| Time | Speaker | Text |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00:11.30 | Mayor Hoffman | I hereby call the February 9th, 2016 City Council meeting to order. And I request to take the roll, please. |
| 00:00:22.20 | City Clerk | Councilmember Theodorus. Present. Councilmember Weiner. you |
| 00:00:25.39 | Vice Mayor Withey | President. |
| 00:00:25.45 | City Clerk | you guys are here. |
| 00:00:25.51 | Vice Mayor Withey | . Thank you. |
| 00:00:25.77 | City Clerk | Thank you. Council member Pfeiffer? Here. Vice Mayor Withey? Here. Mayor Hoffman? |
| 00:00:29.31 | Vice Mayor Withey | care. |
| 00:00:29.88 | Councilmember Weiner | Thank you. |
| 00:00:31.37 | Mayor Hoffman | Present. Item D1 will be discussed in closed session. Do we have any comments on closed session items? Seeing no one approaching the podium or in the room, other than the city council members and staff, I now close the session for closed session. |
| 00:01:09.10 | Mayor Hoffman | Good evening, and I am calling the February 9th, 2016 City Council meeting to order. May I have the roll call please? |
| 00:01:19.90 | City Clerk | Councilmember Theodorus? Present. Councilmember Weiner? Present. Councilmember Pfeiffer? Here. Vice Mayor Withey? Here. Mayor Hoffman? |
| 00:01:22.62 | Vice Mayor Withey | THE PRESIDENT. |
| 00:01:26.06 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:01:26.18 | Unknown | Take care. |
| 00:01:28.07 | Mayor Hoffman | THEIR PRESENCE. |
| 00:01:39.29 | Mayor Hoffman | Let's have the... Pledge of Allegiance and Rebecca Woodbury, could you lead us please? |
| 00:01:40.71 | Unknown | PLEASE OF LIFE. |
| 00:01:47.71 | Rebecca Woodbury | I'm sorry. |
| 00:01:47.80 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:01:48.00 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:01:48.03 | Rebecca Woodbury | I pledge allegiance to the flag. |
| 00:01:48.08 | Unknown | Allegiance to the flag. |
| 00:01:49.95 | Rebecca Woodbury | of the United States of America. |
| 00:01:50.58 | Unknown | I did. to the Republic. for which it stands. One nation. Under God. Thank you. and liberty and justice for all. |
| 00:02:08.13 | Mayor Hoffman | Okay, we have no announcements for closed session. Do we have any public comment on closed session items? See no one. approaching the podium um so we have a motion to approve the agenda |
| 00:02:25.32 | Councilmember Weiner | Madam Mayor, I would like to move to approve the agenda with the change that Item 7C, Appointments to the COP Oversight Committee be removed from tonight's agenda and moved to a future agenda, a future meeting upon the discretion of the Agenda Setting Committee. |
| 00:02:27.00 | Mayor Hoffman | Yes. Thank you. |
| 00:02:48.29 | Mayor Hoffman | discretion. |
| 00:02:51.45 | Councilmember Weiner | Thank you. |
| 00:02:51.58 | Unknown | second. |
| 00:02:52.83 | Mayor Hoffman | Well, before we second, let's have discussion on that. |
| 00:02:56.48 | Linda Pfeiffer | Madam Mayor. |
| 00:02:56.51 | Mayor Hoffman | MEDICAL. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:02:58.15 | Linda Pfeiffer | Yeah. |
| 00:02:58.31 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:02:59.26 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. Madam Mayor, I'd like to make a comment on that. I think it's very important in light of the visibility and the fast paced of the Measure F Parks Project that we move forward on appointments tonight. We have a great list of candidates that we've interviewed and it is agendized. And given we are, what, they're going on a fast track with deliverable like I guess a ribbon cutting by July 4th, and they they broke ground already today. I think it's really very important that we move forward and appoint this oversight committee and get that oversight in place for Measure F funds as quickly as possible. |
| 00:03:45.65 | Mayor Hoffman | I'll comment on this as well. This was on tonight's agenda. It was announced at the last city council meeting that we were going to accept applications in the ensuing weeks between the two council meetings that we were going to make appointments. Tonight, we have six excellent candidates. They are John Flavin, Burton Drobnis, Christine Scarpino, Bob Zadig, Robert Gould and Mike Kelly. All are excellent candidates. I'm ready to vote on them tonight and get our oversight committee in place and working to oversee the parks. I think it's imperative that we do that. We went from 1.2 million in December to 1.6 million for Robin Sweeney Park with no oversight. So I think it's imperative that we move forward make the vote tonight. I'm ready to vote on these six excellent candidates. So I am absolutely opposed. to moving this. for another two weeks or four weeks until we can vote on the committee. It was agendized, people submitted their applications, we did the interviews, they are all six excellent experienced candidates, any one of them would make a good candidate, and I'm ready to vote. |
| 00:04:58.13 | Councilmember Theodorus | We typically, I support the motion. This is gonna be a long process, the COP process. It's gonna be four projects that are gonna go over several years. We need to make sure that we have a good oversight committee. I think we have excellent candidates, but it's been done in one week. Typically when we interview, although we don't, we've made exceptions, but certainly when we're doing an entire panel We vote the next time so we can think about it. We have six. I certainly need to think about it. There's also been some confusion. There was a cut off date on the currents that said Wednesday. But certain applications were accepted afterwards, but others didn't apply because they didn't, I think, I submit that we need to do it right. when we appoint, I think they're good candidates, but we need to keep it open so that we have the right mix on this oversight committee. It's an important job. I don't understand that our mayor and Councilman Pfeiffer are quite in this hurry, but I support the motion, and I'd be happy to have a roll call on this. |
| 00:05:57.38 | Mayor Hoffman | I completely disagree. I could not disagree more that we're rushing this, People didn't understand that there wasn't plenty of public outreach. With regard to what we wanted to do and the way this oversight committee was going to work, staff come in and give us a staff report about how the oversight committee was going to go forward. We've been talking about this for months, and they've had two weeks. It hasn't been a week. It's been two weeks, and I absolutely do not want to delay this. I will not be able to attend the February 23rd meeting. That means this is going to delay for another month. and we broke ground today on Robin Sweeney Park, And I think that it's absolutely imperative that we get this committee in place. And we have fine candidates, I think we're ready to go. |
| 00:06:42.30 | Linda Pfeiffer | Have a good one. I mean, we have the most amazing lineup here from Harvard MBAs, COP expertise, CPAs. architects, I mean people that have served on the oversight committee for the public safety building, I mean it is a blue ribbon lineup of applicants. And more importantly, we broke ground today. It's fast-tracked for July and the ribbon cutting is going to be in July 4th. That's been announced by city staff. A lot is going to be happening. We cannot cannot put this off another month all eyes are on this council and what you guys do and we need to move forward now we can all if you if you like I mean everyone can can attend the oversight committee if they want to you know participate we can also add another seat if we like down the. But we've got an excellent lineup of experienced candidates, amazing expertise and talent we have in this town. So I would move a substitute motion to keep Agenda 7C as noticed on the agenda and move forward with our COP Oversight Committee appointments |
| 00:08:11.19 | Councilmember Theodorus | Can she do that? I mean, she's basically just inverting my... |
| 00:08:14.74 | Linda Pfeiffer | I can make a substitute motion. |
| 00:08:14.77 | Councilmember Theodorus | I can Thank you. |
| 00:08:17.47 | Councilmember Weiner | Madam Mayor, if I may comment. |
| 00:08:19.68 | Linda Pfeiffer | Yes. |
| 00:08:20.09 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:08:21.35 | Councilmember Weiner | I saw the applications for the candidates for the first time this afternoon. I have come around to believe that this is a very important committee, and if my motion loses, I will be forced to abstain on every single vote tonight in connection with this over cycle. |
| 00:08:45.16 | Vice Mayor Withey | Amen. |
| 00:08:46.09 | Unknown | Sure. |
| 00:08:47.86 | Vice Mayor Withey | I don't remember. Never. This is a committee, not a task force. So I don't ever remember us picking a whole slate of names at one time. I also didn't get the list until looking at it this afternoon. I realize that the project's moving along, but this isn't just a project that's going to end July 4th or 5th. It's a project that's going to go on for a couple of years, maybe three, maybe longer, hopefully not. But I just think As a committee, we vote on each person, not a slate. Thank you. |
| 00:09:37.60 | Linda Pfeiffer | So I have a substitute motion on the floor. Do I have a second? Second. Yeah, and a further comment, you know, I think it's important that we not politicize this process, that we move forward and we provide that oversight. There's been a lot of scrutiny on this with regards to what voters knew and didn't know. And I think we need to, given the fast track for July 4th and a ribbon cutting, that's like five months away. We really need to move on this. We have excellent, excellent candidates. |
| 00:10:12.39 | Councilmember Theodorus | I agree with Council Members, Vice Mayor Withey and Council Member Weiner. I mean, we just see these today and talk about politicizing. I think that's what the feeling is. So I certainly let's vote on these. Let's vote on the motions. I mean, we do we substitute and come back or does he have to make another motion? And then we do. |
| 00:10:33.06 | City Clerk | This is a vote on Councilmember Pfeiffer's motion. Yes. Councilmember Theodorus. |
| 00:10:36.10 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:10:37.74 | Councilmember Theodorus | No. |
| 00:10:38.02 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:10:38.55 | City Clerk | Councilmember Weiner. |
| 00:10:39.39 | Unknown | No. |
| 00:10:40.03 | City Clerk | Councilmember Pfeiffer? Yes. Vice Mayor Withey? |
| 00:10:43.15 | Unknown | NO. |
| 00:10:43.19 | City Clerk | Thank you. Thank you. Bye. you Mayor Hoffman. |
| 00:10:44.86 | Mayor Hoffman | Yes. |
| 00:10:47.71 | City Clerk | That does not pass. |
| 00:10:53.14 | City Clerk | So, Vice Mayor Withey's motion. Council Member Theodorus? Yes. Council Member Weiner? Yes. Council Member Pfeiffer? No. Vice Mayor Withey? |
| 00:10:56.45 | Unknown | Yes. Yes. |
| 00:11:01.57 | City Clerk | Yeah. |
| 00:11:01.58 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:11:01.87 | Councilmember Weiner | Thank you. |
| 00:11:01.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:11:02.09 | Councilmember Weiner | Thank you. |
| 00:11:02.12 | City Clerk | Thank you. Thank you. Mayor Hoffman? No. That carries 3-2. |
| 00:11:20.97 | Unknown | you |
| 00:11:27.23 | Councilmember Weiner | I'd just like to, that was part of my motion. Yeah, I got that. |
| 00:11:29.66 | Unknown | I'd just like to. Yeah, I got that. |
| 00:12:01.86 | Linda Pfeiffer | I have a point of clarification, Mayor Hoffman. If the motion that has just been pushed through Uh, by well, If we're not appointing them tonight, when would we appoint them? Is there, I mean, I would like to move forward on this as soon as possible. Is there a special meeting? We could schedule a special meeting next week or maybe even later this week if adherence to the Brown Act Get those interviews done if you've got more people you want to bring forward your candidates more candidates and Oh, it's feeling very political to me. Very political. So what is the time frame here? Is it a month, two months, three months, four months? |
| 00:12:58.78 | Councilmember Weiner | maybe the city attorney could clarify that, in fact, the contents of my motion was that this be moved to a future city council meeting at the discretion of the agenda setting committee. |
| 00:13:14.34 | Linda Pfeiffer | I'll just comment that I hope that we can possibly consider a special counsel session to make sure that all council members can be present for this vote. |
| 00:13:26.03 | Councilmember Theodorus | I support the motion in standing. If we want to do it the next meeting, fine, or |
| 00:13:36.00 | Mayor Hoffman | Does someone want to make a motion that we hold the Well, Never mind. No. |
| 00:13:42.10 | Councilmember Theodorus | No. Sorry. We need time to both, but also have other applications. I'd say the next council meeting per the motion. |
| 00:13:52.09 | Mayor Hoffman | Well, per the motion, the motion was not that we make vote at the next city council meeting, which is the one where I will not be present. So, okay. |
| 00:14:03.09 | Linda Pfeiffer | I my comment was that perhaps to expedite this and to accommodate the time that these gentlemen would like to see that we might consider a special counsel session just specifically to appoint this committee. At a time when everyone can attend. |
| 00:14:22.95 | Mayor Hoffman | I would not be opposed to that. |
| 00:14:28.01 | Mayor Hoffman | It would have to be an open session, it would have to be, right? |
| 00:14:30.22 | Linda Pfeiffer | Sure. you |
| 00:14:31.00 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:14:31.02 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 00:14:31.03 | Mayor Hoffman | Okay. I am not opposed to that. We've done it. |
| 00:14:33.48 | Linda Pfeiffer | Yeah, we've done it before on important items. We've convened for all of 10 minutes and just announced outcomes. |
| 00:14:40.37 | Councilmember Theodorus | outcomes. We still have other applications to receive and such, but I would leave it to the agenda setting. I suggest the agenda setting meets in two days and leave it to them. And if they want to propose a special meeting. How about does it |
| 00:14:48.75 | Mayor Hoffman | to them. How about, is anybody opposed to setting another deadline for applications? We had a deadline, but yeah, I, I, |
| 00:14:56.85 | Linda Pfeiffer | I support anything we can do to move this forward. |
| 00:15:01.39 | Councilmember Theodorus | I recommend, I would support that. I'd recommend, since we had it on Wednesday, a week from tomorrow. That's fine. And that gives us time to agendize it. |
| 00:15:02.89 | Linda Pfeiffer | Well, |
| 00:15:09.10 | Linda Pfeiffer | That's fine. |
| 00:15:11.94 | Councilmember Theodorus | And it gives us a reasonable time for people. It's still a short time, but a reasonable time for people to put it. And then I would suggest we have the agenda setting committee schedule it as they deem appropriate. So a week from tomorrow is good. |
| 00:15:23.77 | Linda Pfeiffer | So a weekend tomorrow is the 17th, and we could then have a special council meeting on the 18th or the 19th. |
| 00:15:25.44 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 00:15:33.12 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. Thank you. Madam Mayor, if I may try to help. |
| 00:15:35.18 | Linda Pfeiffer | Yes. Sure. |
| 00:15:37.32 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. Welcome. |
| 00:15:38.55 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 00:15:38.57 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:15:38.59 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. The motion that was passed was to send it to the agenda setting committee and for the agenda setting committee to discuss when this would be placed on a future agenda be it a special meeting or regular council meeting. I don't think we should set deadlines for applications not knowing when the meeting's going to be set. If you want to say a week before the special meeting or the regular scheduled meeting, but to give the public the opportunity to apply, I don't think we want to cut that off prematurely without a date certain. |
| 00:16:10.12 | Linda Pfeiffer | Well, I think we're, thank you, Adam. I think we're trying to clarify that. I think we're trying to firm up the dates in a special council session. So I'm proposing perhaps we would have a special council session next Friday the 19th or the Thursday the 18th. |
| 00:16:27.08 | Unknown | and the other side. |
| 00:16:27.12 | Mayor Hoffman | And, uh... |
| 00:16:28.21 | Linda Pfeiffer | and we would have the deadline on the 17th. |
| 00:16:33.04 | Mayor Hoffman | I think that's, I would like to have clarity for all parties and everybody watching and everybody here that we all know the deadline. So there's no one has to figure out in the currents. No one has to see something or go look for when the deadline is. So let's just I would like to just decide whatever we do with that deadline later is and how are the Genesetting conference deals with that is another question. But I think clarity is good for this issue. For the applications. |
| 00:17:00.66 | Councilmember Theodorus | for the application. |
| 00:17:02.22 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:17:02.32 | Linda Pfeiffer | Well, for the meeting too, for appointments. Thank you. |
| 00:17:04.66 | Councilmember Theodorus | I agree with the mayor in terms of that we say when the deadline for applications are and then agenda setting to set the date. |
| 00:17:04.71 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. I agree. |
| 00:17:05.78 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:17:05.80 | Linda Pfeiffer | with you. |
| 00:17:05.86 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:17:10.76 | Mayor Hoffman | anybody opposed to the 17th for deadlines for applications for certificates of participation oversight committee Anyway. Yeah. |
| 00:17:19.99 | Linda Pfeiffer | It's a Wednesday. I'd rather move it up, but I mean, if they want the 17th, I'll go with anything. We can put a stake in the ground. |
| 00:17:26.52 | Mayor Hoffman | 17th? 17th? Anybody opposed? 17th? |
| 00:17:28.74 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 00:17:28.80 | Mayor Hoffman | Okay. Do we need to have a motion on that? Okay. All right, all right, that's it. The deadline for applications is midnight on |
| 00:17:38.26 | Unknown | Mm-hmm. Thank you. |
| 00:17:38.89 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. Wednesday, February 17th. |
| 00:17:40.05 | Linda Pfeiffer | Wednesday, Wednesday, February. |
| 00:17:43.68 | Mayor Hoffman | Okay. |
| 00:17:44.03 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. Now, what about a meeting, a special meeting for council? |
| 00:17:49.40 | Mayor Hoffman | Well, |
| 00:17:49.69 | Linda Pfeiffer | There's no reason we can't firm that up now, and you would be here. |
| 00:17:56.84 | Mayor Hoffman | I would have to call in. |
| 00:17:59.00 | Linda Pfeiffer | Oh, as the- |
| 00:18:00.61 | Mayor Hoffman | Oh, I'm here. 17. Yep. I'm on. I'm sorry. The 17th. Yeah. 17th. 18th, 19th. Yes, I am here on the 17th. Okay. Let's. |
| 00:18:08.94 | Councilmember Theodorus | Thank you. |
| 00:18:08.96 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:18:08.97 | Councilmember Theodorus | Let's be clear, that's the last time of applications. We don't want to run into the same, but we have to look at the applications, be able to think about them and have interviews. I think. |
| 00:18:09.09 | Mayor Hoffman | Let's be clear. |
| 00:18:15.67 | Linda Pfeiffer | Yeah. |
| 00:18:16.15 | Councilmember Weiner | We also have to interview people. |
| 00:18:17.73 | Councilmember Theodorus | Yeah, I mean, we have to interview. Yeah, yeah. We don't want to run into the thing. |
| 00:18:17.99 | Linda Pfeiffer | I mean, we have to interview them. So we don't want to run into the thing. Well, we could interview them that week. When are you not available in February? Madam Mayor, could I suggest that we follow the motion? |
| 00:18:21.61 | Councilmember Weiner | you |
| 00:18:28.94 | Councilmember Weiner | Madam Mayor, could I suggest that we follow the motion and let the agenda setting committee deal with this? |
| 00:18:31.62 | Unknown | and |
| 00:18:32.38 | Linda Pfeiffer | Yeah. |
| 00:18:32.60 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:18:32.63 | Linda Pfeiffer | you |
| 00:18:32.68 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:18:32.70 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 00:18:32.80 | Unknown | . |
| 00:18:32.84 | Linda Pfeiffer | I didn't realize it would be this |
| 00:18:34.52 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:18:34.67 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 00:18:34.79 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:18:34.83 | Linda Pfeiffer | using. Thank you. |
| 00:18:35.35 | Unknown | Thank you. you |
| 00:18:37.04 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. Thank you. That gives us a little flexibility. I'm going to go for a second. I'm going to get a little bit closer. Yeah. February 17th. That's the deadline for applications for the Certificate of the Participation Oversight Committee. |
| 00:18:58.62 | Mayor Hoffman | All right, moving on. you to Communications. Special presentations, Mayor, announcements. I have no announcements. Communications. |
| 00:19:16.76 | Unknown | . You said it was very low. You said it was very low. and save all the good ones. Council is taking action for our engagement and discussion. . Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody? and pressing this on. |
| 00:20:08.21 | Vice Mayor Withey | Thank you. |
| 00:20:15.32 | Unknown | Thanks a lot. |
| 00:20:22.24 | Charles Sakai | Hello, Mayor, hello, City Council and workers in Sausalito and citizens The Torah reading for this week is from Terimaah. And Terramah is about something called public access. And this is not public access where We say there shouldn't be a fence around someplace or we need to take the private property signs down. and allow the public to be everywhere. This is about something called the Mishkan, the tabernacle. This is the tent that's put up in the desert. for all of the people to come and worship together. And this tent is not built by God. The Lord spoke to Moses saying, Speak to the children of Israel and have them take for me an offering. From every person whose heart inspires him to generosity, you shall take my offering. And this is the offering that you shall take from them, gold, silver, and copper. Gold, silver, and copper. This gold, silver, and copper isn't used to purchase anything. This tent is 45 feet. By 15 feet inside is something called the Ark of the Covenant. That is 15 feet by about 15 feet. And the other place is for all the citizens of Israel to come together together. and have a place. There's a goat skin and even it's translated as a badger skin in King James but it's of an animal that is no longer even around, it's extinct. So we cannot do this exactly the same way as it was done before. But. The principle of this. is for all the people to have a place where they can come together and listen as the words of The... The prophet, who in this case is Moses. The priest, who is Aaron. The elders, who are 70 people who I think knew what they were talking about it. And for anybody else, because Moses said, Ye are all prophets in Israel to come together. So I hope while we're doing this, we have that spirit in mind. This place doesn't measure exactly 40 feet, 45 by 15, but it's close enough for me. All right, thank you. |
| 00:22:43.30 | Mayor Hoffman | And are not. |
| 00:22:50.28 | Unknown | I know this isn't on the agenda, but I'm a resident who usually sits at home and watches this and ends up talking to my screen. |
| 00:22:50.33 | Unknown | I know this isn't on |
| 00:22:58.36 | Unknown | You can't hear you a lot of the time. And Jill, when you lean down and look at your paper, you can't hear at home. what's being said. So I don't know what you have to do to increase whatever it is, but if you're going to televise it, We're going to watch it. You've got to speak up into this thing because it happens all the time. And I understand a couple of people call in and say, hey, So I don't know what you have to do or whether you have to tweak all of these a little bit more. But. Can't hear you all the time at home. Thank you, Ann. |
| 00:23:31.88 | Mayor Hoffman | Anybody else? Matters not on the agenda. Is that good? Everybody here? All right. What's next? |
| 00:23:46.07 | Mayor Hoffman | All right, moving on to item. Three. Three, three. Minutes. Would anybody like... We have an edited set of minutes as well on the dais. Would anybody like to make a motion to... |
| 00:24:04.11 | City Clerk | Madam Mayor, if I could, would you like me to go over the corrections that I've placed in front of you? Sure. So I've identified a few corrections to the minutes and provided to you in track changes on the dais. The first change is on page 5 of 7, beginning with line 40 on the track changes version. |
| 00:24:08.29 | Mayor Hoffman | Sure. and, |
| 00:24:23.31 | City Clerk | The motion was, and this is the item on the Richardson Bay Vessel Anchoring Program. So the motion was to proceed with the two-step process as recommended by staff in the staff report. And the second step was erroneously reported in the draft minutes. It was to focus on inhabited vessels to obtain the anchor-outs willing cooperation and adherence to the municipal code to increase public safety and the quality of life for the Sausalito community. So as modified in the track changes version that accurately reflects the motion that was made. On page six of seven, it's the same issue in the actual motion that was approved by the council. So that's beginning with line 12 you can see the changes they're identical to the previous page and then on the that was approved by the council. So that's beginning with line 12. You can see the changes. They're identical to the previous page. And then on the last page, seven of seven, |
| 00:24:59.17 | Unknown | you |
| 00:25:16.59 | City Clerk | On line 18, these are just some typos. This is to clarify that it's the Marin Telecommunications Agency, and there was an extra replacing Council Member Theodorus and an extra is, so I've removed those. |
| 00:25:34.42 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:25:34.53 | City Clerk | Thank you. |
| 00:25:34.69 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:25:34.76 | City Clerk | Thank you. |
| 00:25:34.80 | Mayor Hoffman | Would anybody like to move to adopt the revised minutes? |
| 00:25:40.03 | Linda Pfeiffer | I have one other edit and I just discovered this when I was coming in and actually it's, It's more of a clarification because the minutes were captured accurately. But if you look on page 3 of 7, line 20, when I made the motion to add a requirement for a 3D model, I was referring to a physical 3D model. And so I'm wondering if it's okay if we put in for a point of clarification the word physical in front of 3D in parentheses. if it's OK if we put in for a point of clarification the word physical in front of 3D in parentheses. And again, this was not the record taker here. This was me. I was not specific. I was referring to the physical model. And if you listen to the dialogue, that's what we were discussing. That was the controversy. |
| 00:26:33.81 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:26:35.48 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 00:26:35.49 | Mayor Hoffman | Lily, how would we do that? Can you do it in parentheses? Do you need to do an asterisk? Do you need to do brackets? |
| 00:26:44.03 | City Clerk | I think in the past we've added a footnote to reflect Councilmember Pfeiffer's wishes. |
| 00:26:47.81 | Mayor Hoffman | for his wishes. Anybody objection to that? No. Okay. So what was that again? So they're going to add a footnote instead of brackets. Oh, okay. That's good. |
| 00:26:51.58 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 00:26:55.19 | City Clerk | Oh, that's right. |
| 00:26:55.61 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 00:26:55.81 | City Clerk | That's good. |
| 00:26:56.35 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:26:57.18 | Mayor Hoffman | Okay, anybody want to make a motion for the minutes? So moved. |
| 00:27:01.94 | Unknown | Second. |
| 00:27:03.41 | Mayor Hoffman | All in favor? Thank you. |
| 00:27:04.43 | Unknown | Aye. |
| 00:27:04.45 | Mayor Hoffman | Aye. All right. Well done gentlemen, ladies. Okay, next. next item. Item four. Consent calendar. The 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 below. There will be no separate discussion of consent calendar items. However, before 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. In order to request an item be pulled, you must have completed a speaker's card and turned it in to the City Clerk. Items will only be removed from the consent calendar by a vote of the Council. items removed from the consent calendar will be discussed later on the agenda when public comment will be discussed later on the agenda when public comment will be heard on any item that was removed from the consent calendar. Do we have any requests from the public to remove items from the consent calendar? |
| 00:28:13.25 | Charles Sakai | Yes. |
| 00:28:15.23 | Mayor Hoffman | Yes. |
| 00:28:20.88 | Charles Sakai | uh, |
| 00:28:25.94 | Charles Sakai | Mayor and city council the pay stations which I've seen there over on the south side of Sausalito. $150,000 to by a machines, nine machines, is that correct? You could hire somebody for 10 years at $15,000 a year, to do the same thing. The second one that I have a comment on is buying a new police car. Instead of paying the $5,000 that it's going to cost to fix a transmission, It's $36,000 for a car plus all the computers that have to be put in a police car. I think for the Anchorage and for a lot of other people, it might be good to have officers On foot. And the last is E, which is marijuana delivery. And I... I read that Sausalito has something called permissive zoning. And you would think permissive zoning meant that People could do anything they wanted as long as they weren't breaking the law. That's not what it means. Legally. What it means legally is the government can say nothing can happen on this property except what we expressly permit. So under this, they are saying that no marijuana can be grown. Also, the city council and the city manager and Department of Public Works and Sausalito has not come through with a community garden. Put a fence around. This park over here. The work has not begun yet. They proposed to do the same at Dunphy Park for one year. To close these areas off, I guess, to build some kind of great wall, to have true permissive zoning where nothing is permitted. So no community garden, no... land even on top of a needle, allowed for planting for the people, And now on top of this, no marijuana. Now I'm really upset. Okay, so I'm asking that these items be removed. So far, I haven't had any of my requests honored in a vote So maybe this will be the first time and then again. Maybe not. Okay, so thank you either way. |
| 00:30:59.00 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. Yes. Peter Van Meter. |
| 00:31:03.30 | Peter Van Meter | Good evening, Mayor and Council members. I'm here to speak on 7-4-A, pardon me. And I'm not going to ask that this come off the agenda, although I have additional remarks that can be delivered on request. If you like. But as I looked at it, I decided that even though there may be a mistake made, it's gonna be okay. But first of all, I want to thank Stacy for reaching out. having a conversation with me. and being very responsive in terms of putting some additional labels on these machines to kind of help the users My only comment would be that we don't know if those labels are going to work or not. And I can tell you a lot of stories about my anecdotal observations of why they have not been working in the past. But what's changed my mind on pulling this off is the fact that I looked at the muddled figures on financial impact, and frankly, they're a little bit hard. understand. But it looks like even if you buy them, the payback. relative to rental. would be less than two years. So even if you make a purchase mistake, which you may or may not be doing, It's only a two-year problem compared to what you would have been paying in rent. So, therefore, leave it on your consent agenda and move ahead. But if you want more comments, you can ask me anytime. Thank you. |
| 00:32:20.83 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. Thank you. Do we have any other public comment on the consent calendar? So. Do we have any motions or comments from council about the Removal of items from the consent calendar. Yeah. |
| 00:32:37.46 | Councilmember Weiner | I move to approve the consent calendar items for A to E. |
| 00:32:37.57 | Mayor Hoffman | They moved. |
| 00:32:44.67 | Mayor Hoffman | Any second. |
| 00:32:46.83 | Unknown | Second. |
| 00:32:49.90 | Mayor Hoffman | VOTES. All in favor? Aye. Okay. |
| 00:32:52.97 | Unknown | All in favor? Aye. |
| 00:32:54.32 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:32:54.34 | Unknown | you |
| 00:32:59.97 | Mayor Hoffman | All right. All right. |
| 00:33:04.26 | Vice Mayor Withey | That went up in smoke for you. Okay. Okay. |
| 00:33:04.95 | Mayor Hoffman | Yeah, OK. Public hearings, none business items moving along. Item six business items. Sustainability Commission presentation. |
| 00:33:17.59 | Vice Mayor Withey | in. |
| 00:33:26.03 | Andy Davidson | Good evening. My name is Andy Davidson. I'm the engineer in your public works department, and it's my great privilege to introduce you tonight. Rebecca Woodbury, who is co-chair of your sustainability commission, and she's going to present to you an update on recent accomplishments, current activities, and goals. |
| 00:33:42.68 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:33:56.45 | Rebecca Woodbury | All right, good evening, Mayor and Council. My presentation's gonna be pretty brief tonight, and I just wanna start out with reminding you who we are. There's five of us standing right now. We have a couple of vacancies that we're looking to fill. Kathy on the screen here. Before I get into those introductions, I just want to say that we have such a wealth of experience on this commission, and as I go through who we are, I think you'll really see the diversity of our backgrounds. which is, it's just a pleasure to work with these people. Kathy brings over 10 years of experience managing residential and commercial recycling operations in San Francisco and Berkeley. a lot of information and a wealth of experience on waste, Greg, everyone needs a former nuclear engineer on a commission. He has an MBA in sustainability from Presidio graduate school and he works today as a sustainable energy strategist. Kristen, who's my co-chair on the commission, she just finished her MPA degree. She's the executive director at Bay Area Biotechnology Education Consortium, and she finds time also to teach college biology. Millard, he works and lives in Sausalito and he is a LEED accredited project architect And I am a senior analyst in San Rafael, which is why I almost said San Rafael instead of Sausalito. And I have a BA and an MPP, both in public policy from Mills College. So we have a wealth of experience among us, and we also have two vacant seats. So if anyone's interested, join us. Linda Pfeiffer is our faithful city council liaison, comes to all of our meetings. Andy is our fearless leader from the city staff and then we're also joined at our meetings by Bay Cities Refuse. Either Greg or Kim always comes to our meetings which is a great partnership to have. So last year, really, our most notable accomplishment was your approval of the city's first climate action plan. And that's really a great document for us. It provides a blueprint for the work ahead. Just as a reminder, transportation is our largest contributor of greenhouse gases here in Sausalito. It represents 42% of our emissions. That's followed by the residential sector, which contributes 30%, and commercial and industrial contributes 24%. But transportation is really the largest contributor there. Government operations represents a sliver of our greenhouse gas emissions in the community, and the city's already made great strides. The city's put solar on facilities, There's LED streetlights in the majority of the streetlights, and the city's gone deep green with marine clean energy. That's just a few of the accomplishments. There's been many others. And our goal in the Climate Action Plan is that by 2020, we reduce our emissions to 15% below our 2005 emissions. This is definitely achievable. We can do this, but it requires change to the status quo. There's a variety of mechanisms. The key mechanisms that we have are things, regulatory tools, like updating our ordinances, which is the STIC, Thank you. Um, Thank you. looking at incentives and subsidies, the carrots that are out there, and also just general building awareness in our community about how everyone can do their part in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. So the committee has identified four focus areas, and this kind of guides the work that we see that's very important. So in terms of waste management, some of the things that we are working on right now, Every year we get a grant from Zero Waste Marin from the county. and with that money we've done things like educational campaigns we've done waste diversion campaigns with schools we've purchased a lot of the triplets that you see around town for recycling and composting We're also planning on some more educational campaigns, some partnerships with schools, perhaps around composting. We're talking about future plans that have to do with reducing plastic water bottles, public art. There's a lot of ideas out there, and we're fortunate to have those grant funds to do that work. We also want to examine in this space tools to increase recycling and composting. So looking into things like mandatory programs, We also would like to update our waste characterization study. The characterization study that was done a few years ago was done prior to the composting program that was implemented. So we'd love to update that program and see what an impact that composting program has had in our community. And we also host e-waste recycling events. The latest was just in January where we gather up everyone's old TVs and anything they bring us for recycling. |
| 00:39:05.82 | Unknown | Really? |
| 00:39:08.47 | Rebecca Woodbury | In the built environment space, last year we supported the bike ambassadors. A couple of us even volunteered out with them. Bike can sometimes feel like a four-letter word in Sausalito and we want to change that. We want to encourage people to use bicycles. And again, that ties back to transportation being really the key contributor of greenhouse gases. We also supported Measure F. We see parks as a celebration of green space in our community. and we And one of our members serves on the working group for the ferry terminal, seeing as that's a major issue with our built environment. In addition, we've been keeping track of the Turney Street Parklet concept as a... part of our built environment and we also hope to be involved in your updating of the circulation element again tying back to transportation and the importance there. In the energy space, you recently approved PACE financing, so property owners can now make improvements with that financing. program. And then community activation, this is really where a lot of the work is. And with that, we've identified and been talking to a lot of other groups where we can have some partnerships and some synergy, such as the Ice House Visitor Center, as well as Sausalito Beautiful. We also, the city joined the Cool California Challenge, which is an online program for households to learn how to reduce their carbon footprint through MCE. And then we also had our first introductory meeting for a group called Resilient Neighborhoods. And Linda, thank you so much for coming to that. It's a wonderful Marin-based program that's free to residents. Hundreds of households in Marin have participated. And it's for households to come together. It's based on sort of a Weight Watchers program where you lose carbon pounds instead. And it helps households identify tools to reduce their carbon footprint as well as prepare themselves for disasters and meet their neighbors. So it's a wonderful program designed and implemented by a Marin resident and a volunteer. So it's a fabulous program. I'm glad to have it in Sausalito. And we're also looking forward to partnering on the Tourney Street Parklet program. that We want to partner, Drivers Market has come to us and talked to us about partnering with them on the messaging around sustainability and other educational aspects of that parklet. So we see that as a really exciting opportunity ahead of sharing our different programs with the community. And so with that, just to end, I think you may have seen the headline. There was a recent study done by UC Berkeley that identified Marin as being the third highest greenhouse gas contributor in the Bay Area. It has a lot to do with our affluence how often we fly in airplanes. But Sausalito actually was second best in the county. So we're really positioned well to make great strides in this. And so I really see this as a positive thing about our community and that we have potential to be a leader. And so this, I don't know why I included this slide, the words are probably just Paul to read, but the red arrow just shows Sausalito compared to to other jurisdictions in the area. And so we really are doing well, and I think we can make great strides. So with that, I would welcome your feedback on the things that we're doing. And I'd also urge you, again, we're a great group of commissioners with a lot of expertise. And so I urge you to use us when you see fit on issues that are coming before you that you'd like our input on. Please use us. So thank you. |
| 00:42:59.86 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. Do we have any council questions of the sustainability commission? No. |
| 00:43:06.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:43:06.99 | Mayor Hoffman | you know? Okay. Do we have any public comment on the sustainability presentation? |
| 00:43:16.70 | Mayor Hoffman | see no public comment. Do we have any council discussion on the sustainability presentation? |
| 00:43:22.95 | Linda Pfeiffer | Well, as the liaison, thank you, Mayor Hoffman. As the council liaison on the Sustainability Committee, I want to thank Rebecca Woodbury for the great presentation and all of your hard work and your efforts on the commission. It's just really inspiring. And you heard the backgrounds of these members. It's truly amazing, the talent we have in this town and the people who step up. And I have to say I am inspired by what they're working on I don't necessarily agree with with some of the aspects like the built environment I think it's important from a council standpoint that I that I make it clear that I I step away from the built environment piece because many times as a council member I am voting on those pieces and so I don't think it's you know it's not appropriate you know for me to to get into those muddy waters there so I kind of step back I am so excited with the goals that they have made the Commission has made with respect to the zero waste, the vision of that, and Also the outreach and the education around sustainability. The resilient neighborhoods is wonderful. I went to that. And I hope, fingers crossed, I'm going to be able to keep attending. I've got some other meetings that have popped up since then, but I really enjoyed the ones I've attended so far and so impressed. So I just wanted to thank the sustainability committee and thank them for their patience as well. When when I I silently, you know, I step away from some of the some of the projects Thank you. Any other comments? |
| 00:45:15.05 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:45:15.39 | Councilmember Weiner | Yeah, I would like to echo Council Member Pfeiffer's words of thanks. I was the liaison to this committee for my first two years on the City Council. When I actually began that task, none of the existing members of the commission were actually members of the commission, and we faced the fact that nearly everybody was terming out. And I think one of our achievements and the commission's achievements was to get the team together that they have because they've done some fantastic work as a team. And I would encourage anybody, either in the audience or who are out there to remember there are two vacancies and this is a very very important Commission and Please step forward if you have any desire to volunteer in this area. Thank you Rebecca Yep. you |
| 00:46:14.89 | Councilmember Theodorus | you |
| 00:46:15.02 | Vice Mayor Withey | I just want to say thank you very much for your time and excellent job. So thank you very much. |
| 00:46:15.11 | Councilmember Theodorus | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 00:46:15.29 | Councilmember Weiner | I do. |
| 00:46:25.77 | Councilmember Theodorus | And Rebecca, thanks for the presentation, and thanks to the entire Sustainability Commission. And we really appreciate not only that you handle things within the scope of what you would think of a Sustainability Commission, but that you go out and you've made an impact on other areas and been very helpful. We really appreciate it. You're active. We see you in various contexts, so we really appreciate it. And I echo council member with the sentiment. It's a fabulous committee, and they do great work. They seem like very intelligent and a lot of fun. So we have two vacancies, so we I think you'd be lucky to be on there and with these people. So thanks again. |
| 00:47:07.18 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. Yeah, and I'd like to echo everything that my fellow council members have said. One of the things I like about Sausalito is the level of talent that we have that lives here in town for such a small town. very high level of talent and a high willingness to become involved in in these city committees that are so important and I'm not competitive, but I don't see why we can't beat out Fairfax and be the least. So, you know, Yeah, well... You know, good work so far, Rebecca, but you know. All right, anything else? No, that's it. Okay, thank you. |
| 00:47:43.43 | Mayor Hoffman | Yeah. All right. Moving on to business item 6B. update from Sausalito Morinci Sanitary District. Drumroll. |
| 00:47:56.51 | Jonathon Goldman | I love it. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Jonathan Goldman, your public works director and city engineer. Don't mumble. Don't mumble. I was going to introduce you, you know. I'm also out of costume, so I apologize for that. I was dressed for an event earlier today and forgot that I actually had a role this evening. So my purpose this evening is primarily to introduce Sausalito Marin City Sanitary District's new general manager, Jeff Kingston. But before I do that, I do want to acknowledge Ann Arnott, who is a board member, a director of Sausalito Marin City Sanitary District, and was first elected in 2005, which I think those of you sitting on the dais will appreciate, is a pretty significant contribution to that organization, and that after having worked for that organization. Ms. Arnott is also, as you all know, very active in a number of fronts, not the least of which is the art festival as well as the Sausalito Women's Club. I also want to introduce Omar Arias, who's sitting there next to Mr. Kingston. Omar has been with Sausalito Marin City Sanitary District for 22 years. He's a grade four laboratory analyst, wastewater treatment plant operator, environmental compliance inspector, and is a graduate of Cal State Los Angeles in biochemistry and an MBA from San Francisco State University. Now that this slideshow is actually loaded. Without further ado, let me introduce Jeff Kingston, who's the new general manager of South Slutemurin City Sanitary District. He's going to deliver this presentation. Thank you. He joined the Sanitary District recently from Chabot community colleges. He served there 10 years as Vice Chancellor, Executive Director of Capital Improvement, program and operations for two colleges with a budget of $100 million a year. He was responsible for planning, design, construction, operations, and maintenance for campus infrastructure, which includes lots of things, some of which that we don't even have here. So lots of wonderful experience there, as well as years of experience in strategic planning, organizational development, budget preparation, and labor negotiations. We also as a community benefit from Jeff's experience as a vice president leading the San Francisco Bay Area office of Montgomery Watson Harza, an engineering consulting firm, and also worked for, was a project manager at CH2M Hill on similar projects, and served in the United States military as an Army captain. In total, Mr. Kingston's career spans 25 years. He has a master's in civil engineering and management from UC Berkeley, bachelor's in civil engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point, and an MBA in finance from California State University, East Bay. With that, I would like to let Mr. Kingston take the controls, you're welcome. You're gonna slide zero backwards and then there's a laser there. Okay. |
| 00:51:21.76 | Jeff Kingston | That's like. |
| 00:51:28.43 | Jeff Kingston | Thank you for giving me a few minutes this evening. I'd like to talk to you tonight just to share with you some information about what we do. We're a service provider for you treating the wastewater for the city of Sausalito. We also treat the wastewater for Tampa Pius Community Services District and Marin City. and with that there are some challenges and I just wanted to go through and share that with you just to help you understand what our role is and and how we work with the city I think one of the most important challenges we have is meeting the it's a highly regulated industry and meeting those requirements which really |
| 00:52:27.24 | Jeff Kingston | require us to maintain a certain quality of treatment and then we discharge effluent into the bay. So as you can tell, one of our main missions is to protect the public health and the environment and the bay. One of the biggest threats we have this year was the El Nino that was predicted. And last month alone, we experienced 15 inches of rain, which because of infiltration, which I'll talk about later, into the system, we go from processing a million and a half gallons a day to up to 9 million gallons per day. So we get this surge that really threatens and challenges our ability to process all of the flow. So we work really hard to prepare for these types of events. Well, we work with Jonathan's staff closely. And these are just some of the things we did to proactively address this challenge. And we were able to successfully handle all of that flow without issue, without staying within the regulatory compliance. |
| 00:53:44.89 | Jeff Kingston | As far as my next slide, I just went wrong direction, sorry. Infiltration, this is the challenge that follows on with the El Nino conditions. And what happens is in high flow events, we have infiltration that we, especially in the city of Sausalito, we end up, our pumps run almost continuously because of the high tides. We get a rain event combined with a king tide. And what we end up doing is not only pumping the wastewater, but the salt water that comes with the high tide and infiltrates the system. And that just presents challenges especially on the treatment side to handle that and also creates a really high flow event so that's one of our challenges we've been working with the city on is to try to tighten up the system so that we get less infiltration |
| 00:54:49.46 | Jeff Kingston | One thing we do with the city, we actually have a services agreement. There's 10 pump stations and we operate four of them on behalf of the city. We've been applying technology to handle these situations and this is an example of their smart manhole covers that actually measure the flow and the height of the water in the manholes so that we can, and then that communicates via satellite to devices that communicate to our people who are on call And so they can respond proactively and adapt. It measures the flow and sends a signal so that we can make adjustments to the system, handle the flow so that there are not overflows in the system or in the streets. |
| 00:55:38.77 | Jeff Kingston | This is a project I just wanted to share with you that you might be aware of. Our force main use to run along the beach all the way down to the plant. We relocated it. 19 homes that are still connected to that pipe, so we still maintain that pipe. So what we're in the process of doing is trying to understand whether we have to abandon that pipe or we can repair it to use it either as a backup force main or to continue to use it as a lateral for those 19 homes. In this situation, what we're doing is just tapping the pipe surveying it, understanding its condition, and then considering whether we can slip line it and use it again. This is important to the city because if not, a separate, the pipe would need to be abandoned as separate lateral, which is a pipe just to handle those 19 homes, it would have to be put into an easement or in some place to handle that flow. |
| 00:56:39.08 | Jeff Kingston | We have a capital improvement program. It's approximately $40 million. This is about $27 million of it. The areas that are highlighted in yellow, which are that retaining wall, a head works, and a second primary clarifier. and then also some finishing for tertiary treatment is part of that project. This project is important because it'll increase our capacity to handle the flows during peak, and it'll also improve our quality that has other benefits, reduce our maintenance, and make our plants safer to operate. Our plant right now does not have the significance of this is that we can take the other primary clarifier offline and maintain it. Right now, we use it 24-7. There's no other backup. So this will provide backup. It will also provide storage capacity for high peak flows and a head works which will take out a lot of the waste before it gets into our system. |
| 00:57:49.58 | Jeff Kingston | These are some of the benefits of the new plant. We're 90% complete on design. We have some challenges. One is to, the plant is located actually in the Park Service area near Fort Baker, and it has a 50-year lease, which is on its last two years. It expires in 2017, so we're in the process of negotiating another lease for 50 years. The other activity that we need to do before we start this project is to secure a loan from the State Revolving Fund, which is a low-interest bond-funded loan that will allow us to build it and then pay for it over time. |
| 00:58:35.62 | Jeff Kingston | One of the benefits of the plant upgrade will be that we'll treat the water to a higher quality, which putting the effluent into the bay at a higher quality is a benefit, but it also moves us towards the ability to recycle the water, which is critical in that the regulatory environments requiring less nutrients into the bay will eventually require us to recycle most of our effluent our plant would produce about about a thousand acre feet per year of water that could be used for irrigation or if we treated it to potable standards you could it could potentially be blended or re-injected or used in other other ways an acre feet of water is one foot of water that covers one acre. So it's a lot of water. And right now, we just put it into the bag. |
| 00:59:41.31 | Jeff Kingston | One thing Jonathan asked me to share with you is the services that we currently provide for the city. Under a service agreement, we have taken over four of your pump stations. They've been renovated. We bring them up to our standards. We renovate them, and then we operate and maintain them on behalf of the city, and then you reimburse us for our cost to do that it's very efficient it really makes us work well together because it is a system it's important that we do work well together The pump stations have performed well and moved the wastewater out of the city, especially in high rain events. this service agreement approach works well and Jonathan I have talked about what are their services the city might want to engage us on and and so he asked me to to at least bring this up with the council to consider what else would be best or mutually beneficial to both us as a treatment plant and the city as the operator of a collection system. |
| 01:01:05.64 | Jeff Kingston | So if you have any questions, I'm more than happy to try to answer them. Thank you. |
| 01:01:12.05 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:01:12.07 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you, any questions from City Council? Thank you. I have a question, a couple questions. So I was wondering if you could go back to the drawing you have of the 40 million in new infrastructure. And you said this diagram represents 27 million, or is it just the yellow? sites. Just the yellow. The yellow does? Okay. So, um, |
| 01:01:33.50 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:01:33.51 | Jeff Kingston | Just the yellow. |
| 01:01:34.41 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:01:38.22 | Linda Pfeiffer | I know that, was it a couple years ago, you did a fee increase? There was a rate study done. Yeah. And so are the funds from that going to help build this? Do you have funds to move forward with this? Yes. |
| 01:01:43.76 | Omar Arias | There was a rate study done. |
| 01:01:53.80 | Jeff Kingston | Yes, the rate study that was done included the cost to service the loan that we would take to build the plant, your portion of it. |
| 01:02:04.70 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 01:02:18.23 | Councilmember Theodorus | Otherwise, what do you see as your bigger challenges in a general level for us? |
| 01:02:25.20 | Jeff Kingston | Well, I think the most significant challenge is the regulatory environment and making sure that the plant performs as required by the EPA and the State Regional Water Quality Board, which really is driving these projects, not only this project, but a series of other projects and projects within the city of Sausalito are driven by that regulatory environment. So then when you get to a more granular level, it really becomes delivery of a project such as this or even a project within your collection system while maintaining operations. So we have to maintain the operation of this plant while we basically cut into the hillside and put that retaining wall in to make space for more infrastructure to support the process while maintaining the existing process. So, and then I think the third thing I would highlight would be the infiltration. The reason we have to not necessarily upgrade the plant but expand the capacity of the plant, it's driven by those peak flows, and everyone's been working really hard to reduce those peak flows because then that reduces the strain on the plant, the process cost, and also these projects that are required to increase capacity. So it's a, you know, do you catch it at the plant or do you catch it in the collection system dilemma that we constantly have to weigh what is most efficient? |
| 01:02:55.68 | Unknown | you |
| 01:04:04.81 | Councilmember Theodorus | Just to follow on, what's the timeline on this capital improvement project that you have on the screen? |
| 01:04:09.76 | Jeff Kingston | project is the design is 90% complete which is pretty much ready to bid and we're hoping within three to six months to once the it's all contingent upon the easement because we can't get the loan without the new the extension on of the term of the easement and so As long as that comes through, which we're close, we're in a draft agreement right now with the National Park Service. And then our loan application is complete, so we could bid this this summer and try to get out of the ground before next winter. If we miss that window, then we have to adjust. But we're ready to go as soon as we get our funding in line. |
| 01:05:01.87 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:05:02.11 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 01:05:02.12 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:05:03.88 | Mayor Hoffman | Any other questions? |
| 01:05:06.04 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. I have a follow-up question. Sure. When I hear from residents about the sewer system, the SMSD, it's usually around spills or the smells. And I was wondering, as you know, back in 2008, 2009, both the city of Sausalito and your agency were both fined by the EPA, and we had milestones in progress. And I was wondering if you could share with us an update on the state of spills this year and the smells with respect to controlling that. |
| 01:05:08.03 | Mayor Hoffman | Sure. |
| 01:05:16.41 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:05:42.17 | Jeff Kingston | Yeah, so this year we have had no spills within our system. I'd let Jonathan speak about your system. I'm not sure of the statistics on that. And have had no regulatory issues. |
| 01:05:59.65 | Linda Pfeiffer | And what about last year, 2015? |
| 01:06:01.51 | Jeff Kingston | The last two years we've not had what we call an SSO. |
| 01:06:07.87 | Linda Pfeiffer | Good. Okay. |
| 01:06:09.81 | Jeff Kingston | Actually, we had two spills last year. Yeah. |
| 01:06:14.85 | Linda Pfeiffer | Two spills. Okay. And what have you done to treat the smells? I mean, have you done anything different the last year? I haven't had as many complaints. |
| 01:06:25.06 | Jeff Kingston | Yeah, Omar, I'm gonna have you give me, Omar's the operations superintendent, so he has those details. |
| 01:06:34.65 | Mayor Hoffman | For the people watching at home. We need you to come to the podium and turn the mic on. |
| 01:06:36.42 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 01:06:36.44 | Omar Arias | I mean, you just- |
| 01:06:36.81 | Linda Pfeiffer | Okay. |
| 01:06:39.71 | Omar Arias | Thank you. Just as a follow-up to your question, we have put in place last year a permanent dosing station at what we call our Locust Street pump station, which we activate as soon as the temperature starts rising and we have those conditions that make the odor start being more noticeable. So we have that station now in effect at Locust Street in addition to the original station that we had at Marin City. The idea being that when you dose these chemicals in the collection system, they provide essentially oxygen for bacteria so that they do not convert the hydrogen sulfides and the sulfides in sewage and begin to volatilize sulfides, which is what you end up smelling, that rotten egg smell, and also produce acid, which tend to damage the collection system. So when we provide the new point at Locust Street, it actually is ensuring that we have essentially the available oxygen throughout the collection system until it reaches our end station at Main Street. We should be essentially controlling the orders along the entire collection system. |
| 01:07:52.04 | Linda Pfeiffer | They're forward. |
| 01:07:53.12 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:07:53.15 | Linda Pfeiffer | We should. |
| 01:07:53.42 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:07:59.70 | Omar Arias | Thank you. |
| 01:07:59.71 | Linda Pfeiffer | So I'm specifically referring to this plant at Alexander and South Strait, that intersection. Is that what you mean when you say locust? Because I'm thinking you're thinking later. No, no. I thought you were referring to the collection system. |
| 01:08:03.65 | Omar Arias | Absolutely. |
| 01:08:07.32 | Omar Arias | No, no. I thought you were referring to the collection system. But at the plant itself, we have installed in the last few years odor collection. |
| 01:08:11.46 | Linda Pfeiffer | The plan itself. |
| 01:08:12.62 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 01:08:12.76 | Linda Pfeiffer | We can. |
| 01:08:13.16 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:08:19.68 | Omar Arias | Um, catching essentially structures throughout the plant so that more and more of the plant area that is exposed to to the environment, especially in the areas of high turbulence, we are capturing those areas and filtering them, essentially through a set of air filters. So we are constantly improving that, and I believe part of our plan for capital improvements will consider covering the last remaining towers where we have our exposed |
| 01:08:58.76 | Linda Pfeiffer | Okay. |
| 01:08:59.03 | Omar Arias | volatiles, if you will. |
| 01:09:00.31 | Linda Pfeiffer | And do you have a hotline number that you want to give now for people who see a spill or get the smells? Because right now they sometimes call us and then we try to find you. |
| 01:09:07.40 | Omar Arias | Yeah, okay. |
| 01:09:11.28 | Omar Arias | Right. During working hours, they can call directly at the plant, which is 415-332-0244. And after hours, if anybody calls that same number, they will be referred to the operator on call. |
| 01:09:29.52 | Linda Pfeiffer | Great, thank you very much. Thank you. |
| 01:09:30.38 | Omar Arias | Amen. |
| 01:09:30.45 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:09:30.50 | Omar Arias | THE FAMILY. |
| 01:09:30.67 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:09:30.72 | Omar Arias | Thank you. |
| 01:09:32.73 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. Any other questions from Council? |
| 01:09:36.44 | Linda Pfeiffer | I don't. |
| 01:09:45.98 | Mayor Hoffman | Oh, public comment, sorry. Any public comment? See no one approaching the podium. |
| 01:09:52.96 | Linda Pfeiffer | okay thank you and I and I just want to say a comment and and thank Southern Marin Sanitary District for the presentation thank for the I thank them for the efforts they've made to control the smells especially at Alexander and and South that intersection because it used to be really bad as you know and also thanks for the for the good news about the spills because whenever we hear that we're doing great things for the environment it's always good news so thank you Southern Marin sanitary district |
| 01:10:24.87 | Mayor Hoffman | Sorry, and I did try to cut off city council discussion just then. Any other discussion? Okay, yeah. Yeah, thank you. Again, yeah, thank you. Okay, moving on. two item. 6C approve additional response to civil grand jury report on coin to an authorized mayor to sign city response. Brian. |
| 01:10:51.74 | Brian Moore | Thank you, Mayor and members of Council. Brian Moore, Administrative Services Advisor. And I also wanted to mention that we have Charles Sakai, who's the City's Labor Relations and negotiations consultant available as well. Council will recall that in September... You authorize the mayor to, to send a letter in response to the grand jury's report issued this summer on labor negotiations. Two of the items in that letter asked for time for further study. And under the grand jury law in California, when you ask for additional time, you're required to issue what's called a final response, six months from the date of the original report, which would be the end of last calendar year. in the interest of providing Council with opportunity to send a final response staff asked for an extension to march first which was granted And so that's the purpose of tonight's agenda item we have drafted for uh... you a for consideration a final response that is consistent with your action in September, where the Council indicated that your intent was to take up the topic of procedures for labor negotiations 45 days prior to your next round, which would be in the summer of 2019. The one other item I wanted to highlight and correct is in the draft letter. We initially made the comment that the city of Corte Madera had adopted a coin ordinance. In further review, it turns out that's not correct. that in fact what Court of Madera did is they adopted certain portions of that ordinance but they refused to adopt a coin ordinance so we need to make that correction in the if that is correct. your desire to send it tonight. So with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions, and certainly Mr. Sakai is available as well. |
| 01:12:50.06 | Mayor Hoffman | Any questions from Council? |
| 01:12:55.89 | Linda Pfeiffer | So I don't really have a question. I've written a minority viewpoint that I want to submit, but I think I'll just share my thoughts during a council comment. Thank you. |
| 01:13:06.42 | Jonathon Goldman | Okay. |
| 01:13:08.53 | Linda Pfeiffer | And we can discuss then. |
| 01:13:11.66 | Mayor Hoffman | Anybody have a question? I have one question, Brian. It's either for you or Charles Sakai, who I see sitting next to you. |
| 01:13:21.40 | Brian Moore | Okay. |
| 01:13:22.40 | Mayor Hoffman | and this is about the, and it may be somewhere else in the report, In our letter that we sent, on September 3rd, 2015. On page four of six. Third paragraph down, we talk about A recent decision by the Chief Administrative Law Judge for the PER, Public Employment Relations Board, concluded the elements of coin ordinance, including whether or not proposals and counter proposals will be posted on the agency's website. would have to be negotiated with each labor union before implementation. and that it... And then that paragraph goes on to say that The County of Orange appealed the decision, but we didn't have the decision yet. Do we have that? Do you know, does that decision come out? |
| 01:14:13.34 | Brian Moore | I think I'll defer to Charles on that. |
| 01:14:16.01 | Mayor Hoffman | Sorry, that's not... |
| 01:14:16.95 | Brian Moore | No problem, that appeal is still pending with the Public Employment Relations Board. |
| 01:14:20.18 | Charles Sakai | Thank you. |
| 01:14:20.43 | Mayor Hoffman | Okay, thanks. Thanks, Charles. |
| 01:14:25.04 | Mayor Hoffman | Any other questions? Yeah. OK, then let's move on to public comment. on this issue? I... Thank you. Doesn't appear there is any public comment. Okay, council discussion. Who would like to start? Councilwoman Barthes. |
| 01:14:43.97 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you, Mayor Hoffman. So my, I actually have a very different view of the, from the city council majority's response. When it comes to this grand jury report, which was titled The Need for Labor Negotiation Transparency, all I can say is yes, yes, yes, yes. I concur with their findings and their... for labor negotiation transparency, all I can say is yes, yes, yes, yes. I concur with their findings and their recommendations. I wanted to highlight a couple things for Council that may influence the letter that's currently written that the council majority has submitted. On grand jury finding two regarding implementing the COIN process for transparency in labor negotiations, one of the comments was that new Senate Bill 331 made this onerous to do. And I wanted to point out that Rancho Palos Verdes has been able to create a workaround on the provisions of SB 331 by having a independent certified public accountant with government expertise or we could have an actuary review the fiscal impact provided by staff in other words what 331 does is it says if you have an independent an independent you know auditor create the fiscal analysis it it triggers SB 331, but if you have someone who is an independent person who just reviews it, it does not. So what Rancho Palos Verdes has done, and you'll see this in the in the commentary that I've handed out is they have the fiscal impact analysis reviewed by an independent CPA with government expertise who is not a city employee. The main issue around COIN and the main issue around the grand jury report, which I really, really agree with, is the perceived conflict of interest when we have a city manager or city employees negotiating Thank you. with city employees on contracts that the negotiator is ultimately going to benefit from. And that perceived conflict of interest is, I find, problematic, and the grand jury did as well. And hence we have COIN. So I would recommend that the council take a look at Ranchos Palos Verdes, and I've included that in here. I also wanted to clarify that I respectfully disagree with the comment that the workshop that was presented in some way, I mean, it was helpful in that we had the outside labor council make a presentation about the negotiation process, but in no way did things like educate our public about the 5% step increases that were automatic if you meet expectations and did not yet max out on a pay grade. It did not talk about you know city employees doing the negotiations so I'm out of time I'm gonna wrap up I've hit some of the highlights you can scan over my comments but But I'm hopeful that the two that I've mentioned might be Wade to rewrite the letter. Thank you. From City Council majority. Thank you. Any other comments? |
| 01:18:22.44 | Unknown | Right. |
| 01:18:27.68 | Linda Pfeiffer | What? |
| 01:18:28.14 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:18:29.08 | Councilmember Theodorus | Yeah, I'll comment. First of all, thank you, Brian. And thanks for an excellent staff report. And which anyone who wants to track what's going on with this issue. Uh, Please read the staff report because we addressed this whenever we addressed it some months ago. And basically we handle it. We have now have to reply because we had the statement saying that not at this time or in the future. But there's really nothing changed. I mean, basically no other cities in Marin have done it. They've all decided not to do it. We as a council said that we would postpone this. We'll review this and see where coin's at or anything similar that might replace coin when our next labor negotiation comes in 2019, almost four years away. I do wanna remind everybody that we did take some action on this, including that we made a recommendation prior to that we consider having an independent negotiation. as well as the city manager involved. So we took that step back. So we've actually heard this. We've had a lot of discussion on it. And this is really just a follow-on update to this letter. And again, the staff report lays that out very clearly and succinctly. And I think we need to, and the letter drafted, I think, also addresses the issue. So I would support moving forward on it. |
| 01:19:46.98 | Mayor Hoffman | any other comments. |
| 01:19:48.16 | Councilmember Weiner | Yeah, Madam Mayor, I would also agree with moving forward with the letters drafted. There's really nothing new here. We've debated this before. I take note of two things, as Council Member Theodorus has noted. Two things. First, that we have made the recommendation of the independent negotiator, auditor, whatever, 45 days prior to the initiation of the next round of labor negotiations. So that's number one. And number two, I take note of the fact that no other jurisdiction in Marin County has adopted COIN and they not adopted it for a reason because it is potentially flawed. |
| 01:20:36.68 | Mayor Hoffman | Well, I, you know, our comments are on the record, I think, when we talked about this last time. I think there was a conflict of interest during the last labor negotiations. I think that we should adopt COIN. Just because no one else has done it yet doesn't mean we shouldn't. And I don't like making recommendations that aren't going to be even looked at for another four years. So that's a long, long time to try to remember what the recommendations were for this council. So I was disappointed by the process, by the negotiations, by the outcome, and by the length of the contract. So I would vote that we not sign this letter, but I understand I'm in the minority. So even though I will be signing the letter, I would vote not to submit it as is. |
| 01:21:21.61 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you, Mayor. If I may give a 30-second rebuttal. Okay. So with respect to no other city in Marin implementing COIN, that doesn't surprise me. But outside of Marin, you've got Costa Mesa, Beverly Hills, Fullerton, Rancho Palos Verdes, and you've got the example I've cited in my minority opinion that I will be submitting as well for public review that have found ways to bring transparency to the negotiations process. And although it's true that the council majority has said that they will consider an independent negotiation four years from now when the next negotiation takes place, consider is not the same as we will do this. And that's not what I have heard. And in the letter I saw the phrasing we will consider an independent negotiator. So I think the two things that I am really highlighting here is the use of an independent negotiator to avoid that perceived conflict of interest, as well as the use of a outside expert CPA or actuary to review the fiscal impact analysis presented by staff to provide a critique to counsel. And that does not trigger SB 331 and you know |
| 01:22:50.04 | Mayor Hoffman | can read the legislation in my letter. Thank you, Councilwoman Pfeiffer. Now, my understanding is we don't need to take a vote or action on this. Do we need to Okay, let's |
| 01:23:00.92 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 01:23:00.96 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:23:00.97 | Linda Pfeiffer | Okay, let's. |
| 01:23:03.23 | Mayor Hoffman | Okay, so do we need a motion? Emotions? I'd like to make a motion. |
| 01:23:06.44 | Linda Pfeiffer | I'd like to make a motion. I'd like to move that we revisit the wording of the letter to... include a recommendation to use an independent negotiator next time, and as well to use an independent CPA with governmental experience or actuary to review the fiscal impact. |
| 01:23:42.08 | Mayor Hoffman | Does anybody have any objections to those two edits? Oh, there's a motion. Second. |
| 01:23:51.97 | Councilmember Theodorus | I'll make a substitute motion. I move that the council authorized the mayor to sign the final draft response to the civil grand jury report on behalf of the city council. And I believe that draft response is attachment five to item six C. |
| 01:24:07.85 | Vice Mayor Withey | I'll second it. |
| 01:24:11.36 | Mayor Hoffman | Any other motions? So we vote on the substitute motion first. you And all in favor? |
| 01:24:16.90 | Vice Mayor Withey | Yeah. |
| 01:24:17.91 | City Clerk | Thank you. |
| 01:24:18.56 | Vice Mayor Withey | No, you individually. |
| 01:24:19.06 | Mayor Hoffman | Oh, sorry. |
| 01:24:20.83 | Vice Mayor Withey | Thank you. |
| 01:24:20.86 | Mayor Hoffman | Oh, can I have the order? |
| 01:24:21.94 | City Clerk | Do you want to roll call? Sure. So this is a vote on Councilmember Theodorus' motion. Councilmember Theodorus? Yes. |
| 01:24:27.80 | Councilmember Weiner | Yes. |
| 01:24:28.40 | City Clerk | Councilmember Weiner? Yes. Councilmember Pfeiffer? No. Vice Mayor Withey? |
| 01:24:29.33 | Councilmember Weiner | Yes. |
| 01:24:32.77 | Councilmember Weiner | Yes. |
| 01:24:33.20 | City Clerk | Thank you. Mayor Hoffman, no, that carries 3-2. you Thank you. |
| 01:24:44.82 | Mayor Hoffman | Now we're moving on to a very exciting item, 6. D, street repair program status. Oh, yes. Let's take a break. Anybody opposed to a break? Thank you. |
| 01:24:58.96 | Vice Mayor Withey | Thank you. |
| 01:24:59.12 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:24:59.15 | Vice Mayor Withey | I WAS FRIENDING. |
| 01:24:59.47 | Mayor Hoffman | break. You're welcome. |
| 01:24:59.49 | Vice Mayor Withey | break. |
| 01:25:10.69 | Mayor Hoffman | Oh boy. Okay. Thank you. Okay. THE CITY. |
| 01:25:19.62 | Mayor Hoffman | Under new. Okay. All right. |
| 01:25:26.47 | Mayor Hoffman | We're back in session, and now we're moving on to the very exciting subject of street repair program status update. Andrew, you have the floor. |
| 01:25:39.41 | Andy Davidson | Thank you. I was trying to think of something pithy to say about excitement. All I could think about is when my kids see me about to throw a baseball, they get all excited, so. |
| 01:25:48.37 | Mayor Hoffman | I try. That's good. That's a nice try. Thank you. |
| 01:25:48.54 | Andy Davidson | I try. I do try. |
| 01:25:54.52 | Andy Davidson | Good evening. I'd like to thank the mayor, the city council, the city manager and director of public works for the opportunity to speak with you this evening about the 2015-2016 street repair project. I'm Andrew Davidson, engineer, and your department of public works. This evening you'll be asked to accept this report and provide direction for revisions as you see fit. |
| 01:26:19.48 | Andy Davidson | The city hired BKF engineers to develop the project in which we are proposing to include crack sealing, slurry sealing, either a microsurface, a slurry, or a cape seal, and rehabilitation of Rodeo Avenue. As of January 27th, the amount of available money unencumbered in your 2015-2016 budget for street repair, concrete streets, roadway base repair, and striping maintenance is approximately $660,000. The estimate for the proposed work is approximately $690,000. So the project currently exceeds the funds that are available by about $30,000. $30,000. The estimate is based on using a micro-surfacing and includes contingencies for accessibility improvements that may be triggered by the work. it does exclude construction management and inspection services. Costs will decrease incrementally if a slurry seal is determined to be the most appropriate treatment, and will increase incrementally if a cape seal is determined to be the most appropriate treatment. Regarding distresses and treatments of pavement, cracks are usually the first sign of pavement distress. water can get into the entry to cracks and into the pavement sub base which is the Cracks are usually the first sign of pavement distress. Water can get into the untreated cracks and into the pavement sub-base, which is the material below the concrete or the asphalt that we normally walk or drive upon. Once water gets into that surface, into the sub-base, the sub-base is weakened, reducing the support and strength of the pavement above it as well. |
| 01:28:02.73 | Andy Davidson | To help address that, we have several techniques. Crack sealing involves placing a flexible material directly into pavement cracks, which prevents water from entering into the pavement base and extending pavement life. Crack sealing does not improve the drivability of a street, but the benefits are realized three to five years down the road when the pavement is not deteriorated. |
| 01:28:14.60 | Charles Sakai | I'm not. |
| 01:28:23.42 | John Rubacher | Yeah. |
| 01:28:27.52 | Andy Davidson | Slurry seals involve spraying a mixture of asphalt, aggregate, water, and other compounds onto a pavement surface. It's used to fill cracks and seal areas of old pavements to restore a uniform surface texture, to keep water out of the subbase and improve the wearing surface of the road so it does improve drivability. The lifespan of the street is roughly increased between five and seven years. Cure time may be up to 24 hours before traffic is allowed back onto a street that has been slurry sealed, and that is because the process involves evaporation and heat to cure the slurry. Microsurfacing is similar to slurry sealing, but uses chemical additives that allow the surface to harden without relying on the sun or heat for evaporation to occur. It hardens quicker than slurry seals and can be suited for streets on the hill which have tree coverage and are subject to inclement or foggy weather during construction. The road's lifespan improvement is approximately 7 to 10 years. The cure time to allow traffic back onto the street is approximately an hour under good conditions and maybe a little bit longer under other conditions. Cape seals are a two-part application where first a chip seal is placed and allowed to sit for a number of days and is followed up with a slurry seal or microsurfacing a week or so later. The chip seal's bond cracks in the existing pavement, while the slurry or microsurfacing serves to improve chip retention and smoothness of the driving surface. The road's lifespan improvement is roughly between 9 and 12 years. Traffic may be allowed back onto the street two to three hours after the chips have initially been rolled, and then again, once the slurry or microsurfacing is applied, there will be a wait time. |
| 01:30:23.74 | Andy Davidson | These next few slides are part of your staff report. They're attachment one, which is a list of the proposed streets in this 2015-2016 street repair project. They list the streets alphabetically, the beginning and ending, and on the right there is the preliminary treatment. It's organized first by crack seal. I won't spend a lot of time here, but I wanted you to have this in the PowerPoint. |
| 01:30:56.70 | Andy Davidson | Now we come up on the bottom here for the slurry seal. As I said before, we're planning on, at least initially, we're looking at micro-sealing. But the treatments are shown as slurry seal slash micro seal. |
| 01:31:10.37 | Andy Davidson | And finally, on to attachment two of your staff report, which is graphical representation of the work. Streets proposed to be crack-sealed are in blue. Slurry-sealed or microsurface streets are in green. And then the magenta street, |
| 01:31:28.66 | Unknown | and just, |
| 01:31:30.92 | Andy Davidson | which is really hard to see. Right up there, that's Rodeo Avenue, which we're proposing to mill and fill or rehabilitate. |
| 01:31:44.82 | Andy Davidson | So how are streets identified? |
| 01:31:47.36 | Unknown | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 01:31:47.96 | Andy Davidson | The Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the MTC, pays for a consultant to perform a citywide pavement assessment and prepare a report. The inspector uses standardized approach to determine the condition of the pavement. The inspection data is entered into a pavement management system, which calculates the pavement condition index or PCI. Different budget scenarios are entered into the pavement management system, which calculates a five-year work program. The last assessment was completed in 2014 and the report was received in 2015. |
| 01:32:26.08 | Andy Davidson | So the actual work program is adjusted to taking various considerations. Streets in very poor condition that would not necessarily receive resources from the report just because they're in poor condition. Main Street, west of 2nd Street, is an example of this. The report does not include this portion of Main Street for rehabilitation. However, we know it's in poor condition. We have to coordinate with utilities, both city-owned and those of other public utilities. Currently, the Water District is replacing water mains in Sausalito, including on 3rd Street and a portion of Santa Rosa. PG&E will be replacing their facilities on 3rd Street and a portion of Main Street. And the city itself has a sanitary sewer project that will be starting up very soon where we'll be replacing the sewer on portions of 3rd, Main, and 4th Streets. When all this work is completed, including the sewer replacement on the remainder of Main Street, we expect to be able, within the budgetary constraints we have at that time, to pave 3rd and Main Street. As part of the current sewer project, 4th Street between Valley and Main is to be repaved, as is Miller between Spencer and San Carlos. And of course, there are community priorities. |
| 01:33:54.97 | Andy Davidson | Rodeo. Rodeo Ave was identified as a street in need of rehabilitation by staff and confirmed by geotechnical investigation. The pavement management report identified Rodeo between Nevada and 101 as a street needing to be rehabilitated. However, it was identified to take place in year three of year five of the five-year work program. Engineering staff was more concerned about the condition of Rodeo and thus felt it appropriate to move it up into this year's project. The pavement is in poor condition with significant cracking. There are areas of significant wear and distress due to age and traffic loads likely exceeding its design capacity. It's undergoing downslope creep, which is a slow movement of soil. resulting in cracking and slumping of the pavement Rodeo is one of five ways in or out of Sausalito. And its current pavement condition, its PCI, is 27. PCI of 100 is perfect. PCI of 0 is 0. |
| 01:35:06.67 | Andy Davidson | Rehabilitation of Rodeo will include localized base failure repair, removing four inches of the existing roadway, and putting in four and a half inches of new asphalt. Now, other streets require rehabilitation. Maine, I spoke about a moment ago, Monimar is in need of reconstruction and is included in the pavement management report. However, it's included in year five of the five-year program. Easterby below Pearl Street is in very poor condition. B Street and Bonita are also in very poor conditions. Until we can or are directed to fix those streets, we will continue to repair them with point repairs until we are able to rehabilitate or reconstruct those streets, including their underground utilities. |
| 01:36:03.60 | Andy Davidson | So again, this evening, asking that you accept this report and provide direction for any revisions you see fit. Thank you. |
| 01:36:12.82 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you, Andrew. Do we have city council questions for Andrew? |
| 01:36:18.25 | Councilmember Weiner | Madam Mayor. Yes. Yeah, I've got two lines of question and I'm going to start off one and then yell. I'm trying to understand a little bit more clearly how we've used the PCI to create our priorities for this year. Versus I understand coordination with utilities. I understand that piece but sort of general city staff assessment of roads that by it appears are you saying that basically if You rank order the PCI's then there are some that don't make it But you guys decide that they should be done anyway. I I'm not quite understanding how |
| 01:37:08.03 | Andy Davidson | Okay, so just specifically Main Street, because that was one that didn't show up in the report that was prepared requiring – that didn't show resources being applied to that street. And that's, I believe, because it's going to cost so much to repair, and it's not necessarily – |
| 01:37:08.05 | Councilmember Weiner | that work. |
| 01:37:27.44 | Andy Davidson | and efficient use of the resources. And those are my words. The report comes out with a five-year work program. The goal of that report is to maintain or increase the network's overall PCI. So there are streets with higher PCIs that are worked on earlier with minor repairs, such as crack ceiling. That's a minor piece of work, and it helps prolong the quality of that pavement. Other projects, other streets require more work. They'll generally have a lower PCI. Those will require the slurry seal or the cape seal or the microsurfacing. And again, the pavement management program tries to work with the budget that it's given and to maximize the amount of work that can be accomplished and increase or hold level the PCI. So the program that we're using here is an unconstrained budget with the goal of lifting the PCI of the network. We're not going to be able to get everything in that first year's program that was shown in the report simply because we don't have the money. We're taking care of all the crack seal, all of the slurry micro seal, cape seal, whichever those happen to be, except on Bridgeway. Bridgeway, I don't remember exactly the dollar value to take care of what's recommended for Bridgeway, but it's relatively high. and we can't fix all the streets that the PCI, or sorry, the pavement management report suggests that we fix this year. They have a budget, and the numbers, the estimate for the repairs appear low. We ran this by our consultant, and they said to do all this work for year one is going to cost a couple of million dollars. |
| 01:39:23.45 | Andy Davidson | And your second line? |
| 01:39:25.36 | Jonathon Goldman | Thank you. |
| 01:39:27.30 | Councilmember Weiner | Yeah, I want to understand the timing of these projects actually coming back to Council for approval, because my understanding is tonight we are hearing this and then if there's any feedback, give it to you, but we're not approving anything in terms of expenditures. Is that right? |
| 01:39:27.50 | Jonathon Goldman | Thank you. |
| 01:39:55.57 | Andy Davidson | If that's the way you'd like it to be, yes, we can take your recommendations. and work with what you do make as a recommendation, and alter what we're proposing to do. It may take a little bit longer. It will take some additional time to get everything together and out to bid. |
| 01:40:19.72 | Adam Politzer | Can I just comment on that? I would say that a little more directly. I would say that staff is recommending after many hours working with consultants to come forward with this list matching the budget that we have at hand that we are introducing this project to you tonight so that the council and the public has an opportunity to ask questions and then we will be coming back to you at a future council meeting to actually award the bid. If there is something that is significantly missing or you don't agree with our approach, well then tonight is obviously the opportunity to have that discussion. But again, this is our standard practice in terms of identifying the streets, matching it to the budget, using the pavement management system to help us identify the ones that are in most need. And then look from the staff and the community's perspective from what we've heard from past meetings to actually try to continue to move pavement of streets in all neighborhoods forward with the intent to eventually have them all paved. |
| 01:40:20.42 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 01:41:24.73 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you, Adam. Any other questions? Yes. |
| 01:41:27.48 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. Thank you for the report, Andy. And also thanks for responding so quickly to council question emails that you received before this, including from me with the PSIs on the different streets we had questions about. So my question has to do with just, I mean, nothing generates really more interest in town than this topic, I think, aside from the rental bike mess, that people are really concerned about the roads. And I understand the logic in terms of certainly, you know, what you have to deal with where you're looking at the main artery streets and, you know, the liabilities or what have you. And so you might have a PSI that's slightly higher, like 27 for Rodeo, but then you have another street that's 17 that maybe is a very poor condition but falls to a lower level because it's not this main artery street. Here's my question though. When I hear of a PSI at 17, I'm looking at your pictures here of what a 27 looks like. So I can only imagine what a 17 is. And I guess Easterby between Bridgeway and Pearl is a 17. That's correct. |
| 01:42:45.48 | Andy Davidson | That's it. |
| 01:42:45.97 | Unknown | It's a great thing. |
| 01:42:46.04 | Andy Davidson | That's correct. |
| 01:42:46.60 | Linda Pfeiffer | Okay, so I guess I'm nervous about, you know, going forward without having some sort of a game plan to address these lower end, very poor streets. And I'm sorry because I haven't gotten to my question yet, but I guess what I'm curious about is in your staff report, which was also very good, by the way, you cover crack sealing, slurry seal, microsurfing, cape seals, and then pavement rehabilitation. I'm assuming pavement rehabilitation is where you go in and you completely rebuild the street, correct? That would be one farm, yes. Okay. And that, I think we did that a couple years ago, or three years ago, I think, to, was it 4th Street or 3rd Street, you know, uphill between? Richardson has been done. Yeah. How long does that last? I mean, when we go in there, as opposed, the patchwork stuff, you know, which we have to keep coming back to every few years, how, how, how long does it last when you go in and you just completely redo the street? |
| 01:43:26.74 | Andy Davidson | That would be one form, yes. |
| 01:43:39.77 | Andy Davidson | Richardson's been done. Yeah. |
| 01:43:59.80 | Andy Davidson | 20 to 30 years for asphalt. For concrete, longer. Your concrete streets went in, though they obviously are in poor condition, but they went in, I believe, in the 1920s. So I think my boss likes to say we repair the concrete streets, whether we have to or not, every 90 years. But we do want to move forward with those as well. They're more complicated and more expensive because repairing the concrete, we don't want to start cutting it up if we have utility concerns there. Richardson, as an example, went into construction, and right away we determined that PG&E was very shallow under Richardson, and they had to be lowered before the contractor could actually work for safety reasons. They couldn't break a gas bank. |
| 01:44:33.16 | Unknown | I'm not. |
| 01:44:37.78 | Unknown | and structure. I remember you. Thank you. |
| 01:44:51.00 | Linda Pfeiffer | And you did a great job on that because that's a headache that's gone now, correct? And that's... |
| 01:44:54.81 | Andy Davidson | And that's the goal is to get rid of headaches. |
| 01:44:55.28 | Linda Pfeiffer | . to get rid of headaches. So I'm looking at the street repair and I'm seeing crack seal crack seal. You know a lot of us a lot of the things are doing crack seal. How long does the crack seal generally last? |
| 01:45:06.56 | Andy Davidson | It's three to five years, I believe I stated, and that is, again, the benefit of that. It's not changing the rideability. It's an inexpensive repair, and the benefit is in three to five years, the road is not further deteriorated. |
| 01:45:20.77 | Linda Pfeiffer | So forgive me if I misread the staff report, but of the ones that we're doing that are pavement rehabilitation, where we're gonna go in and a headache that goes away for the next 30 or more years, which streets are targeted for that? |
| 01:45:23.58 | Andy Davidson | Thank you. |
| 01:45:32.29 | Andy Davidson | No. This year, that's Rodeo. |
| 01:45:37.23 | Linda Pfeiffer | It is Rodeo. That is correct. Okay. All right. Okay. And my final question, because I'm just looking at this and I'm wondering, |
| 01:45:37.39 | Andy Davidson | It is Rodeo. What's that? |
| 01:45:48.19 | Linda Pfeiffer | And I'm sure the answer is yes, that you've looked at the the ratio of the effort and the time. It just seems like the more of this pavement rehabilitation we can do, the better, because then that's something that we don't have to worry about for long stretches of time. What would you recommend that we do for streets like Easterby between Bridgeway and Pearl that are 17 and so low on the PSI that are, you know, to pose a hazard, you know, to, you know, to residential bikes or what have you, pedestrians, you know, walking up the street or what have you. Um. I just, you know, when I hear a PSI that low, I just feel the need to fix it somehow, to get that in there as a priority somewhere. |
| 01:46:41.12 | Andy Davidson | And so do we. We want to fix the streets. That's absolutely correct. And how do we do that? We have to plan for that work and have budget for it. And there's good budget now. And there are a lot of streets that need fixing. So using... the Thank you. report that we have does provide us a good guideline to improve the streets of the entire city now if there are focus streets and i hear easterby i've heard montimar i've mentioned maine and there's probably some others as well that i hear about frequently bonita gerard i mean there are a lot of streets out there um If those are priorities for the community and the council, we need to bring those forward maybe sooner than the pavement management report indicates they would be brought forward. We have to be careful that we do it within the budget we've got. Otherwise, we are just spending all our resources in one spot, and maybe One Street deserves all the resources for an entire year. That's not really my. opinion but it might be yours |
| 01:47:46.60 | Linda Pfeiffer | Oh, well, no, I, well, I, I, um... |
| 01:47:49.40 | Andy Davidson | Yours is the community, I mean. |
| 01:47:50.60 | Linda Pfeiffer | I'm just looking at, I can understand certain artery streets with respect to liabilities. If you've got a lot of, you know, rental bikes going down Bridgeway and there's a pothole, then you've just upped city liability. You know, I can see the logic in that. I just want to, when I, I just, when I look at a PSI that low, you know, my, my preference is to, to, to try and find a place to fit that in, you know, in, in, in the list to get it, to get that fixed. |
| 01:48:20.55 | Adam Politzer | If I may, Madam Mayor, I think what we're having very good discussion here, but I think in terms of where we are right now in terms of getting ready to |
| 01:48:23.22 | Linda Pfeiffer | Yeah. |
| 01:48:32.41 | Adam Politzer | go to bid or we've gotten to bid and we're going to come back to council. with approved project. And when you look at the, you know, the estimate, and where the monies are going. We're asking Council tonight to say yes, go forward with this recommendation. because we want to start paving this spring. The discussion that I think Councilmember Pfeiffer is bringing up as we look at the next a set of projects starting in the summer and fall, the budget of July 1st. going forward for the next two years. That's an opportunity, as I think Andy Davidson is suggesting, is that if we want to move some of these things forward more aggressively, well, then we have the opportunity during the budget process to do just that and, again, Have staff come back in the springtime as we're building the next sequence of streets to be paved and Then evaluate streets like Main Street and Easterby and Venita and Santa Rosa and Edwards I mean there's a whole list of streets that we've heard in the previous council meetings where someone would come from the community and say, when are you going to pay of Pine Street. so we can come back and show you the cost. to be a little bit more aggressive in terms of reconstructions of streets but I'd like to just make sure that for tonight's action we're asking the council to say yes move forward because we are in we're at the eve of coming back to the council to say award this contract and doing paving this spring okay if we delay it go back to study or go back to design for these other streets. you know, then we are pushing back out into the summer. |
| 01:50:07.35 | Linda Pfeiffer | Yeah, and thank you, Adam, for that clarification. And yeah, I definitely want to move forward with the streets lined up for this year. But I appreciate revisiting this during the budgeting for July and looking at streets like Easterby that have a low PSI and trying to make those more of a priority. If we can, if possible, given our resources, it sounds like you need more resources to make that happen. |
| 01:50:33.69 | Andy Davidson | We just move them around. Right. You change projects to make that happen. Okay. Within the space program. |
| 01:50:35.90 | Linda Pfeiffer | Right. OK. |
| 01:50:39.03 | Mayor Hoffman | within the space program. Okay, thank you. you Any other council questions? Any questions from the public on this exciting topic? It is exciting. I agree. Okay. Council discussion. |
| 01:51:01.49 | Councilmember Theodorus | Great job, I think. Good presentation, and we can follow that, so I appreciate it. I appreciated the discussion on what we're doing now to repair the streets and what we have to distinction made for the coming budget process, which is coming right up in the next few meetings, so there's a lot of work to do on that, and so it's a good preview of that. Thanks. |
| 01:51:05.54 | Unknown | Thank you. Appreciate it. |
| 01:51:21.48 | Linda Pfeiffer | Any other discussion? Yeah, I'd just say that nothing, I think, generates more discussion in town than sewers and streets. And in fact, it was a platform of mine when I was running was infrastructure. At the time, the city council had gone astray with, imagine Sausalito, and they were chasing all sorts of, you know, redesigned projects, and I came in saying sewers and streets. And, you know, here we are eight years later it's it's still sewers and streets the the residents of Sausalito strongly support public works and your efforts in focusing on those two issues and I'm here to do everything I can to keep a spotlight on that and to try and ensure that you have the resources you need to move forward, especially with those lower-ranked PSI streets. Discussion, fellas? |
| 01:52:17.07 | Councilmember Weiner | No thank you Andy for that update I'm I'm very supportive of moving forward with this we've got to bear in mind that we have infrastructure needs across the board in all areas as even before I mean significantly before my time on the City Council this city has sort of led the way at making streets a priority. And you can see, if you look at our historical budgets, we've made great attempts and great strides at investing in our streets. Yeah, streets and sewers are important, and they're going to be important for the next 100 years because it's going to go on forever. It's a continuing thing. It's like painting the Golden Gate Bridge once you finish what you're going to start again. And what we're trying to do is over time bring the PCI index up with these, with the five-year program we've got in place. I can't remember the numbers that we're trying to target the PCI to go from X to Y. I can't remember what it is, but it's important, but it's also important to bear in mind that we've got lots of infrastructure, storm drains, in addition to sewers, we've got, yes, parks, and we have sidewalks and medians and everything like that. So the budget process is going to be one, very importantly, where we make sure there's a balance between all of the infrastructure projects that we – the infrastructure investment that we need to make. And I'm sure streets are always going to be one of our higher priorities. |
| 01:54:07.62 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. Councilman Warren? I have nothing further from what my other fellow council members said and thank you for their comments and thank you for your presentation. Do we need to make a motion? No? No motion. Okay, information only. Okay, thank you. Then we're moving. |
| 01:54:25.47 | Linda Pfeiffer | Moving on. Thank you very much, Andy. |
| 01:54:27.70 | Mayor Hoffman | Yeah, thank you. |
| 01:54:28.49 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 01:54:28.88 | Mayor Hoffman | on. |
| 01:54:28.97 | Linda Pfeiffer | . |
| 01:54:29.03 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:54:29.08 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 01:54:30.35 | Mayor Hoffman | Okay, we are on schedule. We're five minutes ahead of schedule, Chief. I want that noted. No. I know. I got to say it right now. Well, we're on schedule. So I want to congratulate myself for keeping us on schedule. I know. Yes, Chief, you have the floor with item 6E. The update update on the management study from the state of California Commission on Peace Officer standards and training, otherwise known as the post report. Thank you. |
| 01:55:06.33 | John Rubacher | Yes, you have the floor. All right. Good evening, Mayor and Councilmembers. I'm John Rubacher, your new Chief of Police. How about that, huh? It's been so much fun. In fact, when you see my slides, it actually still says Captain on it. so first thing I need to do is figure out how to get rid of that. |
| 01:55:34.24 | John Rubacher | I just put your hands on your hands. Okay. It does. I think it'll be fine. All right. Thank you, Lily. So, maybe just to repeat a little bit of the acronyms that the mayor just mentioned. showed The California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, we just simply call post. It's a lot easier to say. In my report, I will sometimes refer to CAD, which is computer-aided dispatch, or RMS, which is our records management system, so it might be just quicker to use those. If you have questions about my shorthand, Pardon me, please ask. So a little bit of recap because this is actually gone on for a while. We're about maybe almost five years into this project. So however, the first three years were a little bit just a waiting period. We'd made a request of POST to help us with the staffing and workload study. POST does that for free. However, at the time, they didn't have the staffing or the money to do it. And so we just waited our turn. And in 2014, our request was granted. And then the consultant was appointed for that. his job was to come in and do a... a quick assessment so then he could report back to post with the recommendation to approve the study or not. And he did approve it. He requested it, it was approved by post, and then of course the study was done. This is one of those things too where... Timing is... an important issue here. So Dan Koenig, the consultant from Post, he started in 2014 in April. And the timing of that is that THE Sheriff's Office, who provides us our dispatch services and also our CAD software and our RMS software was undertaking a rather large project to update or replace either CAT or RMS or both. And at a time when Dan wanted data, because he needed data for the report. So it probably would have taken him less time. in more normal circumstances, took him almost a year. because he needed to go back and dig through the archives in CAT and RMS to get some of the data he needed to prepare this 56-page report. Because what he wanted to be able to tell us was some authority and confidence was how were we doing with our calls for service, response time by time of day, day of the week. month. And, uh, whether we had fast response, slow response, and to what type of calls, So, He was very, very thorough. In fact, when he made his presentation to you, the council back then in early June, He mentioned that part of his work as a commander for the Los Angeles Police Department before he retired is he was putting 2,000 officers on the street every day. and as a result, he felt he had a pretty good grasp of what it took to staff law enforcement and take a look at the type of things that were necessary to... prepare the report for us. He's very, very thorough, and he had several trips back here to meet with us, and then he presented a report which was accepted, and then A request was made at the time by council. If we could come back, and provide some update on his recommendations and so that was set for like six months later and so here we are |
| 01:59:20.36 | John Rubacher | All right, that's blank, what happened there. Before I talk about that, Dan made a list of 10 recommendations to us. Eight of the 10. were very specific to the CAT and RMS data that comes out of the sheriff's system that we are a client for. nearly all the things that he mentioned in those first eight are already being addressed now. And I don't know that it's really worth going into them at this point, but the new software is going to capture data in a far superior manner than the old software does. We've already started using the new records management system. And that was started about four months ago. The new CAT system is supposed to come online in March. And it probably will. That's a very expensive and significant project for the Sheriff's Office. And so there'll be a little bit of time to cut our teeth on that. But the goal or the benefit of having those new systems is that we will be able to capture Much of the data that Dan recommends in his report that will help us with some things like the size of the two beats or the zones that the beats are broken up into for response time and that kind of detail. I have a lot of confidence that that's going to be OK. There's not a lot really, I don't think, worth much more time about that tonight. And then he also made a recommendation that we consolidate our detective into a different work unit, and we've already done that. And so that was actually number nine. So at the end of the report, just sort of cutting to the chase, is he came up with, the issue about staffing. he recommended a couple of ideas. And so that's what I've put here on my few remaining slides just for us to talk about. and Clearly, the number one was we should hire more police officers and for better response time and THE END OF THE END OF THE being able to backfill for training and other discretionary non-patrol jobs because everybody in the police department has something else they do besides work a beat. It's just the nature of being a small agency. and allow us the flexibility to move people around as we need to. Because one of the things that he discovered in doing his data was that we had not a even throughout the year type of workload, but no surprise, our workload increases as our visitors come to town and our winters are fairly quiet. So before we would initially decide that we would want to add somebody for year round work then it would sound like maybe that is too much staffing during the winter. And that's why he said that if we did that, we could move some of the things like training and things like that to the wintertime when we were slower and still have enough people to provide the basic service that the community needs. So, We think that's the best all around solution in the report. However, we know that's a little bit pricey. leaving it at that at the moment. |
| 02:02:37.58 | John Rubacher | He also mentioned that A possibility would be to hire part-time officers from other agencies if they had staffing to sell. We, I'm not sure. didn't think that that would work quite as well for us. we don't have that type of work pool in the county to choose from. It's not that every other agency has an abundance of staffing and, um, Also, if they're working someplace else and come to work for us in their off-duty hours, it's going to be at an overtime rate, which burns up the money a time and a half. So not necessarily the. best answer for us and so we you know, think that that's a bit more pricey and not quite as, Efficient use of the money. |
| 02:03:35.31 | John Rubacher | The other was to, in essence, shut down the city to Sausalito police officers after a certain time, turn it over to the sheriff's office. And of course, you can imagine our response to that is no thank you, we'd love to police our own city, just a matter of pride, we don't really want to turn it over to anybody else. I'm sure the sheriff would do a fine job, but that's not what it's about. It's about this is our city, and we'd like to do our own policing. At the end of the day, we felt that. It also made the assumption that the Sheriff's Office had deputies to sell at that time, and I don't think that's really the case either. And so for us, that was a less... desirable option. So one of the alternatives that we considered is not in the report, I'm. was hiring our own part-time officers because we've had some success with that already. And we do have one retired officer who's working for us now he's paid an hourly rate there's no other benefits that come with that He's been an incredible asset for us, Officer Mark McAfee. However, We always ask them, do you have a twin? you know, can there's somebody else, can we clone you? Because we would like to have more of him. He's been very successful. It would be, You know, quite lucky if we're able to find someone else like that. We're always looking, but, again, he was sort of an unusual find. but that's not a bad idea if we could get more of them. So we're not close to the idea because we've seen how successful Officer McAfee can be as a part-time officer, AND, having him or another like him offers us an amount of flexibility that we can't get with full-time people. So it's also a little bit less expensive. |
| 02:05:21.13 | John Rubacher | And I just put up there that at the time, the fully burdened rate for a new entry-level officer under the new pay scale, which adds two steps below the original entry-level step. Now we have seven steps instead of five. We went two steps below. And that's typically around $110,000 fully burdened, and just to put that figure out there. So having somebody like Officer McAfee, who we pay about $35 an hour, certainly costs us a little bit less. He has a limit on his hours, and it's a pretty good deal. He has a lot of experience and adds a lot of other benefit to the department just based on who he is. |
| 02:06:03.07 | John Rubacher | So at the end of this, we're just asking for, you to accept the report and this update The timing, like I mentioned earlier, is everything. At this particular time, there's other things in play. For one, now I'm the chief, and I have a lot of ideas about what we can do and there's a process for vetting those. Some of them I haven't even had a chance to discuss with Adam yet. But. Now's the time, because it's the budget preparation time I have my first meeting with Melanie tomorrow do our current review of where we are this fiscal year and then We're gonna start the process of talking about the things that we're gonna bring to Finance Committee in terms of maybe supplemental budget requests or not, depending on the topic. whether those include any other staffing changes So there's a lot in play there, and we're very excited about being able to do that. So even though this report was a little bit delayed coming to council, the timing is still there. It doesn't change anything for us to have that opportunity bring more ideas forward. Because at the end of the day, What we're trying to provide is service. and quality service to the community. So our, what I like to just call the cops and robbers response, we're really good at that. And we're not delayed by it, our staffing doesn't impact that. Because when something happens and we have an emergency call, the cops are going. What's what? service degrades is when we have enough of that going on that another routine type where someone wants to report a loss, something maybe there's no suspect involved, but they would like us to take a report. Those things wait if we have emergency causes. They should wait, of course. And so having the ability to provide more consistent full service will come with some of these ideas that we're bringing forward but I certainly don't want anybody here in the community with the impression that we can't do adequate emergency response. If that was the case, you'd be hearing from us way before now about that. So even the post report was, A fact finding that our emergency response time was fine, and that includes from the time the telephone rings at dispatch to the time it's actually answered, how many rings that is, how many seconds that takes, and how quickly they start putting information out on the radio, how quickly the officers answer that first call, how long it takes them to get there, and all that factors in that our emergency response rate is fantastic, and so we're very proud of that. So this is the time for us to roll up our sleeves and start working on our budget process and bringing forward some additional ideas about what we can do. And again, I'm very excited about it. My new staff, we're very excited about working on it together. And in fact, in some ways, it starts tomorrow. So. I'm happy to take questions. I'm sure you might have some. |
| 02:08:55.11 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 02:08:55.13 | Mayor Hoffman | THE FAMILY IS |
| 02:08:55.19 | Linda Pfeiffer | THANK YOU. |
| 02:08:55.55 | Mayor Hoffman | Yeah, that's my friend. |
| 02:08:56.61 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. So congratulations on the emergency response rates that you're referring to. Now, as I recall, you have different levels of response rates, right, that you have different categories. How have those fallen out? I mean, if you look across all the categories from top to... Sure. How many categories are there, too? I can't remember. |
| 02:09:09.42 | Unknown | to think. |
| 02:09:19.27 | John Rubacher | How many categories are there, too? I can't remember. Now there's only going to be three. Right now there's seven. And actually when we went to the Sheriff's Office to work on that, and we already knew just from our experience that some of those weren't being used. Actually, they were so old somebody, no one really knew anymore why there was seven. And even Dan sort of scratching his head going, why do you have so many? |
| 02:09:24.81 | Linda Pfeiffer | Right now. This is one of your bullets here. Yes. |
| 02:09:34.04 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 02:09:45.62 | John Rubacher | And then when you do that, it makes the classification of a call sometimes fall into a weird category. And the new CAT system that's coming on in March, |
| 02:09:53.11 | Linda Pfeiffer | Right. |
| 02:09:55.82 | John Rubacher | Eliminates that. |
| 02:09:57.02 | Linda Pfeiffer | What are the three categories? |
| 02:09:58.27 | John Rubacher | Parties one, two, and three. And so, priority one is clearly a 911 emergency call. |
| 02:09:59.94 | Linda Pfeiffer | AND SO, |
| 02:10:04.06 | John Rubacher | Priority two is an urgent call and then, but not a nine-woman emergency, And then a priority three is a routine call for service. And so that's all we have left. |
| 02:10:14.05 | Linda Pfeiffer | And are those classified based on what the caller, like the person who calls into the police says? Like this is a- It does. It starts off with the way |
| 02:10:19.20 | John Rubacher | It does, it starts off with the way the person reports the call. And then as more information comes in, it's always possible to reclassify the call en route. |
| 02:10:21.86 | Linda Pfeiffer | Yeah. |
| 02:10:26.79 | Unknown | Uh-huh. |
| 02:10:27.26 | John Rubacher | But if it comes in a 911 call, we're going that way. and then we'll decide later if we can back off a little bit. |
| 02:10:31.43 | Linda Pfeiffer | Yeah. I have two follow-up questions. Okay. So my first follow-up question is, how soon will you be able to share the new category response rates with us? And the second question is, because those kick in in March, right? So... Thank you. |
| 02:10:52.15 | John Rubacher | Well, the new CAD comes on sometime in March. |
| 02:10:52.17 | Linda Pfeiffer | THE CITY IS A CITY. |
| 02:10:55.56 | John Rubacher | And the new cat is what will carry those new categories and the response rate. Clearly, I'm just making this up now, but in some, for the first weeks or months, |
| 02:11:02.23 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 02:11:05.35 | John Rubacher | working out the bugs of the new system. |
| 02:11:07.16 | Unknown | So, |
| 02:11:07.68 | John Rubacher | I wouldn't really want to take a lot of it to the bank |
| 02:11:11.09 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 02:11:11.27 | John Rubacher | you know, the new response time per category. It was going to take a little bit of data to get on the books so that we know that it's, you know, shaken out to the right kind of answer. |
| 02:11:21.92 | Linda Pfeiffer | My last question is between the time someone calls and the time you show up, I understand how you track the call because it goes through dispatch and then dispatch contacts you. How do you track the time the police officer arrives? Does the police officer have- |
| 02:11:39.34 | John Rubacher | So everything that the officers do is transmitted over the radio, and every transmission results in another entry in the CAD system. So if you were to see a CAD call in print, it looks kinda like a directory on one side is the timestamping. and the next column over is the radio call sign for the officer and then the next column over is the dispatch shorthand the dispatchers type on the fly, which is the information they're given. And so you could actually reconstruct a call and tell the story just by looking at the printed CAD call But every single thing is time stamped and data entered. |
| 02:12:21.41 | Linda Pfeiffer | And just to clarify then that time stamp, I'm looking at the time they arrive. Yes. Does the police officer call in some sort of – Exactly. They say – Okay, great. |
| 02:12:26.44 | John Rubacher | Yes, yes. Yep, exactly. They say whatever code they want, or we use plain English and say, I'm here, and then that gets another timestamp. |
| 02:12:33.86 | Linda Pfeiffer | Great. |
| 02:12:36.63 | Mayor Hoffman | Great. Thank you. |
| 02:12:38.43 | John Rubacher | Sure. |
| 02:12:39.04 | Mayor Hoffman | Chief, I understand that the dispatch has moved from dispatch from the police department to the sheriff's department in the last six months. No. Oh. That actually is not true. Okay. Sorry. Should I tell you what it is? Yes. Okay. Yes, you should. Chief, how does dispatch work? |
| 02:12:48.12 | John Rubacher | No. Sorry. Oh. That actually is not true. Okay. Sorry. Should I tell you what it is? Yes. Yeah, okay. Yes, you should. Chief, how does dispatch work? Way, way back when Sausalito had its own dispatch center. Okay. I don't even know how long that would have been. Maybe 20 years ago. Okay. And then as the first effort of consolidation. |
| 02:12:58.41 | Mayor Hoffman | Okay. |
| 02:13:01.62 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:13:04.79 | John Rubacher | The cities of Belvedere, Chiburon, Mill Valley, and Sausalito to create their own dispatch center. It was located in Mill Valley. It was called Southern Marin Dispatch. Mm-hmm. And so they operated again is an efficiency of instead of having four agencies staff people around the clock for dispatch there was one consolidated effort When the sheriff's office acquired the new software back then, that we're now getting rid of. it made more sense for the Southernman primary group that had been created some years back to then move up to the Sheriff's Office, and our contribution, I would imagine, over the years stayed pretty much the same, adjusted for inflation, But now the dispatching is done by the sheriff's office. It had been for us since 2006. |
| 02:13:51.30 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:13:51.32 | Linda Pfeiffer | Okay. Okay. |
| 02:13:52.23 | John Rubacher | Yeah. |
| 02:13:52.46 | Linda Pfeiffer | Great, thanks. |
| 02:13:54.66 | Councilmember Theodorus | Chief, in terms of this report, it says you'd like the council action to be accepted and filed this report. And your recommendations are to have staff, the police department work with the finance committee to explore funding options for the upcoming budget preparation. I'm trying to figure out exactly what we're doing. And then when we work backwards, so we're looking during that budget process, you're looking for budgeting for two additional part time officers. Is that what we're looking to address the workload? Yeah, I'm actually not. |
| 02:14:13.98 | Charles Sakai | Right. |
| 02:14:24.37 | John Rubacher | I'm actually not saying that yet about what that's going to be. I have several things in mind that will come up to the Finance Committee at this perfect timing of budget preparation season. it could include as one of the possibilities. one or two other part-time officers. But. at some point probably in the next 30 to 45 days as we work through this process, and I'm sure that Melanie is going to keep us on track on that, is we will come forward with more detail and more meat on that bone about what are we suggesting or recommending that we do with any supplemental requests or our current allocation of staff money. |
| 02:15:15.07 | Councilmember Theodorus | So in terms of the process, you're recommending going through the Finance Committee, but then ultimately it'll come back to this council during the budget process. Okay, sure will. |
| 02:15:21.82 | John Rubacher | Thank you. |
| 02:15:21.92 | Linda Pfeiffer | to the community. |
| 02:15:26.41 | Linda Pfeiffer | So just to follow up on that, it's my understanding that part-time police officers also have to incur a lot of training. I guess the same amount, is it the same amount of training that a regular police officer, you know, would go on or what have you? And I'm just wondering, I remember the original post-presentation when the consultant first came and really made a strong case for having a full-time police officer. is maybe even two, frankly. It is true. presentation when the consultant first came and really made a strong case for having a full-time police officer. It is true. Maybe even two, frankly. It is true. Is that something you're going to look at? |
| 02:15:53.80 | John Rubacher | and maybe even two, frankly. It is true. It is true that a part-time officer, like let's say Officer McAfee, who works a maximum of 960 hours a year, is still required to have the same amount of what we call perishable skills training that any other working police officer has. |
| 02:16:13.66 | Mayor Hoffman | Any other questions? Any questions from the public? On this issue. Any comments? |
| 02:16:23.85 | Mayor Hoffman | Yes. |
| 02:16:24.88 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:16:38.36 | Charles Sakai | Thank you for your presentation, Chief of Police and City Council. Last week when I talked about the Torah portion and what the Torah requires for Judges, I said that they must hate money. And that was not exactly the right translation. It was hate monetary gain. Little difference, it's a very important distinction though. |
| 02:17:09.95 | Charles Sakai | I've had dealings with the Sausalito Police Department I think I owe Many, hundreds or perhaps even thousands of dollars in tickets. to them right now. I live on the anchorage right now. My kayak is in Dunphy Park. My boat is off of Dunphy Park. The registration has expired. As Peter might have explained, I haven't used money in a while. I'm looking to negotiate now, and there are some people in the city that are negotiating with us, and I'm very thankful for that. I understand that in the system that we have, that the people who are trying to make peace out there are, have rent and they've got food costs and transportation costs. like everybody else. Every time that they arrest somebody, they get paid overtime. The jails right now. are in America, are a disgrace. We have so many people now in prison who do not need to be prisoned. There was a man named Jesus who came here to free the captives. That's part of Jubilee. Every seven years, we have the Shemitah year, and that means all the captives are set free. Right now, we are nowhere near that, and instead, we're asking for more police to do perhaps the same thing. I understand this is the system that we're working with, and I want to work with it too. THE FAMILY. |
| 02:18:45.23 | Charles Sakai | To Haftor for this week, is about Solomon building the temple after he after he's warned and David is warned that Israel is not to have kings, that we have one king, the king is up there, that all the little kings and all the people on earth that are making decisions for others are not mandated by God. Well, the Israelis say, we understand, but we want a king like everybody else. God has to bend over backwards. |
| 02:19:17.05 | Linda Pfeiffer | Bye. THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 02:19:18.03 | Charles Sakai | God bends over backwards for the people. He says, okay. You get a king. There are only two kings that have a United Kingdom. One is David, the other is Solomon. The Haftor for this week, Solomon is asking for... tens of thousands of slaves to work to build a giant temple in Jerusalem because we couldn't handle 45 by 15 foot tent that cost almost nothing and everything in it was given freely. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 02:19:57.27 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. Any other public comment? you Nope. I see none. Council discussion. |
| 02:20:08.88 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:20:10.33 | Linda Pfeiffer | I'll say something very quickly. I want to thank Chief Rohrabacher for the presentation. I support the post-study. I was very keen on getting the presentation on it when it first came out. I support looking at hiring full-time police officers. And I think that after I recall the full post-p you know, when we first got in, it just makes it such a compelling case for that. When you also look at the amount of training that part time officers bringing two more on board, I think I'd like to see that. that weighed a bit, you know. I also want to, just on a related topic regarding patrols and beats, to thank Officer Ritz for apprehending the anchor out that was wanted by the FBI. We received a community alert on that and just really excellent work on that. And, you know, I just can't thank our police department enough for all the work you do you are out there on the streets and the council supports you and the people support you and Just let us know the best way forward and the resources that you need to get the job done Thank you. Any other? Yeah, go ahead. |
| 02:21:33.29 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:21:33.86 | Councilmember Weiner | Um, Thank you. you Chief, thank you very much. For those who don't know, Chief Robacher this morning gave a presentation to the Chamber of Commerce BizX group, introducing himself as the new chief, and I think that went very well. That was an excellent, excellent presentation, so thank you for that as it was tonight. We have a lot of work coming up in the budget process because for this next two-year budget cycle we need to be looking at now we've got revenue streams in place for all and methods and and know our capital improvement program for the next number of years I think it's really important for us to now loop back and ask the question, what are the appropriate levels of service in each of our departments? What's the balance between them? The chief made the point this morning that the police department constitutes a significant proportion of the general fund budget. And so if we are to increase resources there, they're coming from somewhere else. And so the community needs to make a decision about that. And I think the most important thing that the Finance Committee has got to do during the budget process is to make sure that all those tradeoffs are fully understood so that the community can make the decision. But I would echo Council Member Pfeiffer's point that I think there's complete unanimous support up here for our police department who do a fantastic job. So thank you very much again. |
| 02:23:21.52 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:23:21.56 | Unknown | Thank you. That's right. |
| 02:23:22.92 | Councilmember Theodorus | Thanks for the presentation and in your service. And we're very happy with both you and the department. And on this matter, I accept the working through the Finance Committee, and I know that you have to have these options open. I certainly you focused on the part-time person. I agree with you. If we can clone Mac, it would be a perfect solution. And I mean, it's important in a lot of ways, but we also have seasonal demands, and we also have different types of demands, including, you know, traffic, bicycle, and all those other things. I think it's a great thing. We certainly, you have to factor in the possibility of the additional cost of any other training, but we save it on the part-time and the flexibility. So we look forward to what you come up with, and I think you're on the right track, so thank you so much. |
| 02:24:11.59 | Unknown | Thank you. No. |
| 02:24:12.03 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. I have nothing to add other than what's already been said. I agree 100% support for the police. I love, you know, I love the part-time part of it. So if we can continue on that and the cost savings is fantastic. Yeah. |
| 02:24:23.25 | Linda Pfeiffer | I want to just jump in and say one thing. Regarding the seasonal demands, I know that the ambassador, I mean, the bike parking funds have financed, you know, an enforcement officer. I know that, you know, when I'm looking at the needs for patrolling the hills, you know, and the crime spree that we had up there, that's a new beat, you know, if you carve it out, I guess the way that Post initially was looking at it with new eyes, that, you know, you pull all the things together, and I can see the need for that. In terms of prioritization and budget, yeah, it does come down to prioritization with finances. You know, I went ahead and voted on the what the circulation you know chapter for the for the general plan but you know on reflection here looking at all these low scores for PSI and roads looking at the sewer challenges and looking at the police resource challenges I think these are a much higher priority and I look forward to looking at that a little bit more closely when finance, the budgeting process comes. |
| 02:25:35.95 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. Any other discussions? Thank you, Chief. |
| 02:25:40.28 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:25:44.30 | Mayor Hoffman | All right, 935. Okay, on to section seven. We're a little behind schedule, Adam. Thank you, Chief. all right Adam we are up to 7a city manager information for council |
| 02:26:03.05 | Adam Politzer | All right, so I'm taking the. the cue that you don't want me to go through, even though it's well before 10 o'clock, a rarity, and I normally skip my report or go to the highlights. Let me just go through a quick set of highlights, a couple of reminders here. Obviously, today was a big day for Sausalito with the groundbreaking ceremony that we had at Robin Sweeney. a very well attended event, and very important day to start the construction of our Robin Sweeney playground so that the fences are up the work is started and now we'll move that project forward the Park and Rec Commission as directed by the council held two public forums workshops and then held a third meeting last night of a special meeting of the Park and Rec Commission to take the information that they received it to public workshops, And then they will be bringing back their comments and recommendations to the council as soon as we can schedule them. We originally had them scheduled for February 23rd, but I think it's important that all five council members are here when we hold that item. So we'll work with the agenda setting committee to get that scheduled so that all five council members can receive their report and recommendation. And ultimately what we are recommending the council take action is based on whatever direction you would like to provide, eventually direct it to go to the planning commission. So to get the Friends of Dunphy Park working with full-time architects and consultants, to actually get to working drawings and get those drawings over to the Planning Commission for public review and hearing. and then obviously move that project to approval. through that process and then out to bid and then back to council. So that is the path that we have shared with the public and the path that will come back to the council and the council will take action when that's next before you. We had some fun things in addition to the groundbreaking ceremony. We had the Super Bowl clam chowder event last Thursday. Mike Langford, the director of Park and Rec, shared with me that they had over 100 participants that went from restaurant to restaurant tasting clam chowder. And they had 90% of the participants actually vote, which is pretty significant. that people actually taste it and then chose to vote. Thank you. They are tallying the votes, and we will put that information out in the currents on who the winner was. The nice thing about the event is many of the chamber participants asked if we're going to do it again next year because they really liked it, and they were recommending that we actually move it to a weekend. We were worried about the event. Obviously, the Super Bowl was held here in Santa Clara. We were concerned that the amount of people that would participate in that would would cause a problem it didn't cause a problem next year the Super Bowl is in Houston so we can still do the event and not worry about any traffic coming from the city to Sausalito. So we'll continue to evaluate that in the Park and Rec Commission will evaluate that with staff and then we'll look at that in the future But fun event, well attended for a first time event. um we have mccmc in nevado they always put out a special request to each of you to attend it's on the 24th um because it's in the farthest part of the county and in the middle of traffic on a beautiful Wednesday night at 6 o'clock. would they know how much of it is a challenge for people here down in Southern Marin and Central Marin to make it. So please do try to make it. We ask them to come to our event when we host it here in Sausalito. So it's nice to to to attend there's one note. If you didn't see it in the invitation that came out from MCC MC, they are actually holding a pre meeting at five o'clock and they're asking for all council members to attend that pre meeting. It's an opportunity to provide feedback to the ABAG MTC merger study. So there will be staff there from ABAG and MTC and the consultants that are working for them, and they would like to get the Marin County Council and Mayor's group's feedback. So the meeting will be held at the historic City Hall in Novato, and the pre-meeting starts at 5, and the normal regular meeting for the rest of the business of MCCCMC is at 6 o'clock. The council asked at the last meeting when we gave a presentation about the process for the bridge district and moving that discussion forward. They gave us direction on five directives and on two of those directives that we needed further discussion with the district. They were holding two meetings versus one, two meetings of the HLB Planning Commission. The district is supportive of that and open to that, and so they have agreed. And then second was trying to accommodate the request for 3D modeling. And the computer modeling From their perspective, it's something that they are looking into. a 3D model, but it is really just showing their their landing and in that context it does not show all the surrounding buildings the costs according to the district would be in the tens of thousands of dollars in the time to actually do it could also be difficult but they're looking at it we are looking to see if we can use the model that they have and then enhance that with storyboards to blow up visual images and have those available here at either in the library or here in City Hall in connection with the model that they have now so they they've heard our request we had this meeting this morning with the district. I think it was a very positive meeting. The other directives of the council, they were in agreement with each of those. So now we're just at this point looking at the modeling. I will also share that, as I stated to the council, we were having a difficult time finding a Saturday date that worked for the 10 members of HLB and Planning Commission we thought that we had the 26th of March we thought we had a hundred percent participation but then folks looked at their calendar and realized that Saturday the 26th is the day before Easter and that was going to cause some challenges and then the actual date of the 26 is the day of our Easter parade and we have members of HLB and the Planning Commission that would also want to attend that event so we are if Council is open to this we are looking to have both of those meetings now on either a Wednesday night or a Thursday night we think that having it on the night that Planning Commission and or HLB traditionally have their joint meetings would make sense so we're looking at a date in March to hold the first one and a second date that may fall on a Planning Commission or HLB regular scheduled night so that's that's the direction we'd like to go because we would be now looking at April or further out and I think trying to find ten people available on a Saturday is becoming very difficult since we're now through two months February and March we explored every Saturday in February and we're unsuccessful and every Saturday in March and now have also been unsuccessful with a hundred percent attendance so with the council's support we will poll the HLB and Planning Commission members for Wednesdays and Thursday nights again we would hold those meetings in either the I des hall Spinnaker or Bay model it sounds from the council's directive before that that the IDES all would be the preference and so we will look for their availability and report back as soon as we get consensus a few other quick items on here while I am on a roll the mayor mentioned earlier in the evening that she will not be available on the 23rd we are still after discussion with the mayor and and and then we will follow up with the vice mayor as part of the agenda setting committee this all happened this afternoon so we hadn't had time to circle back but we still would like to hold a meeting on the 23rd but to the mayor's benefit it would be an appeal we have several appeals lined up |
| 02:34:57.43 | Unknown | I'm not. |
| 02:35:12.38 | Adam Politzer | And so we would bring an appeal forward for the other four council members to consider that way. And then if there are any other items that we can put on consent and maybe there's other reports that we can bring forward, the agenda setting committee can evaluate that and bring that forward. But as we've experienced in the past, appeals throw off our regular scheduled meetings. They're normally a two-hour discussion. and that's when we're successful. And so we would like to pursue that and then hold our next regular scheduled meeting on March 8th, and we would move the mid-year budget to March 8th. the bicycle and a dumpy park. to March 8th so that's what the mayor and I talked about earlier this afternoon or late this afternoon and we'll circle back with the vice mayor as part of the agenda setting but I wanted to let you know that the 23rd what's on your future agenda that's posted on the website and in your packet here we're looking to move those items to when the mayor is actually available and present so that all five members, because five of them are very important, or all three of those items that I shared are critically important for all five members to weigh in on. Finance Committee will be unveiling the mid-year budget on the next meeting which is next Wednesday at 9 o'clock. Again, I encourage you as you heard Chief Robacher share today. He's meeting with our Administrative Services Director Melanie Purcell tomorrow. She started those meetings already with other department heads. you So the ball is rolling in terms of where are we now in terms of the mid-year budget review. And then where do we expect to be at the end of the fiscal year on June 30th? and then the preliminary discussions on how how we're moving into the next budget cycle I encourage each one of you all five of you on a regular basis to meet with Melanie I know that Many of you on a regular basis met with Charlie. I think it's very, very important I think understanding all of the moving parts and how they all fit together is critical. We have the expertise of Melanie at the helm, but with support of Brian, who you heard from tonight, continuing as an advisor for a little bit of time here to make sure that Melanie gets off on a very strong start as we go into mid-year and then the next two-year budget cycle and then Charlie Francis we've also retained him as an advisor although we're not using him that much but again someone that Melanie is able to call and say I need to understand this account or the historic perspective or what the vision or the intent was from his perspective as we look at the next two-year budget but i can't underscore the importance of each of the five of you to meet with melanie on a regular basis |
| 02:38:00.76 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:38:00.78 | Unknown | the, |
| 02:38:14.14 | Adam Politzer | over this next four months. and then encouraged any member of the public, just as Charlie did for any member of the public, Come meet with him and Melanie will be just as available to the public as Charlie was. And again, if we can answer those questions before we get to Council meetings. then I think we're well ahead of the game. please feel free to contact Melanie directly and schedule a weekly meeting with her if that's what it takes. I'm sure that she would actually appreciate that very much. I will end there. There's a couple other items, but I think that's enough for tonight. I'm happy to answer any questions of the council. |
| 02:38:55.10 | Linda Pfeiffer | I have a couple questions. Thanks, Adam, for that report. I saw a city announcement saying that something with the Robin Sweeney Park would be ready by July 4th. Is that correct? |
| 02:39:11.05 | Adam Politzer | It's more than an announcement. provided that information in the staff report we gave a preliminary schedule. And so that's our target. Obviously, weather will dictate if we're able to beat that schedule or that schedule gets delayed. So at this moment, our approach is to complete the project by July 4. |
| 02:39:37.07 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. And then just a comment that I was not able to attend the groundbreaking for Robin Sweeney Park today at noon because I work. So just wanted, for the record, to let Thank you. that's a good thing. |
| 02:39:51.04 | Mayor Hoffman | folks know. All right, moving on then to any other questions for the city manager? All right, 7B, council member committee reports. I have two reports. One's from the Bridgeway Marina subcommittee. We made a tour of the Bridgeway Marina. We met with the owner and the architect, Michael Rex, and toured the facility in preparation for our negotiations. Tom, you want to add anything? No? |
| 02:40:29.46 | Councilmember Theodorus | that covers no decision with it, is basically a tour and to ask questions to familiarize ourselves physically with the premises and to have Michael Rex and Cameron give us their tour on the ground. |
| 02:40:31.59 | Mayor Hoffman | So, |
| 02:40:35.57 | Mayor Hoffman | to the next episode. |
| 02:40:42.51 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. And my next report is the movie committee, the Blue Ribbon Movie Committee. We also, we did a lot of touring this past week. We toured the theater with the property manager, Bruce Huff, and some of the other committee members. Cinema Art, indeed, cleared everything out. We had hoped that they might donate or leave some equipment so that we could use one of the theaters. It operational they chose not to do that and so we're moving forward I know the property managers moving forward with looking for a tenant the committee members are also reaching out to various local community movie groups and seeing successful groups in Southern, in California, in the Bay area and beyond to see how we might see a way forward for that. So that's, that's the update for the movie committee. Any addition from that? I will say that there is an indication that Cinemark uh, has is negotiating to open a Senate plex in Marin City. And so, um, other communities in Southern Marin who have local movie theaters, um, are. may be addressing that soon with votes of their city councils i know tiburon fair fairfax i believe mill valley are looking at that and and the way forward so we're waiting well we're not waiting we're investigating to see if that is indeed the case and if we need to take some sort of action but that will be a future agenda item if that needs to go on the agenda those are my reports anybody else have reports |
| 02:42:23.07 | Councilmember Weiner | Yes, I just wanted to make a further comment to February 24th MCCMC meeting. I'm the ABAC delegate and unfortunately I will not be in town on that day so I would really urge Linda, you're the alternate, I don't know if you can make it, but if not then at least somebody from this council attend the meeting at five o'clock. This is a very, very important issue. |
| 02:42:56.73 | Linda Pfeiffer | I'm really glad you brought that up because I was going to say something. I'm actually the district staff officer for the US Coast Guard Auxiliary and we meet that so I cannot I cannot be at that meeting so is there someone else who can |
| 02:43:21.42 | Councilmember Theodorus | I'll check my schedule, but I'll take it on and try to find an alternative. That'd be great. Thank you. |
| 02:43:27.31 | Mayor Hoffman | Okay, any other committee reports? Any public comment on committee reports? There will be discussion on the committee reports. |
| 02:43:37.58 | Linda Pfeiffer | I guess my only comment would be with the negotiations on Bridgeway Marina, I'm just I'm nervous about this with respect to the code enforcement, just really egregious from what I've seen going on at that marina. And I just want to encourage the negotiation committee to talk with the liveaboards who have the history, I know they have historic pictures of how many boats were actually in that marina when The property was purchased not long ago. From what I understand, he's crammed in lots of boats and bizarre ways to try and boost up the number artificially, but they're not really that. It's not as large a marina as he's making it out to be. So that's just one one one comment. I just wanted to get out there. |
| 02:44:32.28 | Mayor Hoffman | thank you any other discussion or comments on committee reports nope all right moving on to public any public comment that's okay item seven then we're moving on to item seven did 7D become 7C Anyway, whatever. It's future dint items. Thank you. Future Jenna items, I see we, Future Jenna, some of them are carrying over. So emergency shelters, the homeless shelters, we need to get that. on for any changes that we want to make before is it april 30th lily that we need to get our response to the state. I know we had a deadline in April. |
| 02:45:19.70 | City Clerk | I think it's April 1st, but I can look at it. |
| 02:45:22.26 | Linda Pfeiffer | I THINK IT'S A |
| 02:45:22.87 | City Clerk | Thank you. |
| 02:45:22.97 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 02:45:23.10 | City Clerk | you |
| 02:45:23.61 | Linda Pfeiffer | Can we get an extension? I mean, that doesn't give a lot. I mean, doesn't that require two readings? |
| 02:45:24.30 | City Clerk | Yeah. |
| 02:45:31.02 | Mayor Hoffman | us. |
| 02:45:31.29 | Linda Pfeiffer | Okay, so the working group has been working on this for a year now, and we really need to give the public more time to review this emergency shelter ordinance and the revisions. And so I would recommend we contact HCD to look at an extension and that we also post the future agenda item that we... |
| 02:45:52.20 | Unknown | So... I'm sorry to ask. If you're directing us to bring you a future agenda item to discuss that, we can do that. But directing staff to do anything at HCD is not on your agenda time. |
| 02:46:01.73 | Linda Pfeiffer | Okay. I'm sorry. That's what I meant. That's what I mean. This is what I mean to say is that as a future agenda item, we need to get the emergency homeless shelter on the agenda as soon as possible, like within the next two weeks or a special, even having a special council session in February, you know, so that we can get this moving. |
| 02:46:28.16 | Mayor Hoffman | Okay, thank you. |
| 02:46:29.29 | Linda Pfeiffer | And if it can't be an agenda item, I ask staff to come forward with some other strategies to communicate the topic. |
| 02:46:40.16 | Mayor Hoffman | Okay, thank you. Another agenda item is the retirement of MLK debt. Staff report on that process. Any other future agenda items anybody would like to? |
| 02:46:52.02 | Councilmember Theodorus | Yes, we're due to have the Park Service come and talk to us about any plans on Fort Baker. The plans in Fort Baker regarding the ferry, which we had taken a position on Road Vista Point. So there's a number of things that we need to have them come and give a presentation on. So we should start setting a date for that so we can arrange with them to be here. |
| 02:46:52.78 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:47:03.49 | Unknown | you Okay. |
| 02:47:16.24 | Mayor Hoffman | Thank you. Amen. |
| 02:47:17.25 | Linda Pfeiffer | you Yeah, I would just second the future agenda item for retirement of MLK debt. We need to get that on the agenda as soon as possible, too. But it's a lesser priority over the emergency shelter topic. |
| 02:47:30.09 | Mayor Hoffman | Okay. Thank you. Okay, any public comment on future agenda items? Any further council discussion on future agenda items? Seeing none, any other reports of significance? |
| 02:47:46.25 | Mayor Hoffman | It appears there is none. Any public comment on reports of significance? Since there was no, I would say there's no council discussion then because we had no public comment and we had no questions. All right, we are adjourned. 10 minutes early. How about that? |
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