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| 00:00:00.03 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay, so with that, I'm going to call to order. Yeah. Our regular city council meeting for Tuesday, May 22, 2018. Lily, will you please call the roll. Councilmember Withy. |
| 00:00:04.08 | Unknown | regular city. |
| 00:00:13.06 | Ray Withey | here. |
| 00:00:13.62 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Council member Hoffman? Present. Council member Cleveland Knowles? Here. Vice mayor Burns? Here. Mayor Cox? Here. |
| 00:00:17.97 | Lieutenant Bill Farras | Thank you. |
| 00:00:17.99 | Ray Withey | Thanks. |
| 00:00:19.98 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Mike Stone, will you lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance? |
| 00:00:27.40 | Unknown | I |
| 00:00:27.98 | Unknown | you |
| 00:00:28.63 | Unknown | I do like to do it. |
| 00:00:29.23 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 00:00:29.51 | Unknown | TO. |
| 00:00:29.93 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Good flag. the United States of America. |
| 00:00:39.13 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | This is and justice. |
| 00:00:50.05 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | All right, one of the favorite things I get to do as mayor is mayor's special presentations. And this evening I get to do two of them. So it's especially fun. Thank you. Oh. It's being pointed out to me, I skipped closed session announcements. Do we have any closed session announcements? There are none. Is there any public comment on closed session items? Okay, seeing none, I'm going to continue with my favorite thing, which is the mayor's announcements. And the first is a proclamation to the members of Sausalito Plus. So here we go. Whereas in 2014, Sausalito's Pedestrian and Bicycle Advisory Committee created the Sausalito Ambassador Program, whose objective was to create a safe, welcoming, and memorable experience for visiting tourists and bicyclists to Sausalito, while reducing congestion on Sausalito sidewalks and increasing safety for pedestrians, vehicles, and bicyclists. And, whereas, the Ambassador Program led to the creation of Sausalito Plus, a California nonprofit organization developed for the purpose of supporting the management and safety of bicyclists and pedestrians. And whereas in 2015, the city council under a pilot program agreement welcomed Sausalito Plus to provide ambassador services to visitors and to valet park bicycles on Tracy Way for a fee, and the ambassadors directed cyclists to designated bicycle parking areas, reminded cyclists to walk their bikes on the sidewalk, and provided other important information prior to the cyclists entering Sausalito. |
| 00:01:20.86 | Unknown | Which is... |
| 00:02:32.63 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Whereas the Sausalito Plus efforts were very successful in managing congestion and bicycle parking to the point of virtually eliminating any need for law enforcement presence in stark contrast to prior seasons. And, whereas Sausalito Plus continued their services in the 2016 and 2017 seasons, performing an excellent job that benefited both the bicycle riders and the Sausalito community. And, Whereas the 24-7 on-site and off-site monitoring and adjustment by Sausalito Plus throughout all of the seasons led to significant reductions in congestion on Sausalito sidewalks. And, whereas Sausalito Plus' vision in identifying and managing all the moving pieces of the logistical challenges in downtown Sausalito, including ferry patrons, bike vendors, tourists, residents, and city staff alike was beyond extraordinary. And, Whereas each of the members of Sausalito Plus has and continues to generously volunteer their time and efforts, individually and as a group, for the benefit of Sausalito. Now therefore I, Joan Cox, Mayor of the City of Sausalito of Huron, to set my hand upon this proclamation in order to recognize Sausalito Plus and their board members Deborah Fotch, Ed Fotch, Jim Henry, Patricia Pigman, and Tom Riley for their hard work, creativity, and tireless efforts. And graciously thank the Sausalito Plus volunteers for the many, many hours they gave and will continue to give to our community. And be it further proclaimed, the City of Sausalito thanks Sausalito Plus for their commitment to the big picture, not just to the management of downtown congestion, but their commitment to addressing broad and wide-reaching issues in Sausalito, and their gracious turnover to a new vendor who has the benefit of the path laid out by Sausalito Plus' hard work and innovative thinking. In witness thereof, I, Joan Cox, Mayor of the City of Sausalito of Hurons, who set my hand and cause the seal of the City of Sausalito to be fixed this 22nd day of May 2018. Will you all please come forward to accept your proclamation. |
| 00:05:01.89 | Unknown | Yeah. . How are you? |
| 00:05:05.01 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you so much. |
| 00:05:06.04 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:05:19.04 | Unknown | I just want to take a moment to acknowledge how much Ed Fotch and Deb Fotch have contributed to the well being of our city. Ed's vision of the ambassador program I feel is the reason Sausalito has survived the onslaught of bikes. Without this program, I can't imagine what our city would be like. Deb was instrumental in putting the ambassador program into being. Without her, it wouldn't be the success it is. Both Ed and Deb have been dedicated and committed to making Sausalito a city. that residents can live in without too much chaos. I'm so grateful they stepped up at a crucial time, and we all owe them a huge debt of gratitude. Thank you. |
| 00:06:22.37 | Unknown | I'm not. |
| 00:06:27.48 | Unknown | Thank you, Patricia. I just want to also share our appreciation for the leadership of the Foch family that led us here. But it also reminds me of one thing. Thank you to your service, the city council members, but residents can do a lot here. And I learned the power of volunteering and having an impact and change. We're very proud of what we've done. We're very proud to see the operation continue. We encourage you to keep the ambassador program going. I will always offer advice and guidance. Thanks also to Patricia. You've been a steadying force for us. Deb has arranged a little memento for each of our council members for your support. At some point you can hand that to them. Thank you. |
| 00:07:19.27 | Unknown | you Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:07:21.99 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | My gosh, this is so nice. It's a button that says, I like bikes. |
| 00:07:24.33 | Unknown | but it's just... |
| 00:07:28.89 | Unknown | Bye. I'm not. I am. |
| 00:07:32.74 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | awesome. |
| 00:07:37.63 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | OK, my second proclamation goes to an individual and an organization. that has been around in Sausalito almost as long as me, over 30 years. So here we go. This is a proclamation of the mayor of the city of Sausalito recognizing Molly Stone's and their 30 years of service. Whereas in 1986, Mike Stone and Dave Bennett began a small business venture and opened a grocery store in San Francisco, thus beginning the Molly Stone's legacy And, whereas in 1988, Mike Stone and Dave Bennett purchased the Big G Market in Sausalito and opened their second Molly Stones market on April 10, 1988. And, whereas after 30 years and the opening of several other locations, Molly Stones continues to be one of the few independently owned grocery chains in the Bay Area and continues to be committed to providing the best possible shopping experience for customers. and whereas over these 30 years, Molly Stones has remained dedicated to their customers and the community, noting that giving back to the community is a top priority, and reaffirmed by making our local store the first grocery store in the Bay Area to have vehicle charging stations for customers, giving new meaning to Green Grocer. along with their remodeling plans in 2016, in which they wanted to make Molly Stones more of a community gathering spot. And whereas Molly Stones has now undertaken a grocery delivery service that delivers groceries to Sausalito residents within two hours, a convenience that is welcomed by many of Sausalito's less ambulatory residents. And whereas Mike Stone has embraced Molly Stone's philosophy of giving back to the community, as evidenced by his participation in. ambulatory residents. And whereas Mike Stone has embraced Molly Stone's philosophy of giving back to the community, as evidenced by his participation in myriad community organizations, his tireless and enormously productive fundraising efforts for Marin General Hospital, among other noble causes, and his leadership in other important Sausalito causes often contributed anonymously with very little fanfare. Now, therefore, the mayor of the city of Sausalito takes great pleasure in congratulating Molly Stones for their 30 years of service to Sausalito and its residents. And further recognizes Mike Stone for his great contributions to the community, his involvement in the Chamber of Commerce, city government, the Sausalito Art Festival, and being a major sponsor of such activities as the 4th of July fireworks show, the Amgen tour of California, along with all the other great donations he makes to our many local events. In witness whereof I, Joan Cox, Mayor of the City of Sausalito, here unto set my hand and caused the seal of the City of Sausalito to be affixed to this 22nd day of May 2018 in order to recognize and acknowledge the feats of Mike Stone and the incredible employees of Sausalito's own Molly Stone's Market. |
| 00:10:40.39 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | How did you get this thing out? |
| 00:10:57.41 | Unknown | Just a quick word. A lot of you knew me when I was young, and I knew you when you were young, too. So we've been around a fair amount of time. But thank you, and thank you for recognizing myself in the store, our employees, which make it happen, and the customers that you know are so loyal to the store and especially my family who is very supportive of all my efforts so thank you when i first got to town we all you know they wanted to do an article on me and uh this uh they wrote article but there was this article that was talk of the town in the marine scope and uh harry smith wrote it and he says molly stones comes to town and they're growing cannabis in the parking lot because somebody threw a seed in the planter, and it was growing. And I said, that's my image? So, you know, you never know what's going to be written about you, and I know you've all experienced that, but thank you very much. |
| 00:12:40.84 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | All right. Next on our agenda is communications. This is the time for the city council to hear from citizens regarding matters that are not on the agenda. Except in very limited situations, state law precludes the council from taking action on or engaging in discussions concerning items of business that are not on the agenda. Is there anyone who would like to make a public comment? I have one speaker card, Jake Byer. This is his. |
| 00:13:12.97 | Jake Beyer | Thank you very much. This will be brief. My name is Jake Beyer. I own a house over on Pine Street, just up the street from Caledonia. Today I'd like to talk about car speed on Bridgeway in Caledonia, something that I've noticed. We just had a child who's now five months old. My fiancé has a mother's group specifically for Salsolito that has almost 40 members. And it's just about three months old. And there is a growing sentiment that there is a lot of speeding cars on Caledonia and Bridgeway. So what I did is I put together a report that's probably better read in digital format, but I've provided a printed version for you all. And I posed a survey poll on a website called Nextdoor. In order to be a user on Nextdoor, you have to verify your residence in Sausalito. And the question was simple, is do you think too many cars are speedy on Caledonia and We had almost 200 respondents and 48% of them said yes, too many cars are speeding. 40% said no, we believe that most cars are traveling at or below the speed limit and 12% did not care. So my hope here is to at least spark a conversation and get actual raw data, accurate data on min average max speed of cars traveling on these roads so that we can come back and have a consensus amongst everyone who feels like maybe cars aren't speeding or maybe cars are speeding. and at least provide that data to some of these people. Just a quick quote here. I won't go through all of these or read all of it, but these are actual comments left. I won't name any names, but here's one from a mother. I've lived on tourney in Caledonia for the past 10 years. Visibility trying to pull out of Caledonia is really bad on some streets, and there are near collisions daily, which comes with a lot of honking, especially at my intersection. People get annoyed at cars trying to park or drive the speed limit and overtake them in speed pass in anger. As a mother with a toddler, my biggest issue is crossing Bridgeway. Not enough lighting at night. It's so dangerous trying to cross. Countless times, cars don't see me, even with my stroller, with lights in the middle of the road. Daytimes has so many other issues with bikes and cars. So yes, something needs to be addressed for safety. So thank you. |
| 00:15:44.02 | Unknown | Thank you. JEFF JACOB. |
| 00:16:00.03 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay, start the clock, Mary. |
| 00:16:02.02 | Jeff Jacobs | Okay, well I'm just going to say that. I will, hello mayor and city council, hello. Citizens. and officers of Sausalito. I'm going to second what Jacob said just... to keep going chronologically about the bicycles They were called an onslaught. We don't seem to be thinking that way about the cars. We have an easy way here in Marin County to say the invisible Ayn Saf is what it's called, Marty, the great nothingness. It's an illusion, we're atheists. We also don't believe Really? that something invisible that comes out of the tailpipes of cars drives up the temperature of the entire world. How could something invisible be so powerful? That's the question I'm asking right now. So for people who call themselves atheists, They don't believe in this line, perhaps. You shall proclaim release throughout the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you. Each of you shall return to your holding and each of you returns to your family. The Israelites have no houseless people in this book. We have no continually driven into poverty, people. This is also American law. Unless you want to go to Philadelphia and take down the Liberty Bell. because that is what is quoted on it. The first line of Jubilee. So we know... in the revolution in 1776, what we fought for. We didn't fight to be rich. We didn't fight to have bigger cars. We didn't fight to have more and more laws. |
| 00:18:02.90 | Jeff Jacobs | So the community garden which might as well have been declared illegal throughout much of Marin County. now has a residence here in Sausalito. I'm not going to hide it. Some people maybe would think that I should. because of the attitude in Sausalito to community gardens for so many years. It's at 203 2nd Street, Old Town Joe's. We will also be dealing with bicyclists as they come down the road. Instead, of sending them into a parking area where money is made and chaining up 700 bikes. $25 a piece. The chief. promised to give $50 to my friend Lotus after she paid for two of our bikes that were chained. And we're still waiting on that as we're waiting for Jubilee. But Jubilee also means you don't sow the field. Thank you, Jeff. |
| 00:19:03.23 | Beth Pollard | See you. |
| 00:19:03.26 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you, Jeff. |
| 00:19:03.94 | Beth Pollard | Thank you. |
| 00:19:04.56 | Jeff Jacobs | with the community garden, I'm happy that this might not be the year for Jubilee. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you very much. |
| 00:19:06.69 | Beth Pollard | This is... |
| 00:19:07.75 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Please sit down. |
| 00:19:11.63 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 00:19:11.77 | Jeff Jacobs | Sausalito. |
| 00:19:15.97 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay, next on our agenda... |
| 00:19:19.33 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Bye, thank you. |
| 00:19:20.19 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. Next on our agenda is action minutes of the prior meeting. |
| 00:19:32.25 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | If there aren't any comments, I'll move the action minutes. |
| 00:19:34.68 | Unknown | Second. |
| 00:19:35.56 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | ALL IN FAMILY. |
| 00:19:36.03 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | THE FAMILY. |
| 00:19:36.52 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I'm sorry. |
| 00:19:36.52 | Unknown | Aye. |
| 00:19:36.61 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | you |
| 00:19:36.66 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Bye. |
| 00:19:36.98 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Aye. That motion carries 5-0. Okay, we'll move on now to the consent calendar. |
| 00:19:48.62 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Um, Are there any questions regarding the consent calendar or any requests to remove items from the consent calendar? |
| 00:19:59.32 | Jeff Jacobs | The President. There's a public comment on that, yes. |
| 00:20:02.51 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay. I'm going to take public comment next. I'm asking council members first. |
| 00:20:07.47 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay, I did have one question for staff. perhaps Council Member Withey might also know the answer to this question, but 4B is supporting Proposition 69. And I was just wondering if, how does that act with the measure that's expected to be on the November ballot for the repeal of SB 1? |
| 00:20:32.43 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So we actually have Nancy Hall Bennett here too who could assist in answering if Adam wants assistance. |
| 00:20:40.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:20:41.56 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay. Nancy, can we put you on the spot? Sure. |
| 00:20:48.21 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I'm supportive. I just have a question. |
| 00:20:52.21 | Nancy Hall Bennett | Nancy L. Bennett with the League of Cities. Hello. Hello, Mayor. Hello, welcome. Thank you for having me. Proposition 69 protects transportation funding. And protects transportation funding going forward regardless of whatever happens to SB1 dollars. |
| 00:21:09.13 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | All right, great, thank you. |
| 00:21:12.59 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | All right, any other questions? Then I'll open it up. Oh, go ahead, Jill. |
| 00:21:17.52 | Jill Hoffman | I have an issue. with 4E, which is the letter, the Golden Gate Transit Highway and Transportation District regarding the proposal to discontinue Golden Gate Transit Route number 92. |
| 00:21:28.39 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | number to remove you. THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 00:21:29.86 | Jill Hoffman | THE END OF THE END OF THE Uh, I don't know. Let me ask one question. I think we need to put this on for an agendized hearing so that members of the public can come and talk about it, but I don't know if I want to remove, I don't want to remove this letter from it. I don't think, I know somebody wanted to come tonight and speak about this, but I don't see them here in the audience, so. |
| 00:21:47.37 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 00:21:48.18 | Jill Hoffman | um, |
| 00:21:48.62 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. So I'll just comment that I did respond to most of the people that wrote. I feel very strongly about this issue and let them know we were having a hearing and told them that they could come or submit correspondence. Okay. |
| 00:21:59.79 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. And there is a pending deadline for comments. So what I'd recommend is you can pull this from consent if you like, but if you'd like us to address it further, In the future, let's discuss that during the future agenda items. |
| 00:22:14.02 | Jill Hoffman | That's fine. Yeah, let's do that. |
| 00:22:16.72 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay, any other questions or comments? Right. Okay, all right, then I'm going to open it up to the public for comment on items that are on our consent calendar. |
| 00:22:40.70 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Go ahead. |
| 00:22:43.41 | Jeff Jacobs | Thank you. |
| 00:22:48.88 | Jeff Jacobs | I'm looking at item 4A here. I'm not sure. Adopt a resolution supporting Proposition 68, California drought, water, parks, climate, coastal protection, and outdoor access for all act. I haven't read that. yet. |
| 00:23:11.36 | Jeff Jacobs | But I'm gonna say all of these things have to do with. Jubilee happening or not happening. whether we are going to take a pause in our destructive ways, and we're gonna watch climate change on television, we're gonna read it in the newspapers, we're gonna hear it in the radio, and we're gonna see it with our own eyes. Or we're going to do something about it. That's up to everybody first, individually, And then collectively. |
| 00:23:45.51 | Jeff Jacobs | People do not want to hear that they have to make a sacrifice and put themselves behind a starting line. when the race begins. If they say I have to give up my car, I have to give up my trips to Europe. I have to give up my third or fourth house. I have to give up buying. things that are packaged, in plastic. So with that, I want to bring some good news, which is Molly Stones is now willing to accept recycling. When I first got here, There were barrels in the rear of the parking lot where people could bring cans and bottles. and get the dime or nickel or 20 cents for champagne, for each one of their bottles and cans. That was removed. It's a law that if a grocery business earns more than $2 million, they have to have this. Well, Molly Stones now has agreed to have this. They did that. I and I talked to the manager, and he said, OK. So thank you, Molly Stones, for that. I haven't brought any cans or bottles yet. But we have to deal with this. We cannot deal with our garbage. We bring thousands and thousands and thousands of people here, they're all flushing toilets, They're all throwing away cans and bottles and using plastic. And all we can talk about are their bicycles. I know what it's like because I've tried to walk my bicycle down on a Saturday down Bridgeway. It's not easy. I understand there's got to be some level of control. But not somebody trying to control another person for money. Somebody trying to control... themselves for God is what it is. |
| 00:25:43.03 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 00:25:43.05 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you, Jeff. Um, With respect to Is there any other public comment? I'm going to close public comment, bring it back up here with respect to item 4 E. It's signed by the mayor and it is written on behalf of the city of Sausalito. I would like to add a phrase that says all five members of the city council urge, if that's okay with everybody. |
| 00:26:11.68 | Unknown | . |
| 00:26:11.87 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. Okay, all right, so we're going to add that just prior to the last sentence of paragraph one. Instead of please consider all five council members ask that you. |
| 00:26:13.44 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 00:26:13.46 | Unknown | All right. |
| 00:26:13.86 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 00:26:25.44 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay, and so with that revision, may I have a motion on the consent calendar? |
| 00:26:30.72 | Ray Withey | So I move adoption of the consent calendar items 4A through E with 4E modified as suggested. |
| 00:26:39.65 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Second. All in favor? Aye. That motion carries 5-0. |
| 00:26:41.38 | Ray Withey | Bye. |
| 00:26:45.10 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | OK, first of our business items is an update from the League of California Cities, consideration of adoption of a resolution supporting the veterans and affordable housing bond and consideration of authorizing a letter opposing Senate Bill 828. And we'll welcome back to the podium, Nancy Hall Bennett. |
| 00:27:07.73 | Nancy Hall Bennett | Me again, Nancy Hall Bennett with the League of Cities. Thank you again, Mayor, Council, City Manager, City Attorney, Assistant City Manager. I'm here on behalf of the League of California Cities, and it makes sense to do a little bit of who is the League of California Cities, for those of you that don't know. We're a large organization. We represent and advocate for over 470 cities in California. We are 120 years old. Soon after the state became a state, cities realized that they needed to organize themselves as they worked with the state and the federal government. Our objectives are to always protect your local control and authority. We provide networking and learning opportunities for both our professionals and our electeds. And we have a really robust advocacy agenda that we adhere to. Thank you. Our advocacy agenda is dictated by our board of directors. meet annually and in November of 2017 they met together and adopted these four strategic goals. Our league board comes from elected members and professional members from all over the state, about 55 members on our board. The first one is addressing public safety concerns. Second one, ensuring sustainability of our public pension and retirement health benefits. Third, protecting existing transportation funding for local priorities. And then fourth, improving housing affordability and supporting additional resources to address the homelessness crisis. I think that those four strategic goals should align very well with your objectives. I believe they do. The league is a big organization. The state is a big state. We're organized within 16 divisions. You can see Sausalito benefits from being in the North Bay Division. I work with the cities in the North Bay Division, and they encompass all the cities within Solano, Napa, Sonoma, and Marin County. You all know Councilmember Ray Withey serves on our executive committee. We're grateful to have his input and advocacy at the executive committee level. So a little bit of a political update while I'm here and the election is two weeks away. And thank you for supporting Proposition 68 and 69 just now. On the June ballot, it makes sense to talk about what else is on there besides the gubernatorial election and other various items. The league does advocate for some initiatives. For June, we're advocating for three. The first one being Prop 68, $4 billion park and water bond. Soslita will benefit from seeing $200,000 infused right away. And then the opportunity to compete for grants. Proposition 69, all it does is protect transportation Monday, so it can't be diverted or used for any other purpose other than transportation. And then you see the two others that are on there that our league board did not weigh in on. And then, Prop 72, property tax exemption for rainwater capture so it doesn't re-trigger property tax concern. The November ballot has lots that may be on it, but for now, all that's on it, all that's qualified, are two initiatives. One, the league is supporting. We supported it when it was going through the legislature as SB3, a housing bond. and one that just qualified last week popped up, another water pond. So we'll see which ones those will join. Two of the threats that are on the November ballot that council member astutely pointed out is one, the repeal effort for SB1. Proponents of the repeal to SB1 turned in signatures a couple weeks ago. We expect it to qualify. We expect to campaign really hard to make the case that those transportation dollars are needed. Talk a little bit more about that. And then the second concerning initiative which proponents turned in signatures last week. is the business round table measure. This would fundamentally change the way you operate your city. it would change All tax measures from a option of a majority vote, they would have to be a two thirds majority vote of the council and of the people. Relative to transportation, Proposition 69, again, thank you very much for supporting today. We expect to see a really strong showing in a couple weeks, and now people are voting already, I hope, supporting Prop 69. Marin IJ, The Chronicle, we've just had positive, positive feedback from everyone on this one. This was a compromise piece of legislation to broker the deal on SB1. Your legislators and up and down the state didn't want to support a tax increase without making sure that that tax dollar was going to stay for its intended purpose in perpetuity. And we'll see what happens with SB1. what's at stake if SB1 is repealed? You see these dollar amounts. This is over 10 years. For Sausalito, it's over $2 million. That's twice as much money that you receive right now for maintenance of your roads. That should be a significant influx for your purposes to fix your roads. And I'm not saying anything personal to you that you don't know, but you guys could use it. As could all the other cities in Marin. We're older communities and our roads take a beating. So not only will this money flow through to your city, but there is an opportunity for large scale projects in the area and competitive grants. The gas tax hasn't been raised in over 25 years. Now's the time to thank our legislators for being bold and taking care of our infrastructure. |
| 00:33:28.22 | Unknown | you will be. |
| 00:33:29.81 | Nancy Hall Bennett | Relative to the business round table ballot measure, it's being called the Tax Fairness, Transparency, and Accountability Act. We look at it a little differently. Very simply. I mentioned it changes the majority vote to two thirds for everything. And then it also changes many of your fees that you impose on your users. to a tax and that becomes a two-thirds majority as well. There are other provisions in it that are harmful. You'll be hearing a lot more about this if it does qualify. There's campaign committee that's been created by the league together with our labor friends. CSAC, the county organization, just joined this week. I believe the police chief association just joined today. The coalition will be rapidly growing as we move into a campaign if we need to. You'll see the American Heart Association joins. This proposition is being funded by the American Beverage Association, specifically aimed at the undoing going forward of soda tax. They spent over $7 million and are prepared to spend a lot more. Others gathering signature. There are so many. I mean, it's going to be a wild ballot in November. The water bond already made it. I believe, and I think I just saw an email about this, that the realtors just qualified today, too. So that may be breaking news for you. Don't get too excited. The police chief and grocers are looking at a public safety initiative, split role on commercial property, decriminalizing magic mushrooms, dialysis clinics, there's stuff for hospitals. Requirements for veal. Who knows? Maybe I'll come back before the November meeting and you could gendize me for a couple hours. We're not. In addition to the ballot, which obviously the league has been very focused on, the legislature continues to meet. At the legislature, they've been very active, and they somehow tend to be more active in the legislative year. Last week, the governor introduced his May revision to the budget. Good news. The state coffers are looking very good. There's a lot of money in the state, and it gives them the ability to have different types of arguments now. They're not fighting over where to cut. They're fighting about where to spend money. The governor's been very strong that he's expecting a downturn. He said that over the last seven years, and he is setting aside for a rainy day fund. But he did put money in for mental health, homelessness, and deferred maintenance on their infrastructure. The league had some high priority requests, a hundred million for disaster preparedness. We joined with the fire chiefs on that one, a hundred million for organic waste diversion, a hundred million for transformative climate communities. And then one time money for homelessness. The governor's, um, Dollar amount, about $350 million, is okay. There should be more. There's conversations. I was about to say arguments, but there are conversations going on between the Assembly and the Senate about how much they would like to see for one time in ongoing money for homelessness. And that's for everything from housing to wraparound care to mental services. We expect that to be a high priority of the legislature, and the governor signaled that he's open to it, and the league is very much so as well. So there's going to be quite a lot of conversation and meeting as the legislature marches to the June 15th, third constitutional deadline to send the governor a budget. That or forfeit their pay. What do you think will happen? I'm sure they'll get it done by then. Between now and then, we also have legislative items that the league has been active on. This is a sampling of a few of the bills that the league has supported. AB 1775 and SB 1834 both go towards the desire to not allow oil drilling off of our coast. AB 2812 is data storage. This has become an increasingly big problem for our cities as they need to continue to hold storage of their data for police, council, whatever it may be, it's an expense, so this looks to that. AB 3162 looks at treatment facilities. It's an interesting situation that's happening in some of our communities where treatment facilities congregates and creates a community but they're not supposed to be doing that. So this looks at that. And then Senator McGuire, your own senator, emergency alerts and how that state can assist cities and communities react in an emergency and have a notification system that's adequate. In opposition, AB 1912, this one's a big one right now for us. This would apply all liability to a jurisdiction upon entering in a JPA. All liability, not just CalPERS. City manager colleagues were up at CalPERS board last week, as we often are at the CalPERS board, talking about how disastrous this would be, how GPAs are an opportunity for cities to cut costs, to collaborate. This would limit that going forward. If you haven't weighed in on it, I would ask you to consider. There are three ADU bills that we're opposed to right now. ADU bills, ADUs had their heyday a couple years ago. There are many pieces of legislation that cities are enacting right now in response to changing laws. Our point has been that we have just, cities have just changed how they operate and react to new laws relative to ADUs. Now's not the time to impose more restrictions. SB 1302, this one just popped up on my radar. This would go against the voters' intent on Prop 64 and not allow the opportunity for a jurisdiction to allow for deliveries of cannabis. And then I wanted to say a shout out to the city of Sausalito on your engagement on SB 827. Your action and along with your colleagues in the cities really got to Senator McGuire and had a profound impact on the results of that bill. So thank you. The bill died in committee. The bill's author has promised to resurrect it at the beginning of next year in January. So you can look for the conversation to move forward. We've been having... Ongoing conversations with Senator Wiener about housing, where we can find collaboration. This one was an overreach in many ways to take you back down memory lane. This would have really eliminated your opportunity for zoning in what was characterized as transit rich areas and changed that definition as well. So you would have minimum requirements of housing at eight feet, potentially more with density bonus outside of your control and land use authority. So thank you, I appreciate you engaging on legislation. It makes a difference when you call your senator, assembly member and when you write letters. So thank you very much. And before I wrap up, I just wanted to give you a little bit of a highlight on our legislative calendar. The two points are marked in red. These two elections dictate a lot of the conversation in Sacramento. Not only are all the assembly members up for reelection right now, half of the senators are, and they're all facing a new governor. So the politics are very hot and heavy at this moment. that and they're looking at a potential of SB1 repeal, which two-thirds of them supported, will dictate a lot of these dates. I just illustrate that because things are moving quickly, and then things will heat up again after the summer recess. So what I may be talking about now as our priorities may be very different in August. And with that, I would love to take questions if you have any. |
| 00:42:21.96 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Before we ask questions, also on our agenda this evening, Nancy, for your presentation is the SB is consideration of whether to oppose SB 828. And we included in our packet something that was handed out at the meeting with Mike McGuire last Friday. |
| 00:42:25.32 | Nancy Hall Bennett | FOR YOU. |
| 00:42:39.36 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | that appears to change it from an advisory bill back to a mandate. So do you have anything to say about SB 824? |
| 00:42:47.04 | Nancy Hall Bennett | I'll give a little update on SB 828. SB 828 is Senator Weiner's arena bill. The bill is up in the Senate Appropriations this Friday for their suspense file. The suspense file is a file of legislation that they consider holistically when it has a large cost to the state. SB 828 was picked for the suspense file because of its increasing costs to the housing state housing department. I believe Senator Weiner passed that document out. I have seen it a couple times now with proposed amendments. The amendments are not language relative to the bill, so it's a little hard to track what his intent is, except for perhaps to try to get it out of the suspense hearing. The league is anxious to see the bill in print. the idea is probably that he's offering to the Appropriations Committee to take suggested amendments. They will probably pass, if I could read the tea leaves, they will probably pass the bill without it being in print on Friday and then pass it to the floor. At which point we would hope to see the amendments on Tuesday. The League of Cities has been trying to work with Senator Weiner on this bill. We've offered amendments a few times, and he has amended his bill but has not taken our amendments. Depending on the amendments on Tuesday, we most likely will oppose unless there are amendments. |
| 00:44:25.39 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So at this time, the League of California Cities is not asking the city of Sausalito to oppose, because you have not yet come out with your opinion on this bill. We have not opposed and we have not asked. |
| 00:44:38.97 | Nancy Hall Bennett | Thank you. |
| 00:44:39.14 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | for cities to oppose. |
| 00:44:40.49 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay. Could I ask what the amendments are that the league is |
| 00:44:46.03 | Nancy Hall Bennett | proposing. |
| 00:44:46.58 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | THE END OF THE |
| 00:44:47.17 | Nancy Hall Bennett | We aren't comfortable with a rollover of any RHNA numbers. |
| 00:44:52.18 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:44:52.35 | Nancy Hall Bennett | I think it's a good question. As we understand it, the COGS are supposed to look at what RHNA numbers were fulfilled in the plat pass cycle when they assigned new RHNA numbers anyway, so it's redundant. And the zoning of over 100% isn't comfortable for us either. That's why you zone. So we've expressed our concerns to him and it's up to the Senator. So you said you're not comfortable with him? |
| 00:45:20.43 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. Is that what you said? No, the league is not comfortable with the rollover. And you're not comfortable with 125%? We believe it should be 100%. |
| 00:45:24.67 | Nancy Hall Bennett | Okay. |
| 00:45:29.19 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay. but you don't have any official response yet. From the Senator. No, from the league. |
| 00:45:34.56 | Nancy Hall Bennett | No. |
| 00:45:36.26 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | The league has not. No, I was asking about the senator. Oh, sorry. |
| 00:45:36.82 | Nancy Hall Bennett | It's not. Oh, um, from the senator we do not have, he has not accepted our amendments at this point. Thank you. |
| 00:45:45.64 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay. |
| 00:45:45.71 | Nancy Hall Bennett | Thank you. |
| 00:45:47.86 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. All right. Any questions of Nancy Hall Bennett? Thank you so much for coming. I'm going to open it up to public comment. |
| 00:46:20.81 | Jeff Jacobs | When Yeshua ben Nazareth, had to deal with what was going on in His country. He wanted people to join with him and he said, whoever is not Against me, is with me. |
| 00:46:41.64 | Jeff Jacobs | Later on, As it came closer to the time of his passion. He said, he who is not with me. is against me. That's what George W. Bush repeated. When he went into Iraq, and change the Middle East. into what it is now. |
| 00:47:12.80 | Jeff Jacobs | We've been talking about housing and homelessness. We've been dealing with it and talking about it on the acreage. for a very long time. We've mentioned it with Jubilee. that everybody gets to go back to their ancestral heritage, everybody lives in an equal portion. There are different rules if you look at Leviticus 25 for the suburbs and the cities and the farms and the apartments. I would like somebody to debate me if they insist on calling themselves atheists. Why? WOULD THIS HAVE BEEN PUT IN this holy text When it takes everything away from the prison industrial complex, it sets the captives free. It takes it away from the banks, don't charge interest. They give loans to the poor. and from the real estate industry. that we don't crow about our houses being worth a million or two million or five million dollars. |
| 00:48:22.67 | Jeff Jacobs | So this bill, The first part of it says, The housing element shall consist of an identification and analysis of existed and projected housing needs and statements of goals, policies, quantified objectives, financial resources, and scheduled programs for preservation, improvement, and development of housing. The housing element shall identify adequate sites for housing including rental housing, factory built housing, mobile homes and emergency shelters. I know Sausalito doesn't like the traffic, whether it's in cars or bicycles, if we're behind it. I know people don't like waiting in lines, But I really don't like people without a place to stay, being harassed by police and being used for money. |
| 00:49:10.71 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:49:11.03 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Jeff. |
| 00:49:12.11 | Jeff Jacobs | That's what I don't like. |
| 00:49:15.59 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | All right, so any other public comment? I'm going to close public comment, bring it up here for discussion. I, May I suggest that we defer action on SB 828 until the final bill text is published and the league takes a position? |
| 00:49:35.97 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah, I agree. |
| 00:49:37.03 | Jill Hoffman | I agree with that. I have a question. How long is it? This is a question, I think, for Nancy or whoever. After the final version is published, then how long is it until... there would be a second action. In other words, how long would it be for us to submit our letter and for it to have impact? |
| 00:49:58.13 | Nancy Hall Bennett | The trajectory of the bill would be So if it passes out at Monday, it would be referred to the floor. It could be up... Thank you. And |
| 00:50:14.43 | Nancy Hall Bennett | Sorry, I'm looking for one asked across the house. It still has to go to the assembly before it needs to go to the governor for it to be signed. Okay. If you're looking for when it needs to be. |
| 00:50:19.95 | Beth Pollard | before. |
| 00:50:26.39 | Nancy Hall Bennett | heard on the floor for a vote, that would potentially be the next. Three weeks, I would say. |
| 00:50:33.67 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. I WANT TO DO THAT. you know, I think if The letter, as we have it written... I don't think it does us any harm. because it tells us specifically you know sort of why we're opposing I'm afraid that if we delay that we won't have any impact and that it we won't I mean we won't be having our next city council meeting you know our regular meeting I guess we have one night |
| 00:50:57.55 | Unknown | you |
| 00:50:57.59 | Unknown | One five. |
| 00:50:58.74 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah, June 5th. So I don't think that's enough time. And I don't think that's enough time for us to have, for our position to have, like I said, have impact. If the bill changes, then that's going to change. I mean, we've said we don't like 125% in the letter. I mean, I think that's what we said. So if it goes further, then it does us no harm. But it certainly doesn't do us any good, I don't think, if we delay. So... So... |
| 00:51:24.93 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Something that Nancy and others have told Ray and then me in the legislative committee for MCCMC is that you want to be cautious about opposing something before you know what it says. And particularly on behalf of the city of Sausalito, I don't want to become known as the naysayer to everything. I'd rather see if the league is successful in its requests to reduce the 125 to 100 or to eliminate the rollover. So that would be my... response. And I do think if we put it on consent or put it on for discussion on June 5, we still have time. before action is taken to write a focused letter, which I think is more persuasive than a canned letter that may not any longer be applicable. |
| 00:52:22.58 | Jill Hoffman | I take your point about that especially, but I think these two bills together are really seen as, you know, I think there are two attacks on local control. I'm afraid that if people say, well, 827, we oppose that and we beat that back, but 828 is okay, I guess we can live with that. I don't think we can live with that. I think we have the same issues on that that we had on 827. And we don't oppose everything. We write very few letters in opposition, actually. I think we've been very clear on our position. I WANT TO TAKE A LOOK AT THEIR I just want to be cautious about delaying. |
| 00:53:05.96 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | remains in its current form, I will support an opposition. So, to be clear. But let's hear from other council members. |
| 00:53:14.01 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. Yeah, I definitely agree with Mayor Cox. I do not want to take an opposed position without knowing, you know, while there's still discussions going on. I also do not equate 827 and 828. I think they're radically different bills. And especially as amended, even if we don't like the results of the amendment, it's not a mandatory bill. um, bill at this point on local government. It's advisory. And that's, you know, at least as it is now, I think there's some indication that it might change. But so I do not, I wouldn't put those two in the same bucket myself. And I would take a more cautious approach and wait and see. Other comments? |
| 00:54:01.87 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. I think given the Councilmember Cleveland Knowles' comments, that if it comes back, we should probably just agendize it instead of trying to put it on consent. But we'll have to have discussion. That's fair. |
| 00:54:15.98 | Ray Withey | Another way perhaps of dealing with this, if time is of concern here, is to authorize the mayor to send a letter THE END OF if and when the text of the bill is published and if the league were to oppose, then we would follow the league's lead. That would be one way to do that and avoid having to come back here. So that's just for consideration. Regardless, I think we need to take another look at the letter because there's something about the letter that bothers me. And I only figured it out yesterday what it was. In the opening paragraph of the letter, You start off, we start off and say, the city of Sausalito opposes, boom, okay. And then existing law requires housing elements, da, da, da. This bill, as amended, And then what should follow would be all the things that we don't like, right? |
| 00:55:19.88 | Unknown | I'm going to go. Right. |
| 00:55:21.55 | Ray Withey | But we say this bill as amended requires A, then There's a sentence, the resulting planning cannot demonstrate disparities that perpetuate racial or income disparities. Well, Okay. That's a fact. But is that what we're opposing? I don't think so. And so you start off with the first paragraph, completely creating the wrong impression about what we're actually opposing here. So I would like someone to take a look at this and rewrite this letter, because I don't think it, the tone of the first paragraph, it misconstrues, I think, you know, it misstates what our, what our real concern is here. |
| 00:56:07.93 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah, and in fairness, this was not drafted by anyone here. It was a part of a template from a template. No, I understand. Yeah, I totally agree. Do you see my point here on this one? I completely agree and endorse your comment. |
| 00:56:12.06 | Ray Withey | That was a... No, I understand. DO YOU SEE MY POINT? |
| 00:56:17.04 | Jill Hoffman | I completely agree. |
| 00:56:19.55 | Ray Withey | Yeah. |
| 00:56:19.87 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 00:56:20.95 | Ray Withey | So that's my comments. |
| 00:56:22.96 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah, so then I like, Ray, your suggestion that if the League of Cities opposes that we authorize the mayor to draft a letter in opposition without bringing it back here? |
| 00:56:32.80 | Unknown | I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I WANT Items like the 125, that type of thing. |
| 00:56:37.15 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:56:37.17 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Mm-hmm. And the carrier and the rollover? |
| 00:56:39.11 | Unknown | And we agreed to them those provisions now. |
| 00:56:49.56 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | That's fine by me. If you would feel more comfortable, Susan, I'd be happy to have it be an ad hoc of you and me to draft the letter. |
| 00:57:05.52 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah, I'm just... |
| 00:57:10.03 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I'm still struggling with this. I've been struggling with it since... It came down. I mean, of all the different things that are coming along the pike about loss of local control, this one, you know, just does not seem as drafted now, it's advisory, it just doesn't seem as kind of to rise to the level of magnitude of other things. And I'm very wary of sending a message. You know, I'd rather be spending our time talking about housing, about talking about positive solutions, and talking about things that we could do or amendments that we could propose that would make some of these measures acceptable to the city. But, you know, we're in this position, you know, where I think it's just been a very reactive discussion. And, you know, we have... Our resolution for the veterans bond talks about the lack of housing in California. Our whereas clauses talk about the lack of housing and the fact that this is leading to increased homelessness in the state. So with one hand, we're saying we support that resolution. And the housing crisis is a contributing factor to homelessness in our communities. And on the other hand, we're rejecting a bill that purports to try to address that. So... I do think zoning should remain in local control. I absolutely continue to believe that. I was convinced, or I thought it was an interesting approach that Senator McGuire took on this bill. and really focused on the advisory nature and the fact that it's not another mandate from the state. So I'm hopeful that Senator Weiner will take the recommendations and that we won't be on record opposing. But I think Council Member Withey has proposed a good path forward. So I would be happy to write the letter with you. But I'm sorry, I'm sort of struggling internally with |
| 00:59:39.69 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah, I just don't, this particular thing is not really where I feel like our energy should be spent. |
| 00:59:46.47 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thanks. I will say that the proposed amendments that came from Senator Weiner's office that were handed out by at our legislative committee meeting last Friday included a provision to again make it a mandate as opposed to advisory, which is the big thing that concerns me. |
| 01:00:02.14 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah. |
| 01:00:06.07 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah. And for some reason that hadn't refreshed on my, I hadn't read it until you mentioned it right now. So, |
| 01:00:10.71 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | OKAY. Thank you. |
| 01:00:11.53 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 01:00:11.59 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay. Yeah. |
| 01:00:12.14 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. OK, so I'm I'm. |
| 01:00:14.32 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | All right, so can we do that by consensus, folks? Sure. Okay, and then may I have a motion adopting the resolution supporting the Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond? So moved. |
| 01:00:14.35 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | in favor of that. Mm-hmm. |
| 01:00:17.12 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 01:00:27.58 | Unknown | Second. |
| 01:00:28.49 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | All in favor? Aye. That motion carries. 5-0. |
| 01:00:29.39 | Unknown | Hi. |
| 01:00:31.97 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Zero. |
| 01:00:32.31 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:00:32.54 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And before we move on to the next item, I did just want to thank the league and Nancy Hall Bennett for coming and spending the time and for having a great presentation. I just really think that local jurisdictions, especially small jurisdictions like Sausalito, would be so much less effective at the state level without you. So thank you for all the work that you do, and thanks for being here. |
| 01:00:56.86 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And Nancy, we want to thank you also for coming to the MCCMCA. legislative committee meetings as well. You know, I circulate those updates that we receive from you and from the MCC MC to all of the council members. So all of us are able to stay up to date on what bills are pending, what the league's position is, and it really is, as Susan said, invaluable information, so thank you. |
| 01:01:19.73 | Jill Hoffman | Can I just add something to you? Yeah. I agree completely. And we get such a bang for our buck from the League of Cities. |
| 01:01:20.33 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Bye. |
| 01:01:26.26 | Jill Hoffman | your advocacy, but also from Nancy Hall Bennett and the hard work that you do and that the work that I mean she comes to all the meetings. She drives like I don't know how many miles on your car. So anyway, thank you. We appreciate your effort. |
| 01:01:39.35 | Ray Withey | Yeah, I'd just like to add, as Nancy mentioned, I have the privilege of serving on the executive board of the North Bay Division, and I get to see up close how hard Nancy works and what she does for us. So thank you. |
| 01:02:07.36 | Ray Withey | Yeah. |
| 01:02:07.75 | Unknown | Yeah. Ha ha ha. |
| 01:02:08.88 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 01:02:08.93 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:02:08.97 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | LAUGHTER Thank you. All right, so with that, we're going to move on to item 5B, an update on the Sausalito Water Management Plan from Lieutenant Bill Frost and Richardson's Bay Regional Agency. We want to thank Beth Pollard and Marty Winter for coming this evening, and welcome. |
| 01:02:45.91 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Mary. Thank you. |
| 01:02:49.03 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:02:49.08 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | The door. |
| 01:03:07.76 | Lieutenant Bill Farras | Good evening, Madam Mayor. Mr. Vice Mayor, city council members, and city staff. I am Lieutenant Bill Farras and I will be presenting the Sausalito Waterfront Management Plan update this evening. The first part, I always like to bring a little historical perspective when we're talking about Richardson Bay and our waterfront. We have an article here from 1920 and 1953 about pirates upon Richardson Bay and the Sausalito Police Department dealing with them. This goes to show that we've had issues of order, issues of theft and quality of life issues for many, many years. One is almost 100 years old where you had Two, late teenagers, early adults going around stealing items. and being apprehended by our constables at the time and finding more thefts from our waterfront, as well as a case from 1953 in which they actually stole the sailboat, put up the Jolly Roger flag, and then was arrested by our Chief Ingalls at that time. They were a little bit inebriated, so they weren't charged with piracy. But it shows that the problems we're facing and addressing today are long nature. They're issues that we are going to be working on, and there's no short term solution, and there's no quick fixes. We're looking for a long range strategy and a long range perspective regarding this, and the blocks in place for a long lasting solution. |
| 01:04:34.94 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Bill, I'm going to stop you. Can you either come in or go out, but we'd like to keep the door shut, please. |
| 01:04:39.70 | Unknown | Thank you. Just don't be out here talking. And I have my dog out here, so I can't do it. |
| 01:04:51.54 | Unknown | closing the TV. |
| 01:04:54.44 | Lieutenant Bill Farras | All right. Thank you. Thank you. Our first aspect we're going to be speaking of is the background regarding our waterfront management plan. |
| 01:04:59.44 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:05:02.73 | Lieutenant Bill Farras | The Council last June 20th passed a waterfront management plan, authorized the Sausalud Police Department hiring part-time staff to work in conjunction with the Sausalud Police Department to more effectively manage our waterfront. Our plan also called for continued cooperation and partnership between the Sausalud Police Department, the Marin County Sheriff's Office, and the Richardson Bay Regional Agency. We are continuing with that plan and we do work in partnership. We have met with the Richardson Bay Regional Agency in the last week as well as with the Sheriff's Office. Our waterfront management plans priorities, our highest priorities remains the removal of marine debris vessels. the removal of unoccupied vessels that are being used as storage, Unregistered vessels, vessels that are being occupied by persons who are a danger to themselves and others. The lowest priorities are occupied vessels that are licensed and registered and are in possession of a waste disposal contractor utilizing similar forms of service. So we know what vessels we want to address now, and we also have a plan for vessels that we will address later, but we have to prioritize to make sure that we're utilizing our resources to the most efficient manner. Our staffing, our marine survey team remains hard at work, part-time specialists that are conducting surveys, utilizing our GIS software to prepare detailed maps that guide our enforcement and our activity on the water. They're also assisting our Marine Patrol unit by marking marine debris vessels, assisting in their abatement. and also posting warnings on vessels regarding violations they may be in violation of. Regarding our part-time positions, the Marine Patrol officer and the part-time harbor assistant, we're still actively recruiting for these part-time positions, but there are difficult positions to fill because there are specialty positions. Not any former police officer can be a Marine Patrol officer. We need somebody with a special skill set. We have spoken to an active duty officer who is in the process of considering retirement. He's got a long-term maritime background history and he's very interested in the job. He just does not know if he's going to retire exactly. yet. And we are actively talking with a retired officer from a nearby law enforcement agency who understands Richardson Bay. regarding about the harbor assistant position. We're still talking about the position and details regarding that, but he is very interested in it. I'm hoping to have a better update in a couple months when I readdress the council in that area. But we are still working hard to fill these positions. But we're doing the duties of what these people would be doing now with our survey team and our Marine Patrol Unit. Our surveys, we're still actively conducting these surveys. We have conducted 11 of these since we started in July. And we try to do every single month or sometimes because of weather conditions. We may have a five-week span or we may do multiple surveys in one month because we want to capture the true essence of our waterfront. As you can see right here by this chart, our last survey was actually conducted on May 17th and that shows 69 vessels. One of the things I wanted to make sure was showing that when we're talking about how many vessels are in our water is what are we dealing the true dynamics of that. So I had a second line created regarding dinghies, because when we're counting, sometimes we count dinghies on the waterfront. And out of those 69 vessels, four of those vessels were dinghies. There were small boats or row boats or kayaks that were actually tied to a mooring ball that was keeping that as a placeholder. do not count every dinghy there are some larger vessels out there that will have one or two small vessels attached to it we don't count those because those are convergence vessels that are being used for people to go back and forth they're not having the dramatic impacts on our waterfront as the larger vessels do but when we find a vessel that is on a mooring ball that is there as a standby or a placeholder we want to note that because that is something we want to track to see if a larger vessel will come in And as if you look through, there are sometimes during our highest peak numbers, which are those 77 and 76 numbers, we had very little of those small vessels that are counted. Now that our numbers have Lowered to 69, we have four of those that are those placeholders. |
| 01:09:44.49 | Lieutenant Bill Farras | And as we're looking at those vessels, we're also trying to determine are these occupied, unoccupied. Right now, we have approximately 30 of our vessels from our last count that are considered as unoccupied vessels. Then we have approximately 29 to 28 that are being occupied on our waters. And then there's always a few that are unknown because we have not either seen people on them or the conditions of those that are difficult to tell if somebody is actively living on. So it's almost an equal split of boats in our waters if somebody are living on them or people are not living on them. And that also impacts what kind of actions we're taking based on the strategies we've lined out by our priorities. We're continuing to use our GIS mappings to track the activity of our marine unit and our actions on the water to determine where vessels are, where they may have gone, and the conditions of the vessels. These maps are continually being made every single month, and they are guiding our law enforcement actions. We use these to track down the marine debris vessels, to track the abandoned vessels, as well as the unregistered vessels and other violating vessels, to make sure we focus our limited resources on those issues that are most pressing to us. And just as an example, some of these mapping, our latest reports weren't done in time to make the presentation, but these were done in March. And some of these vessels have been already addressed regarding either the registration issues or the marine debris aspect. But our officers get these. The sergeant and them sit down. They plan a strategy regarding how each patrol is going to go. And they go out there specifically. It's no longer just randomly throwing darts and hoping you hit something. We're being targeted and making sure we're addressing the vessels that are most in need. And regarding our enforcement, since our last update in the end of February, we have abated three vessels that were marine debris. One was a large craft and two were smaller crafts, but they were causing environmental issues as well as navigational issues on the water. The two smaller crafts actually were partially sunk or completely sunk. and could have been a danger to any mariner that was out there. The larger vessel was extremely derelict, was expired, and it was basically rotting on our waterfront. The dynamics of the vessel is one month, vessel could be knocked considered marine debris and just be out there but because of conditions, the weather, Thank you. what water does to the vessel and what neglect does to the vessel, in one month's time, it could quickly become marine debris. So that's why we make sure we track the vessels through our mapping so we know with each vessel. And here's a couple examples of the marine debris vessels we were. |
| 01:12:32.90 | Adam Politzer | Ugh. |
| 01:12:33.31 | Lieutenant Bill Farras | Thank you. dealt with. |
| 01:12:38.10 | Lieutenant Bill Farras | We also abated two vessels through the Vessel Turn-In Program as part of our SAVE grant. This is a very important program because we're able to use this to interdict vessels and remove them before they actually make it into our waterways. Both these vessels were in poor condition, They were well expired and their owners had given up on them. They were, if we would not have taken them in this program, there is little doubt that they would have either ended up in our waters or the waters of other waters of Richardson Bay. So by us being able to take them and keep them away from it, they allow us to address these nuisances and quality of life problems before they go out on our waterfront and become attractive nuisances for other problems. And here's an example of some of the two vessels we took. You can see there were large vessels. Individuals could have used those to either store items on live upon. They were not... navigable, they were problematic, and you can see by the barnacles all over the bottom of that one, that's not sailing anytime. They would have become a hulk on our waterfront. that would have drawn unwanted attention from others. We also, in the last month and a half, conducted an impound of a vessel. The vessel that we actually impounded had been in Dunphy Park waters for numerous months. The person who was upon that boat had been issued numerous citations. He had actively refused to move his vessel even though he was in clear violation of our city ordinances. Well, He actually abandoned his vessel when he went to jail for some other THE FAMILY. reasons which were as any reason why anybody goes to jail, not lawful or not nice reason, so he ended up in the county jail. And he didn't make any arrangements for his vessel to be removed. or to find any way of becoming in compliance. We had warned them for numerous months. If he did not do something with his vessel, it would be impounded. We properly posted it. We waited in excess of 72 hours. We gave plenty of opportunity for this individual to either arrange to have his vessel moved for the last numerous months, and then we impounded the vessel. The vessel is still an impound. The individual has had received notice in person regarding what he could do to get his vessel out of impound if he wishes. He has not made contact with the police department. After the process, the vessel will be abated and we will not have this vessel which is borderline marine debris. RE-ENTER OUR WATERS. |
| 01:15:21.45 | Lieutenant Bill Farras | In essence of our partnership, we're continuing to work with as many outside organizations as possible |
| 01:15:21.76 | Beth Pollard | AND I WANT TO TAKE A LOOK AT |
| 01:15:27.41 | Lieutenant Bill Farras | We once again went to the United States Coast Guard's Abandoned Derelict Vessel Work Group and briefed them and told them about what we're working on on the waterfront and what our actions are. During this time, as it's been well publicized in some media accounts in both the TV and as well as the print media, an individual who has been a The easiest way to put it is a pain for the city of San Francisco and the National Park Service, who has moreed their vessel in Aquatic Park. He came up. And we were able to provide the port administrators, as well as the National Park Service, information about this individual because he had been a person who is living as an anchor out on Sausalito waters and in other waters of Richardson Bay for many years and so we were to give them background regarding the person regarding his beliefs on how His rights of a mariner overwhelm any other person's rights. as well as the rights of people to regulate or keep the waterway safe. They were very thankful for that information, but it's also nice for us to know what's happening with individuals because There is always a likelihood that once a person gets pushed from one water area, they'll go back to another. And we don't want any of our partner agencies to be playing a game of shuttling boats from one waterway to the other. We want to work together to keep problems out of all people's waterways. The Sausalito, city of Sausalito, back when we created the waterfront management program, we created a waterfront working group comprised of two members of the City Council and Sausalito City staff. We do meet or routinely to discuss issues about the waterfront. During our last meeting, we invited members of the Richardson Bay Regional Agency. The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, or most commonly known as BCDC, and the Autobahn. to attend so we could all discuss the issues of richardson bay and what all our concerns are very proactive meeting very useful meeting it's also a meeting for us all to find out and be on the same page because we all want to work together the Richardson Bay Regional Agency, Thank you. |
| 01:17:42.49 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 01:17:43.18 | Lieutenant Bill Farras | Executive Director Beth Pollard was at the last meeting, Marty Winter, who is the mayor of Belvedere and the chair of Richardson Bay Regional Agency, were there as well. They advised that they provided this information regarding the current and possible future operations of the RBRA. And Executive Director Pollard will speak more about that along with Mayor Winter shortly after my presentation. During the meeting, Autobahn also spoke. Barbara Salzman, who's the president of the Marin Autobahn Society, as well as Rebecca Schwartz-Ledsberg, who is the San Francisco Bay Program Director for Autobahn California. Even though they have similar names, They are two distinct different branches and groups of auto bonds. But it's nice to have two additional groups supporting efforts and wanting to work with the city and RBRA regarding our efforts. During the meeting, they expressed their concerns about the environment of Richardson Bay, as well as the wildlife that is on Richardson Bay. The vessels in the garbage or other debris that goes into our waterways do play a dramatic, impact on the environment and the wildlife in the Bay. and San Francisco's Bay Conservation and Development Commission, once again BCDC. Adrian Klein, who's the chief enforcement as well as Skylar Olson, who is their coastal program analyst for enforcement. They attended and they gave us their thoughts. And they expressed their desire for the city of Sausalito and the RBRA to continue to work in collaboration to address the issues of Richardson Bay, as well as their concerns regarding the use of the bay. |
| 01:19:30.02 | Lieutenant Bill Farras | In addition to that meeting that we had as part of the Waterfront Working Group, on April 26th, the Sausso Police Department's Marine Patrol Unit provided a tour for BCDC We had the chief of enforcement, two of their analysts, and a BCDC attorney on our vessel, and we gave them a tour of our waterfront as well as other portions of Richardson's Bay. were able to explain to them the issues we're facing and the steps we're taking and the actions that we're doing to try to abate the problems that we've noticed and better manage our waterfront. They asked numerous questions. They offered some insight, and they also were using this as a fact finding. mission. and they expressed great satisfaction of the efforts that we're doing They were very happy for the tour, but they also were able to see firsthand the conditions of many of those vessels. and when we were able to explain our priorities, the reasons behind our priorities, and then give them first-hand knowledge regarding this is actually the city and other agencies are dealing with they were able to see the true scope of the issues. It's no longer numbers on a piece of paper for them, it's actually a true concern. And then after the working group meeting yesterday, Sausalito City staff went to the BCDC's office in San Francisco, and actually made very good time and found very close parking. Was kind of shocked because when you have the federal building and then the state building right there, you usually can't park anywhere near the place legally. But, We actually found parking, got there on time and had a two hour meeting with BCDC. where we discussed with their chief of A long title, I've never actually seen this, Chief of Federal Consistency and Permits. I'd like to see that on a name tag one day. but, They were very open, city staff explained to them what we're doing, not only regarding Richardson Bay, the derelict vessels, the enforcement actions, but we talked about the Turney Street boat ramp and We put regulatory signs on how we're seeing people obeying those signs and we're seeing an impact on that doc already and we're not having the clusters and we're not having the congestion We were able to talk about why we're looking at marine debris vessels and the concerns they're doing. And then we also were able to explain to them and talk to them some other issues that the city has dealt with regarding the waterfront that they have concerns regarding or they play a role in. So it was very productive, and it was a... shows that we are continuing to try to work with as many people as possible. And this is not a singular event. And we're not off all by ourselves. We're trying to make sure this is that we're working as a member of a team. As with anything, there's always this fiscal aspect, and that is regarding our grant funding. THE CITY IS A Anna. October of 2016 we received a grant from the Department of Boating and Waterways $129,800. At this time, we have spent $68,693 and some change of that. We have until October 2018 to spend the rest. However, we have spent $51,000 plus of those monies since December 2017 alone. That is basically when after we split from the Richardson Bay Regional Agency, while we still work in partnership with them and we went on our own, Our funding went away from moving mooring balls off the water to addressing vessels on the water. And we've made a large impact on that. We have also reapplied for additional grant funding for the 2018-2020 SAVE grant through the Department of Boating and Waterways. We won't hear back upon that grant for a long time. We have no idea how much they will provide us. But we're in constant contact with them. We provide them updates regarding what we're doing, how much we've done, and we've explained the circumstances of why it seems like we're spending more money in a hurry later, but in reality, we would have spent much more sooner but we had another working plan that was agreed to by them. So they understand that now as we're spending more money, we're being fiscally prudent and we're addressing our issues on the water. And with that, if you have any questions regarding this portion of the presentation, I'll be happy to answer. |
| 01:24:05.47 | Lieutenant Bill Farras | Thank you. |
| 01:24:05.49 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So even though Sausalito withdrew from RBRA, is it true that you're continuing to attend RBRA meetings and continuing to collaborate with the sheriff and Um, representatives of RBRA to collaborate with for solutions on the waterfront. |
| 01:24:25.57 | Lieutenant Bill Farras | Yes, it is. At every Richardson Bay Regional Agency meeting, there is a, if not one, multiple Sausalito representatives that attend those meetings. In addition to attending the meetings, Chief Rehobacher meets routinely with Director Pollard and not only meet a person, but also phone contact. And then I, in return, make contact. in constant contact with Harbor, Master Bill Price via in-person meetings telephone meetings, constantly talking about the issues on the waterfront. and we're always collaborating with the Marin County Sheriff's Office because they're our closest law enforcement partners regarding this matter. The lieutenant and I have known each other for 17, 18 years. We have a very good working relationship. And just recently, me, him, and the chief sat down, had coffee, and discussed our joint efforts on the waterway and the concerns we all have. In addition, our Marine Patrol unit works hand-in-hand with their Marine Patrol unit to address these issues. So while we're no longer an official member, we've never stopped partnering and we never stopped working with them. |
| 01:25:28.73 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And are you able, I know that RBRA, just as Sausalito, is always looking for funding for these operations on the water. Are you able to share with RBRA or collaborate with them in seeking grant funding and other available monies to continue efforts on the waterfront. |
| 01:25:49.77 | Lieutenant Bill Farras | Yes, just because we're no longer members doesn't mean that we can't partner and assist each other in those matters. |
| 01:25:56.64 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 01:25:58.99 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 01:25:59.02 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 01:25:59.04 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Any other questions of staff? So I think we've talked about it at other city council meetings that I've started sitting on the MCCMC Homeless Committee along with our city manager and there's a lot of talk about reaching out to people who are in need of housing and other social services. So what happens if you, looking at various situation on the water, see someone that is not prepared to be living on the water. They're not a mariner. They're not equipped. Who do you reach out to at the county I think that's a good thing. Or do you reach out to someone at the county and how does that process work? |
| 01:26:46.95 | Lieutenant Bill Farras | that we would reach out to the Marin County Health and Human Services and advise them of this individual. Uh, A lot of times you'll hear the danger to themselves or others, where there's different aspects regarding that. There's the danger to themselves or others in the welfares and institution code area, where that means they're individuals that are a threat to immediately harm themselves. That's not the danger to themselves or others we're talking there. So we don't have an enforcement option. or a procedural option to a force people to leave, nor would we want to. |
| 01:27:16.12 | Beth Pollard | Yeah. |
| 01:27:16.77 | Lieutenant Bill Farras | But we hand, we provide that information to Health and Human Services. We provide them resources and we provide discussion material to them and we offer to assist them in contacting Health and Human Resources. We've also been in touch with Marin County Veterans officer. who has identified a few new veterans that we didn't know about and offered them assistance as well. |
| 01:27:39.31 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | AND, Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:27:41.05 | Lieutenant Bill Farras | Thank you. |
| 01:27:41.06 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Go ahead. I was just going to ask how you feel that that collaboration is working. |
| 01:27:45.94 | Lieutenant Bill Farras | That collaboration is working in an ideal world. We'll be able to get people into housing immediately after we talk to them. However, we don't live in an ideal world. but we're trying to get the word out there to as many people as possible, and we're trying also the Chief Rohrabacher and also Executive Director Pollard have met with Health and Human Services. and trying to get them to provide additional There's a point system. And as they're going through that system, they have to check off how many points in order to become more eligible. Well, They don't have any additional points or multipliers for individuals that live on the water. So because of the executive director and the chief's efforts, they're working with Health and Human Services in order to try to develop ways they'll allow our people who are a danger to possibly themselves or others on the water, are true or not true mariners. or may want to get off the water but need help to, in order to get them higher up the list. When we had the debris collection event back in November, we talked to numerous individuals. Oh, that's it. Three of those individuals says, we want assistance. One of them really wanted the assistance. So they're in the process of trying to help them. but also there's a large number of people out there that choose to live out there. But we're continually always offering |
| 01:28:59.59 | Beth Pollard | Thank you. |
| 01:28:59.60 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | THEIR OWNERS. |
| 01:29:02.44 | Lieutenant Bill Farras | to help them. through resources as well as through consultation. |
| 01:29:06.79 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 01:29:06.81 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 01:29:06.98 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 01:29:06.99 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 01:29:07.03 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Great, thank you. |
| 01:29:07.95 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And I'll just say we raised this issue at the Waterfront Working Group meeting yesterday, and we got the commitment from BCDC and RBRA to assist us in our efforts to add the waterfront, the dangers of living on the waterfront, as a criterion for evaluating eligibility for housing. |
| 01:29:25.67 | Adam Politzer | Mayor Cox, can I just ask Lieutenant Frost to also comment on how the Duffy Park event, and even the event that those folks from County Health and Human Services participate in those events and or go out in the water. Can you talk about that a little bit? |
| 01:29:41.64 | Lieutenant Bill Farras | Yes, every year we also hold, it's called an outreach event, and we ask individuals that may be homeless or also individuals that are living on the water to come out. And we invite multiple state agencies as well as local agencies to attend. During that meeting, Health and Human Services are there. And they also, at that point, they talked to individuals as well, and also try to recruit them to try to find better housing themselves, provide them services or tell them what services they're eligible for. when we had the debris collection event, it was not only us asking people if they want assistance, but we had Health and Human Services with us as well. And when we run across an individual who made request additional help and we don't have health and human services with us, we will then allow for the referral process and get them referred as soon as possible. If we ever run across individuals we think they need to know about, that may not want a referral will still notify Health and Human Services. We're trying to help as many people as possible. |
| 01:30:38.37 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | it. |
| 01:30:40.61 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay, if there are no other questions, I'm going to invite RBRA Executive Director Beth Pollard. |
| 01:30:52.80 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | We'll have public comment, this is all part of the staff presentation. So you'll get to have public comment after the staff presentation. |
| 01:31:02.38 | Unknown | They're not staff. She's not staff. She's RBR even. Yeah. |
| 01:31:09.54 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:31:09.59 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 01:31:09.74 | Unknown | THE END OF THE |
| 01:31:10.01 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 01:31:10.03 | Unknown | services. |
| 01:31:11.21 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:31:12.24 | Unknown | They agreed at that meeting. |
| 01:31:13.82 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:31:14.30 | Beth Pollard | Good evening Mayor Fox and members of the council. Our BRE Chair, Marty Winter, had to move on to another commitment. So I will fill in to update the council on the board of directors policy direction. |
| 01:31:14.80 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:31:28.40 | Beth Pollard | I want to start with the fact that I was hired in October of 2017 on a part-time basis to assist the board in developing and subsequently implementing a direction for the future of Richardson Bay. Upon being hired, I worked with the board on developing a work plan that is led to develop the creation of some guiding principles in January. development of draft options for the future of the Bay that were presented in February, and then subsequently in March, meeting the board engaged in work session, public engagement with members of the community to hear about the advantages and disadvantages of the various options presented. I wanted to thank in particular the Sausalito Police Department for participating in those work session discussions, particularly the breakout session on the enforcement option that helped inform the community and helped engage in some dialogue. I also want to point out that among the other, these three items below that the board drew on to develop its direction, they also reflected on the outcome of the workshops, two workshops that were conducted in 2015, reviewing the information that was gleaned from those public engagement sessions. So taking all this into account, at their meeting, in April, the goal that was articulated for what they were trying to achieve in all this review and direction is the goal of Richardson Bay is safe, healthy, and well-managed. The options, again, that had been reviewed in March that they focused on reviewing at their April meeting were basically categorized in these pots, if you will, of activities. Certainly there's overlap between and among the options, but for purposes of discussion they were put in these separate buckets. First being a primarily of an enforcement focus where the efforts were more or less focused on all-out enforcement efforts and the second item being more of a monitoring and management of incoming vessels to explore ways to stem the tide of incoming vessels into the bay and see if there's some differential ways to enforce regulations to keep the population of vessels from growing. The third category was to modify the requirements for being on the anchorage. And I'll get into more of that in a minute. And the last one was more of no one really talked about it all that much, and it would literally take a federal act to accomplish, but eliminating the anchorage altogether in the non-Sosceleta waters of Richardson Bay. The direction at their April 5th meeting was this third option, which was to modify the requirements for being on the bay. And again, that's not a sealed item, but more the focus of their direction. The modifications that they are looking at doing include registration, in addition to the state vessel registration, also having a way for RBRA itself to have a registration program with the vessels that are on the bay. that there would be seaworthy criteria that would be developed and established and implemented so that the vessels on the bay are considered in seaworthy condition to transition to secured moorings rather than anchoring. Um, to have no debris that could be fall into the bay and create safety and other hazards. This is in addition to the discharge requirements that are already in place. And then a notation that there could be other modifications that would come to pass, but they're not addressing at this time, dealing with numbers and stays of vessels. I want to just kind of explain a little bit about the objectives behind each of the segments of the board's direction. For secure moorings, the primary objectives there are to improve the safety of vessels and also to protect eelgrass. Also, at their April 5th meeting, the board did receive a presentation from Audubon, California, about damage to eelgrass from anchor chain. at their April 5th meeting, the board did receive a presentation from Audubon, California about damage to eelgrass from anchor chains and want to make sure that they can get away from that kind of danger and move to ways to secure vessels that don't threaten the eelgrass in that way. And also recognize that having moorings rather than anchors would strengthen the ability to monitor and manage the anchorage by identifying who's on a mooring and who's not. It becomes clearer who's who's registered, who's actually allowed to be recognized as being on a mooring. The seaworthy condition without debris or discharges is really, I think, really gets to the crux of the board's direction, which is to reduce safety and environmental risks. And the registration also is to enhance the ability to contact owners of vessels when they're in danger or other kind of situations. THE Parallel activities that this direction creates, I would describe this more as we have different avenues that the Arbor area is working on rather than one particular linear path. First, I would identify that The RBRA is focused on working with stakeholders, including responsible mariners, on crafting modifications. The board of directors, in particular, has noted and appreciated the work of the Special Anchorage Association to develop safety guidelines and inspections of vessels, and even a BRGIE system to identify those vessels that have been deemed in compliance with their guidelines, and the board has really appreciated that work. The other parallel activity that the RBRA will be working on is conducting, obviously, environmental and another analysis that will inform the placement of moorings, as that has yet to often, I get the most question I most get asked is, well, how many are there going to be and where are they going to be? And we haven't gotten near that subject yet. We have to really take some steps to understand and to program responsibility. And lastly, as you referenced in your questioning of Lieutenant Frost, we will be seeking funds for the analysis that is needed and obviously implementation of the direction. All this is in conjunction with what we're currently already doing, which is continuing to bait marine debris and abandon moorings and floats, encourage social and human services for housing and other needs, as was commented on before, which is daunting, I would say, from the meetings I've attended. It's daunting how... challenging it is. for housing options in Marin County. And lastly, to partner with interested stakeholders who share common strategies and goals of the RBRA. Would that certainly entertain any questions you may have? |
| 01:39:25.26 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. Thank you. Questions for Beth Pollard? Yes, Joe. |
| 01:39:31.18 | Unknown | Hi, Beth. Thanks for being here tonight. On your options, enforcement focus, was there a priority list of your enforcement focus, or how did you kind of approach that as an option? Thank you. |
| 01:39:42.25 | Beth Pollard | That was framed as an all out enforcement of all the regulations in place so that there would be no vessels there beyond 72 hours. It was when the enforcement focus was presented as that was really enforcing what everything that was on the books with an effort towards eliminating basically the beyond 72 hours or the 90 day period. |
| 01:40:05.05 | Unknown | Okay. And then on your last slide here, the continued abatement, how do you have numbers on that? Or how do you track that? |
| 01:40:14.18 | Beth Pollard | What I can offer is we spend about $200,000 a year of state grant money. We're on track to abate approximately 75 vessels this fiscal year, and that doesn't include, we don't count skiffs or dinghies in our count. Those are vessels of a larger length. |
| 01:40:36.59 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Can I ask a follow-on? |
| 01:40:37.64 | Beth Pollard | Yeah. |
| 01:40:37.97 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And of those 75, how many are on land and how many are on water? |
| 01:40:43.49 | Beth Pollard | I couldn't tell you that. |
| 01:40:46.02 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Are they all on land or all on water? |
| 01:40:49.84 | Beth Pollard | I'm not even sure I really understand your question. |
| 01:40:52.37 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | When we received reports from RBRA last year, we were notified that the majority of the vessel abatements were abated from places on land and were not removed from the water. |
| 01:41:06.43 | Beth Pollard | That's not my understanding of the data that I reviewed, that the vast majority in years past and current are from vessels on the water. mostly in the marine debris category rather than the V-tip category. |
| 01:41:21.93 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And so the 75 vessels that are being removed this fiscal year, so between June of 2017 and June of 2018, you RBRA will have removed 75 vessels from the water? |
| 01:41:33.15 | Beth Pollard | Approximately, we've done in the upper 60s as of this point, and as of July 1st, yeah. |
| 01:41:41.20 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Beth, and were all those 60 boats were all from Richardson Bay? |
| 01:41:50.01 | Beth Pollard | THEIR OWNERS. I don't know. Most of them were. I can't, I'm not here to give you, I'm actually here to present the policy direction rather than numbers. Sorry. |
| 01:42:00.73 | Melanie Purcell | Sorry. |
| 01:42:01.10 | Jill Hoffman | Bye. |
| 01:42:03.24 | Beth Pollard | We have that information in our board packets, but I don't have it off the top of my head. |
| 01:42:03.70 | Jill Hoffman | Our concern is. |
| 01:42:09.25 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. |
| 01:42:09.62 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 01:42:09.72 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:42:10.06 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 01:42:13.84 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Other questions? Thank you so much. Do you mind sticking around while we hear the public comment? Okay, so I'm going to open it up for public comment. I have one speaker card from Alden Bevington. |
| 01:42:18.63 | Jill Hoffman | THE FAMILY. Thank you. |
| 01:42:18.70 | Nancy Hall Bennett | Thank you. |
| 01:42:18.80 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:42:28.99 | Alden Bevington | Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for the time. My name is Alden Devington. I live on the anchorage in Sausalito waters. I don't believe I'm a danger to myself or others. Unless you've got bad ideas, I'm going to challenge them. So I was happy to hear that Sausalito had a police chief named Alden in the 1950s. That's never knew that before. I do really appreciate the work that's being done everywhere and I appreciate Lieutenant Frass's presentation. I do also appreciate that law enforcement views things through the lens of law enforcement. There, For those that are watching this, and then we'll watch this in the future, and for you all, I want to have you just recall the presentation that you've just seen and remind you or point out that not a single time in that entire presentation from Lieutenant Frass, did you hear the word community? Was there any sense of that there are 110 people that actually have real lives, American citizens, members of your community, that are living on that water. Some of them have been living there for, you know, 50 years in Sausalito waters. There was a little bit of a disingenuous statement, and I just want to bring this out, and I don't mean to be antagonistic, but there was a direct quote, we are trying to work with as many people as possible. I am one of the founders of the Richardson Bay Special Anchorage Association. I came from a meeting that we have every month. We've had every month for the last three years. We talk a lot about very serious things. We We run a lot of interference for you all, actually. And we have been working with the RBRA, who has really looked to us to help to understand what some solutions would look like that actually acknowledge the dignity of the people that are living on the water. Sausalito, the police department and the law enforcement agency operate. that actually acknowledge the dignity of the people that are living on the water. Sausalito, the police department and the law enforcement agency operating under your command has very little trust from the community. And I think that if you listen to that presentation, you can understand why. The Anchorage Association has never been invited to any waterfront task force. I know I've received some personal invitations sometimes from Adam over the years, and also Susan Niles, who I apologize. I am very busy, but we can, you know, there's a glaring omission in the strategy that Suslito is taking, and that is that there are real stakeholders, and the real stakeholder, there's a group of stakeholders that live on the water, and they've got a lot of solutions. And as a final note, We'll leave it at that. |
| 01:45:32.26 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:45:32.85 | Alden Bevington | Just give us a call, and I think we should be on the Waterfront Task Force. Thank you. |
| 01:45:36.90 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:45:36.91 | Unknown | Thank you. I'll say. |
| 01:45:40.83 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Doug Storms. |
| 01:45:51.46 | Unknown | Douglas Storms, 700 Waldo Point, Sausalito, California. For the last 30 years, I've had the pleasure of living in Sausalito. And been a commercial diver. After I've been dived here 10 years, I had 20,000 dives and I just never kept track of how many dives I have in Richardson Bay. So I say that because I'm probably a little bit familiar with the Richardson Bay, the Rex, what's out there, what's below. Not only on top, but what's below the water and what's happening. Intimately familiar with the eelgrass and The other thing is I came out here to to go to seminary. And I got my master's in 1990 from Golden Gate Baptist Seminary. And during that time, you know, I just fell in love with the community and I was called to this area. My roommate went to China and I went to Richardson Bay. I don't know which had the more exciting time or challenges and languages and culture. But I felt I was welcomed into the community. It was a maritime community. It was a very special place, unlike any I've ever experienced. I would like to thank the Richardson Bay Regional Agency. Once they hired Beth Pollard, the Executive Director. The world changed for the Mariners across the channel. She came and met with the association. Kate Sears came another time and met with the association. We've had several coffees with board members. And it was amazing. I came into the Taste of Rome and here's like Mark Wickham on the RBRA representative and Kate and Beth and there were like three or four anchor outs around each one. There's something happening and we want to work together to solve the problem. Unfortunately, I THINK WE HAVE A LOT OF There isn't the same. Uh, coordination and trust. |
| 01:48:25.11 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:48:25.46 | Unknown | that we have with the city of Sausalito. Don't have the time to go into the myriad countless I've shared with you in previous meetings. Presentations are given and they're 180 out, they're slanted, they're biased. I had a picture of showing me associated with a debris vessel. And all the debris vessels for the previous times, there was no picture of a mariner, and I'm listed as a, And I couldn't get an explanation. So I encourage participation and |
| 01:48:59.92 | Unknown | Thank you so much. Thank you so much. |
| 01:49:02.82 | Unknown | We really need your help. Thank you. |
| 01:49:04.97 | Unknown | Thank you. Jeff Jacobs. |
| 01:49:21.54 | Jeff Jacobs | comes out. by the way. Hello again. Lieutenant Farras, I think the last waterfront discussion talked about a mutiny on a boat. The city of New Orleans, was that the name of the boat, Lieutenant? Now, boats were used. by the British. to imprison the revolutionaries in America, They were used in California for prison ships. Lieutenant Firas had no details on why that mutiny happened. Perhaps that was a jail or prison ship. In the late 1800s in Sausalito, when Sausalito was taking a vote to incorporate, TO HAVE SEWAGE. and electricity, And Rhodes... There was a group that wasn't quite on board with that. They were called the Silurians. They were the people who lived on boats and on the waterfront. Water Street burnt down right before the election. You don't have to guess on how the vote went. In the middle 1970s, DURING THE HOUSEBOAT WARS, THERE WAS A BOAT THAT WAS ANCHORED. off of Sausalito from Dunphy Park. The mayor then was Earl P. Dunphy. The story is, as Earl P. Dunphy said it, that he paid the fire chief $50 to burn that boat down. And it did burn down. So those are some other histories of what's happened. in Sausalito. It continues. Every time I hear talk about the census, about how many boats there are, as opposed to people even, I think about the Torah, of course. And This week's portion is Bamidbar in Hebrew, which means in the wilderness. |
| 01:51:26.65 | Jeff Jacobs | In English, it's numbers. What it says, it says here, the number of people of Israel shall be like that of the sands of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And instead of being told you are not my people, they shall be called the children of Israel. to living God. |
| 01:51:48.81 | Jeff Jacobs | I talked about civil disobedience before. I careened my boat to clean it. The police waited outside the cruising club. for two hours telling me it was illegal. The next day, They buzzed around my anchors. And they told me my registration was overdue, and I got a ticket, and I did re-register the boat. There's no support for not registering the boats out there, but I'm willing to do whatever the people ask. |
| 01:52:18.54 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 01:52:18.99 | Jeff Jacobs | Yeah. |
| 01:52:19.03 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yes. |
| 01:52:19.25 | Jeff Jacobs | Thank you. |
| 01:52:19.27 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | you |
| 01:52:19.60 | Jeff Jacobs | Thank you. |
| 01:52:20.45 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Is there any other public comment on this matter? OK seeing none I'll bring it up here for any discussion this is not an action item it's simply to receive a report. |
| 01:52:38.15 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I guess the only comment that I have is I do think it would be helpful in our presentations when we get them to have a discussion of interaction with the community and outreach and kind of how that's going. There's a lot of discussion of the numbers as was mentioned. So I do think when we get our next presentation that that is an important element and I appreciate the folks that raised that. Thank you. maybe the next time Lieutenant Frost could include efforts made in that direction. |
| 01:53:14.28 | Unknown | Ciao. I was going to say something similar but a little different. Similar but a little different. Quite a bit different. |
| 01:53:19.69 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | and we'll have it a little different. Yeah. I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS. You're going to diss me? |
| 01:53:23.73 | Unknown | This report was an update on the South Sea to Water Management Plan, and the water management plan is removal of marine debris, unoccupied vessels used as storage, unregistered vessels, and vessels occupied by persons who are a danger to themselves. If you don't fit in one of those categories, it's a good thing your name wasn't brought up in this meeting. because this meeting was about those things. So if we didn't touch all the other communities involved, that wasn't unintentional. You're not part of this discussion on removing marine debris, luckily. So I think this was a great presentation on what the goals of our current Saucedo water management plan is, which is to do these objectives that the lieutenant laid out. And I would, however, in my agreement with Councilmember Knowles, is to hear about our community that's out there. It is an important community, and we want to talk about that. We want to have that information. That wasn't what we were talking about tonight. We were talking about these items of concern to our water management plan. So it's kind of a two-prong. I do want to hear those things, and I think it's very important that we include that community in positive aspects unrelated to that topic. So thank you for that. |
| 01:54:36.98 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And I'm going to add to that, I do want to charge our police department to continue its efforts to work with Health and Human Services to identify an approach for adding the dangerous conditions of the waterfront as a criterion on the Health and Human services evaluation of eligibility for housing. So that those mariners, such as one that you reached out to during the garbage collection, and who expressed an interest in housing, can indeed qualify for the housing. Because not only are they, if they're not capable of being on the water, not only are they endangering themselves, they're endangering other mariners and they're endangering you, our police and fire rescue folks, who have to go out in stormy conditions and inclement weather and high winds and high seas to perform rescue operations. And so I think these are all things that perhaps the Department of Health and Human Services can benefit from. And I'm very encouraged and gratified for the support expressed yesterday by BCDC and RBRA and the Audubon Society for that goal. And I also just want to thank Beth Pollard for accepting our invitation to come to speak to us. And also for your gracious participation with us at yesterday's working waterfront meeting. And for agreeing to attend subsequent meetings so that we can continue to collaborate with RBRA, even during that period of time that we're not a member of RBRA. So, thank you. Okay, and with that, that concludes this item. It has been pointed out to me by my capable city clerk that I never asked for approval of our agenda this evening. Now that we're nearly through, I do want to point out, I'm going to ask for an approval of the agenda, but before I do, at least one council member reached out with concern that we received a PowerPoint presentation on our finance agenda. at 5 o'clock this afternoon that didn't give us time to review and absorb and examine it so i do want to offer to postpone this item this evening if folks are not feeling prepared so before we approve the agenda i'm making that offer to postpone this agenda item i do want to in full disclosure let you know that our next hearing is 12. Tonight is information only. June 12 is really the first presentation of the budget. June 19 is a special meeting where we have to roll up our sleeves and dig in to really discuss the budget, and then we'll be seeking a vote of approval of whatever budget we come up with on June 26. So we have a very challenging schedule. But that said, I do want to make that offer available. The presentation was late being received in large measure because it's moving so quickly. We had a four-hour meeting on Friday, and staff was busy trying to implement some of the direction from the finance committee. So what are people's thoughts about hearing this this evening or postponing? |
| 01:58:17.69 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | All right. |
| 01:58:17.98 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. I think I'd appreciate a presentation. It was hard to absorb the materials that were given to us with no framework for those. And I did discuss that earlier. I WANT TO BE ABLE TO Discussion and presentation tonight would be helpful. I think it's a good thing. So that's I mean, I'm if others don't feel strongly a different way, I'm happy to |
| 01:58:58.34 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay, and I do want to remind all of us that we are now holding the finance committee meetings here in the chambers. We are videotaping them so you can see Ray's and my smiling faces and Joe's in the audience if you like. And that sometimes could help also with providing that framework that might be missing, especially for those of us like me who are still very new to this process. Okay. Yeah, but may we may I ask for a |
| 01:59:29.97 | Ray Withey | So with that, I will move approval of the agenda with one change, which is a two-minute break right now. |
| 01:59:38.08 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay, all in favor? Second. Aye. Motion carries 5-0. Thank you, we'll take a five minute break. |
| 01:59:41.47 | Ray Withey | Second night. |
| 01:59:41.98 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 01:59:52.43 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 01:59:54.89 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | OK, so we're back on. So Melanie, we are ahead of schedule. And I hope that you will heed the question from Councilmember Cleveland Knowles and really focus this presentation not on the minutia, but on providing context, a framework that we can rely upon in trying to absorb all of this data. Thank you. |
| 02:00:25.05 | Melanie Purcell | THE END OF |
| 02:00:25.35 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:00:25.37 | Melanie Purcell | it. |
| 02:00:25.53 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:00:25.57 | Melanie Purcell | Thank you. Good evening, my name is Melanie Purcell, Administrative Services Director for the City of Sausalito. This is your May 22nd update of the FY fiscal year 2018 through 2020 budget. So real quickly, we're going to go over the materials that the Finance Committee received last week, as well as yourselves, and that we had, as Mayor Cox mentioned, a nearly four hour meeting discussing the capital improvement program, pension funding options, and an introduction to the operating budget. Then we'll also talk briefly about our next steps and where we go from here and what you can expect to see when. So real quickly, the finance committee had a chance to receive all the department budgets, and that was provided some time ago. And the proposed capital budgets that they've been reviewing actually over the last month now. And those capital projects have been refined and the proposal to kind of put those all into a single presentation. And we also discussed the preliminary forecast for the next two fiscal years, taking a look at where we think things are coming in for this year and for fiscal year 18-19, fiscal year 19-20. Capital projects were presented by priority and by category. And the way we do that is to kind of look at them both in terms of what is being accomplished and what priority these were achieved. These were prioritized by staff. And then the Finance Committee will review in detail as well as the council to determine whether or not you agree with those priorities. and determine what, if you disagree with our funding recommendation, what funding we might like to switch out. So a project for another project. So that was included in the packet. We're going to interrupt you |
| 02:02:23.96 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | time to time because as questions come up, we want to ask them. |
| 02:02:25.01 | Melanie Purcell | . |
| 02:02:25.06 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Bye. |
| 02:02:25.21 | Melanie Purcell | Thank you. |
| 02:02:27.88 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay, so did you say this list is the one that we got today is staff's order of priority, or was this already vetted by the final? |
| 02:02:36.03 | Melanie Purcell | No, it's just now being, it was received by the finance committee and discussed. It has not been acted for recommendation by them. Thank you. |
| 02:02:46.93 | Adam Politzer | i respond to that too um councilman cleveland knows that i think what melanie shared earlier was that probably over the last month after the four meetings we've been going through the various capital projects getting descriptions about them uh and then and then over the course of this month up to this last meeting uh have put in in an order based on what's available funding |
| 02:02:47.02 | Melanie Purcell | Thank you. THE FAMILY. |
| 02:03:12.16 | Adam Politzer | during the different funding sources and and then based on those priorities what Melanie is saying what's going to happen at the at the next meeting is asking the Finance Committee now to either endorse our recommendation or change a recommendation or come back without a recommendation to Council if the Finance Committee can't agree with what staff is proposing. And then that will be the beginning of our discussion on June 12th at the City Council meeting. |
| 02:03:39.21 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And just a point of order. you I am smelling that smoke again. Do we mind closing the door? Sorry, I'm just super sensitive to cigarette smoke. |
| 02:03:49.23 | Unknown | And I hate to belabor this point on this document is what we're talking about. Do you want to give more context to the colors? Though I see you have a black and white version, correct? |
| 02:03:55.83 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I see. |
| 02:03:59.44 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:03:59.49 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:03:59.53 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:03:59.73 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 02:04:01.31 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | THEIR OWN. |
| 02:04:01.97 | Unknown | Well, you know. |
| 02:04:03.44 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Where'd you go? |
| 02:04:03.97 | Melanie Purcell | that. |
| 02:04:04.37 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | at the Finance Committee meeting. |
| 02:04:04.57 | Melanie Purcell | Bye. |
| 02:04:06.40 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Oh. |
| 02:04:06.72 | Melanie Purcell | There should have been kind of but when you look at it and you could |
| 02:04:09.48 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:04:09.52 | Unknown | But when you look at it online, you could pick that up. |
| 02:04:11.10 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Correct that. |
| 02:04:11.66 | Melanie Purcell | Thank you. |
| 02:04:12.49 | Unknown | Because that'll have kind of the breakout. |
| 02:04:14.36 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | There are not color copies in our printed packet. And we don't even have |
| 02:04:17.43 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:04:17.82 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:04:19.22 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | in our printed packet we don't even have 11 by 16. It's crammed into 8 and a half by 11. |
| 02:04:22.48 | Melanie Purcell | Yeah, this is. I'll take care of that and get those in your box tomorrow. Thank you. And actually, as we go through them, I can show them to you as well that kind of explain in the packet themselves, in these spreadsheets, the really big referenced spreadsheets that are 11 by 17, quite large, fine print. We have identified those that we recommend for funding in black ink. those that are grant funded, completely dependent on grant funds being received in blue ink, and those that are not recommended for funding at this time in red ink. So we can get into those in just a couple of slides, we'll actually review. |
| 02:05:05.10 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay, but the thing is, we're not going to go through those in detail tonight, Melanie. Is there somebody that can print those out so that, because literally... Three of our members have not seen, well, maybe Joe has them in blue, Okay. |
| 02:05:18.03 | Melanie Purcell | them too. I don't have somebody here now. I can get them immediately after this while you're finishing your meeting. |
| 02:05:23.55 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay. |
| 02:05:23.78 | Melanie Purcell | Great. So before you leave this evening, I'll have that for you. |
| 02:05:27.38 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah, we don't need you to go through the blue and the red on the screen tonight, but it would be great to hand those out for folks to be able to review. |
| 02:05:34.38 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah and I couldn't, the online version couldn't see the key so that would be helpful. |
| 02:05:41.57 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I mean, Melanie, this is what we got in our packet. Thank you. I mean, even me, nearsighted, I can hardly read this. |
| 02:05:52.12 | Melanie Purcell | Okay, so that is what the Finance Committee is going over. Looking at available sources, including measure 0, Dedicated sources, the surplus balances, which will also go in detail on June 12th, but is provided in the packet as well, and the dedicated revenues being SB1, gas tax, things of that nature. And the agreement I have with Mr. Goldman, our Public Works Director, is he can't do anything with gas tax money unless I actually receive the check. So. We have a... recognizing that that is obviously being debated frequently. Thank you. |
| 02:06:29.55 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So can I ask another question? So is it common for other local jurisdictions in California right now to be going into budget season assuming SB1? I mean, I know we're getting the funds... |
| 02:06:41.26 | Melanie Purcell | We actually are uncommon in that we have not, that I've been a lot stricter. |
| 02:06:42.08 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Or |
| 02:06:48.33 | Melanie Purcell | in allowing us to spend those funds until we've actually seen the receipts. The majority, my understanding from the state controller's office staff was that the majority of cities were actually going ahead and spending, assuming they were getting it. And we've kind of, rather than do the reimbursement methodology, we've made it for the market. |
| 02:07:05.49 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I'm talking more about the upcoming capital budget for budgeting purposes. |
| 02:07:09.51 | Melanie Purcell | Thank you. Most everybody's acting as if it's staying. Okay. Now, that being said, we don't actually engage in the project until those particular funds become available. Thank you. |
| 02:07:19.82 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:07:19.87 | Melanie Purcell | Thank you. |
| 02:07:19.97 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Mm-hmm. |
| 02:07:20.03 | Melanie Purcell | Thank you. |
| 02:07:23.87 | Melanie Purcell | So we're also developing our options and recommendations for review. Those will come on the May 25th and the June first meetings for the Finance Committee. We'll bring those back to the council at the June 12th, June 19th, and June 26th. So we'll start the conversation June 12th in detail. June 19th, there's a work session. And then June 26th, you'll be asked to approve a budget. We did also introduce three initial pension trust funding options and we'll be continuing to update those to illustrate the impacts of various options that the council would have in the funding and usage of the trust. So, As noted in your packet, I'll get those papers for you in just a second. The projects are listed, these are the resources that were listed. And I'm not going to go over them in any detail, but you can see on the left hand side that we identify whether it's a dedicated source, surplus balances, general fund transfers, things like that. The general fund transfer is for the general plan. So not a traditional capital project, but an ongoing. By funded by category, this is how we've typically reported these projects, whether it be by accessibility, buildings, facility, information, technology, parks, open space, right-of-way, stormwater, our studies, which again would be the general plan, and then waterfront. This allows us to cluster our projects and see where the majority of effort is being spent at any given time. You can see in year one, FY18-19, that the majority is spent on the parks. That represents Dunphy and Southview Park predominantly. |
| 02:09:01.54 | Melanie Purcell | So looking at the unfunded category, this shows what was also submitted to date, and then what we did not have sufficient funds identified for. Thank you. |
| 02:09:15.98 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | THE MAJORITY SHOWS IN THE OUTLIGHT AREAS. THIS IS WHAT STAFF IS RECOMMENDING WE NOT SPEND MONEY ON. THERE HAS BEEN NO DECISION ABOUT WHAT WILL REMAIN UNFUNDED OR WILL ACTUALLY BE FUNDED. SO THESE TWO SPREADSHEETS ARE STAFF'S RECOMMENDATIONS ABOUT WHAT SHOULD BE FUNDED AND WHAT SHOULD REMAIN UNFUNDED. |
| 02:09:31.31 | Unknown | Mm-hmm. |
| 02:09:36.30 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I personally gave some feedback at the last finance committee meeting about what I thought some of the priorities should be. |
| 02:09:44.81 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So can I just ask another question here? So if you go back to the last slide, it shows $3.9 million for parks and open space. And then you go to the next slide and it shows zero not funded, but we know that the 3.9 |
| 02:09:44.86 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So, |
| 02:10:02.02 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | is probably not enough to complete the projects that we want to work, that some of us would like, I won't speak for anybody else, that I would like to complete. So how is that showing up on this? |
| 02:10:17.34 | Melanie Purcell | If you look at this, you'll see over two years, there's the remaining 256,870 that's showing up. Those are proposed to be funded over a two-year period. The next year, there's not unfunded projects proposed until 2021. So it may be that there's additional projects that are starting to be scoped and starting to be designed. Those are not listed here because we don't have estimates. |
| 02:10:43.46 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So I think what she's referring to are the fact that our measure O funds are inadequate for the parks for which they were designated. So where is that inadequacy of funds reflected? That all you're showing is the revenue source, but where do we show the fact that we don't actually have enough money to design, construction, manage, and build the parks? Yes. |
| 02:11:08.68 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I mean, the last time we had, and you know, maybe our public works director or city manager can speak to this, but the last time we had a discussion, there was a lot of talk of significant value engineering or postponing certain improvements. So if I understand correctly, again, I don't have the detail, but the 3.9 is not wouldn't get everything in the designs that were approved by the Planning Commission and the Council. But there's nothing showing up here. |
| 02:11:33.65 | Beth Pollard | Thank you. |
| 02:11:33.67 | Unknown | Not the full scope. Never. |
| 02:11:36.05 | Beth Pollard | Thank you. |
| 02:11:39.67 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | To describe that inadequacy. |
| 02:11:41.60 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | to provide that inadequate. |
| 02:11:45.50 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I feel like there's sort of the reality, and then there's kind of our aspirational category. And I just don't see where that's |
| 02:11:57.04 | Melanie Purcell | I'll work with Mr. Goldman to bring back those details, in fact. And this is the kind of conversation that the Finance Committee has certainly brought to light and it allows me to get more information in terms of what you need. I just wanted to bring to note later on in the slideshow and in your packet includes a breakdown of some of the proposed uses of surplus balances And it also couldn't there's more detail in your packet that shows the funding streams For the various large projects so on here this shows the balances in your packet it also shows the use of And I apologize for flipping back and forth, but you can see that... There's a combination of Measure O, certificates of participation, restricted funds, use of balance, grants, all of these items come together to fund the various projects. |
| 02:12:49.45 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And Melanie, can you go back to the slide that shows that we're starting with a 1.1 million? Okay, so no, right there. So that if that 1.1 million, if you look at the first page in your packet, it shows you how we got to that 1.1 million. And that 1.1 million is net of a 5% budget stabilization, a 10% shortfall reservation policy, and then another 10% shortfall reserve policy, in addition to almost a million dollars put towards disaster assistance. And so this 1.1 million that Melanie is showing, whereas IN ADDITION TO ALMOST $1 MILLION PUT TOWARDS DISASTER ASSISTANCE. AND SO THIS 1.1 MILLION THAT MELANIE IS SHOWING, WHERE IS IT MELANIE, THE 1.1? |
| 02:13:35.82 | Lieutenant Bill Farras | Right at the bottom. |
| 02:13:36.65 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah, that you're showing that we have to work with is after we've already put aside these various best practice funds into our reserves and to stabilize our budget going forward. So that was something that I wasn't fully cognizant of until last Friday's Finance Committee meeting, even though it was presented to us at our last City Council meeting. So I just wanted to highlight that fact, is that this 1.1... already is net of a bit of a fairly conservative reserve policy. |
| 02:14:15.85 | Adam Politzer | Mayor Cox, can I go back and also just try to briefly answer Councilmember Cleveland knows question about the parks. One thing that isn't represented is what we've spent to date. So a lot of the design services have been spent today. So when you project out over the next two years, I think our estimates there are based on what we think that Southview Park and Dumpy Park will will cost and then moving forward on MLK the additional funds needed for MLK But I think as you heard, Melanie share that you know we'll bring back more details and one of the things based on the feedback that we got prior to the Council meeting is that Melanie and I will work on some updates through memos that we can send to the council and post also on the website to keep this interactive process. And that's what it is. Very interactive. |
| 02:15:16.53 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay, so just to summarize what you just said, the 3.9. |
| 02:15:20.99 | Adam Politzer | I'm going to go to the screen that shows the three |
| 02:15:22.54 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | The 3.9 that we're showing for the next two year budget, combined with what we've already spent, generally get |
| 02:15:29.70 | Adam Politzer | Plus 256,000. |
| 02:15:31.55 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah, right. Sorry. In the next... year generally gets us to the elements proposed in the for all of the parks i don't think that's true i'm sorry just a sec yeah that's what i just sort i mean i'm not saying like every single like volleyball court or i'm not holding you to that but without significant uh value engineering out major |
| 02:16:00.66 | Adam Politzer | That is what we are projecting is with the value engineering of Dunphy Park. probably some additional valley engineering necessary for Southview Park. And then, a significant progress on the MLK fields as the top priority of money spent at MLK, tennis courts being the second priority. So money spent today in design services and all the studies and all the other borings and stuff that we've had to do. That's what we're projecting out. So, you know, roughly two and a half million for Dunphy Park, a little over a million for Southview Park and the balance for MLK. |
| 02:16:46.53 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay, well I was trying to use this as an example, but I do want things even if we're showing cuts, in this budget and then not showing something that we would like to see in the next slide. I kind of would like that reflected. |
| 02:17:03.73 | Adam Politzer | So that's good clarification. This is rolled up information. So the details in all the spreadsheets that have led up to it, that's available. That information is available, which, again, as Mayor Cox pointed out earlier, has what staff has recommended for funding and things that staff have recommended not to be funded, both in the capital side and in the service program and service under the department operations side. |
| 02:17:33.54 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 02:17:34.96 | Adam Politzer | Some of that's in your packet today, but a lot more of that information is available. |
| 02:17:39.67 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So Adam, does this 3.9 reflect money that we're transferring from the Tidelands Fund and from the $200,000 that we're getting from grant monies? |
| 02:17:52.80 | Adam Politzer | Yes, this represents what we think it would cost to fund these projects and that was based on, so if you go to the other slide, Melanie. I don't know. No. Keep going there we go so there you see dumping Park the additional funding. In addition to the COP funds, we're recommending $200,000 from the parking fund to pave the parking lot at Dumpy Park. We're 150,000 from the Thailand's funds for the shoreline improvements. and then $75,000 for the sewer fund for the I'm sure the work that's necessary related to the project. And Southview Park, you can see the additional funding based on what we have in the balance of COP is the 318,000 that we have from the county's measure A |
| 02:18:35.46 | Beth Pollard | So. |
| 02:18:42.78 | Adam Politzer | Park grant that we've been stocking money away each year for the last several years. |
| 02:18:50.97 | Unknown | I have a question on the same form, which is the one showing the general fund starting balance of 9.5 million. we have the categories that on the general fund that are basically policy oriented already with the shortfalls and those things. Disaster Assistance Fund, is that How does that number? come up is that a percentage of anything? |
| 02:19:16.08 | Melanie Purcell | No, that was actually established, I believe, in the late 80s, early 90s. . |
| 02:19:20.18 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 02:19:20.48 | Melanie Purcell | with a fixed amount |
| 02:19:20.61 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 02:19:22.91 | Melanie Purcell | And then it's just grown over the years with small transfers and interest. So it was established by policy. |
| 02:19:30.39 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 02:19:30.76 | Melanie Purcell | with a specific amount put in it, but then it doesn't fluctuate with the budget. |
| 02:19:35.97 | Unknown | Okay, so given that then looking for we have the 1.1 million and then we've already taken the 400 out for or we've showed the 400 for Napa Street and the mesh. What, do you look at that going forward, like kind of estimate how that number might change in the next two years, keeping those percentages, especially as we get into 18 million dollar budget, 17 and a half million dollar budget in a couple years? |
| 02:20:03.71 | Melanie Purcell | Yes, that number has, because of the policy established, the 15% in effect that is established by policy, those have to fluctuate with those numbers. So every year at the beginning, those are set aside. We ensure that that's there before we ever have any conversation of available funds from balance. So this also speaks to why when we talk about available funds from a balance, that we talk only in terms of one time expenditures such as capital or transferring to the trust or something of that nature. It's not ever recommended for operations. |
| 02:20:07.19 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 02:20:38.56 | Unknown | Because that 700 can go pretty quickly once we have one or two budget increases. It's very quickly. |
| 02:20:42.26 | Melanie Purcell | Yeah. THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 02:20:44.23 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:20:44.26 | Melanie Purcell | . Thank you. As the mayor noted, staff is recommending an additional $1.6 million be carved out and added to the reserve balance in anticipation of continued pressure on the budget in future years. |
| 02:21:02.41 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Where is that? |
| 02:21:03.67 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | It's 10% shortfall under that recommended policy reserves and an identical amount. So it's 1.6 twice. |
| 02:21:22.18 | Melanie Purcell | So the capital obviously we'll be coming back to and going through in detail. And I'm happy to meet with anybody to go through more detail, and we'll obviously be getting you legible detail. One of the things that the Finance Committee also started discussing was possible options for Okay. Sorry. I'm not touching. The possible options for both funding the pension trust and using the pension trust. And several scenarios that we're starting to fill in, is looking at whether kind of three scenarios from the more Um, more conservative and In option three to a more lenient approach in option one, option one being, Buying some time, recognizing that we're in kind of a mixed information market. We don't know quite what's coming. Using the trust to kind of buy down some opportunity, some time. Option three at the other extreme would be to fund at as high a level as possible to ensure that we smooth out our peak payments. So recognizing that we'll achieve peak probably within five or six years, and those peak payments will be significantly more than we pay now, and basically buying those down by putting as much as possible into the trust now. A middle ground is somewhere in between to kind of minimize the impact to the general fund operations, but still building up the trust so that later years are not impacted as greatly. |
| 02:22:55.85 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So we only had two options in the packet. |
| 02:23:00.65 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | It starts with 2 then it goes to 1 and then it goes to 3 on the back. Two, one, and then three is on the back. |
| 02:23:05.49 | Melanie Purcell | I'm not. |
| 02:23:07.97 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:23:07.99 | Melanie Purcell | you |
| 02:23:08.04 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. Okay. |
| 02:23:08.44 | Melanie Purcell | Thank you. |
| 02:23:10.17 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So those numbers are very fluid. Can I ask a question? So you said three is more conservative than two. But in both two and three, the use of fund balance at the top is 400,000. So we're not using more fund balance now towards three. We're using the exact same amount now towards three. And the other thing that baffles me a little bit is that |
| 02:23:24.58 | Beth Pollard | So- |
| 02:23:37.55 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And three, the more conservative one, Um. We start showing a shortfall sooner and in a larger amount in our net. So in scenario three in 2018, Sorry, for 2017 and 2018, the net shortfall is the same. For 2019, for option two, the less conservative, we have a shortfall of 513. For option three, the more conservative, we have a net shortfall of 580. |
| 02:24:14.68 | Melanie Purcell | It assumes a greater contribution to the trust, which creates a greater shortfall. Where is that greater contribution to the trust reflected? There's a line item that says additional contribution to the trust. And I apologize, I don't have a slide for this because then it becomes microscopic. But I will find a way to. |
| 02:24:19.28 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Where is that? |
| 02:24:33.24 | Melanie Purcell | publish it in a PowerPoint so that we can incorporate it into the 12th discussion as well. |
| 02:24:38.18 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay, so the other thing that baffles me and that we mentioned to you on Friday is that in both options two and three, the conservative options, we are showing that a withdrawal from our trust in 2018-19 of $240,000. Okay. Thank you. |
| 02:24:57.78 | Melanie Purcell | Correct, and that was duly noted. I did not update these since Friday for the packet. |
| 02:25:04.26 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | OK. |
| 02:25:04.75 | Melanie Purcell | So this is the exact same material that the Finance Committee received. Okay. The updates will be provided to the Finance Committee this Friday. Hopefully prior. |
| 02:25:13.57 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | But you have heard our message that we don't believe it is conservative to start withdrawing from our trust in less than six years when |
| 02:25:15.12 | Melanie Purcell | We don't believe it. Mark Trey. |
| 02:25:21.72 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay. Thank you. |
| 02:25:22.35 | Melanie Purcell | Yeah. |
| 02:25:22.52 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | City Manager is nodding as well. Very much so. |
| 02:25:22.97 | Melanie Purcell | THE FEDERAL. Very much so. All right, thank you. So as you can note, the finance committee members have been giving very clear feedback. And so that's being incorporated as these iterations are evolving rapidly. Thank you. |
| 02:25:39.39 | Jill Hoffman | In all of the information that we have tonight, is somewhere in there the items that we discussed when we received the pension? I see an email about this too. The pension presentation. I'm assuming we don't have an executive summary yet. We asked for it. We haven't got it. Melanie told me she's going to get it right. |
| 02:25:58.41 | Beth Pollard | We asked them. |
| 02:25:59.57 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | We have. |
| 02:26:03.81 | Jill Hoffman | I'm going to request it again. And then anywhere in all this, when we're just talking about the trust fund, is there any way where it shows the projected dollar amounts that we're going to have to pay for the pension |
| 02:26:04.18 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | All right. |
| 02:26:04.20 | Melanie Purcell | I have a request. |
| 02:26:04.69 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | OK, thanks. |
| 02:26:17.26 | Melanie Purcell | It does, however, what I'd like to do is prepare them in a little more easy to understand format. What I have are some pretty monster-sized spreadsheets that weave several concepts together, and I think that that's really been complicating the conversation. So I'm going to break this back out and try to put them into a little more bite-sized information, and then we can put together the meal. Okay. |
| 02:26:24.33 | Beth Pollard | You have her. |
| 02:26:29.69 | Beth Pollard | I think. |
| 02:26:38.98 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I think that's helpful, yeah, when we're talking about. But I want to know when that's going to happen, because I don't want to sacrifice the better for the best. So if you can't get to it quickly, I'd rather get the complicated stuff than wait three weeks for the summary. |
| 02:26:39.06 | Melanie Purcell | Thank you. |
| 02:26:39.13 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. |
| 02:26:39.15 | Melanie Purcell | I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING. |
| 02:26:39.52 | Jill Hoffman | . |
| 02:26:54.42 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:26:54.50 | Melanie Purcell | The information that is at the very bottom is in there, but I'll have it for you this weekend. The expectation is that Friday the Finance Committee will be getting into these weeks. Okay, all right, thanks. |
| 02:27:05.67 | Unknown | I'm sorry. |
| 02:27:05.74 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay. |
| 02:27:11.43 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | ALL RIGHT. |
| 02:27:11.71 | Melanie Purcell | Thank you. |
| 02:27:11.76 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah. |
| 02:27:11.97 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Mellie, did we let you finish your presentation? Thank you. |
| 02:27:15.26 | Melanie Purcell | That's okay. |
| 02:27:15.85 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:27:15.86 | Melanie Purcell | I'm not sure. Just what's in here is what's in the packet. It is just the first two years with one scenario obviously being refined greatly. This is where, as Mayor Cox noted, there's a drawdown originally proposed in the additional contribution to the trust. That will be taken out and a new version developed for consideration. We include the $110,000 toward negotiation expenses in 18-19, and there was significant conversation about what kind of options could this look like? The next few items. |
| 02:27:53.68 | Adam Politzer | Just worth pointing out, can you go back to that last slide? Can you let them know what we contribute to the trust? And that's based on policy as well. So the contribution is to $195. |
| 02:28:06.54 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Oh, okay. I'm sorry. So that's the contribution to the trust, not the additional contribution to the trust. |
| 02:28:08.26 | Adam Politzer | with the kids. |
| 02:28:16.65 | Melanie Purcell | So since the establishment of the trust in 2015, the city has set aside 3% of payroll and it has typically gone to the OPEB trust as opposed to the pension trust. And the recommendation is that it go to the pension trust, as that's a bit more of immediate pressure point. So these contributions to trust are a standard, what I would call a status quo, expenditure of the budget. So we've gone ahead and broken them out so they're easier to see, but those are the expected expenditure that the city's general fund would put into the trust automatically the additional contribution to the trust is the part that we're talking about with these scenarios so if we were to take funds out of fund balance could we put more money in there if we were to out of the surplus balance if we were to make other cuts or or come into a windfall where we would put those funds in there. So that's going to be one of the areas that the finance committee is going to really be digging into. |
| 02:29:23.63 | Melanie Purcell | Okay, so I'm not gonna go through all these, but what we, similar to what we did in the 2016-18, resources allocation plan we had a number of items that we called the discussion items and there was a batch that were not included in the budget numbers and there was a batch that is included that are included excuse me in the budget this is just the first run of them and there's already been some good discussion at the finance committee to um on which which list some of these items should be on and how that will affect the numbers. We wanted to go ahead and put these out there so that the city council is aware of these conversations and then We'll obviously be bringing it back probably with a little more extended listing of areas that the finance committee feels comfortable making a recommendation and others that they feel that the council really needs to discuss in more detail. |
| 02:30:24.51 | Melanie Purcell | One of the things that we've spent quite a bit of time talking about is especially on the long term, mid to long term, is revenue options. What are some of the things that are opportunities for the city to look at? Thank you. that would assist in the outlying years where we have pressure points. So some of the items being researched include impact fees, demand parking, looking at our business license tax, the short term rental marijuana. Insurance archaeology increasing the transit, excuse me, transient occupancy tax, not the transit, SB 231, tax on marina slips, and obviously grant funding, which is something we continue to pursue. Right now you see a lot of to-be-determines and estimates. This is based on our initial first information, so this will continue to be filled out with more detail. The expectation is not so much that these would be incorporated into this fiscal budget, per se, but that the direction would be given to staff on which to pursue more assertively to get in line so that they would have a sooner impact. Obviously, many of these take a significant amount of time to implement and to get approved. Any. |
| 02:31:46.34 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And I would like to just share that the finance committee recommended that staff immediately start looking at putting together a increasing the business license tax to be on this year's election because this was already presented to the Business Advisory Committee and there was largely no objection. |
| 02:31:59.96 | Unknown | Thank you. you |
| 02:32:09.44 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | That's something that's fairly simple to get on the ballot now to start that revenue stream. |
| 02:32:20.53 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:32:20.54 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So I agree with that. or moving in that direction. I mean, it is pretty common to include new revenue sources in a budget process, so I'm And this is a two-year budget. So... |
| 02:32:37.49 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I mean, I don't... I guess I don't quite understand the decision to just take all these off the table. |
| 02:32:43.68 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | They're not off the table. We just have not taken out. |
| 02:32:45.30 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | We just have not taken out. |
| 02:32:46.51 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | on them yet. |
| 02:32:47.53 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:32:47.54 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:32:47.56 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:32:48.13 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | There's just a... |
| 02:32:48.40 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Right, but to adopt as a budget, increase, you know, a plan to increase... |
| 02:32:53.72 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | THE FAMILY. |
| 02:32:55.49 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | something, if he's whatever. |
| 02:32:57.67 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | That's for us to dig into on the 12th and the 19th is to really give direction about which to start to pursue now. because some of them are subject to election, some of them are subject to council vote, some of them are TBD. We don't know yet what the insurance archaeology is going to yield, but we're going to get a report on that at our next meeting. |
| 02:33:17.75 | Melanie Purcell | Bye-bye. The intent would be to those that could actually impact current year receipts or future receipts within the two year fiscal time frame. We would make recommendations to that effect, but also recognizing that some of these will be four years past or outside of the actual adopted budget. Thank you. So our next steps will be obviously this Friday, nine o'clock, Finance Committee meeting. here. June 1st finance committee meeting we expect to have the community survey results as well. June 12th, we'll be introducing to the council the full budget. And that would be including everything that the Finance Committee recommends, as well as those items that they feel really warrant additional open discussion by the council. June 19th would be the City Council workshop in which is dedicated, I believe, to budget. And then the 26th, we would like to have ready for you, all of your suggestions and things for your final deliberation and adoption. |
| 02:34:27.56 | Melanie Purcell | And I do encourage you to let me know when you would be available. I'm happy to meet, answer any questions. Obviously some of you send me notes and I'm happy to do research and find additional information. |
| 02:34:43.31 | Melanie Purcell | All right, questions of Melanie? |
| 02:34:44.71 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:34:48.45 | Jill Hoffman | I don't have any questions, but it's mainly due to the fact that I wasn't able to get through the materials. So don't take my non-questions as the fact that I don't have questions about the budget or the way it's been presented. I especially have questions about the pension. how the trust fund matches up against what the actual pension liability is going to be in those years. I mean, it's sort of academic to talk about 5% or whatever to a trust fund when we're going to have a $10 million or $15 million annual payment. So if that's the case, and I don't think that's been clearly presented to us what that liability is going to be, then we need to take a lot more aggressive action. to the extent that we can. So that's, and those are my only comments. Thank you. Other things, |
| 02:35:37.17 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | comments |
| 02:35:41.37 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | All right, Melanie, thank you. Thank you very much. |
| 02:35:49.81 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Next item on our agenda is a public hearing consideration of amendment of section 4.10.030E of the Saucedo Municipal Code for consistency with the Political Reform Act. |
| 02:36:03.40 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Amen. |
| 02:36:06.95 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Why was this not on consent? |
| 02:36:08.78 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah, because it has to be a public hearing to amend the ordinance. So how |
| 02:36:15.04 | Mary Wagner | What about a brief staff report? Thank you, Madam Mayor. I'm available for questions if there are any. I don't need to give an oral staff report, but essentially this item is to update the definition of committee in the city's ordinance to basically say that it means the same thing as what's in the government code, the Political Reform Act. So that in the future, changes to the Political Reform Act won't necessitate a public hearing with the city council. |
| 02:36:44.32 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And can you flip to the page with the motion, Lily? Yes. All right, any questions of staff? |
| 02:36:53.93 | Unknown | I'm not sure. |
| 02:36:56.21 | Ray Withey | So I move to a first reading, read by title only, and introduce an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Sausalito amending section 4.10.030E. of the Social League of Municipal Code to modify the definition of committee for consistency with the Political Reform Act. |
| 02:37:18.96 | Unknown | Second. |
| 02:37:20.50 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | All in favor. |
| 02:37:21.32 | Ray Withey | Hi. |
| 02:37:21.46 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Aye. Aye. That motion carries, 5-0. |
| 02:37:21.93 | Unknown | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 02:37:25.31 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you, we will now move on to City Manager reports, Council Member reports, City Council appointments, and other council business. First up is public comment, there being no public, we will move right smartly on to the City Manager information for Council. |
| 02:37:40.19 | Adam Politzer | I have just members and mayor i have no really additional information you heard obviously the budget discussion we've also are very active working with bcdc and rbra as you heard lieutenant frost talk about and then as councilmember cleveland knows mentioned there's a lot of activity countywide on various homelessness committees both the one that I sit on with with councilmember Cleveland knows on MCC MC and then also the countywide committee that is hosted by supervisor uh damon connelly and supervisor katie rice but happy to answer any questions specifically um i do want to raise one question one point of clarification um we have a lot of sirens that go through town and i know that there's a lot of curiosity for the community and probably from the council members and sometimes i send you quick emails or text messages letting you know that if it's significant and other times I don't and last night we you know as I was leaving here at 7 o'clock siren the fire trucks were rolling in and no one had from the fire department had felt the need to reach out to me but the fire that you did fire engines that you heard last night were responding to a small oven fire and in barbache it's a small fire the damage is significant because it shuts down the restaurant until health department comes in and reopens them and obviously our department reaches out to them immediately to let them know we'll do whatever we think we can but I just wanted to let you know that you will not always receive a message from me unless it I feel that it's more significant but with that said each of you I think at one point in time have sent me a text or an email or phone me and said, what's going on? And when you do that, I will always be happy to respond. But just know that I'm not going to, nor do I expect the fire department or police department to let me know every time they make an arrest or put out a fire or transport somebody, unless it's of significance. But it, you know, last night coming out of town, it's like, well, that looks big, but I'm going to continue to drive out of town. |
| 02:40:07.75 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And so Adam, and I did reach out to you because I was at two different meetings where I was approached by various individuals inquiring. And then, of course, there was a lot of noise on next door. So I do appreciate your being available to answer when we are being asked and we want to be able to convey information. |
| 02:40:29.09 | Unknown | So I'd say as many of those as you can. We'll take them. Yeah, exactly. |
| 02:40:32.89 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah, exactly. It really is helpful. And we get thanked for being able to have our finger on the pulse of what's going on. So we really appreciate your facilitating that for us. Okay, other council member reports. |
| 02:40:50.44 | Unknown | Yeah, I have one for I'm going to go ahead and get a little bit of a conversation from last night actually sitting with the chief and Jonathan Goldman while the sirens are going off. But we had a bike and ped committee meeting here last night. This is I think the second meeting or third meeting of the new set group, newly set group. And, um, we're going to and the newest member as well as our alternate was was an attendant so it was a good meeting that group is looking at the THE BIKE PLAN AND THAT IS A 2008 PLAN THAT IS IS BEING RECOMMENDED FOR YOU KNOW UPDATED COMMENTS AND WE HAVE A PLAN CHECK IN AND WE'VE RECEIVED COMMENTS FROM BOTH THE PREVIOUS CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE AS WELL AS THE CURRENT MEMBERS AND SO THEY'RE KIND OF WORKING THROUGH THAT PROCESS BUT REALLY KIND OF GOES BACK TO THEY'RE LOOKING AT WHAT WAS THE DIRECTION OF COUNCIL TO that committee to take on kind of a larger scope outside of congestion management. And they're going to present some ideas back. They have a subcommittee, and they're going to present some ideas back to their group about areas both in pedestrian and bike that they'll want to focus on. We kind of tasked them or kind of threw out their voice in the land side improvements. and some other things, but they, great group, and I think they're just still trying to find their way, you know, and we don't have a plan, other than, you know, kind of staying consistent with the general plan terminology in the element. They will be reaching out maybe even at the next G PAC committee coming in and saying how can that group help. They want to just kind of make themselves known and at the end of the next G PAC and maybe get them more involved with that process. |
| 02:42:39.01 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:42:48.19 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Can I ask maybe a stupid question? Is the bike plan an element of our general plan? |
| 02:42:54.40 | Unknown | No, not yet. |
| 02:42:55.19 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | In San Francisco, it is recently in the probably last 10 years. |
| 02:43:00.34 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | It is a resource document listed on our general plan website. |
| 02:43:04.44 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Uh-huh, okay. |
| 02:43:04.83 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | But it is not an element of our general plan. |
| 02:43:09.37 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thanks and then children. |
| 02:43:16.20 | Jill Hoffman | We are... |
| 02:43:17.89 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | About the waterfront. |
| 02:43:19.02 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah, I'm sorry, we've already talked about the waterfront committee. |
| 02:43:23.29 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Okay, at the last sustainability commission meeting, they had a longer kind of strategic planning session to also try to focus priorities for the next year to two years and i think there'll be a more formal document being prepared but the three issues that rose to the top were transportation water related issues and waste management specifically composting and recycling and then just as a suggestion perhaps to the bike and ped committee the sustainability commission did decide to have one of its members try to regularly I take THEN JUST AS A SUGGESTION, PERHAPS TO THE BIKE AND PED COMMITTEE, THE SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSION DID DECIDE TO HAVE ONE OF ITS MEMBERS TRY TO REGULARLY ATTEND GENERAL PLAN MEETINGS IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO REPORT BACK TO THE SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSION AND THEN ALSO BE A LIAISON. AND I THINK AT LEAST SO FAR THAT SEEMS TO BE WORKING WELL. SO THAT MIGHT BE A GOOD MODEL FOR OTHER COMMITTEES. |
| 02:44:29.05 | Ray Withey | Jill and I were at the BAC meeting last week. and and You know, it's interesting, as the general plan started moving in the direction of coming out of existing conditions and moving into visioning, all of a sudden people are more interested. And so the BAC decided they were going to send somebody to the general plan advisory committee meeting. And so that's sort of interesting. |
| 02:44:59.45 | Beth Pollard | So. |
| 02:45:02.11 | Ray Withey | uh, Let me see, anything else? |
| 02:45:08.46 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:45:08.47 | Ray Withey | Thank you. |
| 02:45:08.49 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Do you want to discuss our attendance at the GPAC meeting on Virginia? |
| 02:45:08.56 | Ray Withey | So. No, please go ahead. I'll leave that for you. And although I did pick up my package, I now have two of these. Yes. So this is what we're discussing on the 30th. |
| 02:45:20.84 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yes. This is our package. on that's our special meeting. Right. It's in your box. |
| 02:45:26.83 | Ray Withey | Right. this. It's all in the room in there. |
| 02:45:30.46 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I know. |
| 02:45:31.00 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:45:31.04 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. It looks like your MCD ePad. |
| 02:45:34.24 | Ray Withey | Right. So. |
| 02:45:38.63 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | But there are executive summaries in that. |
| 02:45:40.06 | Ray Withey | I'll let Joan talk about the general plan. Finance, where you can see we still got a lot of work to do. But I should have said this earlier, I just want to say it now. On the finance committee, I have nothing but sympathy for folks who are trying to understand this from to be honest, your vantage point. And thank you, Ray. I really do. And all I can do is promise that, and I think Jill has been a witness of this for a couple of years in the past, is that I haven't even decided how things should work themselves out in this budget, but what I promise is that I'll make sure that all the decisions that need to be made are up there, you know, and I think we did that effectively last year. I think we did effectively this the year before and we're gonna do it this year as well It's more complicated this year. There's a lot more moving parts, so You know and we're behind to be honest, so but we'll we'll get there and I think I will, I think, I'm not saying it's going to become crystal clear, but it's going to sort of become a lot clearer, that we at least know what decisions we've got to make. So any other report? Tam, nothing going on there since I last reported. Marine Clean Energy, nothing really going on there. Oh, no, actually, well, we are rolling the new all the new jurisdictions, and Marine Clean Energy is actually is actually received a credit rating from a credit rating agency. The mood is, believe it or not, we're the first CCA in the state of California to be actually awarded a credit rating, which means you can buy energy cheaper, it means you can enter contracts cheaper, et cetera, et cetera. And tomorrow night's MCCMC. See you all there. |
| 02:47:58.57 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yes. So we did have a GPAC meeting on the 10th. And please don't be daunted by the huge packet. What the huge packet is, is it's really the full compilation of existing conditions in Sausalito in all the various aspects, environmental, traffic, all the various elements that will comprise the work that we consider moving forward on the general plan and that also informs us as we start the visioning process but recognizing that the general plan advisory committee spent months going through the existing conditions report we insisted that m group prepare two page executive summaries of each of the nine or 10 or 11 chapters, and we insisted that they present those executive summaries back to the GPAC so that we could confirm our agreement with the executive summaries before they're presented to Council. So that will at least provide a framework for you, and then if you want to delve into more detail, you have all of the backup materials there available easily at hand. we had last our last meeting was meeting two of the commencement of our visioning process and it is astounding a the rate at which participation by every single member of the GPAC has ramped up. So we had some people who barely said a thing during the existing conditions report, but are now very vocal. And B, the collaborative manner in which people are communicating is inspiring. So even though there are avowed opinions on different sides of the fence, there's a real commitment to working together in the visioning process so far that has me very optimistic so |
| 02:49:55.20 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | OK, can I make a comment on that? I'm hoping that next week when we meet with the planning commission to discuss the general plan committee, we will get an update or some information about how because this is all ramping up now what new community outreach efforts are planned because I've walked by a couple meetings or seen a couple meetings where there aren't that many members of the public who are tuned in. And this seems like a very vital time for folks to get involved. So I don't want to talk too much about that right now. |
| 02:50:31.29 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | I know your comment is so apropos because our first community workshop has been scheduled for June 23, Saturday at the Spinnaker. We're very excited. And Peter Van Meter and Bill Werner are working with Lilly to drop a postcard. It will actually drop two days after the election so that it doesn't arrive with the deluge of election mailers and be distracted amongst that. |
| 02:50:58.95 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | All right. |
| 02:50:59.49 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | plethora of communications so it will drop in the mail on June 5. |
| 02:51:05.80 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:51:05.84 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | WHAT'S GOING ON? |
| 02:51:06.04 | Jill Hoffman | So it's June 23rd, what time? June 23rd. you And 9 a.m. to 9 a.m. OK, and Spinnaker at Spinnaker. So coffee? |
| 02:51:10.24 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | 9 a.m. |
| 02:51:15.52 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah, it's like a regular event hall. Thank you. I have no piano bar. All right. Okay. So that's GPAC. I attended a legislative committee meeting with Mike McGuire last Friday. I shared all of the handout materials that we received there. Um. |
| 02:51:21.19 | Unknown | I have no PM. |
| 02:51:22.14 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 02:51:22.27 | Unknown | THE FAMILY. |
| 02:51:39.10 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And so there's not a lot more to report beyond what was in the handouts. Go ahead, Ray. |
| 02:51:45.07 | Ray Withey | Sorry, I forgot something, but you've reminded me. |
| 02:51:46.64 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah, go ahead. |
| 02:51:50.13 | Ray Withey | I attended an event, a breakfast meeting, organized by the Marin Economic Forum on the subject of housing and housing affordability. And McGuire was the guest speaker, along with Rob Eiler, who was showing the economic impacts of homelessness and lack of affordability, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. |
| 02:52:13.39 | Beth Pollard | I wish I could. |
| 02:52:24.25 | Ray Withey | A week later, I was at a North Bay Division League of California Cities quarterly dinner in which Senator Dodd was present. And he gave a legislative update. And let me just say that I know these two guys work together a lot up in Sacramento. But they virtually said exactly the same thing. And it was the following. I know you're not gonna wanna hear this, but, Sacramento will be actually changing the housing laws in the next year, and a lot of local control will unfortunately be taken away. I mean, literally, that was the basis upon which these two senators, I'm big supporters of, you know, of citizen local control, were actually fearing or explaining the way in which Sacramento is probably going to overreach, but they're going to do it. And it's going to be extremely difficult to manage through. So you triggered me when you said that. |
| 02:53:35.03 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yes, and so I this is this is reflected on your future agenda items, but we have on our few as a future agenda item a briefing from Some experts on the new housing laws their impact on Sausalito and I intend at that meeting to offer a very DARING PROPOSAL TO ensure our retention of local control over such things as housing. So. Alright next. We discussed our BRA the legislative committee meeting with the legislative committee also met yesterday To discuss three topics all of which will be coming swiftly to the City Council one is the regulation of e-cigarettes which was directed another is the prohibition of Um, Sorry, the prohibition of congestion on our sidewalks. So it's some measures to avoid congestion on our sidewalks. And Mary, I've now just forgotten the third. Yes, so we didn't get to that, but we'll get to that soon. Um... |
| 02:54:59.32 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | OK, and I did attend the IDEST event on Sunday, the releasing of the Dove to celebrate the Portuguese anniversary, one of the oldest parades here in Sausalito that dates back to before Sausalito's incorporation. So it was very well attended. |
| 02:55:25.96 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah. Okay, I think that's it on committee reports. I'm going to move on to appointments to boards and commissions. The first staff report we have is I... the pedestrian and bicycle advisory committee. And We interviewed Regan Fulton tonight. Currently, we have two members whose terms will expire in June 2018. David Suto. and Aaron Sanchez. |
| 02:56:14.93 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Lily, this doesn't say what we're supposed to do. |
| 02:56:17.15 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. THE COUNCIL COULD CONSIDER REAPPOINTING MR. SUDO AND MR. SANCHEZ TO MR. SUDO'S SECOND TERM ON THE PBAC AND MR. SANCHEZ'S FIRST TERM ON THE PBAC OR YOU COULD CONSIDER TAKING FROM YOUR APPLICANT POOL WHO YOU'VE ALREADY INTERVIEWED AND THANKING THEM FOR THEIR SERVICE AND REPLACING THEM WITH MEMBERS OF YOUR APPLICANT POOL. |
| 02:56:40.67 | Unknown | All right, so and I thought we had received a letter from David Sudore ready. extended that. |
| 02:56:47.28 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | We can't extend it. Oh, we can take action tonight. We couldn't until we had interviewed everyone who's interested. THE FAMILY. So I'm going to let you, Vice Mayor Burns, make the nomination for the PBAC since you're a liaison to that committee. |
| 02:57:05.41 | Unknown | that's not a conflict I move that we move that we accept the application of David Sudo and the continual term of Aaron Sanchez. |
| 02:57:21.20 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | SECOND. All in favor? Aye. But Lily, I've been so impressed by the people that we interviewed last week and tonight. Will you please keep their applications on file in case someone decides to resign? Aye. |
| 02:57:24.90 | Unknown | I. |
| 02:57:25.32 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:57:36.05 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yes. Okay, thank you. And I also want to thank and acknowledge Mr. Fulton who said regardless of whether he's appointed, he's going to continue to participate with PBAC in any event. So I want to thank him for that. All right, next is Business Advisory Committee, accept the resignation of BAC nominated representative CJ Spady who has moved out of town. And the city is gonna come back to us with some alternatives. So can we do that by consensus? All right, so that's done. Next is Sustainability Commission. With Member Berdashaw's resignation, the Sustainability Commission has one vacancy. Um, member Woodbury would prefer to remain as an alternate. I, we've now interviewed, um, David Nunez, Louise Illis, and Ting Lee, and I would like to nominate Ting Lee. I'll second that. Are there any other nominations? All right, all in favor? Aye. She's nominated unanimously. |
| 02:58:45.88 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:58:51.59 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And then for HLB, we have one vacancy. The available pool is Bill Werner and Linda Hines, and I would like to nominate Bill Werner for that position. Are there other nominations? Seeing none, all in favor? Aye. That motion carries 5-0. |
| 02:59:09.03 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Aye. |
| 02:59:13.64 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you all for making that so painless. Thank you. |
| 02:59:18.13 | Jill Hoffman | Can I bring up one thing? Yeah. So... I think we've entered, I feel like we've entered interviewed everybody in town. I feel like there's no one left in town left to interview for anything. So I was feeling, I was thinking, is there any way like for |
| 02:59:31.17 | Beth Pollard | So, |
| 02:59:31.50 | Unknown | I'm not too excited. |
| 02:59:31.87 | Beth Pollard | Thank you. |
| 02:59:36.58 | Jill Hoffman | And just we can think about this. I'm not throwing it out there. I haven't talked to anybody about it. But, You know, when we interview somebody in a year, in an annual year, and then we say, hey, these are great candidates. We think they'll be really great. Is there any way you can stack them up and say, okay, we're not going to interview anybody else because we've interviewed literally like 10 people for a certain committee. Can we stack them? We're not allowed to say we're not allowed. |
| 02:59:56.77 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | We're not allowed to say an interview. We have to interview anybody who applies at the time that an opening becomes available, but we can ask the city clerk, and she has been doing this, to maintain a spreadsheet of people whom we have interviewed within a certain time frame for openings on our boards and commissions. |
| 03:00:13.46 | Jill Hoffman | OK, it's just that it's I think it's become very burdensome this year. with openings and the constant need for us to come in an hour earlier or 15 minutes earlier, 30 minutes early to do interviews. And I feel like if we don't go below a quorum, I guess since we have that issue, that we need to be more disciplined about how we use our time as a city council. |
| 03:00:36.97 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So part of that is in response to some sound criticism that I received for not filling boards and commissions. by a former county council. And so it has been a real top priority of mine to keep our boards and commissions full, especially given all of the wonderful talent that we have from folks who are volunteering. But let's cross the bridge as we come to it, as other openings arise. |
| 03:01:08.04 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | It does seem I mean maybe at some point we'd want to consider an interview committee you know to folks. Thank you. |
| 03:01:16.61 | Jill Hoffman | to weed out, I mean, it's just, you just can't sustain it. I mean, you just can't sustain where you're constantly interviewing people for if somebody quits on it. We have so many boards and commissions. Right, and I get it, we got really low. So maybe this will be a good year. We had gotten really low. |
| 03:01:29.86 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | We had gotten really low. So our H. |
| 03:01:32.24 | Jill Hoffman | THE FAMILY IS |
| 03:01:32.29 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Thank you. |
| 03:01:32.30 | Jill Hoffman | B was way less. |
| 03:01:32.98 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Our PBAC was really low, and we had committees that hadn't been able to have a quorum in a year. And so I think we've gotten over the hump on this. |
| 03:01:42.90 | Ray Withey | I think. I think we have, actually. You know, to be honest, and hey, blame me, I was mayor last year. We fell behind, but remember, we ended up having to interview 36 people for the general plan advisory committee. God knows how many people for the city council. And on it went. We were interviewing for weeks. And we haven't stopped. Right. Right. We haven't stopped since then. That's right. That's right. |
| 03:02:17.09 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | All right, well point taken. So I will try to be respectful of everybody's time moving forward. Okay, future agenda items. You have the typical matrix. Lily, per, oh, we don't need to add 828 because we've already agreed on a disposition approach for that. So any other future agenda items not reflected on our list? |
| 03:02:41.86 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. So I alluded to this when we did the consent. I think we need to, with regards to the Goldgate Transit and their wish to, or at least their- |
| 03:02:49.61 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 03:02:50.69 | Jill Hoffman | to cancel those two routes i think we need to invite them to come and give a presentation and have a public meeting on that because those are those are important things especially given the amount of time we spent last year, the last four years with them about the ferry project and how important, you know, The ferry was for commuters and then four months later they turn around or five months later they turn around and try to cancel two of our most important commuter. So I'm happy. |
| 03:03:13.15 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So I'm happy to invite them, but given their... not always welcome reception last year. I'm not sure they're going to be anxious to come visit us, but I'm happy to invite them. But I do think that we should put this on the list of future agenda items. as you requested earlier in the meeting. |
| 03:03:33.45 | Jill Hoffman | Well, let's put it on because I know people want to come and talk about this. Yeah. And they were a little confused about how to do it today because it was on the consent calendar. So it's fine. |
| 03:03:36.62 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | Yeah. |
| 03:03:40.37 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | So it's fine with me to put it on, and it's fine with me to invite a member, a representative of Golden Gate Bridge District. |
| 03:03:48.94 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | And just so you know, both Joe and I were at the public hearing and met a lot of Sausalito residents or Sausalito employees who were there. We didn't give any official position because we hadn't taken one, but we did have strong representation from the city, so that was good. And very much appreciated by a lot of residents. Yeah, and also, you know, I think the Sustainability Commission could also be a forum, given that they've elected to focus on transportation. You know, so I'm happy to have a hearing here, but we can also... |
| 03:04:08.57 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | appreciated by a lot of residents. |
| 03:04:25.09 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | there might be more public meetings. |
| 03:04:27.55 | Unknown | And we'll get an amendment to their current plan as well they close public comment and I think they're going to make some changes. I got |
| 03:04:37.17 | Adam Politzer | Thank you. Mayor Cox, do you want to add what was discussed at the waterfront committee meeting from the Audubon California, their presentation? |
| 03:04:38.96 | Unknown | if you want to. |
| 03:04:39.60 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:04:48.81 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | As a future agenda item, yes. So we did invite Audubon to come tonight. They had a lot of interesting data regarding environmental impacts in the Bay. So, yes, I would like to invite actually both Audubon and BCDC to a council meeting to share with us the views that they shared to our smaller committee. |
| 03:05:13.13 | Susan Cleveland-Knowles | All right, any other reports of significance or anything for the good of the order? All right, then we will stand adjourned at 1020, 30 minutes early. |
Jeff Jacobs — Neutral: Spoke about multiple topics including bicycle infrastructure, skepticism about climate change, historical references to Jubilee, and mentioned a community garden at 203 2nd Street. Referenced unpaid reimbursement for bike fees and broader philosophical points about community values. ▶ 📄