| Time | Speaker | Text |
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| 00:00:24.97 | Sandra Bushmaker | Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:02:41.22 | Jill Hoffman | Good evening and welcome to the December 13th 2016 City Council meeting Debbie could you please call the roll |
| 00:02:54.22 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Council member Weiner. |
| 00:02:55.36 | Councilmember Weiner | THE FAMILY. |
| 00:02:55.68 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Thank you. |
| 00:02:55.82 | Councilmember Weiner | Thank you. |
| 00:02:55.87 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Council member Theodores? |
| 00:02:55.90 | Councilmember Weiner | Thank you. you |
| 00:02:57.10 | Councilmember Theodores | President. Thank you. |
| 00:02:57.56 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Councilmember Pfeiffer? Here. Vice Mayor Withey? Here. Mayor Hoffman? |
| 00:03:01.86 | Councilmember Theodores | Thank you. |
| 00:03:02.03 | Jill Hoffman | Mayor Withey? here. Could we please have Tricia Smith lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance, please? |
| 00:03:06.40 | Debbie (City Clerk) | I'm not sure. Yeah. |
| 00:03:12.95 | Unknown | . |
| 00:03:13.27 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. . I pray for allegiance. |
| 00:03:18.95 | Tricia Smith | Thank you. to the flag of the United States of America. Thank you. and to the Republic. |
| 00:03:24.44 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:03:24.46 | Ray Withey | Thank you. |
| 00:03:24.61 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:03:24.72 | Tricia Smith | Thank you. |
| 00:03:24.74 | Ray Withey | Thank you. |
| 00:03:24.84 | Tricia Smith | We'll be right back. |
| 00:03:25.03 | Ray Withey | Thank you. |
| 00:03:25.21 | Tricia Smith | Thank you. |
| 00:03:25.26 | Ray Withey | Yeah. |
| 00:03:25.74 | Tricia Smith | you |
| 00:03:26.66 | Ray Withey | you Thank you. you Amen. indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. |
| 00:03:34.21 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. We had no closed session this evening, so there are no closed session announcements. And therefore, we have no public comment on closed session announcements. I have a motion for approval of the agenda. |
| 00:03:48.72 | Councilmember Theodores | So moved. Second. |
| 00:03:50.38 | Jill Hoffman | All in favor? Aye. |
| 00:03:51.08 | Councilmember Theodores | All right. |
| 00:03:54.02 | Jill Hoffman | The first thing on our agenda this evening is special presentations and mayor announcements. We would like to go forward with the award of grants from the Holiday Parking Donation Fund to nonprofit organizations that provide services to the underserved and we're going to have our police Lieutenant Stacey Gregory do that presentation. |
| 00:04:19.01 | Stacey Gregory | Hi. I am excited to be here tonight again to award these grants. representing the city of Sausalito. And, I want to tell you a little bit about, and I know most people are aware that Bridgeway is free parking for The on-street meters are free parking for the month of December. And the neat thing is with our new meters, the actual meter actually says, free parking, please donate to a charity. But we also put up, as you'll see, the red and green signs on the meters just to notify people that, yes, we have provided free parking, but we are asking for donations, and those donations go to nonprofit organizations that help the underserved in our county. THE FAMILY. The Sausalito Police Department does what they can, what we can, to help those underserved people through just our daily outreach, our homeless advocacy program. So, but what our goal really is is to identify those people and figure out what their needs are and then If we can, if it's something like Thank you. telling them where they can get a hot meal. We can do that. But if it's a bigger need, which most of the time it is, we need to direct them to services throughout the county. and, you know, the five organizations that we're going we're gonna see and hear from tonight. are the organizations that do that year round. Tonight we're giving grants in a total of $8,000 to five different organizations. And I'm going to ask each of them to come up and just talk a little bit about their organization. I'm not going to steal their thunder. I'm going to let them do it. But I just want to thank them in advance for all the work they do all year round, behind the scenes, You know, most of us don't know about it. They're doing a lot of work and they're serving a lot of people in this county. So we'll start with Homeward Bound. Mary Kay Sweeney is the executive director And we'll be awarding them $2,000 tonight. |
| 00:06:32.75 | Mary Kay Sweeney | Mayor, council members, staff, thank you so very much for this award. It's really important to us to be recognized in Sausalito because we're all over the place, but you don't really see what we're doing, as Stacy was saying. So we're the largest organization that serves residential needs of homeless people in the community. And we have over 500 beds a night. And pretty soon we'll be opening Oma Village, which we had a grand opening celebration. It's up in Novato. Some of you may have been at that grand opening celebration, but it's for homeless families, 14 units of housing. They're beautiful. I'd love to take you on a tour if you haven't seen it yet. But it's because of these kinds of gifts that you give us that we're able to do the work we do. So we're very, very, very grateful, and we hope you have a very happy holiday. Brought some chocolates for you, too. Thank you. |
| 00:07:22.87 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:07:30.91 | Stacey Gregory | OK, next is the Ritter Center. It's Benjamin Leroy, who is the deputy director. And they will also be receiving $2,000. |
| 00:07:43.22 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 00:07:45.14 | Benjamin Leroy | So thank you guys so much. I really appreciate Lieutenant Gregory and everything the city council does this time of year. I think this holiday donation meter program is a wonderful idea. It's been going on for many, many years, and it's been so successful. For those who don't know, Ritter Center provides a number of social services to low-income and homeless residents of Marin County. Primary medical care, mental health care, substance use treatment, which we're actually providing at two homeward bound facilities at Mill Street and New Beginning Center. So a lot of wonderful partnerships also going on here within the organizations in the county. We're all really trying to work together to collaborate and to be able to do more and more efficiently and more effectively. And donations like this go a long way to helping us all do that. So thank you all so much and happy holidays. |
| 00:08:31.70 | Stacey Gregory | OK, next I'm going to ask Bill Hamm to come up with warm wishes. And I'm just going to say one little word. Thanks to Adam, I went two years ago to help stuff the bags It was so much fun. And so this year I went back and I brought seven of my family members and, um, Yeah, it was fun, but we are going to go early next year, so we actually have control of the table. |
| 00:08:50.53 | Bill Hamm | Thank you, good evening. Really appreciate the city of Sausalito for helping us out here. Stacy, if you would just maybe... Show this around. This is our group from last year. We don't have a blown up one from this year yet, but one day a year we put together hundreds of volunteers and we assemble backpacks that are filled with new gloves, socks, caps, scarves, rain ponchos, and holiday cards. And we have 5,000 little kids all make the holiday cards for us. So these are our backpacks. We also, inside the children's backpacks, are donated books, which are awfully nice, but including the included with the books and their different outfits. We have the Bellina Stinson School District. All the children there make all the 500 scarves for all the children. So that's pretty cool. They keep it in house that way. And this year we had something new. Adam wasn't able to attend this year, but his family's participated for quite a while. Could you briefly say what your family participated in? |
| 00:09:39.42 | Stacey Cray | So that's great. |
| 00:09:51.72 | Bill Hamm | The children. |
| 00:09:52.99 | Adam Politzer | I'm going to go ahead and do that. Thank you. your hotel toiletries so the shampoos, the soaps, and those various things that you can collect at the hotels and we delivered a big giant bag full of those because that's something that we always collect, knowing that others could use them. |
| 00:10:09.96 | Bill Hamm | We had Our Lady of Loretto and Marin Catholic get involved and do toothbrushes, toothpaste. And so this year, really, the actual assembly barely took an hour, and from boxes on the table to being out the door was barely an hour for 40,000 items. That's how enthusiastic everybody is. And this is our 23rd year, so I'm looking forward to the 25th because I think we're going to break the 1 million items handed out on the 25th. Thank you again. |
| 00:10:29.47 | Councilmember Weiner | Thank you. |
| 00:10:29.49 | Ray Withey | is. |
| 00:10:39.26 | Unknown | Thank you again. Thank you. |
| 00:10:49.96 | Stacey Gregory | OK. We'll invite up Paul Mowry from the Sausalito Presbyterian Church. |
| 00:11:01.62 | Paul Mowry | Mayor and council members and Lieutenant Gregory, Chief Rohrabacher, the Sausalito PD, neighbors, thank you so much. We serve a hot lunch every Wednesday at the church. We sometimes hand out whatever clothing donations or other kind of supplies that we've accumulated. Adam has brought us lovely towels from nice hotels. I'm just teasing because I heard the other story. Just a cheap joke, sorry. But, um... But we're really appreciative. We're appreciative also of just every little kindness. Most of the folks that come to our lunch are mariners who live out on the bay, and life is pretty hard, especially at this time of the year. So everything that we have extra that we can pass along, we really appreciate. But like I was saying, what's really great are the kindnesses that just people pass out randomly in just treating everyone they meet, whether they look like they live in a great big house on the hill or they live in a kind of shaky boat on the bay, if we greet each other with care and respect. That just makes everyone's day better and our town so much better. So I'm grateful for everyone for doing that. I also just want to invite people to either come down to enjoy lunch with us someday or to help serve. I know Council Member Theodorus and Tricia Smith and others have just come down and helped us out, and we really appreciate that. It doesn't take very long. So thank you very much, and Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, whatever you're celebrating. In our hearts, we celebrate with you. Thanks. |
| 00:12:52.35 | Stacey Gregory | Okay, last but not least, John and Lars Williamson from the Open Door Ministries. |
| 00:13:08.25 | John Williamson | I can see it. Thank you, Lieutenant Gregory, Mayor, City Council, and guests. Accept this on the behalf of all the volunteers and those that come every Friday night for a hot meal at the open door. Just a little history of Open Door, how we got started and why we got started. It comes from... Where we came from is where we see ourselves going as an organization that started small and still small today, doing huge and mighty things. We started out down at the heliport, back on November 1st, 1971. So we've been through the community quite a few many years. We've seen quite a few people from those anchored out and through the 60s. And we were there for a few years, till they lost the building. Then after a couple years, we found a new one right behind 3030 Bridgeway. WE STAYED THERE FOR A FEW YEARS UNTIL RENT GOT I'll have our hands that we cannot afford. So we had to find some other way of meeting that need was through manning phones until we were able to move into the bottom part of the church on 131 Filbert Street, which is now the Socialist Christian Fellowship. It was the Baptist Church up there. We got it up there in 1989. So we've been doing a hot meal on Friday nights only, compared to every night meeting these people, giving them a hot meal of some sort or just being there for Someone to talk to. Since we've been serving dinners once a week, we're still able to minister to those to come on a regular basis. We also have a clothing closet that Mickey's Allison Coronate, she's the head person. She collects all those items, gets them all ready. as well. And she oversees that project, and she does a great job. I mean, I don't care what anyone says. She's there and does a wonderful job. Thank you. And we'd like to thank everyone. And again, thank you all. |
| 00:15:33.13 | Stacey Gregory | OK, thank you. I just want to say thank you again. And it takes a village to get people through tough times. And I think here in Saucedo, we do a pretty good job of it. So let's invite everybody up to take a photo just really quickly, if we could do that. Not everybody, just... |
| 00:15:50.48 | Unknown | laughter |
| 00:15:51.04 | Stacey Gregory | I'm sorry. LAUGHTER |
| 00:15:53.03 | Linda Pfeiffer | Mm-hmm. . I think we usually jump up to |
| 00:16:00.73 | Tricia Smith | Go to Louisiana. |
| 00:16:49.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:17:15.55 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, moving on to our agenda. We're moving on to number two on our agenda, communications. Public communications, this is the time for city council to hear from citizens regarding matters that are not on the agenda. Except in very limited situations, state law precludes the council from taking action on or engaging in discussions concerning items of business that are not on the agenda. However, the council may refer matters not on the agenda to city staff or direct that the subject be agendized for a future meeting. please make sure you have completed a speaker's card and turn it into the city clerk. I have two speaker cards, one from Russ Irwin and another one from Kevin Kiefer. So Russ? |
| 00:18:02.61 | Jill Hoffman | Mm-hmm. Thank you. And these are for items not on the agenda. |
| 00:18:09.14 | Unknown | You can stop the clock. The first item probably is on the agenda, but I just want to take a moment and thank council members Theodorus and Pfeiffer for their service for the last four years. And I know it's an incredible amount of time, and you've given a lot of it, and I want to thank you. Moving to my other point, Debbie, can you help me? |
| 00:18:44.29 | Unknown | So, you know, my favorite issue in Sausalito is tourism, so I couldn't let the year go by without one more comment. So, uh... I just want to suggest for the incoming council that there's a framework here to consider future tourism issues by, where we look at both the impact of the activity on the residents' quality of life and the financial benefit of the city, because I think those are the two things that we trade off. And obviously one of those is very qualitative, which is why we need a city council, because we can't quantify that. You have to have judgment, and you have to decide and apply your judgment. And then the other one, of course, is a little more easy to work on. So that's all I have to add. Thank you very much, and have a great holiday. |
| 00:19:30.01 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Just so people know, we do have a section later in the agenda for recognizing our council members who are leaving. Anyway, let's move on to matters not on the agenda. Kevin Kifer, my second card that I have. |
| 00:19:45.33 | Kevin Kiefer | Thank you, Mayor Huffman. I don't know if you're going to continue being mayor. I don't know how that works, but I guess we'll find out. And I really appreciate Lieutenant Gregory and the police force for... for all that you really, you know, that you do, I realize that we have a lot of contentious issues that by nature just always seem to be what you get focused on here, but I really appreciate it. Especially I've gotten to know you over a few years, and I appreciate you not locking me up when you could. Discretion, I think you call it. But to the point here, I've commented on an issue before, and I need to comment on it again. And the issue is because it doesn't seem to become agendized in any format. And it's the use of the tidelands revenues. And they're generated from leases of the underwater lands and the tidelands and marinas and all sorts of capital construction. but they're identified as not being able to be used for debt servicing, and it appears that that's the only thing that they get to be used for. Um. which is probably all right, and it's probably all set up with the county and the general fund and everything, but it's not correct, and it needs to be dealt with. And if you're addressing the general plan now and the general fund and those type of issues, this issue should be dealt with because someday it's going to have to be dealt with because the state controller isn't going to allow it to go on forever. Even though boats and waterways or parks department of the state may be contributing to the entire issue, it's still not set up correctly. And there are a lot of things that those funds are to be used for. And eventually they're supposed to trickle back to the State Lands Commission, and we don't see much of that happening either. So... Another issue is the demographic and census surveys and how they pertain to the anchorage. because we have citizens living in the Anchorage, and when the Anchorage was set up as a special area or a special district or redistricted, if there were 12 people living in there that could have voted the 90 days prior to that redistricting, they were the people that were supposed to vote on this. And we don't see that type of a format set up either so there's a lot of issues that I hope will will get into the to the current upcoming general plan I guess |
| 00:22:53.96 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Anybody else for matters not on the agenda? No, seeing them moving on then action minutes from their previous meeting item number three. Do we have a motion to approve the minutes. So moved. |
| 00:23:09.91 | Councilmember Theodores | Second, |
| 00:23:10.60 | Jill Hoffman | All in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Moving on to item four on the agenda, consent calendar. |
| 00:23:11.41 | Councilmember Theodores | Aye. |
| 00:23:17.77 | Jill Hoffman | 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 the council votes on a motion to adopt the consent calendar items, council members, city staff, or members of the public may request that specific items be removed from the consent calendar for separate action. In order to request an item be pulled, you must have completed a speaker's card and turn it into the city clerk. Items will only be removed from the consent calendar by vote of the City Council. Items removed from the consent calendar will be discussed later on the agenda when public comment will be heard on any item that was removed from the consent calendar. I have two cards for public comment. Nope, three. Three cards on the consent calendar. So I have Stacey Cray, Yasmeen, and Melanie Marchand. And if you guys want to line up in that order, that's fine, or however you want to line up. |
| 00:24:24.34 | Jill Hoffman | Just state your name when you start. Great. Thank you. |
| 00:24:28.07 | Melanie Maharshan | Hi everyone, Melanie Maharshan, Sausalito resident. Mayor, council members, staff, neighbors, so many honorable contributors to our community. Thank you. for your service as you are leaving. Welcome to our new council members. Thank you. With regards to the penalties that are on the consent agenda, I think it's Really important that this be pulled from the agenda today. um, One of the issues that we face is that the code behind the penalties is not super clear. It predates the current state of technology and society for about 50 years now. We had a great task force meeting today. There are a number of things we heard that could be changed to help support the penalties and really the way this functions in our city. And I think Sausalitoans deserve strong rules, but rules that we can all understand and live by and that the city and staff can actually enforce and stand by. The task force is making great headway that we're going to be able to and. And I think we're on the verge of something that's very clear, very nuanced. and that penalties can actually work in conjunction with. I think we're pretty much guaranteed anyone that gets hit with a new penalty, they're going to appeal it right away. They're going to appeal it within the context of our arcane code. I don't think that serves the city. the residents or the staff. So I think it would be much better if we pulled this. That's what I'm asking today. And for our new council members that are coming in who have not had the oversight to date. there's a real strong bench of of experience coming in. So I think we would all be really much better served if we re-agendized the penalties so that it could work in context with the new law that we have coming in and so that the council can have real full oversight for everything that... is going to come through in the next several months, thanks to the works of the task force. Thanks, everybody. |
| 00:26:31.29 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:26:31.63 | Melanie Maharshan | Thank you. |
| 00:26:35.77 | Stacey Cray | Hi, Mayor and City Council members and everybody here. I just wanted to also recommend to you to remove or postpone 4B the increase or adding the penalty to the short-term rentals. And the reason is it's not that I... I am opposed to having fees or higher fees. I actually am for that. As we, I think the reason for that, most people both for and against vacation rentals is to really try and eliminate the nuisance properties for so cases that staff has identified that are really nuisance properties. And I think whether you're a host and for short term rentals or against short term rentals, everybody is pretty much in agreement on that we need to do something for the against the nuisance properties. But what I had heard the city council directive was to have the task force have an open community forum where people both pro and against short term rentals could openly voice their opinion so that they could provide solutions to that task force in an open manner. And then the task force would look at the current policy that's in place and decide whether they just want to keep it as is or maybe add stricter fines and enforcement. Maybe address additional things like who can actually rent a property short term. The number of days should be limited. The parking should be limited and all the elements that might consist of a new, maybe perhaps more liberal policy or maybe keeping the policy. But what I think has happened is the initial discussions just got focused on one element of that policy and that's the enforcement. And what that does is if you put this in place, it is really over the past couple weeks silenced half of the constituents that you want to hear from, which are the current hosts or people who are pro the short term rental program. And you want those people involved because they actually want to be part of the solution. They want to have higher fees. They want to, for the people that are the nuisance properties. But a lot of those people are not going to come out and be part of this task force meeting because they feel like if they get up and speak, they're going to be identified and then be hit with a bill that's for thousands of dollars. Again, those people are not necessarily, like myself, against higher fees. They just feel like that discussion should be part of the of dollars. Again, those people are not necessarily like myself against higher fees. They just feel like that discussion should be part of the overall discussion of whether you change any elements of the current policy. So I would hope that you could include the enforcement as part of whatever the total recommendation is you give to city council. Okay, thank you. |
| 00:29:27.16 | Yasmeen | I'm Stacy Cray, this is my first city council meeting, and it's the funniest city council meeting so far that I've ever been to, so thank you for that. I'm also gonna speak on the short term rentals issue, and I'm very new to this issue. I came to the task force meeting today, and I was a little surprised not to see more people there. And having heard the discussion, my concern as a citizen and as a lawyer is that putting these high penalties in place just at the time when you are having a very, very thoughtful and deep discussion about this in another forum sends the wrong message to exactly the people you want to communicate to. The other piece is that even today at the meeting, the task force took in a bunch of information and data about how effective regulations can be and what works and what doesn't work in different cities. And that included data on what might make penalties make more sense. How are the penalties tied to the revenues, et cetera. And it seems like this decision is somewhat arbitrary in terms of how you're setting the penalties. So I would just ask that you allow some public comment, allow the task force to consider it again, and perhaps take a wider slice of opinion on it before it is passed. Thank you. |
| 00:30:39.66 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Any other public comment on any of the consent calendar items? See no one approach? Okay. Is there a motion to approve the consent calendar? Motion to approve. |
| 00:30:55.18 | Ray Withey | Second. |
| 00:30:55.89 | Jill Hoffman | All in favor? Aye. Thank you. Public hearing items, none. |
| 00:30:55.96 | Ray Withey | Bye. Aye. |
| 00:31:04.36 | Jill Hoffman | So rocketing straight ahead to the business items for this evening. Presentation to outgoing mayor, council members leaving office, city manager, Adam Pulitzer. |
| 00:31:26.69 | Unknown | HALF. |
| 00:31:37.81 | Adam Politzer | Thank you, Madam Mayor. Council members and Ladies and gentlemen of the city of Sausalito, welcome. This is one of the few times I come to the podium and address the council, and it's with mixed emotions. We are saying goodbye to two outstanding city council members, and we are welcoming two potentially outstanding city council members. And we wish them luck as they join our team. But it is also really important that I take a moment to thank Councilmember Pfeiffer and Councilmember Theodorus for their service to our community. And also to take a moment to thank Mayor Hoffman for her service as the mayor for the past year. So I have prepared a little summary of some of their outstanding work for the city. And then we have a few little gifts for them for their service. And then at the conclusion of my remarks, we would ask Councilmember Pfeiffer and Councilmember Theodore to say a few words, and then we're going to welcome the public to come up and say a few words in appreciation to our outgoing council members and our mayor if they would like to add some comments about mayors jill's term as mayor so let me start with council member pfeiffer uh, Linda and I met when I was the Park and Recreation Director and she was on the Arts Commission. And then later she was on the Chamber of Commerce. And one of the things I appreciated and liked about working with Linda in the early 2000s was her creativity and enthusiasm. And what has been consistent between then and now is her commitment to our community and serving our community. And when she was with the Chamber of Commerce on their board, she wanted to do a community job fair, a community fair, bringing all the local businesses like the hardware store and a variety of different businesses in town that served our community to Gabelson Park and to both support those local businesses and then also introduce our community to Gabrielson Park and to both support those local businesses and then also introduce our community to these residents serving businesses. So that was one of our first interactions together. But looking backwards, Linda was elected in November of 2008. and was sworn into office on December 2nd of 2008. And since then, she's served on over 200 city council meetings. Some a lot of fun, some a little shaky. Some with nobody in the audience, and some with people packed outside, and even ones that we had to hold over at the iDesk Hall because it was oversubscribed. But Linda was one of the first council members to adopt my back to the basics theme back in 2008 when we said we're going to return to doing the basics. We're going to work on repairing our roads, our facilities, our parks, our infrastructure, improve our customer service. And Linda was very much supportive of that. Back then, it was a little bit controversial. Imagine Sausalito. And that was a lot of long-range planning and looking and dreaming, which is good. But it wasn't what Sausalito needed at the time. And that was something where Linda and I teamed up and said, we've got to get back to the basics, get our roads paved, and work in improving our infrastructure, securing our budget, and moving forward as a team. And I really appreciated Linda's teamwork as we moved forward together. Linda has a long list of accomplishments and a lot of very active role in a lot of these areas going back to the public safety facilities. Again, before she was on the council, she was active with helping move the community forward in replacing and repairing our police and fire facilities. And from the groundbreaking when we're smashing the walls to the ribbon cutting when we're welcoming the community into the new facilities, Linda was actively involved. And we had so many meetings, special meetings of items that came up. We had an oversight committee that we were reporting to the council. And again, Linda was very active in making sure that that project came in on time and under budget. Another major project was the replacement of the bulkhead of the Sasuda Yacht Harbor, and that was a bit controversial, the terms of that agreement, and that was where Linda provided leadership on the council in terms of how we make that deal go forward and something that we're all proud of, a $6 million project, and something that I think gave a lot of relief to the Maddens in terms of knowing that the Yacht Harbor wasn't going to fall into the water, as well as the Spinnaker that obviously creates a lot of revenue for the city. And another one that took a long time that Linda was a part of was the what were we going to do with the Bank of America restroom. We had Robin Sweeney and Doris Bedal and B. Seidler coming in here saying this is a disgrace. And these were folks that worked at the Ice House that were sending our residents and our tourists to the restroom there at the B of A. and thanks to Bill Werner coming forward with an idea after about six or seven failed ideas that went back and forth between the council. the rest room there at the B of A. And thanks to Bill Werner coming forward with an idea after about six or seven failed ideas that went back and forth between the council and the planning commission, we're now very proud of the restroom that's down at the Bank of America facilities down there. The preservation and the restoration that was required on being in Delmar Park to have us comply with ADA That was another area that was very important to Linda, that we preserved the historic nature of it. We had significant reports, one that many of you would have remembered from Heidi Scoble, looking at the historic significance of Fina Del Mar Park. And again, where Linda has been very consistent and persistent is making sure that we protect the integrity of our historic downtown. And that was one of the projects where I think everyone is happy about the outcome of that. It's now ADA accessible and it still maintains its historic integrity. I think one of Linda's major feathers in her cap, and I think that we all recognize this and are all very thankful for her effective leadership and advocacy was to preserve the Butte Street parcel and to put that as open space into perpetuity. I think as a member of the open space Sausalito, that team of residents, again, with Linda and Leon Hunting's leadership and others, this two-plus acres of land is now going to be preserved as open space. And for anyone that missed the presentation that the council received back in July, I welcome you to go online and watch that. It was one of the most interesting and fascinating presentations on the actual presentation environmental components of it, including all of the animals and habitat that live out there and work in this little ecosystem. So it was terrific. But not just her consistency on Butte Street, but it was also on the eelgrass outside of Dunphy Park and between Turney Street and Napa It was also also the galilee harbor marsh which we fenced in and closed in to help preserve the marsh at galilee harbor that goes all the way to schumacher you know her her steadfast support of the friends of dumpy park with their work on acquiring the parcel at Locust Street and then working with the Audubon Society eventually when we acquire that piece of property to restore the wetlands there. Linda was very active on a variety of community projects that had the community's best interests in hand in the housing element, which was a three-plus-year effort, construction time limits, historic regulations and guidelines, or just to name a few. Linda served on a variety of committees, both for the city and the community and regional. And just to name a few, the Arts Commission, Omit, the Bute Street Task Force. She served with Vice Mayor Withee for the Marin County Council and Mayor's ABAC committee, the Police Department Citizens Academy, Disaster Preparedness. I mentioned the housing element earlier. And then the liaisons to the Sustainability Commission. doing this, also holding down a full-time job. So we really appreciate her time and commitment to our community. Linda is an active supporter of the Sister Cities and one of the things I was very impressed of is when our delegation from Sakaita came. There wasn't anyone that I was aware of other than our translators that spoke Japanese and Linda spoke Japanese beautifully. And was able to represent Sausalito and our council at our meetings here, our welcoming meetings. And we very much appreciated that. In addition, more recently, Linda went with a delegation to Portugal, to Qashqai, and represent the city of Sausalito there. So, again, appreciate her serving in that capacity. And from all the stories that I heard, they had a really fun and engaging trip. |
| 00:41:28.55 | Adam Politzer | The last is something that people probably are not aware of, and they're the simple things, and they're really the act of kindness. And they're the things that I talk to our department heads and our entire employee team about the acts of kindness. And I will say without any hesitation that the first person in the nine years that I've served as the city manager to reach out to employees when someone loses a loved one or has fallen sick has always been Linda. Linda always sends a personal email or a personal note or flowers. and our Police Department specifically wanted me to mention, and so I wrote down what they sent over to me, that the police department wanted me to share that Linda was the first to say thank you or otherwise acknowledge the good work done by their members of the police department. She also sent consolidation notes when a member of the law enforcement was injured or killed, here or afar, and were killed in the line of of duty and Linda also sent flowers and cards to the PD especially recently when the police departments across the nation were being attacked by their behavior and I think that she has always been proud of our police department proud of our employees and has kept the priorities straight that when someone is down or hurt or injured or lost someone she's always the first to reach out to us and thank us and priorities straight, that when someone is down or hurt or injured or lost someone, she's always the first to reach out to us and thank us, and I greatly appreciate that. And lastly... Linda always reminds me and others that family comes first and to keep my priorities on my family. And I've had some illnesses with my family members, and she has sent me home on the occasion. She sent me away from council meetings on the occasion, and I really appreciate that. So, Linda, thank you very, very much for your service to our community. |
| 00:43:40.95 | Adam Politzer | And on behalf of the city, we have a nice plaque for you, Linda, and it says, with appreciation to Linda Pfeiffer for your dedicated service to the community while serving on the South Dakota City Council on December 2, 2008 to December 13, 2016. |
| 00:44:12.63 | Adam Politzer | Okay, I'm gonna go on to Tom and Jill and then we'll ask that they give some comments and then let the public come up here and really give them their well wishes and thanks. So Councilmember Tom Theodores. Tom was elected to the Saucyote City Council in 2012 and sworn into office on... uh, December 11, 2012, Tom's attended over 100 city council meetings in the past four years. And Tom, prior to joining the city council, was on the Historic Landmarks Board for four years. And I don't know if everyone knew that. He was also the chair of the Historic Landmarks Board for two years. And I don't know how he got talked into coming on to the council, but we were sure glad that he was. and Tom has served the council since then with a lot of hard work, great integrity. We appreciate his leadership as we've gone on the past four years during some pretty difficult times, including negotiations with all types of people, including our senator, working on issues that you heard earlier today on short-term vacation rentals, obviously what we're doing with the ferry district. and discussions with the Park Service on a variety of items. But Tom has served on many committees, both local and regional, over the past four years, including the Marin Telecommunications Authority, the Transportation Authority of Marin, the Marin County and Mayor's Legislative Committee, the Marin County Mayor's and Homeless Committee, Marin County Council of Mayors Homelessness Subcommittee, the Fort Baker Task Force. He's been the liaison to the Library Board of Trustees, the liaison to the Pedestrian and Bicycle Committee, and he served on the Finance Committee and finally the Marinship Specific Plan Steering Committee. Tom has been a strong advocate for Sausalito Village and Sausalito Age Friendly. Strong advocate for Sausalito Plus, Sausalito Beautiful. and also very active in our Sister Cities program. Tom is an effective consensus builder, and as mayor in 2015, that was something important to him. He wasn't one to rush decisions at the council meetings. If we needed more time, he allotted for more time so that council members can work with staff. Staff could create additional staff report information so that the public can be brought along, and that was one of the strong traits that Tom brought to the council. Same with the appointments of boards and commissions. Tom changed the practice where we would interview people, and then the same night we would appoint them. He thought that it was important that we gave it some thought before we made the appointments. And also for the people that had just interviewed, they were sitting in the audience because the appointments were normally done at 11 o'clock, 1130. And so to sit there all night to either hear that they weren't appointed or to hear that it was going to be continued was not a great service to the members that had given their time and had wished to serve the city. One of the things that I enjoyed working with Tom is that we had a variety of fun first meetings, and the first meeting was with Ed and Deb Votch when they pitched the idea of Sausalito Plus and the management program down there. And that, from a meeting in January three years ago to where it is today, has evolved significantly. And so I don't think that any of us would remember what was originally proposed, but they were originally proposing a concierge program where people would come and park about 120 bikes, that's what they were proposing. And that they would charge $10 and they would help those people get from Saucelio to San Francisco. And so the Saucelio Plus program has turned into a program that parks 900 bikes a day, several thousand a month, and has become an over $200,000 revenue generator for bike parking down at the ferry landing. So an idea that started with about 120 bikes and the concierge program has turned into what Sausalito Plus has now done with the ambassador program downtown Sausalito. We had some fun with Mirror Woods and discussions with all the various groups that were concerned about the traffic, the parking, the impacts to Mirror Woods. We were both going to attend the meeting in Tam Valley. And I said I was gonna watch it from home and he was going to attend and then I felt guilty. So I got there, saved him a seat, texted him and he was watching the meeting from home. And I was stuck with about 500 very, very angry people. |
| 00:49:08.48 | Unknown | Um... |
| 00:49:09.38 | Adam Politzer | But it was a good meeting and luckily I had no responsibility there other than to listen and take notes. But I think the actions there has moved forward. Tom had a very strong relationship with the people at Fort Baker, from Frank Dean, who was the superintendent, to Howard Leavitt, who was the communications director, and Nancy Horner, who was the planning manager for the Park Service. and so the relationships that he was able to help build for me with the Park Service has served us well and I think our partnership with the Park Service as we've been moving forward was based on a lot of the good work that Tom created as we went forward, including discussions on Vista Trail, including heading away, then building a ferry landing to provide ferry service to Alcatraz. So a variety of really good work that Tom had brought. Tom and Jill working with the Bridge District in negotiating the ferry landing, something that's still ongoing, but I think every time we meet, we are getting closer to something that we think our communities will support, so we ask the community to hold on, trust us, work with us, and continue to pay attention to this issue as it moves forward. I'll Lastly, I'd just like to thank Tom for his sense of humor, his commitment, and really his interest in the details. Tom is one of the council members that meets with staff on a regular basis to really understand the issues and help us develop the staff reports, develop the information that comes to the public, and move that information forward. And with that, what Tom has helped us do is put this information in the revised currents to help the currents actually share the information with the community, and then also helped us move forward with open town hall, which is kind of an early version of next door that the city is able to use to get information out and take the pulse. So Tom, thank you very much for your service to the city. |
| 00:51:23.75 | Adam Politzer | And I have a plaque for Tom. Did you want to give it to Tanya? |
| 00:51:28.97 | Jill Hoffman | I'm not. |
| 00:51:29.32 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 00:51:29.35 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. |
| 00:51:29.37 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 00:51:29.84 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:51:29.95 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 00:51:29.98 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:51:30.87 | Adam Politzer | I'm going to screed it and then I'm going to give it. |
| 00:51:30.92 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. |
| 00:51:32.59 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 00:51:32.63 | Jill Hoffman | Oh, yeah. |
| 00:51:32.97 | Unknown | Yeah, that's fine. |
| 00:51:33.78 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:51:33.81 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:51:34.52 | Jill Hoffman | I'm not. |
| 00:51:36.44 | Adam Politzer | Wait till I get to you two. |
| 00:51:37.55 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:51:38.59 | Adam Politzer | With appreciation to Tom Theodorus for your dedication and service to the community while serving on the South Dakota City Council, December 11, 2012 to December 13, 2016. |
| 00:51:59.49 | Adam Politzer | Okay, I had some fun with this one. |
| 00:52:03.22 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:52:05.38 | Adam Politzer | And I think that Mayor Hoffman had fun being the mayor. And if you ask any of the department heads, they will all tell you that she had fun being the mayor and they had fun working with you. which not all mayors of Sausalito can say. Jill Jill Hoffman was elected in November of 2014, sworn into office on December 9th of 2014, and was appointed by her peers as mayor on December 1st, 2015. Over the past 12 months, Jill has led the city through a variety of successes and challenges, and led us through some very complicated issues, including our discussions with the Golden Gate Bridge District regarding the ferry landing, her strong leadership serving on the Richardson Bay Regional Authority, advocating for coordinated enforcement efforts of marine debris and unattended vessels. You know, we really appreciate a lot of the folks that live on the water and their compliments to both staff and to the mayor for her service on RVRA, but it is a very tricky situation out there. We are negotiating and arguing and debating with five other communities, four other communities, being Belvedere, Mill Valley, Tiburon, and the county, that all have different ideas of what should happen out on the water, let alone the folks that live on the water, let alone the folks that come and visit and use the water for recreational purposes, let alone the impacts that it has here on land in Sausalito. So we really appreciate that. Mayor Hoffman stepping forward and working with Councilmember Weiner to move the Arboree item forward and her efforts with our police department, specifically our police chief, I think are making a difference. And we know it's making a difference out in the water. and we appreciate that. We've had some fun with the ribbon-cutting celebration at Robbins-Winney Park. We're excited that we're moving forward with the Dunphy Park and Southview Park designs, and we hope to bring this forward in the next couple months for the council's approval and then on to the Planning Commission. And that includes also significant improvements at MLK, which the council approved earlier this year in terms of replacing the roofs and the heating and some of the other infrastructures of the facilities there. One of the fun moments that wasn't so fun when the news hit was the Blue Ribbon Committee for the Saving the Movie Theater. and the meetings with the property owner and the Um, and with Bruce Huff, who represented the property owner as the management company, started off a lot of gray, not a lot of details, but the mayor's persistence and the persistence of the members of the Blue Ribbon Committee got the property owner to do the right thing. And they did the right thing, and the council was able to approve the conceptual idea and send it on to the Planning commission and the planning commission approved the design and we are moving forward on saving the theater when they started getting into discussions at the blue ribbon committee on some of the design elements i reminded them that that wasn't their job their job was to save the theater and they did that pat themselves on the back put their hands up in victory and walk away let the planning commission to deal with the design components of it and that all worked out terrific and and i think that was by the leadership of our mayor |
| 00:55:32.83 | Adam Politzer | The other area that was probably eye-opening for Mayor Hoffman was that she took over the mayor when we were reviewing, constructing, and approving the next two-year fiscal budget. And that is over 16 meetings, a meeting with the department, meeting with the public, having council meetings, going line by line on the items, making tough decisions, and then prioritizing services to the community. And it was a great learning experience and something that I think the council and the mayor are proud of that we approved back in July. And we're now moving forward on a variety of aspects of what's in that budget. And so that was the completion of her first full budget preparation. And we thank her for the amount of time and energy that she put behind that. We have some work still to be done. Who's still to do? and you heard tonight the short-term rental task force, want to remind the public that the council gave two directions several months ago, and there are parallel tracks. One was we needed to raise the fines to make sure that the folks that are bad actors out there, creating negative impacts on our community, that we have fines that we can actually impose that will stop that behavior. The other path is what the working group is working on, which is looking at the issue and seeing if there is a path forward to allow some version of short term vacation rentals in Sausalito. That still has not been answered. That discussion is still underway. And I think that the member of the public that said it was surprising not to see a lot of folks at the meeting is something that something that we want to encourage people to attend those meetings. The meetings are posted, they're Brown Act, and they're videoed, so anyone can go back and watch those meetings. But that's something that the mayor has spent a lot of time trying to move forward, working with our community development director, having a blue-ribbon committee that started that effort that held several meetings, workshops at the Bay Model, and the mayor herself has put a lot of time in this. Both her and Council Member Theodorus have met with Senator McGuire on this and has done a good job of making sure that the senator knows that this is something that's important to us in Sausalito and also here in Marin County. As we look towards the future, again, one of the things that was important to Mayor Hoffman was doing a community survey of our community development department. And obviously there are winners and losers in community development as projects are approved. There are folks that don't want the projects approved and other folks that want their projects approved. And so going out and actually hearing from the community and asking over 300 people to take the survey and give us feedback was important. And as much as our community development director was reluctant to do the survey, the mayor helped write the survey and work with Danny. to get the survey out and I think we were actually all very pleased in the results of the survey. Not that there's not room for improvement because then the mayor said let's go ahead and put a working group together to review a working group of stakeholders to review the Public Works Department and the Community Development Department's operations to help make it more efficient and effective as it goes through the process so that committee will do great work coming this year. I'll end with this because I could go on and on here. But one of the things that I appreciated about Jill was her straight talk. She told it to you directly, regardless if you were the Chamber of Commerce standing here. or if you were a community group that was loved by all, if she had an issue with an item in the presentation, she made sure you were aware of it, and she didn't dance around, and she just did it directly. And that was helpful and appreciated by all the staff, I can tell you that. But to a person, every department had appreciated working with you. You brought lightness to the workplace. You made it fun. And for whatever reason, no one said no to you when you asked them to meet with you or to be on your committee, and that is a real skill. So, Jill, thank you for all you did this past year as our mayor. |
| 01:00:04.21 | Adam Politzer | And we have a little plaque for Mayor Jill James Hoffman for your dedicated service as mayor, December 1, 2015 to December 13, 2016. |
| 01:00:36.74 | Unknown | We, as you all know, the photos of the council members are on the wall and one of the hard things that we do is kick them down. So we would want them to be |
| 01:01:18.98 | Adam Politzer | That concludes my remarks, thank you. |
| 01:01:27.98 | Jill Hoffman | And so now according to my full page, my full page go by that we're going to go by tonight. So now we're going to take public comment. And then we'll have comments from our fellow council members. And then I get the final word and then we'll do the changeover. So we're going to have public comment now. Yes, you may approach the podium in an orderly fashion. If you would like to make public comment on The changing of the guard, basically. |
| 01:01:59.33 | Sandra Bushmaker | Thank you, Madam Mayor. I personally have sat at that dais and understand what you go through, and it has been a privilege to know you and to work with you. Your killer smile has worked. It's been great with staff. It's been terrific with the community. And we just, I think, really appreciate the efforts that you put in and the great service that you put in as mayor. And Linda? god I've learned so much over the past few years because of open space Sausalito and how deeply your can your convictions are about this community and how you think through things so so well so it has been an honor and I really have enjoyed learning from you and Tom, we got to work together on a few things, Marinship Specific Plan Steering Committee, and again, I learned from you. It is a privilege to work with you. Gonna miss you, and really hope that you'll stay involved in the community too. And I appreciate the service that we're going to have from our two new council members. Little do they know what they're getting into. Thank you. |
| 01:03:30.57 | Kate Storr | Hi, I'm Kate Storr and I just also want to express my true appreciation for the time and service that you all have put in, but particularly Tom and Linda. We really appreciate that you take the time to hear viewpoints from the community. And that you're thoughtful in your responses. And Linda, in particular, I want to thank you for your transparency, your openness, your dedication to good government. It's not easy to be the dissenting opinion when you're sticking to the rules. And everyone knows that you've done that a number of times and it's made us a better, stronger government for it. I want to thank you for that. And to the incoming folks, when you have an issue with government, sometimes you're kind of scared to call. But our city council members, particularly Linda, returned the call. And as a result, we were able to get a task force going and a lot of people were engaged in government. So thank you for that and I welcome the new city council members and look forward to working with you. Thank you. |
| 01:04:34.01 | Ulla Davis | Hi, I'm Ulla Davis. I have been a social leader resident for about 25 years. And I would like to express my appreciation for all of your work, current and incoming. But I'm going to single out Linda. I think she has been incredible over the last eight years, the time. And energy and commitment she put into it has, in my opinion, been non-paralleled by anything I have encountered. And the transparency, I can only say what the lady just said. Her efforts to make any kind of decisions and opinions are working in South Solito to make it as transparent as she could. Really deserves our thanks because we are a better community for it. Thank you, Linda. |
| 01:05:33.91 | John Farrell | I'm John Farrell. Most of the people in this room probably remember Henry Kissinger and his shuttle diplomacy. He seemed to be everywhere. He was in the Middle East, he was in the Far East, he was in Washington. And some wag said, ah, well, I've discovered the secret. He's cloned himself, and there's two of them. I suspect that Linda has done the same thing. In my 40 years, over 40 years in this town, I have never seen a more hardworking, dedicated city council person than Linda Pfeiffer. It's astonishing what you've done, Linda, and how you've done it. In light of keeping family and friends, maintaining a house, living the challenges of day to day living, keeping a full time job, and doing the incredible job you've done for us in this city is amazing. Thank you so much. You are terrific. Thank you, thank you. |
| 01:06:37.31 | Unknown | Hello, Mayor and Council Members. I just want to say thank you to Jill Hoffman, who has done an incredible job in the past year. But I really do want to speak directly to Linda. Linda has this way of being a junkyard dog. And that's in the most wonderful sense, in that you, Don't just take something at the surface. It's like, just because somebody says something, it doesn't mean that. that it's true. And you always dig deep. And then we get to the, we really do get to what the hell is going on. And I can. go on ad nauseum about some of the issues That we have faced in the last couple of years. So thank you very much and to the new council members. I hope that there is a bulldog or junkyard dog amongst you because we really need that in Sausalito. So many of the things that we end up Talking about, we only talk about on the surface, and then we get into deep trouble. when we actually try to go forward with stuff and tom thank you very much for your generous time and your work on the uh ferry landing and uh Good luck. I know you'll have a lot of extra time, so. |
| 01:08:10.09 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:08:15.12 | Rob Hoffman | Rob Hoffman, no relation to Jill Hoffman. I'd like to thank Linda and Tom for their long, hard work and dutiful service for the city of Sausalito. And I would like to wish well the new city council members who are filling very big shoes. |
| 01:08:43.74 | Unknown | Well, I'll first talk about Linda, but I'm going to talk about all of you a little bit. Adam, I think, did a very good job hitting the highlights of a lot of your accomplishments, Linda. But as a resident, Thank you for eight years. of essentially obliterating clandestine government. Your efforts, your efforts to dig into the details and provide many of your email followers with your findings and opinions of the upside and downside of issues has helped remind me to understand As a resident, you simply can't sit back and hope for the best outcome without letting your elected officials know what's going on, what your opinion is of the issues. I've been a resident since 75, And I've been... I've never seen such proactive communication as you've done. Although I don't necessarily agree with all your final positions, your alerts of upcoming agenda items all about issues that could concern our community are what matters most. Your emails, by the way, have also ignited a city hall to improve the Sausalito Currents e-bulletin. That has improved dramatically since you've been in office. Although you were never elected the council's mayor, I can assure you, you were many residents mayors for all eight years. |
| 01:10:24.67 | Unknown | The efforts you put into city service will be remembered for many years to come. I wish you the best in your upcoming years of well-earned time off. For Tom? I want to thank you, Tom, for reaching out. to me regarding your thoughts on the ferry, ferry landing, we worked together on the, little group that was put together to review that. Even though we don't agree on all the issues, I was pleased that you made the effort to understand somebody else's opinion on it and listen and put that into your thought process. I noticed that you also did this with other residents who came up and spoke at city council meetings. I think that's a very important attribute of any elected official, and I was pleased to see you demonstrate it. Best of luck to you with your future endeavors. For Jill, congratulations on a successful year of mayor. I was especially appreciative of the leadership you demonstrated on the ferry landing project. I congratulate you and actually all people at City Hall for taking a hard stand on this terminal and hiring outside consultants to look at what the Golden Gate Bridge is trying to sell by us. These findings of the consultants are quite similar to my own and a lot of other residents. And I'm hopeful that we'll wind up with a lot smaller project and one that's a lot less sophisticated. It's just overdone at this point. I'm not going to get into the details. You're probably sick of me ranting and raving about the ferry. Ray, congratulations to you for a second term, and thank you for your service for the first. I admire anybody who's willing to go back to back with another four years. Herb, if I'm not mistaken, this is your 10-year anniversary on the council. Yeah. |
| 01:12:31.06 | Councilmember Weiner | Believe it or not, it is. Yeah. Thank you. |
| 01:12:32.47 | Unknown | Yeah. Thank you. And I wanted to congratulate you on that. And also thank you for the numerous amount of outside activities you do, but beyond the council. I mean, you're everywhere. I think it's John Farrell, I think you've got a clone too. In any case, lastly, this is a little bit off agenda. I wanted to welcome the two new council members, Joan Cox and Joe Burns. I don't know Joe that well, but I know that Joan Cox did an outstanding job during her tenure on the Planning Commission. And I think the city of San Francisco is really fortunate to have somebody with that background coming into a city council job. not to mention that she's a municipal lawyer. I'm sure that her experience will go a long way towards helping us Through a lot of difficult issues we're going to probably see in the next few years. Happy holidays. |
| 01:13:37.20 | John DeRay | Hi, I'm John DeRay. I'm here today to thank Linda Pfeiffer for her service to Sausalito. She served to guard the interest of our community for the eight years that she's been on the council. We have something really special here in Sausalito. We residents feel really fortunate that this is the case. It's been my experience that the state of California and even regional authorities like the bridge district have little interest in how we feel about our local community. If Sauslio offers a better quality of life than other communities, Rather than raise the quality of life in less fortunate communities, these authorities often seek to diminish our quality of life. We expect members of the City Council to recognize these mandates are often not a positive for our community. and work to preserve what we have here. No one was better at this than Linda Pfeiffer. She never forgot that this city is controlled by the residents and the city council is just elected to represent our interests. Whether we're talking about our sales tax or real estate tax, it is for the most part our dollars that the city council is spending. And Linda never forgot that. So when she questioned the budget or a certain contract or particular use of funds, she did it on our behalf. gone unquestioned, it's human nature to, shall we say, push the envelope. And you don't need to look any further than local, county, and state unfunded pension liabilities to see an example of what happens when interests of residents go unrepresentative. So Linda had the courage to question what no one else would question. and often doing so in a less friendly environment. So I thank Linda for shining the light of disclosure on the dark corners of what potentially could occur in this building without someone like her providing the oversight. Thank you. |
| 01:15:46.76 | Joan | Hi, I also wanted to thank Tom and Jill for their leadership in the last several years. Tom, I've always appreciated your willingness to interface with the Planning Commission and the great respect and often deference that you and Ray and the other council members accord to planning decision reasoning and decision making. And Jill, I greatly appreciate your calm, competent leadership and your commitment to hearing from all, even in challenging situations. But I especially want to thank Linda Pfeiffer. So I met Linda in 2008 when I was a fledgling planning commissioner and she was a fledgling city council member and she has been constantly inspired me with her volunteer work ethic and always doing her homework. She is always prepared and she delves deep into every issue. She is inspirational to me in her commitment to transparency and to resident involvement in all key decision making by the city. She has, as was mentioned earlier, fostered this wonderful newsletter that has become the example for all others. And one of them She has, as was mentioned earlier, fostered this wonderful newsletter that has become the example for all others. And one of the most frequent questions I heard on the campaign trail was, who's going to do the newsletter after Linda steps down? Linda, I personally am aware of her huge legacy, and Adam did a great job of covering it, in formulating a low impact housing element with no high density development in any neighborhood in Sausalito. |
| 01:17:29.55 | Joan | Her work to preserve open space on Butte Street, her innovative strategies to reduce Sausalito's crippling pension debt. She is tireless in her devotion to Sausalito and its residents and she has left a legacy that will truly be a hard act to follow. Thank you. |
| 01:17:59.08 | Jacob | Hello, Miss Mayer, hello, Linda. and council members, city workers and citizens I've been doing this for a little while. I was over at My shul called Shafar. trying to snore a trip to Israel, Herbie. But that's not come through yet, so I'm here representing First, of course, myself. And... And the Torah. And the section, the Parsha for this week, is about a person who was kind of close to me. named Jacob, that's my name, and it says, And Jacob sent angels ahead of him to his brother Esau to the land of Seir and the field of Edom. Vayishlach means sent in Hebrew. And I hope that in the same way that Jacob was able to do that to his brother Esau, despite all of their history, that I did that and God is helping me. to you folks to listen to the social justice issues in Sausalito. which are of course first, the Anchorage. THAT'S WHAT I'M GOING TO SAY. HOUSELESS PEOPLE. in San Francisco and in San Francisco Bay are the number one political issue in this town. That as the rents go up and the prices of the houses go up, there are more and more people on the street. Certainly not fewer and fewer. though I haven't done a count lately. Esau and Jacob struggle in the womb. Esau is technically the older, and Yaakov, Jacob, is the younger. He grabs onto his heel. In Hebrew, grabbing onto heel also is a level of deceit, that Rebecca helps Jacob steal the birthright from Esau. And Esau wants to kill him. Jacob now is trying to make peace with Esau. Jacob became very frightened and was distressed, so he divided the people who were with him and the flocks and the cattle and the camels into two camps. And he said, if Esau comes to one camp and strikes it down, the remaining camp will escape. |
| 01:20:19.82 | Jacob | Jacob LATER ON IN THIS PORTION BECOMES ISRAEL. First he wrestles with an angel, maybe it's Esau's angel, as he's about to meet Esau, who he is afraid will kill him. So we learn from this that first there is a prayer when we meet. somebody who doesn't seem to always be on the side. I've only come here to talk about boats, bicycles and flowering buds. Community gardens, freedom for the Anchorage, and the ability to ride my bicycle in town. It doesn't seem like I've made any progress. in any of these things. Yet. SO IT SAYS FIRST JACOB PRAYS, to To make peace with Esau. And Esau later on becomes all of the empires. He becomes Assyria. He becomes Babylon, Greece, and Rome that interact together. ISRAEL. Then he brings gifts. So I brought you, this is red beans and rice for you, Linda. You can go to Starbucks and get some free hot water and fill it up and have yourself a meal, 50 cent style. THE THIRD PART IS, JACOB IS with Esau. that out of all of the people who come against Israel, Esau is the technical brother of Israel. And we are told not to fight him, but to compass his borders, never to join him in his unwise actions, but to stand for something that's a little deeper than the empire. Because Esau, of course, is given the blessing the last blessing from Yitzchak, his father, and it says he shall live and die by the sword. So I appreciate that we have a civic center here, we have a library, and we have an ability to talk. I'd also appreciate that the social justice comes flowing like a mighty stream. Let it happen this very year. Thank you. |
| 01:22:31.54 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Do we have any other? |
| 01:22:38.18 | Lauren Gonzalez | Hello, I'm Lauren Gonzalez and I'm a native of Sausalito. I've grown up here, lived here my whole life. I'd like to thank you all, all of you, for your service to Sausalito. I've been a student in this room. And I knew Mayor Everett Heinerman, I knew Mayor Sally Stanford, Robin Sweeney, many city council members, and I have to say, you know, I've watched you all in these last number of years and I've appreciated every ounce of effort you put into every little bit of comment that you put into every little subject, no matter how small, And you sat and listened to people like the former person who just spoke. And that's really, really positive that you do that. And thank you for that. Linda. I've known you for a long time. We've been on the same page. We've been on an opposite page. But I love your energy. I love your passion. And I hope that From here on out, whoever decides to be on the city council, and like I just said, I've known many people 30 years before you. to now. I just hope that people really, really understand and appreciate your energy and your powerful way of doing things. You just would not let people say what they had to say and sit down and not question that. I love that about you, and I so appreciate that. Thank you so much to all of you for putting all this time in for the city of Sausalito. I thank you. I can't do that. Thank you for doing that. |
| 01:24:40.60 | Mary Kay Sweeney | Thank you. |
| 01:24:42.12 | Lauren Gonzalez | Bye. |
| 01:24:46.27 | Unknown | you Linda I think that in the book profiles encourage there should be an Addendum put in there with you Speaking for those who are outside of South Salido your courage and Energy. An example. In standing up to A-Bag. THE END OF THE END OF THE It was. rallied many, many people outside of this COMMUNITY. to stand up. Also, because we don't stand up to these authorities. Alone. And this was something that was very helpful. For the whole of this county. to deal with the intrusions. into our into what is our sovereignty I also particularly as a person who loves the way South Salado I came here in 69 first I remember the beautiful little village it was really like then before. the invasion of the bicycle monsters. Um... when we actually had a kind of Italianesque, so Italianesque that even the head of the Bank of America set up his villa to honor this town. That you had the. energy. and courage to stand up to the monolith of the Golden Gate Bridge. District. and stop them from wrecking this town. This is your great accomplishment. And I must say that all of us who love the history of this county are forever going to be in your debt. Thank you. |
| 01:26:45.38 | Sonya Hanson | OK, this is a big night, changing of the guard. First of all, I'd like to say thank you very much to Joan and to Joe for coming up here and doing things that are participating when sometimes it's fun, a lot of times it's clearly not so fun. So thank you. Pardon me? Thank you. Oh, my name is Sonya Hanson. Sorry. Then I'd like to thank Tom and Linda very much for the years you've both put in on this council. That's, it's a thankless job much of the time. It's much appreciated by all of us that sit out here and say, city council, no way. So thank God. There are people like you that are willing to do this and put your time and invest your energy in taking care of this town. Ray, thank you for coming back again. Another four years, bold man. Check with Herb, who's in the 10th year. It's like, oh, my God. And Jill, thank you very much for the year of being mayor and doing what you've done for all of us. Linda, I come back to you because you probably are the best example of someone who very often has had the thankless task. And we all clearly appreciate that. And I wish both you and Tom well, and whatever you do next, And here we go. |
| 01:28:39.89 | Ulla Davis | . |
| 01:28:46.79 | Carolyn Ford | Thank you. Thank you. You may need to build another room. Good evening, Madam Mayor and Council Members. I'm Carolyn Ford. And I've been a little removed from politics recently. But I would like to say thank you to Jill for your sterling leadership, which is what I hear about you, and I would expect nothing less from a fellow naval officer. And to Tom for your service. I know what it takes to serve on the council, and it's very time-consuming and can be very grueling at times. So I wish you both the best in your new pursuits. Linda, I'm gonna get to you later, but first I'm going to thank Joe and Joan for running for council and congratulate you both. Joan to run four years ago, and at the time she told me, no, Carolyn, I'm not ready, but no, I wouldn't let up, and so she finally ran, and now she was perfectly right. This is her time, and we're so fortunate. So Linda Pfeiffer, councilman. Linda Pfeiffer, councilman. I've prepared a few notes, so I don't want to waste everyone's time, but I have to say it is four and a half minutes, so please bear with me. I think we've been a little lax on the time tonight, so go ahead. Okay, thank you. We are here tonight to thank you for an outstanding eight years of service to our community. You ran for council as a preservationist at a time when a mega marina and other development plans were being championed by our then city council. Your campaign promise was to stop the over development of Sausalito. And not once did you waver from this commitment. Many people are not aware of the battles you fought to keep those promises. Having served with you for three years, I will cover a few. Not to worry, it's all in the public record. In those days, the city council was constantly throwing up roadblocks to keep you from being heard and involved. as your view differed from theirs. Your determination, energy, and strength of character, however, propelled you over and around these obstacles. Remember our surprise at the city council meeting when the then mayor announced that you were being removed from the housing committee. What? Did this squelch your housing ideas and recommendations? No. Not at all. In fact, if anything, it made you more determined. You designed the housing plan and made a trip to Sacramento to get approval of your ideas. Regarding Sausalito's pension debt, do you remember that despite the council's, city management's best efforts to shush you? that you took another trip to Sacramento. And then when the council refused to appoint you to pension reform committees, you went as an observer and voiced your ideas anyway. And finally, despite the city's threats, you had the audacity to publish the millions in pension debt owed by the city of Sausalito. Okay. the council's response to these wayward and unapproved actions was very Trump-like. |
| 01:33:13.47 | Carolyn Ford | In the face of this rude and ridiculing behavior, You maintained your dignity, grace, and integrity. always behaving in a professional and courteous manner towards others. Your accomplishments are many, and I will hit the highlights only. You beat back major development by strongly opposing ship, the mega marina proposed for our downtown. You protected Sausalito's marine industry and artists by opposing over development of the marine ship. you prevented more development and rezoning by pushing through your innovative housing plan that included liveaboards and second units. And more recently, you exposed the Golden Gate Bridge District's collusion with the city and our county supervisor to build an industrial sized ferry landing in our small town. And went on to gain community support against such a plan by publishing the details in your newsletter. Your newsletter will be sorely missed. It has been a boon to transparency. Your other efforts for transparency included demands for releasing Thank you. what should have been public information from closed council meetings, notably the votes for the sale of the Gossage property and the amount of Sausalito's pension debt. Also, you exposed the council's attempt to develop the Lincoln Butte property. And led the effort to acquire the land as open space for the community. This was a tremendous coup on your part, as were most of your achievements. As a result of your service, Sausalito is a better place, and I can't think of a better legacy to leave behind. It is with honor and appreciation that I say thank you. for your outstanding service to our community. There are a lot of people who have come down here to say thank you to you for your service. And not all of them have spoken. So I would like to ask everyone who is here to say thank you to Linda to please stand. And let's give her a final thank you. |
| 01:35:57.68 | Mary Kay Sweeney | Thank you. |
| 01:36:16.73 | Carolyn Ford | I also have some flowers for you. There are two parties who couldn't be here. Pat Zook and Bill Werner give you these. And, oh, sorry. These are from Val McGamble and Janet and Floyd Dean. |
| 01:36:40.68 | Unknown | Oh. Oh, okay. |
| 01:36:45.20 | Carolyn Ford | And these are for me. |
| 01:36:57.64 | Carolyn Ford | No, you're not. |
| 01:37:17.68 | Jill Hoffman | Do we have any other public comment? On this matter on the agenda. Yes, Shelby, are you approaching the podium? Yes, you may continue. |
| 01:37:29.55 | Shelby Van Meter | Yes, hi, Shelby Van Meter. First, let's salute to Beautiful and myself. I want to say thank you to all of you. You've been so supportive of our efforts. Herb was the first person to make a donation, and that was three years ago or so. So thank you all very, very much for that. To Mayor Hoffman. It's always great to see you. I love that smile on your face. Thank you for being a good mayor. And to Vice Mayor Withy. You've been wonderful. Thank you so much for all your support for our efforts. Linda, Tom, you voted for money to support our public landscapes, and that's very, very much appreciated. So thank you. And on a personal level, with great appreciation to all of you for the tremendous amount of work you put in, I just want to say, Linda and Tom, now you're going to be private citizens, and you have an opportunity to do the kinds of things we all do. And you have an opportunity, I think, to be consensus builders and to help heal some of the rifts in our community that come from politics. I really hope that you work on that level as private citizens. Thank you all so very, very much for your great, great service. |
| 01:38:44.19 | Jill Hoffman | Any other public comment on this item on the agenda? No? Then I will bring it back up to here. This is a time according to my one page agenda, or this evening, that we will have comments now from Myself and Ray and Herb regarding our departing council members. you do. Then you guys get to say that. |
| 01:39:07.88 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:39:07.90 | Jill Hoffman | after that. |
| 01:39:08.76 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:39:10.17 | Jill Hoffman | Wait, hold on. |
| 01:39:15.66 | Jill Hoffman | You're right, thank you Tom. God, Tom. Yes, sorry, I skipped it. I should have asked for your reflections first before public comment. My God, that's it, I'm done. But I'm done, that's my last act as mayor. Who wants to go first? |
| 01:39:32.52 | Councilmember Theodores | Well, thank you all for coming tonight, and it's a celebratory time, and especially we have two great new council members coming, and it's time to reflect. And as I look back, saying goodbye is much more difficult than the campaigns and all that kind of thing, than saying hello. And it's a difficult thing. I just want to just say that I'm grateful to everyone for allowing me, by voting me in, to have the honor and privilege of serving Sausalito for the last four years. I think public service is the highest calling any of us can have, and I really appreciate the opportunity I've been given to have the public service, so I really appreciate it. I want to thank all my fellow council members and all the hard work. We're a diverse group, and we have different approaches, and we don't always agree, but I want to thank you all for all your dedication and commitment and all the hard work that you do because we all know that you know being on the city council means hard work and we have to make the tough decisions and and I appreciate and the time that we put in doing it so I just want to say all my thanks and we've actually had some fun at times, and so I really appreciate that. And all of you, Herb with 10 years, Linda 8 years, Ray 4 and 4 more, and Jill 2 and counting, though, counting big time. And congratulations to Joe and Joan. I know they're going to be excellent city council members. I appreciated that during the election, when we had a blip, that we no longer had to have a campaign you say you got together and coordinated and worked together which we look forward to in the council and save this all seeing a lot of signs and a lot of campaign a lot of money we would have to donate so thank youIONAL STAFF AND THEY DO GREAT WORK I ALSO WANT TO THANK THEM FOR ALL THE WORK THAT ALL THE HELP THEY DO FOR US I was do for us all the work they provided and help they provided for me personally. When council members get in they they take the time to have an orientation briefings as much time with each with the city manager and each of the department heads and I certainly availed myself of all of that because we come in we don't know as much as we'd like and we had and it was very structured at the beginning to make sure that we had all the basics I want to thank Debbie for all the work and we had Debbie and Lily and for all the department heads for all the help that they gave us at all times whenever there was a time that we needed to be briefed on anything the staff was there to help us They would take as much time as we needed so that when we got here, we were all fully prepared to tackle the issue and rule on it. So I want to thank all of them. I do want to thank all the people that serve Sausalito through the committees and task force and organizations. We're all volunteers here, and volunteers are the heart and soul of Sausalito and I wanted to last week it was our last regular meeting and I was really grateful because at that meeting sometimes we have a lot of contentious issues or appeals or whatever and we had the the most amazing list we had the Sausalito art festival report again again, all volunteers, the Historical Society and the Proclamation on the Marinship. We had the Age-Friendly Community Plan presented. We had the Sausalito Plus, which is a volunteer organization, report on the ambassadors and the bike parking, the Short-Term Rental Task Force, again. And these are combinations, some of our combinations of city staff and volunteers and council members. And that was just from the last meeting. Then we have Sausalito Beautiful, our sister cities, all our committees, planning committees, historic landmarks board. So I really appreciate everything that they do. And the amazing talent that we have. I mean, we have CEOs and we have entrepreneurs, we have doctors, lawyers, authors, artists, all volunteering their time to work on the city problem. And a lot of you are sitting out there. And so I really appreciate that. Um, And it brought me back. Last meeting was also an important meeting. We had two interviews for the Planning Commission, and one was a person who was an excellent Planning Commissioner, had spent six solid years really a good Planning Commissioner, and has come back to serve her community. But the other was a new person who was in town for two years. She was a lawyer. It turned out she lived next door to the house I lived in on Sunshine, which is a great street, when I decided to get involved in the city. And I thought this is a great city, I didn't have a lot of connections. And what did I do? I go to Debbie's office, which all things start from. And got an application for the Historic Landmarks Board, interviewed with the the city council and they're always looking for red meat to new volunteers to come in and and i uh as adam said we spent four years on on the eight uh the historic landmarks board and it really was an amazing way to um uh get connected to the city and and and of course it's kind of a slippery slope i mean i kind of ended up going a little further but uh that's a different story um and um and it really transformed the way I really felt and was connected to our community. I do want to... I think it's a good question. thank my wife, Tricia, as most of you know who know Tricia, Tricia Smith, that I really would have been a whole different four years, and I probably wouldn't have been on the council without her. When I decided to run, and the story on running was, I really had no idea I'd ever be on the city council or any elected position. Never talked about it, never even crossed my mind. But one day, the day before the filing deadline, I got an email and somebody said, you should run for city council. And I was in the parking lot here and someone else did. And I thought, well, that's a movement. They really want me to be on the city council. So I turned around literally, and I can picture this, that I went down to Debbie's office again and she was there., she was there, and if she was on break or something, I, you know, I don't think it would happen. Got the form, pulled the papers, got my 30 signatures, and away I went. Well, but actually, coming back, I got the papers, then I went home, and I talked to my wife, Tricia, and she looked at me, and I think she was looking to see if I was on drugs, bumped my head a little thing, says, are are you sure? And I said, yes. And she said, fine. And she was the first one to sign and was always my biggest supporter. It was my campaign manager. A lot of you had seen her in there, in her little blue mini riding around with the signs and everything. And so she was really, she's always been supportive of me all the way through. So I can't thank her enough. And just one example, Trisha would watch every single city council meeting on streaming, and she'd watch it on TiVo, and she admits that there's some people that are a little boring, so she'd pause it and zip zip through it. But when I got home, every night we'd get home and sometimes it's pretty late. She'd have something to eat, we'd discuss the craziness that went on and some of the things that went on. And she would invariably say, honey, you did a great job tonight. And she would say it in a way that I could almost believe it. So it was really, I really appreciate all your support. I'm not sure. You know, Sausalito is its residence, but it's also the physical place. It's the history. It's our future. And I think about what a great place it is to live in. I lived on Sunshine. I now live on Reed Lane, which I think Reed Lane rocks. It's a great place. But Sunshine was also a wonderful spot. And I had a neighbor, Jules Weiss, and he had lived there since 1962 when I moved in the 2000s. And he was a psychiatrist and well done. He could have lived anywhere, lived there, ended up living there 50 years. He passed away a couple of years ago. And whenever I'd see him, you know, it's a narrow street and we'd be at our mailboxes and he'd say, isn't this the greatest place on earth to live? And I'd always have to reflect with him. And we always, you know, it was always one of these things, and it was always a sincere kind of zen moment that we had together. And I think of it now as I go along. Every day it's really the best place I can think about living. And, you know, we do the hard business of the city in these chambers. But when we go outside and get a different perspective, we realize that this is just, we can get contentious and we do our business, but we get the wider perspective. This is just, we have the most wonderful people and the most wonderful place that we can live. And I recognize that every day. So thank you all again for letting me serve the four years. |
| 01:48:50.18 | Linda Pfeiffer | So I am so humbled by what I heard tonight. I was getting teary eyed up here and it was so moving. I have some notes I want to cover some ground, but it won't be too long, I promise. But I want to welcome Joan Cox and Joe Burns and thank them for all the contributions I know they're going to be making in the coming years. I want to thank my fellow council members up here. I know we haven't always agreed, but we're all up here for the same purpose, to serve the public and meet the public good. And we're all working hard towards that shared goal. I want to recognize city staff as well for all of their hard work. And I want to look at just the last eight years. Eight years is such a long time, but for me, it's gone like that. It's been so amazing to be here as a public servant, serving you, the voters, And really staying true to my values of transparency and preservation and resident priorities, specifically local control. I want to thank Carolyn Ford. Carolyn has been and always will be an inspiration to me. She was my campaign manager when I first ran in 2008. She is just truly a woman of integrity and vision. I want to thank Pat Sook. Yeah, yeah. I want to thank Pat. Yeah, let's clap for Carolyn. Thank you, Carolyn. She deserves it, boy. Pat Sook, I want to thank Pat. She's a woman of courage and conviction. She's not afraid to take a stand when the chips are down and principles at stake. I want to thank Sam Chase and John Farrell. They were instrumental in getting me to run in 2012. And also Elizabeth O'Connor, who was my campaign manager. They really helped me achieve victory, and I am very grateful to all of their hard work. Ann Teller, my treasurer in 08 and again in 2012. Bill Monnet, who helped me go through the city budgets and the pension reform issues and understand the unfunded pension liability issues. Joe Paul for the work on the housing element, we were pursuing low density housing strategies like live aboards and second units at a time when people were saying it couldn't be done. And yeah, well we did it. That was very important. I want to recognize staff, Lily Whalen and Heidi Scoble, who worked with me when we were doing the survey design for that. Their work was truly inspiring. Bill Werner for his tireless contributions. Kate Flavin for the dynamo she is. So many people I'd like to mention. Bob Zadig, John Flavin, Patricia Pigman, Steve Flayhive, Nancy Osborne, etc. I mean the people of a town make a town and you make Sausalito a beautiful place to live. And everyone here tonight and everyone listening and watching, this is what community is all about. When I think about legacy, I look at my priorities, and my priorities and my legacy is your legacy. Transparency, preservation, resident priorities, these are the things that were very important to me. From the newsletter to the public hearing for the ferry landing, to getting the word out about what was going on with the housing element, all of that was very important. It's important too, I want to say too, it's been kind of a difficult year politically for women. And I want to specifically recognize the two strong women on this council. Mayor Jill Hoffman and incoming council member Joan Cox. We're fortunate to have them. They're making sacrifices to serve our city and they're role models for young women who might pursue a career in public office and a political path. At a time like this, we really owe them gratitude. Regarding preservation, I just want to say I'm honored to belong to Open Space Sausalito with Leon Hunting here tonight, Bill Monnet, Jim Richard, and biologist Jennifer Berry and Bert Drobnis. We worked so hard to raise $225,000 and save that 2.81 acre Lincoln Butte site. What was going to pretty much was on the track for density housing is now a wildlife preserve because of the hard work of these folks. And the people of Sausalito saved Lincoln Butte. And Open Space Sausalito provided the catalyst and the means to make that vision come true. It's Sausalito's first wildlife preserve. And what I'd like to ask is everyone who's watching, if you haven't already, visit the Open Space Sausalito website, www.openspacesausalito.org, and learn a little bit more about Sausalito's indigenous wildlife and this real precious riparian habitat. So thank you, Sausalito. I'm humbled. I will be forever honored for your vote and your support these past eight years. It's been my privilege to be your public service on this diocesan in the community. Thank you so much. |
| 01:54:41.54 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:54:46.21 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, now Tom, I believe we are at a point where council members WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE. Say words of appreciation. |
| 01:54:55.76 | Unknown | Yeah. Thank you. |
| 01:54:56.30 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:54:56.40 | Unknown | Yeah, that's what it says right here. Go ahead, fellas. Yes. Didn't I get a clue? Didn't I close the clue? |
| 01:55:05.65 | Ray Withey | So I really do not have any words that can match all the words that have come from you and Adam. uh, And this evening... So all I'm going to simply say is to thank Linda and Tom for Yes, their hard work, their dedication, But also their tremendous service with integrity, which has been a theme for, I think, the last four and eight years. sitting up here and I think there's three ex-City Council members in the audience that I see. They know, and everybody up here knows, that It is, at times, a sacrifice. is sometimes thrilling, exhilarating, but it's also sometimes frustrating, hard work, Bill Clinton said, as quoted as saying, that politics is an honorable profession, and I believe that to be so. I use the word profession advisedly, we don't get paid after all. But it's an honorable thing to do, and it doesn't need to be a blood sport, it can be a team sport, as he said. The image I have in mind is in... on an evening like this is a relay race and the passing of a baton. all of us, and I think everybody would agree here, all of us are building and working on all the work that's gone before by council members over many many years and um i know that in many years to come people will be looking back and um praising the work that linda and tom did which we and all future council members will be building upon. So Joe and Joan, you will be receiving the baton and carrying on the good work. So once again, let me thank both of you very much just as everybody else has done. And Jill? It's been... It's been fun and great and a privilege being vice mayor under you, so thank you very much. |
| 01:58:05.42 | Unknown | I'm not. |
| 01:58:05.59 | Ray Withey | Thank you. |
| 01:58:05.66 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:58:05.68 | Ray Withey | Thank you. |
| 01:58:05.69 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:58:05.73 | Ray Withey | Thank you. |
| 01:58:06.64 | Councilmember Weiner | you |
| 01:58:06.70 | Ray Withey | Thank you. |
| 01:58:06.74 | Councilmember Weiner | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:58:08.68 | Ray Withey | Thank you. |
| 01:58:08.69 | Councilmember Weiner | I'm coming. Well, it's really hard to say words after hearing so many people speaking. I WANT TO PUT THEM ON BEHALF OF understanding or getting a little understanding of how dedicated and how hard we work here. And we do it because we really love this town. We really do. I want to thank Theo, Linda, for all your dedication. You've helped to make this a better community. AND I think it really comes down to If you can't be happy in Sausalito. You can't be happy anywhere. So I want to thank you very, very much. Jill, you came in. in your second year. And you really did an excellent job. I want to thank you very, very much. SO, WITH THAT. Thank you. |
| 01:59:16.38 | Councilmember Weiner | You're welcome. Three hands. |
| 01:59:26.76 | Jill Hoffman | So I'm gonna collapse the last two on the agenda, which is my turn to appreciate Tom and Linda, and then I'll say a few brief closing comments. But, you know, Tom, first I'll go with you. I think we served on more subcommittees in the two years than anybody else. It may seem like we did more, but I think Tom and I served on. you know, the ferry, the legislative committee, the Bridgeway Marina committee, I mean, you name, yeah, that's right, the blue ribbon panel on the movie theater. So, you know, I so much appreciate your hard work and the contribution that you gave. And I say this over and over again in Sausalito, but, you know, I like to harness the professionalism and the talent that we have here in town. And nowhere do you find that more than with Tom. your contribution that you've made and your insight that you made on all of those panels that we served on and keeping me on the agenda, you know, that's just half the battle. So thank you so much for all of your hard work and I do appreciate the time and effort that you committed to our town. And you have no idea the billable hours. Tom's an attorney. The billable hours that we would have spent, we would never have been able to afford him. So thank you so much for dedicating it. And to Trisha as well. And I'll be over tonight for dinner, I guess. I guess we're all invited after city council meeting, so thank you. So anyway, thank you so much. I appreciate it. Linda, people, I would not be here if it was not for Linda Pfeiffer. Linda Pfeiffer helped our community in our neighborhood with regard to the housing element, and that was my first real foray into the belly of the beast of city politics. Yeah. and attending the meetings. And And then she actively recruited me to run for city council. and supported me in that. And so thank you so much, Linda. And, and has never really not supported me. I have to say, um, You have no idea the level of tenacity and relentless support that Linda has given to you, the people of Sausalito. You will never know the hours and hours that she has spent researching different, you know, different. requirements from the state and challenging the interpretation of those requirements fearlessly and that's been said continually tonight about whether or not that's what that actually means and what are we requiring the law, what is the minimum requirement, what's the maximum requirement and Um, advocating tirelessly on behalf of the residents of Sausalito. And I think that's clear to anybody who's ever come to city council meetings. That's clear to anybody that's ever had Linda in their corner fighting for them. And so we all, Linda, owe you an enormous debt here in Sausalito. So thank you very much. And we appreciate your sacrifice, these eight long years in Sausalito. And it is not easy being the minority voice on the council. And... And I appreciate that, and I appreciate that position very much. And so, which brings it to me. And the end of my term as mayor. I feel like we set a pretty aggressive agenda, Adam, about what was doable and what we could accomplish this year. And I think if you saw me walking down the street or coming down the hall and I had the smile on my face, that meant you were going to be... asked to do something, in some cases, some substantial work. I'm proud of the response that I've gotten from the city, and I thank everybody in the city that has supported my, some would say harebrained, other might say genius ideas about how we can do better government and what's our maximum potential and living up to that on behalf of the citizens of Sausalito. So I thank everybody for your grace and patience in helping move that idea forward. I'm enormously proud of the people here in Sausalito and what we've been able to accomplish, not just obviously during my tenure, but in the time that I've lived in Sausalito. So I thank you. I thank citizens, the staff. More importantly, my fellow council members, all of us, for our efforts in coming to consensus and moving forward in whatever it was we were working on up here on the dais this year. And lastly, I thank my husband and son who have endured the sacrifice of my absence. Some may say that was a good thing. And so thank you for this incredibly rewarding year as mayor of Sausalito. So thank you. |
| 02:04:15.31 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, and so at this time it says I get to invite you to step down from the dais. |
| 02:04:22.27 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 02:04:27.54 | Jill Hoffman | Linda might need some help. Carolyn? |
| 02:04:29.04 | Linda Pfeiffer | Carolyn? |
| 02:04:30.41 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:04:30.43 | Linda Pfeiffer | Thank you. |
| 02:04:30.48 | Jill Hoffman | I know she's... |
| 02:04:31.03 | Linda Pfeiffer | out there. |
| 02:04:31.13 | Jill Hoffman | . |
| 02:04:31.22 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 02:04:31.44 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. |
| 02:04:31.74 | Unknown | I'm sorry. |
| 02:05:22.43 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. |
| 02:05:27.46 | Jill Hoffman | And now I invite Joan and Joe. to come forward, and Ray to join for the oath of office. Okay. |
| 02:05:57.43 | Unknown | towards the screen. Bye. |
| 02:05:58.34 | Debbie (City Clerk) | . |
| 02:06:08.54 | Tricia Smith | Excuse me. |
| 02:06:20.03 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Right, it is my privilege to get you started as council members. |
| 02:06:26.86 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:06:27.37 | Debbie (City Clerk) | And I get to swear you in into the office of council members. If you will raise your right hand and repeat after me. I. I. And state your name. |
| 02:06:39.72 | Tricia Smith | General McCarroll. |
| 02:06:41.38 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Do solemnly affirm. |
| 02:06:43.31 | Tricia Smith | Fowlly affirmed. |
| 02:06:44.72 | Debbie (City Clerk) | that I will support and defend |
| 02:06:46.98 | Tricia Smith | that I will support and defend |
| 02:06:48.98 | Debbie (City Clerk) | The Constitution of the United States |
| 02:06:51.84 | Tricia Smith | Constitution of the United States. |
| 02:06:54.13 | Debbie (City Clerk) | and the Constitution of the State of California. |
| 02:06:57.25 | Tricia Smith | and the Constitution of the State of California. |
| 02:07:00.32 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Against all enemies. |
| 02:07:02.30 | Tricia Smith | against all enemies. |
| 02:07:03.02 | Debbie (City Clerk) | and foreign and domestic, |
| 02:07:06.15 | Tricia Smith | Foreign and domestic. |
| 02:07:08.17 | Debbie (City Clerk) | and that I will bear true faith |
| 02:07:10.94 | Tricia Smith | and that I will bear true faith |
| 02:07:12.78 | Debbie (City Clerk) | and allegiance |
| 02:07:13.98 | Tricia Smith | and allegiance, |
| 02:07:15.12 | Debbie (City Clerk) | To the Constitution of the United States, |
| 02:07:18.10 | Tricia Smith | to the Constitution of the United States. |
| 02:07:20.90 | Debbie (City Clerk) | And the Constitution of the State of California. |
| 02:07:24.07 | Tricia Smith | and the Constitution of the State of California |
| 02:07:27.12 | Debbie (City Clerk) | that I take this obligation freely. |
| 02:07:29.84 | Tricia Smith | Thank you. |
| 02:07:29.98 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Thank you. |
| 02:07:30.02 | Tricia Smith | Thank you. |
| 02:07:30.21 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Thank you. |
| 02:07:30.46 | Tricia Smith | Yes. |
| 02:07:30.72 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Thank you. |
| 02:07:30.73 | Tricia Smith | Thank you. |
| 02:07:30.75 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Thank you. |
| 02:07:30.78 | Tricia Smith | Thank you. |
| 02:07:30.85 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Thank you. |
| 02:07:31.26 | Tricia Smith | and we can do it. |
| 02:07:32.34 | Debbie (City Clerk) | without any mental reservation |
| 02:07:34.87 | Tricia Smith | without any mental reservation |
| 02:07:37.79 | Debbie (City Clerk) | or purpose of evasion. |
| 02:07:39.46 | Tricia Smith | Thank you. for purpose of evasion. |
| 02:07:41.80 | Debbie (City Clerk) | and that I will well and faithfully |
| 02:07:44.60 | Tricia Smith | and that I will well and faithfully. |
| 02:07:46.87 | Debbie (City Clerk) | discharge the duties. |
| 02:07:48.62 | Tricia Smith | discharge the duties |
| 02:07:50.01 | Debbie (City Clerk) | upon which I'm about to enter. |
| 02:07:52.28 | Tricia Smith | Thank you. |
| 02:07:52.32 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Thank you. |
| 02:07:52.33 | Tricia Smith | upon which I'm about to enter. |
| 02:07:55.27 | Debbie (City Clerk) | And before I welcome you, We are going to do a little change up here. on celebration, sorry about that. I'm a family person and when this was asked I go, yes, |
| 02:08:04.85 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 02:08:08.45 | Debbie (City Clerk) | I'll get it. |
| 02:08:33.05 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 02:08:43.16 | Debbie (City Clerk) | Thank you. you here for me. There we go. Well, not for me. |
| 02:09:38.46 | Unknown | Welcome. Very good. Welcome. Welcome. |
| 02:09:44.35 | Jill Hoffman | And so now I would like to congratulate Joan and Joan Ray and ask them if they would like to say a few words. |
| 02:09:56.64 | Councilmember Weiner | Less than a thousand words at a time. |
| 02:09:58.63 | Joe | I'm going to be brief, really brief. Thank you, everybody, for being here tonight and for all the wonderful words for Tom and Linda. I have to return this suit to the rental company at 930, so I want to get going here. I got to Sausalito eight years ago this month as an employee spouse. And since then, I have been either an employee, an employee spouse or a park commissioner that entire time. And to take this step into the council is quite an honor. It's a privilege. I take it seriously. I look forward to the challenge. I know there will be hard times and there will be fun times and I'm very excited about it. One of the most amazing things that I've learned while we're going through this process, and it was touched on tonight, is the number of people in this town who contribute their time and volunteer. I've never seen it in bigger towns, let alone something the size of Sausalito that has so many skilled and quality volunteers. So that was one of the best things I took off the campaign trail, as limited as it was, so thank you all. I'm really excited about working with this council. I respect everybody on this dais. I TOOK OFF THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL AS LIMITED AS IT WAS. SO THANK YOU ALL. I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT WORKING WITH THIS COUNCIL. I RESPECT EVERYBODY ON THIS DIOS. I HAVE COME TO KNOW THEM WELL. AND I GENUALLY LIKE THE FOUR OTHER PEOPLE I'LL BE WORKING WITH FOR THE NEXT TWO AND FOUR YEARS AND BEYOND, I HOPE. SO FOR THEM. SO THANK YOU ALL. And for everybody that voted for me, I get the benefit of, based on vote count, I get to actually thank them all individually. I have a list here. I'm not. Thank you all. I look forward to serving you in the next four years. |
| 02:11:44.74 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:11:55.18 | Joan | I too want to thank everyone who took time to be here tonight and to really praise and acknowledge our outgoing council members and to welcome the two incoming and the one reelected council member. I want to thank all of my supporters who worked tirelessly on the election until we decided not to campaign any longer. But walking the streets, knocking on doors, hanging door hangers, putting up yard signs, writing letters. It's a lot of tasks trying to reach out to the residents because, after all, it is you whom we serve. And it's important that we communicate with you, you know, throughout our tenure, but especially during the campaign. I agree with Joe and with the others who spoke before us. We are a city rich with talent, and it is really a privilege and a pleasure to serve with you and for you to protect the town that we love. I am passionate about protecting the character and charm of our town and to protecting and respecting the legacy established by those who went before us. So I look forward to working with my fellow council members in a collegial and collaborative manner to continue to make Sausalito the best town that we all love. Thank you. |
| 02:13:27.10 | Ray Withey | As Joan and Joe mentioned, we didn't really have much of a campaign. As soon as Sam dropped out, we got together and agreed that we were going to save you all a bunch of money, save ourselves a lot of stress, um, But importantly, we came together with a spirit of collaboration that and to get a job done quickly that I think bodes extremely well for this council and I I'm looking forward to working with all of us, but in particular to welcome and work with the two new council members. I would not be able to do what I do were it not for support. And the person here who's been quietly hiding in the audience, who's not been mentioned yet is Flynn, who has, yeah, she's got to stand up and at least say hello. There she is. |
| 02:14:48.25 | Unknown | I'm sorry. |
| 02:14:53.48 | Ray Withey | Families can take the brunt sometimes of what we do and as anybody knows family and friends are the support we need to actually get the job done. In particular, I'd like to also thank a person who has been my campaign treasurer and supporter and camp then sort of co-campaign manager which is Christine Scarpino, who can't be here tonight, she's on the East Coast. But she has worked tirelessly for Meade campaign and a number of other city campaigns including Measure O, Measure D, sorry, Measure F. So thank her very much as well. And to everybody who supported us and our campaign, so thank you all very, very much. Really, it... It is an honest fact that it wasn't obvious to rerun. But I decided to do it because I love Sausalito. because the residents and all the stakeholders here work so hard work, the spirit of volunteerism that we've acknowledged. We've all acknowledged, we all see, we all rely on and work and applaud. None of what we could do would be possible without that. And so to family, to friends, to all of the Sausalito residents, to the volunteers, to everybody who makes our community what it is, thank you very much indeed. |
| 02:16:52.35 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, and next I would like to ask if anybody wants to make public comment on this item, which is item 6B on the agenda. |
| 02:17:03.40 | Jacob | Yes. Uh... Hello again. And hello, especially Jonathan Goldman, who when I was fighting for community gardens here, bicycles to enable a free Anchorage, he said, well, we have elections. There's an elephant in the room we're not talking about. Right now, it was the federal election. I've been counting Trump-mer, it's kind of like counting Omer between Passover and Shavuos. It's 37 days until the inauguration of this man. And THERE WAS A CLERGY MAN. in the Weimar Republic named Dietrich Bonhoeffer. During a very similar time, if you studied history a little bit, And what he said was, well first they came for the communists, I said I wasn't a communist, so things were fine. Then they came for the socialists, but... I'm not a socialist. So everything was all right. Then they came for the gypsies, I said I wasn't a gypsy, Then they came for the Jews. I said I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the houseless. I said I've got a house. Then they came for the anchor outs. I said I'm not an anchor out. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to protect. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of the very, very few people who was able to stand up to this regime. And even on the local level, I'm surprised that there wasn't really an election here, but not that surprised. I hope that's the last election for a very, very, very long time. There might come a point now when you as council members, when the board of supervisors, when the state will either have to follow their conscience. and follow. Hashem, Jonathan Goldman. or resign. I know that the people in the city The city council and the mayor are not doing this for the money. The pay is nominal or nothing. The city managers and the police force, they do get paid. |
| 02:19:25.49 | Jacob | FOR MY PEOPLE, The ones who... represent who do the service, who bring the people to judgment in the cities of refuge are called the Levites and they have no portion and no inheritance. It doesn't mean they don't have clothes. It doesn't mean they don't have a place to live and a place to grow something. Speaking of, Madam Mayor Still, I just finished a six-day hunger strike. for a community garden here in Sausalito. I came off it a little hard. I ate a lot at the rabbi's house. I feel okay, but coming off it is the time when it can all go downhill. |
| 02:20:10.87 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you for your comments. Do we have any other public comment on this item, which is item 6B on the agenda? |
| 02:20:12.54 | Jacob | Thank you. |
| 02:20:19.59 | Jill Hoffman | Seeing no one. Moving on to item 6C, I'm going to call for nominations for mayor. Would anybody like to make a nomination for mayor among the city council? Yes, Joe, you have your hand up. Oh. Yes, who would like to make a nomination for me? |
| 02:20:32.77 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 02:20:33.09 | Councilmember Weiner | Thank you. |
| 02:20:33.13 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:20:34.24 | Councilmember Weiner | Right. I'd like to nominate Ray Withey for mayor. second that. |
| 02:20:41.53 | Jill Hoffman | Wait, now hold on. |
| 02:20:42.63 | Councilmember Weiner | HE'S GOT TO GET IT. |
| 02:20:43.83 | Jill Hoffman | I have to call for additional nominations. Do we have any additional nominations for mayor? |
| 02:20:43.86 | Councilmember Weiner | I like it. |
| 02:20:50.17 | Jill Hoffman | No, very good. Now we call for a vote. Closing nominations. We have one person nominated. I'm guessing we're going to do a voice vote for that. Yes? All in favor of Ray Withy for mayor? Aye. Aye. Aye. OK. All right. |
| 02:21:03.87 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 02:21:03.89 | Joan | Bye. |
| 02:21:04.26 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 02:21:18.96 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:21:19.97 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:21:20.04 | Unknown | Congratulations, sir. Thank you. He has the gavel. He has the gavel. Thank you. Oh, yeah. |
| 02:21:20.83 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. . . you |
| 02:21:23.23 | Joan | He has the gavel. it. |
| 02:21:27.38 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:21:27.46 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:21:27.50 | Joan | Thank you. |
| 02:21:27.60 | Ray Withey | Thank you. |
| 02:21:28.51 | Councilmember Weiner | Oh my god. Killing him softly. |
| 02:21:34.15 | Ray Withey | Me. Then add a few more words, if I may, which is to thank the council, this new council for their support. And we've got an important year. We've got a lot of short-term and long-term things to do. So it's my privilege and honor to be your mayor for the next year. So thank you. |
| 02:22:01.38 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 02:22:06.14 | Ray Withey | The Thank you. Next item is item 6D, which is the election of the vice mayor. Now, I realize... Madam Exmayer, that we didn't do public comment for this |
| 02:22:28.23 | Councilmember Weiner | It's down there. Yes. Oh, I would. |
| 02:22:31.18 | Ray Withey | Oh, all right, sorry. I'm sorry. Yes, you're right. See, I'm out of practice here. I'm out of practice here. So in that case, that's right. We moved to item 6D, which is the election of the vice mayor. So I would call for nominations for the vice mayor. |
| 02:22:54.62 | Jill Hoffman | I would like to nominate new council member Joan Cox for vice mayor. |
| 02:22:59.60 | Ray Withey | I'll second that. Is there any other nominations? Seeing none, then I think we can have a voice vote. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? No. Well done. |
| 02:23:10.74 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 02:23:14.70 | Unknown | Thank you. You guys are here. |
| 02:23:21.10 | Ray Withey | Congratulations. |
| 02:23:26.25 | Ray Withey | Okay, so the next item is 6E, which is approval of the... No. |
| 02:23:36.24 | Councilmember Weiner | I have a couple times. Thank you. |
| 02:23:39.38 | Unknown | It's very confusing. |
| 02:23:40.24 | Ray Withey | I know, I know. |
| 02:23:41.38 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 02:23:44.59 | Ray Withey | Is there any member of the public who'd like to comment on the appointments of the mayor and vice mayor? |
| 02:23:55.96 | Peter Van Meter | Yes, Peter Van Meter, I'd definitely like to congratulate you on assuming the morality again. and for welcoming our new council member to the vice mayor. and to Joe Burns coming out of the City Council As I look at you here, I think we have a fabulous opportunity to be moving Sausalito forward in the coming year and next and next and next. Thank you. |
| 02:24:24.58 | Ray Withey | Thank you, Peter. Is there anybody else? |
| 02:24:26.90 | Jacob | Jeff. |
| 02:24:26.96 | Ray Withey | Jeff. |
| 02:24:27.74 | Jacob | Thank you. Yes. The Voting Rights Act, I don't know if people are familiar with this, has now been restricted in very many states. We have the lowest voter turnout rate of any country in the world except for Switzerland and Chile, and those are two special exceptions. Now, Sausalito might feel wonderful because we don't have a lower voter turnout, right? I didn't vote for this in this election. The reason is that There is an envelope, a white envelope called the provisional ballot. in which people's votes are put in and then were not counted, Jonathan Goldman, until far after the election. So this influenced the, this was at the Democratic primary, And California is no newbie to voter suppression as well. It's for different reasons than blackness and whiteness. This was not a fair election. We did not even have a vote. The provisional ballots were not counted. That was millions of votes. That influenced the Democratic primary. That influenced Hillary Clinton not being elected president. big mistake if we can't even run an election correctly. And we did not. So I respect the people who are here as human beings, as members of a system that is in some deep trouble that is Esau-like. that is destined in the sense that it lives and dies by the sword, to fall to Jacob and to Israel, who lives for a higher reason, Jonathan Goldman and Herbie, So I would love to negotiate. I have put two seeds, two apple seeds, they're right by the... Flagpole, if they are pulled up, I will begin the hunger strike again. Thank you. |
| 02:26:26.18 | Ray Withey | Thank you, Jeff. Is there any other comment? you Okay, moving on. Approval of the City Council meeting schedule, we're actually going to, other than approve the date of the first meeting, which is January 10th, we're then going to give another month or so to finalize the calendar for the full year. So do we have approval of the meeting for January 10th? |
| 02:26:59.36 | Councilmember Weiner | Thank you. Yeah. |
| 02:27:01.42 | Ray Withey | Yeah, just the first meeting and on that meeting at January 10th, we will approve the council calendar for the full year. Okay, everybody okay with that? Yeah, we're on board. Yep, okay, very good. Is there any public comment on the calendar? Seeing none. So I would like to call for a consensus, if I may, to skip item 7 and to call for a motion to amend the calendar and call for a adjournment. Do I have a... |
| 02:27:40.00 | Councilmember Weiner | I don't know if he wants to say anything. |
| 02:27:41.70 | Ray Withey | Who? Thank you. Thank you. |
| 02:27:43.90 | Councilmember Weiner | Thank you. |
| 02:27:43.91 | Ray Withey | Thank you. |
| 02:27:43.98 | Councilmember Weiner | Thank you. |
| 02:27:44.01 | Ray Withey | Okay. |
| 02:27:44.08 | Councilmember Weiner | No, we're good. Yeah. |
| 02:27:46.04 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:27:46.12 | Councilmember Weiner | Thank you. |
| 02:27:46.14 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Yes, second. |
| 02:27:47.17 | Ray Withey | Okay, all in favor? Aye. Any opposed? No. We are adjourned. |
| 02:27:48.43 | Jill Hoffman | Bye, mate. No. Train the gavel. Bend again. There you go. You're out of practice. You are. |
| 02:27:57.28 | Stacey Cray | Thank you. |
| 02:27:57.34 | Unknown | We're out of practice. |
Kevin Kiefer — Against: Expressed appreciation for police discretion, raised concerns about misuse of tidelands revenues (allocated primarily to debt servicing instead of other permitted uses), and highlighted demographic/census issues related to the Anchorage district that should be addressed in the general plan. ▶ 📄