50:21.78 | Peter Romanowski | Thank you. |
| 01:50:21.80 | Unknown | I am very excited. |
| 01:50:24.33 | Herb Weiner | So let's stick to the point. This is the housing element. |
| 01:50:27.42 | Peter Romanowski | I'm sorry. |
| 01:50:27.60 | Unknown | It's the hot. |
| 01:50:28.02 | Peter Romanowski | an element. Okay, suggestion number one, Galilee Harbor, put pressure on them to bring us into the harbor and not bring outsiders, you know, not rent to outsiders. I mean, that would be one thing. Another thing, to designate moorings within the city limit that are low income housing. Let us have moorings within the city limit and let us give them to our heirs. Let us pay rent and pass them on instead of having our boats destroyed when we die. The other end of town, low income housing, it can be done, built, but of course, you know, all the blacks will come from Marin City and we know this is a white racist community. And let's face it, you know, we only got two blacks in this whole town that I know of, two or three. Bo, you know, he's our king. And I hate to tell the truth, but, you know, it's just a white racist community. We don't want no black low-income people moving in over here. Peter, on topic, please. This is my freedom of speech. Okay, this is my freedom of speech. So, you know, it's a Democrat, I'm a Republican, come on, give me a break. And so, that's all I've got to say. Wait, wait, one other thing. When I lived on an ISIS house on the block, |
| 01:51:21.11 | Unknown | And I think this is |
| 01:51:28.39 | Herb Weiner | Peter, on topic, please. Thank you. Okay, here's my |
| 01:51:46.63 | Peter Romanowski | I took in all the homeless and poor in San Salmo. There wasn't a single, I took in the town drunk. Now, if one person can Take in all the homeless and poor in one town I'll |
| 01:51:57.98 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. |
| 01:51:58.00 | Peter Romanowski | Thank you. |
| 01:51:58.02 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. |
| 01:51:58.42 | Peter Romanowski | people of Salido like open up their homes and hearts to the low income people. I think this planet's great. I think it looks good. It looks good. Move. Oh, wait. God bless you. |
| 01:52:09.73 | Herb Weiner | Thank you. Scott. |
| 01:52:17.61 | Scott Diamond | My name is Scott Diamond. I'd like to address the liveaboard part of this. This is kind of a strange scenario we've lived with here, people living on the waterfront in Sausalito and how for decades people were living on boats or in shops around the waterfront. And have been subject to what some people dubbed as the Anne Frank lifestyle, and that we weren't supposed to be there. And I find it very interesting that we can embrace recycling, but here we have basically the city in a way being partners in crime with certain individuals that are using public access waters. to have parking lots for these yachts. And these yachts are built with stoves and bathrooms and beds. Yet we're not supposed to live on them. I find this a very strange concept. And I think if the city is going to try and use liveaboards as a low income housing number, they have a responsibility to make sure that there's some low income slips left. It's not enough to just embrace the concept of, okay, we're going to have these people living there. Rents are skyrocketing around here. Some of the harbors have gone anywhere from 30% to 100% in less than a year. We're subject to... These are supposed to be public access points, yet in the harbor I live in, the landlord just decided, okay, we're renting you the slip, but you can't keep a kayak in it. You can't keep a rowboat in it. Well, wait a minute, where's the spirit of public access here? Because when I was a young man, I just sailed. Where Pelican Harbor is now, that was a prime sailing spot for Dini sailing, small boat And now it's a parking lot, and I live next to that, and I'm down there on days when I'm in this harbor all by myself. I mean, it's wonderful. I'm just looking around going, where is everybody? I guess they're making their boat payments, you know? But anyway, I just think that we have to look at the full concept of putting some pressure on these harbors that these are neighborhoods. They're not just parking lots, all right? And we need to, and the city is in a position to put certain kind of pressures on, keeping these rents at a reasonable rate. So I'd like to have you think about that. |
| 01:55:10.14 | Herb Weiner | Thank you. |
| 01:55:16.15 | Peter Van Meter | Peter Van Meter. As you look forward to your March 15th workshop, just a thought. to be able to inform the public about these state required mandates because those who come in to that hearing uninformed and say, well, we're going to have all these scary sounding things in town. And there's of course been this huge discussion in the press about the PDAs north of us and so on. To explain as an introduction rather than just diving into how we're complying, you know, how and why that's happening and that in a sense these are things that are mandated, they're out of our control. You may like them, you may think they're socially acceptable, good things, you may object to them, whatever, but our hands are tied. And that brings up a whole other issue for another venue somewhere about local control versus top-down planning and all of that. |
| 01:56:14.35 | Unknown | you know, |
| 01:56:17.07 | Peter Van Meter | It sounds to me like you've got to have some very careful introductions to that session to avoid having people marching in the streets, after they hear that. And throwing out all these years of work that all of you have done to create this element, it's been a massive, difficult process with great staff support, but you don't want to have it all be trashed now at the end of the day. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:56:42.28 | Herb Weiner | Thank you, Peter. |
| 01:56:51.68 | Douglas Storm | Douglas Storm, 700 Waldo Point. Couple comments. I was having lunch with a lady who works at Salitos and she was looking at buying a boat and I said, well, You really want to, I think there's a liveaboard fee And I said at this one marina that she was thinking about buying a boat, and I said, you know, you just might want to, I think it's like $125. and you just might want to check to see. because the birth is one price, paying utilities is another price, but there's liveaboard fee. if you live aboard your vessel. And I said, I think it was $125. Man, was I wrong. And I still, I'm going to have to check on this, but $700? And so this kind of raises a red flag to me. If there's a requirement in the plan, there is a requirement in the plan because I attended this subcommittee meeting and I was reading all the fine print and all that and it says, marinas, the liveaboard, 50% of the liveaboard are supposed to be low income. And so as we go through this process, and I applaud the process and it needs to go through, and I understand about with the mandate, But we really need to make sure that we have the low income for the community, especially for the seniors, especially for the maritime workers, because they can't afford to rent a house for $1,500 a month or whatever to buy a million dollar house in Sausalito. It is critical to the nature of Sausalito for the maritime community. to have affordable housing. And this is one component, the liveaboard status, that really needs to be looked at and make sure that a property owner doesn't go behind and say, oh, like your telephone bill, you have a certain plan, but there's an additional $5 for taxes, blah, blah, blah. But in this case, it's 200%, 300%, 400% |
| 01:59:03.42 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:59:06.68 | Douglas Storm | Adam. So I bring that to your attention. |
| 01:59:12.85 | Herb Weiner | Thank you, Doug. |
| 01:59:18.61 | Jerry Faye | you Hi, I'm Jerry Faye at 100 Locust Street. And I want to respond to Doug. I kind of have always been interested in Little Boys' housing. I met Karen and helped her understand the situation there. And I think since our initial survey of liveaboard housing, the Reds have skyrocketed along with the rest of San Francisco. It's really not low income anymore. Okay, so we have that problem. And then I also wanted to say we went to great effort to put marine workers in the housing element as a special needs group. And I don't see that there's any sort of, that didn't really accomplish anything. There's nothing in your update that makes it better for marine workers. I just don't see any substance there. And I had one other thing to say, but I can't remember. So I'll write it up, I guess. Thank you. |
| 02:00:27.85 | Herb Weiner | Thank you, Jerry. |
| 02:00:32.12 | Herb Weiner | Is there any other member of the public who would like to comment on this? Okay, so please, please. |
| 02:00:44.00 | Jerry Faye | I wanted to ask Karen, she mentioned there were two marinas in the marineship. and I was wondering what they were in her opinion. Because I remember Peter asked earlier if Galilee Harbor was a partnership and answered |
| 02:00:59.06 | Unknown | It's Arkez and as well as Marina Plaza. Those are the two marinas. |
| 02:00:59.64 | Susan Rowe | Thank you. |
| 02:00:59.67 | Jerry Faye | No. |
| 02:01:04.48 | Jerry Faye | I looked at that little chart that went with the- |
| 02:01:08.89 | Unknown | And Clipper's obviously there too. |
| 02:01:10.91 | Jerry Faye | Oh, okay. There's one marina sort of missing from that chart. There's a marina, the former fish stocks that now, and is that the... |
| 02:01:20.46 | Unknown | the permits for what he's doing. Thank you. |
| 02:01:22.86 | Jerry Faye | Thank you. |
| 02:01:22.88 | Unknown | you |
| 02:01:23.20 | Jerry Faye | Neither does SASU the Marineways, and it's listed there. |
| 02:01:23.31 | Unknown | Right. Right. |
| 02:01:26.23 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:01:28.49 | Jerry Faye | I think that Sausalito needs to connect to its waterfront by recognizing what's there, and I would like to see that added. If I have any minutes left, I'd also like to add that there's a sense of how much to reveal to the public when you're on the water as a business, as an anchor out, or as a liveaboard. |
| 02:01:36.93 | Unknown | All right. |
| 02:01:56.37 | Jerry Faye | And you're kind of going this fine line as do you want to reveal too much and maybe be told you're doing something illegal. And I think that might be the problem you're having in the marinship. And I just would like all of Sausalito to be aware that that's a problem. And I sort of err on the side that it's best to come forward with who I am and what I am and where I live, because that's the reality of it. And I admire the anchor out people for coming and speaking. It's not easy to do. And I think it must be particularly hard to be a marine worker anchored out and have to stand in front of everybody and say, you need a shower. |
| 02:02:23.24 | Unknown | and |
| 02:02:39.07 | Jerry Faye | And I really admire them for doing that. |
| 02:02:43.23 | Herb Weiner | Thanks. Okay. Let's bring it back up here. |
| 02:02:54.96 | Unknown | Go ahead. |
| 02:02:58.00 | Unknown | So I'll, for the sake of time and people's patience, I'll submit the language comments I had on just on the zoning stuff. I'll just send that to you and you can do with it what you see fit. Just kidding. And thank you for coming to people here to talk about the liveaboards. Yeah, it's interesting turn of events, right? It was a long time where the city, didn't want to acknowledge that there were anybody was anybody and prohibited liveaboards in many of these marinas. So now it's kind of a, you know, the situation is reversed. That being said, you know, You're right in what you're saying. There are a bunch of marinas that don't have the permits, you know, for what they're – even for being a marina, yet alone for having – like the fish docks, as an example, he has no permits to be a marina. He has permits to be a fish dock, right? But – and we tried to get him to come in and get permits to be a marina, and he didn't want to do it. So it stalled maybe five, six years ago – or no, longer than that, eight years ago. But that guy needs to be addressed, Angelli, I think his name, right? So it's – you're right. Thank you. maybe five, six years ago. Or no, longer than that, eight years ago. But that guy needs to be addressed, Ann Chelle, I think his name. Right? So you're right. There's a... There has been a philosophy of let's ignore it, and it won't be a problem on both sides. Do you know what I'm saying? It's sort of like let's... not deal with it because there's some reasons to not deal with it that are good. Um, And there's some reasons for either side of it whether you were there as a living board, as a marine owner, or whoever it was, or from the city's point of view, if no one's complaining about it, don't deal You know? Um, But now I think it's more time to institutionalize or codify, not to institutionalize is a terrible connotation to it, but to codify that, yes, there are human beings that are living on boats. And now I think, in my opinion, we have to require that you provide access to people at different income levels to be able to afford those slips. They can't hold out and hope for 50-foot slips in every marina that that's all they have. And that's what they're all waiting for because this small boat, you know, recreational boater doesn't exist anymore. It's too expensive, right? So that's gotten all – so they're waiting for 50-foot slips for big boats to come in and kick everyone out who has a small boat and lives on it. So I think we need to be more proactive in terms of how we can get the boat out. proactive and, you know, ensure that both the rights and the ability to live on a boat is part of the culture of Sausalito. and it should be. welcomed rather than kind of looked at as a rather than tolerated. Okay. So there's a lot of things we can do through this process to make it a positive. |
| 02:06:08.87 | Unknown | I was watching it. |
| 02:06:11.71 | Councilmember Leon | I just wanted to comment that I'm glad we're moving toward the fast track of having this housing element. It's important for all of us. We would all love to have this be done for about eight years, so it's important we do. All these, and I think Peter's comment's a good one. I think it's important. to start these discussions with the note that The state law requires us to have a housing element. It requires us to have certain elements in them. Uh, and certain zoning changes, and that we're doing this to comply with the law. It doesn't mean that we're necessarily going to build any particular thing, it just means that we now have to have in the element in our zoning certain requirements. I think we need to emphasize that because it is a difficult and complicated area, and I think that's the starting point for it. And I think, but it's, I think we'll all be happy when we get this done this year. We're all working hard with staff and our consultants and council to get this done, and it'll be a good thing when we do. |
| 02:07:10.52 | Councilmember Weiner | I have very little. Did you? No, my, my, I just had a quick comment that by, by meeting this element we don't have to really deal with every four years, we just jump into a 20 year, |
| 02:07:12.53 | Herb Weiner | Did you? |
| 02:07:13.98 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:07:14.03 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:07:27.26 | Councilmember Weiner | an eight year, timeframe. And I believe the other thing is even after that period of time. Are we still considered on a fast track with the state? after that ADA, after we'll say 2023. |
| 02:07:44.60 | Unknown | I could, could we be? |
| 02:07:46.11 | Councilmember Weiner | Could we be? |
| 02:07:48.79 | Unknown | At the end of the eight year cycle, can you, depending on what the rules are then, obviously, what happens then? |
| 02:07:48.96 | Councilmember Weiner | as players. |
| 02:07:55.12 | Karen Warner | Well, this whole streamlining is brand new. Yes. So I just went through it in Southern California and they were the first jurisdictions. If it's still around in eight years, certainly. If, you know, there may be some other thresholds for that. But, and the other thing, even though it will be an eight-year element, you do have to report on it annually. |
| 02:07:58.63 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 02:08:18.96 | Karen Warner | so that the monitoring on your implementation is... Is updated. |
| 02:08:22.91 | Councilmember Weiner | Is updated. Okay, thank you. |
| 02:08:28.85 | Herb Weiner | Just very quickly to remind everybody, Two years ago, two and a half years ago. we didn't have a certified housing element. In fact, we had missed two of them and we were out of compliance with the state. in In 2012, the City Council, before my time, the City Council adopted a housing element which cold us up. And we just managed to get it done in time. I wasn't on city council, but I was part of the housing element task force that helped put that together. And what we did was caught up. We just did it in time. Our cycle was almost over. And now, within a very short period of time, with using all the work we previously did we can now just basically This is a little flippant, but basically, Xerox what we did before, send it off to the state again. That is something that it would be, I think, irresponsible of us not to do, because it gets us way ahead of the game. gets us way ahead and we can basically put this aside for quite a few years and I think that would be a great place to be. So we're doing the work of putting in place what the 2012 Council did and then just using that work and getting the next eight years sorted out. I think it's a great thing. |
| 02:10:09.68 | Unknown | you Yeah, no, I think that's important to know and also There's a lot of moving parts with all this, and we have a very much lower threshold of units to supply as a community in this cycle than we had in either of the prior two cycles. So at any income level. You know, who knows what the assumptions that went in to drive, you know, we argued to get our, you know, what our numbers were to be more realistic of the size of the town. But a lot of that is depending on a lot of the assumptions that are made at both the A-bag level and the state level. about the economy and how fast things are growing. And those assumptions were made when the economy was slow and da-da-da-da-da. You can imagine what the numbers will be for the next cycle if the economy stays at the kind of current growth rate. advantage to tackle this at this time. a lot of these things are the right thing to do. If you step back from it and you just say, well, what's the right thing to do here? Well, it's a good thing to try again, this is my opinion, to try and help people who are struggling to afford to live here to live here. That's kind of a good thing to do. And some of the other things that get lost, the HMU, VMU, and kind of the terminology is very scary to a certain degree, and the shelters and things like that, and people get worried. But a lot of these things are just the right thing to do for your fellow human being. And if we can accomplish that Um, It's a good thing. Will it change? To me, none of what we're doing here today And in the last housing element and this one coming forward, is gonna really change the character of Sausalito to a large part. Um, it will keep the care, in my opinion, it'll keep the character more what it is than what it |
| 02:11:58.15 | Unknown | It is. |
| 02:11:59.74 | Unknown | could have changed too, in terms of having a spectrum of people at different income levels being able to live here. I think it's, you know, we're trying to tackle this head on. It's unfortunate that it's back to back and we just went through this cycle, but if we do it the right way, we'll get it done faster and with less impact to the town. Right. |
| 02:12:24.61 | Councilmember Weiner | I think it's a very important feature that we're doing with the housing element. As Councilmember Leon said, it's the right thing to do. If you really look at Sausalito, We have less population, not much less, but less population now than we had 10 years ago. We're the only city in Marin County where our population has gone down. But yet nonetheless, we're part of the Bay. And the prediction is in the next 10 years, I believe, that there'll be an additional 700,000 people living in the Bay Area. So I think it's a necessity. and I think all the Bay Area has to, kind of get up to speed because as this economy improves, I think the need for The affordable housing in our area is very, very important. And I think Sausalito, because of its proximity to San Francisco, has to be very much a part of that. So I hope we move forward. |
| 02:13:33.29 | Herb Weiner | Okay. If there's no other comment, then we'll move on. So thank you very much. Thank you for coming. Our consultants have been working very hard on this. |
| 02:13:51.60 | Herb Weiner | Okay, so the next item is our mid-year budget review. |
| 02:14:03.57 | Herb Weiner | And... It looks like we have a very eager audience awaiting this subject. |
| 02:14:14.38 | Unknown | You blame Shelby. |
| 02:14:19.73 | Charlie Francis | Good evening, Mayor and members of the city council. The agenda. for today is just a slightly bit different than prior year's agendas, where I just went right into the midyear general fund budget review. This year I want to introduce the strategic financial management planning, how we use strategic financial management planning, and all of the management decisions and the council policy decisions so that we can provide a framework that our decisions that we're making today, what impact they'll have on the future and how that positions us to meet the challenges of the future. So you've seen this cycle before. The cycle is a pretty normal cycle where we start off in April and May of year 2012 of developing a two-year budget. June of 2012 we adopted the first year of that two-year budget. And right then and there we started initializing monthly budget to actual reports, quarterly treasury reports. We analyzed the results of operations, fiscal operations as well as performance operations. And we calibrate financial projections and do analysis and alignment. What makes this strategic and not just financial is that we're doing these analyses at every one of those arrows, every week, every month. We're going ahead and analyzing where we stand. When we present the annual financial report, it's another opportunity for us to be able to say, here's your financial condition, and here's the outlook for the future. Then we go to the midterm budget review and the cycle continues with the first year budget and we come back again. If it wasn't, For the part that was printed, that would just be financial management. But because we put all this in context of our models, and we have several models, the strategic financial management plan. So what does that look like? Well, first of all, here's one of the charts from one of our fiscal models. We have several financial models that we use to create their interactive financial year forecast, which is what this is. We have historic trend and statistical analysis, monthly budget versus actual variance analysis. All of these are analyzed on a monthly basis by our city council finance committee. This long-term financial planning uses assumptions. We use 3% wage inflation assumptions. So we're right here where we use 3% wage inflation, 5% annual health care, and then I take the worst case analysis for pensions where we say that the CalPERS is going to perform at the 5 percentile level and all of the proposed changes that are going through the board will occur. So you can see that the model demonstrates that our revenues, which are here, what this blue line right here, are meeting all of our expenditures as we go out 10 years into the future. You can also take a look at some of the changes we made in these years where we lowered our cost of labor, where we annexed our fire services to the Southern Marin Fire Protection District, lowered our salaries, lowered our benefits to achieve what we were always trying to achieve, which was 65% of our labor costs are 65% of revenues. So now this is a worst case scenario. We underestimate our revenues and we overestimate our expenditures so that when the actuals come in, right about here, then we're able to adjust and not have any negative surprises. It was this kind of financial management that got us through the worst recession since the Great Depression. So in November, the city council set aside some time to do some strategic planning, and in December they adopted the notes from that citywide strategy. I just want to point out a few words on this chart here. The first one is the first goal was to achieve... and maintain fiscal sustainability and resiliency. So the achieving of the resiliency as a long-term goal. That is something that we're always striving to do while we're maintaining our fiscal sustainability. And I want to take a look now at the next word, which is improve. to maintain the infrastructure. So again, we're looking to continually improve, continually to get better while maintaining our sustainability and achieve. We want to evolve. Evolve. our community. continually assess, here we go, and deliver. municipal services and finally increase. communication, increased technology, and increased community involvement. Now, if we didn't have words like achieve, improve, continually assess and deliver, increase community involvement, those words that are always forward progressing. Well, If we didn't have those words in that statement, then we could say we're resilient and we're maintaining fiscal sustainability. Our budget is stable, we're adequately funded, the budget is structurally balanced, and our reserve balance are sufficient to meet the based on a risk analysis and mitigation strategy we're resilient in what we're doing. But there's a but. And the but is that as you know know, we have infrastructure that was built 75 to 100 years ago. It was designed to last 50 years, and it's deteriorating. We also have increased levels of service demanded. And we think we have some people here in the audience that wanted to talk about that sometime today. Before I go on to increase levels of service, let me help define levels of service. Levels of service aren't simply bodies. We have inputs. Inputs could be bodies, full-time equivalents. They could be dollars, allocating more dollars to it. And it could be number of hours. And all that is said, well, this is used to produce goods or service. Those are our efforts. What we're really concerned about, and I think what the community is concerned about, and we know that it's what the City Council makes policy decisions about, are what are the outputs? What are we doing with the dollars, the bodies, and the number of hours to produce units, to mow lawns, to patrol streets, to provide recreation programs, to increase the circulation in our library? And of course, what are the results? What are the outcomes? What's the measure that we're achieving that goal? So all three of those go into defining a level of service. And so many times this is done through the use of indicators where we look at our inputs, which is our staffing, and then we say, well, what are our outputs? And that's our workload analysis. And finally, how satisfied are we? And that's the results. So inputs, outputs, outcomes. That's how we define level of service. Infrastructure is done the same way. What are we designing? Where is it going to be located? What condition is it in now? How do we want to keep it in the future, how do we increase capacity if the frequency of use is increasing, and then of course it has to be aesthetically aligned with the character of our community. So these are the areas where levels of service and infrastructure is addressed in our city, the city of Sausalito. Some things that have been talked about in the past couple years is our police is looking for increasing levels of service for force strength. And they're looking for force strength because of risk management, especially, you know, with the increasing need of patrol. Our Sausalito Beautiful is looking for increased landscape maintenance and building maintenance in the city. And we could go through every one of our operations and say, what level of service do you community desire from the city of Sausalito. And the same thing with our infrastructure, as I mentioned before. We have aging infrastructure. We want 100% of our streets paved. We need a downtown parking and circulation program. The Recreation Commission has been coming to me, asking me about how do we get funding for our parks and the playground equipment. We know, we've heard reports in the past from our Public Works Director on Storm Drain. I could go through all of these. there's increasing demand for infrastructure investment and an increase in the past from our Public Works Director on Storm Drain. I could go through all of these. There's an increasing demand for infrastructure investment and an increasing demand for levels of service. And just if I could just go back a couple slides, we're balanced the way at the level of service we're delivering today and the level of infrastructure we're delivering today. So if we want to provide, and in some cases we must provide significant infrastructure investment or increase our level of service, then we're going to have to ask ourselves some questions. And the questions are... Thank you. Well, what are we willing to give up in order to increase the level of service or what additional resources do we need in order to provide the enhanced level of service or the increased infrastructure investment? So what we're proposing to do is to Increase citizen participation and transparency as we go off into the fiscal year 2014-2016 budget preparation phase. Uh, The traditional method has been through the notice public city meetings, city council, finance committee meetings, city council committees, and advisory boards of them interacting with the council during this process of the mid-year budget review, strategic planning, priority calendar, finance committee, and finally the city council adopting the budget. That has been the traditional way, and that's why most of the people in the audience are here today. They want to interact with you, the city council, to say, here's the level of service that we need. Later on, you'll see that I'm asking for a supplemental appropriation to look at providing online and telephone survey information as well as using public forums, neighborhood meetings, coffee shops in people's homes to talk about how can we better understand what you, the public, wants and expects from its government. What are your attitudes about the services we're providing now and how does that reflect your priorities? What are your priorities in planning, budgeting, and managing services? And finally, are you interested in additional revenue generation community in order to provide these enhanced services and additional infrastructure investments. And then when we get that information, we can work that information into the budget planning process in order to provide a long-term strategy, not only for the 14, 16-year, which is short-term, but the long-term, work that into the 10-year model and say, here's how we can continue to be structurally balanced and providing the community the services that we need. So before I move on to the general I just was wondering if the council has any questions about that process that I've outlined so far on how we're moving into the next two-year budget cycle. |
| 02:26:26.91 | Unknown | I'll just make it kind of a question comment. First of all, Animation. Excellent. |
| 02:26:32.70 | Charlie Francis | Yeah. |
| 02:26:33.39 | Unknown | Secondly, it's very hard to draw and talk at the same time. |
| 02:26:37.96 | Charlie Francis | I know. |
| 02:26:38.15 | Unknown | You get kudos for that. |
| 02:26:40.28 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. |
| 02:26:40.29 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:26:40.33 | Charlie Francis | you |
| 02:26:40.60 | Unknown | you |
| 02:26:40.66 | Charlie Francis | I have a budget appropriation next year to ask for a pad so I can do it on the pad and then I'll project up there. |
| 02:26:43.70 | Unknown | I get to ask for a pad so I can do it on the pad But I think your major point in all this is that we have to make choices. Yes. You know, and we ask, we want, you know, it's always easy to, like my kids come to me and they want more stuff. I want to get this new toy. And I say, well, okay. You have to choose between this or that. And that's almost like what the situation we're in now. We don't have an unlimited budget. And we've cut out a lot of the costs that were... more manageable to cut and we haven't – we've raised some revenue in some small ways like certain taxes that we have raised or increasing the productivity of our real estate holdings and things like that. But we will have to make choices. And the thing I think past councils or councils in general, elected governments, make a choice |
| 02:27:25.52 | Peter Van Meter | Yeah. |
| 02:27:40.50 | Unknown | and I'm not saying this is a cautionary tone, is that you choose to add services, well, if you choose it by revenue that it came in one time, where you have one time, what's going to happen the next year? Right. So that's just something we have to keep in mind, because that has gotten the city in trouble before. |
| 02:27:51.13 | Unknown | Right. |
| 02:27:59.84 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. Okay, so then at this point I'd like to go into the general fund review. This is the part where we say we look at our budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, and say how are we performing, how are we projected to perform, and what adjustments that need to be made. There are legal adjustments that the city council has to make if expenditures are going to exceed budget appropriations. It's called the legal level of control. And the legal level of control for budgeting in the city of Sausalito is at the department level. So if a department is looking to go beyond its budget, then the city council must make a supplemental appropriation. Our auditor reviews that at the end of the year and makes sure that we complied with all the state laws. So first of all we have in the general fund review we start off with the good news and the good news is that our revenues are coming in higher than we expected. This does not require council action but it does help us put into framework that the supplemental appropriations that we'll be asking for later are covered by substantial revenue coming in. And this isn't a surprise for us because we We, traditionally underestimate our revenues when we go into budget season for the purposes of conservation. So if there is a downturn it won't have an impact on our operations. So right here most of that $247,000 increase is a direct result of the economy performing better than we initially anticipated that it would perform. Housing, you know, property taxes increase according to Proposition 13, so pre-Prop 13. House values only escalate in value, the lower of 2% or inflation, or if a house resales. And so we're experiencing some condo resales in Sausalito and it's increasing our valuation. We're also, our sales tax and our transient occupancy tax is coming in higher than we anticipated, as well as our franchise tax and business licenses. So the economy is improving, our revenues are looking to come in higher than we initially budgeted. There are three things, three primary things that we're looking for in the general fund that have occurred that we didn't anticipate when we budgeted. The first was just to kind of point this out, the mea culpa. I forgot to budget $15,000 for our accounting system And it's a $15,000 annual expense, so it's always there to pay for the license for the software for what we call our enterprise resource planning system. So that $15,000 needs to be in there. Then there's two other smaller items of vacation buyouts. So the 20,000 here and the 4,000 here are really mistakes in budgeting that should have been included. The $200,000 are unanticipated legal expenses that will be paid out to outside vendors. These are past and ongoing legal settlements, legal discussions that are going on, all of which go before the city council in closed sessions. And we just need to increase our appropriation for that to get through the rest of the fiscal year on that item. And finally, the $22,500 is the amount I'm requesting for the citizens' transparency and citizen input process to do telephone surveys, online surveys, community forums, and public outreach so that we can understand what the community wants to do that. |
| 02:32:05.12 | Unknown | Do you want us to wait and hold questions? |
| 02:32:07.43 | Charlie Francis | I only have a couple more slides and they're both all on expenditures, if that's okay. |
| 02:32:09.03 | Scott Diamond | Bye. |
| 02:32:14.38 | Charlie Francis | Yeah. We also have other funds. So what I just went through is our general fund, and we have a number of other funds. The City of Sausalito is like a company that has a number of different subsidiaries, and one of our subsidiaries is our parking fund. Another one is our MLK fund, and finally we have, like a construction company, we have a capital projects fund. Each of these have their own resources, their own revenues, they have their own expenditures, their own fund balances. Now, all of this here from all the way down to the last item are all items that have been formally approved, they've been formally supplementary appropriated, or they were budgeted in prior years. So I just include them on this chart so I have one place to point the auditors of the city council made the supplemental appropriations, and I can give them the document that comes from the mid-year budget review, rather than giving them all the individual documents that support these budget adjustments. I'll just cover them really quick. Our revenues are expected to increase in our parking fund by $150,000 over what we budgeted this year. But our expenditures are $175,000 over what we budgeted, not because of anything unanticipated. It was because we were holding bills in dispute from two prior fiscal years as we negotiated with the parking machine vendor over disputed items. And we finally settled the majority of those disputed items on all of them and we paid all the past due bills. Budgeted in prior years, just not paid. the amounts were carried forward. In the MLK fund, we had a number of items that have come before the city council in the past regarding settlements, legal settlements with tenants, former tenants, and also capital improvements that were much needed and necessary in order to continue the operations of the MLK facility. And finally, just at your last council meeting, you made appropriations for the street repair program and ADA program and the Vena Del Mar parks. So these are just, use your word, Council Member Leona, trying to codify all the past actions of the council and that action. But the one item that is new and now it's no longer $15,000, it's a $20,000 request, is what we heard at agenda item 6B, which was the Mirnchip specific plans request to increase the consultant's contract by $20,000 to bring their total budget to $60,000. So the council action that we're asking for tonight is a motion to approve the mid-year budget resolution, amend the budget, and provide for the supplemental appropriations as reflected in the exhibits and as I just talked about. So, and I'm ready to answer your questions now. |
| 02:35:28.61 | Unknown | No, so I just wanted, I think it helps to not to belabor things, but explain, you did it on the last slide, but if you can go back a couple more. Sure. And you can characterize what the legal settlements are. You or Mary, kind of the $200,000 number, what those pertain to. We don't have to go on a big discussion of what they were. |
| 02:35:36.17 | Charlie Francis | That's true. |
| 02:35:47.99 | Unknown | Thank you. Right. |
| 02:35:48.76 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. |
| 02:35:48.80 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:35:51.31 | Mary Wagner | Well, there's a number of outstanding pieces of litigation that we're trying to plan for. Some of them we have insurance coverage for and some of them we do not. And the majority of this is designated to anticipated costs coming in related to litigation matters that we don't have insurance coverage for. Right. And specifics about those settlements are going to need to be discussed in closed session. |
| 02:36:14.31 | Unknown | But they run the gamut from trip and fall to the whole gamut of things that go across what the city can get sued for. kind of thing. Is that fair, you know, whole breadth of issues? So it's not like all of a sudden, there's not one big lawsuit that we're dealing with this particular appropriation. |
| 02:36:38.02 | Mary Wagner | There is a major piece of litigation that's pending right now that we've talked about in closed session and would need to further discuss there. |
| 02:36:41.77 | Unknown | session and would need to further discuss there. Yeah. No, that's a different one altogether. |
| 02:36:49.68 | Unknown | And just to clarify on the next slide, these are things that throughout the course of the last six to nine months we've made adjustments to as things have come back. That's correct. And either cost more in the case of the street repair program because of scope changes or in the case of the MLK because the sewer pipe needed to be replaced that we didn't know needed to be replaced, things like that. |
| 02:36:57.75 | Charlie Francis | you That's correct. |
| 02:37:12.63 | Herb Weiner | Yeah. |
| 02:37:13.17 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. |
| 02:37:13.51 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:37:13.53 | Herb Weiner | Thank you. |
| 02:37:13.61 | Unknown | That's correct. |
| 02:37:14.00 | Herb Weiner | Thank you. |
| 02:37:15.42 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:37:18.47 | Herb Weiner | Charlie, just for everybody's benefit, in the capital projects, could you remind people that we actually put away money and have a capital projects fund that looks for long-term expenditure and we are often then moving things around based on the immediate capital needs. Could you just comment on our capital? |
| 02:37:44.78 | Charlie Francis | Thank you for listening. Program. So for the completeness of the accounting system, we run all of our capital projects through the Capital Project Fund. The Capital Project Fund has a number of revenue sources that come into it. For example, we receive gas tax money. Gas tax money can only be spent for streets, in many cases, only for street construction. So when it comes into the Capital Project Fund, that money is dedicated just for that street project. We also put money aside every year. We transfer money from the general fund into the capital project fund to be accumulated for just a specific purpose. We charge an impact fee on new construction that's accumulated in another fund that can only be used for capital projects. So all this money that is accumulated goes into the capital projects fund and then we account for the capital projects by tying the specific capital projects to specific revenue sources. So at the end of every fiscal year there's a fund balance in the capital projects fund that carries forward from year to year. |
| 02:38:59.86 | Herb Weiner | Does anybody up here have any further questions of Charlie. |
| 02:39:05.07 | Unknown | Thank you. So Charlie, just to net net it, in terms of your excess versus what you're asking to appropriate. |
| 02:39:17.29 | Charlie Francis | you |
| 02:39:17.54 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:39:17.61 | Charlie Francis | Very good. Very good question. So what's not in here, but it is in your exhibits, and I'll just point it out to you. I'll try to use this pointer again. You notice the general fund revenues are $12,323,000. Now they're going to go to $12,570,000. The expenditures were going to $12,539,000 right here. So if you took the 12,570 minus the 12,539, We went into the fiscal year anticipating that our revenues would be higher than our expenditures by $30,000. After these adjustments, our revenues will still exceed our expenditures by now $31,000. So we do still have a revenue budget surplus as we go in from the general fund from this year to the end of the year. Was that the question? Thank you. |
| 02:40:18.66 | Susan Rowe | Yeah, that number is... |
| 02:40:20.25 | Charlie Francis | Pardon? |
| 02:40:20.30 | Susan Rowe | THE END OF THE END OF THE That number is 30,000. |
| 02:40:20.74 | Charlie Francis | That number is 30,000. |
| 02:40:27.42 | Councilmember Leon | And Charlie, because there are different funds and we're taking money out of different funds, capital fund and general fund, and I take it when you ask for a resolution approving these mid-year budget modifications, |
| 02:40:34.02 | Unknown | No. |
| 02:40:34.27 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:40:39.96 | Councilmember Leon | It's exactly as set forth in the staff report, with the exception that you're asking for $20,000 instead of $15,000 for the marineship. Correct. All the other figures are exactly as stated. Thank you. |
| 02:40:51.13 | Charlie Francis | us. |
| 02:40:51.45 | Councilmember Leon | Thank you. |
| 02:40:51.47 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. |
| 02:40:51.97 | Councilmember Leon | Thank you. |
| 02:40:52.23 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. |
| 02:40:56.08 | Charlie Francis | So that would create a $25,000 surplus, not a $30,000. do that. And then I would say, Thank you. As you get down to the recommendation, book. we would have to amend the exhibit B to reflect that. That 20,000. Thank you. |
| 02:41:17.66 | Herb Weiner | Okay, well, at this point, let's open this up for public comment. So who would like to? OK. |
| 02:41:35.24 | Shelby Van Meter | Shelby Van Meter. Charlie, that was a great report. I really enjoyed it. I hope I understood it because I'm going to ask for money. |
| 02:41:43.22 | Councilmember Weiner | Thank you. . you shall exist in them. Thank you. |
| 02:41:48.39 | Shelby Van Meter | As you all know by this time, I'm here to ask that a portion of excess funds be allocated for beautification. THOUGH WE REALIZE THAT STAFF HAS ALREADY CATEGORIZED WHATEVER EXCESS FUNDS THERE ARE for use. other than for beautification, but we will carry on. I'm you might ask why now, and there are some very good reasons why now. One is because there is a groundswell of community support for turning around a long period of landscape neglect. This energy and enthusiasm should be supported, and yes, made use of. allocating funds for beautification this evening will, we feel sure, go a long way toward keeping that enthusiasm alive. Why now? Because South Little Beautiful study group diligently did its work and recommended, as encouraged by our city manager, three high impact projects for immediate beautification attention, each of which needs financial support. Why now? because groundwork is currently being laid for Sausalito Beautiful, a new organization that, will take us into the future A signal from the city that it is truly in partnership with resident efforts would definitely give this new organization A psychic shot in the arm. Your decision will be shared with a group meeting on Saturday to discuss its formation. We are asking the Council to earmark $40,000 of the projected $246,500 in excess midyear funds if I understood the chart correctly. to support the three projects recommended in the Sausalito Beautification Study Group This $40,000, by the way, was suggested by Adam Politzer last fall. when he mentioned to me that He expected about $200,000 in excess revenues would likely be coming up mid-year and we, the study group, embraced his suggestions and recommended three priorities for mid-year attention, as you know. One was Caledonia Street tree pruning. Bartlett trees, which has been mentioned before and formally quoted $10,000 to prune and shape the street's 47 trees. We believe this work would greatly improve Caledonia's appearance and will hopefully encourage other businesses and property owners to band together to improve Caledonia's streetscape. We ask the city to fund this work. Two, we recommended a nicely landscaped Welcome to Sausalito entry sign. at the north end of Tower, We since learned that GPS sends most people who are tourists through the south end of town. |
| 02:44:47.68 | Herb Weiner | Please go on. Okay. |
| 02:44:50.22 | Unknown | Can I ask you a question? |
| 02:44:51.80 | Shelby Van Meter | Thank you. That's shocking. |
| 02:44:52.49 | Unknown | Thank you. And the question would be can you continue? Do you have more to say? |
| 02:44:56.54 | Shelby Van Meter | I have more to say. And I shared to them I've lost my train of thought. Since this is new news, nothing has obviously been designed yet, so there are no cost numbers, but financial help from the city would greatly be appreciated to move this project forward. Tom Wilhive, designer for Bloom and Bridgeway, who has done the beautiful North Bridgeway work, has offered to provide design resources and The city's Rotary Club and Lions Clubs have agreed to collaborate on the Welcome to Sausalito signs on both ends of town. Our third project recommended was City Hall Relandscaping. to take care of the current terrible neglect and appearance of the landscaping around City Hall partly because it looks so bad and it's depressing for people who come here. But City Hall is the single most important visual symbol of the city. Beautiful landscaping, attractive entrances would go a long way toward restoring pride in Sausalito's appearance and would speak volumes about commitment. We're thrilled to announce beyond Saucolito Rotary and Lions Club's commitment We're over the moon to tell you that it looks like SWA, the country's largest landscape and urban design firm founded and headquartered here in Sausalito. is interested in providing pro bono design and installation services for City Hall re-landscaping. This comes from my conversations with the firm's managing principal and chair of the board. If the offer is formalized, which I believe it will be, and if the city accepts this great, generous offer, meetings will be set up soon to begin the process. Money will be needed, however, for plant materials and whatever is specified for the building entrances. So what? What we're saying is that SWA's interest, a business, the offers of the Rotary Club, the Lions Club, as service cards, and resident Tom Wilhite's offer as a resident, are exciting examples of the willingness of this community to support the city in making Sausalito's built landscapes beautiful once again. Such public-private partnerships are examples of what Sausalito will need going forward. |
| 02:47:26.95 | Shelby Van Meter | Speaking of the need to increase revenues, we believe that a more cared for, beautiful landscape, a better looking city, means a more prosperous city. This means an increase, or at least the potential for increase, of revenues related to hotel tax, property values, sales tax, and parking revenues. So the bottom line, Um, You're in a wonderful, enviable position tonight. to help us launch a new era by granting $40,000 just a portion of what will be needed and a small percentage of the excess monies that we saw listed tonight. Though I hesitate to say or suggest where that $40,000 might come from, I initially thought shifting the 22,500 for the online and in-person or on-phone I guess you'd call it interviews of South Slater residents to see what they want from maybe there's more benefit in having a beautiful city. and happy residents and increased wonderfulness all the way around. maybe that would be a better use of the 22.5. I can understand what Charlie's purposes are, though, in recommending this. And then the $200,000, because it's a nice round number that fits for attorney's fees, which I understand mostly is unexpected in connection with ADA compliance. taking 10% of that, 20% or whatever, to help us get to our $40,000 need seems like a possible way to find the money for our request. I'm going to ask those who are here to support what I'm asking for to please stand. |
| 02:49:26.49 | Shelby Van Meter | They came tonight to support this request. I very much appreciate it. Thank you all so much. |
| 02:49:31.07 | Unknown | I'm very much. |
| 02:49:34.93 | Shelby Van Meter | And thank you, City Council, for your consideration. |
| 02:49:39.77 | Councilmember Weiner | Ann, could you pass the hat around? |
| 02:49:44.97 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 02:49:45.36 | Susan Rowe | Yes, sir. |
| 02:49:47.03 | Unknown | It's okay. |
| 02:49:54.81 | Jerry Taylor | Good evening, my name is Jerry Taylor. We live at 210 Third Street. I'm representing the Soss of the Lions Club. And two paces behind me is the president of the Rotary Club. But he says he's going to be long-winded, and I'm not going to be. The Lions Club has been in Sosso since 1927. We're real proud of the civic improvement, the civic beautification projects, the park improvement projects. We have been and continue to be involved in. We are looking for more things, new things to do. And the leadership of the Lions Club and the Rotary Club have agreed to work together with the two clubs. We're looking for a project that we can lend both physical support and physical support to. And so when she'll be speaking to us about this, it sounds like there's things in there that we can get involved with and we can support. Ron? |
| 02:50:43.66 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:50:43.68 | Ron | Thanks, Jerry. I won't be too long-winded, but Jerry and I are both here due to the awesome power and influence of Shelby Van Meter |
| 02:50:45.81 | Jerry Taylor | THE FAMILY. |
| 02:50:45.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:50:46.43 | Jerry Taylor | Thank you. |
| 02:50:52.07 | Ron | the Sausalito Women's Club, which we dare not cross in any way. And I recommend this council follow a similar course. I'm not. I agree. I think there's sharper pencils up on the podium who have been looking at the budget and numbers more frequently than I have, but I agree with Shelby that there certainly should be a way to find $40,000 there. There's $30,000 that's unallocated. And again, I'd sort of echo her comment and maybe I have a stronger opinion on that, the $22,500 for soliciting residents' opinions. I just, I'm not aware that it's ever been much of a problem to get our residents' opinions on matters that matter to them. So allocating $22,500 to that seems not the best expenditure of money. The Rotary Club and Lions Club has been looking for some opportunities for us to work together on a joint project, and Shelby came to us and suggested a more beautiful, not just entry sign but entry statement into the city of Sausalito. We don't have it on either side of town. who We're very interested in providing hands-on labor and maybe some fundraising, but we definitely need the city's cooperation. And when the time comes that we come to the city, with maybe a set of alternative proposals for those entry statements. I'd like tonight to hear from the council that the city will waive its fees for processing that application, which would most likely go through your planning commission, because it is a sign and it's within the city limits. it would be most appropriate that the city support this financially not only by helping with the cost of the actual project, but also by waiving the fees. Um, I think that's all I've got here. Harkening back to an earlier item, Mayor Weiner mentioned that the population had declined in the city, and I wasn't aware of that. But, um... As part of the housing element process, I'm wondering if the consultant could look into the phenomena that we're having an increasing number of second homes in Sausalito, homes that were once permanent residences that are now second homes for the wealthy. And that's, I don't think, something we're tracking statistically. It would be a good thing to get a handle on. Thank you. |
| 02:53:49.46 | Unknown | You were right, you see. You were right, Jerry. |
| 02:53:51.73 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:53:51.82 | Ron | I don't know. |
| 02:53:53.03 | Susan Rowe | Okay. |
| 02:53:53.25 | Ron | . |
| 02:53:53.98 | Susan Rowe | . |
| 02:53:57.93 | Unknown | Good evening, I'm Roger Taylor, and like all the others who stood up a minute ago, I'm a resident here. in Sausalito. And my wife and I feel very blessed to be living in Sausalito You know, it's a bayside, beautiful setting. It's a village-like atmosphere. the proximity we have to so many places that are wonderful to visit, really make it an international destination location. I've often heard people getting off the ferry boat from San Francisco, looking around and making comments like, this place looks like Portofino in the Italian Riviera, or other such beautiful bayside cities. Um, We all like that image, I think, of our city. Our Chamber of Commerce and city leaders actively promote that image. It's good for business, it's good for homeowners, it's good for our civic pride. But unfortunately, the poor conditions of the public lands really tell a very different story. When you see the dirt curbs and lots, overgrown landscaping, uneven stairways, broken sidewalks, collapsing rails and retaining walls, When you look closely, it gives you a lasting image of a town that's, you wonder, is this town in decline? is a city without civic pride. It's a strange juxtaposition to that beautiful, gorgeous Bay view that we have. The image is bad for business. It's bad for property values. It's bad for how we feel about our city. and it's bad for how we feel about our government's priorities. And it doesn't seem like it would be that part of a thing to do something about. That's why I strongly support, and I think all these people strongly support, the beautification study group's recommendations. And I also encourage the city council to support an ongoing private-public partnership to really address the issue of beautification on both public and private lands. I think we could do a good job of that. Thank you. |
| 02:56:00.27 | Herb Weiner | Thank you very much. Is there anybody else who would like to comment? Okay. |
| 02:56:13.81 | Charlie Francis | May I make sense? I just wanted to, one additional piece of information that the council needs to consider when considering this is that there's a one-time cost and that's the $40,000. But implicit in that is an increase in the ongoing level of service because the beautification needs to be maintained as it goes forward. And so, you know, as we were talking about earlier in the presentation, we have to recognize if we're increasing levels of service, there will be a decrease somewhere else or additional revenue sources needed in the future. So, you know, one course of action the council could consider is to include this in your priority calendar project, include it in the next year's budget appropriations, and as we bring all the services that are being asked for to be increased to the council to prioritize at that time. It's one option that you have. In terms of options for just finding $40,000, that's not so difficult. We happened to transfer an additional $50,000 over budget into the Capital Project Fund last year than what we budgeted to transfer in. So the Capital Project Fund has some additional resource in it. But I just want the council to recognize This is the first time I'm an ongoing increase in level of service. |
| 02:57:57.82 | Unknown | Mr. Peter will reopen the comments. |
| 02:57:58.67 | Peter Van Meter | open the comments. With all due respect, I really challenge what Charlie just said. You know, if you're going to trim the trees on Caledonia Street, that's not going to create any ongoing additional maintenance costs. If you're going to take out the weeds in a parking lot and put in some real vegetation, that's not going to increase the ongoing maintenance costs. You've got a staff that's supposed to be doing the work anyway. So. the idea that by investing some capital seed money on this stuff, that you're gonna create some long-term financial obligation. I really disagree with that concept. I'm sorry. |
| 02:58:42.29 | Herb Weiner | Is there anybody else? And now I will close. Ah, okay. One more. Let's... |
| 02:58:47.59 | Susan Rowe | Thank you. |
| 02:58:53.00 | Laura Rapp | Laura Rapp, I live on 408 Napa Street. We own a plant business, Rapp Plant Rental. And I want to buttress what Peter Van Meter just said, is that the maintenance would not be increased. And I can use our business as an example. When you plant and you choose the right plant, there is very little that you need to do. As Peter just said, we do have workers that are to be providing that service. And when we choose the right plants, as an example of the wrong plant, our median on Bridgeway with the trees that have been dying for the last 20 years. Those were the wrong plants to be put in that divider. And so with the help, as we hear from Shelby, that we'll have a landscaping project, SWA. |
| 02:59:57.18 | Debbie (City Clerk) | S.W. |
| 02:59:57.75 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 02:59:58.66 | Laura Rapp | Yeah, there's a country... It's really just no choosing the right ones. Yeah. Yes. So that's all I have. |
| 03:00:12.22 | Herb Weiner | Thank you. Okay, so I am gonna close public comment. And let's try and work through this. |
| 03:00:26.17 | Unknown | Why don't we break this up into pieces? |
| 03:00:33.33 | Unknown | be my suggestion. Certainly we know we have something to pay for that we've already paid for. We need to allocate those monies and that goes back to your previous slide. So |
| 03:00:35.03 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 03:00:52.48 | Unknown | which supplemental requests, is there any questions about those supplemental requests? |
| 03:00:59.09 | Herb Weiner | I don't have any. |
| 03:01:02.67 | Unknown | So that seems, you know, we already made those, approved most of those except for the marinship specific plan and request tonight. Those have already been approved. So that narrows down how much money is there to kind of go towards what else. So since the Lions Club and the Rotary Club, or sorry, since the Lions Club and the Rotary |
| 03:01:10.05 | Scott Diamond | Yeah. Yep. |
| 03:01:21.35 | Councilmember Weiner | this point. |
| 03:01:25.00 | Unknown | I don't know. |
| 03:01:27.71 | Unknown | Thank you. and the Women's Club, but I'm targeting them because they already have signs. So I happened to sit on the Planning Commission when some of those signs went through, and there are a lot of people who don't like signs. period, in Sausalito. signs. A lot of people don't like signs. So like the existing rotary and lion club signs at this end, at the north end, and there's some at the south end of town. So why don't we, my suggestion would be, since we only have $30,000 to play with, and I'm not actually talking |
| 03:01:56.75 | Shelby Van Meter | Thank you. |
| 03:01:56.89 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:01:56.98 | Shelby Van Meter | Thank you. |
| 03:01:57.02 | Peter Van Meter | Thank you. |
| 03:01:57.28 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 03:01:57.35 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:01:58.83 | Shelby Van Meter | Can I make a quick comment? Yeah. We're talking about entry statements, not a scattering of signs. |
| 03:01:59.81 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 03:02:04.53 | Unknown | No, I know. But if you go, and I don't want to get that back and forth with you, but there are entry statement signs for the Rotary, the Lions Club, and what's the third one? |
| 03:02:11.94 | Councilmember Weiner | is, Yeah, at the Rotary Club, it still tells you that the meetings are at Altamira, so it depends on how long ago that is. So now we're sending the Rotarians up to a rehab center. |
| 03:02:18.90 | Unknown | Yeah. Right. |
| 03:02:20.63 | Unknown | So now I was... |
| 03:02:25.19 | Unknown | I don't know. Thank you. Eh? . I'm not. |
| 03:02:28.85 | Councilmember Weiner | you |
| 03:02:29.22 | Unknown | Thank you. Which is where they belong to the game. I'm just kidding. Ron, sorry about that. No, the... |
| 03:02:30.03 | Unknown | Which is where they belong to the game. I'm just kidding. Ron, sorry about that. |
| 03:02:34.98 | Peter Van Meter | What? |
| 03:02:38.44 | Unknown | Thank you. So what I would say is a compromise. There's not enough funding to do all three of those, it sounds like, in terms of those projects with the supplemental money. And I think it will take longer to work through the sign issues because we'll probably replace, trade off the new signs, if that's what the public wants to do, trade the new signs off of the old signs, replace the club signs that are both in the north end of town. If you look, there's on either end there are club signs. And so maybe I don't know if that's the right place to put a new sign, but we can figure that out with the right guidance. But maybe we tackle the street trees and the city hall landscaping with what money is left from the |
| 03:03:05.79 | Unknown | . |
| 03:03:05.98 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:03:26.77 | Unknown | after the appropriations we already spent, and that way we'll at least tackle a couple of these projects to start. I think the sign projects might take a little bit more time to work through the system, whereas the trees and the City Hall landscaping, I think, are going to be The money is allocated. It can be there. Non-controversial and won't take as long. And then when we come back for the budget cycle, which starts in a couple of weeks, for the next year's budget, we can put the signage in with the appropriation request for everything else for next year, for the next year's budget, which starts in June. Yeah. Or the end of June. |
| 03:03:42.38 | Councilmember Weiner | non-controversial. |
| 03:04:04.25 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:04:04.26 | Herb Weiner | Yeah. |
| 03:04:04.47 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:04:06.69 | Herb Weiner | Yeah, let me follow on this, if I may. We're really close to starting the whole budget cycle for next year. So when we go through and start the priority calendars, the version of the priority calendar we're going to use this year. Um, You'll be back, undoubtedly. So there's no question that some of these things just can't possibly get finished in this year. in this fiscal year anyway. And I think the signs are a good one because I don't think we're going to be able to put signs up without going through some process. planning commission for instance. So I agree with that. We should put the signs on the priority calendar or something to look at and discuss, but that's a process. So even if we allocated money, it couldn't possibly get used. this year. What I'm trying to tease apart here is, that which is sort of a capital investment and that which is maintenance, which was sort of, Charles was going down that path. I'm a little worried about allocating Bye. Let me step back a second. We have a great opportunity here because the thing that resonates with me is the fact that we've got people who really want to do this and that there's an initiative and we need to support that. So that's number one. We need to find a way to support that. and In particular, if you have also professionals who are willing to put a little bit of Um, there... into helping in some design things. That's great. But look at City Hall. We're going to have to restripe the parking lot. Right. |
| 03:06:12.60 | Susan Rowe | you |
| 03:06:14.89 | Herb Weiner | I can't...is our director of public work still here? Yeah. So Jonathan, I don't know when the timing of that project is, but presumably we wouldn't be... |
| 03:06:18.40 | Susan Rowe | Yeah. |
| 03:06:26.52 | Herb Weiner | thinking of landscaping until we've sort of done whatever major infrastructure improvements we're doing around here, presumably. |
| 03:06:32.38 | Councilmember Weiner | I'm not doing the last thing. |
| 03:06:35.75 | Herb Weiner | So how would a sort of landscaping add-on work with what we've already got planned for City Hall? That's really my question, I think. Sorry to put you on the spot. |
| 03:06:47.41 | Jonathon Goldman | Sorry to put you on that. No worries. I don't mind. Certainly Coordinating the two is important and necessary. I think given the, if council's direction is to devote staff time and capital resources towards accomplishing a relandscaping project, then it's my responsibility to do that. And I don't have any objection to starting that tomorrow if the council chooses to direct that there's not only the issue of coordinating with the repaving of the lot there's the fact that at this point we are anticipating 25% mandatory reductions in water use for all city accounts beginning April 1st And I certainly would hate to see the council and the community invest significant resources in plant materials that will probably die if they aren't irrigated during the establishment period. So there are lots of moving parts, if you will, that are my responsibility to integrate, but it's your decision, and as Mr. Francis indicated, there's the opportunity to take the time to prioritize all of those issues and express them as a capital budget beginning July 1st, either all or in part. And since you've given me the opportunity to talk. If we're going to invest community resources in a one-time pruning of the trees on Caledonia, which I personally and professionally agree is highly desirable, |
| 03:07:58.72 | Peter Van Meter | you Thank you. |
| 03:08:38.45 | Jonathon Goldman | The expectation is that that is repeated, and we do not. |
| 03:08:41.23 | Unknown | Right. |
| 03:08:42.94 | Jonathon Goldman | contrary to what some members of the audience have said, have the staff or the resources to provide that level of service with our current budget situation. So I don't have a problem. I agree that the trees are tortured in a sense by not being better cared for. But if we're gonna start on that path, we need to make, in my opinion, a commitment to maintain them in that state, prune for beauty, for the rest of their lives. So that's my advice. |
| 03:09:12.69 | Unknown | you Thank you. |
| 03:09:19.39 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:09:22.61 | Unknown | Well, so here's what I'll say in general, and this is what I've said to the library board, to the Chamber of Commerce, this is like seed money. It's like matching funds. It's like that's the way to go. And if you look at other cities that are doing a good job at this, that's how they're progressing, is that we have such a little ability and we're coming to you for a new tax in a very short period of time on your sewer bill because we've got to spend a lot of money to replace pipes. Um, But that's, I think, where we need to go, and I think that's where you're headed as a group and as the various clubs and this new organization are working together is, and that's the way it's worked. We've kind of made it work with the libraries. You kind of start, we chip in together, and I think that's where you're going, and I think what you're asking for is like, well, let's, as a gesture of good faith, let's start somewhere and chip in some money into the pot, and then we'll see if we can start building kind of a, |
| 03:10:08.12 | Unknown | you |
| 03:10:22.52 | Unknown | Um, annual kind of like the library board contributes money every year, right, to the friends of the library to keep the library going at a higher level of service than we could afford to do at our revenue rate now. So I think that's where we're going to be going as a community. That's what's going to happen on the park side of things in general is that we're going to have to get, you know, in order to redo the parks, not just to to keep the weeds down, we're going to have to pony up some real money, like millions and millions of dollars. And that's going to have to come from us as individuals because the city can't afford it to do those capital projects. So what I would say, I think, is a gesture of good faith. And I agree with Jonathan. Pruning trees isn't a one-time thing because if you prune a tree and you let it go for 20 years, that's what's happened all around town. People do one thing once and let it go forever because they never put it in, enough money in the budget to keep doing it over and over and over again. But that being said, I think we should do something to give you something to start and say here's an immediate impact of kind of this groundswell of let's take care of things better and we're going to go out and chip in and we're going to do something to start. and it'll show the city's serious about it and it'll give some hope to these folks to keep working at it. So I think we should pick either one or two of these projects. and address them in the budget cycle because if we can't do it, you know, you're right. the woman who owns a plant business, I wish you would do my yard. So that way it doesn't require any, I pick the right plants so I don't have to do all kinds of maintenance to them as I have to clean up after. But landscaping does require maintenance, no matter what you do. Um, That being said, we're going to dig up this park out here if we ever raise the money so we don't want to put new landscaping out front of the – but there's places to do it. |
| 03:12:16.71 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:12:16.79 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 03:12:16.83 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 03:12:20.73 | Unknown | Um, So I would go back to my original assumption of saying, okay, let's Jonathan's right. We have to plan to sort of, as Charlie says, this is what he wants money to do, sort of say, what kind of levels of service do you want to maintain? And if higher level of landscaping is one of them, then let's We've got to find the money from somewhere, and that may be we don't do something else because our ability to raise revenue is very limited in the short run. |
| 03:12:48.15 | Susan Rouse | Thank you. |
| 03:12:48.18 | Councilmember Weiner | you |
| 03:12:48.23 | Susan Rouse | Thank you. |
| 03:12:48.25 | Councilmember Weiner | Thank you. |
| 03:12:48.38 | Unknown | Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. |
| 03:12:50.49 | Councilmember Weiner | Okay. |
| 03:12:50.92 | Unknown | Thank you. So, |
| 03:12:51.88 | Councilmember Weiner | Thank you. I'll comment. |
| 03:12:57.48 | Councilmember Weiner | You know, about eight, nine years ago, we really stopped looking at the trees, the ones down in downtown, the parking lot. Caledonia Street, and what happened was, unless you topped those trees, As they get bigger on the top, the roots get deeper. In some cases, like in packing lot one, they actually circled around because they couldn't go into the salt water lower, so they've strangled those trees. I think we have to make an investment. I know that What not? at this time here making a long-term although we should be looking at that, but we have to start somewhere. and I think it's important that once maybe people that see in the community What the... what this does. then additional funds from the public could come in possibly. I like the idea of SWA. I've known them for a long time. And I think they can guide us into also teaching the city what plants we will use in the future because this water shortage is not just for one year. They said that if it rains for the next 60 days, we will get up to the normal for what we have. and that isn't going to happen. So this isn't something that's this year. My thoughts, real quickly. I'd like to I propose that maybe $30,000 go. And maybe Rotary Alliance can come up with five, and that will get to year 40. But that's my thinking at this time. |
| 03:14:38.16 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:14:41.73 | Councilmember Leon | I appreciate everyone coming. I think it's really a golden opportunity for the city to take advantage of this energy to beautify. I think we really need to do something at this mid-year cycle. I'm a little confused as to exactly what projects are being proposed and it doesn't seem appropriate to review them tonight, but I tend to agree with Council Member Weiner, or if we can appropriate $30,000 to get it started, because we want to start this now, and maybe we can work out some of the details of what can be funded in this fiscal year, and then we can fund some for next fiscal year. So if we can come with a number. But I think we need to work out exactly some of these details, because I don't know that we're – I'm certainly not prepared to understand each of these projects. I know there's a lot of energy and I trust everyone here, but I think we need to work out some of the details. So if we can allocate a certain amount of money for this year to get it started, then we go on to next year as well for the remainder. |
| 03:15:42.70 | Herb Weiner | So I'm good with 30K. If we can craft a motion, I would say I think it's part of the spirit of trying to kickstart this and send the right message. in terms of the most immediate expenditure, if some part of that was going to be used immediately, I think the only thing that would make sense would be the tree pruning on Caledonia Street because there's no way the entry sign can be done in the next short time period. |
| 03:16:21.92 | Councilmember Weiner | No, but you have a blooming, you have along the strip that was Blooming Bridgeway. That has to be... Sure, sure. Okay. So it isn't just the signs down there. |
| 03:16:36.99 | Peter Van Meter | So that's part of it. |
| 03:16:37.80 | Councilmember Weiner | That's right. |
| 03:16:38.37 | Unknown | See, that's part of the whole situation because what Adam did, I think, is hire an outside firm to come in and do some weeding because the public works guys are already programmed. I mean, there is, and you went through this whole exercise of understanding their schedule and where their time goes, that they change the sand on Park X, you know, twice a year on this day because that's how much time they have and how much money they have. |
| 03:16:39.94 | Councilmember Weiner | exemplifies the whole situation. |
| 03:17:06.03 | Unknown | You don't want to, I think that the what I would caution is that you don't want to allocate money to something that obligates you to something in the future you don't have the money to do. Right? I think by saying we're going to have a higher level of service of maintenance along the median, we can't afford, we don't have the money in the budget yet to do that for the next two years. We could choose to do that and take money out of |
| 03:17:27.61 | Unknown | YOU CAN'T. |
| 03:17:37.25 | Unknown | more motorcycles for the police or whatever the heck they want. That was donated. |
| 03:17:40.47 | Councilmember Weiner | Um, |
| 03:17:42.90 | Unknown | Yeah, but you have maintenance of whenever somebody gives one of these things, there's maintenance that goes along with it. |
| 03:17:44.54 | Councilmember Weiner | Yeah, I know. along with it. It was a brand new vehicle, so. |
| 03:17:48.98 | Unknown | Thank you. But I would say in this case, because there's good energy, it's a positive energy, it's a good thing to do, I think we can just allocate $30,000, put it in the public works budget for the remainder of the year, and between Jonathan and the beautiful folks, you know, work out what are these two projects can be accomplished in that timeframe between the street trees and the city hall re-landscaping and let the staff work it out with these guys and their energy. |
| 03:18:08.69 | Unknown | Don't fall. |
| 03:18:08.98 | Unknown | Bye. for folks. Thank you. |
| 03:18:11.03 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:18:30.66 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:18:30.69 | Herb Weiner | Thank you. |
| 03:18:30.71 | Unknown | Oh, |
| 03:18:30.96 | Herb Weiner | Go for it, Sheldon. |
| 03:18:32.43 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:18:34.30 | Shelby Van Meter | I spoke with Juan Ochoa, who's the master artist for Bartlett Trees. Some of you probably know. He said that if the trees are professionally done by a good company, and are cleaned out and shaped properly that they wouldn't have to be touched again for at least three years. So that's helpful, I think. It's not as though they have to be done every year. And when we ask for seed money, what we mean is that This is a good faith effort on the part of the city to tell us that they're with us because there are a lot of people ready to work very hard to raise money to support these projects. 30,000, 15,000, 10,000 is not going to be enough to buy all the plants for City Hall. It probably isn't. but we can raise money. So it's a partnership. This is why I'm talking about public-private partnerships. This is what other cities do to make their cities look good. They don't expect the city to do the whole thing, but they do expect the city to participate and to take care of what's done. Now, I do know that SWA and any landscape firm today who's doing business with the drought conditions that they know are in existence and may be coming for a long time, they're specking plants that are not demanding plants. They're not plants that require a lot of maintenance If you ever look at, for example, SWA's website, you'll see that their designs are very spare They're very spirit. Very simple. very clean, and they don't require a huge investment of care and maintenance, they simply don't. And as Laura Rapp said, choose the right plants and you don't have to spend all this money that we would have had to spend to take care of Cloudview Park where everything is deciduous, everything requires a lot of water, everything requires a lot of pruning. This is not the kind of re-landscaping that would be done. So, just wanted to assure you of that, okay? |
| 03:20:43.68 | Herb Weiner | Thanks, Shelburne. |
| 03:20:48.27 | Herb Weiner | So I like your idea of 30K in that space. |
| 03:20:53.93 | Unknown | you |
| 03:20:54.16 | Herb Weiner | put it there and this is going to be seed money and collaboration between Sausalito Beautiful Public Works and that way. So could you craft a motion for that? |
| 03:20:57.74 | Susan Rowe | Thank you. |
| 03:20:57.76 | Unknown | Jesus. |
| 03:21:04.19 | Unknown | Yeah, no. Well, I think we can throw it in with the rest of these. |
| 03:21:10.33 | Susan Rowe | I think this is motion. that's right. |
| 03:21:13.82 | Charlie Francis | Yeah, so we can add it to that. You would just add $30,000 to Exhibit B. Exhibit B, right. |
| 03:21:18.02 | Susan Rowe | to exhibit B. |
| 03:21:18.72 | Unknown | Thank you. Right? |
| 03:21:20.79 | Charlie Francis | Along with the other 5,000. So yeah. |
| 03:21:22.97 | Unknown | Yep. Right. So let me just, because I hope I'm not coming across as negative to you folks. I'm just trying to be practical as well as encouraging at the same time. Because I think it's a great thing that you're doing. We certainly have a lot to improve and to make look better. And we would all be proud of that. And so I appreciate the hard work you're doing. and the energy you're putting into it. So my motion would be to approve the mid-year budget resolution. to amend the budget and provide for supplemental appropriations as reflected in Exhibits A, B, and C with the revised Exhibit B, including additional money for the Marinship Committee's consultant, as well as for $30,000 for Sausalito Beautiful, but going into the Public Works budget for it to be... to be programmed by the Public Works Director and it's also beautiful to the city, whether it's the City Hall Landscaping or the Caledonia Street Trees, whatever that, whatever can be accomplished. Oh, and D. Sorry, I forgot D. There you go. Thanks. that Is that... Thank you. |
| 03:22:36.09 | Charlie Francis | to. |
| 03:22:36.22 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:22:36.27 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. |
| 03:22:36.31 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:22:36.46 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. It is clear and would the City Council like to see the plans before they're effectuated |
| 03:22:42.47 | Unknown | For the landscaping stuff? Yes. No, I don't think we don't get to that. |
| 03:22:43.67 | Charlie Francis | Yeah. |
| 03:22:45.37 | Unknown | We don't get to that. |
| 03:22:46.10 | Councilmember Weiner | make a request. |
| 03:22:46.79 | Unknown | No, the public works director and these folks can certainly do that. |
| 03:22:50.65 | Unknown | No. |
| 03:22:51.02 | Councilmember Leon | normal. |
| 03:22:51.41 | Herb Weiner | course of this in a second. |
| 03:22:52.25 | Councilmember Leon | it. |
| 03:22:52.31 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 03:22:52.46 | Councilmember Leon | Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Second. |
| 03:22:55.90 | Herb Weiner | All those in favor. Aye. Motion carries. |
| 03:22:57.64 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 03:23:08.52 | Herb Weiner | I would add |
| 03:23:08.94 | Councilmember Weiner | So get the rest. |
| 03:23:12.25 | Herb Weiner | Obviously, thank you all for coming. Um, But within a very short period of time, we're going to be talking about next year's budget. And the priority calendar. I look forward to seeing you all again then. |
| 03:23:26.53 | Herb Weiner | Thank you very much. |
| 03:23:26.71 | Susan Rowe | Thank you. |
| 03:23:26.93 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:23:26.97 | Susan Rowe | of our community. |
| 03:23:28.01 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:23:28.11 | Susan Rowe | you |
| 03:23:35.67 | Herb Weiner | Okay. |
| 03:23:39.57 | Herb Weiner | Thank you. |
| 03:23:45.80 | Herb Weiner | Okay. |
| 03:23:57.44 | Herb Weiner | If we could... Thank you. |
| 03:24:01.48 | Susan Rowe | Thanks, sir. |
| 03:24:02.14 | Herb Weiner | If you could kindly move outside if you want to talk, and if you want to stay and listen, please do. |
| 03:24:07.20 | Susan Rowe | I'm sorry. |
| 03:24:12.29 | Unknown | Thanks for coming. Thanks. Thanks. Bye. |
| 03:24:13.42 | Herb Weiner | Thanks. Bye now. Thanks, bye. |
| 03:24:25.84 | Herb Weiner | Okay, so our next item is our... City Manager information to Council, and at this point I'd also like to I'd like to thank Charlie Francis, who's been acting as assistant City Manager, Jordan Adams vacation. |
| 03:24:47.26 | Charlie Francis | Thank you, and I'm happy to report that. I haven't heard otherwise. He will be back Monday. Only Tuesday. God willing. The only city manager report item is something that you've heard before, and that's the Cache-Cay visit coming up this Thursday. And Council Member Weiner can update you on the schedule. And with that, I'd close my city manager report. |
| 03:24:47.27 | Herb Weiner | Thank you. |
| 03:24:54.60 | Herb Weiner | God willing. |
| 03:24:55.16 | Susan Rowe | Thank you. |
| 03:25:08.50 | Councilmember Weiner | With that, I'd close my city manager. I'll schedule 9 o'clock if you can. |
| 03:25:10.72 | Mary Wagner | Yeah. |
| 03:25:12.44 | Councilmember Weiner | here. It'll be only from 9 to 9.30, just a half hour, to greet the Vice Mayor of Qashqai. And then if you would like, you pay as you go, but we have a lunch at Fish. and it's quite a menu. In fact, most of the items are not on the menu. sold on to be quite a treat. and we did this last year. at Fish. I wasn't there, but they said it was spectacular. |
| 03:25:44.01 | Unknown | Get them to fix their sewer pipe. |
| 03:25:47.00 | Councilmember Weiner | I could look into it. |
| 03:25:47.82 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:25:49.02 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 03:25:49.24 | Susan Rowe | . |
| 03:25:49.71 | Councilmember Weiner | I love you when I'm with you. |
| 03:25:51.15 | Susan Rowe | Thank you. |
| 03:25:51.20 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:25:52.65 | Councilmember Weiner | Thank you. And actually, they're only here for a very – he's only here for Thursday, technically Wednesday night. We go pick him up at Half Moon Bay from that summit and bring him over here. Thursday is the day. Then we've got to get up at 4 in the morning and drive him to the airport on Friday morning. So it's a quick window. But I think it's important that they're very interested in making sure that this exchange, especially with the youth sailing, goes through. |
| 03:26:24.88 | Unknown | those strokes. What is the initial plan? Is that what the initial plan is? |
| 03:26:29.50 | Councilmember Weiner | that the initial yeah as you know he says the city |
| 03:26:29.52 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:26:33.10 | Councilmember Weiner | attempts to get something that really doesn't Right. Over cross. Like, psychiatry was established as the student exchange. Viña del Mar, I think you heard tonight, that is basically I you Seven as they call it seven women |
| 03:26:52.50 | Unknown | and |
| 03:26:53.16 | Councilmember Weiner | It's very much a woman's exchange for young women entrepreneurs. |
| 03:26:58.97 | Unknown | Mm-hmm. |
| 03:26:59.59 | Councilmember Weiner | And The other thing that we have with all of these three sister cities we have established, we've been able to establish a Sausalito Art Festival booth. for any And they now will be going and having their own little competition to see and jury who the individual will come. to that, but that's a wonderful thing. And the other is, as I said, and Viña Del Mar, and Cascais is the student exchange and the artist exchange. |
| 03:27:35.13 | Unknown | I agree. |
| 03:27:35.70 | Councilmember Weiner | So it's cultural also. |
| 03:27:38.07 | Susan Rowe | Okay. |
| 03:27:40.09 | Councilmember Weiner | And you're all invited. |
| 03:27:41.38 | Susan Rowe | So that's okay. We thanks for the update to Council Member Warner there. Is there any public comments on the same management report? I'm seeing none. The agenda items we have in the items will be a list of planning out in the next few months. you Is there anything that springs to our feet? |
| 03:28:15.55 | Herb Weiner | Whoops, sorry, I didn't have my microphone on. Any public comments on future agenda items? Seeing none, Council Member Committee reports. Anybody have anything? No. Any public comment? Then are there any other reports of significance? No. So this evening in adjourning, we were sad to learn that someone well-known in town, Susan Morris, has passed away, and so we would like to adjourn. She was a well-known and important person in town, realtor as well as a |
| 03:29:05.02 | Councilmember Weiner | member of She was on the she was in PACS Yeah 42 |
| 03:29:12.94 | Herb Weiner | . years of age, yeah. So a member of staff in the past as well as an important community member. So we're going to adjourn tonight in her memory. |
| 03:29:27.18 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:29:27.89 | Herb Weiner | Okay, thank you. |
Peter Romanowski — Neutral: Made various requests including a permit process for street vendors per Berry v. New York, to be named honorary mayor, access to showers (suggesting a cold-water shower at Schoonmaker Point), a memorial for Otis Redding on the waterfront, and mentioned past arrests. Also requested keys to the senior citizens' shower and humorously mentioned a statue of himself and his dog. ▶ 📄
Unknown — In Favor: Seconded the request for public showers, framing it as a need for purification (baptism) of both inner and outer person. Also discussed efforts to establish community gardens around places of worship, requesting cooperation from groups that may be obstructing the project, and emphasized the need for water amid drought conditions. ▶ 📄