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| 00:00:01.89 | Unknown | Welcome everyone. Ready? Welcome to the regular meeting of the Sausalito City Council. for Tuesday, December 1st, 2015. Linda, would you take the roll, please? |
| 00:00:12.84 | Unknown | Councilmember Weiner. |
| 00:00:14.32 | Unknown | President. |
| 00:00:14.95 | Unknown | Councilmember Pfeiffer? Here. Councilmember Withey? |
| 00:00:18.05 | Unknown | Here. |
| 00:00:18.39 | Unknown | you |
| 00:00:18.43 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:00:18.44 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:00:18.46 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:00:18.48 | Unknown | Vice Mayor Hoffman. |
| 00:00:20.57 | Jill Hoffman | President. |
| 00:00:21.33 | Unknown | Mayor Theodorus. Present. you Can we have Reverend Paul lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance? |
| 00:00:27.10 | Unknown | Thank you. Sure. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. |
| 00:00:30.29 | Unknown | I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States. |
| 00:00:33.04 | Unknown | of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God. Internet. with liberty and justice. |
| 00:00:44.87 | Unknown | I thought it was a prayer, but we start with the pledge. |
| 00:00:47.55 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:00:47.57 | Unknown | Yeah. Okay. We had no closed session tonight, so there'll be no closed session announcements, nor any public comment on closed session. We move on to approval of the agenda. Would someone like to make a motion to approve the agenda? |
| 00:01:03.97 | Jill Hoffman | So, maybe. |
| 00:01:05.67 | Unknown | SECOND. in favor aye that passes unanimously now we move on to special presentations and tonight we'll start off with Willow Creek Academy's Community Relations Board update and Royce Connor head of school at Willow Creek welcome Royce |
| 00:01:07.68 | Charlie Francis | Yeah. |
| 00:01:07.97 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:01:08.11 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. |
| 00:01:23.41 | Unknown | In one moment, I'll get this set up. |
| 00:01:31.73 | Unknown | Well, great. I want to thank city council for inviting me to talk about Willow Creek Academy today. We realize it's been a while since the school has had an opportunity to come and speak to the city about what it is that we do. And that's really what I want to do today, under the idea that there is no such thing as a strong community without a strong school. So I thought I'd spend about five to ten minutes today, very brief, I promise, to talk a little bit about the school from a perspective of some general background info and some history talk about some of our future plans and then talk about opportunities for support and partnership both to and from the school and hopefully to and from the city. So a little bit about our school at a glance. We are, as you know, the public charter school serving primarily students in the communities of Sausalito and Marin City. We serve students in grades kindergarten through eighth grade. We started back in the fall of 2001 with the idea, as many charter schools tend to, that There was a call in the community for greater public school choice. And for a very long time, parents and families were faced with a decision. If they wanted to have a public school education in Sausalito, and for many families, that decision led them to actually leave the city, feeling that the public schools weren't serving their needs as they saw them. So back in 1999 and 2000, a group of parents and educators got together to think about what could a public school look like that served the needs of the families as they wanted them. They wrote the charter in 2000. It got approved by the local school district in 2001. We opened our doors in the fall of 2001 with a class of about 37 kindergarten students. Since then, we've become a school of 380 students serving students in grades K through 8. It's been a time of incredible growth and a lot of excitement around it. As a charter school, we are governed by a board. Our board is an independent board, much like the board of a non-profit organization. Our president of the board is with us today, as well as some previous board members. We have in the kinds of autonomy that a charter school has, one piece that we'd like to point out is that we have the ability to be thoughtful about how large we want our classes to be. So at Willow Creek Academy we tell our families that our classes will be as small as 20 in kindergarten and no larger than 25 in our older grades, grades 5 through 8, and they get incrementally larger as the years progress. |
| 00:03:35.32 | David Sudo | PUT. |
| 00:04:00.62 | Unknown | A little bit about our approach to education. We have a very strong belief that schools need to be institutions that really teach for true understanding. So taking knowledge that students have and really going very deep with it so students have very deep knowledge of core concepts. And we do that through a project-based learning approach and an inquiry-driven approach that helps students take the knowledge that they have and develop deep understanding through interacting with their teachers, interacting with their colleagues, and building things as hands-on as possible by using elements in the classroom or even outside our classroom in our gardens and the local community. Like every public school, we have a commitment to achieving mastery in the common core state standards we are assessed on those like any other public school in the state and we'll be implementing the next generation science standards as they come into play in the state next year and the year after we have an approach to working with our students that balances the academic needs of our students with the social-emotional needs of them as well. And we do that through a program called the Responsive Classroom. The Responsive Classroom is a set of practices and a philosophy that gives teachers tools and strategies for helping students not just master academic content, but to master social-emotional skills as well. So walking through Willow Creek Creek Academy you're just as likely to see students engaged in fractions as they are engaged in interpersonal work around conflict resolution, around how to give positive greetings to each other in the morning, and how to make our community a strong feeling and a student-centered place. We have an approach to working with students and from disciplinary perspective using the practices of restorative justice. For a very long time, schools have seen student misbehavior as some sort of crime that needed to be punished rather than doing work that really gets to the root cause of student misbehavior. So a few years ago, we started using a process of restorative justice, which looks at student misbehavior not as some sort of crime, but as damage done to the school community that, like any other kind of damage, can be identified, taken accountability for, fixed, and then the whole school comes together more strong for it. So we have a process and team at our school who work with students who have made various decisions about behavior and really work with them and their families very, very closely, not from the perspective of punitiveness, of punishment, but of identifying root causes and building a system to help fix those root causes and making the community stronger because of it. And through that, we've seen a tremendous reduction in the number of referrals we've seen and the number of suspensions that we've had at our school and it's made a huge difference in our school culture we have a variety of different supports that we have in place for our students in addition to those we have content area specialists in literacy and in math we have assistant teachers often known as teacherides, who do work with our students in grades K through 2. We have wonderful use of student support teams where we bring in all kinds of adults who know students well to help build a stronger set of partnerships around supporting the student. The teachers, the administration, the parents, coaches, clergy, anyone who knows that student well and wants to be a part of a conversation to support the student, we have those quite often with our students. And it creates an overall approach that's both academic and social and emotional that supports the needs of all of our students and their families. A bit about our demographics. We are a uniquely diverse public school, much more than I've seen in any of the schools I've worked in in the last 20 years. You can see bar on the right represents the school as a whole and it's one of the only schools I've ever seen where there isn't school-wide a majority ethnic or racial group we truly have a large set of different kinds of folks who are really representing Sausalito and Marin City and the surrounding community so we're about 40 percent white, about 15% African American, about 20% Latino, and the rest of the percent being Asian or other, other being multiracial students or students whose families didn't identify a race on their enrollment forms. A little bit more about our demographics, 44% of our students are low income, meaning that they qualify for free or reduced priced lunches at our school. 32% of our students are English language learners, meaning that they speak another language other than English or instead of English at home. And about 8% of our student body is eligible for individualized education plans through a special education program. Our enrollment right now is 380 students in terms of where they're coming from. 42% of our students come from the community of Sausalito. 38% of our students come from the community of Marin City. And about 20% of our students are coming from out of district, anywhere from as close as Mill Valley, from as far as Oakland and beyond. We thrive on connecting to our community. These are just a few of our strongest community partners, both here in Sausalito and throughout Marin and the Bay Area. This year we've been thrilled to have a very strong connection with the Sausalito Women's Club, who's been doing fantastic work in helping support our school and bring tutors into the school. I also have to give a huge amount of thanks to the Sausalito Arts Festival, who brings teaching artists to our school every year to do a variety of projects with our students and embed their academic work with being enriched by the arts, and the Marin County School Volunteers Organization, which does great work getting volunteers here. And you have no doubt seen our third graders work with the Sausalito Historical Society, where every year they come and do a tour of Sausalito with them and they come to our school and do some great work with our third graders there as well. There are dozens of slides we could put talking about our community partnerships. The stronger our partnerships with the community, the stronger our school is. So in terms of where we're going from here, we see in the next couple of years we'll be hitting as large an enrollment as we're going to have at two or three classes per grade. That would give us an enrollment of about 500 students, which is large as we would like to be. We want to bring in as many students as we possibly can to be a part of what we're doing at Willow Creek. But we also want to keep that small community feel that we know is so important to having a strong school. We want to identify through the achievement gap at our school both in order to start by reducing it and then to eliminate it. The achievement gap is defined as a difference between the highest performing students academically at our school and our lowest performing students and again using that root cause work that we do so often with our students the more thoughtful we are about what are some of the root causes of lower achievement the more we'll be able to make that happen so all of our students are achieving at high levels and over these next couple years we'll be doing quite a bit of work and thought around how we can work together to renovate our campus facilities to make our school which is on the older side a true 21st century school to be proud of in our community So in terms of areas of support, I would ask that the council keep Willow Creek Academy at the center of conversations around city decisions that are affecting students and families. As you've seen particularly with the most recent Measure F, the families and students of Willow Creek Academy really have a strong voice and have a lot to say that can be very helpful to you in terms of making great decisions that impact students and families positively. if the council finds that there are ever opportunities or some feedback or some input from the school can be helpful, myself and any member of our community would be happy to give some feedback and some advice. We work with students and families all day, and we'd be happy to share some of our perspectives as you make better informed decisions for students and families and please come join us for our school events graduation at the end of the year our super cute crossing the bridge at the end of the year where students move up to the next grade super high cute factor i'll be sure to send invitations and be happy to have you a part of our community That is what I wanted to share today, but I'd be happy to take any questions from the council. |
| 00:12:13.87 | Unknown | This is a special presentation, so we're not set up for questions unless anyone has a burning question or a comment. because we're, We have a special presentation, but it's wonderful. It's about time. that we've had you here, I'm not sure. I think it's an excellent presentation. to the board, to all the families that get involved It's really a wonderful addition to Sausalito. I mean, it's Sausalito's public school. And we could see the change year after year, as you said, we now have families moving into Sausalito for schools. That didn't happen five years ago. Thank you so much for your work. |
| 00:12:48.06 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:12:48.08 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:12:48.16 | Unknown | My pleasure. Thank you. |
| 00:12:48.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:12:49.53 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:12:56.86 | Unknown | Okay, our second item is we're Swearing in of police officer Todd Lockhart and our interim police chief, Scott Pollan, will do that. |
| 00:13:14.42 | Unknown | Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of council. |
| 00:13:29.05 | Unknown | It's my pleasure to swear in a new police officer and member of the police department, Officer Todd Lockhart. He was born in Aurora, Illinois. And he lived in Colorado. before we moved to Santa Rosa. where he attended Santa Rosa High School. Santa Barbara City College. Todd then worked for the city of Santa Rosa for 20 years. in the Parks and Recreation Department and the Public Works Department. |
| 00:13:55.88 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:13:57.96 | Unknown | before deciding to enter his career in law enforcement. Thank you. Some of Todd's hobbies here are cycling, reading, and relaxing with a wide variety of his friends and family. I get to do the final hiring interview decision on all of our employees after they go through a very probing, extensive background process. One of the things that really struck me with Todd during that hiring interview was that he fully understands his role as a police officer to work towards the betterment of the entire community. And he said, was that he fully understands his role as a police officer to work towards the betterment of the entire community. And he really embraces that as a top priority. I'm also very pleased that he brings with us even though he's new to law enforcement some really good quality of life experiences that he can translate into his role as a police officer He's got good interpersonal skills and of course that strong desire to help the community With that we're going to go ahead and move right into this swearing in part here |
| 00:15:02.42 | Unknown | I can hold it. You just have to talk loud. Okay, all right. Okay, repeat after me and raise your right hand. Do solemnly affirm. Thank you. that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California. Against all enemies? Against all enemies. Foreign and domestic? and that I will bear true faith and allegiance. to the Constitution of the United States. in the Constitution of the State of California. I take this obligation freely. without any mental reservation. or purpose of evasion, or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge these duties upon which I am about to enter. |
| 00:16:04.10 | Unknown | Not it. Go ahead and introduce your family, and if you'd like to say a couple words, and who would like to pin your badge. |
| 00:16:11.20 | Todd Lockhart | My family's here, my mom Karen, dad Scott, friends from the academy, a classmate in the back, old classmates in the back, and I'd like to have my nephew, my sister's there too, hi Chris. And I'd like to have my nephew pin my badge if he could, Nicholas, so. |
| 00:16:35.17 | Unknown | I go ahead and unclasp this for you, Nick. OK, grab this pin part and just jab it right in there. Come on, okay. Sorry. Amen. |
| 00:16:52.09 | Unknown | Thank you very much. |
| 00:16:58.13 | Unknown | I can introduce you to the members of the City Council |
| 00:17:12.16 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:17:12.48 | Unknown | you |
| 00:17:18.21 | Unknown | And now we move on to our third happy special presentation. Oh, okay. No, no, I think we have. Okay, that's good. |
| 00:18:01.97 | Patricia Pigman | you |
| 00:18:04.86 | Unknown | Okay, everyone, let's |
| 00:18:06.63 | Patricia Pigman | Never mind. It's all right. |
| 00:18:07.91 | Unknown | Moving on to item. Item 1C, the award of grants from the Holiday Parking Donation Fund to five nonprofit organizations that provide Services to the underserved. Sergeant Stacy Gregory. |
| 00:18:23.84 | Stacy Gregory | Thank you. I have to say I'm very honored to be here tonight to do this presentation and to take over. I know Adam's done it in the past, so I thank you for the opportunity. I want to share with you that Working with the homeless for me started when I was young. I actually became got my spending money. through Working at a homeless shelter. I worked all night long, went to school during the day. And I tell you what, it's the greatest job I've had until now. But I think it really, It really, I think it paved my path to get me here. Now I have the opportunity to lead our homeless advocacy team. And as you all probably know, we've been very successful in the community. And it's because of the partners that we're going to talk about and the organizations that we're going to donate money to tonight is why that's happened. That they've helped our success. Without them, we wouldn't be a team because we wouldn't have the resources. So during the month of September, the city council has approved. free parking downtown on the on-street parking meters. During that time, the parking is truly free, but we have a sign posted on all the meters stating that if you want to donate money, that money will go specifically to charities. Um, So all the money that's donated goes to the specific charities, and we focus on those that reach out to the people in need, the people that need help. money, food, clothing, housing, you name it, medical attention, training, employment, And you'll see when these organizations get up here tonight that they're going to tell you about what they do, and it's pretty amazing. They help a lot of people in Sausalito as well as in the county of Marin. So there's five different agencies, organizations, that we're going to be donating money to tonight. We have $8,000. The five agencies are Homer Bound of Marin, the Ritter Center, Warm Wishes, the Sausalito Presbyterian Church, and Open Door Ministries. So like I said, each of these agencies, organizations, they work hard all year round to provide things that you and I may take for granted. When you're downtown... Everybody, when you're downtown, shopping, dining, feed the meter, because when you feed that meter, you're feeding people that are in need. And it's important, especially during this holiday season. And that runs until December 31st. So we have 30 days to park and pay meters. So I'm going to ask each organization has a representative here tonight. I'm going to ask them to come up. They're going to say a few words about their organization. And then we'll provide them the check. So we'll start with Homeward Bound of Marin, Mary Kay Sweeney. She's the executive director. Would you come on up? |
| 00:21:53.70 | Stacy Gregory | There you go. Thank you so much. You're welcome. |
| 00:21:55.86 | Todd Lockhart | Thank you. |
| 00:21:59.08 | Mary Kay Sweeney | Thank you so much, council members, staff. All you who park out there during December, thank you very, very much. This is tremendous support for us. Homeward Bound has been in business for over 40 years, as you may know. And we actually would like to be out of business. we would like for homelessness to end, right? Thank you. Yeah, yeah. So that's what we work on every day. Currently we have 15 different programs in the county from Mill Valley all the way up to Nevada. And we have about 500 people a night that we are sheltering or providing housing for. We have emergency shelter, 176 beds. We have transitional housing for two years. And then we have permanent supportive housing as well. So we also provide training for people who want to get out of homelessness and culinary work especially. Hence, I brought you some jam tonight, so made by our students in the culinary program. We really relish your support. And that's not just because I don't have relish with me, but anyway, we relish your support, and now that I know that Stacey's background is also in homeless shelters, I think I have her on my list of relief staff potentials. Anyway, thank you so very much. We really, really appreciate your support, and we know how to end homelessness. It's housing, right? |
| 00:23:03.14 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:23:03.22 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:23:18.77 | Mary Kay Sweeney | We really have to work hard on developing housing everywhere we can, especially now since it's so incredibly expensive. So let's partner together and do some. Thank you very much. |
| 00:23:36.50 | Stacy Gregory | I'm going to ask Benjamin Leroy of the Ritter Center. He's a deputy director. on up. |
| 00:23:44.86 | Benjamin Leroy | I'd like to thank the city of Sausalito so much. We really appreciate this generous donation. It seems like an annual tradition. I get to come down here each year, and thank you for this. I'm actually losing my voice, so I'll make this really brief, but I just want to let everyone know that these funds are going to help us provide medical care, behavioral health counseling, mental health and substance use counseling, and case management to many, many low-income families here in Marin. And we really appreciate the support. It really does go a long way, and it really does make a huge difference. So thank you very much. |
| 00:24:20.14 | Stacy Gregory | Next, we have the founder of Warm Wishes, Bill Hamm. |
| 00:24:33.07 | Stacy Gregory | Thank you. |
| 00:24:33.08 | Bill Hamm | Thank you. |
| 00:24:33.12 | Stacy Gregory | I'll be your model. |
| 00:24:34.03 | Bill Hamm | Thank you. putting her to work. Yeah, we'll trade. Boy, thanks a lot, Sausalito. |
| 00:24:35.24 | Stacy Gregory | Yeah. |
| 00:24:39.07 | Bill Hamm | my family came here originally when the shipyards were building, and my grandma signed everybody's paycheck. So I have a pretty good foundation in Sausalito, although I was raised in the other areas of Marin. So my Warm Wishes project began 22 years ago, and I was in San Francisco having a wonderful time during the holiday season. And at that time, I woke up in the morning after really a fun evening, and I passed a person on the street that was sitting on the ground, and they were very cold. They were rubbing their hands together to try and stay warm. At that point, I was talking with my wife at the time, strolling down the street, and I was totally distracted. So I thought to myself, you know, why don't I go give him my gloves? So I turned around, walked back, gave the guy my gloves, and he was so appreciative that he kept looking me in the eye saying, are you sure? Are you sure? God bless you. God bless you. So I went to Target a couple weeks later, and I bought out all their gloves, and I went through the city and started handing them out out of bags, and I was color matching people, and I was having a pretty good time, and then, but the first person I approached when I went back said, you must be the glove man, and so I knew what kind of an effect I had, so I thought I could grow this and do more. I do my class reunions from Drake High School, so I have a propensity to want to put groups together to have a good time and enjoy themselves and accomplish something at the same time. So in these 22 years, I know I've handed out over 600,000 items. We have a backpack here that's for adults. These are filled with brand new, remind you, brand new gloves, socks, caps, scarves, rain ponchos, and a holiday card made by one of 5,000 kids in the county. the cards are probably just as important almost as some of the other warm things that hold their body warm because a lot of them don't necessarily have family or have the opportunity to have a holiday card given to them. So I think they treasure that just about as much. Stacy and I were talking about the kids in Bolinas. Maybe you could pull it. Thank you. |
| 00:26:51.96 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:26:52.00 | Bill Hamm | Thank you. |
| 00:26:52.12 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:26:52.40 | Bill Hamm | you I do 500 children packs also, along with 4,500 adult packs every year. The kids at the school make the kids' scarves. Are those cool or what? I mean, you see Jerry Garcia scarves, all kinds of things. But they all take the time to make them all for the kids. So anyway, it's a great project. This Saturday is our big day of the year. The ship just arrived, and they just unloaded off the docks in L.A. with my backpack, so that's a big relief. And I wouldn't mind if Adam just said a couple things. Adam's been supporting me for years, plus he participates with his family. So I hope you're going to be there. I remember last year you said, and they made me sing Christmas carols. But the project moves along so fast. When people arrive, it doesn't even take an hour and a half to do 40,000 items in these packs. And the enthusiasm is so great, now I stop people, say introduce yourselves. We stop, we sing Christmas carols. And overall, we're trying to make it more of an event than just going out there and doing it. But people are so affected by the program, they have so much energy, it goes by before you know it in an hour and a half doing all that. |
| 00:28:14.99 | Adam Politzer | Thanks, Bill. This will be my eighth or ninth year doing it with my family. And we'll be there. Two of my girls. The other one's off at college. But it is an event. And I'm glad that you do stretch it out. And we get to meet people and your comment about um Matching the colors is very accurate. I mean, we're sitting there and we're looking at the gloves and the scarves, and we are actually trying to put these packets together with a lot of care. And just another interesting story, my youngest daughter was at Basich Elementary School last year, and she made a card, and so we couldn't find it in the file. But that activity that the little kids are doing at the school is just as meaningful to them as it is to the people that are receiving it. So it's just a great event, and obviously the service that you provide is tremendous. We've seen these backpacks here in Sausalito. They are really well appreciated and needed, and for anyone that has time, it's a lot of fun. It truly is a lot of fun, and you're actually doing a lot of good at the same time, so thank you very much. |
| 00:29:23.28 | Bill Hamm | So if you can make it on Saturday, it's at Unity in Marin up in Novato. And I can just tell you it's a fun time and it's just a high energy that... I can't imagine getting it anywhere else. So thank you very much. Yeah, don't be late because it really goes by fast and you'll miss it. Thank you. Nine o'clock on Saturday. I have some brochures over here if you'd like, and I'm going to leave a backpack with some of the things that we've put inside for you to take a look at. Thank you very much. |
| 00:29:42.71 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:29:58.13 | Stacy Gregory | Okay, next I'd like to bring up Pastor Paul. Paul Mowry, he's also our police department's chaplain. He's from the Sausalito Presbyterian Church. |
| 00:30:09.84 | Paul Mowry | Thank you very much to the Sausalito PD and everybody who uses the parking meters. Sergeant Gregory told me that our check would be $10 a word from my comments, so I have kind of a lengthy... No. But we wanted to say that every Wednesday, hungry people show up at Sausalito Presbyterian Church for a hot lunch. And it's probably their only hot meal that day. It could be their only hot meal for several days. And it's made possible by donations like these and from St. Vincent de Paul, from many volunteers in many places, Sausalito Pres, also Christ Episcopal, St. Mary Star of the Sea, |
| 00:30:14.08 | Stacy Gregory | Thank you. |
| 00:30:14.19 | Unknown | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 00:30:14.24 | Stacy Gregory | to be able to get the |
| 00:30:14.26 | Unknown | who |
| 00:30:55.81 | Paul Mowry | and other dedicated people who care and show up to help out And our outgoing and incoming chairs of the work at the church on this are here today, Marty Cermak and Diana Ferroni, who have led this for several years. |
| 00:31:14.32 | Paul Mowry | Diana's also a VIPs, but she leaves her vest at home on Wednesdays at lunch. And also a wonderful, wonderful saint of a man, Mike Bronham, who shows up every Wednesday to cook the main entree and whatever else we might have going on. And if for any reason our donations are low, he brings in food himself. He's just absolutely tireless. So I wanted to let you know everyone is welcome. We call it a community lunch, and we welcome you too to come on a Wednesday at noon and meet some of your neighbors. And we hope in this season when hearts tend to soften and we're more open to the miracle of finding a connection with a caring stranger, that you'll remember those who will be cold tonight, who will be hungry tomorrow, and who would enjoy a kind smile when you see them walking down the street. My last little note I just have to say is that we're very appreciative of this donation and that I'm very, very cognizant, and I don't know if everyone is, of the many donations that the officers of the PD make out of their own pockets throughout the year to help people out who either need a meal, who need shoes, who need some help to transportation to get home. They just do it out of the kindness of their own hearts, out of their own pockets. And so I thank the city and the city council and all the parkers and the wonderful Saucelido PD. |
| 00:33:00.72 | Stacy Gregory | Okay, last but certainly not least, Open Door Ministries. John and Lars Williamson are both here. John's going to come up and talk. Lars, you want to raise your hand? Lars, I've known Lars, I've been here for 18 years today, and I think I've known Lars since the day I started. So Lars has been around our community for a long time. |
| 00:33:21.47 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:33:21.49 | Stacy Gregory | word, John. |
| 00:33:24.66 | Unknown | Thank you, council members. We appreciate this great gift from the city and from the police department. It will be used greatly. We do have a meal every Friday night from about 6.15 to 7 o'clock, give or take, every Friday at the church up there on Filbert Street. Everyone is more than welcome to visit, to eat, to help, whatever you feel fit to help, body-wise or as other donations. And like I said, this will be used greatly. My dad and mother and a good friend started this 45 years ago. So we've been in the community that long helping, starting down the heliport, then moved to gate five, little building right behind 33 Bridgeway. And then we moved up to the church quite a few years ago, but we still have that Friday night meal so that at least they have one more meal from the community. That hot meal that can last them that weekend. They're willing to take stuff as well for food and we have a clothing room that is done by. Mickey. Thank you. I knew someone else would have the name for me. Yes. She and her volunteers do a wonderful job making sure these guys and gals have some type of worn clothes, a blanket during the winter time, something for them to make it another day. And we do appreciate the police department and the city council for this. Thank you. |
| 00:35:02.35 | Stacy Gregory | So I think something that Paul and John both forgot to say is they did a Thanksgiving dinner too. They do a special Thanksgiving dinner for people in the community. So I want to thank all the organizations that were here tonight. They help our community immensely. A lot of it goes unseen. And until an event like this happens, we get to recognize the hard work that they do. So with that, I'd like everybody to come up. We're going to take a group picture with the city council. And please remember, keep feeding the meters. We need the money. |
| 00:36:14.97 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. you |
| 00:36:24.85 | Adam Politzer | Everyone's faces, everyone's faces. One, two, three, smile. |
| 00:37:07.75 | Unknown | Thank you, everyone. Thank you, Sergeant Gregory and everyone. |
| 00:37:13.01 | Unknown | Yeah, we'll give them. |
| 00:37:23.55 | Bill Hamm | I'll grab it. Maybe somebody can hand it out. |
| 00:37:23.76 | Unknown | Thank you. my stuff. |
| 00:37:30.21 | Bill Manet | Thank you. |
| 00:37:45.36 | Unknown | OK. Moving on to public communications, item two. This is the time for the city council to hear from citizens regarding matters that are not on the agenda. except in very limited situations, state law precludes the council from taking action on or engaging in discussions concerning items of business that are not on the agenda. However, the council May refer matters not on the agenda to city staff or direct that the subject be agenda is at a future meeting. Does anyone... Would anyone like to speak on a matter not on this agenda? Please. |
| 00:38:19.28 | Peter Romanowski | Thank you. |
| 00:38:23.82 | Peter Romanowski | Hello, my name is Peter Romanowski. with a Y at the end, not I. Russians always end with a Y. We have no vowels, and we have no Ws in the Russian language. So it should be Romanowski. Anyways, I'm the chaplain of the anchor outs, you know, of Saucyotl, and I've been anchored out longer than anybody in the history of San Francisco Bay, to my knowledge. I am the John the Baptist of San Francisco Bay. But I also, I not only inherited this title through attrition, even though I've lost 14 public elections, I've tried, haven't I? I'm going to apply for dual national citizenship with Europe because I was born in Europe Don't be surprised if I ended up running for Parliament. No, no, we've got three minutes. Okay. Okay, I want to say that I inherited a denomination, the New Covenant Evangelistic Association, and I am the high priest of this organization, right? And you can give a donation to New Covenant Evangelistic Association, a tax-deductible donation. And if you want to help us, 30, 40 chronic anchor outs out there and the cruisers and the other 50 cruisers that come and go. But if you want to help us find a place to meet and have church, and support the people, the poorest people in the world. I mean, my God, I live on 1,000 a month. You know how much that is? The average income is $98,000 a year in this county, right? $98,000 average. We live on 1,000 a month. And I'm rich. I mean, I used to live on like 100, 200 a mile. I have a friend here who lives on 50 cents a day right here. 50 cents a day. And you know what? We are the toughest, stringiest people on earth. But now we have a legitimate church. nonprofit organizations, so if anybody would like to, and my ex-wife runs it, can you believe that? Been divorced 30 years and my ex-wife is, my ex-wife is the secretary treasurer of the denomination. And I'm the president, by default, I outlived everybody. I did it. Anyways, God bless you all, and peace be upon you. In Jesus' name. |
| 00:40:40.27 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:40:40.38 | Unknown | Thank you. Anyone else like to speak on a matter not on the agenda? |
| 00:40:40.41 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:40:40.53 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:40:46.15 | Unknown | Yes. Hello, City Council and audience that stayed after the police and the homeless advocates have gone away for a little while. I talked to Paul. And I was asking... why he left a certain personage out of his thanks. His thankfulness. that you It's a person and more than a person. And this is, we all have our own name for it. People from my lineage sometimes will say Hashem, and it means only the name. OK, I have talked. for a few months. mainly about the political issues that are facing us as anchor outs and not as much about the Torah. So, I know that there are some people here that appreciate the Torah a little, so I'm just going to do a tiny little dash. of it. The portion for this week and for next week is... Thank you. about a person named Joseph. Joseph is one of the sons of Jacob who becomes Israel. There are 12 sons. |
| 00:42:06.27 | Unknown | At 17 years of age, Joseph tended the flocks with his brothers. as a helper to the sons of his father's wives, Bilhah and Zilpah. And Joseph brought bad reports about them. to his father. Now Israel loved Joseph best of all his sons, for he was the child of his old age, and he had made him an ornamented tunic. That's the coat of many colors. And when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of his brothers, they hated him so much they could not say a friendly word to him. They saw him from afar. It goes on a little bit later. This is 37, 18 in Genesis. And before he came close to them, they conspired to kill him. They said one to another, here comes that dreamer. Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. And we can say a savage beast devoured him. |
| 00:43:07.51 | Unknown | This is one of the stories in Genesis about brothers. There is Cain and Abel at the beginning, There is Ishmael and Yitzchak. Isaac and Ishmael, of which the two tribes, the Arabs, and the Israelites come from. Later on, there's Jacob and Esau. That's the tribe of Israel and Edom, which becomes a great empire. Here is when Joseph goes to jail for 12 years. He suffers for what his brothers did. He says this, He said, I am Joseph now. When he finally comes out to his brothers, he says, come forward to me. He, okay, I just, this is one more line, please, Mr. Mayor, is it okay if I read this one line? Okay, one line. He says, do not be distressed or reproach yourselves because you sold me hither. It was to save life that God sent me ahead of you. that what his brothers meant for treachery ended up saving the whole family of Israel. So thank you for indulging me. |
| 00:44:16.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:44:17.34 | Unknown | And shalom, shalom. Thank you. |
| 00:44:19.50 | Unknown | Anyone else like to speak to a matter not on the agenda? Thank you. |
| 00:44:23.93 | Unknown | and |
| 00:44:24.00 | Unknown | Thank you. Seeing none, we'll close public comment. Move on to item three. |
| 00:44:33.03 | Unknown | Bye. Thank you. Thank you. I'm Jesus Christ, and my Father sent me here. to show people, to remind people the way of love. |
| 00:44:47.59 | Unknown | The name of God is Yahweh, Yahweh of life. Yes, you are to perfect life into love and compassion. You love and everything else follows. Like, And yes, you are like to be free with. We are here. We're free to be like Yahweh is free. Life is free. I was given my life from God. as well as all of you, because God is us. He's us. Like, life is, life is something we need to cherish, and y'all way of life is perfect. You guys, everything you do, you're perfecting your life in love. My way of life, I live on the anchor, Anchorage. I'm an anchor out. I've got a cruiser, 40-foot trimaran. I love the way I live my life. I love I am so blessed to be living on the Anchorage to live this life, be part of this amazing community. People that go and help children in schools that are amazing and a board that's Amazing, beautiful people, beautiful souls. I thank you. Thank you for being here. Thank you for being who you are. And just love, perfect your life into love in whatever situation you have. Thank you. |
| 00:46:13.72 | Unknown | Thank you. Anyone else like to speak to a matter not on the agenda? Thank you. Seeing none, we will close public comment. Move on to item three, the Action minutes, minutes of the regular city council meeting for November 17, 2015. We have any comments or would someone like to move to approve those minutes? |
| 00:46:35.46 | Jill Hoffman | I have one quick short edit on page five of five on line 17 where Under future agenda items, I had listed some items for a future agenda. The code enforcement at Bridgeway Marine, crosswalk safety lights, an update on the emergency shelter working group follow-up. Hadn't heard about that. But then the last one, Muir Woods shuttle stop in Sausalito. If you could add the word concerns between stop and in so it reads Muir Woods shuttle stop concerns in Sausalito because that was the the if that's okay that's the that was the essence of what I was requesting for that future agenda item or my concerns regarding the Muir Woods shuttle |
| 00:47:32.06 | Unknown | Okay, any objections to that comp edit? With that edit, can we have a motion to approve the minutes? |
| 00:47:37.83 | Unknown | I move approval with that change. |
| 00:47:41.37 | Unknown | Second. |
| 00:47:42.37 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:47:42.39 | Unknown | All in favor? Aye. Passes unanimously. |
| 00:47:43.23 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 00:47:45.79 | Unknown | We move on to item four consent calendar. Matters listed under the consent calendar are considered routine and non-controversial require no discussion, are expected to have unanimous council support. and may be enacted by the Council in one motion in the form listed in the agenda. There will be no separate discussion of consent calendar items. However, before the council votes on a motion to adopt the consent calendar items, council members, city staff, or members of the public may request that specific items be removed from the consent calendar. for separate action. Do we have Any public comment? Do we have any speaker cards on the consent calendar? Would anyone like to speak public comment on the consent calendar? Okay, see none. Do we have a motion to approve the consent calendar? Are there any questions or concerns? |
| 00:48:34.46 | Jill Hoffman | Move to approve. |
| 00:48:36.55 | Unknown | seconds. Thank you. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Passage unanimously, five to zero. Okay. |
| 00:48:39.57 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 00:48:39.66 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 00:48:39.84 | Unknown | Bye. Thank you. |
| 00:48:45.63 | Unknown | Now we move to call to order the joint meeting of the Sausalito financing authority and the city council of Sausalito. The city council meeting has already been called to order. So at this time, the clerk will call the roll for the Sausalito financing authority. Under California state law, cities may issue tax exempt bonds and certificates of participation through the formation of a public financing authority. The city of Sausalito has previously created the Sausalito municipal financing financing authority and the Sausalito municipal financing authorities are comprised of the five of us, the city council that we have here. So we'll now convene and call to order, um, the joint meeting and Lily, will you call the role for the authority? |
| 00:49:33.71 | Unknown | Member Weiner? |
| 00:49:34.70 | Unknown | THE PRESIDENT. |
| 00:49:35.31 | Unknown | Member Pfeiffer? Here. Member Withey? Here. Vice Chair Hoffman? Here. Chair Theodores? Here. |
| 00:49:37.71 | Unknown | Take care. |
| 00:49:41.30 | Unknown | present. This meeting will be a joint public hearing to reauthorize the... execution sale and delivery of the certificates of participation to finance capital improvements. to the city's MLK campus and Robin Sweeney, Southview and Dunphy Parks, including but not limited to site improvements, roofing, exteriors, enclosure, plumbing, electrical systems and equipment upgrades. We have our interim administrative service director, Brian Mora, who will give the presentation and will explain and lead us through this process. |
| 00:50:28.16 | Unknown | Thank you, Mayor and members of council. As the mayor indicated tonight, we're here to talk about the reauthorization of the certificates of participation. Before I start, I also want to mention we have several other members of our team here tonight to also answer questions We have Leslie Johnson, who's the MLK property manager. Charlie Francis, who is the former administrative services director and was involved in the creation of this issue. |
| 00:50:53.36 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:50:55.55 | Unknown | We have Brian Quint. who is the bond counsel on this matter, And we have Craig Hill from NHA, which is our municipal advisor. And depending on the... discussion or questions, I may ask some of them to participate this evening as well. So a little background on tonight's item. Council, I'm sure, will recall that in June, the council voted to issue certificates of participations, to raise $7.2 million of project funds to improvements at the MLK site, and three parks. The funding to cover these payments would come from the MLK leases. THE FAMILY. Subsequent to the Council's action in June, There was a notice of lawsuit received by the city And as a result, in August, the Council placed an advisory measure on the November ballot. And at that, in November. Measure F, as the advisory measure was known, received a 63.51% yes vote from the public. advising the Council to proceed with this matter. So tonight's report is to, the staff recommends that the Council reauthorize the certificates of participation, and if the Council takes that action, it is staff's intent to go to the financial markets this month with the COPs and to close the COPs in early January. This is a table you've probably seen before that lists the project funding. envisioned in the COPs. There are four sites. MLK. Robin Sweeney Park. Southview Park and Dumpy Park. THEY ARE ABLE TO DO. spelled out in the amount shown, which brings us to the approximately $7.2 million project funds Some updates in terms of what has happened with the COPs since June. subsequent to the council's action in June. the staff, namely the city manager and Mr. Francis made a presentation to the bond rating agencies The city's financial condition is strong enough that we received a high enough rating that the Bond Reserve Fund, which was originally envisioned as part of this debt issue is no longer needed. That reduces the amount needed to be borrowed by over $600,000 and reduces the amount of each annual payment. Amen. Also, what we did is we explored the question of whether or not to make an initial payment during the first year, 2016. And we concluded that that if a first-year payment is made, And there's also a small amount within that first-year payment that covers some costs of the issue that we will be able to reduce the annual debt payment for the life of the COP. The third question had to do with bank qualified debt. The original concept of this borrowing was to make the issue bank qualified. And that is basically, as it says in the staff report, a question of how much debt each year the city is issuing. Because it is anticipated that there will be no additional debt issues during 2016, The COPs that you see tonight are anticipated to be bank qualified. This results in additional savings of $20,000 to the city. Finally, during the initial report in June. The underwriter of this measure had not yet been selected There was a competitive process and the firm of Raymond James was selected as the underwriter for this issue. This is a quick a comparison table that shows the certificates of participation in June and as they are today. You'll notice. because of the elimination of the debt service fund, The average debt service has now been reduced from $700,000 a year to $630,000, a savings to the city of over $70,000 per year. and that is also reflected in the target value of the issue. which originally was anticipated at $8.1 million and is now anticipated at $7.4 million. Obviously, the exact final amount will not be uh, completely known until we go to the market. And finally, the cost of issue remains at approximately $205,000. This matter was brought to the Finance Committee at their meeting of November 18th. to give them an update and also to review the materials that we're presenting tonight. THE END OF The committee had four recommendations. First of all, to move ahead, that the council should move ahead with reauthorizing the COPs. Second, the committee recommends that there be a mid-year budget adjustment in the MLK fund. to cover the actual costs of payments during 2016. It is currently estimated that that number will be around 190,000, but again, we'll have the exact number once the COPs close in January, assuming they're authorized tonight. The third item is that in discussing this with the Finance Committee, we noted that a portion of the MLK project expenses will be covered by tenants as they are tenant improvements That amount is estimated to be in the neighborhood of $300,000. AND, the recommendation from the finance committee is to review the use of those funds during the 2016-18 budget preparation process I should mention in response to a question we received prior to the meeting that these funds have to be used at the four sites listed in the measure and they have to be used for capital projects that are uh... at least as that will last at as least as long as the term of the measure namely fifteen years uh... and then finally the committee recommended that the Council consider developing a policy on the use of the MLK lease revenues that will be available from leases at MLK once the operating costs and the COP expenses have been covered. When you saw this measure in June, You probably recall that in a couple years, the amount of revenue significantly exceed both the cost of this debt service and the cost of MLK operations. And so the Finance Committee felt strongly that it is probably time to have that discussion as well in terms of what to do with those future surplus funds. And again, the recommendation as with item three was to have those discussions during the 2016-18 budget preparation process. So with that, the recommendation of staff, is to move ahead with the two resolutions that you have. There's one correction that I've included in the slide And that is between the time that the resolutions were initially prepared And our receipt from the county of the final vote totals, the yes vote is actually 63.51% when we originally received The initial balloting, it was actually more in the 62% range. So to be accurate, we're recommending that you make the two motions that we have in the staff report with that one amendment. So with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions. And also, we have, as I indicated before, four members of our team here as well, and they may be able to field some questions that I may not. Thank you. |
| 00:58:43.38 | Unknown | Thank you, Brian. |
| 00:58:43.95 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:58:43.97 | Unknown | an excellent presentation. Who would like to start questions? |
| 00:58:48.59 | Barbara Nelson | I... Thank you. |
| 00:58:52.98 | Jill Hoffman | Hi, Brian. I emailed some questions earlier today. And so my primary question is about the total amount that's listed in the in both the resolutions I believe it's 8.5, but if we're down to about 7.6 million because of the savings that you just went over, you know, perhaps we need, maybe you want to explain why the recommendation is still for 8.5 million instead of 7.6, or how we want to address that discussion. |
| 00:59:14.65 | Unknown | Mm-hmm. |
| 00:59:27.41 | Unknown | Okay. To the Vice Mayor's question, the original action that the Council took in June and the subsequent action that you took in putting this measure on the ballot, there was a maximum amount of the issue at 8.5 million. There was also a maximum interest rate of 4.5%. Those rates were, even at that time, very conservative. Staff believed that the actual amounts would be less. At this point, given that there is the elimination of the final year payment. fund. and also, Uh... The overall structure has changed a bit. the council has as an option to bring that number down from 8.5 million. I think from the staff perspective, we would be a little... concerned or nervous, maybe is the right term, if the number came too close to around 7.5 or 7.6 million. But again, that's primarily a cushion for us as we won't have the exact number until we go to market. |
| 01:00:33.83 | Jill Hoffman | What's the savings on the interest and the cost between the seven, and I didn't give you this question, so I apologize. I'm just bringing something on you, and it's math. |
| 01:00:39.87 | Unknown | Sure. |
| 01:00:40.29 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:00:41.67 | Unknown | But. |
| 01:00:43.21 | Jill Hoffman | between 8.5 and 7.6. Like what would we save if we said, no, we're going to issue the COP for the lower number? What would it estimate of the cost? |
| 01:00:54.13 | Unknown | Um, you Well, two things. One is, again, the difference between what we think the actual amount will be when we hit market and the 8.5 is primarily to avoid the need of coming back and having you take another action if the total amount of the transaction exceeds whatever number you set. As far as... what the difference in cost would be. I think that's going to be a function of the interest rate that the happens at closing and the total amount. But I know Craig is here from NHA, so if you'd like to add any comments as well, since he's the numbers man and I'm not. |
| 01:01:29.60 | Jill Hoffman | He's... I'm not. Throw the number of questions to him. Thank you. estimate, just a ballpark, you know. |
| 01:01:42.88 | Craig Hill | Good evening. Craig Hill, NHA Advisors. So the numbers that were represented in the staff report and in the presentation all were based on a $7.4 million transaction. So I think the question is how much more would it be if the city were to issue the higher amount? And you're talking about approximately $70,000 a year in annual debt service if you were to go up to the $8.5 million. Okay. |
| 01:01:59.86 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:02:09.44 | Craig Hill | But again, we're restricted by really the use of funds and the projects, which is 7.2 million. So there isn't a whole lot of voluntary ability to just issue 8.5 now. We don't have authorization. We wouldn't have any use of that money. |
| 01:02:28.24 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:02:28.26 | Craig Hill | Thank you. |
| 01:02:28.27 | Jill Hoffman | you |
| 01:02:28.56 | Craig Hill | if that makes sense. |
| 01:02:29.86 | Jill Hoffman | Sort of. Okay. |
| 01:02:35.21 | Unknown | Questions? Councilman Pfeiffer. |
| 01:02:38.38 | Jill Hoffman | Yes, thank you for the presentation. Sure. So I recall that when this first came before us a few months, a couple months ago, that the, I think the COPs were going to be issued partially this year and then partially next year. Are some of these savings associated with the fact, I mean, are we still doing that or are we doing this all together? |
| 01:02:38.53 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:03:01.36 | Unknown | Thank you. We don't need to do that primarily because all of the measures going to close in 2016 and that also frankly has some It's part of the reason that we are timing it the way we are in terms of coming to you this month and instead of closing in December, closing next year. And it's also the case, as I indicated earlier under the bank-qualified discussion, that not having additional debt beyond this that you can save that $20,000, but I don't know Greg would want to amplify on this at all. |
| 01:03:33.36 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:03:33.55 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:03:38.64 | Craig Hill | Our initial analysis last June, and you are correct, there was going to be a split. A portion of the financing was going to happen in 2015, and a portion was going to happen in 2016. We contemplated in June that we would actually set the interest rates this year but close in January. So that's considered a forward delivery. The investors, not knowing where the market would be six months later, would charge a premium. So it would be a higher interest rate on that portion. And as we've now kind of rebundled this financing into one, we're able to kind of get into the spot market, if you will, and just say we're going to do this whole issue with one interest rate. and close in a very short period of time. |
| 01:04:26.65 | Jill Hoffman | Isn't it the case that the reason we were initially doing the two, you know, COPs had to do with the bond on the fire building that we would be, you know, exceeding our debt limits? So the city – Our debt limits. I'm going to – |
| 01:04:41.26 | Craig Hill | So the city, I'm going to play lawyer for Brian Quint for a minute. Federal tax law allows small issuer exemptions, or bank qualifications, excuse me, to be $10 million a year, a calendar year. And the city did the sewer project earlier in 2015. So when we moved forward on this parks project, we realized that we really could only do $3.5 million in 2015. The balance would have to be in 2016. Thank you. |
| 01:05:08.97 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:05:09.02 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Thank you. I have a couple more questions, but I don't want to monopolize things. |
| 01:05:13.53 | Craig Hill | you know. |
| 01:05:15.23 | Jill Hoffman | I do have a question. |
| 01:05:16.92 | Jill Hoffman | I have another question if you want to think of it. Okay. So, and this may actually be a question for my colleagues up here, but I know that during the Measure F campaign, there was a lot of interest in having an oversight committee because this was not initially |
| 01:05:17.85 | Jill Hoffman | if you want to pick it up. you |
| 01:05:38.93 | Jill Hoffman | included in the original you know, resolution or in the ballot. And so I think that both sides, certainly I supported an oversight committee. I think there is consensus up here. We really need that. So is that something, you know, how would you suggest we go about you know, baking that in, would we put that, you know, in the resolution? |
| 01:06:05.35 | Unknown | I'm not sure that there's consensus there should be an oversight committee. |
| 01:06:08.00 | Jill Hoffman | Oh. Oh, OK. |
| 01:06:09.25 | Unknown | No, not at all. All right. I guess I think you have the wrong. |
| 01:06:09.93 | Jill Hoffman | So I just think you have the wrong. Okay, we'll save it for discussion. I'm sorry about that. |
| 01:06:13.69 | Unknown | Sorry. |
| 01:06:13.97 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:06:15.32 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. |
| 01:06:18.92 | Jill Hoffman | I had a question, and this was also one of the questions that I emailed in. And this is the elimination of the general fund loan to the MLK fund. It's not included in the proposed resolution. but it is included in the staff report, and it was part of our discussions about this issue. You know, I'd like to see, is there any reason why we wouldn't put that in? the city of Sausalito, at least the city of Sausalito resolution that sets forth some of the other controls. on the COPs, specifically the MLK campus, that the money only be used for the four sites |
| 01:06:53.02 | Unknown | the money only |
| 01:06:55.44 | Jill Hoffman | that not less than a million of improvements for each part and then the terms under section two of the lease agreement. Is there any reason? Why we couldn't put that in as another condition in the COP that at the end of the lease term, the general fund loan to MLK would be extinguished or retired? |
| 01:07:17.38 | Unknown | I suppose we could ask the two attorneys, the bond counsel and the city attorney, about the legality question. my earlier answer to the vice mayor was that since the finance committee has already suggested that the issue of the excess revenues be considered during the 16-18 budget preparation process, another option might be to also have the discussion about the general fund loan at that time, because there are a couple options I believe the council has. You could forgive, for example, the principle of the general fund loan and not the interest or you could forgive both. and one of the things that that will do of course is it will change the amount of the uh... excess revenue in the mlk fund change that will also change the amount of money being transferred to the general fund. So at the staff level, I think we basically viewed all of that together. And I know in talking to the members of the Finance Committee, and I'll let them, you know, chime in as far as their views on this, but it seemed from the tenor of the discussion in November, it seemed that they were viewing this as all sort of wrapped together, if that's a fair characterization. |
| 01:08:26.85 | Jill Hoffman | Well, I... I can't speak to what was discussed at the Finance Committee, but it was a very it wasn't an option, it was part of the discussion and part of the agreement that that the the interfund transfers will be extinguished I mean that that wasn't really something that was going to be debated later that's part of the staff report and set forth in the staff report so I would like for that to be included in the resolution so that there's no question about what the council wanted to do when we originally voted on the COPs. |
| 01:08:59.20 | Unknown | Mr. Mayor, if I may just ask our city attorney, in the resolutions that were passed in June, June or July, June, I guess, did we actually resolve to, in any way, to deal with the inter-fund loan? |
| 01:09:23.38 | Mary Wagner | I don't believe so, Councilmember Withey. I don't have those in front of me, but I don't believe that that was part of those actions. |
| 01:09:37.82 | Jill Hoffman | I have an email from Charlie Francis, and I have copies that I printed out. |
| 01:09:37.91 | Patricia Pigman | Right. |
| 01:09:44.44 | Jill Hoffman | the. answer my question about that very issue. I mean, I can go into that more during our discussion, that clearly points to you know, portions. that answer that question that that was part of our discussion and part of the agreement back in June was that the interfund transfers would be extinguished. |
| 01:10:07.41 | Unknown | Well, can we check? I mean, what emails go back and forth? It doesn't matter. It's what we decided here. And yeah. |
| 01:10:08.88 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. |
| 01:10:14.83 | Unknown | Yeah, there's no question, Mr. Mayor, that back in June, Thank you. There was discussion indeed in the staff report, staff at that time was recommending that as part of this transaction we work at ways to reduce, eliminate the inter-fund loan. But no action was taken. That was needed subsequent action by city council to achieve that. |
| 01:10:31.56 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:10:41.78 | Unknown | And on that point, I mean, I think we can ask our finance directors and our former finance director, but I think it requires I think some thought about what the effects would be, and we certainly don't want to go into that without being prepared, and we certainly don't need to do that tonight. |
| 01:10:57.46 | Jill Hoffman | Well, I disagree. It was very clearly that there were three things that I was concerned about when we were talking about the COPs back in June. One was the inter-front transfers. The other one was that only those amounts that we borrow be specifically used for the four properties and that there were some control and limit as to how much was to be spent on each property. So those were my three concerns. |
| 01:10:58.69 | Vicki Nichols | It was very. |
| 01:11:25.67 | Jill Hoffman | they were all added into the discussion and I was you know, the clear impression was that we had all agreed that that would be extinguished and it's in the staff report And I think that's a good question. Certainly there was no discussion at that time that there was dissent among the council that that was going to happen. That was part of the COP. |
| 01:11:43.73 | Unknown | was going to. Yeah. Thank you. |
| 01:11:46.84 | Jill Hoffman | discussion and part of the structuring of the discussion so if we're You know, if we're not, thinking that that isn't part of the COP discussion, then I think we need to step back for a minute and think about whether or not we're going to issue these tonight. Because that's a very important question. |
| 01:12:02.29 | Jill Hoffman | That's a very important issue. |
| 01:12:04.44 | Jill Hoffman | Yes, it is. |
| 01:12:05.97 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah, that's a very important issue, and I disagree respectfully with the comment that, you know, emails from staff don't have weight. I mean, we put a lot of weight in what staff informs us, you know, when we're doing our research. So I think that's very important. |
| 01:12:21.12 | Unknown | I think that's very important. |
| 01:12:24.40 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:12:24.92 | Unknown | The question is, is that something that would be, if we did not do that tonight, is there anything to foreclose us from doing it later? I'm just trying to find. |
| 01:12:33.51 | Unknown | No, you could do that any time. |
| 01:12:36.26 | Jill Hoffman | But I think one of the things that is being weighed here in terms of a yes or a no vote is the whole package. We're looking at the whole thing. |
| 01:12:45.34 | Unknown | Now, we have to be clear that we went to the voters on this, and the voters told us, you know, we got a very clear message to do this. |
| 01:12:45.36 | Jill Hoffman | We have to. |
| 01:12:53.29 | Unknown | We're looking at some details of it, something that can be done later. It's very important that we get this approved now so that we can go to market in early January to make sure that we get the favorable rates and savings that we've had. |
| 01:13:04.93 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and follow up to being very clear to the voters. I have a question about, in the staff report, it mentions, I remember we had the MLK tenure, I don't know, asset report or something, where it listed all the costs. And at the time, I expressed concern because some of those costs were affiliated for expenses that the tenant should be paying for it. And I'm looking at the staff report, and it says that an estimated to exceed $300,000 So 300,000 of the money that we're buying is actually I'm not sure. something that tenants should be paying for. So correct me if I'm wrong, but, you know, bundled into this, the COP includes roughly $300,000 that, that our tenants should be covering, correct? |
| 01:14:10.69 | Unknown | That's correct, there's $300,000 of tenant improvements that will be paid by the tenants. Which means that. there will be $300,000 assuming the issue goes forward for those four sites. |
| 01:14:22.46 | Jill Hoffman | So if the tenants are responsible for paying for them, why are we incurring that debt and paying the interest on that debt? |
| 01:14:32.99 | Unknown | I think I'll ask Charlie perhaps to address, or one of the team to address the structure, since I was not present during the original sizing of the measure. |
| 01:14:45.69 | Charlie Francis | Mr. Sure. Thank you, Brian. Members of the City Council. Yeah, as you recall, the MLK Comprehensive Facility Condition Assessment was performed almost a year ago now. And costs have gone up. We don't know what the final cost will be when we go out to bid. And at the present time, having all those project costs in there will provide us the cushion to cover any contingencies. We will absolutely not use any of the project funds for tenant improvements. |
| 01:15:09.47 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:15:16.90 | Jill Hoffman | So usually, okay, so I have a follow-up clarification. Thank you for that answer. So typically when we're looking at projects, you know, we might look at an overage of a certain percentage. You know, it seems to me that what we're doing in this case is we're saying, oh, The asset report has baked in $300,000 that the tenants are responsible for. We're just going to keep that. and use it for overage. It seems, I'm not sure I follow that longer. |
| 01:15:50.32 | Charlie Francis | It's not it at all. The costs of construction have gone up since the condition facility assessment. We don't know what the new cost will be till we bid. And it's typical that we put at least a 10% contingency in all of our construction contracts. So this is a reasonable and prudent action to take. |
| 01:16:07.72 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, I will save my opinion for comment. |
| 01:16:09.02 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. |
| 01:16:13.27 | Jill Hoffman | So I have a question for Charlie. So Charlie, you remember back in June, when I sent you the email about those three issues. And you sent, not only did you respond to me, but you'd CC'd all of the city council members. And in that, is the June 2015 staff report And... Well, these pages aren't numbered, but under the MLK Fund General Interfund Loan |
| 01:16:35.24 | Unknown | under the MLB. |
| 01:16:38.44 | Jill Hoffman | section. It says, the staff recommends the city council eliminate the interphone line Interfund loan in return for the MLK Enterprise Fund use of proceeds for the parks capital improvements of the project. And your comment in there was that it eliminates the general fund loan. Do you remember sending that to me? |
| 01:16:57.54 | Charlie Francis | You sound just like a lawyer, and I do remember that. |
| 01:17:01.00 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you, that's my question. And did any of the other council members respond to you and say, I don't agree with that. I don't agree with eliminating the general fund loan. I mean, that was a very specific conversation that we had back in June. You'll agree with that. |
| 01:17:19.98 | Charlie Francis | I don't remember having that conversation here, but it was in the staff report. |
| 01:17:24.00 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. And at any rate, no one on this council at any of those meetings said, I don't agree with eliminating the general fund. |
| 01:17:31.02 | Charlie Francis | No, but the actions that you took back in June forming this were the same as the actions that you have now. What tonight's action is about is reauthorizing the action you took then. The Interfund loan and the excess revenues from the MLK should all be baked into and calibrated to the city's 10-year long-term financial plan. And the best time to do that is when you're preparing the next two-year budget and you calibrate the long-term plan I think the City Council and staff still recommends that that Interfund loan be eliminated Just tonight's not the right time to do it. |
| 01:18:06.27 | Jill Hoffman | Well, I disagree. That was part of the conversation that we had last summer with the COP. So I respectfully – |
| 01:18:12.97 | Charlie Francis | But it wasn't the action you took last summer. |
| 01:18:15.67 | Jill Hoffman | Well, I think that it was. |
| 01:18:18.65 | Charlie Francis | That wasn't in the resolutions. |
| 01:18:20.46 | Jill Hoffman | Well, that was my fault, I guess I should have made sure that it was in there clearly. |
| 01:18:24.01 | Jill Hoffman | Well, I've. Just as a follow up to that, of course I voted against it, but I think it's not untoward to suggest that, I mean, the spirit, given all the emails and the correspondence, that the spirit and The interpretation and the assumptions made by certain members who voted assumed that the Interfund loan would be eliminated. |
| 01:18:47.70 | Charlie Francis | And I'm sure it will be. It's just tonight's not the time to do that. |
| 01:18:54.53 | Charlie Francis | because it has nothing to do with issuing funds. |
| 01:18:58.01 | Jill Hoffman | Well, okay, respectfully. We have a lot of conditions in the resolution that have nothing to do with issuing the bonds. We have the controls about, that not less than a million dollars in improvements on each of the parks. that the finance improvements are limited only to those locations. that not greater than 8.5 million with an interest rate terms of the resolution so I don't see that there's anything untoward those are terms of |
| 01:19:24.42 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. Those are terms of the use of the proceeds, and that's definitely something that belongs in a resolution. |
| 01:19:27.47 | Jill Hoffman | and that's definitely Thank you. Thank you. and also it limits, it also sets forth the limits. and the controls that we have on taking out this amount of money and how that affects MLK. And so, at the end of the 15 years We want the ideas that MLK is gonna be debt free. Right now, MLK with the interfund transfers has almost $5 million in debt on it. And so the idea is that at the end of this time period, MLK will be debt free. And that was a It was very, you know. |
| 01:20:03.41 | Jill Hoffman | It was very big. That was huge. Very influential. |
| 01:20:06.18 | Jill Hoffman | That was huge. Very influential. Last summer. And one of the reasons why we would be taking out this debt against MLK. And the long-term consequences on this asset and the city of Sausalito and the citizens of Sausalito. who own that land, or own that asset. I think it's a significant issue, and I addressed it last summer, and there was no opposition. |
| 01:20:28.85 | Jill Hoffman | I have a follow-up question. Did the yes on, I guess I can't ask this question because you didn't represent the yes on half group. So never mind, I can't ask. |
| 01:20:41.92 | Unknown | Charlie, you said that you would still recommend the termination of the Interfund loan, but not tonight. Is there a reason not tonight? And what would your response be if we decided to take that action tonight? |
| 01:20:58.12 | Charlie Francis | Well. I think that my response would be that it needs to be considered in conjunction with the city's long-term financial plan and the use of the MLK proceeds when that inter-fund loan is eliminated because there's still a question of what happens to the accumulation of those funds. And so it all needs to be calibrated into the city's long-term financial plan so the city can see the big picture and not just the little myopic picture of what's happening within one fund. |
| 01:21:20.18 | Unknown | So you're saying it's just a... |
| 01:21:28.03 | Unknown | And we could do it at a later time. You're saying it's financially prudent to really consider it in our long-term financial plan to see what the right way |
| 01:21:30.59 | Charlie Francis | Absolutely. |
| 01:21:34.84 | Charlie Francis | What I would recommend is that between now and when we adopt the budget for the next two years is that first thing we do is calibrate the long term financial plan. The city council then gives staff guidelines on how to prepare that next two year budget in conjunction with the desired outcome of the 10 year financial plan. |
| 01:21:35.55 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:21:55.16 | Jill Hoffman | So follow-up question. Charlie, when you first presented the COPs to us and you were presenting the pitch to fund the parks, did you include the interfund transfer, eliminating that, in your presentations? |
| 01:22:12.54 | Charlie Francis | I do not hesitate to say it was my recommendation to eliminate. It is still my recommendation to eliminate, even though I'm not a staff member anymore. I think this is a council discussion, not a discussion between you and me. |
| 01:22:25.30 | Unknown | experience. Any other questions? Now we'll open it up to public comment. Who would like to start? Do we have any speaker cards? you I'm not sure. This is on the. the certificates of participation. Anyone from the public like to speak on that matter? |
| 01:22:44.03 | Unknown | Yes, yes, I would. |
| 01:22:46.04 | Unknown | Please. |
| 01:22:56.40 | Unknown | Mayor and city council, particularly Ms. Hoffman and Ms. Pfeiffer, I'm so happy that you're talking about the debt here. And I think I heard from the three gentlemen that explained this, that it's going to be 600. And $30,000 a year. in debt. And when I was here at the first meeting where where this was discussed, there were lots of kids here and their parents, and it was kind of beautiful. It was a wonderful spirit, and I heard the word, The phrase pay as you go. as in the money for the one year would come out in a bond, And then those improvements will be made to the parks. I care especially about Dunphy Park. It's where my kayak is, Yak Attack, right now. And it's where a lot of members of the Anchorage come. So... |
| 01:23:54.92 | Unknown | I'd like to say another thing, which is that I'm looking for something that would be debt free. I think the women are also here are also for that. I have not read every word of Measure F. I'm not an expert on it. I've read a little bit about debt, and this is what a man named Amos had to say about it in the portion for this week. Amos said, He said, thus said the Lord, for three transgressions of Israel, For four I will not revoke it, because they have sold for silver those whose cause was just, and the needy for a pair of sandals. Ah, you who trample the heads of the poor into the dust of the ground, and make the humble walk a twisted course. And, At the end, Amos says this. He says, you alone have I singled out, Israel. Out of all the families of the earth, this is why I call you to account for your iniquities. I think that our system of debt is an iniquity. I am not an expert on this. I think the women are doing a very good job. I'm hoping the men back them here. and that there is some reconsideration of pay as you go instead of a debt that will be on the shoulders of us all. Thank you. |
| 01:25:25.63 | Unknown | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 01:25:25.80 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:25:25.93 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:25:25.98 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:25:26.00 | Unknown | you Anyone else like to speak on this matter? Vicky. |
| 01:25:34.13 | Vicki Nichols | Good evening Mayor Theodorus and Council. My name is Vicki Nichols. You know me. I've lived here over 30 years. I would just like to sort of recap what you did tonight at the consent calendar. You validated the county's ballot count for this measure. You got, as it's been noted by the staff, 63% of the community to agree with this. I I've been coming to these meetings for years, and I think I've known Charlie for years. I have not seen one bad recommendation he's made to the city. I think he and staff, along with previous council and city manager, have not steered us in the wrong direction on anything. In fact, our city has been quite innovative on a number of things, from my experience with other work in other cities. I would recommend that you take care of this issuing these tonight. You can see that if you don't issue them we're going to take a loss. The slides seemed very clear for the layperson. And I would suggest that if you have any specific questions it seems we have a team of experts here rather than going back and forth over emails with all due respect about who said what let's straighten up the facts this has been approved the citizens have said let's get these parks fixed we can afford the money let's get this done tonight please |
| 01:27:07.30 | Unknown | If you must, it's on the COP. Anyone? Anyone? Jeff. |
| 01:27:17.93 | Jeffrey Chase | Good evening, City Council members. Jeff Knowles. I've been a resident here for 20 years, and I am raising two kids here, and I'm on the Willow Creek Board. When you voted on June 30th, four of you, in favor of issuing these bonds, that was a very good thing. It was a very positive step. We need these parks fixed. That ended up going to the ballot for reasons that I think were completely invalid. There was. a positive side effect though to this which was Families in Sausalito who really cared about the parks but who hadn't necessarily been involved in the political process and hadn't been participating really did participate this time and stepped up and campaigned heavily for measure And as you all know, Measure F was really just about does the public support. what you as a city council had already voted to do. And that. voted overwhelmingly to support what you have already done. What I understand is happening tonight is you are being asked to simply validate again what you've already decided. I certainly hope that all four of you will listen to what 63% of the population said, What you did on June 30th, is what you should do again tonight. There shouldn't be a debate about whether additional conditions are laid on to this that you've already passed. And if it happens that you don't vote in favor of what you already supported, then I think there will be serious questions about whether politics are being played here or whether the city council is actually going to support the fixing of our parks because the public wants that done. Please vote in favor of it. Thank you very much. |
| 01:29:02.84 | Unknown | Anyone else? Thank you. Okay, see no other public comment. We'll close public comment. We'll move it up here for council comment. Who would like to start? |
| 01:29:27.21 | Unknown | If there's no comment, Mr. Mayor, I'll make a motion. |
| 01:29:30.55 | Jill Hoffman | I have a comment, it's just that I'm always the first one to speak. |
| 01:29:36.12 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:29:41.52 | Jill Hoffman | So first of all, having been the one council member who voted against the COPs, because I had a number of concerns regarding the debt we would be carrying, I would say that I'm happy we're saving money. The delay has actually saved us some money, and I'm happy to see that. But I'm very concerned over a couple of things. I'm concerned over the, certainly the Interfund transfer. not being eliminated. When I... Thank you. would talk with people about measure f invariably the issue around uh the mlk uh mlk's current debt would come up and that was certainly in these conversations uh part of what swayed some people to lean towards measure f was that they thought they were under the impression that mlk was going to come out of this with its debt wiped out, or that they were going to remove that Interfund loan. So to now decouple those two items and to go forward on this without including that in the resolution when we could. strikes me as odd. The other thing is I remain very uncomfortable about the fact that we have $300,000. Actually, the staff report, it says to exceed 300,000. but let's just say 300,000 that, you know, are represent what tenants are responsible for paying and now there be it's been and and I would add that it's being presented to us as insurance on overage, and yet it doesn't make sense because We're talking about an amount that represents what tenants should be paying, and we're somehow saying that that That is the same as the overage. insurance. I mean, you usually like it's a percentage and to say Well, it's $300,000 because that's what the tenant should be paying. It doesn't make sense to me. So those are my concerns. I certainly respect the will of the voters. And I guess my concern, though, is that the interfund loan is not being eliminated, which it needs to be in this, and also that I have concerns about the 300,000 which I don't think was was clear with people that thing funds that tenants are responsible for paying for are being baked into the overall loan amount so that those are my comments and I look forward to hearing from my fellow council members |
| 01:32:38.84 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. Well, it's clear that my concern about this is that the Interfund loan transfer is not eliminated according to this resolution. The fact that now the city council part of us are saying well, we want to look at it later we want to go back and have that option of not retiring it is really what we're saying even though the The recommendation in the staff report is to retire it, and that was certainly our discussion last June. And that was certainly part of the correspondence that was going back and forth. last June. So, you know, to now say that that wasn't part of discussion or a major issue or major condition is simply It's just not true. I mean, it was, that was a major part the three conditions that were part of the resolution. I think that is an important protection for that piece of property. I think that's an important protection for the people of Sausalito. who own that property. And I would ask that that somehow be added to the resolution as a protection, as are the other protections and limits on how the money can be spent in the numbers. And I would suggest, I don't know, perhaps some language under... section 2B or under the second paragraph where we list the other conditions. I would suggest that instead of 8.5 million, which was the original number that we issue it for the lower number of 7.6, Um, you know, if we're looking at, I believe the number was 70,000 a year we'd save in interest over the life of the loan, that's a million dollars. That's more than 10% of the total loan that we would save by simply going with the lower number. And if we're looking at in a couple of years, the revenues outstripping Um, the COP, then logically that those greater numbers would be more of a pay as you go type of payment. for the loan, which makes a whole lot more sense to me. So For those two reasons, Thank you. you know right now the resolution as it is you know I wouldn't I will not vote for it because I don't believe that it's accurately setting forth what the discussion was last summer and what we talked about of the of the protections, which I think are important protections for the city of Sausalito. So I don't believe that's an inconsistent vote. I think that's. completely consistent with what my understanding of the resolutions were last summer. I certainly want the COPs to be issued, I certainly think it's important to issue them tonight I also think it's important to have the conditions in the resolutions as we discussed them last summer. |
| 01:35:16.18 | Unknown | Um, Thank you. |
| 01:35:22.75 | Unknown | Let me just directly comment on the issue of the retirement of the loan. We discussed it a lot, and I think there's – I believe that the loan should be retired. But back in June, we didn't make the decision to retire the loan. We did not. We did not, the resolution is virtually identical that we're, it's being proposed tonight to the one that was actually passed in June. Now, you say, let's retire the loan. What do you suggest? We pass a resolution to do it like that tonight. Wipe out $6 million of an interfund loan, just like that, with no scheduled repayment, with not understanding how it fits into our long-range plan, without actually budgeting for it. Is it going to be done when all the parks are improved? Will it be done when the money is raised? Will it be done when the parks are finished? Well, we haven't had that discussion. OK? I want to retire the loan, but I want to know on what schedule it's going to be retired, how it's going to be retired, what is the legality of retiring, how does the accounting work, how is it actually going to get booked, what's the nature of the transaction to retire the loan. None of that has been discussed. None of that was discussed in June. And therefore, we didn't vote to do it in June. It's not been discussed now. It's been recommended that it be discussed during the next budget cycle, which is wise. Therefore, to be frank, I'm hearing the addition to by resolution of adding something that was not there in June. And I am not voting for something that was not there in June. |
| 01:37:28.08 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:37:28.16 | Unknown | Wow. |
| 01:37:34.00 | Unknown | this resolution. |
| 01:37:38.88 | Unknown | is... Thank you. Look, 63% of the people in this town voted for us to go forward with this. All right? Some of you can shake your heads because you voted no and you don't want to let go that no, all right? That's what I see in that here up here. |
| 01:38:03.38 | Unknown | We work hard on this. It's a good, you can tell people that are business people and people that are not. All right? Good business people make good business decisions, and this is a good business decision. |
| 01:38:22.92 | Unknown | Yeah, what we're doing here tonight is reauthorizing the resolution approving the proceedings on the COPs were and that's ex that's what the motion is and that's what the voters told us to do and that's what we should do tonight I think this I appreciate the various council members of concerns about the retirement of the of the inter fund loan. We've talked about it. Finance Committee, we want to do that. But we, as Charlie said, it's not for tonight. We wanna make sure we don't lose an opportunity. We don't wanna be, we don't wanna act rationally tonight and possibly lose some, opportunities to use to budget for it in such a way that it maximizes our finances. So I think it's very important that we look at we're reauthorizing exactly what we did in June. I'm happy to do that. We can bring back and we will bring that back. I mean, everyone from our prior Finance director Charlie Francis or interim finance director all the staff the Finance Committee and this and this Council we all want to do that we just want to make sure we do it right and we want to make sure the timing's right. So I would say that we follow what. the voters said we should do to reauthorize the resolution and move on from there. Thank you. |
| 01:39:36.48 | Jill Hoffman | I have a 30-second rebuttal, which is, first of all, it wasn't 63% of the people in the town voting yes. It was 63% of the 48% voter turnout. |
| 01:39:36.50 | Unknown | Um, |
| 01:39:54.69 | Unknown | . |
| 01:39:55.11 | Jill Hoffman | And, but getting back, just, just. just getting back to this the loan being retired was very clear i heard one member say politics are being played politics are being played because it was very very clear that that interfund loan was supposed to be retired now my comment though has to do with the oversight committee it was clear that the public wanted an oversight committee in terms of how these funds were going to be, you know, the oversight, the management, the tracking, the accountability, and the transparency. Transparency is very important in this. So I think that including an oversight committee is something that we should consider. And I'd like to perhaps have a separate motion on that. And what I heard comment about retiring the loan This is a question to the council. Is it my understanding that the move to, if I may just finish this, the move to retire the loan, it's not in question that is there a consensus here that there is no doubt that the loan will be retired. It's just about the details. Did I understand that correctly based on some of the comments that I heard? |
| 01:41:11.39 | Unknown | That's... |
| 01:41:12.13 | Unknown | That's my position. |
| 01:41:14.61 | Unknown | That's my position. Thank you. |
| 01:41:16.03 | Unknown | of how you learn. |
| 01:41:17.65 | Jill Hoffman | I'm just suggesting that I still don't understand why it can't be part of the resolution. I mean, we definitely should make a motion. |
| 01:41:30.93 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Bye. Follow up then. Do we have consensus that the loan will be retired? whether or not it's in the resolution or not, Thank you. I mean, that was... |
| 01:41:40.90 | Unknown | Of course it'll be retired at some point in time. |
| 01:41:43.99 | Jill Hoffman | you |
| 01:41:44.73 | Unknown | We're not the same. I don't understand what your question is. |
| 01:41:44.78 | Jill Hoffman | WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE Not the same. |
| 01:41:47.35 | Alice Merrill | Okay. Thank you. |
| 01:41:48.04 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:41:48.06 | Unknown | Mr. Mayor, maybe I could help here by, there's a danger we could just spin into semantics again. Maybe the, I could say that, is it a resolution of this council that in the, |
| 01:41:48.24 | Alice Merrill | Thank you. |
| 01:41:48.34 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:41:48.46 | Alice Merrill | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 01:42:08.26 | Unknown | upcoming budget process, we will ask staff to put forward a mechanism and schedule and timetable for the retiring of the Interfund loan. I mean, that is what we need to do to do it. |
| 01:42:26.80 | Unknown | And I would say, and bring it to council. And bring it to council. |
| 01:42:28.76 | Unknown | I'm bringing it to council. I'm sorry. |
| 01:42:30.14 | Unknown | So for, |
| 01:42:30.73 | Unknown | For retirement. Right, for retirement. Yeah. I'm very uncomfortable just waving a magic wand, trying to retire something when we haven't analyzed the mechanics of it. It's just not a sensible thing to do. |
| 01:42:46.36 | Mary Kay Sweeney | I appreciate it. |
| 01:42:47.81 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah, I think that makes sense in terms of the details, but what doesn't make sense is the suggestion that this was never promised as part of the COP issuance because it was. It was something that was discussed, it was something that was presented, and it was something that was used as a pitch. |
| 01:43:04.13 | Unknown | you know. was used as a pitch. And that's the semantics I've been talking about. |
| 01:43:06.95 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:43:06.96 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:43:06.98 | Unknown | And that's the semantics I've been talking about. |
| 01:43:09.93 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:43:10.24 | Jill Hoffman | It's not. |
| 01:43:10.88 | Unknown | you Thank you. |
| 01:43:11.13 | Unknown | No. |
| 01:43:11.16 | Unknown | Thank you. Do we have a motion? |
| 01:43:13.32 | Unknown | I'm not sure. |
| 01:43:15.65 | Unknown | We can. |
| 01:43:15.89 | Unknown | The m- |
| 01:43:15.97 | Unknown | The mo- |
| 01:43:17.10 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah, I make a motion. |
| 01:43:17.69 | Unknown | THE END OF THE END OF THE Thank you. |
| 01:43:20.24 | Unknown | Wait, wait. |
| 01:43:21.53 | Unknown | Mr. Mayor, you want a motion regarding what? |
| 01:43:25.44 | Unknown | The motion that we have that's proposed along with your Why don't we make some special? I would recommend that we actually make. Why don't we make that motion and then we can make your motion as a set, your proposal as a separate motion. |
| 01:43:39.77 | Unknown | Okay. I thought it was just a consensus, but if you want it as a formal motion, we can have it as a third motion. We must do a motion. A third motion. |
| 01:43:42.72 | Unknown | as a formal motion, we can have it. |
| 01:43:48.58 | Unknown | Okay, I move that the City Council, the City of Sausalito, reauthorize the resolution, approve in proceedings to finance capital improvements to the project, approve in the issuance of certificates of participation by the Sausalito financing authority for such purposes and approve in related documents and official actions. I think this is two resolutions, Mary. No separate. Two separate motions. |
| 01:44:11.81 | Jill Hoffman | So I'm sorry. |
| 01:44:12.83 | Unknown | So we need a second on this. |
| 01:44:14.40 | Jill Hoffman | you |
| 01:44:14.45 | Unknown | Check in. |
| 01:44:15.09 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, and we can, according to Rosenberg's rules of order, we can have brief discussion. after the motion is made and my clarification what I want to understand is we talked about the motion for the For the inner fund loan, but what about for the oversight committee? Is that going to be a separate motion I will make? |
| 01:44:40.31 | Unknown | Should we do that as a separate motion, as a fourth motion? |
| 01:44:41.58 | Unknown | Thank you. There's a fourth motion. |
| 01:44:44.06 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. OK, so as opposed to an addendum to this motion? |
| 01:44:49.07 | Unknown | to this motion? Yeah, yep. I made a second on his motion. |
| 01:44:54.03 | Unknown | take the right |
| 01:44:54.96 | Unknown | That's brilliant. |
| 01:44:55.82 | Jill Hoffman | Just a clarification to the difference between the first motion and the second motion. The first one, they're the same. It's one for the council and one is for the Sausalito financing authority. Correct. |
| 01:45:06.71 | Unknown | Right. |
| 01:45:06.94 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:45:08.09 | Unknown | Correct. We're operating as two bodies here. |
| 01:45:11.99 | Mary Wagner | Mr. Mayor, if we can just confirm that the motion that was made by Councilmember Withey and seconded by Councilmember Weiner includes staff recommendation to modify the resolution to reflect the actual vote of 63.51%. |
| 01:45:13.46 | Jill Hoffman | if we can just. |
| 01:45:13.96 | Unknown | you |
| 01:45:27.28 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:45:27.36 | Mary Wagner | I'm sorry. The number in the resos is incorrect. Okay, yes. And Brian asked that you just made it include that as part of the vote number. Yes. Our assumption is you did, but I think we should be clear. |
| 01:45:30.37 | Jill Hoffman | Oh, okay. Yes, and you will put the correct in on. |
| 01:45:32.68 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:45:32.69 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. |
| 01:45:32.71 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:45:32.73 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 01:45:32.95 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:45:33.05 | Jill Hoffman | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 01:45:33.30 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 01:45:36.07 | Jill Hoffman | And what about to Vice Mayor's comment about the amount of the loan? Did we adjust that? We were going to adjust that. |
| 01:45:36.12 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. |
| 01:45:45.08 | Unknown | We're re-authoring. |
| 01:45:54.35 | Unknown | We have a second. Yes, I seconded. |
| 01:45:57.23 | Unknown | Councilmember Weiner. |
| 01:45:58.16 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 01:45:58.53 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:45:58.55 | Unknown | you |
| 01:45:58.61 | Unknown | Thank you. Councilmember Pfeiffer? Come back to me. Councilmember Whitby. |
| 01:46:03.71 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 01:46:04.88 | Unknown | Vice Mayor Hoffman? |
| 01:46:07.78 | Nancy Osborne | Yes. |
| 01:46:09.35 | Unknown | Mayor Theodorus? Yes. Councilmember Pfeiffer? |
| 01:46:15.07 | Jill Hoffman | I'm torn about this because I really support the fact that it went to a ballot vote, and I respect the vote of the people, but I have questions about the, Thank you. The 300,000 that are the tenant responsibilities, |
| 01:46:33.16 | Unknown | We're past comment. Please, we're at a vote. |
| 01:46:36.03 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. Yeah. Yes. Okay. |
| 01:46:36.08 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 01:46:39.86 | Jill Hoffman | Um, |
| 01:46:40.18 | Unknown | I move that the Board of Directors of the Social Eto' Financing Authority reauthorize the resolution, authorizing the issuance and sell of certificates of participation to finance capital improvements to the project and approve and related documents and official actions. And if that resolution contains the incorrect percentage, then we'll include the correct percentage. And I'll second that. |
| 01:47:03.47 | Unknown | Member Weiner? |
| 01:47:04.23 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 01:47:04.60 | Unknown | Member Pfeiffer? Yes. Remember Withy? |
| 01:47:08.38 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 01:47:09.29 | Unknown | Vice Chair Hoffman. |
| 01:47:09.32 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:47:10.82 | Unknown | Yes. Chair Theodoris. Yes. |
| 01:47:12.68 | Unknown | Yes. Now, what was the... |
| 01:47:15.62 | Unknown | I'm not sure. Thank you. |
| 01:47:16.75 | Unknown | to what you're doing. |
| 01:47:16.97 | Unknown | I moved to direct staff during the 2016-18 budget process to put forward a mechanism schedule to retire the Interfund loan that exists between the MLK Enterprise Fund and |
| 01:47:44.61 | Jill Hoffman | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 01:47:46.67 | Unknown | would you take the role please now do we need to do this um with the financing agency or just with the city i think that's city council so this is city council action only yep |
| 01:47:52.72 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. |
| 01:47:52.79 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:47:52.89 | Mary Wagner | I'm sorry. |
| 01:47:53.03 | Unknown | to the kids. |
| 01:47:53.26 | Mary Wagner | KELLEY. |
| 01:47:53.55 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:47:53.60 | Mary Wagner | So this is, Thank you. |
| 01:47:55.64 | Unknown | All right. |
| 01:47:55.85 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. |
| 01:47:57.08 | Unknown | On some of a wainer. |
| 01:47:57.95 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 01:47:57.97 | Unknown | Thank you. Councilmember Pfeiffer? Yes. Councilmember Withey? Yes. Vice Mayor Hoffman? |
| 01:48:01.08 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 01:48:03.41 | Unknown | Mayor Theodoros. |
| 01:48:04.05 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:48:05.41 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, I move to create an oversight committee of residents to guide the accountability and transparency and management of the COP disbursement. Thank you. |
| 01:48:23.64 | Jill Hoffman | Second. |
| 01:48:25.31 | Unknown | Willie, would you take the role again? This is the city council. |
| 01:48:29.04 | Unknown | Councilmember Weiner? No. Council member Pfeiffer? Yes. Council member Withey? |
| 01:48:33.65 | Unknown | Nope. |
| 01:48:33.68 | Unknown | No. you |
| 01:48:33.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:48:34.00 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:48:34.34 | Unknown | Vice Mayor Hoffman? Mayor Theodorus. |
| 01:48:37.29 | Unknown | No. |
| 01:48:39.18 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:48:39.25 | Unknown | Does not carry. |
| 01:48:39.30 | Unknown | This is not Carrie. Okay, so we will now... |
| 01:48:44.11 | Jill Hoffman | I am shocked about that, I've got to say. |
| 01:48:46.99 | Unknown | I'll now adjourn the... Sausalito financing Authority and reconvene the Sausalito City Council or now only the city council we look any different and Do we want to I think the next item is um Let's see, we're on. The council election of |
| 01:49:06.03 | Adam Politzer | Mayor. |
| 01:49:06.52 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:49:06.53 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 01:49:06.55 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:49:07.56 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 01:49:07.58 | Unknown | you |
| 01:49:07.63 | Adam Politzer | Mr. Mayor, if I can, one of the traditions of the Saso City Council is the city manager giving a few words to the outgoing mayor. And so if you would just give me a few moments to recognize the mayor. The mayor's position- Wait, hold on a second. Wait, one second. |
| 01:49:29.98 | Unknown | We need We only have a few minutes more to get. Do we need a break or do we want to go on? Thank you. |
| 01:49:37.10 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. |
| 01:49:37.89 | Unknown | What? |
| 01:49:38.75 | Jill Hoffman | That's fine. Anybody else want to write? No. I can hold it. |
| 01:49:42.51 | Unknown | No, we can. I mean, I don't want to move. Are you okay? We can take. |
| 01:49:45.28 | Jill Hoffman | You can take. you |
| 01:49:47.37 | Unknown | What? |
| 01:49:48.40 | Adam Politzer | All right, let's just go forward. I'll keep my comments short. But the role of the mayor is really the lead spokesman for the city council and for the city. And when things are going well, the team usually gets all of the credit. And when things aren't going well, the mayor or the city manager get blamed usually first the mayor because that's who the public you know recognizes that are making the decisions and leading But I do think it's important that as we come to the end of the year, that we take a moment just to kind of reflect on some of the projects and items that the council addressed this year and some of the good things that came out of it. And that has to do with the mayor and the vice mayor, but at the end of the day, it's the mayor. The mayor runs the meeting. He has to manage the expectation of the audience, the speakers, work with the fellow council members to give everyone the opportunity to speak and have their points heard, and then out in the public attend a lot of functions and attend a lot of community meetings representing the city, both here in town and in the county and at the state level. Tom Theodorus, our mayor, has been very active in that area. We just earlier this afternoon had a meeting with Senator McGuire, a meeting that was a follow-up meeting to the ramp metering discussions that's happening here in our state. And proposed ramp metering that is in the five-year window. It's not tomorrow, but it's in the five-year window of something that will happen here in Marin County and potentially starting in southern Marin. We also met with Senator McGuire a few months ago, Vice Mayor Hoffman and the Mayor and I, to look at the issues related to Alexander Avenue. Vista Point, Vista Trail, THE ON-RAMP to the northbound of Alexander Avenue there that's very short. dangerous and difficult and then Alexandria Avenue in general all the way from Vista Point to city limits. So these discussions take a lot of time, take a lot of coordination, but are very, very important. But when you look back at the beginning of the year, we kicked off the year with introducing the 2015 strategic plan document. which is a document that the council uses during the budget process. prioritize how we're going to spend and use our city resources. THEIR HIGHER. We took on a few items that had the community's attention. The housing elements came to a conclusion at the beginning of 2015. The Marineship Specific Plan Steering Committee, another light item that didn't have very many people interested in. Also had a steering committee that was put together and met for close to two years and came forward with a recommendation to the council, which the council is taking action on already in terms of looking at circulation element as one of the first steps in updating the general plan. And then also looking at the marine rails and how we can protect them going forward. and then continuing the work with the VA to protect the machine shop building another item that has caused a bit of a lightning rod the community when the VA came and said they were going to Scream. And this city council has stood tall to keep them. I'm from doing that. And earlier this year they came and gave us an update saying that they're working towards preventing it from being scraped and how could they reuse the existing building. we had a lawsuit regarding ADA and the council of doing the right thing wasn't so concerned about the fight of the lawsuit But the understanding that we were required to make these ADA improvements and you're seeing those ADA improvements. happen throughout town and we've also initiated the transition plan which I think is a lot more comprehensive and we hope by the end of 2016 we have a transition plan that is a guiding tool as we go forward to make these improvements into the future. Fort Baker another item that is non-controversial especially when the park service came forward saying that they wanted to have this the community consider a ferry landing there for embarkation for the Alcatraz tours. And we obviously took a strong statement position against that. made our comments known to the Park Service that we weren't supportive of that But we did that in a friendly way and Mayor Theodore has led our efforts there with multiple meetings with these folks to look at opportunities to protect Fort Baker and use Fort Baker in a way that serves the community, but not to turn it into a tourist location with Alcatraz trips on a regular basis leaving that site. Short-term vacation rentals, we've had that come to the council three times in this past year. With a recommendation to do enforcement on the. Um, on the vacation rentals to family homes that are traditionally just being used for rentals. and creating disturbances in the neighborhood. identified a handful of those and are going through the enforcement actions on them now. and will bring back a recommendation to council on next steps in the new year. Golden Gate Ferry Landing another item that had a lot of community participation and attention We had to rent the IDES hall three times. to hold community meetings and we packed it. to the gills. And I think we had a tremendous response from the community and the council and the planning commission NHLP HLB stood strong and worked with us and the Golden Gate Ferry to move a process forward that we look to bring in the new year on how we move forward with this project. smaller things like RBRA and what are we going to do with the anchor outs they held a workshop RBRA did in the early spring of the year and then we held a community forum just last month at the Spinnaker standing room only packed to the house the community very interested in how we move forward and I think the mayor and the council here have taken a strong position that more time is needed. We need to look at the enforcement as the first step. and again this is something that will take a lot of discussion with the community and our partners around Richardson's Bay. On the lighter side but also just as important vegetation management we had a great presentation from our fire department to really look at how we're going to make Sausalito fire safe especially in light of what we saw up in the valley there. with Middletown and Lake County and all the cities there that really were devastated so again It was nice to see all five council members say that they wanted to be involved. that process and that discussion and our fire chief is working to bring information back to us in the spring But in the meantime, as you heard, the fire captain Public Works Department and Fire Department are continuing to work this winter to put in prevention Tonight's action is the issuance and the direction to move forward on issuance of certificates of participation is a milestone especially when you look at the work that the Friends of Dunphy Park had put into Dunphy Park and the schematic plan that the master plan that they presented last month. And obviously the good work that the Park and Rec Commission and the Park and Rec Department have put in. working with the community on Robin Sweeney Park where with the action tonight you know it is our intent to bring an award or contract for Robin Sweeney Park at the first meeting in January. and start the demolition and the work of that, to have that park open this summer for our community to celebrate. So again, very big steps. Going back to the 2015-16 budget, Just a year prior, the community passed Measure O, which gave us an increased sales tax revenue to address our storm drains, ADA, and streets, and other capital projects that we promised the public that we would use those funds for. And so we were able to look specifically, Council Member Withee will appreciate this, at page 249 of the budget. And all those items that were there there in red most of them being storm drain related items we were able to fund and that was very important and again leadership of the mayor and the council there to move forward on that budget. was important and obviously is playing itself out as we move forward And then the last two here is a shout out to Lauren and Burtis and the council. I'm listening to the mayor. Governor's directive on water conservation. We came forward and shared that we had reduced our water usage by 21% in the previous year. I'm sure that our Public Works Department will come through in the beginning of this next year and tell what we conserved this last year, but 21 percent Reduction in water is also something worth noting. And then last but not least, because of Shelby Van Meter was in the audience or is in the audience, Sausalito Beautiful and all the great work that they put in working with this council and with this community on two significant projects, being in Del Mar, being one in the Ice House, a strip of vegetation between the Ice House and Enzyme Street, the Taste of Rome was the good work of them. And I know that our mayor was very involved with that, as were some of the other council members. With that, we would like to present to the mayor, this nice plaque recognizing his service as mayor of Sausalito from December 9, 2014 to December 1, 2015. I'd like to present this to him and also recognize his wife. Tricia Smith. who has to put up with him coming home after these meetings or any of the other 12, plus 12 committee and subcommittee task force, regional, local meetings that he attends on behalf of the city of Sausalito. So please celebrate this recognition to Mayor Theodores. |
| 02:01:11.89 | Unknown | Well, thank you so much. I really appreciate it. It's really been an amazing experience, and I appreciate all the support from all the council and staff and from everyone, so I thank you all so much. Now we move into the council. election of the mayor of the new mayor. And we have, um, The first thing is public comment. And do we have a speaker cards and who would like to speak on Public comment on the election of the new mayor. THE FAMILY. Is anyone else could you fill out speaker card or stand in line if there's something |
| 02:01:48.14 | John Flavin | My name is John Flavin, I'm a resident of Sausalito. Sausalito is a general law city, which means that the mayor is not elected by a popular vote, but by the decision of U5. It's an honorary position. We've gone through all the details here, but it really is an honorarium. It's not the mayor has no further greater executive power than any other member of the council. In the past, The criteria for election to mayor appears to have been whose turn is it? And secondly, is the person male? So I am here tonight to ask you to relook at that because clearly Councilmember Pfeiffer is the one who is in line. Her record, her achievements, her time of service clearly dictates that it's her turn. And regarding the male part, well, I'm asking you to overlook that, to overcome your beliefs, particularly of several of you. that men are better. And I'm asking you because Linda Pfeiffer, two reasons. One, she has done remarkable things for the city. Secondly, she has a very large support group out there who are watching very carefully the outcome of this vote tonight. because It is an important thing for her and it is probably important for your personal reelection options come 2016. I'm sorry. |
| 02:03:31.78 | Unknown | Who's next, please? Please come up. Please come up. Well, just don't worry. Just come speak. Just speak. Sorry. It's fine. |
| 02:03:45.76 | Bob Tillman | Hi, my name is Bob Tillman, and I have lived here since 1988. And I understand that Linda is sometimes controversial in this city, but there are many people who greatly appreciate her work. And it has been customary to give people a turn to be mayor. And I think that that's a very respectful thing to do. I think it's very constructive. And I would urge you... Not... for just Linda, but for Sausalito and for the future. not to change that custom. There is a... there can be, it would be a very bad precedent to change that custom because what it would mean is that The people who are in the majority, could shut out someone who's in the minority in perpetuity. AND I'M GOING TO BE if it is done once, it will become a precedent. Thank you. I have been reading about the fall of the Roman Republic recently and about how when people change things that are precedents, it has very bad, unforeseen consequences. I would urge you, particularly since this is a matter not of power but of respect, to not change this precedent, to respect Linda, and whether you agree with her or disagree with her, she has put in a huge amount of hard work, and I think that she deserves this. So thank you. |
| 02:05:24.81 | Unknown | Thank you. Next. |
| 02:05:30.82 | David Sudo | David Sudo. I think as a city council member it's okay to be adversarial with staff and vigorously defend your constituency, which at times may be at odds with the larger Sausalito citizenship. But a mayor needs to represent all the people of Sausalito and bridge differences to form a consensus compromise on tough issues and be able to work constructively with staff to build trust with the entire community. I think this is something Mayor Theodores has worked very hard on this year. Um, But so far, Council Member Pfeiffer has not shown me in her seven years on City Council that she is capable of showing this kind of leadership. I wish that I could recommend a new council member who has not been mayor for this position, and before tonight I thought perhaps I could, but after tonight's events, I find I cannot. Thank you. |
| 02:06:22.00 | Unknown | Thank you. Patricia Pigman, please. Oh, just come up and speak. Don't worry about it. Patricia, you want to go after next? |
| 02:06:30.35 | Barbara Nelson | I'm Barbara Nelson. I'm Barbara Nelson. I've been a resident since 1963, I think it is. And, yes, in all this time, I've seen that the Office of Mayor has been... given as a measure of respect to various members of the council, everybody getting a turn. I don't see that the mayor is the person that keeps order on the council, but Robert's Rules of Orders do, and all of you follow that. So I don't worry about that. Linda has a huge constituency. She is very, very dedicated. She's very articulate. I think she'd make a great mayor. And I want you to know it was very hard for me to come tonight. because after the last mayor election, I really felt like my council did not was not responsive to what the public wants. And I want you to be responsive. There was another time in June when many people spoke up about... Short-term rentals in favor of it and the whole council voted against or voted for having That policed and fined and I think that could have been much much better defined In terms of what it was that you really wanted what what the city really wanted what the constituent your constituents wanted I ask for you to be responsive Thank you. to the electorate. We elected Linda. year after year she gets elected so she is an important function on this council and I think she'd make a great leader Thank you. |
| 02:08:10.83 | Unknown | Thank you. Who's next? Again, Patricia. that's it. Thank you. |
| 02:08:18.03 | Denise Soto | Thank you. |
| 02:08:18.05 | Unknown | you |
| 02:08:24.62 | Denise Soto | my name is denise soto live at four eleven locust street And... I've been watching city council meetings for a while now and disheartened at the Use of the word. and the insinuations about sexism that somehow that The reason why Ms. Pfeiffer hasn't been elected has to do with the fact that she's a woman I'm an educator. I teach. I deal with students who have to deal with sexism and racism on a regular basis, real sexism and real racism. And for you or anyone else to use that as a political red herring I find offensive. I find it offensive as a woman in IT, and a woman in science. And I'm tired. of coming to these city council meetings and seeing this display. And it's created... because of manipulations. It's created because of emails that are sent insinuating that people who are doing public work are somehow mishandling money That's actually called cyber bowling. That's what we teach. when you manipulate Facts. And you make it okay for people to be unkind to each other. It's really difficult to come to these meetings and you remind yourself to smile, to be nice, to look for commonalities. And I don't appreciate being represented. by an individual, and I'll be transparent. So if I am speaking to you, and I feel like you've lost your way, because at one point in time, I felt like you... did have a voice and that you cared, but you've lost your way. You're not listening to the voters. You're not reaching out to the voters. You're staying in your small circle of people. You don't reach out. You came to Sausalito beautiful. and walked down a line and thanked people instead of actually doing something. I made it my business as an educator to show up at every public event to champion Bayside MLK and to look around and every city council member knows because I shook him down talking about Bayside MLK and you weren't present And when you have been present, you have run away. with anyone who disagrees with you. And we've reached out and you know that. And I think it's a shame that you've lost your way because you hide behind answering asking tough questions but you're not asking tough questions you're alienating people And you're creating an environment that makes it okay for people. to bully each other. Because you play this victim role when in actuality, you harass other people. |
| 02:11:27.73 | Unknown | Oh, dear. |
| 02:11:31.09 | Denise Soto | And I want you to hear me. Truly. |
| 02:11:34.73 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:11:34.78 | Denise Soto | That's it. Thank you. |
| 02:11:35.71 | Denise Soto | THE FAMILY. |
| 02:11:35.98 | Unknown | Reach out. Thank you. Drisha. |
| 02:11:46.56 | Patricia Pigman | Good evening. My name is Patricia Pigman. And I've lived in Sausalito since 1963. And I just very simply you I want to express my gratitude for Linda Pfeiffer. She's been on the council for seven years and has worked tirelessly for the residents, keeping us informed of the issues, working for transparency. I appreciate her many years of service, and I would like for you to consider her for mayor. And if I may, I would just like to read what... Janine Moody said she has a cold and couldn't be here. Linda has worked tirelessly and effectively to keep Sausalito citizens informed of the issues affecting our town. An informed electorate is vitally necessary to an effective functioning government and inspires public trust. Linda puts this ideal into practice and brings it to life. Her example and advocacy of transparency in Sausalito government. is a breath of fresh air. Linda would make a dynamic and wonderful mayor. Thank you. |
| 02:13:17.14 | Unknown | Thank you, Patricia. |
| 02:13:23.86 | Nancy Osborne | Mr. Mayor and council members, I'm Nancy Osborne. I don't know how many of you can think back to the early 2000s, but I've been a resident here since the late 1970s, But in the early 2000s, when I first got to know Linda Pfeiffer, conducting what came to be known as the battle for Fort Baker. We were trying to hold out a 300 room hotel and everything that went along with it for a conference center. We had a group of us that used to appear at the 4th of July parade, with banners and slogans and A mission blue butterfly. And that's how I first came to know Linda Pfeiffer. But she has been involved in so many more important things. Well, maybe not more important. Mission Blue Butterfly was a very effective tool in fighting off what was happening down there. But I want you to really just think back four years to the election, the last time Linda and two of the other members were elected. And there was some pretty vicious campaigning against Linda. Some that I felt was uncalled for, but I won't go into more detail than that, except to say, She won the election. She came through with the top number of votes. And it seems to me |
| 02:14:53.30 | Nancy Osborne | Okay. I'm sorry. I was thinking that I've misspoken then. This was in, you were number two in that last election. Well, then I've misspoken, and I'm sorry. But in spite of that, I think she is highly qualified to be mayor. And I guess what I was going to suggest, and I still would since I've misspoken, I think whoever gets the top number of votes should be assured of at least one term as mayor during the time that they ran, but during the time that they are on the council. So I thought I had seen the figures differently, and I apologize. but I still thank Linda for all the experience and the time that she has spent. She has been very effective, and I particularly like her communication skills. She has worked very hard to make people in this community aware of what's happening with the council and to stay involved with what's happening at the council. So thank you very much for considering her. |
| 02:15:59.70 | Unknown | make it right. Thank you. Thank you, Nancy. |
| 02:16:02.23 | Nancy Osborne | Please. |
| 02:16:09.00 | Bill Manet | My name is Bill Manet. I'm a new resident of Sausselet. I've only been here five years, but it is a wonderful town. I can't claim to have the experience of some of these other people, but you guys have done a very good job of preserving this great town. First of all, I want to thank you, all of you, for the work you do. I know you put up with a lot. You get paid little. It's a thankless job I don't envy you. I do know Linda personally. I've had the chance to work personally with Linda on a couple of projects. I can attest to her tireless energy. But I won't repeat what the others have said. I just want to remind you that we have a council form of government. It's a nonpartisan form of government. I think it should be nonpartisan, but there's a risk in that. There's a risk of group think that things, ideas don't get challenged, the status quo doesn't get challenged. And Linda has played a very important role. She has, in fact, raised a lot of difficult questions, uncomfortable questions, and it's an uncomfortable role and I have no doubt she's It's been annoying at times, but it is very, very important, especially in a nonpartisan government. So I would ask you just to consider the role she has played very effectively, the value of it, and when you make your decision. Thank you. |
| 02:17:22.44 | Unknown | Thank you, Sam. |
| 02:17:29.36 | Sam Chase | Yes, I'm Sam Chase, resident on Bonita Street. First, I'd like to also thank the council for completing another challenging year in 2015, especially the efforts that you made to gather significant public input on the ferry project. 2016 will no doubt be another challenging year with a variety of numerous issues such as bike logistics, tourism planning, short-term rentals discussions, to name a few, not to mention ongoing discussions on the ferry terminal. I do particularly want to thank Linda Pfeiffer for your relentless efforts to communicate with residents and provide a pristine example of a council member who demonstrates transparent government. your communication skills, analytical ability. willingness to perform due diligence on all the issues is second to no council member I've seen in my 40 years as a resident. I'm not sure. You've continued to perform these duties in an unwavering manner, despite not being allowed to hold the mayor's position during your seven years in office. For other council members, I would request again that you provide Linda Pfeiffer a long overdue opportunity to serve as the Mayor of Sausalito. She has a large number of constituents in our community who are very anxious to be, for her to be chosen for the Mayor's position, which has historically been a power-sharing agreement amongst all council members. A balanced council is one that has a variety of skills, opinions, ideologies, respect for fellow council members, and willingness to share power equitably. It would be for the benefit of all if the current gap that exists could at least partially be closed with the mayor's appointment for Linda. I hope that you look past disagreements, personality conflicts, and give her long overdue position during what could be her last year in office. Thank you. |
| 02:19:46.30 | Unknown | Thanks, Sam. |
| 02:19:51.85 | John DeRay | My name is John DeRay, I've been a resident of Sausalito for about three years. First of all, I also want to thank all five members of the City Council for your service and Mr. Mayor for your leadership this past year. I'd like to say a few words about inclusion and fairness. Sausalito elect City Council members to be their representative in city government. In 2008, the residents of Sausalito elected Ms. Pfeiffer to City Council with 1,751 votes. In 2012, Ms. Pfeiffer was elected with 1,478 votes. I hope the three men on this city council do not exclude from this mayoral rotation a woman who's been a public servant to this community for over eight years People do not always have to agree with each other and that's okay. Disagreement with the council majority should not preclude a council member from serving a term as mayor. Okay. Sausalito should be a model for inclusion Please do not send a message of division and exclusion to our community. Last year, the results of this mayoral vote were covered in the Marin IJ, and it was an embarrassment for Sausalito. Here's an excerpt that I want to quote. I quote, each council member should serve at least one term as mayor. It gives them an opportunity to showcase to voters their abilities. That's why it was disappointing last week when Sausalito reverted to a practice thought long gone of selecting as mayor only a council member who consistently votes with the council majority. It happened when Councilwoman Linda Pfeiffer was passed over and the gavel was handed to first term councilman Thomas Theodorus. In recent years, the men on the Sausalito Council, the majority and the women, invariably the minority, Haven't gotten along. snubbing Pfeiffer wasn't only a personal slam, It was an insult to the majority of voters who support her Ian Hoffman. It violated Marin's tradition of council comedy, end quote. But I want to repeat the last line. It was an insult to the majority of voters who supported her. Please, let's make this right. Thank you. |
| 02:22:26.16 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:22:26.17 | Chuck Miller | THANK YOU. |
| 02:22:26.22 | Unknown | THANK YOU. |
| 02:22:26.27 | Chuck Miller | Thank you. |
| 02:22:30.80 | Chuck Miller | Hi, I'm Chuck Miller. I've been here for 30 years, roughly, short one. And frankly, I want to be mayor. People. friends of mine and everybody says, I am the mayor of Southsley. So I think I should be mayor, but that's not where I'm really here. I think that I'm here to support Linda. And I know there's been divisiveness and whatever. In fact, this is probably the first city council meeting I've been to all year. because I really don't like them. I think you have to really ask yourselves, I love what the gentleman just before me said, because I was actually thinking that it would be an embarrassment if she doesn't get it after all these years. And I hadn't realized that the IJ stole my thunder. But I think you have to ask yourselves that if she does become mayor, I think you're going to see a change. I think what happens is that you're all afraid that she's going to be doing all the things, all these terrible things that she's been doing as a regular council member. But I think when you become mayor, |
| 02:23:36.46 | Chuck Miller | I'm glad. I'm glad I entertained you. But when you become mayor, you have a different perspective. And I think you'll be surprised at what will happen. So. I'm all in favor of it. Thank you. Thanks, Chuck. Thank you. |
| 02:23:51.04 | Unknown | you |
| 02:23:52.64 | Chuck Miller | Thank you. |
| 02:23:52.67 | Unknown | Alice. |
| 02:23:55.20 | Alice Merrill | I'm Alice Merrill. And... I agreed last year that it was fortunate that Linda didn't get the mayor job for the reason that people are saying, because it's tradition. It's not about men and women. There are many women mayors. There have been many women mayors, mayor more than once. Thank you. This is not a town that divides down those lines in this case. But, um, Right. I would just like to say that if you get it tonight, and I have no idea how these guys and gals are gonna go, that you really do think in the bigger picture than your narrow focus. I believe that you have had a narrow focus. And it has to be bigger. And I hope you step up to the plate and get it bigger if you're going to be the mayor. |
| 02:24:49.34 | Unknown | Thanks, Alice. |
| 02:24:54.66 | Doreen Gunnar | Hello? Mayor Theodoros and the council, I'm Doreen Gunnar and would like to see Jill Hoffman be the next mayor of this town. Because I think that she's actually shown some consensus building that needs to happen with everybody here. And I think that she can do that. And I do recommend that you consider her tonight. Thank you. |
| 02:25:22.95 | Unknown | Thank you. Vicki. |
| 02:25:28.15 | Vicki Nichols | I first wanna say that I, Appreciate all of your work up there. I think many people don't know that you get elected, you serve on these other committees, and no matter what your views are, and I don't agree with all of you at all the time, But you are up there doing the work. I don't believe that it's a given that anybody becomes the mayor. I've never seen that written. We've had many female members and Linda was the vice mayor her first term. She was elected, you were elected vice mayor. Yeah. I thought you said first year. |
| 02:26:01.80 | Jill Hoffman | This year, sorry. You were, yeah. First term, yeah. |
| 02:26:02.66 | Vicki Nichols | All right. Yeah. So you have done some work in that seat. The mayor and the vice mayor are important. They may not make all the decisions, but they set our agendas. They bring forth what the council is going to hear, so it is an important position. So whomever does it up there, I hope that they, to throw around the word inclusive and transparent, which I'm so tired of transparent because I think it's so overused. Whomever sits in that job after Tom tonight needs to hear loud and clear. I hope that the whole community expects all their viewpoints to be represented. I frankly am tired of the 3-2, 4-2 votes, votes whatever I don't think it makes any difference to stand out on principle because things don't get done and I don't think anybody's keeping a tally of how everybody votes about how they stick so pure to their values you're not advancing your point of view if you can't work with your fellow council members you need three votes to get stuff done so whoever's elected tonight I hope they can work with the others and I work a lot in the county. And I hope that that person... goes forth and represents Sausalito in a good manner. not an embarrassment in the IJ and it isn't about men or women it's just how they're represented how they take up issues and And I don't, you know, I don't have, I'm tired of the, also tired of the men against the women. I don't think that that has been a factor here at all. And I've attended many, many meetings. So let's stop that. We're all adults. And let's elect a mayor tonight that's going to represent all of us. Thank you. |
| 02:27:55.99 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:28:01.21 | Pat Zook | Pat Zook, and I've been watching mayors and vice mayors and city managers since 1981. I'm somewhat taken aback that this is the second or third rotation where we've had a crowd of people petitioning the council members to basically rotate the position of mayor to someone who is well qualified, has been vice mayor, and has been on the council for a number of years. I've seen councils be acrimonious and appointments or elections be hostile and unfortunate, and I think this would be a good time to stop that and revert to the way that we've conducted ourselves for the most part over the past 30-some-odd years, which is a congenial and honorable rotation. Management styles can differ among different mayors, vice mayors, and city managers, and I'm sure whoever the mayor is, the management style will differ from Mr. Theodorus, who I congratulate for a year filled with accomplishments and I'm sure challenges that you probably have enjoyed and would wish your co-counselors to have the experience of enjoying as well. |
| 02:29:23.47 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:29:23.80 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. |
| 02:29:29.47 | Unknown | Jeff, did you speak on this already? |
| 02:29:29.50 | Unknown | but. |
| 02:29:33.04 | Unknown | I'm speaking on the subject of the mayor of Sausalito, is that all right, public comment? |
| 02:29:36.03 | Unknown | I'm not sure. |
| 02:29:36.10 | Unknown | Exactly. |
| 02:29:36.42 | Unknown | All right. |
| 02:29:37.80 | Unknown | Okay, have you? That's okay, Mayor Theodores? Yes. Okay, thank you. |
| 02:29:39.62 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:29:39.66 | Unknown | I did. |
| 02:29:39.89 | Unknown | or not. |
| 02:29:42.58 | Unknown | I'd also like to thank you for being mayor and for letting the public speak no matter what they're speaking about or how they're speaking. I'd like to say that from this book that I've been reading, we don't have... a patriarchy for the Israelites in particular. We say that Eve was the mother of all the living, Abraham is told to listen to his wife, Sarah, by God. that, Rebecca. counsels Jacob. to take the birthright from the unworthy Esau. So I'm looking at the two women here and the three men, and I know as a person who lives on the Anchorage that the two women have a different opinion than the men. The men seem to have voted for us, and the women, I don't think, have really come to know us. So I'm I wouldn't mind having one of these two women as mayor. I think that would be fantastic. The other three men have already done it. They know what it's like. And I'm here to say... Give peace a chance and give the women a chance. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 02:30:55.09 | Jean Harvey | Hello, I'm Jean Harvey and I'm a newer resident of Sausalito. And I just want to say thank you to all of you for the extraordinary amount of time and thoughtfulness that you give to the community. It's very appreciated. I'm I'm extremely impressed by all of you. I would like to say that I'm very impressed with Jill Hoffman as her I heard the word consensus building, and I think that's exactly what she does. extremely intelligent, thoughtful. well-versed on the issues, and I would just like her to be considered for the mayor. Thank you. |
| 02:31:37.38 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:31:41.70 | Unknown | I really don't know too much about any of the mayors like voting or what you guys have been through, but I believe like male and women, When you put your hands together, you become unified in love. And I believe, like, you've had your chance, you've had your chance, you've had your chance. And neither of you have had your chance. I feel it would be good to unify with the male and female aspect of Sausalito's council in life. I think you deserve a chance. You've been here. Thank you. |
| 02:32:25.27 | Unknown | Thank you. Anyone else? Okay. See none will close public comment. And we move into nominations and I'll make the first nomination. I nominate a vice mayor, Jill Hoffman for mayor. |
| 02:32:43.38 | Jill Hoffman | I nominate Councilwoman Melinda Pfeiffer. |
| 02:32:53.26 | Unknown | Um, Lily, would you take the vote? |
| 02:33:01.60 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:33:03.42 | Unknown | Just ask us. Oh, did I just call? |
| 02:33:06.00 | Unknown | Councilmember Weiner. |
| 02:33:07.17 | Unknown | Joel Kaufman. |
| 02:33:08.75 | Unknown | Councilmember Pfeiffer? Linda Pfeiffer. Councilmember Withey. |
| 02:33:13.57 | Unknown | Uh, Joe Hoffman. |
| 02:33:17.16 | Unknown | Vice Mayor Hoffman. |
| 02:33:18.97 | Jill Hoffman | Councilwoman Pfeiffer. |
| 02:33:21.19 | Unknown | Mayor Theodoris. |
| 02:33:21.90 | Unknown | Thank you. Joel Hoffman. So the new mayor is Joe Hoffman. And now we turn the meeting over to you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So. I... |
| 02:33:42.17 | Unknown | She will now move on to item 6B. |
| 02:33:46.96 | Jill Hoffman | Can I briefly say something because a lot of people are leaving. I just wanted to say thank you very much for everyone who spoke so encouragingly. It was just very touching and it's an honor to be up here and it's a privilege. Thank you very, very much. |
| 02:34:03.89 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:34:04.46 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you very much. You inspire me. |
| 02:34:09.12 | Jill Hoffman | And now I'll call for nominations for vice mayor and I'll start the nominations. I nominate Councilwoman Pfeiffer |
| 02:34:16.41 | Unknown | And I'll nominate Ray Withey. |
| 02:34:21.28 | Jill Hoffman | Any other nominations? Let's take the vote. |
| 02:34:25.92 | Unknown | Councilmember Weiner? Thank you. |
| 02:34:27.85 | Unknown | with him. |
| 02:34:29.33 | Unknown | Councilmember Pfeiffer? Linda Pfeiffer. Councilmember Withey? |
| 02:34:34.50 | Unknown | Um, right with you. |
| 02:34:39.26 | Unknown | Councilmember Theodorus. |
| 02:34:40.67 | Unknown | Ray withy. |
| 02:34:43.25 | Unknown | Mayor Hoffman. |
| 02:34:44.28 | Jill Hoffman | Councilwoman Pfeiffer. |
| 02:34:53.28 | Unknown | Thank you. Yeah. So if you want to just send that. |
| 02:34:57.97 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 02:35:09.33 | Adam Politzer | I think that I said enough during the thank you of the mayor, so I will pass and wish a safe and happy holiday and restful, and look forward to seeing everyone back on January 12th. |
| 02:35:24.40 | Jill Hoffman | And moving on to 7B, council member committee reports. Do we have any committee reports? any new from last? |
| 02:35:32.72 | Unknown | No. |
| 02:35:33.32 | Denise Soto | Thank you. |
| 02:35:33.34 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:35:33.39 | Denise Soto | So... |
| 02:35:33.61 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. No? OK. No committee reports. Next is appointments to the pedestrian and bicycle advisory committee and the historic landmarks board. Are we going to do the Historic Landmarks Board tonight, |
| 02:35:44.82 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:35:46.98 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, yes. Okay. All right, let's do with the, we'll start with the bike and ped committee first. We had two, we had two applicants for the bike and ped committee. Do we want to have a discussion? |
| 02:35:47.04 | Unknown | Okay. Thank you. |
| 02:36:05.93 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 02:36:06.03 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. Sure, that's fine. We have one member of the Bike and Ped Committee that wanted to remain on the Bike and Ped Committee. That was Patricia Pigman. Let's have a discussion on whether or not we would re-nominate her on the bike and pet. |
| 02:36:22.85 | Unknown | I would certainly nominate and as liaison nominate her for reappointment. |
| 02:36:29.03 | Jill Hoffman | I would second that |
| 02:36:31.56 | Mary Wagner | Vice Mayor Hoffman, excuse me, Mayor Hoffman, before you take action, we have to make sure we take public comment. |
| 02:36:34.21 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. Oh, sorry, any public comment on the reappointment of Patricia Pigman for the Bike and Ped Committee? I see no one approaching the podium. Let's take the vote. All in favor? Aye. |
| 02:36:51.62 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 02:36:53.21 | Jill Hoffman | Motion passes. All right, so let's go to, then we have one seat that's open. We have two applicants for that, David Sudo and Lisa Lewis. Do we have discussion on that? |
| 02:37:06.51 | Unknown | I'd like to nominate David Sutter. |
| 02:37:09.61 | Unknown | I was second. |
| 02:37:11.55 | Jill Hoffman | I'd like to... I'd like to nominate Lisa Lewis. |
| 02:37:15.94 | Jill Hoffman | I second. |
| 02:37:22.52 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Well, let's vote then. Public comment on bike and pet. |
| 02:37:30.05 | Unknown | Thank you. Well, I'm just hoping that these people, are these the people who are the bicycle and pedestrian committee? Are they here? No. Are they going to speak? |
| 02:37:40.29 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:37:40.31 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:37:40.33 | Unknown | No. |
| 02:37:41.32 | Unknown | I wish that they would speak. So that's my comment is so we would know who they were. That's all. |
| 02:37:48.22 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:37:48.51 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. |
| 02:37:48.88 | Unknown | you |
| 02:37:48.93 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. I'll see you. |
| 02:37:51.02 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 02:37:51.04 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 02:37:51.99 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. So let's take the vote then for |
| 02:37:55.95 | Jill Hoffman | repeat the names um |
| 02:37:58.57 | Jill Hoffman | David Sudo has been nominated, and Lisa Lewis. |
| 02:38:03.17 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:38:04.08 | Unknown | Councilmember Weiner. |
| 02:38:05.00 | Unknown | David Sudo. |
| 02:38:06.82 | Unknown | Councilmember Pfeiffer. Lisa Lewis. Councilmember Theodorus. |
| 02:38:12.17 | Unknown | David Sudo. |
| 02:38:15.29 | Unknown | Vice Mayor Withey. |
| 02:38:16.34 | Unknown | David Suda. |
| 02:38:18.24 | Unknown | Marehofen. |
| 02:38:19.14 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:38:19.17 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:38:19.22 | Jill Hoffman | Lisa Lewis. |
| 02:38:22.99 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:38:23.00 | Unknown | And by the way, I would like to make a comment. We've had excellent candidates for all these, and we all voted for who we thought was the best, but certainly we have, and I hope they apply for other things if they haven't been, if they're not nominated. So this is just who we're thinking at this point is the most qualified. |
| 02:38:23.22 | Unknown | by the way, Yeah. |
| 02:38:26.97 | Jill Hoffman | these. |
| 02:38:27.58 | Unknown | And we just had a... |
| 02:38:29.16 | Unknown | THE END OF |
| 02:38:29.40 | Unknown | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 02:38:29.47 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:38:29.57 | Unknown | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 02:38:29.92 | Unknown | the world. |
| 02:38:36.92 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 02:38:44.09 | Jill Hoffman | Yes, we have a lot of openings coming up. If you look at item 4B on our agenda, it was all the boards and commissions in the rotation. So if anybody wants to apply for anything, they're welcome. And so we're moving on now to the Historic Landmark Board. to the appointments and I don't have a list of the candidates for that. |
| 02:39:02.39 | Unknown | I would I nominate nine on the Baron. |
| 02:39:06.30 | Jill Hoffman | Second. Thank you. Any other nominations for the Historic Landmark Board? |
| 02:39:15.45 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. And so vote. |
| 02:39:17.76 | Unknown | All in favor? |
| 02:39:18.40 | Jill Hoffman | Oh all in favor. |
| 02:39:19.16 | Unknown | Aye. |
| 02:39:23.18 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. Um. So now we're moving on to future agenda items. Item 7D, do we have any future agenda items? |
| 02:39:35.67 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:39:39.11 | Jill Hoffman | I actually don't have a future agenda item so much as a comment about the future. Usually we have, I mean, did I miss it? I didn't see the future agenda items attached to this agenda this time. |
| 02:39:51.92 | Unknown | didn't make it. |
| 02:39:52.42 | Jill Hoffman | Anyway, I was just curious as to when we might filter in the agenda items that I mentioned in the prior session as a request. And yeah, that's it. |
| 02:40:04.22 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:40:11.05 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Any other reports of significance? Oh, public comment. |
| 02:40:17.97 | Unknown | just getting this. |
| 02:40:19.86 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. Any other reports of significance? So that's a question, public comment. No. All right, we are adjourned. Thank you very much. |
| 02:40:31.77 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:40:31.98 | Jill Hoffman | Audience Member 1 |
| 02:40:32.13 | Unknown | I'm going to go. |
| 02:40:34.96 | Jill Hoffman | Congratulations. |
Benjamin Leroy — In Favor: Thanked the city for the annual donation, noting funds will support medical care, behavioral health counseling, and case management for low-income families in Marin. ▶ 📄
Bill Hamm — In Favor: Shared the origin story of Warm Wishes (22 years), described distributing over 600,000 items including backpacks with gloves, socks, caps, and holiday cards made by children, and invited community participation in the annual packing event. ▶ 📄
Paul Mowry — In Favor: Thanked donors and highlighted the Wednesday community hot lunch at Sausalito Presbyterian Church, supported by volunteers and multiple congregations. Also praised Sausalito PD officers for their personal donations to help those in need. ▶ 📄
John Williamson — In Favor: Expressed appreciation for the grant, described Open Door Ministries' 45-year history and Friday night meals at the church on Filbert Street, and mentioned a clothing room run by volunteers. ▶ 📄