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| 00:00:00.35 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:00:00.60 | Unknown | Thank you. Yeah. |
| 00:00:00.98 | Unknown | No. But here it is. |
| 00:00:05.70 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:00:05.72 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:00:05.74 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:00:05.75 | Unknown | got it. |
| 00:00:07.02 | Unknown | Yeah. What's that? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, you're gonna pass me on. |
| 00:00:10.09 | Adam Krivachi | Whoa, whoa, whoa. |
| 00:00:12.62 | Unknown | Hi, Ray. How are you? Good to see you. Good to see you. Hi, John. You're the mayor of Fax now. Wow. |
| 00:00:17.16 | Unknown | Nice job. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:00:20.36 | Unknown | Let us see how we can get them. |
| 00:00:21.82 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:00:36.36 | Unknown | Right. The C&C legislature, they use the C&C. |
| 00:00:41.26 | Councilmember Cox | Oh, ha. |
| 00:00:43.03 | Unknown | That's right. |
| 00:00:43.60 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. |
| 00:00:43.84 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:00:43.97 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. |
| 00:00:44.28 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:00:44.29 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. |
| 00:00:44.40 | Unknown | Exactly. |
| 00:00:44.97 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. |
| 00:00:47.03 | Unknown | Yeah, and the professor's so sharp coming from my day last. |
| 00:00:49.71 | Charlie Francis | What we're litigating these days. |
| 00:00:49.85 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:00:51.09 | Unknown | Oh, everybody. Everybody? Oh, yeah. I'm not living in law. Do you have a license in Minnesota? |
| 00:00:51.11 | Charlie Francis | Hello, everybody. |
| 00:00:51.97 | Unknown | Everybody? Thank you. you |
| 00:00:54.08 | Councilmember Huffman | I'm not looking at it. |
| 00:00:54.84 | Unknown | Do you have a license in Minnesota? |
| 00:00:57.69 | Councilmember Huffman | Yes. |
| 00:00:57.76 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:00:59.26 | Councilmember Huffman | Thank you. |
| 00:00:59.84 | Unknown | That's it. |
| 00:01:00.12 | Councilmember Huffman | Thank you. |
| 00:01:00.16 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:01:00.17 | Councilmember Huffman | Thank you. |
| 00:01:00.41 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:01:00.51 | Councilmember Huffman | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:01:00.70 | Unknown | and you're following. Thank you. |
| 00:01:04.59 | Councilmember Huffman | the same fall. Okay, wait, did you, |
| 00:01:09.15 | Unknown | that long. |
| 00:01:10.20 | Councilmember Huffman | That big building, right? Am I like... Yeah, there's a brewery. |
| 00:01:13.54 | Unknown | Yeah, there's a brewery underneath me. I didn't buy the whole building. I bought a lofty building. |
| 00:01:16.73 | Councilmember Huffman | Thank you. The Pressure. |
| 00:01:17.96 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 00:01:19.53 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:01:19.58 | Unknown | I submitted, I'm only working for a time and I submitted to the California Movement and worked |
| 00:01:26.03 | Unknown | The only one we can buy. |
| 00:01:26.82 | Unknown | I mean, absolutely. |
| 00:01:27.70 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:01:27.78 | Unknown | And then it's kind of kind of like |
| 00:01:27.78 | Unknown | and then attend conferences. So we just had a company kickoff, and the sales manager said, I really need you down here in Florida. February, I'll be there. |
| 00:01:29.40 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:01:36.57 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:01:36.72 | Councilmember Huffman | I'll be there. Done. Done. What's the weather, Howie? Are you in St. Paul? |
| 00:01:38.55 | Unknown | I'm not. |
| 00:01:38.82 | Unknown | Thank you. weather hours. |
| 00:01:39.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:01:41.05 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:01:41.42 | Councilmember Huffman | Thank you. I wish I would know that. We have a Maple Operational Support Center in Mid-Atlas. At the airport right there. So I'm there. I was just there in... |
| 00:01:45.80 | Unknown | Good idea. Thank you. I was just there in the Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:01:50.65 | Councilmember Huffman | It was like there. |
| 00:01:50.68 | Unknown | It was like there. |
| 00:01:52.37 | Unknown | I hear it. |
| 00:01:53.04 | Unknown | I've got a brace. |
| 00:01:55.66 | Unknown | The Pressure Mannington The Pressure Mannington |
| 00:01:57.56 | Unknown | Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. |
| 00:02:00.40 | Councilmember Huffman | I don't know, I went to the base. Oh, okay. I mean, I've never even been, usually we fly in, we work in the mall all the time, and then we go straight back to the cross-run. I wrote on it earlier. Anyway, all right. |
| 00:02:01.77 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:02:01.80 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:02:01.83 | Unknown | Oh, okay. |
| 00:02:02.66 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:02:02.76 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:02:02.78 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:02:05.85 | Hazel Roth | Thank you. |
| 00:02:06.19 | Unknown | One more time. Yeah. |
| 00:02:12.48 | Unknown | Let's get started. I know we want to get out of here. |
| 00:02:14.41 | Councilmember Huffman | I know we want to get out of here. Yeah, I will be out of here. |
| 00:02:21.58 | Ray | Thank you. and that's what we're doing. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:02:36.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:02:37.04 | Unknown | Yeah, this is true. |
| 00:02:39.50 | Unknown | you you Thank you. |
| 00:03:15.97 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | of the Sausalito City Council, Saturday, January 20, 2018, for the purpose of our strategic plan workshop. Thank you. or whoever we please call them. |
| 00:03:31.37 | Danny | Council member Cleveland Knowles. Council member Hoffman. Council member Withee. |
| 00:03:35.05 | Unknown | Congratulations. |
| 00:03:37.85 | Danny | Here. Vice Mayor Burns. Here. And Mayor Cox. |
| 00:03:38.06 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. Thank you. Here. Here. |
| 00:03:45.11 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay, we have no closed session announcements. Is there any public comment on the closed session items? Seeing none, may I have a motion to approve the agenda? |
| 00:03:57.33 | Unknown | Second. |
| 00:03:59.13 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | All in favor? Aye. Aye. That motion carries 5-0. And with that, we will start with the strategic plan workshop. Are there any public comments starting out on the strategic plan workshop? |
| 00:04:00.89 | Unknown | I'm sorry. |
| 00:04:14.79 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay, and thank you members of the public who are here for attending. . All right, I'll turn it over to staff for a presentation. Good morning, Charlie. |
| 00:04:24.68 | Charlie Francis | Good morning, Mayor, City Council. It's a real pleasure to be back here today. For the record, my name's Charlie Francis, and I'll be facilitating the workshop today. I'm the former Administrative Services Director and Treasurer of the city and original director designer of the current strategic plan. It was a real honor to be asked to come back today. For a little history, this is the agenda today. I was kind of informed that we want to wrap up around 10.40 so that we can attend the services of Tom Hoffman today. And that works well with me because I have a plane to catch at 12.40. Thank you. If that's okay with the whole city council, I'll try to paste the workshop to that. |
| 00:05:08.19 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | That's great. |
| 00:05:08.73 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. |
| 00:05:23.41 | Charlie Francis | the program. Great. So while we're there we go. So I'm just going to cover a little history a bit about the process. The progress on the current strategic plan why So back in 2013, there was a strategic planning session conducted by Sherry Lund, staff, and the then city council. And coming out of that meeting was a series of notes. It had the missions, the values, but the notes had listed objectives for the goals that were adopted by the city council. There was no substantive narrative to those goals. The objectives were bullet items, and it was laid out in a way where it wasn't clear to see what objectives were aligned under which goal and which fiscal year they were going to. So working through the finance committee, it came out from the finance committee and then the strategic planning committee that consisted of two members of the finance committee and staff, that we needed a visual and a document that clearly laid out where we were going to, what was our main vision. And the main vision coming out of that 2013 workshop was a safe, thriving, friendly community with a new general plan. That then became the focus of how we're gonna do it. So I went in to those notes, and I started putting narrative to it and put it into the form that we're considering today. And that form has guided the development of all these resource allocation plans. So we normally adopt a two year budget. So the 2014-16 budget had goals, objectives, and milestones that were accomplished. Then we had the 16-18 budget where we revised the strategic plan and put it back into the budget. Now we're on the final two years. Final two years and this is what we're talking about is what milestone key indicators are going to get us to the safe thriving community with a new general plan. So with that as background, we started a process last August where we reviewed the objectives, we had interviews, we worked with the strategic planning committee, and pretty much this was the original timeline and agenda that we had proposed and brought to the city council and we pretty much stayed right on schedule so that we're here in January you know with probably at your next city council meeting after this workshop if there's any revisions we'll ask the city council to adopt the strategic plan which will then guide the development of the next two-year resource allocation plan which then tells us that you know what sets up set our priorities. And our progress, we did make substantial progress on our original general plan, I mean on the strategic plan, and the appendix to the strategic plan that you've been reviewing, that you received the draft of last month. The... you clearly see what has been accomplished and what is left to be accomplished. And always there's a strain, there's tension between what's in the strategic plan and what can be realistically allocated in the budget. And there's only a limited amount of staff, limited amount of money, and so the council over the past four years has made you know those priorities and pushed what's left into these last two years so what we're looking at today then is to look at those milestones under each objective in these two years and that will guide the resource allocation plan some of them them may get done, some of them may not. That's up to the council to adopt which priorities, but they'll have this document to help guide them. And then after the 2020 budget, a new strategic plan process will have to focus on how are we gonna implement now the new general plan, and so we'll come up with a new strategic plan, new objectives, new milestones. So this one, is really taking the milestones under each objective. We've added a couple, working with staff, with the Strategic Planning Committee. We haven't really taken anything away. And today, we don't really feel like we're asking the City Council to take anything out of the draft Strategic Plan that you're reviewing, but if there's something that we missed or that the entire City Council would like to add to it, then that's part of the discussion that we wanna go through today. Should we move on? Okay, so let's move right on into the strategic plan goals and objectives. There's goals that create the city's vision and there's goals that sustain the city's mission. I organized them that way when we first prepared this document and we're gonna go right into goal one. And the goal one is to utilize long range comprehensive planning, land use transportation to balance the community's character and diversity. And the first objective under goal one was the general plan update. So the process then to make sure get there as you can see that we've completed the steps a through d and now we're in the general plan advisory committees reviewing the preliminary goals and policies preparation of a draft general plan and preparation of preliminary sequel analysis This was added, so anything in black has been added from the original strategic plan. So this is develop a general plan fiscal element, This is proposed to do in the 2018-19 year, and those are the rest of the milestones for Objective 1.1. |
| 00:11:22.12 | Councilmember Cox | So can we pause here? |
| 00:11:23.54 | Charlie Francis | Yes. |
| 00:11:23.92 | Councilmember Cox | So can I... You know, I wasn't really part of the council when this was added. I don't understand this fiscal element of the general plan. I don't think that's, a normal part of a general plan process. And I was wondering if, are we borrowing from other jurisdictions? I'm also worried that there could be inconsistency findings to the general plan if the fiscal situation changes. a little bit worried about legal implications of this. |
| 00:11:57.20 | Charlie Francis | Sure. There are other communities that do have fiscal elements in the general plan. Typically, you don't see a fiscal element. And the purpose of having a fiscal element is so that we end up with always considering, is the city going to keep its fiscal resiliency based on the land use decisions? We're not saying that the fiscal, we're not fiscalizing land use decisions. What we're really saying is that we want to make sure that fiscalization is considered when we're making land use decisions. |
| 00:12:31.96 | Councilmember Cox | So this is supposed to be part of the general plan? |
| 00:12:35.76 | Charlie Francis | It would be an element, be like an added element to the general plan, yes. |
| 00:12:39.73 | Councilmember Cox | Okay, so that just means though that we could face legal challenges based on inconsistency with a fiscal. And now I. I don't know if our city attorney has looked at this or how It just makes me very nervous to put something like that in the general plan. |
| 00:12:58.19 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So, you know, the General Plan Advisory Committee has not yet even started the visioning process. May I suggest that perhaps we contemplate this in more detail as we start to envision what the fiscal element would look like. And we can ask the general plan advisory committee to ask the city attorney for a legal opinion about the legal implications of having a fiscal element to the general plan and whether that would make us more susceptible to legal challenge. Ray did you want to say something? |
| 00:13:35.18 | Ray | Yeah, I think there is... really two aspects here. If you look at, I've looked at about four or five jurisdictions now that have fiscal elements in their general plan. Some of them range from, quite frankly, saying very little of any consequence. Others are just trying to set 30,000 foot goals in terms of their fiscal goals for long range. But probably more importantly, you could... we could make the decision, I think, reasonably, to say we're not going to actually have a fiscal element But in devising the general plan, we are going to look at the fiscal implications of the decisions we're making. Because if we don't do that, we might as well shut down now and just shut the whole thing down. because it would all just be fantasy. Right? I think you're raising a really good point that we should examine whether it adds a different legal dimension and legal risk if we actually have a fiscal element. But obviously there's enough jurisdictions out there that have managed to overcome that risk in their aura and bothered to analyze it, one or the other. |
| 00:14:56.58 | Councilmember Cox | Well, as long as there is the option to have it as a, I mean, I think looking at the fiscal aspects of the general plan is a good idea. Integrating it into the general plan, I've just never seen that, and obviously I haven't looked at these other jurisdictions. So as long as that's open and we're not committing ourselves, |
| 00:15:07.28 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 00:15:11.32 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I would say it's totally open and each element of the general plan will come to the City Council for review and approval as part of the general plan adoption process. So the City Council will have plenty of opportunity to examine and weigh in on adoption of any of the elements. |
| 00:15:29.78 | Ray | One more point, just so that on the general plan, yes, it is going to be different than other plans. And we can talk about that on the dais when we get each update. We are trying to actually do something, I think, more rigorous than has been done by other jurisdictions, especially with this financial underpinning. |
| 00:15:55.34 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. Really good discussion. Is there any other discussion on any of the other milestones on Objective 1.1? |
| 00:16:03.02 | Ray | Could I just add one thing? I think the actual details of the milestones now under the general plan are almost superseded by the much more detailed project plan of the general plan advisory committee. So I want to sweat too much on the actual milestones under this one. |
| 00:16:21.85 | Charlie Francis | Okay, other comments? Thank you. Okay, let's move on to objective 1.2 then, which is the marineship specific plan update, where we had a marineship specific plan committee that provided recommendations to the city council on July 23, 2014, and make it consistent within the new general plan. And so that objective has been accomplished, and there are no really milestones. In other words, it's be considered in the new general plan. And then our third objective under goal one was the protection of historic resources. And so these had... Some objectives that are, here we got the update of the historic regulations coming in 2017-18. Historic properties preservation footprint in 2019 and 20 is the current work plan for that. Machine shop designation's been completed and there's a new one to evaluate adoption of a Mills Act program consistent with general plan decisions to reduce property taxes. And that'll be, is in the schedule for, to be put into the budget for next year. |
| 00:17:30.65 | Councilmember | I had a question on that one. |
| 00:17:31.80 | Charlie Francis | Okay. |
| 00:17:31.82 | Councilmember | Okay. Thank you. It's just an evaluation of what would come out of the Mills Act is a year before we inventory what we have as far as historic resources. Would that better be flipped as far as timing where we identify what we have as far as an inventory and then consider evaluating it under a Mills Act, especially if we're talking about fiscal opportunities or challenges? Would we want to know the inventory before we make it? Thank you. |
| 00:18:01.50 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah, because the Mills Act has the implication of those people paying lower or no |
| 00:18:01.52 | Councilmember | Yeah. |
| 00:18:07.20 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | taxes if they have historic property. So it would be useful for us to know how much revenue the city's going to lose |
| 00:18:14.98 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:18:15.74 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah, I agree with that point. |
| 00:18:18.59 | Charlie Francis | That was part of our discussion in the Strategic Planning Committee was, you know, there is a fiscal impact to doing this. And so I think what this is is just an evaluation of the adoption of the Mills Act. But Gandy, do you wanna chime in on inventory? |
| 00:18:40.48 | Danny | You know, I do understand how flipping those would give us an understanding of, you know, the citywide implications of historic properties. But D does, you know, I think the operative word for me is evaluate. So it doesn't mean that we would implement that, but we would determine, you know, what type of program we have. You know, there's nuances to each city's Mills Act program and contract that we would have between the city and property owners. So it's just an evaluation, but I understand the flipping of those two. |
| 00:19:09.07 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:19:09.10 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:19:14.10 | Danny | Councilmember Huffman, I remember |
| 00:19:15.39 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. You had some discussion on this. |
| 00:19:17.74 | Councilmember Huffman | Yeah, do you mind if I could comment on that? Yeah, I think you know, As it says, it's evaluate adoption. So I think that has to be part of the the analysis and the earlier done the better for that part of it. It doesn't mean we're going to implement it. It just means what does this program look like? And if the objective is that we want to protect historic resources in town, then the incentivize the incentivization, I guess you could say, of that for people who already own those properties should begin as early as possible, if that's the actual goal, is to encourage people to. see the way forward that they can preserve the historic properties rather than tear them down and build something new, which is often cheaper. So I think it's important to at least get the evaluation done as quickly as possible. So I wouldn't want to flip them. I see no reason why you couldn't do it simultaneously. There's no real reason why I think that we put them 18, 19, and then 19, 20, you could certainly do them simultaneously. There's no reason why you wouldn't. I agree. |
| 00:20:23.69 | Councilmember | I agree. I guess the outcome would be what's our measurable result from an evaluation. Right. So when we go to measure the outcome, we read a couple of documents and we evaluated it that way or we actually, I mean, to what extent is evaluated how we measure that? But it's a small point. |
| 00:20:30.12 | Councilmember Huffman | Right. |
| 00:20:42.79 | Councilmember Huffman | Small point. Yeah, I think the measurable is that, you know, |
| 00:20:45.14 | Councilmember | Thank you. |
| 00:20:45.15 | Danny | Thank you. |
| 00:20:45.17 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:20:47.90 | Councilmember Huffman | we either form, either legislative group looks at it or we hire someone that actually you know. implements the Mills Act and would do a study of how it's implemented in other towns. and just the legislation, the Mills Act itself. |
| 00:21:01.52 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I mean, I think we would solve this by just having it done contemporary. |
| 00:21:04.96 | Councilmember Huffman | I'm not sure. |
| 00:21:05.23 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 00:21:06.08 | Councilmember Huffman | So I would very much I actually moved both of those to 2018-19. But Ray, why did we do that? Do you remember? What, probably just chronology, right? |
| 00:21:16.44 | Ray | I mean, Danny, there's obviously going to be a resources issue here. |
| 00:21:22.09 | Danny | I mean, we currently, if I can just respond, we currently have a historic preservation program now, and the ability for property owners to nominate or self-nominate their properties. And then, you know, if we had a Mills Act program in place, then they have that ability, you know, and it would be eligible to participate. We just don't have a Mills Act program in place now. And the citywide historic resources inventory would assist in really providing the, background. information available to the city to determine a property's historic significance. So it all plays together, I guess what I'm saying. |
| 00:21:59.40 | Councilmember | Yeah. And for the record, I am excited about finding out more about the Mills Act for our community. We've been asked that. Yeah. |
| 00:22:07.65 | Councilmember Huffman | So... I guess, would our recommendation from this workshop be that we do those simultaneously? |
| 00:22:14.44 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yes, and whether it's 1819 or 1920 will depend on resources, I would say. Thank you. |
| 00:22:18.98 | Councilmember Huffman | Thank you. |
| 00:22:19.03 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 00:22:20.66 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 00:22:20.87 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | AND I THINK IT'S A GREAT |
| 00:22:20.93 | Unknown | GREAT. |
| 00:22:23.38 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So the marine rails, one of the comments we got from, that Melanie provided was that marine rails have been found not to be historically significant. So, um, There was still a... |
| 00:22:37.54 | Councilmember Huffman | Which section are you looking at, John? I'm looking at it. |
| 00:22:39.11 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I'm looking at B, 1.3 B. So, I would just say consider marineship historic properties and preservation because this makes it sound like it's a for sure thing and apparently it's not. I've always considered them to be historically significant. But I would want to further investigate the comment that we got from I think it was from the HLB that they're actually, it was either the BAC or the HLB, I don't remember, BAC. |
| 00:23:14.33 | Ray | Yeah, but we've got a report. Danny, could you fill us in on that? |
| 00:23:15.46 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:23:18.55 | Danny | Yeah, so following the Marinship Specific Plan Steering Committee, one of the, what came out of the conclusions or recommendations was to actually investigate the historic significance of the shipways, marine rails. And so we did a report by a qualified historian and identified that the rails themselves are not the original. You know, they've lost the integrity remnants of the original rails there and throughout the years they've been modified and in fact changed so they they don't qualify under the state historic preservation office as historic what came out of it was that while that's a historic area and there's remnants, perhaps there's way, if there's future development of the Marinship, that there'd be some, either an interpretive program or a way to establish the footprints of those so that if development were to occur, it's not completely lost in terms of its footprint. Okay. So it's not a historic landmark designation, but more of let's not forget that they're there. |
| 00:24:31.78 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay, and I do see it says preservation of footprint. Okay, I did not appreciate that distinction. Okay, thank you. |
| 00:24:36.95 | Ray | And the interpretive program was the |
| 00:24:38.48 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | right? |
| 00:24:39.77 | Ray | the best outcome that was proposed. |
| 00:24:41.79 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay. Thank you. |
| 00:24:42.92 | Charlie Francis | Oh. Thank you. That's great discussion. Thank you. Under Objective 1.3, then we have A, B, and C, the new D, E, and F, and that's it. Are there other comments and observations, discussion on this objective? Okay, so objective 1.4 was the bicycle and pedestrian plan and under that we've had public workshops with the city pedestrian bicycle advisory committee. It's been completed and during this current fiscal year 2017-18 a draft is being prepared by a TAM consultant that draft will be presented to the advisory committee in the City Council and looking for adoption of it within the current fiscal year. |
| 00:25:35.15 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | It seems to me we're way behind on this. I don't see that this is actually going to happen. The current fiscal year ends in June. I think this is way overly optimistic. I don't see this. |
| 00:25:51.33 | Unknown | Yeah. Thank you. |
| 00:25:54.47 | Unknown | Good morning. |
| 00:25:54.52 | Unknown | Good morning. |
| 00:25:59.15 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Monday. |
| 00:26:03.52 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:26:03.53 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 00:26:03.57 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:26:03.58 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay. |
| 00:26:28.98 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Great. |
| 00:26:34.82 | Charlie Francis | So are we ready to move on then? So goal two is to increase community involvement in city governments. You know, when we're talking about citizen engagement, we're always talking about a two-way engagement, not just pushing information out to the public, but also receiving it. And so one of those objectives is to gather community feedback through annual surveys. And our milestones under there was that to conduct periodic community surveys on city service delivery satisfaction, use our open town hall online survey on hot topics, and then we've included these kind of hot topics just as examples that we thought of as we were going. And finally, to develop new strategies to how to use community engagement using like vision pulse and a more robust use of open city hall, open town hall. Any other input from Objective 2.1? Great. Objective 2.2 is to identify technology that can help to inform and engage citizens. And so we have a best practice study to identify collaborative and social technologies that's been completed during the current fiscal year. A lot of ongoing activities here. And then we have a couple new ones, utilize a secondary website for high profile activities such as the general plan update and expand use of emergency communication tools. |
| 00:28:03.14 | Charlie Francis | comments. So, goal three is fiscal resiliency. The Strategic Plan Committee focused a lot of activity on this, and staff had significant input. Objective 3.1 is to maintain an adequate level of highly competent, motivated staff. And as we know, we're looking at negotiating memorandums of understandings with labor groups. And so, during this current fiscal year, we'll be reviewing our classifications, our compensation comparisons, CalPERS and OPEB valuations will be coming to the city council. And then there will be a review of the CPI assumptions in the current MOU will all be presented to the city council. So that was a new one. And then we'll formulate negotiating strategy, negotiate and execute the MOUs. So what was interesting was, All the steps had been complete, ABC and E, F and G and H were steps in the original strategic plan because we were facing MOU negotiations then. Those agreements are coming to a close, and the strategic plan committee wanted to look at how well did we do when we made the CPI assumptions that we didn't. there. |
| 00:29:23.25 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So I had one other possible thing to add to this, which is I'd like to see us continue to move retirement savings responsibility to employees. |
| 00:29:36.14 | Charlie Francis | Any council discussion? Okay. |
| 00:29:41.07 | Councilmember Cox | Can you just, are you suggesting actually changing the, the milestones or? |
| 00:29:46.35 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So we already have a new tier system that moved some of that. But I would like us to have as an objective to continue to privatize retirement savings responsibility like go to a 401k system as opposed to CalPERS and 457s. and really, really, And I don't know how that would manifest because we're constrained by certain |
| 00:30:15.55 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:30:15.80 | Danny | you |
| 00:30:18.57 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | But I would love that to be an objective that's in our thinking. |
| 00:30:21.55 | Councilmember Cox | THE FAMILY. So I'd probably prefer to have an objective that's more neutral about the outcome and just have an objective about looking at ways to improve the city's long-term financial health or something like that instead of actually at this point in time picking an approach before that kind of ties our hands to some extent in possible negotiations. |
| 00:30:47.32 | Danny | Thank you. |
| 00:30:49.84 | Councilmember Cox | I get the sentiment and I'm in favor of looking at ways to improve our situation, but I'm not really at this point feel like I understand all the options in the context of negotiations in order to understand if that's going to be the right approach. |
| 00:31:07.84 | Councilmember Huffman | I agree with that approach that Councilmember Cox articulated. I think these are goals. They're not... I don't think they would tie anybody's hands in the negotiation process. I think moving on that strategy long term and stating that that's a goal I think is not a bad thing. If there are other strategies, I don't see any reason why you wouldn't put them in there as well if we agree with them. |
| 00:31:35.72 | Charlie Francis | Can I maybe just suggest we do have a strategy to address the unfunded actuarial liability for pensions and OPEB, including the funding. We could add in here something that says that continually examine pension reform. |
| 00:31:51.65 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I like that. That would accomplish that goal for me. |
| 00:31:54.58 | Ray | Yeah. Yeah. I would agree with Charlie's approach there. I think it's too premature to decide, especially in the view of the fact that you've got conflict in state legislation, to actually start thinking about, or to start actually having made the decision that the objective is to continue on the privatization route. At this moment in time, I couldn't possibly agree to that without more analysis. And I think what Charlie's suggesting provides... |
| 00:32:17.26 | Danny | Right. |
| 00:32:27.22 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I agree. |
| 00:32:27.85 | Ray | Thank you. |
| 00:32:27.96 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. |
| 00:32:28.00 | Ray | Thank you. |
| 00:32:28.06 | Charlie Francis | Yeah. |
| 00:32:28.43 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah. |
| 00:32:28.89 | Charlie Francis | Okay, great. So if there's no more questions on the MOUs, we can jump right into here, and then we'll make sure we add to the 3.2A, Continually Exam and Pension Reform. The city of Sausalito has been on the forefront of pension reform. And I know the current administration still has that philosophy and is always looking for new ways to prove. Great, which brings us to this structurally balanced budget. So it was interesting. In 2009, our goal in the strategic plan, so just a little bit of history, the goal in the strategic plan was to become stable. In 2010, we changed that goal to become sustainable. And in 2013, in this new strategic plan, we put in the goal of being fiscally resilient. And so resilient means the ability to be able to withstand recessions without cutting levels of service or cutting investments in infrastructure. So I think it's a very high goal that you have here and these steps that we've outlined to update, to look at our unfunded liabilities and our OPEB, what more can we do to keep us resilient, to update our financial policy manual, our operating procedures and a reserve policy to review that annually with the city council during the budget adoption process will help us do that. We have a fiscal health analytical tool that's reviewed annually during the audit. And then of course, totally look at our user fees. If there's some way that we can index them to the CPI, that would be a great thing to do too. Any, whoops, there we go. Sorry about that. Any comments or discussions? GREAT. And then a strategic long-term financial management plan was Objective 3.3 coming out of the original strategic plan. And, you know, so along the way, we've developed and we're sustaining a 10-year financial forecasting model. We want to continually calibrate it with what's happening with our pension and OPEB funding strategies, recalibrate it again with the impact of our revised five-year CIPs and capital programs, and then the impacts of these financial reserve policies, identify threats and links, do kind of SWOT analysis on an annual basis, best options, prepare and adopt a long-term financial plan, and then the new one that we added was create an economic development strategy within the general plan. was a new one that we added. So I think the city council should take a lot of pride in these fiscal resiliency goals. We've come a long, long way since 2003 when we had negative fund balances. |
| 00:35:34.52 | Charlie Francis | Okay, financing plans for infrastructure investment. You know, there's always tension for the scarcity of public funds, and so, you know, we have an asset management plan that considers infrastructure fees to provide for continuing investment. Let's look at that being accomplished in 2018-19. To have a 20-year capital vision into the CIP, rather than go beyond our current five-year planning process and have a 20-year process so we can really see what the impacts are and look in that to have that completed within the current fiscal year. Another new one that we added was evaluate options for stormwater financing consistent with Senate Bill 231, which then says, which allows us to set fees for stormwater. And we're looking at examining those in the current fiscal year as well. |
| 00:36:25.48 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So, This is one I had a concern with. First of all, have we seen a 20-year capital vision? This is supposed to be this fiscal year that we're going to see that. And a recent issue that I became aware of that makes me ask that question is we just heard a project to beautify the landscape of this building, but we have not identified funds to do the, to repair the roof, Thank you. leaking doors. I mean we apparently have a lot of issues with this building Um, that we don't have funds to repair. We also have ADA issues with this building as enumerated by Abbott Chambers during his presentation. So... I wanted to know our progress on this, I'm very interested to know if we're going to accomplish this goal of a 20 year capital vision. and how we will start to to address the challenge of updating our long deferred capital maintenance. |
| 00:37:32.99 | Charlie Francis | So Melanie, trust that. |
| 00:37:42.11 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Good morning. |
| 00:37:42.70 | Charles Melton | Thank you. |
| 00:37:43.53 | Danny | Thank you. |
| 00:37:43.78 | Hazel Roth | Thank you. |
| 00:37:46.45 | Charles Melton | Can you hear me now? Okay. The long term vision, the idea of actually calling it a vision as opposed to a plan, is recognizing that we don't have identified funding. But we do want to get on the radar what the actual needs of the organization and the community are. The timing is such that it will probably bleed over. as we refine it and develop it because the general plan will have some impact. on that long term vision but at this point we are actually Jonathan and I are working closely with staff to develop at least an introductory inventory of the needs, physical infrastructure needs of the community. So included in that, we have for the finance committee next week the beginnings of the first draft of the list of the five to seven years. We typically do a six year plan for the CIP and then we'll begin filling that out. Part of it right now is putting dollar signs, we don't have the data. So at this point it is very preliminary, but we still wanna have it on the radar and up front as a top priority from a staff perspective that we get this information together and we get it out. |
| 00:39:00.24 | Ray | I think realistically this is going to be perhaps the way I would look at it is where the strategic plan was four years ago. And so this is going to be an ongoing rolling. visioning bleeding into a plan. So my suggestion is, just to make that point, is to show that we're starting in this fiscal year, but it's gonna go on. Let's add some more years, realistically, I think, which is where you started your, yeah. Does that make sense? Perfect. |
| 00:39:33.36 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. And can I just ask a quick question about SB 231 and what just the scope of that is and the potential? You mentioned it in your presentation, but I didn't understand. |
| 00:39:44.35 | Charles Melton | SB 231, and if we can go into the, Jonathan can certainly go deep in the weeds on it, but basically it allows for stormwater to be designated as a utility, which means it then comes under Prop 218 regulations and we can establish specific fees rather than having to do an absolute referendum right now it's just a flat fee and has been the same flat fee for I think decades It barely covers the cost that we pay to be part of the countywide So it allows us to create the same cost-based fee structure and rate structure as is currently in place for water and sewer systems across the state and to pass those costs along |
| 00:40:25.04 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | to our consumers. |
| 00:40:28.21 | Ray | And it uses the 218. protest methodology for getting the thing approved. |
| 00:40:39.73 | Charlie Francis | I kind of have to smile at myself when we explain Senate Bill 231 by saying, it's the same, it's moving to a 218. Well, what's a 218? Anyway. Thank you. Okay, other comments on Objective 3.4? Okay, that moves us into goal four, which is to improve and continue to maintain the infrastructure. And 4.1 was to establish and maintain an asset management plan. And so we had a number of milestones in here, like develop a complete inventory, develop storm drain master plan, and then we've added a new one to have a parks condition assessment conducted during 2018-19. And then we have these... milestones, one of which has been completed and the other ones are in the plan going forward. We have a number of other ones as the list continues. Construct the sites, the fields, courts, improvements, and MLK. We just come down the list. These are all milestones that came out of the original strategic plan. Some of them are annual. Some of them are being scheduled in future years. And then completing the list are D through X and looking at those infrastructure. So these are all milestones that staff has identified to put into plan an asset management plan. |
| 00:42:12.06 | Charlie Francis | Any discussion on any of those? Great. So objective 4.2 is to manage the sewer infrastructure program. And the sewer infrastructure milestones had A through E here, continuing, urgent project completed, gate 5 partially completed, others in process, initiated ongoing. Here's a retainer consultant to advise on a feasibility study of consolidating the Sausalito sewer enterprise with Sausalito Marin City Sanitary District to have one joint effort to... of consolidating the Sausalito sewer enterprise with Sausalito Marin City Sanitary District to have one joint effort to maintain the sewer infrastructure. here. |
| 00:42:49.69 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:42:50.41 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I would just comment that this reinstate the sewer committee working group has been challenging. We have that for this fiscal year. I mean, we had that as a goal all year last year. and did it manage to carry it out. So I don't know what our plan is to make sure that happens. |
| 00:43:13.65 | Councilmember | Any... |
| 00:43:17.85 | Unknown | It's as the mayor and I and Mayor Withi had discussed in the past and also the Finance Committee, we're just looking for a willing partner from the Sassana-Morin City Sanitary District. And I know that our Public Works Director has had some preliminary meetings in the last six weeks or so, and we are continuing in with the objective to get the sewer committee to have its first meeting in the very near future so that's on our list |
| 00:43:49.12 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And I have mentioned this to Ann Arnott and Dan Reiner, who both have expressed willingness to have a sit down. I'm hopeful that we will accomplish this objective. THANK YOU. |
| 00:44:05.96 | Charlie Francis | Okay, objective 4.3 is to remodel the Civic Center and the library. And we have completed the ADA analysis of the city hall deficiencies. And in 2018-19, we're looking at doing a space needs assessments of all the city hall departments and tenants. |
| 00:44:23.51 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Charlie, I'm sorry, will you go back one? um, In our, in our, um, Draft. for the Seward The last one was retain a consultant. And there was a footnote, CF8. but I didn't see what CF8 So in the draft that I have, it says retain a consultant and then next to 2018-19, there's a bracket that says CF 8 |
| 00:44:55.04 | Unknown | Mmm. you |
| 00:44:59.09 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | but I couldn't find a footnote or a reference to CF-8. |
| 00:45:06.43 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I know, but. it must have had some meaning. |
| 00:45:10.98 | Charlie Francis | Well, CFR, my initials, |
| 00:45:13.21 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Oh, just something you added, perhaps. |
| 00:45:13.24 | Charlie Francis | Oh. |
| 00:45:15.34 | Ray | I think it was that we ended up getting a draft that all of the work product comments did not necessarily get erased. |
| 00:45:25.34 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Oh, okay. Okay. Thanks. Sorry about that. Yeah. |
| 00:45:31.97 | Unknown | She had to put the AIP in a truck. |
| 00:45:34.07 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah. That was his eighth comment to the strategic plan. |
| 00:45:38.00 | Councilmember | Or you had temporary comments. That was eight. |
| 00:45:39.03 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:45:40.19 | Councilmember | Thank you. . Thank you. |
| 00:45:41.02 | Unknown | Yeah. Okay. |
| 00:45:42.76 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 00:45:42.83 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 00:45:44.36 | Charlie Francis | Let's move on to the Civic Center and Library where we have two milestones. One that's been completed and the needs assessment to be done in 2018-19. That needs assessment then would guide any future improvements and decisions about City Hall. |
| 00:46:00.82 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So again, as I mentioned earlier, we've completed the ADA analysis, but we've not identified any funding to carry out, as Abbott said, the really gargantuan tasks identified in the ADA analysis, like tearing out all of our fiction and nonfiction bookshelves and building them to make sure they're 36 inches apart so It's great that we've completed the analysis, but weed. I guess it's under the building. it would be under the building to identify the, or in the CIP to identify the funds to actually carry that out? |
| 00:46:38.41 | Charlie Francis | I'm sorry, that does, the ADA analysis does guide the the development of the CIP and the capital program each year |
| 00:46:54.82 | Councilmember Huffman | So this is a working group. It was a workshop. So is this a time to say out loud, do we need to start thinking about a total? rehabilitation of City Hall. I mean, is that something that's appropriate to start looking at? either this year or next year? I sort of feel we might be getting to that point with regard to the status of the building and infrastructure inside the skin of the building. So I'm just throwing it out there. |
| 00:47:22.79 | Ray | THE END OF THE END OF THE I mean, I think that's it's sort of tied in in part to the needs analysis isn't it because you know, I think if someone stood back and you you know, if, If you had the funding, you'd shut this building down for a year and a half, two years, and you'd completely redo everything and open it up again. But not only do we not have any other space, we don't have any money to do that. And so, you know. But should we be thinking about it? Because are we just throwing good money after that? |
| 00:47:58.99 | Councilmember Huffman | Thank you. Right. I mean. Yes. |
| 00:48:01.49 | Ray | That's right. |
| 00:48:02.11 | Councilmember Huffman | And that's what I'm thinking. So it would be some sort of funding mechanism other than other than what's in our reserves, it would be something similar, I would think, to Certificates of Participation or something along those lines. |
| 00:48:14.43 | Councilmember Cox | So, but does this objective or the milestones underneath them need to be broader? It says, I mean, it's. |
| 00:48:22.97 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | . |
| 00:48:23.04 | Councilmember Cox | Yeah. |
| 00:48:23.44 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | THE FAMILY. |
| 00:48:23.71 | Councilmember Cox | DEFENSE. |
| 00:48:23.97 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 00:48:24.03 | Councilmember Cox | THE END OF |
| 00:48:24.44 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 00:48:24.47 | Councilmember Cox | to remodel milestones. So. Right, but B doesn't really capture that for me. Yeah. |
| 00:48:26.92 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So, |
| 00:48:27.04 | Charlie Francis | Oh. |
| 00:48:30.60 | Charlie Francis | Maybe we could add a C that says, based on the space needs assessment, consider options for improving building Remodeling or building a new city hall? |
| 00:48:40.91 | Councilmember Cox | Yeah. |
| 00:48:41.23 | Charlie Francis | Yeah. |
| 00:48:42.16 | Councilmember Cox | including funding mechanisms. |
| 00:48:43.76 | Charlie Francis | Yeah, including funding. Identifying financing alternatives. I mean, there's a lot of financing alternatives. Absolutely. Yeah, definitely. |
| 00:48:44.67 | Councilmember Cox | I'm sorry. |
| 00:48:48.82 | Councilmember Cox | Absolutely. Yeah, I'd definitely be in favor of adding SC. |
| 00:48:51.10 | Charlie Francis | I agree as well. |
| 00:48:53.02 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 00:48:53.06 | Charlie Francis | you |
| 00:48:53.29 | Ray | So. |
| 00:48:53.33 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. of |
| 00:48:53.90 | Ray | Thank you. |
| 00:48:54.64 | Charlie Francis | FOR THE FAMILY. |
| 00:48:54.73 | Ray | 0.3 C. |
| 00:48:55.64 | Charlie Francis | 4.3 C will be added. I love those lines, yeah. |
| 00:48:56.65 | Ray | Thank you. |
| 00:48:56.67 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | be added. |
| 00:48:57.77 | Ray | Thank you. |
| 00:48:58.71 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Great. |
| 00:49:00.97 | Charlie Francis | Okay, that moves us into goal five, which talks about service delivery. We want to continue to provide high-level, high-quality municipal services. That's the point of one, two, three, and four. And so to do that, the first thing we want to do is establish and maintain a certified local hazard mitigation plan. The only added milestone to this was to develop a training plan to comply with all the FEMA requirements. That's been scheduled for the 2019-20 fiscal year, and there's our progress so far. |
| 00:49:36.85 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So something we identified on a recent trip with fire personnel up to the Santa Rosa fires was there is grant funding available for us to, rehabilitate some of our stairways here in Sausalito if they are part of an evacuation plan. So I'd like to embody that goal as part, I don't know if it belongs here or where it belongs. This, we have identify, profile and map hazards, we have mitigate the potential impacts of these hazards. We have, I'm not sure where it belongs within, |
| 00:50:14.75 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:50:14.77 | Unknown | it was. |
| 00:50:19.93 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | our strategic plan. |
| 00:50:20.34 | Unknown | How about we add in here, examine programs, grants, and measures to mitigate the potential |
| 00:50:25.33 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah. |
| 00:50:25.94 | Councilmember Huffman | Thank you. |
| 00:50:26.04 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Great. |
| 00:50:26.24 | Councilmember Huffman | Thank you. |
| 00:50:30.34 | Councilmember Huffman | I'm sorry, did you say, and you were going to add including the various stairways in Sausalito? OR. |
| 00:50:35.98 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I WOULD SAY, I WOULD SAY Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:50:37.46 | Unknown | These are natural hazards. Yeah. |
| 00:50:39.00 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah. Thank you. |
| 00:50:43.74 | Unknown | D. Thank you. There is a natural essence. |
| 00:50:46.61 | Councilmember Cox | You need to use your microphone, Charlie. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:50:51.32 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you, Stanley. |
| 00:50:53.68 | Councilmember Huffman | I think it wouldn't be under D because that's mitigating a hazard. A natural hazard. These would be enhancing emergency egress avenues, including stairways. Okay. |
| 00:51:05.76 | Councilmember Huffman | Because I completely agree with that. Because I walk the stairways and they're in disrepair, but they're also. very good methods if your way is blocked. |
| 00:51:14.45 | Unknown | I'm going to go. |
| 00:51:14.47 | Charlie Francis | Yeah. MOTION. |
| 00:51:15.45 | Councilmember Huffman | you Thank you. Right, right. And maybe the only egress. |
| 00:51:15.67 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. |
| 00:51:19.21 | Charlie Francis | So maybe we should just add a new milestone then that talks about egress and grant funding. |
| 00:51:24.70 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah. Yeah Yeah I |
| 00:51:27.33 | Charlie Francis | Okay. |
| 00:51:28.26 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And it also improves our resiliency for emergencies. |
| 00:51:33.10 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. |
| 00:51:33.12 | Unknown | MAKING A LITTLE BIT OF |
| 00:51:36.86 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 00:51:37.96 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And paths to public transit. |
| 00:51:40.10 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:51:40.34 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. that's true too. That's true too. That's a secondary objective. Right. The funding is available if the stairs are |
| 00:51:45.23 | Unknown | Right. |
| 00:51:45.57 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:51:49.37 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Part of a potential evacuation plan. So. |
| 00:51:52.62 | Charlie Francis | Super. |
| 00:51:56.20 | Charlie Francis | Okay, service level indicators for each major department and program. So review the performance measures that were in the 2014-16 resource allocation plan. And the second half of this year, which we're in now, will be a comprehensive update during the preparation of the next two-year budget. identify goals, develop new performance measures, and revise existing performance. We're going to be doing that annually in the budget. That was a new one that was added through the Strategic Planning Committee. And then we'll update our performance measures with most recent data. There's wonderful technology that makes this real, and publish performance measures in each year's budget. One of the obstacles to having a true performance management program was that technology didn't enable us to do it. And there's a lot of new tools on the horizon now that automates this for cities. And I think that these are things that can be more easily accomplished than they were in the past. |
| 00:53:00.51 | Charlie Francis | Any comments, discussion? |
| 00:53:02.34 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah, so as part of our performance measures, this is within Developing service level indicators for each major department and program. I think we need to have performance reviews. I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE as either annually or biannually as um um um an approach for And we can include it as part of our strategic plan update each year. That's a great way to evaluate the performance. We haven't done key performance reviews in several years, and so I think that needs to be something that we include as a milestone to be sure that we include that in our process. |
| 00:53:54.02 | Councilmember Cox | So are you talking about just the employees who are under our direct Well, I don't know what the plan is. For everyone. |
| 00:53:59.22 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Well, I don't know. or I'm talking about everyone. So the city council would performance review the city manager and the city attorney. But also I don't know how the city manager, how frequently and by what method the city manager does performance reviews of department heads, et cetera. So it's just something to include so that we have an objective serialized approach. |
| 00:54:33.98 | Councilmember Huffman | Would you add? Would you add it then under B, including performance reviews? Yeah. I'm not. |
| 00:54:41.14 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. Thank you. it you know scheduled like periodic periodic performance reviews and it would be up to us to determine how often those should take place I don't know that they need to take place every year Thank you. you know typically in firms they take place every year perhaps the city council would Review the city attorney and the city manager every two years. I don't, but I think it's just something we need to start to include as a routine parameter. |
| 00:55:20.36 | Adam Krivachi | Okay. |
| 00:55:26.04 | Charlie Francis | So under objective 5.5, There is That's where we develop and update departmental strategic, operational, and staffing plans. I think that the performance review would probably be more... in line with that objective rather than These are service level indicators of how well the departments are doing. Okay, that's fine. Can we push that discussion back to that objective? Yeah. Okay. |
| 00:55:51.46 | Unknown | Okay, that's fine. |
| 00:55:52.55 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:55:53.58 | Unknown | Absolutely. |
| 00:55:53.97 | Unknown | THE CITY. |
| 00:55:54.34 | Danny | Yeah. Thank you. |
| 00:55:54.86 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:55:54.88 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:55:58.05 | Charlie Francis | Other suggestions, comments on this one? |
| 00:56:02.56 | Ray | Thank you. 5.3, yep. Charlie, I do have a comment. |
| 00:56:04.20 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. |
| 00:56:08.77 | Ray | You know, for those of us who have, and I see there's some in the audience as well, people who have managed large groups with goals, divisions and departments, etc., the process of going from overall let's say in the private sector, let me use that model, corporate goals down to divisional goals or departmental goals, is actually a very complicated process and takes often many years to evolve the right way to do it. So I agree. I think we need to, this whole issue, this new goal B, is actually much bigger than I think most people realize. And it's going to take a long time. |
| 00:56:43.16 | Danny | Thank you. |
| 00:57:02.08 | Ray | to actually develop processes. Luckily, a local government and I know Mellon is really on top of this. In local government, there have been, in the recent decade, the development of best practices here. And I think one of the first things to do here, and it ties into performance reviews as well, what are the current best practices and what do we need to do to implement them? I think there's a lot of information gathering we need here before we start diving in, because this is complicated. |
| 00:57:35.88 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So some of this item B, I thought I saw in the presentations from the departments. Each of the department heads gave us really an overview of what their goals are and where they stand on some of those goals. So I thought that was a good start to this new item B. |
| 00:57:53.73 | Ray | Yeah. Thank you. But linking it into performance measures and then goals in which performance is good, that's the complicated piece. |
| 00:58:03.66 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. |
| 00:58:03.82 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:58:03.96 | Ray | especially as we're in a unionized work environment. |
| 00:58:04.03 | Charlie Francis | as well. |
| 00:58:10.07 | Charlie Francis | Just looking at the structure of this, we have a this goal, this objective under our fiscal resiliency goal and that objective is maintain an adequate level of highly competent and motivated staff. So what we've outlined here |
| 00:58:26.98 | Unknown | in here as the steps to negotiate an MOU |
| 00:58:32.26 | Charlie Francis | This might be the more appropriate place to put in a I'm sorry, Danny. This might be a more appropriate place for the city council to review the current performance review of city staff. SO IT WOULD BE LIKE A COMPREHENSIVE DOCUMENT SO THAT'S A REVIEW OF OUR HR POLICIES AND PROCEDURES AND YOU WOULD THEN, YOU COULD make recommendations to the city manager of updating that policy. |
| 00:59:05.25 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah, you're absolutely right because if we're going to change the manner in which we currently review staff, that's going to have to go through the MOU process with the exception of the city attorney and |
| 00:59:16.12 | Ray | Yeah. |
| 00:59:16.40 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | manager. |
| 00:59:16.88 | Ray | This is going to be as big as the actual compensation. |
| 00:59:19.98 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah. |
| 00:59:20.59 | Ray | Thank you. |
| 00:59:20.61 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | But I think it's important to |
| 00:59:20.64 | Ray | Yeah. |
| 00:59:23.14 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Consider that. So I think that's a great goal to add to this section. |
| 00:59:29.23 | Unknown | Okay. Thank you. We'll include that. |
| 00:59:30.04 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 00:59:32.92 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 00:59:33.31 | Councilmember Cox | Yeah, I just say with the caveat that it's not really our job. It's the city manager's job to establish performance criteria and evaluations for the staff and |
| 00:59:33.38 | Unknown | you. |
| 00:59:44.15 | Councilmember Cox | do it for the city. Develop the same thing for the city manager. Yeah, I just want |
| 00:59:44.26 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | to develop the same thing. Yeah, I just want to see what that I want us to have an understanding of what those are. |
| 00:59:50.41 | Councilmember Cox | Right, and we can use that in our review of the city mayor. Exactly. |
| 00:59:52.99 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Exactly. |
| 00:59:53.83 | Councilmember | Thank you. It can be more of our job in the day for years. negotiating that would be good to have this scenario. |
| 00:59:58.57 | Councilmember Cox | Exactly. |
| 00:59:59.23 | Charlie Francis | Yeah. |
| 00:59:59.45 | Councilmember Cox | you |
| 00:59:59.62 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 00:59:59.69 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 00:59:59.97 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. |
| 01:00:00.03 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | you Thank you. |
| 01:00:00.67 | Charlie Francis | Thanks, Charlie. You're welcome. Okay, implement the online application process for minor building and land use permits. We did a feasibility analysis. We recommend preferred alternatives and right now we're rolling out the implementation of Trackit. |
| 01:00:21.52 | Charlie Francis | We wanna identify technology that can improve service levels, and so we had a number of steps here, that some of which have been completed and are ongoing. |
| 01:00:33.13 | Charlie Francis | And under the library, Abbott's had some new ones that he wanted to put in here that have already been completed. So it looks like we're completing them and we're on during these years. So we're always looking at new technology that will improve the service levels as well as helping staff become more efficient and effective. |
| 01:00:57.11 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So Charlie, I actually had one comment for this 5.4 and also for the corresponding 2.4. We say identify technology and I would like to say identify and implement technology that can improve service levels. |
| 01:01:12.08 | Charlie Francis | So in the description here, we have. Where's mine? |
| 01:01:15.76 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah, I'm just saying the title. |
| 01:01:17.78 | Charlie Francis | The title? |
| 01:01:19.41 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And that was true for 2.2 also, identify technology. I would say identify and implement. |
| 01:01:25.85 | Charlie Francis | Can we say implement where effective and efficient? |
| 01:01:31.00 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah, OK, I see. |
| 01:01:33.23 | Charlie Francis | And so for both 5.4 and 2.4. Because there's some technology we can identify and be useless. |
| 01:01:41.22 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | You want to identify that you don't want to be useless. |
| 01:01:43.64 | Charlie Francis | Okay. See. parks and recreation. We added this technologies to increase energy efficiencies and resource management that was added through the strategic planning committee. So anything, any other comments on Objective 5.4? |
| 01:02:11.03 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. And then the last objective is develop, update, departmental strategic operational and staffing plans. So here we've put as the new the program. The program is a milestone to evaluate best practices and develop department goals that map to strategic plan goals. So this is where within the resource allocation plan we would say here these major initiatives how do they map to the strategic plan. Many cities don't do very well as mapping their resource allocation back to the strategic plan, and we're going to be evaluating those best practices to do that. |
| 01:02:52.99 | Charlie Francis | the police we had the 2017-18 pilot and 18-19 evaluation of implementation for these activities. And under administered we've had so what we did is we had a number of departmental plans but we didn't have departmental milestones for all the departments on administration we want to review and update our document management. in 2018, 19, in Parkinson. Recreation, did we, and community development? Human Resources had internal processes and policies for recruitment using some new technologies there and information review internal processes. I'll be done in the 2018-19 year, next budget year, and update annually. Councilmember. |
| 01:03:42.25 | Councilmember | question um just thinking of it right now it might be directed more towards staff but i know in in recreation you know the records Yes, the recreation director has taken on a little more role in parks. Is that something that would be in here going forward? It's happened? it does kind of speak to a level of service as far as improvement of park. |
| 01:04:10.05 | Charlie Francis | We could actually, so that milestone wasn't in a previous one, but we could add it and mark it as completed? Yeah. |
| 01:04:17.52 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Well, it's actually ongoing. It's somewhat ongoing. Yeah. His report indicated that it's ongoing in terms of assessment and implementation of improvements to all of our parks. |
| 01:04:19.49 | Charlie Francis | Yeah. |
| 01:04:31.11 | Ray | Could you go back one slide? |
| 01:04:36.72 | Ray | Okay, now go forward again. Okay, so you were a little surprised. Why is parks and rec and community development blank? |
| 01:04:45.04 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | . |
| 01:04:45.20 | Charlie Francis | Community development blank. |
| 01:04:46.70 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 01:04:46.72 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. I guess we put placeholders for him, but never put anything in there. |
| 01:04:48.57 | Ray | Thank you. |
| 01:04:48.59 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Right. |
| 01:04:48.81 | Ray | Thank you. |
| 01:04:51.19 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I mean, it would be easy to develop these from their videos and from their PowerPoint presentations. Okay. I think we need to. |
| 01:04:56.59 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. |
| 01:04:56.60 | Unknown | OK. |
| 01:05:00.20 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | populate those two sections. |
| 01:05:02.48 | Unknown | Okay, we'll do that. |
| 01:05:06.17 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | May I go back to police? So in the police report, and I don't think this is part of the strategic plan, but Chief Rohrabacher identified in the police report that there's a citizen complaint thing where he gets like two complaints per year and he wants to abolish that. But he also wants money to elevate to officers to corporals so that he has four one corporal for each department. So he presented that to us as part of his, you know, report for this strategic plan process. I don't, we can't address it here in the strategic plan process, but I want to nevertheless, figure out the mechanism to address his request. |
| 01:05:50.91 | Ray | Welcome to the budget process. |
| 01:05:54.72 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | but I'm wondering if that could be a tit for tat thing, you know, eliminate the you know, unused resource and carry out. that thing. So I just wanted to raise that as something for us to perhaps put on an agenda or take to the Finance Committee. how to address that. |
| 01:06:15.09 | Ray | I wasn't, you know, I was being a little facetious, but it really is going to be during the budget process. This is the very thing that we will be discussing. |
| 01:06:15.12 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 01:06:19.81 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah. This is the very... that we have to do with the I will. |
| 01:06:35.34 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:06:36.23 | Charlie Francis | Who's the other finance committee member? |
| 01:06:37.97 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | It's going to be me and Ray. |
| 01:06:39.44 | Charlie Francis | Oh. |
| 01:06:39.81 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So. It's all good. |
| 01:06:40.84 | Charlie Francis | Good team. |
| 01:06:42.19 | Ray | I've tried, Charlie. Yeah. |
| 01:06:43.12 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah. I'm not. |
| 01:06:43.84 | Unknown | I'm sorry. Well, he is. |
| 01:06:44.18 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Well, he is. I promised him because Joe very much wants to be on the Finance Committee too. So we're going to try to make that happen as well. |
| 01:06:56.08 | Charlie Francis | OK, great. Next steps. Well, we've completed the feedback from the public boards, public and city council. We've incorporated those into your notes. Today we're having the workshop, and then we want to, with your permission and recommendation coming out of today, include this as a consent item with the updates and recommendations that you made on your February city council agenda. |
| 01:07:24.83 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So I had one more thing that I didn't know where to put the feedback, which is I would like to see something in our strategic plan about managing our community and regional relationships. So. Community and what? And regional. Relationships. |
| 01:07:40.05 | Unknown | Mm-hmm. |
| 01:07:40.53 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So, and I'm talking about our relationship with the Richardson Bay Regional Authority, our relationship with the Sausalito Marin City School District, our relationship with the Sausalito Marin City Sanitary District, our relationship with the county of Marin. our relationship with the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and our relationship with the Golden Gate Bridge District these regional relationships have proven to be very costly to the city both financially and logistically and so I think moving forward it is It's very important that we address head on the importance of these relationships. And it's not always, there's definitely a fiscal cost to our not properly managing them. But there's not a huge fiscal cost to Establish or building bridges and better establishing rapport with these regional agencies. |
| 01:08:46.74 | Councilmember Cox | And I, Add to that state and possibly federal. |
| 01:08:51.44 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah. |
| 01:08:51.72 | Councilmember Cox | I think it's all levels of corresponding government |
| 01:08:55.89 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So Charlie, I wasn't sure where to put that. But I thought it was something we should enunciate and really think about what resources we can devote towards it. |
| 01:09:07.47 | Charlie Francis | It's an excellent observation. And it's certainly my opportunity. Your microphone. |
| 01:09:11.80 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | You're my Your microphone. |
| 01:09:17.93 | Charlie Francis | I'll repeat it. That was an excellent observation. And you're right. There isn't a, I think the best place to put that would be within Goal Tool, which is to increase community involvement. But maybe it's to, we could either add wording here, Increase community involvement and gauge... |
| 01:09:38.53 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I'd like to have it as a separate goal. |
| 01:09:41.22 | Charlie Francis | Oh, is it a whole separate goal, or is it objective under this goal? |
| 01:09:44.61 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I'm not sure that community involvement this is really, |
| 01:09:51.44 | Councilmember Cox | Maybe on goal three. |
| 01:09:53.16 | Councilmember Huffman | Yeah, I was actually looking at goal one. Utilize long-range comprehensive planning, including land use and transportation. Yeah, I think it goes under goal one, yeah. Okay. |
| 01:09:59.22 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah. |
| 01:09:59.61 | Charlie Francis | It goes under goal one, yeah. |
| 01:10:01.53 | Councilmember Huffman | Thank you. |
| 01:10:01.64 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. So under goal one, a new objective, 1.5. And that objective, we can come up with language, but to engage regionally. |
| 01:10:04.51 | Ray | 0.5. With a new objectif. |
| 01:10:05.48 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | That's a new objective. |
| 01:10:12.37 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I would say managing. community and regional relationships is how I had |
| 01:10:15.88 | Charlie Francis | Yeah. |
| 01:10:17.36 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | that's a good question. I think Melanie was taking notes and it'll be on the tape, some of the examples that we gave |
| 01:10:25.45 | Ray | Okay. Yeah, I... I fully agree, by the way, with that. |
| 01:10:30.05 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 01:10:33.33 | Ray | We have done a, I would say, a mixed job in that arena. you know, before I got on the council, And scarily enough, I'm the longest-serving council member. Isn't that ridiculous? Only five years, right? And so before that, we had to reel up and downs. We had a council at one period of time that didn't want to even talk to anybody. That it evolved, and we've tried in various ways to increase communication on all fronts, but it's been spotty. So I think to actually recognize it as an objective actually keeps it front of mind. And speaks to the next council on the. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. |
| 01:11:19.53 | Councilmember | And speaks to the next council. Yeah, absolutely. |
| 01:11:23.04 | Charlie Francis | Thank you. |
| 01:11:24.53 | Ray | So I agree fully. |
| 01:11:24.90 | Charlie Francis | Cheers. Yeah, very good. We'll put it as Objective 1.5 then. |
| 01:11:28.90 | Ray | Thank you. |
| 01:11:29.25 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. So I had just another question before the next steps. So not having been through the strategic planning process before, obviously we've tried to get everything on here that we know of and think are priorities at this point. But what happens going forward if something new emerges? Is there a process or a set of criteria? that the council uses to evaluate whether something should be added. And has that happened before and is there kind of a a process or is it sort of an ad hoc |
| 01:12:05.84 | Charlie Francis | Yeah, so within each adoption of the two-year budget, the strategic plan is placed in there, and then when we do the second year, we refer back to the strategic plan. If something came up that we needed to amend the strategic plan to guide the development of the resource allocation plan, the city council has the ability to do it. Usually, this then provides input into the preparation of the budget. So now when you start in your second year, probably do a review of the strategic plan which would give direction to staff to start preparing the second year of the resource allocation plan. You could add things then. |
| 01:12:49.81 | Councilmember | How about it? I'm in here. |
| 01:12:52.24 | Charlie Francis | Mid-year would be another place where you could do it as well, yeah. |
| 01:12:55.90 | Charles Melton | Thank you. |
| 01:12:56.36 | Charlie Francis | that's part of the mid-year review is to, you know, what did we anticipate we need to bring to the council's attention? |
| 01:13:05.52 | Ray | remember the old saying in the whole strategic strategy, the science of strategy got developed with the military, right? And the initial saying is, you might as well tear up your strategic plan in first contact with the enemy, right? Because all it's done is positioned you, but then chaos reigns. So each year is just waded through chaos sometimes. |
| 01:13:29.33 | Councilmember Cox | Thanks, Ray. There's a war out there. |
| 01:13:31.76 | Ray | Thank you. |
| 01:13:31.80 | Charlie Francis | Yeah. |
| 01:13:32.89 | Ray | Thank you. |
| 01:13:32.96 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 01:13:32.98 | Ray | It's exactly right. |
| 01:13:35.49 | Charlie Francis | Well, I hope that didn't set the tone for the performance review of the city manager. |
| 01:13:38.21 | Unknown | manager. |
| 01:13:41.36 | Charlie Francis | Okay, with that, we're about six minutes ahead of what we anticipated. |
| 01:13:44.89 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | All right, well, Charlie, I'm going to open it up to public comment while we're all still here. So is there any member of the public that would like to comment? Please, add them. |
| 01:13:47.88 | Charlie Francis | Look at that. |
| 01:13:53.62 | Adam Krivachi | Thank you. |
| 01:13:55.49 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | You can tell us who you are, you can fill out a form afterwards. |
| 01:14:03.00 | Adam Krivachi | Adam Krivachi. I came early and I talked with Charlie about how we might address a need for which there hasn't been any example in the general plan process. And I analyzed all the drafts that have been published that are voted for public commentary. And I'm very impressed by the pedestrian and bicycle, updated pedestrian and bicycle plan, as it deals with need for safe crossings, pedestrian crossings, bicycle accommodations, parking, everything. one thing doesn't appear anywhere or we didn't find a way of Accommodating it is how to deal with public spaces and how to plan for public spaces to accommodate peak pedestrian crowds. not bicycles. But then the bicyclists become pedestrian. And then the passengers on the ferry become pedestrian, there is not enough public space or not enough direction for them or not enough attraction for them to disperse. So the experience is negative. It feels crowded. and the local residents feel that they are imposed upon. And this can be handled through I would like to ask a person or a for a consultant. who makes his business or her business to plan for public spaces. an urban designer, So and we should budget for an urban designer is part of the expedition and bicycle Advisory Committee. I will be there next Monday, and I will mention that or and the other through the general plan update process But. For $30,000, they could get The answer is no. and then recommendations could be incorporated in successive capital improvements programs and could be seen as public works Thank you. as part of other projects. Any questions related to this? |
| 01:16:51.50 | Ray | I have a question, Adam. Isn't this, I mean, pedestrians are part of the circulation element in the sense of the circulation element has to accommodate pedestrians in their analysis. So are you suggesting that we're not putting enough emphasis in this in the general plan or that you want to make sure in the general plan that we do it? |
| 01:16:59.11 | Adam Krivachi | THE CIRCLE. |
| 01:16:59.60 | Danny | like. Thank you. |
| 01:16:59.92 | Adam Krivachi | you |
| 01:16:59.97 | Danny | Solomon. |
| 01:17:03.60 | Danny | analysis. |
| 01:17:13.25 | Adam Krivachi | You occasionally talk about crowd disbursement. |
| 01:17:13.35 | Ray | Thank you. |
| 01:17:19.54 | Adam Krivachi | you're not talking about design of public spaces. That's what I'm trying to point out. This is not And pedestrian flow This is an issue of how our historic downtown is laid out in a way that there is enough flat area, enough sitting space, enough walking space, enough linear footage of pathways that people can feel, and that people can feel. They enjoy being there. |
| 01:17:59.52 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Adam, I'll just comment also that we, as part of the ferry landing improvement, we now have land side improvements design. That is our next step with the ferry landing is to design the corresponding land side improvements that will address pedestrian and bicycle congestion that arise from ferry operations. |
| 01:18:24.48 | Councilmember | Thank you. Yeah. |
| 01:18:25.19 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:18:25.39 | Councilmember | Yeah, you're right. And what we're going to do is we currently have rice in a bowl as far as where all the people are on that street. we're gonna disperse them. So I think what Adam's kinda saying is, we need to look at the public space outside of that area. Where's all that rice gonna fall when we start telling them to get on the pole? Adjacent to it. |
| 01:18:42.47 | Adam Krivachi | Adjacent to it. |
| 01:18:44.81 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah. you |
| 01:18:45.39 | Adam Krivachi | Thank you. |
| 01:18:45.42 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else want to comment? Peace. |
| 01:18:51.76 | Hazel Roth | I just wait can you say that again now that you're at the mic yes and hazel rot and I serve for |
| 01:18:54.80 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Wait, can you say |
| 01:19:00.77 | Hazel Roth | 12 years as the CEO of the California Infrastructure Bank. And they have low interest loans for almost every category of infrastructure that was mentioned up here, and if staff would want to get together and kind of go through the statute, I'd be happy to do that. |
| 01:19:18.51 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | What is your name again? |
| 01:19:19.66 | Hazel Roth | stand. Hazelroth, H-A-Z-E-L-R-O-T-H. |
| 01:19:26.24 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And would you kindly fill out a speaker card so that staff has your information? Sure. Thank you so much. |
| 01:19:34.22 | Ray | Thank you. Stan is one of my very fine neighbors. Awesome. |
| 01:19:39.91 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Awesome. Happy to make your acquaintance. |
| 01:19:42.34 | Ray | and is now helping Sausalito Beautiful as well. |
| 01:19:51.48 | Councilmember Cox | Can you just ask one more question? So where is sea level rise and kind of planning for that in the general plan update? So is that where we're? |
| 01:20:02.57 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | For sure, we are addressing that in a couple of the different elements of the general plan update. |
| 01:20:07.73 | Councilmember Cox | Okay. |
| 01:20:12.09 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Any other public comment? OK, I'm going to close public comment, bring it back up here. |
| 01:20:17.32 | Ray | I'm sorry. Sorry, go on, please. |
| 01:20:17.59 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I'm excited. |
| 01:20:18.03 | Councilmember Huffman | I'm sorry, my apologies, I need to leave. I'm going to the funeral of a community member. So, thank you. |
| 01:20:27.95 | Ray | I think Susan is... bringing up a very important point that this strategic plan was to sort of plan for Up to the time when we got the general plan, it wasn't trying to duplicate a lot of the stuff. So part of the art of this one is this cycle of the strategic plan is to make sure that we know what's belonging in the general plan update and what's belonging here. Excuse me. God bless you. So, but you're bringing up a really important point. That's an example of something where we realize |
| 01:21:02.65 | Councilmember Cox | question. |
| 01:21:03.14 | Danny | Thank you. |
| 01:21:09.38 | Ray | There's no point in the next two years coming up with policies when it's a major undercurrent, so to speak. |
| 01:21:15.96 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | But as Charlie pointed out, as soon as the general plan is adopted, which is anticipated in 2020, the next strategic plan will focus on implementing the goals and objectives of the general plan, |
| 01:21:15.98 | Ray | Thank you. THE FAMILY. |
| 01:21:30.35 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | absolutely in great detail address sea level rise among other challenges. |
| 01:21:35.01 | Ray | the ongoing management directional sort of challenge as a council will have, and the ongoing management challenge that staff have, Thank you. in the next two years is to know when we've actually got to tactically work on something real time. Even though it's also in the general plan because we can't foreclose our options. Yeah, I think that's what I'm a little bit |
| 01:21:56.34 | Councilmember Cox | Yeah, I think that's what I'm a little bit worried about is that we're putting a lot of eggs in the general plan basket. And, you know, at some point we may need to be making decisions in advance of having a full... |
| 01:21:58.64 | Ray | Yeah. |
| 01:22:11.09 | Charles Melton | Thank you. |
| 01:22:11.46 | Councilmember Cox | general plan that are going to kind of, they're going to get elevated by external pressures or some event. And so we just need to keep an eye on that. |
| 01:22:20.39 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:22:20.41 | Ray | Absolutely. Keep an eye on that. Absolutely. Agreed. |
| 01:22:24.93 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So under FEMA and natural hazards, we have some planning objectives. Should we, do you want us to specifically enunciate sea level rise? |
| 01:22:38.95 | Councilmember Cox | Can we just go back to that slide maybe? I don't know if it's necessary. I mean, maybe it's just something to watch for the next update. It's just something that's... |
| 01:22:52.18 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah, identify profile and map hazards that pose a risk to Sausalito. Ongoing, Marin County has taken the lead on sea level rise. |
| 01:22:52.40 | Councilmember Cox | identify profile and measure. |
| 01:23:02.09 | Councilmember Cox | Okay. It's just at some point, the county's done a great job at setting the framework, but each community is going to need to identify priorities for its own jurisdiction, so we can't. continue to rely |
| 01:23:17.39 | Unknown | Right. |
| 01:23:18.10 | Councilmember Cox | on the county, and it obviously will continue to cooperate, At some point, we're going to need to take on |
| 01:23:25.61 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And the general plan advisory committee is inviting the county representative for sea level rise to attend all of the meetings at which sea level rise issues are discussed. |
| 01:23:38.23 | Councilmember Cox | OK, I think for now it's fine. I just I'll flag it as an issue that I want to keep an eye on as we go through the process. |
| 01:23:48.26 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay, great. Any other discussion regarding our strategic plan update? |
| 01:23:54.47 | Charlie Francis | We have a consensus recommendation from the council to move this. |
| 01:23:59.26 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I think we have a consensus recommendation to move forward with the revisions. |
| 01:23:59.29 | Charlie Francis | I think. |
| 01:24:04.09 | Charlie Francis | Okay. |
| 01:24:04.10 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. noted by the Council. |
| 01:24:06.70 | Charlie Francis | and placed on the consent calendar in February. |
| 01:24:09.28 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I think consent is fine unless |
| 01:24:10.79 | Councilmember | Yeah, as long as those items are highlighted, we know that. |
| 01:24:13.93 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah, if you would red line or highlight so we can see that our comments have been incorporated. |
| 01:24:21.33 | Charlie Francis | WILL DO. That concludes Steph's presentation. |
| 01:24:24.22 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Charlie. Very well done. And great PowerPoint. Okay, I see nothing else on our agenda, so we will adjourn a half an hour early at 10.45 p.m. Thank you. |
| 01:24:43.68 | Ray | I just think we should acknowledge all the folks that have done the work on this. Yeah. And including the members of the public who've come to Finance Committee. We've got someone here who's remained silent this morning, but who sat through every single one of our Finance Committee meetings. Yeah. |
| 01:24:48.97 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah. |
| 01:24:59.20 | Ray | as we went through this. |
| 01:25:01.07 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I agree, and I also want to acknowledge all of the department heads who prepared these videos. I was astounded at the detail and the length of some of the videos. Our public works director and our administrative services director, and it was so helpful to have both video and PowerPoint presentations, so if we didn't want to listen, we could at least go through the PowerPoint slides. So the effort that the city has made to make this process easier for the council and for the public and more transparent is commendable. |
| 01:25:11.62 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:25:37.96 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Susan. |
| 01:25:38.50 | Councilmember Cox | I just wanted to say that that format really worked well for me, not having to sit and listen to all of the presentations. in a row, in a meeting. You could listen to them. at different times when you were engaged, |
| 01:25:49.94 | Danny | different |
| 01:25:52.96 | Councilmember Cox | rewind, you could I mean, it just worked really well and I think it was a great use of staff and public time and city council member time to just kind of be able to review them when and where it was convenient. So, thank you. |
| 01:26:08.93 | Charlie Francis | I'm sorry. |
| 01:26:08.99 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay. |
| 01:26:09.27 | Charlie Francis | It was a real pleasure and honor working with you again, City Council, and the best city manager I've ever worked for, Adam. Thank you. And I look forward to seeing more of you. Thank you. |
| 01:26:20.64 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | All right, thanks everybody. Meeting adjourned. |
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