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| 00:00:02.56 | Adam Politzer | Okay. |
| 00:00:05.16 | Joan Cox | Good evening and welcome to the regular meeting of the Sausalito City Council for Tuesday, November 14th. Lily, would you please take the roll? |
| 00:00:16.99 | Unknown | Council member Burns. |
| 00:00:18.02 | Joan Cox | Here. |
| 00:00:18.95 | Unknown | Council member Hoffman. Vice Mayor Cox? Here. Mayor Withy? |
| 00:00:25.11 | Joan Cox | here. We are moving into closed session to discuss two items of existing litigation. Is there any public comment on the closed session items? Seeing none, we adjourn into closed session. |
| 00:00:52.78 | Joan Cox | Everybody right? |
| 00:00:53.93 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. Thank you. . |
| 00:00:55.82 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 00:00:55.95 | Adam Politzer | you |
| 00:00:58.05 | Joan Cox | Good evening, and welcome to the regular City Council meeting for... November 14th, 2017. Lily, would you... Take the roll, please. |
| 00:01:12.09 | Unknown | Councilmember Burns? |
| 00:01:13.62 | Joan Cox | Here. |
| 00:01:14.09 | Unknown | Councilmember Hoffman. Present Vice Mayor Cox. Here. Mayor Withy. |
| 00:01:19.53 | Joan Cox | care. |
| 00:01:20.80 | Unknown | Um... |
| 00:01:22.40 | Joan Cox | Cindy Larrick, would you lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance tonight, please? |
| 00:01:35.97 | Cindy Larrick | Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. indivisible with liberty and justice. |
| 00:01:44.56 | Joan Cox | Thank you, Cindy. |
| 00:01:50.77 | Joan Cox | We had a closed session this evening on two litigation matters. There is no. uh, Announcement from those closed session. Is there any member of the public who'd like to comment on the closed session items tonight? Okay, seeing none. Could I have a motion to approve the agenda, please? |
| 00:02:17.97 | Joan Cox | So moved. Thank you. |
| 00:02:19.87 | Joe Burns | SECOND. |
| 00:02:21.12 | Joan Cox | All in favor? |
| 00:02:22.56 | Joan Cox | Aye. |
| 00:02:24.41 | Joan Cox | That motion carries. |
| 00:02:25.63 | Joan Cox | Okay. . |
| 00:02:27.84 | Joan Cox | Ha, ha, ha. Okay. |
| 00:02:32.72 | Joe Burns | for our consent item. Ignore them. Just ignore them. |
| 00:02:38.54 | Joan Cox | Okay, onwards. Our item number one is a special presentation and is the introduction to our new permit technician. So I'm handing over to Danny Castro, our Community Development Director. |
| 00:02:59.90 | Danny Castro | Good evening Mayor Withy and members of the council. Danny Castro, your community development director. And I am pleased to introduce a new employee to the Community Development Department. Her name is McKenna Romero. and McKenna is our new permit technician. The permit technician responds to a lot of questions and information at our front public counter regarding the building process, building permits, plan check review. and planning as well. She was formally actually our administrative aide in our department for a few months before she took on our new role as our permit technician. She was also a, prior to working with the city, she was the events director for the Santa Rosa Gymnastics Center. She holds a bachelor's degree in psychology with Sonoma State University and she's also a licensed personal trainer. So. McKenna brings enthusiasm and energy to our department. She has great organizational skills, and she's a really welcome addition to our department. So McKenna Romero. |
| 00:04:18.81 | McKenna Romero | Thank you, Danny, for that introduction. Thank you guys as well. I love the city of Sausalito, and I'm so excited to be here. So thank you. . |
| 00:04:27.06 | Joan Cox | Thank you very much. |
| 00:04:42.52 | Joan Cox | Thank you, Danny. Thank you, McKenna. Our next item, item number two, is communications, and this is For members of the public, time for the City Council to hear from members of the public. regarding matters that are not on the agenda. And except in very limited situations, state law precludes counsel from taking action or engaging in discussions concerning items of business that are not on the agenda. So is there any member of the public who would like to speak on any item not on the agenda? For this matter, I have only one card. If you do want to speak on matters not on the agenda, please fill in the card. So the first person is Kevin Koefer. |
| 00:05:39.59 | Kevin | Thank you Mayor. I was fortunate to be able to attend a special edition of the Finance Committee. last week. And there was a comment made in there. And I guess I could, it's something that I don't see as an agenda topic. and that was that the council members. at the meeting that day joked tongue in cheek about round housing the public by dropping items into the basket of the consent calendar. and I don't think that's funny because that happens to me. I didn't think it was funny that day. I didn't think it's funny the days that it happens to me. And it probably is going to happen to somebody today. Because... You don't take your job serious. You don't. You don't take it serious when you go before the business committee, when you go in your finance committee, and you don't take it serious here. And I wish you would. |
| 00:06:51.24 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 00:06:51.29 | Kevin | Thanks. |
| 00:06:52.94 | Joan Cox | Thank you, sir. Jeff Jacob, you submitted a card. Did you want to talk on matters not on the agenda tonight? |
| 00:07:02.51 | Jeffrey Chase | Yes. |
| 00:07:03.71 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 00:07:08.91 | Jeffrey Chase | Thank you mayor and council and citizens of Sausalito Anybody who's interested and is watching it on channel 26, |
| 00:07:22.43 | Jeffrey Chase | I was asked by a... by somebody I know, I don't want to call him a frenemy, that seems a bit of a cliche, but a lot of times the people who seem opposed will be the ones who will be able to sharpen our... our knives, our stones, our our intellect, our hearts, and without that, there'll be a bunch of four to nothing or five to nothing votes, everybody's unanimous. But that doesn't mean everybody is going towards the same correct goal. |
| 00:08:03.35 | Jeffrey Chase | that right now in this nation, We have one party controlling the House and the Senate. THE PRESIDENT. And... The Supreme Court, most of their nominees have been nominated by the Republican Party. And this happened for a bunch of different reasons. One of them was and is the suppression of the vote. THAT The number of voters in the United States is not among the highest in the world. I know Sausalito turns out for general elections and that the winning city council candidate in this last election won almost 1,000 votes. There was one group of people who have had their voting rights stripped away. I'm talking, of course, about the anchor outs. There was a mailbox that Galilee was nice enough to give us at 300 Napa Street with an address as opposed to a post office box. We have the vote in Sausalito. without an address This happened right before an election, two weeks before the election. The election materials did not go through, and now neither do people's checks or love letters, for that matter. I attempted to vote here for council and my vote was put in a provisional ballot. there was a number to call to make sure it was counted. I called that number and there was No answer. Provisional ballots were a big reason THE FEDERAL. in the California election that Bernie Sanders didn't win. I want every vote counted, and I want every person that was voting in Sausalito to continue to vote. This is a basic civil right, Mayor and Council. Thank you. |
| 00:10:15.36 | Joan Cox | Thanks, Jeff. Okay. Any other A member of the public would like to comment on items that are not on our agenda tonight. Seeing none, we will move on to action minutes of the previous meeting. Is there Motion to approve as submitted, is there any comments, changes, requested? |
| 00:10:43.02 | Joan Cox | I had a comment Let's see. I think Melanie's name is misspelled. Um... in the regular minutes and also Thank you. um, On item, okay, this is on page... |
| 00:10:58.75 | Peter Van Meter | This is a great thing. |
| 00:11:01.28 | Joan Cox | They're not numbered. Okay, one, two on page 3. of the draft regular minutes. I It says Councilmember Byrne on line 36. It says Byrne's moved seconded by Mfeis-Mere Cox to adopt resolution number 5677. I think it has to say as amended because... I believe that Council gave direction from the dais on a couple of amendments to the resolution that was in the packet. Thank you. |
| 00:11:32.53 | Joan Cox | much more. |
| 00:11:32.87 | Joan Cox | Which was on the P.B.A.C. |
| 00:11:33.56 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 00:11:33.58 | Joe Burns | much more. |
| 00:11:33.85 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 00:11:33.97 | Joe Burns | on the TV AC |
| 00:11:38.13 | Joan Cox | Oh, as modified by the council, I missed that totally, Joe. Yeah, that works. |
| 00:11:45.66 | Joan Cox | My other comment had to do on the next page with the strategic plan update. It said Council comments followed. In the prior item, in a prior item, it said I think what comments were, anyway, I thought that any direction to council should have been memorialized there. |
| 00:12:14.57 | Joan Cox | And then on the next page at line nine, there's a typo that says there was not public comment instead of there was no public comment. And those were my comments. |
| 00:12:25.80 | Kevin | What was the one before? |
| 00:12:26.82 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:12:27.34 | Joan Cox | So. Thank you. I believe that we gave direction to staff to set up a workshop on the strategic plan, and I didn't see that reflected in the minutes. |
| 00:12:55.17 | Joan Cox | Then on the special meeting, it says, |
| 00:13:06.96 | Joan Cox | My note is right on top. It says initiation of litigation. I think it should be anticipated litigation. I don't think we were initiating litigation. in that. CLOSED SESSION ITEM. Those are my comments. |
| 00:13:26.20 | Joan Cox | Was that a mistake, do you think, on the titling in the agenda? |
| 00:13:30.17 | Joan Cox | No, it was in the description, it wasn't in the title of the agenda. the anticipated litigation in the, Title was correct. but the description says initiation of litigation. |
| 00:13:41.66 | Joan Cox | Okay, I gotcha, I gotcha. Okay. So. What do we want to do? I mean, obviously we can correct that and prove those minutes. The previous one, the only thing that |
| 00:13:51.09 | Adam Politzer | Appreciate it. |
| 00:13:51.31 | Peter Van Meter | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 00:13:54.94 | Joan Cox | Thank you. you know, you've commented but we don't have language for, is Is the direction of staff under |
| 00:14:03.68 | Joan Cox | E, and then under. |
| 00:14:05.72 | Joan Cox | Deep. |
| 00:14:06.26 | Joan Cox | THE FAMILY IS Thank you. |
| 00:14:11.39 | Joan Cox | Under D, so somewhere around about line 29. Correct. Okay. |
| 00:14:15.15 | Sybil Boutillier | Thank you. |
| 00:14:15.17 | Christy Bascom | Correct. |
| 00:14:15.61 | Sybil Boutillier | Thank you. |
| 00:14:18.53 | Joan Cox | Anybody have anything to say or suggested language? |
| 00:14:22.61 | Joan Cox | No, just kidding. |
| 00:14:23.54 | Joan Cox | Right. Thank you. Okay. |
| 00:14:26.46 | Joan Cox | So the language is, Council directed staff to schedule a workshop. to consider the strategic plan. |
| 00:14:39.81 | Joan Cox | You okay with Lily with that? Thank you. Everybody. |
| 00:14:43.39 | Jill Hoffman | I'm sorry, wait a minute. Sorry, I do want to revisit that. So are you saying at that meeting that the council directed staff to to schedule a workshop for the strategic plan yeah. I don't remember that. I remember we discussed it. |
| 00:14:56.90 | Joan Cox | Well, we certainly discuss it. What was, anybody watch the tape? What did we decide? |
| 00:15:05.73 | Joe Burns | I thought we talked about the substance of the Finance Committee looking at the strategic plan and how fast you would go through those |
| 00:15:11.23 | Peter Van Meter | Thank you. |
| 00:15:11.25 | Jill Hoffman | Right. |
| 00:15:14.28 | Joe Burns | meetings and how we balance those with how they came back to council. |
| 00:15:17.93 | Jill Hoffman | and whether or not we needed a workshop or not. that's going to be part of the presentation tonight. about whether I don't believe it. I believe we may be discussing that tonight, but I don't believe at a previous meeting we directed staff to schedule workshops. |
| 00:15:35.39 | Joan Cox | I don't recall, to be honest. I honestly don't recall. |
| 00:15:36.70 | Joe Burns | Thank you. |
| 00:15:36.73 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. |
| 00:15:36.76 | Joe Burns | TO BE HONEST. |
| 00:15:37.17 | Jill Hoffman | That was my impression. |
| 00:15:38.47 | Joan Cox | So I haven't listened to the tape. |
| 00:15:38.48 | Jill Hoffman | you Thank you. |
| 00:15:39.02 | Joan Cox | I have a |
| 00:15:39.51 | Joe Burns | THE END OF |
| 00:15:39.66 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:15:40.09 | Joe Burns | that. |
| 00:15:43.06 | Joan Cox | Yeah. |
| 00:15:43.38 | Joan Cox | Thank you. Well now I think it's sort of a moot point because we're going to be talking about that's right we need to workshop that's right now. Yeah so. |
| 00:15:44.00 | Joan Cox | Yeah, that's what we said. |
| 00:15:44.93 | Adam Politzer | So, |
| 00:15:47.06 | Joan Cox | That's right. |
| 00:15:48.78 | Adam Politzer | That's right. |
| 00:15:51.44 | Joan Cox | I believe so. Sort of a moot point. |
| 00:15:51.61 | Adam Politzer | I believe so. |
| 00:15:55.26 | Joan Cox | Okay. So with all of that, do we have a motion to approve the minute? |
| 00:15:59.64 | Joan Cox | I move we approve both sets of minutes as amended. Second. |
| 00:16:04.39 | Joan Cox | Okay, all in favor? Aye. Okay, that motion carries. Number four, consent calendar. So matters listed under the consent calendar are considered routine, 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. So let's first of all ask the public, is there any member of the public who would like to pull any item for separate discussion, any item of the consent calendar? Thank you. Thank you. Okay, seeing none, is there anybody up here who has any comments on any consent calendar item that would preclude us voting in one go here? |
| 00:16:48.18 | Joan Cox | I don't have any comments that would preclude us voting. I do have a comment on two of the items. |
| 00:16:52.41 | Joan Cox | Please? |
| 00:16:53.83 | Joan Cox | I, On item B, the action says three hours. The staff report is not clear that we're only forgiving three hours, but I confirmed today with... Um, City manager who confirmed with the police chief, we are really only granting three hours grace for the parking meters. For disaster preparedness, I asked staff to consider adding language regarding a citywide evacuation plan and resiliency to the draft resolution and the city manager and I identified where in the draft resolution those phrases could be added. And then on item F, the gingerbread house tour, I just wanted to recognize the gingerbread house tour. folks contingent in our gingerbread brigade the gingerbread brigade in our audience today and five minutes |
| 00:17:49.57 | Cheryl Basio | in. |
| 00:17:51.31 | Jill Hoffman | ginger |
| 00:17:58.17 | Joan Cox | Five minutes earlier and you would have been doing the pledge, don't worry. |
| 00:18:04.67 | Joan Cox | And just say that I thought this was an awesome effort for community involvement last year. So, and I'm happy to see it back this year. |
| 00:18:16.60 | Joan Cox | Thank you. Do we have any, do we need some clarification on the, well, I'd like to know how the resolution's been, let's put it this way, I'd like to know therefore, if you've changed the resolution for the disaster committee, what have you actually done? |
| 00:18:33.24 | Joan Cox | Okay. So. do you mind just quickly seeing it here? So at item, E. sorry, yeah, at item E where it says, Item F, encourage citizen education and disaster preparedness. We added the phrase, including a citywide evacuation plan. |
| 00:18:55.94 | Joan Cox | Yeah, that's good. |
| 00:18:56.95 | Joan Cox | Okay, and then in item D, where it says review and recommend changes to the city's disaster plan, we said including resiliency. |
| 00:19:12.05 | Joan Cox | Okay, if we know what that means. |
| 00:19:15.55 | Joan Cox | It's a term of art for insurance and for sustainability and |
| 00:19:18.82 | Joan Cox | sustainability and so. All right. I know what it means in a financial center. I'm not sure what it means in a disaster to be honest. |
| 00:19:20.34 | Joan Cox | Yeah. |
| 00:19:26.87 | Joan Cox | It is a term of art for disaster preparedness. |
| 00:19:29.21 | Joan Cox | OK. Any comments? No, okay, so. Everybody good on the consent calendar? Yep, okay. So could we have a motion then on the consent calendar? |
| 00:19:41.42 | Joan Cox | I move approval of the consent calendar. |
| 00:19:44.88 | Joan Cox | All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? No. That motion passes. Okay. Very good. Well done. |
| 00:19:46.02 | Joan Cox | Bye. |
| 00:19:51.85 | Joan Cox | We got through the consent calendar. |
| 00:19:53.28 | Joe Burns | Thank you. you |
| 00:19:54.04 | Joan Cox | Look at Alex in the back of his child. |
| 00:19:58.58 | Joan Cox | Well done. GINGER BREAD HOUSE. |
| 00:20:03.71 | Joan Cox | So he's thanking us for proving that. |
| 00:20:05.53 | Joan Cox | Right, plus sewer improvements, plus encroachment. |
| 00:20:08.37 | Joan Cox | That's right. |
| 00:20:08.45 | Adam Politzer | . |
| 00:20:09.68 | Joan Cox | Thank you, folks. |
| 00:20:10.59 | Adam Politzer | to the next episode. Thank you. |
| 00:20:12.18 | Joan Cox | Okay, item six. Item 6A is the Sausalito Art Festival report. And with that, Mike Lanford, our Parks Director. Hi, Mike. |
| 00:20:34.07 | Unknown | So good evening, Mr. Mayor, council members. Each year, as we know this, Sausalito Art Festival for, what is it, 63 years now has had a festival here in Sausalito. One of my jobs as the park and recreation director is to interface with the festival and make things sure, make things, make sure things go as planned. That includes working with the Public Works Department, the Police Department, the Fire Department, as well as the Building Inspector. I also oversee the agreement and the rental agreements with them. And part of their agreement with the city is that, The licensee shall deliver a summary report on the immediately preceding art festival to the City Council at a noticed public meeting, setting forth the then available figures for attendance, gate revenue, and number of artist entries. So here to give the report is Ms. Cindy Larrick, the Executive Director of the Saucido Art Festival. |
| 00:21:37.09 | Joan Cox | Whoa. |
| 00:21:37.50 | Cindy Larrick | you |
| 00:21:37.53 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 00:21:37.58 | Cindy Larrick | is |
| 00:21:37.90 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 00:21:38.01 | Cindy Larrick | you Hello, thank you mayor and council members for having me. I have now lived in Sausalito for six months and this past year I was observing the festival and took over the reins. on October 18th. So I will give you the report of what we have. And again, thank you for having me. and I'm gonna try to work this computer. |
| 00:22:04.45 | Cindy Larrick | First of all, I don't know if you all remember back in Labor Day, we were blessed with extreme heat and high winds. And so you're going to see a little report that's probably a little bit different than you had before. These are our box office sales. We were down, in terms of numbers, about 20%. In terms of dollars, about 10%. A big thing that's interesting that I didn't post on this is a week out, I looked at the trend of who was buying online, and we were trending right on, we were 200 tickets apart. The week came with the weather, and we were down 20%. So we realized, and we always knew, we were very weather dependent, but going forward, maybe pushing sales earlier and doing some type of discount. Again, ratio is about one-third seniors to two-thirds under senior level. For artisans, pretty normal nationwide. 55% are female. Their average age is 50. It's a big concern of the industry as the artists are aging, how we embrace the new artisans to come in. We had 27 first-time exhibitors, and 23 exhibitors had been over here, over in Sausalito for 10 years. 88.24% plan to apply again. We're a juried festival, which we select. So that's a pretty high that saying they want to come back says a lot, because a lot of times that trend is down. One of the interesting things we thought was our highest sales were $4,500,000. And this was 100 people out of that survey answered this question. Thank you. And our lowest sales were zero, and that's really normal. We do it at national art festivals. There is a trend that some people sell great, and some people don't sell, just every day. The average sales for this year are about, as you can see, around 4,000. Last year, they were recorded at 9,000. So the nice weather really does make a difference. Attendance and the buying crowd makes a difference. And also the incremental income and how many nights are spending in the North Bay area. Five nights, and at least each of them is spending over $1,000 in different things. So we are bringing a boost of some sales tax dollars into the area. And I thought it was interesting that they travel an average 812 miles to Sausalito. So it's a pretty long journey. Food booths, the sales for last year were 160,000, and it was down about 18% from all of our vendors. All of our food booths are 94965, non-profit Sausalito groups, and this is one of their largest fundraisers for them. So they too also were affected by the heat. Beverage sales, we too were down. We were down about 12% from last year. You know, when you have less people, they buy less stuff. Pretty easy. Parking, the Rotary Club, they too were down about 16%. They parked, as you can see, almost 1,000 less cars. We had in the biking in 20, I just got this right before I came, 2016, the bike, they parked 1,000 bikes. This year we did about 652. This one is amazing to me, and I was telling my peers in the event industry, I'm in a community that has 7,500 people, and look at the number of volunteers. That is almost one-third of the population of Sausalito. That is amazing. And if we had to pay for every hour of volunteers, it's about $237. That average volunteer hour is a national standard based on each state, and that's recorded through the volunteer nonprofit groups. But again, we're trending mostly female. Most of them are over 50. And so that's something too as we move forward to get more younger people involved. And if you've been there, you've probably all worked there and you all have noticed that. We had 20 musical performances, which is a big draw. Just thought it was interesting to see who played. Every year that's something we Look and review through, and who knows what will happen next year for what we get. Hopefully depend on what's hot and what's in the area for us. I wanted to show you just some of the pictures. This picture to me was amazing how hot it was on Saturday. I mean, it's not something you want to show in a promotional picture, but it was hot. I have spent the last nine years in St. Louis, and the temperatures we had in St. Louis were always 105, but people in St. Louis are used to 105. It's quite a difference. They got our weather. the following week. That was the first nice weather they had in nine years. I don't know what that says about me, but I left and they got good weather. We had extreme winds, and I don't think a lot of people saw this. The winds came in on Monday night and really blew things over, and we were able to recover and get things back up and running without the public noticing. Very fortunate, we have a great crew, great staff, great city help to help us with all that, to get that done, so no one saw that. And then a little bit of our site destruction that we had to rebuild. Hopefully we will never have to do that again. Knocking on wood, it's not fun when that happens for anyone. What we do at the Sausalito Art Festival Foundation, the foundation in the last 10 years has awarded $265,000 in scholarships. And in 2017, we'll be bringing back over $150,000 in the community through the Chamber, the Bay Model Women's Club scholarship. And we're just taking applications for our grants, and that deadline is December 1, and if you have any question or anyone needs to find out more, they're Sausalito-based nonprofit organizations. Please call or let us know. And we also do a program in the schools, and this is last year's 2016-17. We saw 1,570 students were in 11 schools with 53 classes. This semester, we're right about half of that in the schools. I think we have 25 projects going this semester. And that's all I have for you, and I hope you will join us next September, 1, 2, and 3. And it's going to be perfect weather, 80 degrees, sunny, and no winds. Thank you. |
| 00:29:00.72 | Joan Cox | Thank you, Cindy. |
| 00:29:01.57 | Cindy Larrick | Is there any questions? |
| 00:29:03.62 | Joan Cox | So, questions. you |
| 00:29:09.98 | Cindy Larrick | Great, I appreciate your time, thank you. |
| 00:29:11.35 | Joan Cox | Okay, thank you. have public comment. Is there any member of the public who'd like to comment on item 6A, the Art Festival report? OK, seeing none. |
| 00:29:26.07 | Jeffrey Chase | Excuse me, I'd like to. |
| 00:29:27.97 | Joan Cox | Oh, please. |
| 00:29:33.63 | Jeffrey Chase | I've seen the art festival for many years, and it was... It's an incredible thing to have so many people come to this town. I'd like to make sure that the art and artisans especially, as in people who make paddles and people who make boats, are encouraged the entire year, and that we don't make a mistake. And I don't think the citizens of Sausalito want to encourage people only to travel from very long distances using fuel-intensive ways to get here, And then leaving and taking money, which is great to bring artists, but the artists are here as well. On the anchorage, there are many people who have skills As photographers, as movie makers, as paddle makers, there used to be boat making all up and down. Bridgeway Avenue. that the Matthew J. Turner is A wonderful project. Matthew J. Turner, when he was building boats, put out one of these a month. He had a crew of 300 people working full time. So I wanna see art as a way of life, here with the people in a very local way and not only once a year. Art is not a special occasion. Thank you. |
| 00:31:09.53 | Joan Cox | Thank you, Jeff. Okay, any other public comment? No. OK, thank you. Bringing it back up here. Is there any comments you want to make on the report? Just a thank you. And I'll be there doing garbage next year as well. So what can I say? |
| 00:31:31.58 | Joan Cox | Okay, thank you. So our next item 6B is the general plan update, presentation on the plan synthesis report and the 1995 general plan audit. Thank you. And. I don't know if you're starting off, Danny, or if we're starting straight with Heather. |
| 00:32:23.05 | Sybil Boutillier | Thank you. |
| 00:32:23.07 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 00:32:23.09 | Sybil Boutillier | We're the hot football. |
| 00:32:24.72 | Adam Politzer | Bye. |
| 00:32:24.98 | Sybil Boutillier | Bye. |
| 00:32:25.30 | Adam Politzer | Oh, oh. |
| 00:32:25.48 | Sybil Boutillier | Bye. |
| 00:32:25.63 | Adam Politzer | Bye. |
| 00:32:25.67 | Sybil Boutillier | you |
| 00:32:25.73 | Adam Politzer | Bye. |
| 00:32:25.75 | Sybil Boutillier | Thank you. |
| 00:32:25.79 | Adam Politzer | you |
| 00:32:25.95 | Sybil Boutillier | Thank you. |
| 00:32:27.81 | Heather Hines | Great. Good evening, Mayor Withy, Council members. Happy to be here tonight. I'm Heather Hines, Principal with M Group, and I'm here tonight with my colleague Christy Bascom. And we're going to give you a little update on the project status of the general plan update. It has been, October was a very busy month for us with lots of community engagement activity. So we're're gonna run through a little bit where we are, what we've been doing. Then I'm gonna turn it over to Christy. She's going to recap on two background documents that we've been working on. We've met with the GPAC on, and that's the plan synthesis report and the general plan audit. So as you may recall, the general plan effort is broken up into four phases. And we're currently in the understanding phase of the project. Um, We've gone through a period of data gathering and we've done that closely with the GPAC, the General Plan Advisory Committee and staff. We've been collecting background research. We have been meeting with different members of the public. We have had a series of engagement we have so far facilitated nine GPAC meetings. We've had five stakeholder meetings, two walking tours, a pop-up workshop, and a community workshop. So as I said, it was a busy October, running into the beginning of November, and we have a number of additional meetings coming up through the end of the year, into the beginning of 2018, when we will be wrapping up the understanding phase. And really the culmination of the understanding phase is a comprehensive conditions report. So it really sets the stage of these are the existing conditions and then we will move into phase two which is the visiting, visioning. And that's really where we start talking about policies, what the vision is, what's gonna carry over, but what new visions we're going to be looking at and start that discussion. It's been one of the hard parts with the background gathering is everyone wants to jump right into the visioning, and we keep trying to say we're still gathering the information and we're still doing the understanding. So that's kind of a snapshot, quick snapshot, of where we are. We have a GPAC meeting tomorrow where we are looking at the environmental conditions background report. followed with One more meeting before the end of the year, which is the I think the fifth Yep, the 5th of December where we're looking at land use conditions. And then we start the new year on the 16th of January with a review of circulation conditions. So a lot of work ahead, a lot of great work so far. And that's where we are. I'm going to turn it over to Christy now. to run through those two background reports kind of provide an update of what they're about what input we got from the gpac and then kind of solicit any update from council that you'd like to add. |
| 00:35:40.03 | Christy Bascom | Thank you. Thank you, Heather, good evening, council members. So I will briefly go through two different reports that were prepared as background material. and presented to the General Plan Advisory Committee. So first we have the plan synthesis report. which is really an opportunity for us to gather all of the different policy documents that the city has that relate to land use and development and goals and vision for the community AND, synthesize those down and present those to the GPAC for kind of an overall understanding the reports that exist in the community. So along with the general plan, which is of course the overarching policy document, there are several different specialized plans, policies, and other studies that really guide development and inform planning in Sausalito. So we have them in the report broken up into four different categories. So we have our official plans. So those are things that, plans like the Marineship Specific Plan, the Climate Action Plan. So these are plans that have been officially adopted by the city and Guide planning. The second group is adopted policies. So these aren't the big plans, but they're resolutions, ordinances, other initiatives, and policy statements, again, that have been officially adopted by the city of Sausalito. Now there are also regional plans that affect the area, the Richardson Bay Special Area Plan, the Marin County General Plan. So these are plans that inform and impact what's going on in Sausalito, but they were not adopted by the city. Then we also have a group of what we're calling special studies. Now these are things that inform policy planning and development but have not been incorporated into the city's official plans or official policies. So these are documents such as the Imagine Sausalito efforts and reports that were compiled. presented to the City Council in many ways, very valid, interesting, and very useful policy documents, but not ones that were adopted by the city. So we looked through all those and put together this plan synthesis report that was provided to the City Council. So it has an introduction of all those plans and documents, a background on the documents and a summary what we saw as a summary of the major policy directions, and then M Group prepared a list of considerations that we think should inform the general plan update for each plan or policy. So we presented those considerations to the General Plan Advisory Committee and asked for some feedback as to whether we're kind of gathering those considerations, whether we're whether we're seeing the plans in the right light. What we're really intending to do is just get a handle on all of the different policy direction that we need to be factoring in when we're looking at the general plan update. So at the time of preparing this planned synthesis report, and as Heather described, kind of all through this understanding phase. We're not attempting to write policy, we're not attempting to engage GPAC yet in determining any policy alternatives or what future policy language should be. We're really just trying to get a handle on what are the existing policy documents and what are the big policy considerations that we should be taking into account. as we're having these conversations. So the general plan advisory committee took a look at this plan synthesis report. and the recommendations that we prepared. and we had a discussion with them at one of the GPAC meetings about if there was anything that we were off base on. Were there conclusions that we should be drawing or understanding out of some of the reports that were not reflected there? So the summary, plan synthesis summary that you're seeing this evening reflects M groups, considerations, as well as feedback that we got from the GPAC. clarified that these are this is direction that we received at the gpac meeting So these are considerations only, again, not policy recommendations. And not all considerations that were in the plan synthesis report were necessarily discussed by the GPAC. So we relied on the group to talk about those key policy directions that they thought were worth discussing at the meeting and either telling us that we're off base on something or should be considering something. So do keep that in mind as you're looking through the plan synthesis report It has been updated since it went to the GPAC with the direction that we believe we heard from the GPAC. So when we went to the general plan advisory committee, We provided again a summary of the plan, whether it was the marine ship specific plan, climate action plan. And then we identified what we thought was in that plan that is important to be considering once we move into the visioning stage and the policy development stage. So the plan synthesis report is really outlined Um, again with the official plans and then the regional plans below. One thing I will or two things we'll call attention to is the planning in the marine ship section. Because there are so many documents that relate to the marine ship, Instead of breaking them up into official plans and unofficial plans, we group them all together. Just so when you're reading the plan synthesis report, you read all about the marineship all at once. One thing to keep in mind too is that the plan synthesis report that the council looked at for this evening contains some considerations that we think are important that were pulled out of the Plan Bay Area effort, the Plan Bay Area 2040. which was these are things that came out after the GPAC meeting, but before and before the city council meeting so these are things we're going to need to circle back with the g back on that The council will be taking a look at tonight and giving us any input that they have So in terms of the past and recent planning studies and efforts, These are again the unofficial documents that we are keeping in mind as we're looking at the general plan update. So a lot of the Imagine Sausalito reports and some of the other economic community and economic development studies. and some other specific studies that were again, not adopted as official plans, but things that we think are important to consider as we move into the policy development phase of the general plan. So for the plan Bay Area 2040, these are again considerations that we thought were important to highlight for the council's consideration that the GPAC has not had an opportunity to weigh in on yet. But we put them out before you because we will be bringing these back to the GPAC and also getting their feedback on them as well. |
| 00:42:43.58 | Christy Bascom | So the second part of the documents that we wanted to present to the council this evening that have also gone to the GPAC is the general plan audit. So this is a Another big part of its understanding phase where we went through the general plan, looked at all of the different goals, policies, and programs, and identified specifically the programs that came out of each element. what we did was identify each of those programs and then engage the GPAC in a conversation as to whether that program was still relevant and appropriate for Sausalito. whether it was something that should be considered and brought forward into the next general plan, maybe not exactly as written, maybe very different from what was that written as it was currently written, but an issue that needs to be brought forward and discussed. |
| 00:43:38.46 | Christy Bascom | The 1995 general plan and the general plan audit were divided up into the different elements and the different sections of the document. So the 1995 general plan has These six sections which relate to the requirements under state law, so land use and growth management, community design and historic preservation, circulation and parking, environmental quality, health and safety, and of course, an economic element as well. So the way that we approached this with the general plan advisory committee was to, we presented a huge table with all of the different programs that came out of the 1995 general plan. We have the policy. the specific program, and then the program status was developed by M Group in consultation with city staff to figure out whether the program had been implemented already. whether it was still something that should be considered for the future general plan. or maybe it's irrelevant entirely. So we had a program status, which was again a recommendation from M group and staff. And then we had the status and then we had the actual recommendation, whether we thought that program should be whether it should be removed from consideration for the general plan, or whether it was coded yellow, which meant we really need the GPAC's input. No, this was just on the programs. We did not have the conversation with the general plan advisory committee on the goals. or on the overall policies, we were really down at the program level. with the goal of just really starting to understand the breadth of programs that need to be carried forward. So with each of these, we had, again, a recommendation Many of them were discussed at the general plan advisory committee meeting Some were not, and those that were not just carried forward the recommendation that was in the original report. So all of that to get back to the City Council on the feedback that is requested this evening, which is to Review the plan synthesis report and the considerations that have been provided for each plan and policy. Again, these are issues that we think need to be discussed in the general plan when we move into the next phase, when we really start figuring out what the vision for the community is, when we really start talking about the specific policy alternatives. Thank you. considerations in the plan synthesis report, don't recommend any particular policy option or alternative, we're just trying to identify what we think is important and we're looking for the city council's feedback as well. we'd like you to take a look at the general plan audit and the recommendations that were provided for each implementation program. Maybe there is something in there that you know has been implemented or hasn't been implemented, something we have off. Again, the goals and policies in the general plan are untouched, these are specifically related to the programs and focusing on their implementation. Lastly, we'd like the City Council to share any background information that you have that should be included in the plan synthesis report or the general plan audit. This helps us understand kind of the proper assessment and understanding of issues. As Heather mentioned, we've gotten a lot of great feedback from the community on a really wide variety of land use development and planning topics. And we're looking just for your kind of weigh in on these particular topics as well and these considerations. Our next step after this will be to bring this report back to the GPAC. with the City Council, any City Council feedback? and giving them an opportunity to review and make sure that we got everything accurate before it becomes one of the first kind of published documents out of the general plan update. So that concludes our presentation part of it. Heather and I are happy to answer any questions that the council may have about either document. at any time. |
| 00:47:31.69 | Joan Cox | Thank you, thanks a lot. Questions? |
| 00:47:38.37 | Joe Burns | Thank you. |
| 00:47:38.39 | Joan Cox | Who wants to? |
| 00:47:39.03 | Joe Burns | to kick off. Okay, go. Ciao. Thank you, Christy and Heather. Great work and a great read as far as looking through the template of the policies and their recommendations. I've attended two of the meetings of the BAC and the Marineship Walk. Very encouraging to see. I'm getting to a question. Very encouraging to see the participation in the Marinship Walk and that it went long in time because there's the engagement that we were hopeful that the community would go through through that process. My question is kind of, looking forward in the next phase of visioning. And you even mentioned that people are trying to jump there, and I'm guilty of that. Simply because I don't want, there's two types of vision, or a scale of vision, anywhere from dreaming to a very confined vision. And I want to be careful that we don't get into a confined vision scenario, where we realize the restrictions to vision before we realize the vision. And we were kind of careful to do that at the walking tour, that we make sure that we're suggesting what's there now, but that doesn't mean that these things can't change. whether they need to or not. But when it comes to vision, and I'm now looking at the question, In your experience of these things, how do we implement a vision that comes out of nowhere, or one that's right in front of us, and I'll suggest two hypotheticals. One that's in front of us is the change of education in our community that's changed since 1995. We have three growing private schools, a very successful charter school, and then the continuation of our two nursery schools. That's put a tremendous change in our... land use opportunities and needs as well as commercial opportunity and character. So as we have already identified that as a vision that's occurring and then you know a hypothetical of something like we want to make rockets or we want to be performing arts mecca of the North Bay. How does that roll into what's already been done? And have you seen it at work in your other involvements here? How do we take something that comes out of nowhere or that we know about as a vision and implement it? |
| 00:50:03.34 | Christy Bascom | Well, I think first of all, the conversations about visioning will be very It will be very broad. We spent a lot of time really trying to understand what the issues are in the community, Once. Once you kind of get that and we prepare the existing conditions report, that'll be kind of our comprehensive lay of the land. And then you start talking about what's the next step? And I think, so you have that conversation with the community, which we intend to do through a variety of workshops and discussions to find out now that we know kind of what exists, what is important for the community to pull forward into the future. So specifically related to schools, I think we'll need to kind of have that conversation about what the future needs are. We're identifying what the existing conditions are, but we'll have that conversation about what our future needs And is that a shared vision of the community? And if so, what needs to be done in order to make that happen? So I think that's just, it'll be an iterative process and it will be a series of conversations with the community But the overarching vision of the general plan does need to be something that has broad support. |
| 00:51:13.96 | Joe Burns | Okay. And then one item that's come up on this dais is short-term rentals and we kind of punted that to the general plan process. Where does it fall in? especially into some of the work that's just been completed, was it starting to fill into some spots? |
| 00:51:31.41 | Christy Bascom | We certainly see the short term rental question as having come up in Several different topical areas, one of them being economic considerations, another being the fiscal impacts and potential benefits of short-term rentals. It's also a land use issue, can also be a, community. kind of character and community preservation and neighborhood preservation issue. So I think it will come up in various ways kind of across a variety of spectrums. And again, that will be part of the the visioning and the discussions with the community of how important Is that to include and what direction does the community want to take that discussion? |
| 00:52:13.65 | Joe Burns | and a way to be studied. |
| 00:52:15.12 | Christy Bascom | and a way to be studied. |
| 00:52:16.18 | Joe Burns | OK. |
| 00:52:17.97 | Heather Hines | Can I add something? Back on the topic of visioning and you brought up schools and kind of the change in education and more young people. Um, in Sausalito. We're seeing threads of those kind of common themes through a lot of the outreach we've done. So for instance, one of the stakeholder meetings we had, With the park and rec commission brought up the issue of more young people, more teenagers, more, you know, changing the needs of the community need to change to react to The changes we're seeing in population, we'll see some of that in some of the background demographics, some of the background on schools, so even though we're not talking about specific visions yet, you're starting to see some common threads sprinkled through that we're taking notes on and we're gonna be thinking about ways, okay, so we heard that common thread of |
| 00:53:04.12 | Peter Van Meter | you're just |
| 00:53:15.58 | Heather Hines | I'm not sure. being inclusive of all ages in Sausalito and growing youth population. So now how do we go into some of our visioning activities, asking those broad questions and taking those threads and sparking that dialogue? |
| 00:53:33.89 | Joe Burns | Okay. |
| 00:53:34.20 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 00:53:35.43 | Joe Burns | Thank you. |
| 00:53:35.46 | Joan Cox | Thank you. Okay, more questions. |
| 00:53:41.25 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah, I think, and this is a question, I think, this is a follow-up to Joe's question, with regard to I mean, I think he was also specifically asking where a study of the short term you know issue would come under you know the different categories that you guys are looking at because that was a part of our discussion when we had a pilot program and that Council decided not to go forward that pilot program. I think part of that discussion was we're going to really look at this when we're looking at the General plan update. And so we would I mean, I think Thank you. |
| 00:54:16.10 | Adam Politzer | Yeah. |
| 00:54:16.13 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. The thought was it would specifically be in here. under one of these categories somewhere for specific review. And I think there's a, anyway, so was that your, if we're looking at, you know. |
| 00:54:28.16 | Heather Hines | We also, that came up in the business advisory committee and the tourism, and we've talked with our economic consultant a little bit, touching on that. It definitely relates to tourism. It's one of those threads we've been hearing in terms of getting people here and supplementing the established hotels in town to bring people in. Different people want different experiences, perhaps short term rentals. Um, bring a different experience to the tourists coming into Sausalito than staying at one of the established hotels. So we are talking about it and looking into it. It did come up. We know that that's something that was kind of pushed for discussion in the general plan. |
| 00:55:16.78 | Joe Burns | And pushed for discussion and I think pushed for study. which you said we will do, I thought it might have fallen into a recommendation somewhere along the line to start becoming a, and this is where we would recommend looking at this impact of short-term rental or this benefit of short-term rental. So I just don't want it to stay as a conversation and not hit the paper at some point. |
| 00:55:41.01 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 00:55:41.26 | Joe Burns | To study, because we're using it to study, to find the answer, not to, because we don't know if we want the answer or not. |
| 00:55:41.43 | Adam Politzer | to study it because we're using this. |
| 00:55:44.44 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 00:55:50.44 | Joan Cox | Right. So we're in the understanding phase right now, correct? So we're looking at what exists now, would you agree? |
| 00:55:58.38 | Joe Burns | in the future. |
| 00:55:59.62 | Joan Cox | And so the next step is visioning. And in that visioning portion, will we be looking at our various visions for New programs, new policies in Sausalito? That's correct. |
| 00:56:20.92 | Joan Cox | I mean this is an audit of what exists now. |
| 00:56:23.70 | Christy Bascom | Right. |
| 00:56:23.76 | Jill Hoffman | And |
| 00:56:26.44 | Joan Cox | Well, they're precluded now. |
| 00:56:29.00 | Christy Bascom | Yeah, it is correct. It is an audit and analysis of the existing policy documents that the city has. The city has had the short-term rental task force and certainly has had a lot of discussion. But as the Vice Mayor indicated, no. policy recommendation, there's nothing that has come out of it yet. So it's not reflected in the existing conditions. although we know that there's clearly something that will become a topic of discussion as we move into the where do we want to go from here phase. |
| 00:56:58.08 | Joan Cox | And one follow on is during our discussions, we've been asking you to keep track of items for future discussion and consideration, have we not? Certainly. And this is on that list, correct? |
| 00:57:07.22 | Christy Bascom | Yeah. . |
| 00:57:09.89 | Jill Hoffman | very close to the top. Thank you. |
| 00:57:12.05 | Joan Cox | Yeah. |
| 00:57:13.76 | Jill Hoffman | I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS. And just to clarify, at this meeting today, you're expecting... Feedback from the city council on everything that you've done to this point, or this is just a presentation of sort of where we are and for us to weigh in as we go forward? |
| 00:57:30.80 | Christy Bascom | a presentation of where we are primarily or the plan synthesis report and the general plan audit. If there's anything you see in the documents that we've provided that you think merits important consideration as we move forward into this next phase of the general plan. You see maybe there's something we've missed something we haven't necessarily Characterized quite accurately that the council wants to weigh in on we'd love to hear that at this point But it is kind of just, it's a check-in of sorts. |
| 00:57:58.95 | Joan Cox | Well, but you've given us considerations on pages five through 25, five through 26 in highlighted that you want our feedback on, correct? |
| 00:58:10.27 | Christy Bascom | If there's anything that the council has for feedback, we'd love it, yes. |
| 00:58:14.00 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. Well, I don't see that. I don't see if that's going to happen tonight. I'm going to give you feedback tonight, but I don't know about it. Yeah, I think that's ambitious. Yeah. |
| 00:58:19.28 | Christy Bascom | I'm going to give you feedback tonight, but I don't know about it. |
| 00:58:25.09 | Jill Hoffman | I'm not sure if you're not sure if I don't want this perceived to be, well, we came to the city council and we asked for 40 pages of whatever it is of feedback and we didn't get it, so everything's great. So I think, and I appreciate the magnitude of what you guys are doing too, so I don't want that to be But anyway, I look forward to hearing my And I'm wondering if I'm not sure. I wonder if we want to have some kind of mechanism. If we see something, I certainly would follow up with you guys on it and have that in some sort of, mechanism for that other than we have two city council members that are on the general plan update committee, so maybe that's something we might want to think about. But the |
| 00:59:14.73 | Joan Cox | Yeah. DPAC has not seen what's in front of us tonight in its current form. Oh, well, okay. |
| 00:59:17.77 | Jill Hoffman | IT'S GOING TO BE ABLE TO So |
| 00:59:20.20 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 00:59:20.22 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:59:20.23 | Joan Cox | All right. We might want to do a follow-up or something. I wonder if we might, for the future, if there is homework, just as we do on the GPAC, we make it very clear to the GPAC, here's your homework, here's what we want from you. I wonder if going forward we might adopt that same procedure for the city council so that when we get the staff report, we're not thinking we're just reading this as an interesting update, but we have clear direction from the m group about what it is you're seeking from the city council we would like your response to our highlighted considerations on pages 5 7 10 12 15 and 18. If there's action required. If there's action required to... |
| 00:59:58.54 | Jill Hoffman | SO. SHOULD WE COULD? |
| 01:00:02.61 | Joan Cox | you know, don't hide the leaf because, you know, this is our city council packet for tonight. This is what we were dealing with just for this meeting tonight, and so it's a lot to THEIR OWNERS. comprehend and assimilate. |
| 01:00:20.76 | Adam Politzer | Yes. |
| 01:00:21.02 | Joan Cox | And so that kind of clear direction, is it possible for you to give that to us to help us know what you want from us in the future? |
| 01:00:28.76 | Christy Bascom | I think that was the intent of the recommended motion on the first page of the staff report. But if we could provide greater clarity in the future, we'd be happy to. |
| 01:00:43.06 | Joan Cox | And I don't have more questions I do have feedback. |
| 01:00:48.59 | Joan Cox | Okay, is there any other questions? maybe we should open this for public comment and Thank you. Then we may have some more questions. Okay. Um... Thank you. All right, so is there any members of the public who would like to comment on this is item 6B, the general plan update. First one I have here is Peter Van Meter. |
| 01:01:25.51 | Peter Van Meter | Yes, Mr. Mayor and Councilmembers, I am Peter Van Meter, also a member of the General Plan Advisory Committee. I submitted that card just in case I needed to say something. I don't really need to say anything now that I've heard the presentation. But I will say that I'm very complimentary of the M Group and the other staff consultants that we have. They've done a massive amount of work. Thank you. as I waded through our materials for tomorrow night's meeting, which is just Mind-blowing. to say the least. It shows the incredible amount of background effort that's gone into this and I highly compliment them on the work that they've done and look forward to continuing to work on the process. |
| 01:02:08.85 | Joan Cox | Thank you, Peter. I see I have some more cards now. |
| 01:02:18.91 | Joan Cox | Kevin, you submitted a card for item 5B, but there isn't an item 5B, so I wondered if you meant 6B. |
| 01:02:27.55 | Adam Politzer | Yeah, I had difficulty following |
| 01:02:29.22 | Kevin | Thank you. |
| 01:02:29.45 | Joan Cox | Yeah, no, please, it is out of order, I agree. |
| 01:02:36.49 | Joan Cox | So please, Kevin. |
| 01:02:42.26 | Kevin | I think it may be important to increase the magnitude of documentation on some, especially this matter here, until the real truth of the matter is at hand. because I don't think The city is prepared from its history or it doesn't seem to be planning to move forward in cohesiveness with the federal government. and using agreements and And that type of That type of planning, for the type of things that have been going on here for the last 30 years shouldn't be allowed to continue. I don't think it'll stand. I think the M group looks to be fairly competent in what they're doing. and they're not gonna let you do that. I think they will recommend that you that you stick with real law instead of backroom agreements and property use agreements. that you've been using for 30 years to take people's homes and crush them with a big tractor, whatever tractor you choose to pay for that week. That era is coming to an end. So the extension of comment period for the definition of the waters of the United States, the WOTUS, has ended. So now we can sit back and we can see where the federal government is going to set the perimeters the real boundaries The truth of the matters. Where are the real boundaries of the Army Corps lands? The Army Corps waters, the waters of the US, the waters of Dumpy Park, the waters of Sausalito. That's the truth of the matter. And those are going to have to beat out |
| 01:04:53.13 | Joan Cox | Thank you, sir. Doug Storms. |
| 01:05:03.47 | Doug Storms | Douglas Storms, 700 Waldo Point, Sausalito, California. Let's see, I have a question for the ladies that gave the presentation. Is there any representation from the maritime community, i.e., specifically the Richardson Bay Special Anchorage Association, the people that live, work, play, love, hate? on the waters of Richardson Bay, of which Sausley was included. Has there been any Invitation. to be a part of the the general plan, and I'll probably have similar questions concerning the waterfront management plan also. What has the Outreach, Ben. I'm not allowed to ask that. |
| 01:05:59.14 | Joan Cox | Well, this is comments to the council. The members of the council may very well ask staff to respond if they can tonight. |
| 01:06:05.20 | Doug Storms | Okay. Thank you. If they can tonight. Okay, so it'll be transmitted. That was a concern that I have is because really Sausalito is part of an international port. This is a precious resource here. People from all around the world come to Sausalito. They come to Richardson Bay of which Sausalito is the critical part. And that whole concern, and I guess I speak on behalf of the cruisers and the maritime workers that come to Sausalito, and that part really needs to be brought into the planning phase and all that. Sausalito has a rich history of maritime history, and it's happening today, and it's going to continue into the, 22nd century, but what format, what form is it going to be? Is it going to be like another Newport Beach or is it going to be a uniquely characteristic Sausalito international port? And that was a concern that I have and it's not going to get there unless the Maritime community, their input is a part of this planning process. Thank you very much. |
| 01:07:23.01 | Joan Cox | Thank you Doug. Jeff Jacob. |
| 01:07:31.35 | Jeffrey Chase | First, I'd like to say thank you for extending the dock at Turney Street, the half of one public dock that has given For the anchorage, for the 80 to 100 people or whatever it is on any given day who live out there. So now the dock is longer, and I know there was a lot of work that went into that. So thanks. Um... I'm just gonna read, I'll just read a short bit. From Micah 6. It says, what does the Lord require of you but to do justice to love kindness. and to walk humbly with your God. |
| 01:08:21.89 | Jeffrey Chase | I try and bring a combination sometimes of, I have done this before when I was here before, of the Torah and what's happening in the local political scene. Um... I don't know the people from the M group I don't say that they're not humble, that they're not walking with their God, that they don't love kindness. I am saying this, that there is a constitution in California, it's the longest one, in the country. Article 16 says... The legislature, which also includes city council, has no power to make any gift or authorize the making of any gift of public money or thing of value to any individual, municipal, or corporation, whatever. Um, And it says, In last year, people met to try and understand what Article 16, Um, Section four really means and it says, It says there are exceptions. to giving money to consultants or to private people. One of them, it says, expenditure is valid under public purpose, exception if there is an incidental private benefit. Now I'm having an issue with participation here just for the vote, as I was saying before. And as Doug was saying, the participation has been lacking from the waterfront too. what this section of the California Constitution says take money out of politics. Don't. worry about paying the city workers pay the city workers but to hire consultants to tell us what we know, and to exclude a certain members of the community, is against the California Constitution. Thank you. |
| 01:10:34.27 | Joan Cox | Thanks, Jeff. Adam Gravassi? |
| 01:10:45.58 | Adam Krivachi | Good evening everyone, Adam Krivachi, 840 Olimo Street. I would like to underscore Peter Wernmeter's commentary on the consulting team. You must have heard this from other sources, that they are doing a formidable job, very well-prepared meetings, very thorough analysis, and I was most impressed participating in some of the events because all of them well prepared and the staff working for the consulting team So, displayed an excellent understanding of what was in the documents that they analyzed, and they showed tremendous interest and receptivity to commentary that were offered during public walks or the pop-up meeting or whatever. That's one comment. The second comment I would like to CHALLENGE, EVERYONE. who will... is involved in this process. not to just read past policies, But to look at those policies which of the policies have been successfully IMPLEMENTED. in Hawaii. and which have not been implemented and why. because that could serve as direction for the future thinking for the imagination or the creative process that follows. ONCE WE UNDERSTAND THAT policies were to save the waterfront. What does that mean? What do we save it for? And Uh, some other comments on we should help bicycle circulation, but we had a $100,000 study. for the Greenway system And There is no trace of it that anything would have been done about the Greenway system. Since then, it was probably five years ago. Thank you. So we should analyze Ardo's ideas reflected in the general plan as impractical, and then they should be omitted, or |
| 01:13:26.80 | Peter Van Meter | Thank you. |
| 01:13:33.30 | Adam Krivachi | If they are practical, how can we implement them? I would suggest that you look for the reason why some policies have been successfully implemented, why it could not progress. Thank you. |
| 01:13:49.41 | Joan Cox | Thank you, Adam. Sybil Boutilier? |
| 01:13:58.76 | Sybil Boutillier | Good evening Mayor, Vice Mayor, City Council Members, Sybil Boutillier. I just want to make a couple of comments about what I've heard tonight. And also, I participated in a few of the meetings and agree with previous comments about how well they've been conducted by this team. I'm very impressed, I've worked on strategic planning in many different phases of my own career. And I think they're doing a fantastic job I especially am very impressed by how they are carefully segmenting the elements that need to go into developing a plan that can be implemented specifically holding off on visioning until you really have all the foundation information I haven't of course read the entire document that they're referring to tonight, but I did just now get a chance to read their summary of the Age Friendly Plan which is a 95-page document which they've summarized in its essence very well. They, I believe, really have a lot carefully pointed to the most essential elements of that plan and some of the specifics. And I would say that if they have gone through all the other plans with that same care and attention, then we should be very proud of the work that they've done for us so far. Thank you. |
| 01:15:43.24 | Joan Cox | Thank you. That's all the cards I've got. Is there anybody else who'd like to comment on this agenda item? Okay, seeing none, let's bring it back here. So I'm wondering, first of all, whether we could ask staff... perhaps the M group too, is there any follow up thing you'd like to add? You had a few questions thrown out there. Particular outreach on the waterfront, I know we've done a lot. So do you want to just briefly maybe talk about that? |
| 01:16:22.32 | Heather Hines | So I'm hoping Lily or Danny will help me supplement as needed. We have done a lot of the outreach events have been around the waterfront. So we did a Marinship stakeholder meeting, which we did over, we've also been trying to stagger the days and the times that we're holding these different events. in an effort to get all the different people with different schedules and different commitments able to attend one, at least one of the events. Speaking specifically to the waterfront, We had the Marinship stakeholder meeting, which really looked at property owners, property management, business owners in the Marinship. That was, I think it was a lunchtime meeting. And we had tremendous Um, attendance with that. We had a table that probably, I don't have the numbers in front of me, but we probably had a table that sat 20, and we had, at least three rows of additional people that came that weren't specific stakeholders on the invitation list that went out, We're given an opportunity to participate. in that. We had a Marinship walk. that started at Galilee Harbor, so it really went along as much of the waterfront walk that we could through the Marin ship, going through the different areas of the Marin ship. I think we had 38 people there. We had an RSVP, I think we were expecting like 15 people and we had 38 people, that was held late afternoon during the week. And then immediately after that we did a pop-up workshop in front of Molly Stones at about six o'clock, I think it was. The intention there was to try to catch people on their way home from work, stopping at the store. Thank you. for five minutes, 15 minutes to have a quick conversation, try to go to where people were instead of asking people to meet us at a certain place. Then on a Saturday, we had a waterfront walking tour that kind of was bigger than specific Marinship, and we held that on a Saturday to try to get people, residents, people who use the waterfront that don't necessarily work there, aren't necessarily there Monday through Friday, 8 to 5. So we've had a variety of events specific. We actually held our community workshop at the May Model, too, that did not have the as great of attendance. That was something that was held, um, I think it was the Saturday right after the fires. So we didn't have as great of a turnout for that as we had hoped. But so thinking specifically about the waterfront I would say we've spent a lot of time in that area. We've heard from a lot of different people. We kind of have a core group of people that we see repeatedly at events. And then every event we have new faces, new input, new perspectives that come in. So I'm not going to be able to list exactly all the noticing we've done for those. I know we've had it on our web. That's good, thanks. |
| 01:19:40.45 | Joan Cox | No, that's good, thanks. Okay. Yeah, no, that's good, Heather. |
| 01:19:42.03 | Joan Cox | I heard that. |
| 01:19:42.24 | Heather Hines | Yeah. |
| 01:19:42.27 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 01:19:43.91 | Joan Cox | And, you know, the |
| 01:19:43.94 | Joan Cox | And can we also tell people here and listening online how to receive notice of future GPAC events? Yeah. Danny was coming to the podium for that purpose. |
| 01:19:43.99 | Joan Cox | Yeah. |
| 01:19:52.82 | Heather Hines | Yeah. So we do have a project website, SausalitoGeneralPlan.org. Correct. I always want to put the wrong ending on that. But Sausalito, generalplan.org, there's a way to submit comments. We post all of the events on there. For each of the walking tours and events, we had an opportunity for people to RSVP. We even for the walking tours, we did some Um, We recorded at each of the stops and we have a map that shows where each of the stops are. So if somebody wasn't able to attend, they're able to look at that map and then click in and hear the actual little presentation and discussion at each of the stops. |
| 01:20:35.55 | Joan Cox | And people can get on a mailing list too, right? |
| 01:20:38.82 | Danny Castro | Yes, this is Danny Castro. the Saucida website, general plan website, you can go in, put your email there, and then you will be notified of any future meetings. You can even choose what special topics that you're interested in, and we'll make sure that we include you of those special meetings. We've been also advertising all the outreach meetings on the currents, the sausage of currents. They also get on Nextdoor, which is our local, another media way of advertising. So we feel like we really are, really cornered this outreach, you know, and we hope to continue to do that, even improve upon any new ways of outreaching to the community, especially as we move forward. |
| 01:21:23.71 | Joan Cox | Okay, I have one other request. I'm wondering if we have any more questions or just comments, right? Comments, okay, so I have one last question. And that is, could you just briefly mention again that the difference |
| 01:21:23.77 | Danny Castro | Okay. |
| 01:21:43.25 | Joan Cox | The recommendations that you're putting here in terms of things to consider versus policy things we need to consider in the actual general plan process, because I think there still might be a bit of confusion around what we mean by recommendations here. Thank you. This isn't the general plan we're writing here, right? Correct. Right. |
| 01:22:03.56 | Heather Hines | This is a... Correct. So it really was We started with looking at the general plan, and we thought it was important to look at all of the programs that were put out in the general plan and determine Are they done? Were they accomplished? Are they things that maybe at the time they seemed really important but changes in regulations or changes in public sentiment, they really don't apply anymore, or are they things that this is still really important and we didn't get to it and we really need to figure out a way to still get to it and carry that forward. So that's what the general plan audit was. It was looking at the programs because as we go in and we start talking about policies and goals, it's important to really look at the pragmatic implementation of those programs that were meant to implement those policies. |
| 01:22:59.47 | Joan Cox | And how about, I get that, how about the recommendations in the plan synthesis report? |
| 01:23:06.15 | Heather Hines | So, Those recommendations, so one of the things we realized is that, Sausalito has a general plan, but there's a lot of other documents, ordinances, resolutions, efforts, studies that have been done. And so it wouldn't do justice to just look at the general plan. We wanted to make sure we captured all of those other things. So we did our best. working with staff to identify all those adopted plans, ordinances, resolutions, studies, committee effort, and review them, try to summarize them, and summarize kind of the key points, the key recommendations out of each of those. And so that was put forward to the GPAC as Is this an accurate summary? Are these accurate takeaway of the essential points that came out of this study? did we miss a study, did we miss a resolution? So it was just a check-in. It was like, this is what we're looking at, are we on the right track? |
| 01:24:07.34 | Joan Cox | Yes. Thank you. So unless we've missed something, and we should scour again Just as an aside, unfortunately I missed the general plan. The advisory committee meeting in which this report was presented and discussed. So I'm actually in a sense seeing it de novo. THE the you're not, The GPAC, as I understand it, hasn't endorsed. So say some of the recommendations that were made in I don't know, let's pick something. One of the Imagine Sol Solito reports, for instance, which was those were not officially adopted by the council. They were sort of like vision and documents, in a sense. You're not saying that the GPAC committee is saying we accept the recommendations of all these reports. In fact, they specifically don't say that in some cases, right? The recommendations that were made in these reports need to be evaluated. That says I'm reading this, is that correct? |
| 01:25:11.18 | Joan Cox | That says I'm Is that correct? Is this an accurate summary? Except in one place where they say the WAM Committee Report and PlaceWorks study recommendations are valid. |
| 01:25:14.44 | Christy Bascom | more. |
| 01:25:14.71 | Joan Cox | Yeah. |
| 01:25:14.94 | Christy Bascom | Thank you. |
| 01:25:14.98 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 01:25:15.10 | Christy Bascom | Thank you. |
| 01:25:23.10 | Joan Cox | Oh, I did notice that. |
| 01:25:23.45 | Joan Cox | And so I'm not sure that's |
| 01:25:24.72 | Joan Cox | Yeah. |
| 01:25:26.81 | Joan Cox | entirely, I think we said that work was very well done and we should give great consideration. But I don't think we, as a blanket statement, said all of the recommendations in those two reports are valid. |
| 01:25:41.74 | Heather Hines | I don't think you said that all of them were valid either. I think the sentiment was a lot of work had gone in, a lot of involvement. These were really important things to continue to look at build upon. |
| 01:25:55.28 | Joan Cox | Yeah, so that's at the bottom of page 11. Yeah, no, I sold that. Yeah, so and I have a few other minor comments along those lines. As I said, the G pack has not seen this these considerations summarized in this way. |
| 01:25:57.60 | Joan Cox | Yeah, no, I sold that. I sold that. |
| 01:26:09.30 | Joan Cox | yet, so, um, So... |
| 01:26:12.98 | Joan Cox | Yeah, so I also want to sort of, again, before we get to real comments, I wanna try and ask a question that's been in a sense provoked, in my mind, by Councilmember Hoffman's I think quite rightly, saying, You can't expect us to give feedback on this. Thank you. in one meeting. That's not going to work. So thoughts? |
| 01:26:37.19 | Adam Politzer | Yeah. |
| 01:26:44.50 | Jill Hoffman | The Pressure on the Pressure on |
| 01:26:45.80 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 01:26:48.06 | Jill Hoffman | We've had the presentation and we've had the report. I mean, I think we need to look at it and have time to look at it. But I think, you know, but going forward, I think we definitely need to have you know action items in the staff report I do have a few comments about the way things are referenced just on my quick look at this really quickly. So I don't know if we want to schedule a follow-up. I don't know how to do that. |
| 01:27:13.24 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 01:27:13.41 | Jill Hoffman | TRYING TO STRATE. |
| 01:27:13.81 | Joan Cox | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 01:27:14.00 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:27:14.03 | Joan Cox | with that there are five phases to the general plan I mean I you're gonna hate me for this but I mean I wonder if we shouldn't have a workshop |
| 01:27:14.84 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. |
| 01:27:26.01 | Joan Cox | for the various phases. This is a four year process. And so, I mean, I don't think it would be unheard of for us as a council to have a workshop, perhaps with other folks as well, at the end of each phase in which we, you know, review what the GPAC recommendations are with respect to that phase and provide comment. But I agree with you, it's not something that we can perhaps effectively do in, a 20 minute city council presentation. We, as a, you know, the GPAC meets for two hours at a time and you know we spent the entire two hours just on the general plan audit so I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE |
| 01:28:10.02 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 01:28:10.06 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 01:28:10.07 | Joan Cox | Right, I'm raising this because if we've got this problem now, it's gonna only be magnified by an order of magnitude in about six months time, by the time we're down the path. So at some point we gotta find how to effectively have the whole city council, uh, you know, feel like they're involved and understand without slowing everything down. I mean, |
| 01:28:41.98 | Joan Cox | I mean, at one time we had talked about doing a full city council HLB meeting just on the general plan audit. And I think for timing reasons, perhaps, that plan got scuttled. We had it scheduled at one point, but it was premature. So I do think that... We're going to need just with as with our strategic plan our general plan is the strategic plan is just the next two years the general plans the next 10 or 20 years so I think we as a council are going to need to invest some concerted effort, perhaps at different phases along the way. And I think we should hear summary reports as we go. And, you know, the mayor and I, as members of the committee, give small updates from time to time. And anybody can read the website. But I think that the council has to get its head around this. |
| 01:29:36.03 | Joan Cox | Yeah, but can I just, if I may, I just want to I could certainly see holding a workshop after the visioning stage. For sure. part way through or most of the way through the vision and stage to make sure that's on track. This is really collecting all the data, so unless somebody on the city council wants to say, |
| 01:29:55.32 | Joan Cox | I'm trying to get a little bit of a |
| 01:30:03.68 | Joan Cox | I want to ignore that, right? Which I can't believe anybody would want to do. I mean, it's happened in the past. but I don't think it's going to happen with this council, that I don't want us to consider that report. I don't care what it says. It can't even be looked at. Okay, I don't think we're of that mind. I think it's more importantly, is there something that's missed that has not been incorporated because it's in the vision and process that you make, and that's why I asked the question about, you know. Is this recommendations of changes or is this recommendations for things that we need to look at? |
| 01:30:38.81 | Heather Hines | It's recommendations for, for instance, with the audit. Do you agree with the recommendation completed, can be removed, that program can be removed? or that program needs to be carried forward in some form, maybe not the exact wording, that's in there, so that's really the audit. And the general plan, or the plan synthesis is really, is this an accurate summary of those existing documents that are out there? |
| 01:31:06.53 | Joan Cox | Okay, thanks. So I guess my question, my colleagues here, and, you know, I'd missed a bunch of meetings, so as I said, one of these documents was fresh. The audit, you know, I sat through that to our meeting. And... Amazingly, we finished it. We did finish. |
| 01:31:22.70 | Joan Cox | We did finish. The audit is a 53-page document that we're asking Council to review and agree. You know, perhaps another way to do it is many of the plans we said we should continue and modify the plans perhaps one way to present that to the City Council would be to provide to the City Council a list of the programs to be eliminated and why because that is sort of the point of no return for those programs. And again, none of the policies are being eliminated. And some of the programs that are being eliminated are, for example, adopt a liveaboard ordinance, which has been done, and so that program can be eliminated. Or adopt this or that. Um, that might be a way to present, to synthesize a whole lot of data. |
| 01:32:14.98 | Joan Cox | You will also notice under the audit that there are a lot of yellow things. Well, the yellow thing started off as very small with a number that the egg group weren't sure about. So they put yellow needs further discussion. By the time the GPAC had finished with it, a whole bunch of things had become yellow, saying we need lots of discussion on these. So even the GPAC didn't get too far, other than say, no, this has got to be discussed. |
| 01:32:19.52 | Joan Cox | thing. |
| 01:32:41.52 | Joan Cox | But there were probably 20 programs out of this 53 pages that we said, |
| 01:32:41.63 | Joan Cox | So- |
| 01:32:47.40 | Joan Cox | These are done. we can thank and say goodbye to this program, but the policy, for example, encouraging waterfront activity remains. So that might be one way to present that. And then the considerations I agree with the mayor. I have some comments on the considerations, but for the most part, And I do have one addition that I just became aware of for consideration, but I think the considerations, there's no These are considerations to be considered as we go. This isn't the understanding process. We're going to continue with the visioning process. So it just was important to include all of these other resources, data, information in the general plan. Yep. |
| 01:33:35.10 | Joan Cox | So I like the way that |
| 01:33:35.20 | Joan Cox | So, |
| 01:33:38.04 | Joan Cox | Heather has characterized this. In reviewing the synthesis report, I mean, you could ask, are any of these documents we should ignore? Assuming we're not going to get that. Is there any documents missing that we need to incorporate to look at for the visioning process, number one? And number two, of the documents that have been described, have they been adequately characterized, correctly characterized? So that's the feedback you're really looking for. Yeah. |
| 01:34:11.44 | Joan Cox | So, Can that feedback somehow happen sort of How can... the GPAC receive City Council comments, this is a question for you guys. How can the GPAC receive City Council comments on this stuff? Right, for its consideration moving forward without it continually coming back to the City Council, otherwise we might as well just have this as a standing agenda item. I mean, we've got to work out a process, otherwise we'll be tied down with this for another year. |
| 01:34:47.99 | Joan Cox | I mean, just on the housing element, we reported to the city council about once a month. |
| 01:34:53.27 | Joan Cox | and that was our plan here but you know |
| 01:34:54.60 | Joan Cox | here. |
| 01:34:57.49 | Joan Cox | It depends what action. If you want formal approval, these documents to move forward, |
| 01:35:07.48 | Joan Cox | Heather, help us. |
| 01:35:09.22 | Heather Hines | I don't think we're looking for a formal approval. We're looking for feedback. We're looking exactly like you said. Is there something we missed? summary of one of the plans that we just got wrong. And that's exactly what we asked the GPAC and and for the most part it was no that's a that's a fair summary and that's a fair outline of the considerations that that plan |
| 01:35:27.54 | Melanie Purcell | Right. |
| 01:35:27.93 | Peter Van Meter | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 01:35:32.05 | Adam Politzer | That's a fair. |
| 01:35:37.80 | Adam Politzer | Yeah. |
| 01:35:38.19 | Heather Hines | So I don't think we're looking for a formal action here. We're looking to kind of check in and get feedback if there's something wrong. |
| 01:35:39.22 | Adam Politzer | Yeah. Yeah. |
| 01:35:42.04 | Joan Cox | Okay. |
| 01:35:45.65 | Joan Cox | How Mary can... the two and then three council members that we're going to have who are not part of the GPAC give feedback other than through sitting up here. |
| 01:35:59.28 | Cindy Larrick | One suggestion, Mr. Mayor, would be to send... Council members can send their comments to Danny. Danny can work with the M group to consolidate that into one document that we could bring back to you as a consent item. that this is the council's input. So you don't need to take the time to go through it again unless you want to. But that would be my suggestion. Send input to staff by a certain date. Staff consolidates that input and just reports back to the council as a consent item. This is the input we received. If there's a need for further discussion on any of it, you can either pull it and agendize it or give that direction then. |
| 01:36:41.22 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 01:36:41.27 | Cindy Larrick | Thank you. |
| 01:36:41.28 | Joan Cox | Does that sort of work? |
| 01:36:42.04 | Cindy Larrick | Thank you. |
| 01:36:44.46 | Joe Burns | What line did they meet? Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:36:48.88 | Joan Cox | Yeah, so perhaps part of the GPAC process can be to identify When... at what stages the workshops or more lengthy meetings with the council should be. maybe two or three of them in the four year process. |
| 01:37:06.90 | Heather Hines | And I know I don't have the full schedule and work plan in front of me. I know we have some of those built in where we have joint workshops, council workshops. I just can't. Unfortunately, I'm sorry, I can't speak. No, no, we have those built in. |
| 01:37:10.28 | Joan Cox | about it. |
| 01:37:22.14 | Adam Politzer | Yeah. |
| 01:37:22.39 | Heather Hines | Of course we would and it's going to get really important when we get to the visioning stage. You know, this was less of a, of a decision and when we start getting into writing policies and going down that direction, we're gonna need to make sure where we've got you all on board before we go too far down any one path. So I'd be happy to look into that and send word through staff on where those places are. And if we need to talk about that. |
| 01:37:41.01 | Adam Politzer | Yeah. |
| 01:37:41.39 | Peter Van Meter | Thank you. |
| 01:37:51.45 | Joan Cox | Yeah. Why I'm |
| 01:37:51.87 | Heather Hines | I can do that. |
| 01:37:53.91 | Joan Cox | sort of trying to pursue this conversation is that you know, for tomorrow's GPAC meeting, We've got a comment on a water documents that thick. |
| 01:38:04.58 | Joan Cox | Yeah. |
| 01:38:06.37 | Joan Cox | Okay, all of the existing conditions reports from everything from squirrels to whatever. Every single aspect of environmental endangered species, you go through the whole thing, right? GPAC's probably going to give comments, maybe, on some of the language use. I mean, maybe it's not right, some of the background and so on. Here we got two really detailed background reports. at some point these guys are going to want to lock them down and say, OK, this background report's done. Right? We can't keep it in limbo, right, for waiting for the city council to approve it right i mean at some point somebody's got a nail these things. |
| 01:38:56.03 | Joan Cox | And on the other hand, the city council has |
| 01:38:57.11 | Joan Cox | Yeah. |
| 01:38:58.63 | Joan Cox | carefully appointed the members of the GPAC to bear the laboring oar on some of this work. |
| 01:39:04.50 | Adam Politzer | it. |
| 01:39:06.66 | Joan Cox | presenting a summary to the City Council with opportunity for feedback, is the right process. |
| 01:39:14.66 | Heather Hines | And following up on another, we'd be happy, and we've talked about this, providing staff with kind of a monthly. update that staff can communicate to the council to just hear the things we did this month, hear the topics we talked about, We're moving into this phase. That's a relatively easy update to provide and staff can transmit to the council on a regular basis. |
| 01:39:42.20 | Joan Cox | Thank you. Any other comments? Please. |
| 01:39:50.93 | Jill Hoffman | It's not about this. It's about, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I just had a comment about, I think it's really important in the documents that I've read. |
| 01:39:53.83 | Joan Cox | I don't know. |
| 01:40:05.22 | Jill Hoffman | When you're referencing documents, whether or not you're referencing them as an official report that was by a committee that was formed by the city council or whether it was a report that was provided by some sort of other citizen group. And I think we have a mix of those in here, but it seems like they're kind of getting. and, and, It seems to me they're kind of getting sort of the lines are getting blurred a little bit. And for whatever reason, I just think it's useful to know sort of the origin of a report and whether or not that report was accepted by the city council and something to move forward. So one of those And. The one that stood out is the Imagine Sausalito references. I believe, imagine Sausalito was a private, that was a group of business people that got together and spent a substantial, Okay, I'm getting a no. Okay, I'm getting a no. Okay, that's good, that's fine, that's fine, because I was just looking through You know, with regard to the WAM report, and that's fine. If I'm wrong, that's fine. But it seemed to me that the WAM report was something that was different from Imagine Sausalito. And, THE CITY IS A CITY IS I know that there's two separate reports on, there's an Imagine Sausalito report and there's a WAM report. And so I think that needs to be specifically, I just want to caution that if you're listing documents, um, In your reference of documents, I think it needs to be specifically identified what type of report it is. I think that's useful going forward. So that's one of my comments. Thank you. |
| 01:41:43.73 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 01:41:43.84 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:41:44.49 | Joan Cox | And this is for purposes of clarity, rather than trying to eliminate... |
| 01:41:48.14 | Jill Hoffman | I'm not commenting one way or the other on the report. |
| 01:41:49.76 | Joan Cox | You're not trying to eliminate something? No, no, no. Yeah, yeah. I think that's very sensible. |
| 01:41:51.08 | Jill Hoffman | No. No, no, no. THE FAMILY. |
| 01:41:55.60 | Joan Cox | Thank you. Okay, any other comments? Final wrap-up comments? Yeah, final wrap-up. |
| 01:42:01.28 | Joan Cox | Yeah, we'll wrap up. I have comments on the. |
| 01:42:03.56 | Joan Cox | Oh. |
| 01:42:03.60 | Joan Cox | Thank you. Bye. |
| 01:42:03.98 | Joe Burns | Thank you. |
| 01:42:04.02 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 01:42:04.04 | Joe Burns | Thank you. |
| 01:42:04.29 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 01:42:04.31 | Joe Burns | Thank you. |
| 01:42:04.32 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 01:42:04.32 | Joan Cox | Yeah. |
| 01:42:04.36 | Joe Burns | Thank you. |
| 01:42:04.37 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 01:42:04.39 | Joe Burns | Thank you. |
| 01:42:06.06 | Joan Cox | I can email my comments. That's fine. |
| 01:42:09.06 | Joe Burns | I'll just say I concur with the comments and the amount of work that's been done by the M group, by staff, and as well as all the people attending the GPAC committee and the volunteers, many that are in this room that are spending that amount of time. You guys signed up for this. And so did they. But it's been a great community effort so far. I like this report in that what you talked about as far as just saying, hey, this has got to come off because we've already done it. There are some suggestions here that I thought were great to put on. Like there's been interest in parklets on Caledonia. That's kind of a new idea that's coming about, and it made this list. I still will say that second, and this is just to beat a dead horse, dead horse, but the short term rental ban is an ordinance, it's not a plan and it's not in land use. So it doesn't make either one of those categories, but it is something that this council directed towards the general plan as well as the communities opined on it and it's an idea that I think exceeds the next step of vision because it's already been visioned. It's already been discussed. So I just kind of want to see where it falls. And I'm not asking for a recommendation. That wasn't the point. It was just where will it be DISCUSSED IN because it's more than just a vision item to me but great work on all the people that have have been and I don't see any lack of notifications and exclusions of anybody I think this has been a well publicized process and I think well attended to this point as well so congratulations on that |
| 01:43:46.94 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:43:50.77 | Joan Cox | The one thing that just happened that is not reflected in here is the governor just signed 15 housing bills. |
| 01:43:58.57 | Adam Politzer | . |
| 01:43:59.58 | Joan Cox | And I think some of those are gonna have an impact on Sausalito on its zoning, on its planning. And so I think that that's another category that we need to include we have Bay Area 2040, we have some of the other initiatives that will impact the manner in which we write the general plan. even though the housing element is already written for this phase, in preparing the other elements of the general plan, we have to be aware of the constraints and the changes in the way we do business that will be required by these ordinances. |
| 01:44:45.85 | Joan Cox | And I'll send the rest of my comments in a quick email. And I want to echo, I give the M group a hard time because Bill Werner and I are the pre-meeting liaison with them, and so... I'm always the one saying, well, I think we should also do this and we should also do that. So I don't often enough say what a great job they do. And this is an amazing amount of data that has been synthesized in a very short amount of time. So kudos to the M group and thanks for your efforts. |
| 01:45:15.47 | Heather Hines | Thank you. Any other questions? |
| 01:45:18.44 | Joan Cox | Comments? Nope. I echo those comments. Thank you. Okay. We're, I think we've exhausted this item. OK, folks, do you want a break or should we move on? |
| 01:45:34.87 | Adam Politzer | Strategic plan. |
| 01:45:35.73 | Joan Cox | strategic plan. Are we okay? Okay, so we'll have a break after this item. Okay, our next item is the 2018-20 Strategic Plan Update. Melanie Purcell, Administrative Services Director. And thank you, M Group. Okay, Melanie. |
| 01:45:44.57 | McKenna Romero | Okay. |
| 01:46:06.43 | Melanie Purcell | Good evening, Melanie Purcell, Administrative Services. It's time again for our conversation about the 2018-2020 strategic plan update. The finance committee has put in a lot of time and energy having this conversation So I'm excited to bring to you the results of their their dialogue. Included in the packet, or not in the packet, but in your late mail was actually a 50 plus page presentation. I'm not going to inflict that on you. So I want to just highlight for you some of what's going on, where we're at. The major changes, the things that were very significant points of conversation for the Finance Committee and for staff and things that were added in particular. So, Goal one. Long range planning. We've talked about that, the general plan update was objective 1.1. You'll notice that a few of these items compared to the most current strategic plan, the timing has changed. The general plan in particular has driven a lot of the activities throughout the strategic plan. And so as resources have been adapted and the timings come into play, some of these items have been pushed out a little bit. The time is ripe though, obviously, The general plan is well underway. So many of these things are really hitting right now. One of the first items that really changed up was objective 11H, is talking about having a fiscal element. to the general plan or a component in which we just talk about how the city is going to sustain itself fiscally and that the items within the general plan are also evaluated and analyzed in terms of economic impact and fiscal impact of the city. So the fiscal is both a cost and revenue analysis and looking at its interweaving. So that is all that is actually now a highlighted milestone of the general plan objective. |
| 01:48:10.83 | Melanie Purcell | Marine ship specific plan. not a lot of changes to. But in historic resources, the milestone that we did change was D, evaluating adoption of the Mills Act program. At one point, this was a very detailed set of milestones with very specific actions. What's come to light is that aspects of the Mills Act program may or may not have the impact that originally was thought when those milestones were originally developed. Finance Committee and staff recommended coming back with an evaluation and rather than step by step implementation, an evaluation of whether and what aspects of this program were best suited to the city of Sausalito. |
| 01:48:56.26 | Melanie Purcell | So... Thank you. Apologize, let me go back. No changes to the bicycle and pedestrian plan milestones other than timeline? I'm bringing that back for council adoption. Goal two is engagement, community engagement, bringing forward more involvement in communications. So objective two one was gathering community feedback. Those milestones have not changed other than to highlight some of the success that we have had in using the hot topics. And the current pretty aggressive activities that the city has taken in the current and most recent fiscal year. regarding open City Hall and the communities information. program. Identifying technology. Primary change here is the addition of two items, H and I, utilizing secondary websites. As explained by the M group, the city has utilized a secondary website to highlight the general plan activities and to provide the community a single site rather than having to navigate through any number of clicks. somewhere where all of the information can be gathered easily and bring attention to that. Interesting timing, we were discussing this the same week as the fires broke out just north of us. And so really an opportunity to talk about how does the city use emergency communications. The hospitality committee also brought this to light, talking about the media's perception and use of information. There was a small fire in Zasalito. the first week into the North Bay fires and unfortunately that's what people heard was fire, not the fire has been resolved. So many cancellations of reservations in downtown and they really emphasize the time has come that Sausalito really take the lead and be innovative and expand the use of emergency communication in a lot of different venues. So that is now a milestone for this objective. Fiscal resiliency. talked a lot about how to go from being stable to being sustainable, to now being resilient. And resilient being the ability to adapt and to change to frequently very dynamic. conditions. Under this, the MOU is in the last, or actually in the most current, strategic plan update We were very happy to say the MOU was negotiated. It was adopted. It's in place. Well, now it's time to start all over again. But one of the things that Finance Committee asked to include here was reviewing the CPI assumptions of the last MOUs to see how close we came. How accurate were they to the conversations that took place at that time? So those will be taking place this year. In objective three, two, looking at a structurally balanced budget, we added a number, staff actually added a number of these with finance committees. assistance looking at specific policies and procedures regarding the unfunded actuarial liabilities for pension and OPEB, because those do create the greatest pressure on the budget, looking at how we use the irrevocable trust. updating our financial policies, updating our operating procedures, updating our reserve policy, and ensuring that these are all institutionalized into our annual budget process. Also looking for ways to institutionalize regular updates to our fees and charges. |
| 01:52:37.68 | Melanie Purcell | The long term financial plan, we added a new item and this ties back to the general plan conversation of having an economic development strategy. within the general plan and looking at how do we reuse and use the property and the activities within the community and ensuring that we maintain the vibrancy. Looking at the different challenges that have come up, especially the last decade, but looking forward to what Influences will be coming. to the city over the next decade. |
| 01:53:12.32 | Melanie Purcell | Objective three, four is looking at infrastructure investment. Two items that were added is looking at a 20 year capital vision. The city traditionally presents a six year rolling capital plan, which is known as the CIP, and is updated each year with the budget. Looking, most unfortunately, capital projects just don't seem to work on that nice, neat timeline. So we want to ensure that we're keeping in mind the long term Deferred maintenance, long-term expectations, or long-term infrastructure needs. recognizing the best example I can have while we don't have a sewer plant, sewer plants tend to run on a 20 to 30 year cycle. And those are $30 to $100 million projects. So those are the kind of things you don't rely on the CIP to make sure are on people's radars. Streets, sewer systems, storm drains also fall into that category. Okay. Evaluating the options for the storm water system. New legislation has come into place, so we want to see how that can be used to the city of Sausalito's best interest in serving the community. |
| 01:54:19.03 | Melanie Purcell | I'd say goal four is our infrastructure. Maintaining, establishing and maintaining the asset management plan. We've changed actually this one from a master plan for the parks into having a park condition assessment and making sure that that is complete and updated. We have been making great strides with Robin Sweeney and several other small parks and obviously the work on Dunphy and Southview getting in the plans. We have a meeting tomorrow evening with Parks and Rec discussing the recreation facilities at MLK. So there's a lot of activity, but we want to do a comprehensive assessment to ensure that we have captured all of the needs within the infrastructure plan. |
| 01:55:03.00 | Melanie Purcell | A lot of milestones obviously under 401. Our sewer infrastructure program, We've changed one of the old milestones to, rather than focus on a feasibility study of consolidating with the excuse me, Sausalito Marin City Sanitary District, but also looking at joint rate study options. Whether or not those are feasible, as well as leading into whether or not joint operations or shared services are practical and appropriate. Looking at the Civic Center and the library, this does not have any highlighted or bolded items because we've actually reduced this drastically. Looking at it's time to look at the long term plans and needs and uses of this. will be part of the conversation regarding the general plan as well. Goal five is looking at effective efficient environmentally sustainable municipal services, or quality services. In the process of doing our local hazard mitigation plan, notice at the bottom is developing a training plan. This was added by the finance committee at its last meeting to ensure that We are wholly compliant with the FEMA requirements and remain up to date, so we want to ensure that we have a training plan for that. This also is key to maintaining a financial pipeline. Service level indicators. We've refined this a bit, and in particular, identifying department goals, developing new performance measures, and revising existing performance measures. This is looking at how do the departments establish goals and priorities that help support the strategic plan and the overall goals of the city. Happy to say 5.3 is our online permit process, and that is almost complete. Objective 5-4 is looking at technology that can improve services. We did have a couple of items added to this. In particular, replacing the newspaper microfilm with digital access is a new one from the library. Deploying library connections, that's actually complete. relaunching the city's website is also complete. So those were ones that we managed to get done at the same time that they were being added. Accessing technologies to increase energy efficiencies and resource management. This was added at the finance committee, looking at ways to utilize, being in the hub of Silicon Valley, the applications and technologies available to us that will help the city better use its resources. And 5-5 is looking at our department's strategic operational and staffing plans. The top one there is evaluating those best practices and developing department goals that map to strategic goals. This ties back to what I mentioned just a minute ago about making sure that the department work plans and strategic plans help support the overall and are linked with the overall goals of the city. Finally, there are a handful in the departmental plans and milestones. Administration looking at DocuWare and our overall document management. This includes our e-documents as well as our hard copies. with the rapid expansion of technology also comes the need to develop more agile policies and procedures. Parks and Recreation Community Development will be providing some additional milestones in here. Human resources and information technology. as part of administration are looking to update the internal processes and policies. These are two areas in which the IT strategic plan has been very helpful. The MOUs certainly drive a lot of the activity for HR. But it's time that now that we're reaching the final two years of this particular stretch, we want to ensure that we're teed up and ready to go with the implementation. of the general plan and that our internal processes and procedures are ready. So that was a very quick update on the major changes. I wanted to provide the next steps really is looking at the feedback. From the public, the boards and commissions and city council, the first kickoff with that was the sustainability commission last week. And they're very excited about providing some comments at their December meeting. Parks and Recreation will receive this. All of the boards and commissions are being forwarded. The document that was provided in your packet for their review as well as the opportunity to have on site presentations. Council's discussed a workshop. and then Not listed here, but I do want to highlight because our rock star department heads will be becoming famous again online tomorrow. starting our videotaping of videos that kind of highlight and walk each of the departments through how their activities support the various milestones and objectives and goals of the city. So those will be available no later. Then November 28th, prior to the council meeting, And actually they'll start videoing this week. So I can't promise exactly when they will be up, but they will be up prior to. November 28th for your viewing and for the public to also see a little more in depth and intimate look at how this translates to day to day activities. The big thing for me, I'm gonna be honest, is that we do need to adopt the strategic plan prior to getting the budget process kicked off in January, so. Those are our next steps. Can I answer any questions? May I answer any questions? |
| 02:00:40.11 | Joan Cox | Yeah. You just said that you want to adopt the strategic plan prior to January. Prior to the budget, which starts in January. The minutes of the finance committee indicated that you wanted to move up the date of adoption of the strategic plan to prior to January. |
| 02:00:58.83 | Melanie Purcell | The finance committee was able to get through all of the goals in very thorough conversations, and so they managed to do their work much faster than we expected. Thank you. |
| 02:01:11.10 | Joan Cox | Isn't it important that the city council also go through that process that the finance committee went through, given you have three new council members who have never worked with the strategic plan? |
| 02:01:18.73 | Melanie Purcell | I'm not. |
| 02:01:22.25 | Melanie Purcell | This is for you guys to tell us what you want to do next. I'm asking staff's opinion. |
| 02:01:26.56 | Joan Cox | I'm asking staff |
| 02:01:28.80 | Melanie Purcell | I want you to understand what we're doing. It's similar for me for the budget. I never want the budget adopted without you understanding it. That's the intent of the videos is to help. And certainly staff is available to talk at any time and meet with folks to help in any way that we can. |
| 02:01:43.97 | Joan Cox | can. |
| 02:01:44.34 | Melanie Purcell | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 02:01:44.90 | Joan Cox | The two members who sit on the finance committee and worked with you to identify these redlined revisions have been through the strategic plan process with you before. With the city before? |
| 02:01:55.90 | Melanie Purcell | I think mr. Merr with he has I don't believe councilmember well you've been on the council for |
| 02:02:01.06 | Jill Hoffman | . to ask them. Thank you. Right, but I wasn't part of developing this strategic plan, it was presented to us. |
| 02:02:08.71 | Joan Cox | THE FAMILY. But you've been through it once before, |
| 02:02:10.06 | Jill Hoffman | or through a presentation. |
| 02:02:11.09 | Joan Cox | and adoption. |
| 02:02:16.49 | Jill Hoffman | Can I give a pause? Melanie, When you say before we start on the next budget process and adopting the strategic plan, you know, That doesn't have to happen before January. |
| 02:02:33.58 | Adam Politzer | Mm-mm. |
| 02:02:34.24 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah, it's not like there's a deadline that we've got to get it done by January 15th or something. So I see you. I just saw in the finances, |
| 02:02:39.83 | Joan Cox | I just saw in the finance committee meeting minutes that there was a statement that you hoped to do it before January. So I was concerned about that. Spring situation. |
| 02:02:40.99 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. Yeah. |
| 02:02:46.66 | Jill Hoffman | So I was- Yeah. about that. Yeah, yeah, it's not a requirement. That's just a hopeful. Thank you. |
| 02:02:55.05 | Joan Cox | So are you hoping to do it without involving the other three council members? |
| 02:02:55.06 | Jill Hoffman | So are you hoping to... the other three council members. We're in question session. |
| 02:03:01.76 | Joan Cox | I ALWAYS GET REPRESENTED FOR THAT. I JUST ASKED A QUESTION. ARE YOU HOPING TO ADOPT IT WITHOUT INVOLVING THE OTHER THREE COUNCIL MEMBERS IN A DETAILED PROCESS THAT THE FINANCE COMMITTEE WENT THROUGH? |
| 02:03:02.83 | Jill Hoffman | I would get reprimanded for that. No, I just asked a question. Are you hoping to... |
| 02:03:11.84 | Joan Cox | Okay. That wasn't a question to me, |
| 02:03:13.96 | Jill Hoffman | Right. |
| 02:03:14.44 | Joan Cox | I think one of the things that we've got to determine tonight is what it is that overall the city council wants. Because I think the city council, or I'll be frank, vice mayor, I'm not sure you know what you want. That's not a criticism in the sense that I'm validating your point that you've not been involved with this process before. And so I can understand there seems to be a need to really get involved. And as a city council person, if you're going to adopt it, you really need to get involved. I think the question is, we've, Um, I do want to remind people that You passed a budget that had a strategic plan in it. last year. |
| 02:04:03.68 | Joan Cox | I did not, and Joe did not, and Susan did not. None of the three of us was involved in this. |
| 02:04:10.44 | Joan Cox | Well, I mean, if I get the budget out, it will have the strategic planning |
| 02:04:16.50 | Joan Cox | No, the city council did. My point is that this city council did not. There are three members of this city council that have not at all participated in the budget process or the strategic plan process. you rewrote goals and milestones, sorry, you rewrote milestones for the most part. Right. But as a new council member i'd like to weigh in on goals maybe i can't weigh in on goals that have a fiscal impact but you know In reviewing this I see some goals that I'd like to weigh in on and I also think it would be a This is our blue aside from the general plan. This is our blueprint for the city So I think it's something that the City Council should participate in and the public should have an opportunity to participate in more than 10 minute presentations where it's announced to us what was done in three or four hours of work. |
| 02:05:14.79 | Joan Cox | Agree totally. By the finance. No, agree totally to that. What I'm trying to get to is, what is it practically that we can do? I'm going to push back a little bit on you, Melanie, with the question of the adoption of the strategic plan, the starting of the budget. This can be a little bit more overlapped than I think you perhaps are suggesting. But comment on that, please. |
| 02:05:31.88 | Peter Van Meter | Thank you. |
| 02:05:31.93 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 02:05:32.03 | Melanie Purcell | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 02:05:32.29 | Adam Politzer | And it's... |
| 02:05:40.90 | Melanie Purcell | The budget itself derives from the strategic plan. So what I refer to adopting it prior to the budget, I'm talking about getting deep into the budget We'll bring to you the mid-year budget amendment, hopefully the second meeting in January, the first meeting in February. That's designed to kind of close out, pull together the budget that we're in. and help us make sure that our numbers are on track for the next budget. Finance committee will be asked to start meeting and reviewing very closely how well the departments have pulled together their numbers in support of the city's goals. Probably by early March and that's a fair amount of work. So what we're asking for is give us the direction, tell us that we're on the right page, and then we can get to work so that we can bring back to you the actual implementation of this. That's where the real connection comes in. |
| 02:06:21.29 | Adam Politzer | Yeah. |
| 02:06:34.74 | Joan Cox | So I'll give you an example. I've been pushing this entire year to have finance committee meetings videotaped. And I have been told that that is something that's not in the budget and we have to find the money to do it, has to come through mid year or however it comes to us. That is something, for me, that's part of transparency, which is a goal of the strategic plan. That's something I want to weigh in on. And I can do it from the dais, but I don't think it's fair. these goals are all interrelated. There are, and I don't think it's possible to accomplish this in the way that Melanie suggested at our last meeting and I thought we had reached agreement at our last meeting. It was not possible to do it on a piecemeal one goal at a time process. It's really an integrated holistic process where it all needs to be considered at one time. And I just want to have an opportunity for this full council to do it thoughtfully. you know, as a group and as an entire document. And I don't think we can do that in 20 or 30 minutes up here. |
| 02:07:40.05 | Joan Cox | No, I totally agree with that. I'm going to let everybody in a minute. I just want to finish this piece of the conversation before, if I may, again. The thing is, I'm not disagreeing with anything you're saying, OK? If we are going to do that, then... I think we did have a fairly significant discussion last time that we want to try and make this as efficient as possible. So I think something that maybe is not sunk in, each head of the department is preparing videos on. their aspects of the of the strategic plan. |
| 02:08:21.53 | Joan Cox | THE FAMILY IS A LITTLE BIT OF It'll be available online by November 28th. |
| 02:08:23.60 | Joan Cox | Online by November 28. Right, that'll be available by November 28. So I think the question is, there's no point in having a workshop until before that. |
| 02:08:25.38 | Joan Cox | Yeah. |
| 02:08:33.05 | Joan Cox | And our new council member won't be sworn in before then although she could certainly attend. |
| 02:08:35.42 | Joan Cox | Right. Right, so if it's something that you, as a council, we feel we wanna sort of thrash through each of these goals one by one. Um... and then the objectives one by one, and then each of the milestones one by one in a workshop, I think we're going to have to schedule it in January, to be honest. I don't see any reason why we... I don't know how we can do that. Because I think we should have all five council members. |
| 02:09:01.74 | Jill Hoffman | I believe. If I could put that in. I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT. I mean, And this is also, you know, Ray, we talked about this a lot. This is the second year of a two-year plan. So it's not, you know, this isn't, or at least that's what |
| 02:09:18.87 | Joan Cox | This is the third cycle of a six-chair plan. |
| 02:09:21.32 | Jill Hoffman | I'm sorry. But you're right. |
| 02:09:22.97 | Joan Cox | Right. |
| 02:09:23.69 | Jill Hoffman | So, You know, to your point, Joan, I'm not saying not to address, or if you have a serious concern that you want to bring up, then by all means bring it up. But I think the thought was that this wasn't something that we were writing or revising in total. It was an update, and that's why certain sections you see completed. Or there's a little bit of revision here and there, but not a wholesale. We'll do that. That process will happen next year. or whatever in tears to years yeah so in the end of that was to |
| 02:09:52.87 | Peter Van Meter | Thank you. |
| 02:09:53.02 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. into yourself. Yeah. |
| 02:09:57.55 | Jill Hoffman | to help people get sort of the background and, well, not background, but get sort of up to speed to where, somewhere close to where Ray and I are, um, because we've been living this on the finance committee, that's the point of the videos, right? So instead of sitting in, you know, on a Saturday morning when people can get there on a Saturday morning. and having these presentations, the thought was that we would have the background presentations done via video. I think Melanie, you were gonna do one sort of an overview and go through each of the goals, this is why the goal is, and then the input from the departments, People can watch it. as their schedules permit, And then at some point, if we feel like as a city council that we need a workshop after all of that, then we have a workshop. But my hope was that we could get ourselves up to speed without doing that unless you have some wholesale revisions that you want. But I don't. I mean, that was sort of the process and the thought process about what you're thinking. |
| 02:10:55.85 | Joan Cox | I just, you know. I think that's easy for You and Ray have had the benefit of, of deeply analyzing this in the type of workshop atmosphere I'd like to participate in, in the Finance Committee. And I understand, having done it in the Finance Committee, you may not feel like going through it all again. But I think it's important that you had our former Finance Director there, Charlie Francis, to give you feedback and historical perspective. I think the entire Council should be afforded the privilege that the Finance Committee was. And I can't even watch it on tape because it's not a taped meeting. Or otherwise I would have already watched it on tape. And the public can't participate, this was done, there were six people present in reviewing the strategic plan that's gonna govern us. This is the beginning of the third cycle for the next two years. So I think I just. I see you feel strongly about this. |
| 02:11:54.74 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. And so what I would ask is that you at least watch the videos, and then I think we can have a context of how, you know, you know how much time we need to set aside and what the what the parameters is going to be of that workshop if that's where we're going to go. |
| 02:12:12.85 | Joan Cox | I mean, of course I'm going to watch the videos. I think I am someone that always does my homework and reads every page of everything. So, I mean, I do have, I'm ready to give comments tonight if I'm forced to do it in this format on the revised draft. |
| 02:12:29.73 | Jill Hoffman | I don't think that's necessary at all. I think the thought was always that we were going to, that you were going to view the videos and whatever feedback that you had for Melanie or for a former finance committee member and then provide further comments as necessary. At least that was my understanding. |
| 02:12:47.66 | Joan Cox | I'm sorry. |
| 02:12:49.64 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. Can I just come? Because I think... that it worked noting that the Vice Mayor and I have had several conversations on this. And we talked about it earlier when we were looking at the approval of the minutes of the last meeting about the workshop. And I think the intent from the Finance Committee, from the efforts that they put forth, over the course of several meetings is that Because of the hard work of the finance community, we have actually a complete product and the finance committee isn't planning on doing any additional work on the on the milestones in front of you unless you've given direction from the full council today that you'd like further discussion or analysis or debate on on on particular items at the finance committee level but so what council member hoffman shared was that and as melanie shared earlier at the conclusion of her presentation is the next phase is to get your feedback your initial feedback based on the information and similar to the general plan discussion where it was too much information to to provide it all tonight. Again, give us that feedback as you can. on the information and similar to the general plan discussion where it was too much information to provide it all tonight, again, give us that feedback as you comb through the milestones and as Melanie shared, there's a lot of milestones. But many of them, as the mayor referenced back to the budget, are the same milestones that were in the last strategic plan that was attached to the budget that you approved in June of this year. So as you look at them, if there are additional milestones that the finance committee didn't consider, that you've gotten feedback from community members or residents or your own interests, then send those milestones to Melanie. THE FAMILY. Um, with the video production staff's availability to meet with the other two council members to respond to questions that you may have as you spend time dissecting and reading the documents. We'll come back on the 28th, that's the intent, come back on the 28th. I think at the last meeting there was a consensus that we didn't think we'd be approving the item. on the 28th and I think the finance committee understood that as well. between now and the end of the year is there an opportunity to schedule a workshop so we would like direction from the council so it's clear that if you want us to at least work on scheduling a workshop between now and the end of the year we do that um you know or if you prefer that to happen in the first half of january we can also work on that because of everyone's complicated schedule there's no harm of scheduling it that now if we cancel it or postpone it or make different arrangements then we can't do that. And we're not going to work on that because of everyone's complicated schedule. There's no harm of scheduling it now. If we cancel it or postpone it or make different arrangements, then we can talk about that more on the 28th. I don't want the council or the public to think that what's being proposed today is final, complete. This is your opportunity to give feedback. What the finance committee said is we're not going to spend several months going goal by goal we're going to do them all in two meetings and that's what they did and that's what's the result of what's in front of you and so I think that our recommendation to the council is to provide feedback to Melanie meet with Melanie and I you know if you if we need Charlie Francis to come to the council meeting on the 28th, we can obviously arrange for that. And then at the 28th, we can decide when is the appropriate time to have a workshop and City clerk and I can work with the council to find out your availability for the month of December and and and also for the early part of January if necessary. So hopefully that provides a little more background on the process and the intent. |
| 02:16:49.90 | Joan Cox | Could I ask when the review by the various boards and commissions and committees will be complete? Because there's no point in having a city council meeting on this until that process is finished, it would seem to me. |
| 02:17:02.69 | Joan Cox | Yeah, so sustainability got it last week. Their next meeting is the second Thursday in December. That's when they've been asked to give their feedback. |
| 02:17:10.80 | Joan Cox | So... You know, what... I mean realistically wouldn't it make sense to wait for all that input before city council weighs in on anything? |
| 02:17:21.36 | Joan Cox | I think so. |
| 02:17:23.33 | Joan Cox | which to me would push it till January. |
| 02:17:25.16 | Joan Cox | until January. I think it's great. I was surprised at the Sustainability Commission meeting that it was presented, pleasantly surprised. I thought it was great that we're involving the boards and commissions. Right. |
| 02:17:34.69 | Joan Cox | Yeah. |
| 02:17:36.06 | Joan Cox | As a planning commissioner, we were not. And so I think that's really a great step. Any other questions? |
| 02:17:41.63 | Joan Cox | Any other questions before we open this up for public comment? |
| 02:17:46.42 | Joan Cox | Yeah. |
| 02:17:46.54 | Joan Cox | Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Okay, so in that case, let's open this up for public comment. The first card I have here is Keith Kennedy. |
| 02:18:01.18 | Joan Cox | And, uh... Before he starts, let me just say that I'd like to personally thank Keith because he has been dutifully showing up at every single Finance Committee meeting for about the last couple of years. So thank you for that volunteer work. |
| 02:18:22.16 | Keith Kennedy | Thank you. Well, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council Members, I wanted to say that I'm very impressed with the work that the city staff has provided. I think that you have a staff that is committed to make this happen. Thank you. They are committed to go to the various commissions I think it is a good plan. And I think you will like it when you get a chance to look at it. I know it's complicated. It's kind of like having a ton of bricks dropped on you at once. I had the chance to be there. be part of the whole discussion. And I realize the problem with the Brown Act is that the two members of the council who aren't on the Finance Committee can't come and participate in that discussion as it goes on. So it is a very difficult thing. But I wanted to tell you as a citizen who has lived it. walk through it with the two council members that are on the committee. I think it is a very good plan. I've been impressed, the various department People who have come in clearly understand what they're trying to do. And I think that it fits well to prepare the city departments to be able to execute the GPAC when it also finishes, so that there's a real alignment between the GPAC process And this budget process. that will bring a culmination, hopefully, to the fiscal sustainability for the city, the plans, and what we're trying to do. So with that, I'll give you an extra minute back. Thank you very much. |
| 02:20:26.33 | Joan Cox | Thank you, Keith. |
| 02:20:31.76 | Joan Cox | Doug Storms. |
| 02:20:37.41 | Doug Storms | Yes, Doug Storms, Waldo Point Harbor. My quick comment is kind of a subcategory of this. It's the emergency response that should be dealt with in in this plan, in the strategic plan. There's, where I live, Wallow Point Harbor, they have a container that contains all the disaster equipment and all that. And it's for the Floating Homes Association. And it's paid for by the Floating Homes Association. It's not government funded or whatever. They know what the needs are. They have it in that trailer. It's available in case of an emergency. And we all know that sometimes government does a pretty good job, but sometimes they can't get here if there's an event. And so time is of the essence. And I think a role or a model that's used up at Wallow Point Harbor through the Floating Homes Association, it can be replicated within the individual neighborhoods of Sausalito that they have a container of emergency equipment. And they know what should go into that equipment, to what needs to go in there. Because each little community may have different needs based upon the people. And so I don't know if that has been discussed, but I just wanted to throw that out to you. I think that's a critical factor. Thank you. |
| 02:22:01.65 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 02:22:01.67 | Doug Storms | TO BE ABLE |
| 02:22:01.85 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 02:22:01.96 | Doug Storms | Thank you. |
| 02:22:01.97 | Joan Cox | Kevin Kafer. |
| 02:22:12.37 | Joan Cox | No, I may have, oh no, yes, Kevin, you did submit a card. Thank you, please. Thank you. |
| 02:22:16.87 | Kevin | Yeah, I'll talk anyway. Yeah, I know. Real quick, echo on Doug's comment about the spill response equipment. There's another trailer that's located |
| 02:22:16.96 | Joan Cox | Yeah. anyway. Yeah, I don't. |
| 02:22:32.89 | Kevin | In the Army Corps of Engineers, on the debris the debris lot And it's kind of a little more beat up. Maybe it's not actually functioning as a spill equipment trailer, or maybe it is. But we do know it's being functioned. to be used to store boat parts in an illegal, Boat. dismantling operation that this city paid into and possibly will be using the finance department now to pay in a different format and you can roll your eyes or you can go over there, you take these gentlemen, They have the keys, they have the combination, and you can go look in that trailer right now, mayor, Let's go on a field trip. Let's go look in that spill response equipment trailer. and see what got put in there this weekend and the weekend before. And where does that trailer go to? Why does it have a license plate? Does a Department of Public Works vehicle from the county tow that trailer around? Does it have immunity from anybody opening that door. unless they need to buy some boat parts. some secondhand used black market boat parts, that this city has been paying and funding Okay, I'll get off that subject. because something else is going on here. Within this room, we are watching bad, inefficient government unwind before our eyes. Can't figure out If you should have a meeting, to have a meeting. because you're not looking at the truth of the matter. And I'm bringing you the truth right here. and you roll your eyes. |
| 02:24:15.20 | Joan Cox | Thank you. Is there anybody else who would like to comment? Yeah, Jeff. |
| 02:24:26.10 | Jeffrey Chase | Thank you, Mayor. Last, if you remember last meeting, I spoke about specifically the bicycles, Um... As part of the strategic plan, I think Thank you. It's necessary to have a real debate about how much tourism this town wants. There's towns like Venice And you can look right across at San Francisco when a cruise ship that has 6,000 people and 15 decks, parks in front of that city, They block off a lot of it from here. You can't see it. because the cruise ship overwhelms San Francisco. In Alaska, when the cruise ships come up, there are some towns that say, we love that. We want to gear our town towards that. Other towns say there's three times as many people on that cruise ship is living this town. How can the people in this town not be overwhelmed? I think everybody feels it here. It was two out of the three main issues for the city council election, the bikes and the ferry. uh, The way that the tourists come to this town is Very often by airplane, I no longer am hosting people. because of that, I don't want to attract people using the most inefficient way the most damaging to the earth way to travel. The only time that the tourists don't use Fossil fuels. or only three jobs on their chain is when they bicycle over here. and for that to be the sole focus of the tourism on the bicycles and to stigmatize or scapegoat A NON-POLLUTING TRANSPORTATION. seems like avoiding the main issue. The main issue is that this town is special. We love it. That's why we're here, I hope. and we want the good things in this town to increase and the things that maybe don't seem so good to us. to listen. |
| 02:27:05.17 | Jeffrey Chase | There's 92 people in the planning departments in Sausalito and in Marin County. I think... that putting our heads together and talking about the real issues will mean that it'll be more exciting to be here. There'll be more people in the audience watching and more people watching on channel 26. |
| 02:27:28.12 | Joan Cox | Thank you. Thank you Jeff. Is there any other member of the public who'd like to comment on this agenda item? Okay, seeing none, let's bring it back here. Okay, next steps. |
| 02:27:46.07 | Joan Cox | We've got staff preparing videos on each of these milestones, goals milestones. We've got this work product that I think as the city manager said, Finance Committee doesn't need to really... do much more on until we see all the input and hear what we got here. You know, after that, we need to arrange something for the whole city council. And that should be in January. I think we've agreed. So. comments other than that. |
| 02:28:29.86 | Joan Cox | I just think that something in January should be something lengthier than a 20 minute presentation to the City Council on the dais. |
| 02:28:38.86 | Joan Cox | No, we're, no question. Okay. Okay, no, it's good. |
| 02:28:40.90 | Joan Cox | Okay, just want to be clear that's the direction. |
| 02:28:44.42 | Joan Cox | Yeah. I think we've got the message tonight that we need something that isn't just shoehorned in on a regular City Council agenda. Is that? |
| 02:28:58.16 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 02:28:58.36 | Joan Cox | Is that? Thank you. So that's what we're after. My suggestion is we go find a schedule. We go find the time, poll people to find the time. But I wouldn't try and squeeze it in in December because I think we need to hear from the boards and commissions before we grapple back with it, I mean, if that fits Melanie with the time. |
| 02:29:18.48 | Melanie Purcell | We'll bring back the feedback from all the feedback we receive from boards, commissions, council members, and the public. Yeah. To the council then. |
| 02:29:24.49 | Joan Cox | Yeah. . Okay. Everybody all right? Thank you. Okay, good. You guys got what you need? All right, very good. With that, we are going to take a five-minute break. Thank you. |
| 02:29:55.43 | Joan Cox | Okay, thank you. We're back. So we're moving on to item 6D, which is the Waterfront Management Plan update. |
| 02:30:16.93 | Joan Cox | Lieutenant. |
| 02:30:18.35 | Unknown | Good evening, Mr. Mayor, Vice Mayor, City Manager, City Staff. Tonight, I have the pleasure of presenting an update to our waterfront management plan. A LITTLE, and get this to work. A little background was back on June 20th of this year the Sausalito Police Department brought forward a plan to manage our waterfront. Council approved. Part of this plan was the hiring of part-time staff to assist City of Sausalito Police Department full-time staff in policing and managing the waterfront more effectively. In order to do this, we were going to continue to work in collaboration with the Marin County Sheriff's Office, Richardson Bay Regional Agency, and other public entities. And while we were working, to manage the waterfront, we're going to concern ourself with the priorities that have already been laid forward by the Council as we move. And we'll recap the priorities, or it's our highest ones, as a removal of marine debris vessels from the waterway. Also, the removal of unoccupied vessels that were being used as storage. Unregistered vessels in the enforcement and possible removal and vessels that are occupied by persons who are a danger to themselves and others. While they're listed as priorities in a THE CITY IS A LITTLE BIT OF We have to remember that these priorities are very fluid and no pun intended with the water that we're talking about, but we could be dealing with marine debris one day and then jumping and dealing with a storage vessel and then have to go back to address marine debris. So we have to be able to move up and down the chain here and address the priorities as they come up. While we have these priorities, we also have the lowest priority. These are things that we will get to, but they're not at the top of our list right now. And those are occupied vessels that are licensed, that are registered and are in possession of a disposal contract for waste or a similar form of service. So that's what we're concentrating on and what we're aiming our efforts towards. Now, since that waterfront management plan was adopted, we've moved forward in many different areas, and I'm gonna name a few right now. The first is staffing. we have hired two part-time temporary employees to be a marine survey team. They're Terry Moran and Sage Tizek, And right now they're conducting detailed surveys of the Sausalito waters documenting how many vessels there, the locations of the vessels, and certain key characteristics about those vessels, such as condition, registration, and markings. We're gonna go into a little bit more detail about what they're collecting shortly. they are going out there routinely. And also, Terry Moran has also indicated that when the position of harbor assistant does become open, he may be interested in applying for that position. However, we have the staffing in place and we're working towards this goal. This Marine Survey Team is working hand-in-hand with the Sawsoe Police Department's Marine Patrol Unit, the regional agency and the sheriff's office when called upon. Now these surveys, we've conducted four surveys since Waterfront Management Plan has been implemented. There was one in July, August, and two in October. One in early October and one in late October. There's also a survey that will be going out in probably the next week. During these surveys, they're indicating the number of vessels, locations of the vessels. We have seen that the vessels in our waters are staying pretty much static in numbers and in locations. They're hovering somewhere between the 65 to 70 mark. However, We have to remember regarding numbers that are on the number of boats. depending, your survey is only as good as the second you finish counting, because you could have another five boats come in, another four boats leave. and they're being replaced in that fluid situation. However, the surveys we're conducting is going to allow us to better track and document what boats are entering our waters, what boats are leaving our waters, and what are occurring with those vessels. While doing these surveys, we're using geographic information systems in order to locate where they are specifically what kind of condition they're in, what type of violations they may be in violation of, and also any other information we need to know about such as seaworthiness. This is good because it allows us to have a consistent tracking pattern. So we could go back and go to individual vessels and determine where they might have been in our waters, what violations they might have been in, or what are the constant movement in their ongoing dealings with the vessels? So it allows us to track over a period of time in a pretty simple format, unlike having to go back and trying to do six or seven different records checks in order to find out simple information that are readily at hand with us at now. |
| 02:35:30.89 | Unknown | And this is just a sample of what these GIS maps look like. The individual dots are individual vessels upon the waterway. This was from July. of this year. As you can see, we have groupings in different areas. As we move forward, we're going to find out what these dots mean. because we could bring up dots for different subjects, such as boats that are unregistered. We could have show only boats that are unregistered. Boats that are debris, we could show that. Boats that are being used as storage. We could use a whole hodgepodge of different data fields here. And one of the nice things also is, as you look, this is July. This is August. We could track where the vessel might have moved What conditions if new boats have come in and when new boats have come out? And the best aspect of this, as you see, if I wanted to find out information on any of those boats, The only thing I have to do is click on it, and a data field will come up. This data field will have information regarding possibly the occupants of the vessel, condition of the vessel, types of violation, information we need to continue our efforts. It's kind of hard to see. but, a little bit more blown up. We're able to put photographs in here. So if somebody cannot contest the fact that Bumblebee boat. It's not a different bumblebee boat. war. what is the condition or it's not speculation it's hard proof and documentation all these data fields could be modified so if we find out we want to track what color a boat or we want to track that is the boat a public nuisance per our city ordinances we could add that code and we could continue to track in what's necessary and what's most important We're now utilizing this to guide our efforts on the waterway. It's no longer going out and hoping you run across anything. like a Patrol officers sitting at a certain intersection with a radar gun hoping the speeder goes through. we're able to utilize this to be more proactive and focus our efforts and our attention on the waterway so we get better results. |
| 02:37:41.78 | Jill Hoffman | Can I ask one follow-up question before you move on? Can you go back to that slide? is this an actual slide like this is an actual slide from your |
| 02:37:51.04 | Unknown | This is an actual slide. Because of privacy concerns and documentation reasons, we had to block off the CF numbers and information. |
| 02:37:51.31 | Jill Hoffman | THE FAMILY. |
| 02:37:57.44 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thanks, but the descriptors in there are of an actual vessel that's out on our water. |
| 02:38:02.21 | Unknown | THEM. |
| 02:38:02.48 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 02:38:02.62 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:38:02.78 | Jill Hoffman | THANK YOU. |
| 02:38:03.33 | Joan Cox | And one other clarification, if you go back one, two more slides? That purple line, those are Sausalito waters. |
| 02:38:10.31 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 02:38:10.63 | Joan Cox | the outline. |
| 02:38:11.27 | Unknown | Yes, the purple lines are the jurisdictional limits of Sausalito and Sausalito waters. |
| 02:38:18.33 | Kevin | Is there a difference? just denoted two different things. |
| 02:38:23.17 | Unknown | Now. Also as part, we've been working hand in hand with the Legislative Committee regarding these issues. And some of the things we have discussed with the legislative committee are the GIS mapping, the Sausalito Waterfront Ordinances, The marine debris regulations and our procedures for marine debris nuisance. vessels and what procedures we have to deal with them. they've process in the future issues regarding impounding and storing vessels that are in violation of city ordinances. as well as what possible funding needs are gonna be needed for moving forward with our operations and also, the upcoming debris collection event that I will be talking to you all about in a little bit. |
| 02:39:11.82 | Unknown | Now, the debris collection event is a operation that's being conducted with the Saucel Police Department, the Marin County Sheriff's Office, the Richardson Bay Regional Agency, and Marin County Health and Human Services. It's going to be an event that's going to take place if everything goes well, weather permitting, on Tuesday, November 21st. The focus is to provide an opportunity for individuals living throughout Richardson Bay be able to remove debris from their vessels in order for three purposes. Number one, to remove those debris from vessels before the storm system comes and knocks those debris. into the waterway causing a hazard, environmental issue, or dangerous situation for anybody along the waterfront. Number two. to help people get in compliance with Sausalito Police Department, not Sausalito Police Department, but City of Sausalito waterfront ordinances regarding nuisance vehicles, for vessels as well. as Richardson Bay Regional Agency nuisance violations. and also give an opportunity for Marin County Health and Human Services to reach out to those individuals that are upon the waterfront and determine who may want some housing services or who may want additional assistance to possibly remove themselves from the water and go to a different area different housing subject to live. The 21st will be the event. However, prior to the 21st, We're having a community meeting for the waterfront. And at that time, we're going to tell people about What's gonna take place in the times the event is going to occur. Marin County Health and Human Services will be available on that date as well to reach out to the public and reach out to the waterfront to possibly offer additional services. We are trying to do this as a holistic approach. It's not strictly an enforcement aspect, but a way to help people help themselves and remove individuals who could be a danger to themselves or a danger for others based on numerous conditions upon the waterway. even prior to the meeting that we're having tomorrow, Last week on the 7th, we had the Anchor Out Homeless Outreach Program. in which Sausalito Police Department, Richardson Bay Regional Agency, Marin County Sheriff's Office, the University of San Francisco Nursing Program, and Health and Human Services held an event for the anchor out population and the homeless population to obtain some medical assistance, to get some shots, to get a quick checkup, to obtain some free food, and to get clothing for the upcoming months to make sure people are prepared and they're healthy. At that time, we handed out more information about the debris event and tomorrow's meeting. It was very successful. A lot of people got assistance. A lot of people found out about the information. A few individuals signed up for some housing services or get information regarding housing services from Health and Human Services, And some homemade clothing that was knit by our retired city clerk, Debbie Pagliaro, was very popular. Now we have individuals that have scarfs, sweaters, and knit hats roaming around to keep them warm. during this upcoming winter. reaching out to the community in a holistic event in order to ensure that the community understands this is not a strictly an enforcement aspect it's a public safety aspect Now as we said way we're working with partnerships and our partnerships are not only with the Richardson Bay Regional Agency and the Marin County Sheriff's Office. entire region wide. and Over the last four months, we have met with the United States Coast Guard's abandoned and derelict Vessel, Workish Group. in August Chief Rohrabacher met with them and was able to give them a rundown of what we have done in Sausalito to move forward and to better and more effectively and efficiently manage our waterways. This week, our Marine Survey Team will be presenting to this group. what they are doing, how they are mapping, and the processes that they're using to help us manage the waterway. Also, we're going to explain how we're using that information to better enforce and conduct enforcement on the waterway in a more logical and intelligent process. as we talk about what kind of enforcement has taken place since we've adopted the waterfront management plan, we've removed one piece of marine debris. back in September, an illegally Moored. which was partially submerged. was located in the restricted waters of Dunphy Park. We removed that item as marine debris got it off the waterfront, and is no longer on the waterfront at this time. We're being proactive regarding our enforcement of this. And based on the information our GIS surveys are doing, providing us, we're now looking for those vessels that meet the marine debris definition and specifically going out there to address them. Just today, we know, we have. found. two vessels that meet the definition of marine debris We put notices on them and we started the 10 day process to get them out of not only Sausalito waters, but the waters of Richardson Bay. Thank you. If they are not removed and they're still in the waters, They are marine debris. They will be abated after that process. But we're being effective and we're going forward, proactively looking for these issues. And I said, we're using the GIS information for specific directed purposes to focus our enforcement. We've separated our portion of the waterways into three zones. A, B, and C. Using that and using this GIS information, we're breaking down information about where nuisance vessels where vessels without proper registration are, where vessels that are marine debris possibly abandoned or other violations of vehicle code, harbors and navigation codes, or city ordinance codes are, And we're then using that. timely and accurate information to specifically put our officers in the place at the time they need to be to get the most results. It's policing smarter, it's being more effective, it's being more efficient, and it's utilizing our resources in a manner that We're not shooting aimlessly into the night, but we're being targeted, and we're only addressing the main violators and the main issues. And when we run across these things, we issue citations as necessary, post warnings, or abatement notices, and we document all our efforts in this GIS system so we could track, so we know the vessel, What warning or citation might have gotten And. What other issues may be occurring with it? We've already had a directed and specific registration violation patrol, which resulted in citations being issued Investigations being conducted to determine other issues. And we have another patrol going out tomorrow that's gonna focus on nuisance vessels. Thank you. as well as possible other marine debris. So we're focusing our people, we have planned patrols, they're going out there with a purpose and the teams are being divided with specialties, so they're going out there with a mission and a goal in mind. |
| 02:46:41.32 | Unknown | As we've talked about the enforcement, public outreach, and the events, we also wanna know, let everybody know that we're looking forward and we're looking to what the future may hold. And one of that aspect was the waterfront working group THE CITY MANAGER TO THE CHIEF OF POLICE and one of the members of a harbor survey team has met with State Senator McGuire to talk about the issues that are confronting Richardson Bay and our Sausalito waterfront. During this meeting, we provided an overview of the Richardson Bay and Sasso waterfront issues. past, present and future. We talked about what actions Sausalito has taken since her withdrawal from Richardson Bay Regional Agency. about our partnerships and collaboration with our multiple mutual outside agencies. are enforcement efforts. our past, present, and future enforcement efforts Funding needs that are possible. and what future steps. We have to realize the issues we're confronting now, or sometimes 30 years in the making. There's not going to be a solution that's going to be handed down today that's going to solve everything. It's going to be a long process. So we have to have a strategic mindset. and move forward and look ahead. |
| 02:47:54.71 | Unknown | Part of looking ahead is thinking what other processes are needing to be done. In part, we've started a preliminary research to determine what costs may be entailed if we have to start impounding and storing vessels for being in violation of some of our codes, such as the 72-hour code. And we were looking that there are going to be costs associated, but there's not one catch-all cost. It's all going to be depending on the vessel we're dealing with. Costs could range from approximately $1,900 to tow a vessel from our waters, remove it from our waters, and bring it to a storage facility. to in excess of $70,000, depending on the size, composite, makeup, and weight of vessels. And then, the location to be able to effectively securely store a vessel could cost approximately $10,000 a month. These are all ballpark numbers. given to us by professionals who manage these areas with a slight understanding of what we're dealing with. But these are things that we have to be aware of and things that we have to focus our attention on because there may come a time in the future where we're gonna be dealing with these. and, We have to realize the funding resources because grant funding we have deals with one aspect, but we have to be properly prepared and prepare our strategic goals to address all issues. And with that, I'll be happy to handle any questions that the council may have. |
| 02:49:23.27 | Joan Cox | Thank you very much, Lieutenant. That was an excellent presentation. Questions? |
| 02:49:32.85 | Joe Burns | great presentation lieutenant um the boats that you track and you say you know where they go with the gis which is great technology are they just going across the channel? Is there kind of an ebb and tide of that, just going into the Richardson Bay and coming back? Or are they more registered? Are they at the lower? Need boats. |
| 02:49:59.20 | Unknown | It's tough to say right now because, like I said, our surveys have shown that the boats in our waters have been relatively static at this time. I do notice that some of the vessels we have posted over the last few months, a couple have, left our waters and gone into county waters or other waters in Richardson Bay, but other boats have left. We're gonna need a little bit further timeline to see what our efforts are gonna be like to be able to give them more realistic and a more comprehensive answer to that. But we are paying active attention to, we do not want to have a ping pong match on the water. We're not looking for that. So that's why we're working in partnership with Richardson and with the Sheriff's Office. Part of our, when we're removing vessels from marine debris, is those postings we state say you have to remove the vessel from the waters of Richardson Bay. So if that vessel, which has been marked, moves out of our waters and goes into Belvedere waters, Timuron waters, Marin County waters, we still can remove that vessel as marine debris. So depending on other vessels, The Sheriff's Office does proactive registration and proactive enforcement. Richardson Bay looks for abandoned vessels the entire time. So working hand-in-hand with these partners to prevent that ping-ponging effect. |
| 02:51:20.96 | Joan Cox | Okay, thank you. We may have more questions after public comment. Let's open this up for public comment. I have Only Kevin Kiefer for public comment, and Jeff looks like he's filling in a card. So Kevin, did you want to kick off here? |
| 02:51:54.07 | Kevin | Thank you, Mayor. I'll come up here and kick myself. been coming up here for a few years. doesn't seem to matter much. Lieutenant Frass did do a wonderful presentation. There's a lot of discrepancies. Um, He presented a map, I'll show mine, because I guess I can't use any. So clearly defined boundaries of Sausalito and Sausalito's waters are not the same thing. |
| 02:52:37.33 | Kevin | you're not providing clearly defined boundaries, you're in court, you're gonna be in court more, go ahead. Just keep taking my votes. JUST KEEP Pulling your bullshit. not lawful. The federal government, the WOTUS, the waters of the U.S., We'll apply. Federal Registered Notice went out August 16th, 2017 THIS IS COMING DOWN. They're tired of this crap. They're tired of a bunch of unpaid politicians trying to legislate outlandish policy. THE CASE. but you were doing it for 30 years using an enclosure system. But that is now defunct. As of July 1st, The RBRA was defunct, it never processed itself into a successor agency. It never evolved. It had one year to open its governance, and it chose not to. It has not opened its governance since 1993, before the internet. Amusing, isn't it? amusing that that is what all this corruption is based on. |
| 02:54:00.75 | Joan Cox | Thank you. Jeff Jacobs. |
| 02:54:09.30 | Jeffrey Chase | Um... Thank you very much. I appreciate the difference in tone from Lieutenant Farras' presentation today that he used the word holistic and he talked about Health and Human Services offering housing now For that to be more than lip service, there would have to be a place for the people who are living out there to stay. As far as I know, there is not that. at the moment. And if we say there is, that's going to lead people to believe something that's not going to be true. Most of the people who are out there We're born here. in San Francisco Bay, They're... uh, |
| 02:55:09.14 | Jeffrey Chase | Yours. they're your people. Um... I also heard that you said that the anchor outs, the people that are living on Richardson Bay are not being excluded from this process. I was really clear about the vote. This is the most basic. of American rights in the Constitution, in the United States Constitution. if Lieutenant Farras and the chief are going to enforce Sausalito Waters. And give tickets. until boats There must be representation. And right now, There is not. I told you the reason why. I'm. Dealing with this in the only way that I know how to do, which is talk to you first. I don't rush into court. to deal with things. Sometimes people want me to go to court with them I do do that, don't I, Lieutenant Farras? but to go in there voluntarily. in an adversarial relationship. I don't really wanna do that. I'd rather deal with it here. I told the mayor, I told Adam too, about the voting situation. Adam said that, Mr. Pulitzer said that it was a county issue. I went down there. As far as I know, the votes haven't been counted. PROVISIONAL BALLOTS IN are the way that votes haven't been counted. In other states, it's gerrymandering. It's ID checks. It's voter purges. Here on the front page, Of the New York Times, this is on Monday, it says Democrats will not take over the House. They will not be able to handle President Trump. If these tactics are being used nationally, But they're being used here in Sausalito, too. I'm trying to deal with this the best way I can. Thank you, Jeff. Thank you. |
| 02:57:30.23 | Joan Cox | Thank you, Jeff. Doug, did you want to say something? Thank you. |
| 02:57:37.74 | Doug Storms | Could you put up the slide of me? It was the illegal debris and there's a diver on a boat. It was right in the same frame. Do you have the technology to put that slide up, that part of the presentation that was given? Thank you. Oh, okay. |
| 02:57:57.11 | Kevin | I second. I saw him. |
| 02:58:03.98 | Doug Storms | Oh, that's it. Thank you. Thank you. So here is, I can't go there because You won't pick up the sound, maybe. Here I am, working away, not stealing anchors, But actually, I'm helping someone relocate off from the waters of Dunphy Park to be in compliance with the ordinance. So there's about four boats that I helped relocate to set up that they had proper ground tackle so that they wouldn't become a problem for the Saucydeau police. So enforcement, a partially submerged illegal dock was removed from the waters of Dunphy Park as marine debris. What is my picture doing up there with illegal debris? you know, I don't understand that. You have to be very careful about what pictures you put up. Now, the question that I have is, Take a step back. I tried for 20 years to get Bill Price and the RBRA to do what Lieutenant Frass is doing. Use modern technology to track and to make smart decisions, not to waste time. I've shared with the council before, in 1992, 1993, I took a survey. In 2014, I took a survey and continue that survey to update it on a continuous basis. All the information that you saw on the slide there, we have 18 columns of information, contact information. What's the status of the ground tackle? When was it inspected? Emergency contact information. Does it have a holding tank? Does it get pumped out? How many tenders do they have? Where did they go to shore? you know. What's happening with them? You know, what are their needs? There's a difference between the boats on whether it's a commercial vessel, a transient vessel, a cruiser, a pleasure boater just coming in, a liveaboard, or a storage boat. Now, that begs the question. This vessel is a storage boat. I guess it's marine debris. I know it's marine debris. It's right here. Is it my boat? Actually not. It's not my boat. Scott Diamond owns the boat. He's gracious enough to let the community use it as an anchor storage boat. Remember I was talking about emergency response containers that you should have? That is an emergency vessel that has emergency equipment in so that when a vessel breaks free and it needs anchors or equipment that we need we have access on the water within five minutes we can grab the anchors the lines the chain whatever it needs to secure a vessel i wish that he had consulted with us and by the way at the richardson bay special anchorage association meeting the fourth tuesday of the month from 6 to 9. Beth Pollard. And by the way, at the Richardson Bay Special Anchorage Association meeting, the fourth Tuesday of the month from 6 to 9, Beth Pollard, the new executive director from the RBRA, is going to be there to meet the group. I encourage you to be part of that, to meet the anchor outs, because we're talking about serious matters. Meeting the Richardson Bay Anchoring and Safety Guidelines, specifically. All that we just want to work in partnership and have the communication. I just wish that we would have the communication with the police department on a real-time basis to deal with this so I don't have to respond in public when my face is up there. It's already tough enough to look at, but to look at, I mean, come on. Give me a break. |
| 03:01:42.46 | Joan Cox | Thank you. Is there anybody, any other member of the public who'd like to say something? Okay, seeing none, let's bring it back here. Do we have any action to take tonight? I think not on this. Any comments? |
| 03:01:59.08 | Joan Cox | Just thank you for a job well done. I think it's really great, this tracking. approach using the GIS Jill and I had an opportunity to sit down and see more details with the chief and with sage it's really fascinating and I think it's important to protect everybody's rights to really have accurate information. |
| 03:02:23.37 | Kevin | We can also use the same mail. Thank you. The road express UPS will be using. |
| 03:02:25.68 | Joan Cox | THE FAMILY. |
| 03:02:25.85 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 03:02:25.86 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 03:02:25.88 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 03:02:25.93 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 03:02:28.57 | Kevin | I'm just going to go ahead. |
| 03:02:29.29 | Joan Cox | Thank you, but the public comment period is over. Thank you. Any comments? |
| 03:02:37.02 | Jill Hoffman | No, I just want to thank the police department and all the hard work you guys have done since we withdrew from RBRA July 1st. I think, I've said this before, but I think we've gone farther in the last three months than the efforts on the water management have gone in the past decades. So you guys are doing a great job and keep up, so thank you. |
| 03:03:00.98 | Joan Cox | I echo that. Thank you. OK. Thank you for that. We'll move on. Thank you very much. OK. So we're now on item number five, which is a public hearing item. which is... I'm not going to read it all out. An introduction of an ordinance related to trees and views. How's that for? So and Lily, yes, it's over to you. |
| 03:03:29.69 | Unknown | Thank you, Mr. Mayor, council members. Tonight I'll be giving a brief presentation on the introduction of an ordinance amending the municipal code to disband the trees and views committee and assign the planning commission the responsibility for the review and disposition of tree removal permits and view claims in addition to some minor corrections for errors and promote efficiencies within the ordinance. In terms of background, in March of this year, staff brought forward to the City Council opportunities for efficiencies, collaboration, consolidation, or elimination of a number of boards and committees in the city. The trees and views committee was identified as a committee that has struggled with quorum issues and maintaining a full membership for a number of years now. Staff recommended at that time that the planning commission who is familiar with tree issues and takes up view issues routinely, Be assigned all duties of the trees and views committee. The council gave direction at that March meeting to have staff bring forward an ordinance transferring the responsibility of the trees and views committee to the planning commission. And also consider what types of tree and views permits could be handled administratively and then return with modifications to the municipal code. in May of this year the council adopted Resolution number 5648. which granted temporary authority to the Planning Commission As there were a number of items that the trees and views committee needed to hear, but they didn't have a quorum to hear them. So the Planning Commission has been acting as the Trees and Views Committee since May of this year. They've reviewed two items and there are a number of items in their lineup right now to review. |
| 03:05:21.36 | Unknown | So staff has drafted the ordinance for consideration this evening that makes those modifications as I've discussed. And I'll go into quick detail, a little bit of detail about the different changes. So the first chapter that's proposed to be changed is chapter 2.20, which establishes the planning commission. And we're proposing to have added the responsibilities of the planning commission to also consider tree removal and alteration permits and view claims pursuant to chapter 11.2. This is moving over the responsibility of the trees and views committee to the planning commission. We also brought over the language previously in the chapter that established the trees and views committee regarding member qualifications and are adding. to the commission's qualifications that one member shall, when possible, be a landscape architect or arborist. With regard to Chapter 2.3, this is the chapter that established the trees and views committee. We're proposing to eliminate that chapter. And then here's the list of changes to chapter 11.12, which is the preservation of trees and views. And provides regulations on alteration of trees and views. And then also view claims. So the first change is that it replaces all instances in the chapter of trees and views committee with the planning commission. And then we've revised all social and municipal code references appropriately. It also incorporates the duties of the trees and views committee from chapter 2.30 which we're proposing to eliminate. into the purpose and intent section which is rewritten now as duties of the planning commission. It replaces all instances of city arborist with city engineer. It adds a defining statement to the emergency tree removal or alteration section of the chapter to explain instances when an emergency permit would be granted. It capitalizes arborist as a defined term, as it is a defined term. It deletes instances of certified before arborist or tree worker because certified is already a part of definitions for those terms. It replaces all instances of International Society of Arborists with international CERTIFIED IS ALREADY A PART OF DEFINITIONS FOR THOSE TERMS. IT REPLACES ALL INSTANCES OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ARBORISTS WITH INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ARBORICULTURE. And then lastly, it remedies an error made in codification of ordinance. 1107 regarding the undesirable tree tree list essentially there was an error made in codification of that ordinance that was then subsequently reflected in other ordinance amendments but we took a look back and there was no intent to remove any of the undesirable trees at that time so we're we're re-codifying them into the code |
| 03:08:22.92 | Unknown | STAFF IS RECOMMENDING THAT IN EARLY 2018 STAFF DETERMINE WHICH TYPES OF PERMITS COULD BE POTENTIALLY HANDLED ADMINISTRATIVELY AND REVIEW THOSE DRAFT CHANGES WITH THE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. and then with the Planning Commission. after recommendations are provided from those bodies, then those changes would be brought back forward to the City Council for hearings on those changes. Alternatively, if the council would like to have all of the changes adopted at one time, the council could direct staff to move forward with drafting those ordinance changes regarding making some of the permits administrative, take those changes to the legislative committee and then the planning commission, and then break forward a consolidated ordinance to the council for consideration in 2018. |
| 03:09:18.63 | Unknown | At this time, staff is recommending that the council introduce and read by title only the ordinance as described this evening, directing staff to return on November 28th. for a second reading and adoption and authorize a summary of the ordinance to be published five days in advance of the second reading and 15 days after its adoption. And that concludes our staff report and we're available for any questions. |
| 03:09:43.03 | Joan Cox | Thank you very much, Lely. Okay. |
| 03:09:45.95 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 03:09:46.08 | Unknown | I'm sorry. |
| 03:09:46.27 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 03:09:50.77 | Joan Cox | Immediate questions. |
| 03:09:52.07 | Joan Cox | I have one question. |
| 03:09:52.93 | Joan Cox | Mm-hmm. |
| 03:09:54.05 | Joan Cox | um, If we were to take the holistic approach and go back and figure out what the entire ordinance would be before we adopt anything, we already have a mechanism in place for addressing trees and views issues in the interim. Correct. That was it. |
| 03:10:16.51 | Joan Cox | What would be the benefit of not doing this in a two-step process. |
| 03:10:25.91 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 03:10:25.92 | Joan Cox | that |
| 03:10:26.03 | Joan Cox | That's the question sort of. |
| 03:10:30.31 | Joan Cox | I mean to my mind if the ordinance may change depending on how much we want staff to do or or have to have the Planning Commission do. So. um, to my mind, the ordinance should identify what types of matters would be eligible for staff review versus what types of matters go directly to the Planning Commission. |
| 03:10:54.58 | Joan Cox | Any other questions? Okay. Public comment. Is there anyone who'd like to... comment on that. You can fill that in later if you just want to. Thank you. |
| 03:11:16.45 | Cheryl Basio | Cheryl Basio, I just am unclear and I hope it becomes more clear When you refer to administrative, who's that referring to as far as who's going to be handling that on behalf of the city? I certainly hope it's not going to be planning because they are very overwhelmed. And then as far as the authority of the tree and view committee, having been on it for about five years, I have some recollection of all the rules and regulations associated with it, but I'm uncertain from what's proposed here whether there's gonna be some effort to expand the authority over the tree and view issues by the planning commission or these administrators. So none of that is discussed in these recommendations, but I have some concern over that. |
| 03:12:14.57 | Joan Cox | Thank you. Yeah, Kevin, I do have a card for you. |
| 03:12:25.03 | Kevin | Real quickly, Do these authorities, I know you can't answer this, but it would appear that maybe these authorities overlap with the open spaces. And then we get into the clearly defined boundaries then of the opened spaces, the unopened spaces. So we're talking about trees, but nobody mentions the aluminum trees that grow and shrink every six hours. the 3,000 trees that block most of the view of Sausalito to the eastward. that force precious open space to be garnered upon designated areas of the public trust waters. The waters that cannot then be transited by vessels because they are precious views for the people who have a 3,000-grove aluminum force. and spread out in order to hijack public trust revenues, from the Tidelands Fund. ashore into the Landowners, the shoreside landowners, the Barons of Bridgeway, which have been created through mishandling, misdirection of the public trust revenues for more than 30 years. So the RBRA and the special area, the BCDC special area plan, and the multiple governors that have fed into this have all been working in this particular area to conceal and to facilitate the hijacking of the public trust. And Mr. Francis, working with the finance board, Committee. to maintain the functionality of this hijacking because it gets more and more difficult, the more auditing that takes place, and the more difficult it is to bond and to re, distribute the funds in this case recently or more recently was the MLK school fund so the MLK lies within a clearly defined boundary which in the Sausalito's manner it posted in on the 2014 the tsunami title title inundation zone But it really is the public trust. And it really is the waters of the U.S., that line. And it will never change. Thank you. Thank you. because once water is for the U.S. always, |
| 03:15:22.62 | Joan Cox | Thank you. Is there any other member of the public who'd like to comment on this item? Okay, seeing none, let's bring it back here. So, It seems to me that we need to make a decision are we. Because I thought this started off that what we were trying to do was basically change the ordinance so that we got rid of the trees and views committee. And we've done a bit of cleanup, but there's clearly some work we've got to do. So I still don't understand why we want to just put a halt on something just because we've got a whole bunch of future work to do. I just don't understand why we want to do that. |
| 03:16:07.46 | Joan Cox | I... to me. Well, staff has said if they're going to do it, they would bring it back in early next year, January or something. It's going to go to the Legislative Committee. for review of what would go to the community development director. I just feel as though I just like to do everything, just as I said on an earlier item, I like to do everything at once. So I'd like to figure out as a part of the Trees and Views ordinance what approvals would be handled by staff. and what approvals would be handled by the Planning Commission. I think that should be part of the discussion. I think The ordinance before us is very well done. I think Lily's done a great job of synthesizing Um, and changing over terms to reflect the current status. We no longer have a city arborist, we have a city engineer. All of those revisions I think are very well done. I think it's totally It's great in its current form, but I think more work has to be done. And then we'd have to perhaps go back and redo this ordinance. That's what I want to avoid, is doing the same thing twice. |
| 03:17:23.43 | Joan Cox | I personally think that there's a lot of discussion we gotta have on trees and views issues. I mean, it's not at all clear to me that we have really thought through exactly how we are going to, um, work through the view protection issues. That's all. There's a lot of work to do here. You know? And part of the reason why we wanted to transfer it to the Planning Commission is that they routinely deal with these new issues. I mean, more so, much more so. There's also the tree protection issues, which are, and so has to be balanced out. So there's a lot of work to do. |
| 03:18:06.09 | Adam Politzer | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 03:18:06.33 | Joan Cox | THE END OF But I just don't know why we just have something in a sort of put on this hold mode waiting to do all that work. That could take another year. realistically, looking at what we've got on our plate, that could take another year. So do we just leave this in limbo for a year? I mean, thoughts, please. I'm talking. |
| 03:18:36.06 | Jill Hoffman | I guess we go for it. |
| 03:18:39.05 | Joe Burns | I hear where you're going, Mayor. I guess I'd ask staff when having two ordinances or keeping this ordinance and not amending it later and just creating another ordinance that does speak more |
| 03:18:44.99 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. I'm not sure. |
| 03:18:52.68 | Joe Burns | Definedly with the trees and views aspects would that be possible? |
| 03:19:01.74 | Joe Burns | to get this done now and then have another ordinance later, or as opposed to amend this ordinance in June of 2018. |
| 03:19:08.07 | Unknown | Our recommendation before you tonight is to do just that. Just that, right. Is to take action on these amendments tonight so that the |
| 03:19:11.90 | Joe Burns | Who is that? Right. |
| 03:19:12.56 | Peter Van Meter | Thank you. |
| 03:19:18.03 | Unknown | The authority is officially transferred over to the Planning Commission and it's not on a temporary basis. Now, it's officially codified in the municipal code. And then we can thoughtfully look at the ordinance and what changes can be made. |
| 03:19:21.01 | Adam Politzer | Right. |
| 03:19:31.41 | Joe Burns | but not have to create another ordinance, change the one. |
| 03:19:35.07 | Unknown | So we would, if the council takes action tonight to make these, this change switching over to the planning commission, that would be codified in the municipal code. And then we would take a look at chapter 11, |
| 03:19:38.60 | Joe Burns | Thank you. |
| 03:19:38.61 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 03:19:38.63 | Joe Burns | Yeah. |
| 03:19:38.85 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 03:19:46.58 | Unknown | 11.12 and what types of permits that the planning commission would then be reviewing and which permit should go to the community development director. |
| 03:19:51.58 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 03:19:51.59 | Joe Burns | Thank you. |
| 03:19:51.62 | Adam Politzer | Yeah. |
| 03:19:51.76 | Adam Krivachi | Thank you. |
| 03:19:51.79 | Joe Burns | you. |
| 03:19:55.81 | Joan Cox | Makes sense. |
| 03:19:56.54 | Adam Krivachi | That's right. |
| 03:19:57.01 | Joan Cox | Just remind us, right now, |
| 03:20:04.64 | Joan Cox | If somebody wants, let's take two cases. Let's say somebody wants to cut a tree down. And by the way, I want to mention a tree. I got bombarded by members of the women's club on Saturday. who were really upset about their tree. And it needs to be taken down and it can't be taken down. I mean, I was literally, I was working with Sausalito Beautiful at the post office, planting plants and clearing stuff. And this is all people wanted to talk about was this damn tree. So we're trying to also make sure the process moves along. You know, anyway, if somebody wants to remove a tree right now, Okay, what do they do? They walk up to the counter and they apply for a tree permit, right? And they say, I think I've got a tree that's on my land. I think it's now dangerous. What they got to do? They got to get an arborist report. They got to think, and then what do they do? They got to go to the trees and views commission. There's no authority, there's no ability other than an extreme emergency for anybody to authorize somebody to cut a tree down. Is that right? |
| 03:21:14.53 | Unknown | If there's an emergency situation, the public works director can authorize that under an emergency tree removal permit. But otherwise, it would be handled at the Planning Commission level because they're acting right now as the Trees and Views Committee. |
| 03:21:26.09 | Joan Cox | Okay, right. So every tree that has to be cut down, or every tree that has to be trimmed greater than 25% that exceeds the federal or cultural standards, has to go in front of the Planning Commission right now. |
| 03:21:40.81 | Unknown | If it qualifies under the ordinance, he's needing a permit. |
| 03:21:42.26 | Joan Cox | Okay. Okay, so let's just make sure. Every single tree in Sausalito has to go in front of the Planning Commission. Thank you. |
| 03:21:48.62 | Joan Cox | Unless you decide to break the rule and seek forgiveness, in which case you may pay a fine. |
| 03:21:56.20 | Jill Hoffman | No one would. Thank you. |
| 03:21:57.43 | Joan Cox | No one would recommend that. |
| 03:21:58.56 | Joan Cox | Well, no, we're all recommending that. |
| 03:21:59.45 | Joan Cox | All right. |
| 03:21:59.52 | Jill Hoffman | All right. |
| 03:21:59.60 | Joan Cox | I don't recommend that. |
| 03:22:00.85 | Joan Cox | No, I'm just... You talk to most certified arborists, and they believe they have the authority instantly, at the moment, on the ground, to remove a tree that they deem to be a hazard. |
| 03:22:14.73 | Joan Cox | Yep. |
| 03:22:16.48 | Joan Cox | So just note that. Okay, so let's look at the other extreme. Okay. Someone has got a dispute with their neighbor, their neighbor has let their trees grow up, and they're now blocking a view that a property owner legitimately had. Okay, then what have they got to do right now? What's the process right now? |
| 03:22:45.12 | Unknown | They would submit a view claim and that would go to the planning commission. And there's a number of items they need to submit with the view claim, an ARBURS report. |
| 03:22:54.65 | Joan Cox | Do I? Right, right. And has staff yet made any, have done any analysis or made any suggestions as to which types of actions and what would be the limits of the actions that the administrative zoning director, if they were placed in that role of being able to administer administrative actions on any of these items? Has staff done any work thoughts yet on that and is that why we need to wait until the year before |
| 03:23:27.64 | Unknown | We haven't started drafting that at this point. |
| 03:23:29.25 | Joan Cox | Okay. All right. Okay. I partly did that for people listening so that they know what we're talking about here. |
| 03:23:35.61 | Joe Burns | Yeah. Yeah. I'm curious, in that hypothetical situation, the first step would be to come into the planning department, but is there a first step through our website where they can get a fairly defined understanding of what can be removed, what is it protected and all that? I couldn't find it. |
| 03:23:54.12 | Unknown | We have instructions on the website. |
| 03:23:56.55 | Joe Burns | Is it under some? Okay. |
| 03:23:59.10 | Unknown | I can send those to the council if you'd like. |
| 03:24:01.80 | Joe Burns | I've heard make it. |
| 03:24:02.02 | Unknown | Yeah. It should be on the community development forms page. I will double check that right now. Thank you. |
| 03:24:11.16 | Joan Cox | Yeah. |
| 03:24:14.66 | Joan Cox | So I don't know what you think. I tend to... Thank you. Thank you. follow staff's recommendation here that we I had the first reading of this, and then, you know, in the Next year, they need to get the work done to you know, figure out what the other changes are, such as administrative review and so on. That's my view, but... |
| 03:24:34.45 | Jill Hoffman | THE END OF THE END OF THE I'm kind of leaning that way as well because I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO GET THIS DEFINED. WHAT ARE WE DOING WITH TREES AND VIEWS? Yeah we're doing that now. |
| 03:24:45.05 | Adam Politzer | THE END OF |
| 03:24:46.26 | Jill Hoffman | But then I think there needs to be a lot of work on Every tree can't go to the Planning Commission. They just can't. That's work with the legislative committee. That's right. And we need to really look and see what we can do going forward to streamline this process. |
| 03:25:02.45 | Joan Cox | Yeah, and something that other municipalities have done is give very clear parameters about what can be handled, protected versus non-protected, size of trunk, those impact on neighbors, distance from other houses, those kinds of parameters to give very clear guidance about what could be handled administratively versus what has to go to the Planning Commission. |
| 03:25:33.46 | Joan Cox | I mean... We've got to sort this out because if it's taking months and months and months to get tree removal permits issued. |
| 03:25:36.79 | Joan Cox | Yeah. |
| 03:25:36.97 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. |
| 03:25:42.12 | Adam Politzer | Yeah. |
| 03:25:42.35 | Joan Cox | A tree falls down and kills somebody. This city is going to incur a huge liability. |
| 03:25:50.59 | Joan Cox | Okay, are we ready to make a motion to first reading here? |
| 03:25:59.42 | Joan Cox | I did take public comment. Yeah, I did. |
| 03:26:03.43 | Jill Hoffman | Do you want to do that? OK. Then I'll do it. I need to make the motion to introduce and read by title only. OK. |
| 03:26:15.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:26:15.99 | Jill Hoffman | On your agenda. Sorry, I didn't put... Uh, okay, hold on. I WANT TO BE ABLE TO I'm going to go ahead and And 11.12 parentheses preservation of trees and views in parentheses and deleting chapters 2.30 parentheses trees and views committee. 2 directing staff to return on November 28th 2017 for second reading and adoption and 3 authorize a summary of the ordinance to be published 5 days in advance of the second reading and 15 days after its adoption. A SECOND. |
| 03:27:03.12 | Joan Cox | Second. you Thank you. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? No. Okay, that passes 4-0. Thank you. Thank you very much, Lily. |
| 03:27:06.73 | Jill Hoffman | Bye. |
| 03:27:14.36 | Joan Cox | Okay. So... |
| 03:27:22.25 | Joan Cox | Item seven, city manager reports and other reports of council members, et cetera. Initially, is there any public comment on item seven B through F? Okay, seeing none, city manager, information for council, over to you. |
| 03:27:41.32 | Adam Politzer | I don't have anything new to add that you didn't hear tonight, but I do want to commend staff. I think the work of Melanie Purcell on the strategic plan, working with the Finance Committee, and with Charlie Francis and all the department heads, when you look at the 53 slides, there's a lot of work that goes on behind that, and the work that's going to come over the next month and translating that into video for the community's benefit, I think, also needs to be recognized it doesn't just happen overnight it takes a lot of work to to get there the general plan report earlier tonight i think it was shared by the council and by the public again the amount of work and the progress that we've made in a really short time to get from where we started to where we are now and the GPAC committee is doing an outstanding job of moving moving through the process so Sometimes we don't take a moment to pause and recognize the amount of work The presentation from Lieutenant Frost on the activity on the waterfront, it shouldn't pass that the debris cleanup day that's being planned is something that the folks on the water asked us to help them with. And here we are moving forward with a scheduled event, and RBRA has helped offset some of the costs associated with that so that we weren't just doing Sausalito's waters, but we were able to work with everyone on the water to remove items that may end up in the water during the storm season. The chief and I also met with the county's Health and Human Services Department and their staff and the coordinator of Homeless Services from the city of San Rafael to really look at the effort that the county has put forth on the Housing First initiative and identifying people on the water that would like to move off the water and into housing. And Jeff Jacobs is correct. There's not permanent housing yet available, but the efforts of the county The money has been identified. the partners to move forward on identifying housing and the will of the county is there. Now, on the short term, yes, we probably will only be able to help people get off the water during the storm season into temporary shelters and housing. But I think over the long term, we'll be able to move people into permanent housing. That's the commitment from the county, and that's the effort that city staff is working towards. So all these things take time, a lot of work and dedication, committee reports, committee direction, and then back to the council. So I just, again reckon want to recognize staff's hard work on this and the committee members of the various committees specifically the legislative committee and the Finance Committee as we go into the new year as Melanie shared not only are we going to continue the effort to the strategic plan because even though we complete the working document then we actually got to do the work And the work will coincide with the efforts of the budget so if they are priority of the council over the next few years then we have to put dollars to those efforts so we can actually move those projects forward and that's where it's going to get challenging once again because you got to make a decision on how to spend the dollars the limited dollars that we have and spend them to the best of our ability so it's going to be a busy end of this year, but I think the real work is going to start at the beginning of next year and in the six months following. So I want to thank the council for their efforts, their patience, support in rolling up their sleeves and actually doing the work. And I think we have a lot to be proud of so that ends my report happy to answer any questions to the council |
| 03:31:51.67 | Joan Cox | Any questions for our city manager? Thank you. Okay, Council Member Committee Reports. Anybody got anything to report? |
| 03:32:07.02 | Jill Hoffman | Just our meeting, our waterfront meeting with Senator McGuire, but I think Lieutenant Frost covered that very well. |
| 03:32:13.01 | Joan Cox | The Sustainability Commission will be hosting a Game of Floods event at the Bay Model on February 3, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. All are invited and welcome. |
| 03:32:25.06 | Joan Cox | I have played games of floods. It's interesting. |
| 03:32:29.03 | Joe Burns | Related to my role on the bike and ped committee as Saucedo Plus non-voting liaison, that group is meeting tonight and working, and I'm missing that. After this meeting? No, no, they're doing it right now. And, or probably they're done. But that will be kind of like next meeting when we talk about our plans. |
| 03:32:41.26 | Adam Politzer | that. |
| 03:32:41.97 | Peter Van Meter | No, no, they're doing it. |
| 03:32:46.36 | Peter Van Meter | Thank you. |
| 03:32:46.37 | Adam Politzer | . |
| 03:32:55.22 | Joe Burns | Okay. |
| 03:32:55.98 | Joan Cox | Really nothing. Okay, appointments to Boards Commission committees. We interviewed, we're currently interviewing for the Disaster Preparedness Committee. We interviewed, I think, two good candidates tonight and I'd like to put forward. We have a total of three appointments to fill. We interviewed two people tonight and I'd like to put forward their names for consideration for appointment. That's Katie Amitruda and Joan Saxton. So again, those are the two nominations for disaster preparedness is Anybody have... Any objections on that? Second. |
| 03:33:40.59 | Jill Hoffman | I'm going to go ahead and |
| 03:33:41.54 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |
| 03:33:41.67 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. |
| 03:33:42.38 | Joan Cox | OK. |
| 03:33:43.66 | Joan Cox | So I think we're all in favor of that by consent. |
| 03:33:45.72 | Joan Cox | I totally endorse that. |
| 03:33:47.09 | Joan Cox | Okay, very good. Future agenda items, any comments on that? We have the ongoing list, I think, published. |
| 03:33:54.99 | Adam Politzer | Yeah. |
| 03:33:55.00 | Joan Cox | Thank you. Thank you. Yes, we do. So any comments, anything that pops out or that you've heard from the community needs to be on for consideration, considering we've got about a three-page list that isn't even on here. Okay. And if there are no other reports of significance, we are adjourned. Thank you. |
| 03:34:08.40 | Peter Van Meter | Yeah. you |
| 03:34:22.36 | Joan Cox | Thank you. |